Josephine Lukito

1.9k total citations · 1 hit paper
42 papers, 956 citations indexed

About

Josephine Lukito is a scholar working on Sociology and Political Science, Communication and Political Science and International Relations. According to data from OpenAlex, Josephine Lukito has authored 42 papers receiving a total of 956 indexed citations (citations by other indexed papers that have themselves been cited), including 28 papers in Sociology and Political Science, 27 papers in Communication and 10 papers in Political Science and International Relations. Recurrent topics in Josephine Lukito's work include Social Media and Politics (25 papers), Misinformation and Its Impacts (17 papers) and Opinion Dynamics and Social Influence (9 papers). Josephine Lukito is often cited by papers focused on Social Media and Politics (25 papers), Misinformation and Its Impacts (17 papers) and Opinion Dynamics and Social Influence (9 papers). Josephine Lukito collaborates with scholars based in United States, Russia and Mexico. Josephine Lukito's co-authors include Chris Wells, Dhavan V. Shah, Jon Pevehouse, Yini Zhang, Yiping Xia, JungHwan Yang, Ayellet Pelled, Deen Freelon, Sang Jung Kim and Guy J. Golan and has published in prestigious journals such as SHILAP Revista de lepidopterología, Journal of Communication and New Media & Society.

In The Last Decade

Josephine Lukito

40 papers receiving 900 citations

Hit Papers

Political Influencers on Social Media: An Introduction 2023 2026 2024 2023 10 20 30 40 50
What are hit papers?

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.

  1. Political Influencers on Social Media: An Introduction
    2023 55 citations Martin Riedl, Josephine Lukito et al. Social Media + Society profile →

Peers — A (Enhanced Table)

Peers by citation overlap · career bar shows stage (early→late) cites · hero ref

Name h Career Trend Papers Cites
Josephine Lukito United States 15 624 598 209 206 89 42 956
JungHwan Yang United States 14 694 1.1× 609 1.0× 214 1.0× 214 1.0× 135 1.5× 27 1.0k
Alexandra Siegel United States 11 616 1.0× 769 1.3× 304 1.5× 219 1.1× 123 1.4× 20 1.1k
Dan Mercea United Kingdom 14 709 1.1× 686 1.1× 258 1.2× 211 1.0× 126 1.4× 49 1.1k
Rachel R. Mourão United States 19 786 1.3× 627 1.0× 195 0.9× 122 0.6× 54 0.6× 36 1.0k
Jessica T. Feezell United States 14 760 1.2× 691 1.2× 117 0.6× 227 1.1× 66 0.7× 24 1.1k
Augusto Valeriani Italy 14 879 1.4× 660 1.1× 186 0.9× 277 1.3× 133 1.5× 26 1.1k
Friedolin Merhout United States 7 650 1.0× 764 1.3× 204 1.0× 209 1.0× 275 3.1× 8 1.1k
Maurice Vergeer Netherlands 17 805 1.3× 499 0.8× 139 0.7× 269 1.3× 107 1.2× 37 1.1k
Paul Zube United States 9 683 1.1× 519 0.9× 127 0.6× 134 0.7× 55 0.6× 15 898
Nick Anstead United Kingdom 14 484 0.8× 423 0.7× 125 0.6× 205 1.0× 82 0.9× 33 818

Countries citing papers authored by Josephine Lukito

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Fields of papers citing papers by Josephine Lukito

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Physical SciencesHealth SciencesLife SciencesSocial Sciences

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Co-authorship network of co-authors of Josephine Lukito

This figure shows the co-authorship network connecting the top 25 collaborators of Josephine Lukito. A scholar is included among the top collaborators of Josephine Lukito based on the total number of citations received by their joint publications. Widths of edges represent the number of papers authors have co-authored together. Node borders signify the number of papers an author published with Josephine Lukito. Josephine Lukito is excluded from the visualization to improve readability, since they are connected to all nodes in the network.

All Works

20 of 20 papers shown
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Lukito, Josephine, et al.. (2025). Candidates Be Posting: Multi-Platform Strategies and Partisan Preferences in the 2022 U.S. Midterm Elections. Social Media + Society. 11(2). 1 indexed citations
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Lukito, Josephine, et al.. (2024). Does Social Media Level the Political Field or Reinforce Existing Inequalities? Cartographies of the 2022 Brazilian Election. Political Communication. 42(3). 382–404. 1 indexed citations
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Lukito, Josephine, et al.. (2024). Audio-as-Data Tools: Replicating Computational Data Processing. Media and Communication. 12. 3 indexed citations
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Lukito, Josephine, et al.. (2024). The Manifestation of Affective Polarization on Social Media: A Cross-Platform Supervised Machine Learning Approach. Proceedings of the International AAAI Conference on Web and Social Media. 18. 1160–1173. 2 indexed citations
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Lukito, Josephine, et al.. (2023). Comparing the #StopTheSteal Movement across Multiple Platforms: Differentiating Discourse on Facebook, Twitter, and Parler. Social Media + Society. 9(3). 13 indexed citations
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Lukito, Josephine, et al.. (2023). Critical computation: mixed-methods approaches to big language data analysis. Review of Communication. 23(1). 62–78. 6 indexed citations
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Lukito, Josephine, et al.. (2023). Attacks Against Journalists in Brazil: Catalyzing Effects and Resilience During Jair Bolsonaro’s Government. The International Journal of Press/Politics. 29(4). 847–868. 5 indexed citations
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Lukito, Josephine. (2023). Scholarly Solidarity: Building an Inclusive Field for Junior and Minority Researchers. Political Communication. 41(1). 152–161. 3 indexed citations
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Riedl, Martin, Josephine Lukito, & Samuel Woolley. (2023). Political Influencers on Social Media: An Introduction. Social Media + Society. 9(2). 55 indexed citations breakdown →
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Lukito, Josephine, et al.. (2022). Algorithmic Agents in the Hybrid Media System: Social Bots, Selective Amplification, and Partisan News about COVID-19. Human Communication Research. 48(3). 516–542. 38 indexed citations
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Lukito, Josephine, et al.. (2022). States vs. Social Movements: Protests and State Repression in Asia. Media and Communication. 10(4). 2 indexed citations
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Lukito, Josephine, et al.. (2021). Chiming In: A Computer-Assisted Analysis of Popular Musicians’ Political Engagement on Twitter. Social Media + Society. 7(2). 1 indexed citations
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Lukito, Josephine, et al.. (2021). Trollfare: Russia’s Disinformation Campaign During Military Conflict in Ukraine. International journal of communication. 15. 28. 15 indexed citations
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Zhang, Yini, Josephine Lukito, Min-Hsin Su, et al.. (2021). Assembling the Networks and Audiences of Disinformation: How Successful Russian IRA Twitter Accounts Built Their Followings, 2015–2017. Journal of Communication. 71(2). 305–331. 30 indexed citations
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Bucy, Erik P., et al.. (2020). Performing populism: Trump’s transgressive debate style and the dynamics of Twitter response. New Media & Society. 22(4). 634–658. 56 indexed citations
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Wells, Chris, Yini Zhang, Josephine Lukito, & Jon Pevehouse. (2019). Modeling the Formation of Attentive Publics in Social Media: The Case of Donald Trump. Mass Communication & Society. 23(2). 181–205. 13 indexed citations
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Lukito, Josephine, et al.. (2014). Two National Newspapers Cover Recession Distinctively. Newspaper Research Journal. 35(3). 66–80. 1 indexed citations

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