Joseph Downing

1.1k total citations · 1 hit paper
20 papers, 650 citations indexed

About

Joseph Downing is a scholar working on Sociology and Political Science, Political Science and International Relations and Communication. According to data from OpenAlex, Joseph Downing has authored 20 papers receiving a total of 650 indexed citations (citations by other indexed papers that have themselves been cited), including 14 papers in Sociology and Political Science, 12 papers in Political Science and International Relations and 5 papers in Communication. Recurrent topics in Joseph Downing's work include Multiculturalism, Politics, Migration, Gender (7 papers), Social Media and Politics (5 papers) and Terrorism, Counterterrorism, and Political Violence (5 papers). Joseph Downing is often cited by papers focused on Multiculturalism, Politics, Migration, Gender (7 papers), Social Media and Politics (5 papers) and Terrorism, Counterterrorism, and Political Violence (5 papers). Joseph Downing collaborates with scholars based in United Kingdom, Netherlands and Ireland. Joseph Downing's co-authors include Wasim Ahmed, Josep Vidal‐Alaball, Francesc López Seguí, Niti Goel, Gemma Cummins and L. van Tuyl and has published in prestigious journals such as Annals of the Rheumatic Diseases, Journal of Medical Internet Research and New Media & Society.

In The Last Decade

Joseph Downing

19 papers receiving 619 citations

Hit Papers

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Hit papers significantly outperform the citation benchmark for their cohort. A paper qualifies if it has ≥500 total citations, achieves ≥1.5× the top-1% citation threshold for papers in the same subfield and year (this is the minimum needed to enter the top 1%, not the average within it), or reaches the top citation threshold in at least one of its specific research topics.

COVID-19 and the 5G Conspiracy Theory: Social Network Analysis of Twitter Data

2020 514 citations Wasim Ahmed, Josep Vidal‐Alaball et al. Journal of Medical Internet Research profile →

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Name	h						Papers	Cites
Joseph Downing United Kingdom	9	510	159	148	139	67	20	650
Timothy Graham Australia	12	350 0.7×	153 1.0×	146 1.0×	129 0.9×	30 0.4×	61	648
Stephen Neely United States	12	362 0.7×	180 1.1×	191 1.3×	92 0.7×	34 0.5×	24	642
Cameron Martel United States	13	764 1.5×	290 1.8×	143 1.0×	215 1.5×	133 2.0×	22	1.0k
Timothy R. Tangherlini United States	12	413 0.8×	80 0.5×	99 0.7×	169 1.2×	28 0.4×	57	765
Marcus Messner United States	14	632 1.2×	500 3.1×	227 1.5×	139 1.0×	47 0.7×	28	970
Yotam Ophir United States	17	549 1.1×	336 2.1×	138 0.9×	120 0.9×	33 0.5×	56	865
Anfan Chen China	14	371 0.7×	215 1.4×	82 0.6×	111 0.8×	43 0.6×	32	556
Nicolás Velásquez United States	10	565 1.1×	147 0.9×	329 2.2×	245 1.8×	23 0.3×	15	891
Michelle I. Seelig United States	13	817 1.6×	321 2.0×	197 1.3×	221 1.6×	53 0.8×	40	987
Beth Goldberg United States	9	456 0.9×	128 0.8×	319 2.2×	122 0.9×	31 0.5×	19	664

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20 of 20 papers shown

Downing, Joseph. (2023). Exceptional and banal constructions of British muslims in Grenfell: Social boundaries, twitter, superdiversity and online vernacular memory. Studies in Ethnicity and Nationalism. 23(2). 232–245.

Downing, Joseph. (2023). Critical Security Studies in the Digital Age. 2 indexed citations

Downing, Joseph, et al.. (2022). Tweeting terrorism: Vernacular conceptions of Muslims and terror in the wake of the Manchester Bombing on Twitter. Critical Studies on Terrorism. 15(2). 239–266. 17 indexed citations

Downing, Joseph, et al.. (2021). “I Think Therefore I Don’t Vote”: discourses on abstention, distrust and twitter politics in the 2017 French presidential election. French Politics. 20(2). 147–166. 2 indexed citations

Ahmed, Wasim, Josep Vidal‐Alaball, Joseph Downing, & Francesc López Seguí. (2020). COVID-19 and the 5G Conspiracy Theory: Social Network Analysis of Twitter Data. Journal of Medical Internet Research. 22(5). e19458–e19458. 514 indexed citations breakdown →

Downing, Joseph. (2020). Memeing and Speaking Vernacular Security on Social Media: YouTube and Twitter Resistance to an ISIS Islamist Terror Threat to Marseille, France. Journal of Global Security Studies. 6(2). 16 indexed citations

Downing, Joseph, Wasim Ahmed, Josep Vidal‐Alaball, & Francesc López Seguí. (2020). Battling Fake News and (In)Security during COVID-19. London School of Economics and Political Science Research Online (London School of Economics and Political Science). 3 indexed citations

Downing, Joseph, et al.. (2020). Theorising the ‘Security Influencer’: Speaking security, terror and Muslims on social media during the Manchester bombings. New Media & Society. 24(5). 1234–1257. 11 indexed citations

Downing, Joseph. (2019). French Muslims in Perspective: Nationalism, Post-Colonialism and Marginalisation under the Republic. 1 indexed citations

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Downing, Joseph, et al.. (2019). Tweeting Grenfell: Discourse and networks in critical constructions of British Muslim social boundaries on social media. New Media & Society. 22(3). 449–469. 14 indexed citations

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Downing, Joseph & Wasim Ahmed. (2019). #MacronLeaks as a “warning shot” for European democracies: challenges to election blackouts presented by social media and election meddling during the 2017 French presidential election. French Politics. 17(3). 257–278. 8 indexed citations

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Downing, Joseph. (2019). French Muslims in Perspective. 10 indexed citations

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Downing, Joseph. (2019). Blurring European and Islamic values or brightening the good – bad Muslim dichotomy? A critical analysis of French Muslim victims of Jihadi terror online on twitter and in Le Monde newspaper. Critical Studies on Terrorism. 12(2). 250–272. 11 indexed citations

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Ahmed, Wasim & Joseph Downing. (2017). Campaign leaks and the far-right: who influenced #Macronleaks on Twitter?. London School of Economics and Political Science Research Online (London School of Economics and Political Science). 2 indexed citations

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Downing, Joseph. (2016). Fighting cultural marginalisation with symbolic power in a Parisian banlieue. International Journal of Sociology and Social Policy. 36(7/8). 516–530. 1 indexed citations

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Downing, Joseph. (2015). European influence on diversity policy frames: paradoxical outcomes of Lyon's membership of the Intercultural Cities programme. Ethnic and Racial Studies. 38(9). 1557–1572. 15 indexed citations

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Goel, Niti, Gemma Cummins, Joseph Downing, & L. van Tuyl. (2015). FRI0362 Rapid Acquisition of Data on the Patient Perspective in Rheumatoid Arthrtis Through a Digital Portal. Annals of the Rheumatic Diseases. 74. 557–557. 2 indexed citations

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Downing, Joseph. (2015). Contesting and re-negotiating the national in French cities: examining policies of governance, Europeanisation and co-option in Marseille and Lyon. Fennia. 5 indexed citations

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Downing, Joseph. (2015). Understanding the (Re)Definition of Nationhood in French Cities: A Case of Multiple States and Multiple Republics. Studies in Ethnicity and Nationalism. 15(2). 336–351. 7 indexed citations

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Downing, Joseph. (2015). Influences on state–society relations in France: Analysing voluntary associations and multicultural dynamism, co-option and retrenchment in Paris, Lyon and Marseille. Ethnicities. 16(3). 452–469. 9 indexed citations

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