Kate Starbird

7.9k total citations · 4 hit papers
91 papers, 4.9k citations indexed

About

Kate Starbird is a scholar working on Sociology and Political Science, Communication and Statistical and Nonlinear Physics. According to data from OpenAlex, Kate Starbird has authored 91 papers receiving a total of 4.9k indexed citations (citations by other indexed papers that have themselves been cited), including 64 papers in Sociology and Political Science, 56 papers in Communication and 23 papers in Statistical and Nonlinear Physics. Recurrent topics in Kate Starbird's work include Misinformation and Its Impacts (42 papers), Social Media and Politics (35 papers) and Public Relations and Crisis Communication (27 papers). Kate Starbird is often cited by papers focused on Misinformation and Its Impacts (42 papers), Social Media and Politics (35 papers) and Public Relations and Crisis Communication (27 papers). Kate Starbird collaborates with scholars based in United States and Switzerland. Kate Starbird's co-authors include Leysia Palen, Sarah Vieweg, Amanda Hughes, Ahmer Arif, Tom Wilson, Emma S. Spiro, Mania Orand, Dharma Dailey, Robert M. Mason and Leo G Stewart and has published in prestigious journals such as Nature, SHILAP Revista de lepidopterología and Science Advances.

In The Last Decade

Kate Starbird

87 papers receiving 4.6k citations

Hit Papers

Microblogging during two natural hazards events 2010 2026 2015 2020 2010 2011 2014 2019 250 500 750 1000
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. Microblogging during two natural hazards events
    2010 1.0k citations Kate Starbird, Leysia Palen et al. profile →
  2. "Voluntweeters"
    2011 391 citations Kate Starbird, Leysia Palen profile →
  3. Rumors, False Flags, and Digital Vigilantes: Misinformation on Twitter after the 2013 Boston Marathon Bombing
    2014 266 citations Kate Starbird et al. profile →
  4. Disinformation as Collaborative Work
    2019 213 citations Kate Starbird et al. Proceedings of the ACM on Human-Computer Interaction profile →

Peers — A (Enhanced Table)

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

Name h Career Trend Papers Cites
Kate Starbird United States 33 3.3k 2.8k 1.1k 1.1k 713 91 4.9k
Sarah Vieweg United States 24 2.4k 0.7× 2.8k 1.0× 1.2k 1.1× 917 0.8× 507 0.7× 40 4.3k
Amanda Hughes United States 24 2.5k 0.8× 2.6k 0.9× 640 0.6× 801 0.7× 426 0.6× 59 4.3k
Leysia Palen United States 53 5.6k 1.7× 4.8k 1.7× 1.4k 1.2× 1.4k 1.3× 1.3k 1.8× 102 9.7k
Christian Reuter Germany 28 1.5k 0.4× 1.2k 0.4× 595 0.5× 154 0.1× 469 0.7× 231 3.2k
Patric R. Spence United States 35 2.9k 0.9× 2.3k 0.8× 800 0.7× 223 0.2× 248 0.3× 135 4.7k
Bárbara Poblete Chile 16 2.1k 0.6× 845 0.3× 1.5k 1.3× 1.1k 1.0× 1.3k 1.8× 63 3.3k
Manuel Cebrián United States 31 1.1k 0.3× 489 0.2× 584 0.5× 711 0.7× 309 0.4× 105 3.8k
Jeannette Sutton United States 31 2.1k 0.6× 1.6k 0.6× 294 0.3× 224 0.2× 180 0.3× 78 3.0k
Marcelo Mendoza Chile 16 2.1k 0.6× 742 0.3× 1.4k 1.2× 1.0k 0.9× 1.3k 1.8× 82 3.4k
Winter Mason United States 18 1.5k 0.5× 881 0.3× 715 0.6× 1.5k 1.4× 515 0.7× 35 4.1k

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Fields of papers citing papers by Kate Starbird

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Physical SciencesHealth SciencesLife SciencesSocial Sciences

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Co-authorship network of co-authors of Kate Starbird

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All Works

20 of 20 papers shown
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Backer, Lorraine C., et al.. (2025). How Strategic Information Operations Affect Peacekeeping: Two Case Studies from the Central African Republic. International Peacekeeping. 32(3). 414–456.
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Starbird, Kate, et al.. (2025). Deep Storytelling: Collective Sensemaking and Layers of Meaning in U.S. Elections. Proceedings of the ACM on Human-Computer Interaction. 9(7). 1–43. 1 indexed citations
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Starbird, Kate, et al.. (2024). Governance Capture in a Self-Governing Community: A Qualitative Comparison of the Croatian, Serbian, Bosnian, and Serbo-Croatian Wikipedias. Proceedings of the ACM on Human-Computer Interaction. 8(CSCW1). 1–26. 3 indexed citations
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Starbird, Kate, et al.. (2023). Participatory Design and Power in Misinformation, Disinformation, and Online Hate Research. 1724–1739. 4 indexed citations
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Beers, Andrew, et al.. (2023). Selective and deceptive citation in the construction of dueling consensuses. Science Advances. 9(38). eadh1933–eadh1933. 3 indexed citations
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Davidson, Rachel A., et al.. (2023). Typology of household adaptations to infrastructure system service interruptions. International Journal of Disaster Risk Reduction. 97. 103974–103974. 4 indexed citations
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Beers, Andrew, et al.. (2023). Followback Clusters, Satellite Audiences, and Bridge Nodes: Coengagement Networks for the 2020 US Election. Proceedings of the International AAAI Conference on Web and Social Media. 17. 59–71. 4 indexed citations
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Starbird, Kate, et al.. (2023). Post-Spotlight Posts: The Impact of Sudden Social Media Attention on Account Behavior. 273–277. 1 indexed citations
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Bak-Coleman, Joseph B., Ian Kennedy, Andrew Beers, et al.. (2022). Combining interventions to reduce the spread of viral misinformation. Nature Human Behaviour. 6(10). 1372–1380. 78 indexed citations
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Starbird, Kate, et al.. (2022). Bridging Contextual and Methodological Gaps on the “Misinformation Beat”: Insights from Journalist-Researcher Collaborations at Speed. CHI Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems. 1–15. 8 indexed citations
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Starbird, Kate & Jeannie A. Stamberger. (2018). Tweak the Tweet: Leveraging Microblogging Proliferation with a Prescriptive Syntax to Support Citizen Reporting. Figshare. 16 indexed citations
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Wilson, T. D., et al.. (2017). Language Limitations in Rumor Research? Comparing French and English Tweets Sent During the 2015 Paris Attacks.. ISCRAM. 7 indexed citations
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Stewart, Leo G, et al.. (2017). Alternative Narratives of Crisis Events. 263–266. 21 indexed citations
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Robinson, John J., et al.. (2016). Eyes on the Ground: Emerging Practices in Periscope Use during Crisis Events.. ISCRAM. 13 indexed citations
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Zeng, Li, Kate Starbird, & Emma S. Spiro. (2016). Rumors at the Speed of Light? Modeling the Rate of Rumor Transmission During Crisis. 1969–1978. 35 indexed citations
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Robinson, John J., et al.. (2015). Examining the role of human and technical infrastructure during emergency response. International Conference on Information Systems for Crisis Response and Management. 1 indexed citations
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Dailey, Dharma & Kate Starbird. (2014). Visible skepticism: Community vetting after Hurricane Irene.. ISCRAM. 11 indexed citations
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Starbird, Kate. (2013). Delivering patients to sacré coeur. 801–810. 37 indexed citations
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Starbird, Kate, et al.. (2012). Learning from the crowd: Collaborative filtering techniques for identifying on-the-ground Twitterers during mass disruptions.. ISCRAM. 70 indexed citations
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Starbird, Kate & Leysia Palen. (2010). Pass It On?: Retweeting in Mass Emergency. ISCRAM. 182 indexed citations

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