Kieran Mepham

2.0k total citations · 1 hit paper
8 papers, 1.1k citations indexed

About

Kieran Mepham is a scholar working on Sociology and Political Science, Communication and Statistical and Nonlinear Physics. According to data from OpenAlex, Kieran Mepham has authored 8 papers receiving a total of 1.1k indexed citations (citations by other indexed papers that have themselves been cited), including 7 papers in Sociology and Political Science, 4 papers in Communication and 2 papers in Statistical and Nonlinear Physics. Recurrent topics in Kieran Mepham's work include Social Media and Politics (4 papers), Social and Intergroup Psychology (4 papers) and Migration, Refugees, and Integration (3 papers). Kieran Mepham is often cited by papers focused on Social Media and Politics (4 papers), Social and Intergroup Psychology (4 papers) and Migration, Refugees, and Integration (3 papers). Kieran Mepham collaborates with scholars based in Netherlands, Switzerland and Ireland. Kieran Mepham's co-authors include Timon Elmer, Christoph Stadtfeld, Maykel Verkuyten, Mathijs Kros, Borja Martinović, Kumar Yogeeswaran, Stefanie Sprong, Zsófia Boda, András Vörös and Isabel J. Raabe and has published in prestigious journals such as PLoS ONE, European Journal of Social Psychology and Social Networks.

In The Last Decade

Kieran Mepham

7 papers receiving 1.1k 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.

Students under lockdown: Comparisons of students’ social networks and mental health before and during the COVID-19 crisis in Switzerland

2020 929 citations Timon Elmer, Kieran Mepham et al. PLoS ONE profile →

Peers — A (Enhanced Table)

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

Name	h						Papers	Cites
Kieran Mepham Netherlands	6	742	347	245	188	134	8	1.1k
Fuad Bakioğlu Türkiye	9	569 0.8×	222 0.6×	295 1.2×	88 0.5×	133 1.0×	27	897
Yusen Zhai United States	6	720 1.0×	259 0.7×	112 0.5×	224 1.2×	94 0.7×	22	974
Güler Boyraz United States	20	744 1.0×	412 1.2×	159 0.6×	173 0.9×	131 1.0×	39	1.1k
Emine Göçet Tekin Türkiye	8	721 1.0×	290 0.8×	143 0.6×	124 0.7×	162 1.2×	14	950
Dominika Ochnik Poland	13	606 0.8×	264 0.8×	97 0.4×	166 0.9×	141 1.1×	41	806
Begüm Satıcı Türkiye	13	1.2k 1.6×	517 1.5×	294 1.2×	173 0.9×	309 2.3×	42	1.6k
Wei-Hsin Lu Taiwan	15	394 0.5×	173 0.5×	235 1.0×	87 0.5×	90 0.7×	28	677
Semira Tagliabue Italy	17	423 0.6×	345 1.0×	400 1.6×	110 0.6×	124 0.9×	64	1.0k
Zdravko Marjanovic Canada	15	485 0.7×	307 0.9×	189 0.8×	260 1.4×	130 1.0×	25	936
Jenny M. Groarke Ireland	16	533 0.7×	472 1.4×	145 0.6×	197 1.0×	126 0.9×	35	1.2k

Countries citing papers authored by Kieran Mepham

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Co-authorship network of co-authors of Kieran Mepham

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All Works

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8 of 8 papers shown

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Mepham, Kieran, András Vörös, & Christoph Stadtfeld. (2025). Network polarization: The study of political attitudes and social ties as dynamic multilevel networks. Network Science. 13. 1 indexed citations

2.

Mepham, Kieran, et al.. (2021). Een pandemie van polarisatie?. 96(2). 179–211. 1 indexed citations

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Elmer, Timon, Kieran Mepham, & Christoph Stadtfeld. (2020). Students under lockdown: Comparisons of students’ social networks and mental health before and during the COVID-19 crisis in Switzerland. PLoS ONE. 15(7). e0236337–e0236337. 929 indexed citations breakdown →

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Vörös, András, Zsófia Boda, Timon Elmer, et al.. (2020). The Swiss StudentLife Study: Investigating the emergence of an undergraduate community through dynamic, multidimensional social network data. Social Networks. 65. 71–84. 8 indexed citations

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Verkuyten, Maykel, Kumar Yogeeswaran, Kieran Mepham, & Stefanie Sprong. (2019). Interculturalism: A new diversity ideology with interrelated components of dialogue, unity, and identity flexibility. European Journal of Social Psychology. 50(3). 505–519. 39 indexed citations

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Verkuyten, Maykel, Kieran Mepham, & Mathijs Kros. (2017). Public attitudes towards support for migrants: the importance of perceived voluntary and involuntary migration. Ethnic and Racial Studies. 41(5). 901–918. 71 indexed citations

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Mepham, Kieran & Maykel Verkuyten. (2017). Citizenship representations, group indispensability and attitudes towards immigrants’ rights. International Journal of Intercultural Relations. 61. 54–62. 17 indexed citations

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Mepham, Kieran & Borja Martinović. (2017). Multilingualism and Out-Group Acceptance: The Mediating Roles of Cognitive Flexibility and Deprovincialization. Journal of Language and Social Psychology. 37(1). 51–73. 27 indexed citations

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