Kari Karppinen

1.3k total citations · 1 hit paper
35 papers, 633 citations indexed

About

Kari Karppinen is a scholar working on Communication, Political Science and International Relations and Strategy and Management. According to data from OpenAlex, Kari Karppinen has authored 35 papers receiving a total of 633 indexed citations (citations by other indexed papers that have themselves been cited), including 19 papers in Communication, 16 papers in Political Science and International Relations and 8 papers in Strategy and Management. Recurrent topics in Kari Karppinen's work include Social Media and Politics (16 papers), Media Studies and Communication (9 papers) and Political Influence and Corporate Strategies (8 papers). Kari Karppinen is often cited by papers focused on Social Media and Politics (16 papers), Media Studies and Communication (9 papers) and Political Influence and Corporate Strategies (8 papers). Kari Karppinen collaborates with scholars based in Finland, Slovenia and Norway. Kari Karppinen's co-authors include Lucia D’Acunto, Natali Helberger, Hallvard Moe, Jakob Svensson, Edda Humprecht, Alessio Cornia, Hannu Nieminen, Michael Brüggemann, Frank Esser and Rasmus Kleis Nielsen and has published in prestigious journals such as SHILAP Revista de lepidopterología, Information Communication & Society and Political Communication.

In The Last Decade

Kari Karppinen

30 papers receiving 557 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. Exposure diversity as a design principle for recommender systems
    2016 208 citations Natali Helberger, Kari Karppinen et al. Information Communication & 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
Kari Karppinen Finland 12 361 298 112 77 63 35 633
Derrick L. Cogburn United States 11 259 0.7× 168 0.6× 106 0.9× 58 0.8× 34 0.5× 48 547
Fenwick McKelvey Canada 14 197 0.5× 267 0.9× 61 0.5× 78 1.0× 24 0.4× 48 537
Nick Anstead United Kingdom 14 484 1.3× 423 1.4× 205 1.8× 125 1.6× 19 0.3× 33 818
Helle Sjøvaag Norway 17 519 1.4× 339 1.1× 39 0.3× 56 0.7× 102 1.6× 47 749
Giles Moss United Kingdom 14 259 0.7× 193 0.6× 165 1.5× 58 0.8× 28 0.4× 37 564
Michael Karlsson Sweden 21 1.1k 3.0× 639 2.1× 61 0.5× 96 1.2× 44 0.7× 48 1.4k
Robert Ackland Australia 14 272 0.8× 268 0.9× 79 0.7× 87 1.1× 31 0.5× 37 594
Ulrike Klinger Switzerland 11 678 1.9× 492 1.7× 223 2.0× 200 2.6× 26 0.4× 31 987
Juliane A. Lischka Switzerland 13 337 0.9× 295 1.0× 37 0.3× 72 0.9× 35 0.6× 37 522
Harsh Taneja United States 13 521 1.4× 591 2.0× 53 0.5× 75 1.0× 25 0.4× 29 803

Countries citing papers authored by Kari Karppinen

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Fields of papers citing papers by Kari Karppinen

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Physical SciencesHealth SciencesLife SciencesSocial Sciences

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Co-authorship network of co-authors of Kari Karppinen

This figure shows the co-authorship network connecting the top 25 collaborators of Kari Karppinen. A scholar is included among the top collaborators of Kari Karppinen 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 Kari Karppinen. Kari Karppinen 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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Gronvall, J A & Kari Karppinen. (2025). Framing Nordic public service media: Comparing policy discourses in Finland, Sweden, Norway, and Denmark. European Journal of Communication. 40(3). 233–248.
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Hellman, Heikki, et al.. (2023). Prioritising National Competitiveness over Support for Democracy? Finnish Media Policy in the 21st Century. Social Science Open Access Repository (GESIS – Leibniz Institute for the Social Sciences). 26(4). 149–175. 3 indexed citations
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Gronvall, J A, et al.. (2021). Finland: Sustaining professional norms with fewer journalists and declining resources. Työväentutkimus Vuosikirja. 2 indexed citations
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Gronvall, J A, et al.. (2021). Finland. KTH Publication Database DiVA (KTH Royal Institute of Technology). 153–196. 3 indexed citations
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Moe, Hallvard, Jan Fredrik Hovden, & Kari Karppinen. (2020). Operationalizing exposure diversity. European Journal of Communication. 36(2). 148–167. 10 indexed citations
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Karppinen, Kari, et al.. (2020). Four Discourses of Digital Rights: Promises and Problems of Rights-Based Politics. Journal of Information Policy. 10. 304–328. 9 indexed citations
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Karppinen, Kari & Hallvard Moe. (2016). What We Talk About When Talk About “Media Independence”. Javnost - The Public. 23(2). 105–119. 42 indexed citations
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Helberger, Natali, Kari Karppinen, & Lucia D’Acunto. (2016). Exposure diversity as a design principle for recommender systems. Information Communication & Society. 21(2). 191–207. 208 indexed citations breakdown →
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Helberger, Natali, Ellen Goodman, Kari Karppinen, et al.. (2015). Public Service Media and Exposure Diversity: Introduction. UvA-DARE (University of Amsterdam).
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Brüggemann, Michael, Edda Humprecht, Rasmus Kleis Nielsen, et al.. (2015). Framing the Newspaper Crisis. Journalism Studies. 17(5). 533–551. 39 indexed citations
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Karppinen, Kari, et al.. (2015). Kenen media?: Johdatus viestintäpolitiikan tutkimukseen.
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Karppinen, Kari & Hallvard Moe. (2014). What We Talk about When We Talk about “The Market”: Conceptual Contestation in Contemporary Media Policy Research. Journal of Information Policy. 4. 327–341. 11 indexed citations
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Löblich, María & Kari Karppinen. (2014). Guiding Principles for Internet Policy: A Comparison of Media Coverage in Four Western Countries. The Information Society. 30(1). 45–59. 4 indexed citations
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Napoli, Philip M. & Kari Karppinen. (2013). Translating diversity to Internet governance. First Monday. 11 indexed citations
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Karppinen, Kari. (2009). Rethinking Media Pluralism and Communicative Abundance. Observatorio (OBS*). 3(4). 151–169. 13 indexed citations
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Karppinen, Kari, Hallvard Moe, & Jakob Svensson. (2008). Habermas, Mouffe and Political Communication. Javnost - The Public. 15(3). 5–21. 47 indexed citations
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Karppinen, Kari. (2007). Making a difference to media pluralism: a critique of the pluralistic consensus in European media policy. 11 indexed citations
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Karppinen, Kari. (2006). Media Diversity and the Politics of Criteria. Nordicom review/NORDICOM review. 27(2). 53–68. 29 indexed citations
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Karppinen, Kari. (2005). Mediadiversiteetti ja mittaamisen politiikka. SHILAP Revista de lepidopterología. 28(2). 1 indexed citations

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