Kalev Leetaru

1.0k total citations · 1 hit paper
26 papers, 644 citations indexed

About

Kalev Leetaru is a scholar working on Sociology and Political Science, Communication and Political Science and International Relations. According to data from OpenAlex, Kalev Leetaru has authored 26 papers receiving a total of 644 indexed citations (citations by other indexed papers that have themselves been cited), including 6 papers in Sociology and Political Science, 5 papers in Communication and 3 papers in Political Science and International Relations. Recurrent topics in Kalev Leetaru's work include Media Studies and Communication (3 papers), Social Media and Politics (2 papers) and Misinformation and Its Impacts (2 papers). Kalev Leetaru is often cited by papers focused on Media Studies and Communication (3 papers), Social Media and Politics (2 papers) and Misinformation and Its Impacts (2 papers). Kalev Leetaru collaborates with scholars based in United States, United Kingdom and Canada. Kalev Leetaru's co-authors include Guofeng Cao, Eric Shook, Anand Padmanabhan, Shaowen Wang, Zachary Elkins, James Melton, Tom Ginsburg, Scott L. Althaus, Peter F. Nardulli and Matthew Hayes and has published in prestigious journals such as The Science of The Total Environment, British Journal of Political Science and Journal of Broadcasting & Electronic Media.

In The Last Decade

Kalev Leetaru

24 papers receiving 561 citations

Hit Papers

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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. Mapping the global Twitter heartbeat: The geography of Twitter
    2013 270 citations Kalev Leetaru, Shaowen Wang et al. First Monday profile →

Peers — A (Enhanced Table)

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

Name h Career Trend Papers Cites
Kalev Leetaru United States 10 194 155 105 95 87 26 644
Monica Stephens United States 10 212 1.1× 121 0.8× 73 0.7× 319 3.4× 47 0.5× 12 794
Jeffrey Morgan United Kingdom 9 407 2.1× 242 1.6× 146 1.4× 155 1.6× 245 2.8× 13 903
Kaiping Chen United States 15 373 1.9× 246 1.6× 32 0.3× 37 0.4× 104 1.2× 52 730
Noah A. Smith United States 14 329 1.7× 198 1.3× 121 1.2× 74 0.8× 524 6.0× 21 955
Michael Macy United States 7 233 1.2× 84 0.5× 181 1.7× 172 1.8× 35 0.4× 9 643
Seungwon Yang United States 13 332 1.7× 427 2.8× 68 0.6× 31 0.3× 191 2.2× 56 907
Devin Gaffney United Kingdom 10 547 2.8× 654 4.2× 300 2.9× 95 1.0× 236 2.7× 10 1.2k
Dave Yates United States 9 530 2.7× 747 4.8× 81 0.8× 54 0.6× 131 1.5× 14 1.2k
Laddawan Kaewkitipong Thailand 11 343 1.8× 194 1.3× 29 0.3× 13 0.1× 29 0.3× 33 576
Daniel Gayo-Avello Spain 14 444 2.3× 442 2.9× 322 3.1× 34 0.4× 396 4.6× 26 1.1k

Countries citing papers authored by Kalev Leetaru

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Fields of papers citing papers by Kalev Leetaru

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Physical SciencesHealth SciencesLife SciencesSocial Sciences

This network shows the impact of papers produced by Kalev Leetaru. Nodes represent research fields, and links connect fields that are likely to share authors. Colored nodes show fields that tend to cite the papers produced by Kalev Leetaru. The network helps show where Kalev Leetaru may publish in the future.

Co-authorship network of co-authors of Kalev Leetaru

This figure shows the co-authorship network connecting the top 25 collaborators of Kalev Leetaru. A scholar is included among the top collaborators of Kalev Leetaru 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 Kalev Leetaru. Kalev Leetaru 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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Leetaru, Kalev. (2017). Fake News’ and How The Washington Post Rewrote Its Story on Russian Hacking of the Power Grid. 1 indexed citations
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Leetaru, Kalev. (2017). Reimagining Our World at Planetary Scale: The Big Data Future of Our Libraries. Purdue e-Pubs (Purdue University System). 1 indexed citations
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Leetaru, Kalev. (2015). Mining libraries: Lessons learned from 20 years of massive computing on the world’s information. Information Services & Use. 35(1-2). 31–50. 16 indexed citations
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Leetaru, Kalev. (2015). The user of the future: Reimagining how we think about information. Information Services & Use. 35(1-2). 23–29. 1 indexed citations
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Ginsburg, Tom, James Melton, Zachary Elkins, & Kalev Leetaru. (2013). On the Interpretability of Law: Lessons from the Decoding of National Constitutions. eYLS (Yale Law School). 67 indexed citations
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Leetaru, Kalev. (2012). Data Mining Methods for the Content Analyst. 25 indexed citations
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Melton, James, Zachary Elkins, Tom Ginsburg, & Kalev Leetaru. (2012). On the Interpretability of Law: Lessons from the Decoding of National Constitutions. British Journal of Political Science. 43(2). 399–423. 46 indexed citations
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Shook, Eric, Kalev Leetaru, Guofeng Cao, Anand Padmanabhan, & Shaowen Wang. (2012). Happy or not: Generating topic-based emotional heatmaps for Culturomics using CyberGIS. 1–6. 20 indexed citations
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Leetaru, Kalev, Matthew Hayes, & Peter F. Nardulli. (2011). Event Data, Civil Unrest and the Social, Political and Economic Event Database (SPEED) Project: Post World War II Trends in Political Protests and Violence. The Science of The Total Environment. 537. 1–28. 3 indexed citations
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Leetaru, Kalev. (2011). Data Mining Methods for the Content Analyst: An Introduction to the Computational Analysis of Content. CERN Document Server (European Organization for Nuclear Research). 24 indexed citations
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Althaus, Scott L. & Kalev Leetaru. (2011). Do 'We' Have a Stake in This War? A Worldwide Test of the In-Group Out-Group Hypothesis Using Open-Source Intelligence. 1–53. 1 indexed citations
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Leetaru, Kalev, et al.. (2010). Studies in Intelligence. 55(11). 81–2. 6 indexed citations
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Leetaru, Kalev. (2009). New media vs. old media: A portrait of the Drudge Report 2002-2008. First Monday. 1 indexed citations
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Leetaru, Kalev. (2008). Mass book digitization: The deeper story of Google Books and the Open Content Alliance. First Monday. 28 indexed citations
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Althaus, Scott L. & Kalev Leetaru. (2008). Airbrushing history, American style. 2 indexed citations
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Leetaru, Kalev. (2008). An open source study of international media coverage of the WorldCom scandal. Journal of International Communication. 14(2). 66–86. 2 indexed citations
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Leetaru, Kalev. (2005). ShadowLight: an immersive environment for rapid prototyping and design. Proceedings of SPIE, the International Society for Optical Engineering/Proceedings of SPIE. 5664. 606–606. 1 indexed citations

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