Joshua Becker

1.9k total citations · 1 hit paper
9 papers, 818 citations indexed

About

Joshua Becker is a scholar working on Sociology and Political Science, Statistical and Nonlinear Physics and Communication. According to data from OpenAlex, Joshua Becker has authored 9 papers receiving a total of 818 indexed citations (citations by other indexed papers that have themselves been cited), including 6 papers in Sociology and Political Science, 5 papers in Statistical and Nonlinear Physics and 2 papers in Communication. Recurrent topics in Joshua Becker's work include Opinion Dynamics and Social Influence (5 papers), Misinformation and Its Impacts (3 papers) and Social Media and Politics (2 papers). Joshua Becker is often cited by papers focused on Opinion Dynamics and Social Influence (5 papers), Misinformation and Its Impacts (3 papers) and Social Media and Politics (2 papers). Joshua Becker collaborates with scholars based in United States, United Kingdom and Canada. Joshua Becker's co-authors include Damon Centola, Devon Brackbill, Andrea Baronchelli, Douglas Guilbeault, Ethan Porter, Sijia Yang, Natalie Herbert, Jingwen Zhang, Jaya Aysola and Elaine C. Khoong and has published in prestigious journals such as Science, Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences and PLoS ONE.

In The Last Decade

Joshua Becker

9 papers receiving 785 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.

Experimental evidence for tipping points in social convention

2018 344 citations Damon Centola, Joshua Becker et al. Science profile →

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

Name	h						Papers	Cites
Joshua Becker United States	6	389	246	122	89	65	9	818
Devon Brackbill United States	6	332 0.9×	190 0.8×	71 0.6×	116 1.3×	42 0.6×	7	770
James A. Kitts United States	11	580 1.5×	266 1.1×	165 1.4×	86 1.0×	12 0.2×	20	1.0k
Peter M. Aronow United States	19	641 1.6×	60 0.2×	196 1.6×	60 0.7×	30 0.5×	46	1.4k
Nicole M. Krause United States	14	989 2.5×	62 0.3×	391 3.2×	42 0.5×	27 0.4×	19	1.4k
Michael Pearson United Kingdom	14	514 1.3×	259 1.1×	87 0.7×	196 2.2×	13 0.2×	32	1.3k
Jay Joseph Van Bavel United States	20	1.3k 3.4×	189 0.8×	467 3.8×	69 0.8×	72 1.1×	47	2.1k
Kevin Mullinix United States	12	949 2.4×	46 0.2×	322 2.6×	40 0.4×	48 0.7×	20	1.5k
Luke Sloan United Kingdom	18	996 2.6×	271 1.1×	537 4.4×	83 0.9×	8 0.1×	45	1.9k
Elisa Bellotti United Kingdom	12	322 0.8×	100 0.4×	47 0.4×	101 1.1×	20 0.3×	29	672
Philipp Lorenz-Spreen Germany	16	704 1.8×	356 1.4×	347 2.8×	25 0.3×	18 0.3×	30	1.1k

Countries citing papers authored by Joshua Becker

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Fields of papers citing papers by Joshua Becker

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Physical SciencesHealth SciencesLife SciencesSocial Sciences

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Co-authorship network of co-authors of Joshua Becker

This figure shows the co-authorship network connecting the top 25 collaborators of Joshua Becker. A scholar is included among the top collaborators of Joshua Becker 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 Joshua Becker. Joshua Becker is excluded from the visualization to improve readability, since they are connected to all nodes in the network.

All Works

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9 of 9 papers shown

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Centola, Damon, Joshua Becker, Jingwen Zhang, et al.. (2023). Experimental evidence for structured information–sharing networks reducing medical errors. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences. 120(31). e2108290120–e2108290120. 6 indexed citations

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Griffiths, Tom, Abdullah Almaatouq, Ekaterina Damer, et al.. (2021). Scaling up experimental social, behavioral, and economic science. OSF Preprints (OSF Preprints). 1 indexed citations

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Guilbeault, Douglas, Samuel Woolley, & Joshua Becker. (2021). Probabilistic social learning improves the public’s judgments of news veracity. PLoS ONE. 16(3). e0247487–e0247487. 4 indexed citations

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Becker, Joshua, Douglas Guilbeault, & Edward B. Smith. (2019). The Crowd Classification Problem. Academy of Management Proceedings. 2019(1). 13404–13404. 2 indexed citations

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Becker, Joshua, Ethan Porter, & Damon Centola. (2019). The wisdom of partisan crowds. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences. 116(22). 10717–10722. 57 indexed citations

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Centola, Damon, Joshua Becker, Devon Brackbill, & Andrea Baronchelli. (2018). Experimental evidence for tipping points in social convention. Science. 360(6393). 1116–1119. 344 indexed citations breakdown →

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Guilbeault, Douglas, Joshua Becker, & Damon Centola. (2018). Social learning and partisan bias in the interpretation of climate trends. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences. 115(39). 9714–9719. 111 indexed citations

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Becker, Joshua, Devon Brackbill, & Damon Centola. (2017). Network dynamics of social influence in the wisdom of crowds. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences. 114(26). E5070–E5076. 183 indexed citations

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Zhang, Jingwen, Devon Brackbill, Sijia Yang, et al.. (2016). Support or competition? How online social networks increase physical activity: A randomized controlled trial. Preventive Medicine Reports. 4. 453–458. 110 indexed citations

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