Jürgen Pfeffer

8.9k total citations · 2 hit papers
94 papers, 2.0k citations indexed

About

Jürgen Pfeffer is a scholar working on Statistical and Nonlinear Physics, Sociology and Political Science and Artificial Intelligence. According to data from OpenAlex, Jürgen Pfeffer has authored 94 papers receiving a total of 2.0k indexed citations (citations by other indexed papers that have themselves been cited), including 42 papers in Statistical and Nonlinear Physics, 27 papers in Sociology and Political Science and 27 papers in Artificial Intelligence. Recurrent topics in Jürgen Pfeffer's work include Complex Network Analysis Techniques (39 papers), Opinion Dynamics and Social Influence (26 papers) and Social Media and Politics (18 papers). Jürgen Pfeffer is often cited by papers focused on Complex Network Analysis Techniques (39 papers), Opinion Dynamics and Social Influence (26 papers) and Social Media and Politics (18 papers). Jürgen Pfeffer collaborates with scholars based in Germany, United States and Austria. Jürgen Pfeffer's co-authors include Derek Ruths, Kathleen M. Carley, Momin M. Malik, Fred Morstatter, Raji Ghawi, Peter M. Landwehr, Katja Mayer, Hemank Lamba, Ines Mergel and Huan Liu and has published in prestigious journals such as Science, Nature Communications and SHILAP Revista de lepidopterología.

In The Last Decade

Jürgen Pfeffer

79 papers receiving 1.9k citations

Hit Papers

Social media for large studies of behavior 2013 2026 2017 2021 2014 2013 100 200 300 400
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. Social media for large studies of behavior
    2014 438 citations Jürgen Pfeffer et al. profile →
  2. Understanding online firestorms: Negative word-of-mouth dynamics in social media networks
    2013 340 citations Jürgen Pfeffer et al. profile →

Peers

Jürgen Pfeffer
Matteo Cinelli Italy
Robert M. Bond United States
Luke Sloan United Kingdom
Christopher J. Fariss United States
Timm O. Sprenger Germany
Kevin Lewis United States
Manuel Cebrián United States
Gueorgi Kossinets United States
David García Austria
Dhiraj Murthy United States
Matteo Cinelli Italy
Jürgen Pfeffer
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Fields of papers citing papers by Jürgen Pfeffer

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Physical SciencesHealth SciencesLife SciencesSocial Sciences

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Co-authorship network of co-authors of Jürgen Pfeffer

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All Works

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Ghawi, Raji & Jürgen Pfeffer. (2025). Identifying stages in the lifespan of dynamic groups. Social Networks. 82. 39–54.
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Holzberger, Doris, et al.. (2024). Empowering Digital Natives: InstaClone - A Novel Approach to Data Literacy Education in the Age of Social Media. mediaTUM (Technical University of Munich). 484–490. 1 indexed citations
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Pfeffer, Jürgen, et al.. (2024). The Role of Likes: How Online Feedback Impacts Users' Mental Health. 302–310. 5 indexed citations
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Ulloa, Roberto, et al.. (2024). Predicting political attitudes from web tracking data: a machine learning approach. Journal of Information Technology & Politics. 21(4). 564–577. 3 indexed citations
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Pfeffer, Jürgen, Daniel Matter, Kokil Jaidka, et al.. (2023). Just Another Day on Twitter: A Complete 24 Hours of Twitter Data. Proceedings of the International AAAI Conference on Web and Social Media. 17. 1073–1081. 14 indexed citations
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Schnitzler, Katharina, et al.. (2023). Keeping track in classroom discourse: Comparing in-service and pre-service teachers' visual attention to students’ hand-raising behavior. Teaching and Teacher Education. 128. 104142–104142. 11 indexed citations
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Mosca, E., et al.. (2023). Uncovering Trauma in Genocide Tribunals. 257–266. 2 indexed citations
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Pfeffer, Jürgen, et al.. (2023). This Sample Seems to Be Good Enough! Assessing Coverage and Temporal Reliability of Twitter’s Academic API. Proceedings of the International AAAI Conference on Web and Social Media. 17. 720–729. 35 indexed citations
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Matter, Daniel, et al.. (2023). Temporally Stable Multilayer Network Embeddings: A Longitudinal Study of Russian Propaganda. 1–8. 1 indexed citations
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Pfeffer, Jürgen, Daniel Matter, & Anahit Sargsyan. (2023). The Half-Life of a Tweet. Proceedings of the International AAAI Conference on Web and Social Media. 17. 1163–1167. 10 indexed citations
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Ghawi, Raji, et al.. (2022). Tracking the Evolution of Communities in a Social Network of Intellectual Influences. SHILAP Revista de lepidopterología. 2 indexed citations
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Pfeffer, Jürgen, et al.. (2022). Gender dynamics of German journalists on Twitter. 226–230.
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Pfeffer, Jürgen, et al.. (2021). Measuring political legitimacy with Twitter: Insights from India’s Aadhaar program. New Media & Society. 25(10). 2704–2723.
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Pfeffer, Jürgen, et al.. (2020). Measuring the Acceleration of the Social Construction of Time using the BOE (Boletin Oficial del Estado). Zenodo (CERN European Organization for Nuclear Research). 298–308. 2 indexed citations
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Ghawi, Raji & Jürgen Pfeffer. (2020). Extraction Patterns to Derive Social Networks from Linked Open Data Using SPARQL. Information. 11(7). 361–361. 1 indexed citations
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Pfeffer, Jürgen, Katja Mayer, & Fred Morstatter. (2018). Tampering with Twitter’s Sample API. EPJ Data Science. 7(1). 69 indexed citations
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Pfeffer, Jürgen, et al.. (2017). Predicting Defective Engines using Convolutional Neural Networks on Temporal Vibration Signals. 92–102. 17 indexed citations
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