Karsten Donnay

1.6k total citations · 1 hit paper
35 papers, 998 citations indexed

About

Karsten Donnay is a scholar working on Sociology and Political Science, Artificial Intelligence and Communication. According to data from OpenAlex, Karsten Donnay has authored 35 papers receiving a total of 998 indexed citations (citations by other indexed papers that have themselves been cited), including 22 papers in Sociology and Political Science, 13 papers in Artificial Intelligence and 11 papers in Communication. Recurrent topics in Karsten Donnay's work include Social Media and Politics (11 papers), Hate Speech and Cyberbullying Detection (8 papers) and Media Influence and Politics (7 papers). Karsten Donnay is often cited by papers focused on Social Media and Politics (11 papers), Hate Speech and Cyberbullying Detection (8 papers) and Media Influence and Politics (7 papers). Karsten Donnay collaborates with scholars based in Switzerland, Germany and United States. Karsten Donnay's co-authors include Dirk Helbing, Sebastian Schutte, Matjaž Perc, Felix Hamborg, Thomas Chadefaux, Anders Johansson, Dirk Brockmann, Ulf Blanke, Jens Krause and Olivia Woolley-Meza and has published in prestigious journals such as Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, SHILAP Revista de lepidopterología and PLoS ONE.

In The Last Decade

Karsten Donnay

32 papers receiving 970 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.

Saving Human Lives: What Complexity Science and Information Systems can Contribute

2014 473 citations Dirk Helbing, Dirk Brockmann et al. Journal of Statistical Physics profile →

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Name	h						Papers	Cites
Karsten Donnay Switzerland	10	437	220	181	113	75	35	998
Alessio Signorini United States	9	390 0.9×	327 1.5×	147 0.8×	154 1.4×	92 1.2×	12	1.4k
Jürgen Lerner Germany	17	369 0.8×	216 1.0×	431 2.4×	196 1.7×	74 1.0×	42	1.1k
Thomas Chadefaux Ireland	8	272 0.6×	88 0.4×	161 0.9×	29 0.3×	72 1.0×	25	731
Piotr Sapieżyński United States	15	509 1.2×	262 1.2×	324 1.8×	174 1.5×	69 0.9×	27	1.4k
Junming Huang China	14	225 0.5×	196 0.9×	446 2.5×	76 0.7×	21 0.3×	33	1.3k
Chung‐hong Chan Hong Kong	18	526 1.2×	258 1.2×	140 0.8×	336 3.0×	40 0.5×	60	1.2k
Samarth Swarup United States	16	239 0.5×	194 0.9×	157 0.9×	37 0.3×	170 2.3×	89	976
Feicheng Ma China	17	332 0.8×	178 0.8×	112 0.6×	148 1.3×	16 0.2×	81	1.0k
Helen Susannah Moat United Kingdom	21	479 1.1×	187 0.8×	320 1.8×	107 0.9×	57 0.8×	42	2.0k

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Co-authorship network of co-authors of Karsten Donnay

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Abd‐Elrahman, Amr, Bernard Landry, Alexander W. Levis, et al.. (2025). Counterspeech encouraging users to adopt the perspective of minority groups reduces hate speech and its amplification on social media. Scientific Reports. 15(1). 22018–22018.

Lutscher, Philipp & Karsten Donnay. (2025). Does Hard Propaganda (Also) Work in Democracies? Evidence from the United States. Perspectives on Politics. 23(4). 1426–1443.

Lutscher, Philipp & Karsten Donnay. (2024). A difficult test for hard propaganda: Evidence from a choice experiment in Venezuela. Journal of Peace Research. 62(2). 462–478. 3 indexed citations

Bhavnani, Ravi, et al.. (2023). Trajectories of resilience to acute malnutrition in the Kenyan drylands. Frontiers in Sustainable Food Systems. 7. 1 indexed citations

Bhavnani, Ravi, et al.. (2023). Household behavior and vulnerability to acute malnutrition in Kenya. Humanities and Social Sciences Communications. 10(1). 63–63. 5 indexed citations

Donnay, Karsten, et al.. (2023). How does the geography of surveillance affect collective action?. Political Psychology. 45(2). 319–340. 4 indexed citations

Spinde, Timo, et al.. (2023). What do Twitter comments tell about news article bias? Assessing the impact of news article bias on its perception on Twitter. Zurich Open Repository and Archive (University of Zurich). 37-38. 100264–100264. 4 indexed citations

Hamborg, Felix & Karsten Donnay. (2021). NewsMTSC: A Dataset for (Multi-)Target-dependent Sentiment Classification in Political News Articles. Zurich Open Repository and Archive (University of Zurich). 1663–1675. 22 indexed citations

Hangartner, Dominik, et al.. (2021). Empathy-based counterspeech can reduce racist hate speech in a social media field experiment. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences. 118(50). 70 indexed citations

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Gilardi, Fabrizio, Clau Dermont, Karsten Donnay, et al.. (2021). Building Research Infrastructures to Study Digital Technology and Politics: Lessons from Switzerland. PS Political Science & Politics. 55(2). 354–359. 7 indexed citations

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Hamborg, Felix, et al.. (2021). Assisted Text Annotation Using Active Learning to Achieve High Quality with Little Effort. Zurich Open Repository and Archive (University of Zurich). 287–288. 1 indexed citations

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Helbing, Dirk, et al.. (2020). Public debate in the media matters: evidence from the European refugee crisis. EPJ Data Science. 9(1). 7 indexed citations

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Frey, Seth, Karsten Donnay, Dirk Helbing, Robert W. Sumner, & Maarten W. Bos. (2018). The rippling dynamics of valenced messages in naturalistic youth chat. Behavior Research Methods. 51(4). 1737–1753. 2 indexed citations

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Donnay, Karsten, et al.. (2018). Integrating Conflict Event Data. Journal of Conflict Resolution. 63(5). 1337–1364. 31 indexed citations

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Spaiser, Viktoria, et al.. (2017). Communication power struggles on social media: A case study of the 2011–12 Russian protests. Journal of Information Technology & Politics. 14(2). 132–153. 40 indexed citations

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Donnay, Karsten. (2015). Why interdisciplinary research enriches the study of crime. Physics of Life Reviews. 12. 26–27. 2 indexed citations

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Helbing, Dirk, Dirk Brockmann, Thomas Chadefaux, et al.. (2014). Saving Human Lives: What Complexity Science and Information Systems can Contribute. Journal of Statistical Physics. 158(3). 735–781. 473 indexed citations breakdown →

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Schutte, Sebastian & Karsten Donnay. (2014). Matched Wake Analysis: Finding Causal Relationships in Spatiotemporal Event Data. SSRN Electronic Journal. 2 indexed citations

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Bhavnani, Ravi, et al.. (2013). Group Segregation and Urban Violence. American Journal of Political Science. 58(1). 226–245. 62 indexed citations

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Bhavnani, Ravi & Karsten Donnay. (2012). Here’s Looking at You: The Arab Spring and Violence in Gaza, Israel and the West Bank. Swiss Political Science Review. 18(1). 124–131. 2 indexed citations

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