Kjerstin Thorson

4.5k total citations · 3 hit papers
57 papers, 2.8k citations indexed

About

Kjerstin Thorson is a scholar working on Communication, Sociology and Political Science and Artificial Intelligence. According to data from OpenAlex, Kjerstin Thorson has authored 57 papers receiving a total of 2.8k indexed citations (citations by other indexed papers that have themselves been cited), including 46 papers in Communication, 31 papers in Sociology and Political Science and 10 papers in Artificial Intelligence. Recurrent topics in Kjerstin Thorson's work include Social Media and Politics (45 papers), Media Studies and Communication (25 papers) and Misinformation and Its Impacts (9 papers). Kjerstin Thorson is often cited by papers focused on Social Media and Politics (45 papers), Media Studies and Communication (25 papers) and Misinformation and Its Impacts (9 papers). Kjerstin Thorson collaborates with scholars based in United States, Ireland and China. Kjerstin Thorson's co-authors include Chris Wells, Jieun Shin, Shelly Rodgers, Emily K. Vraga, Stephanie Edgerly, Kelley Cotter, Neta Kligler-Vilenchik, Brian Ekdale, Kevin Wise and Chankyung Pak and has published in prestigious journals such as SHILAP Revista de lepidopterología, Computers in Human Behavior and Journal of Communication.

In The Last Decade

Kjerstin Thorson

53 papers receiving 2.6k 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.

Curated Flows: A Framework for Mapping Media Exposure in the Digital Age

2015 421 citations Kjerstin Thorson, Chris Wells profile →
Partisan Selective Sharing: The Biased Diffusion of Fact-Checking Messages on Social Media

2017 320 citations Kjerstin Thorson et al. profile →
Integrating Survey Data and Digital Trace Data: Key Issues in Developing an Emerging Field

2019 179 citations Kjerstin Thorson et al. Social Science Computer Review profile →

Peers — A (Enhanced Table)

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

Name	h						Papers	Cites
Kjerstin Thorson United States	21	1.9k	1.9k	455	271	245	57	2.8k
Yonghwan Kim South Korea	22	1.7k 0.9×	1.8k 0.9×	320 0.7×	301 1.1×	332 1.4×	62	2.5k
Nojin Kwak United States	26	2.2k 1.2×	2.4k 1.3×	284 0.6×	227 0.8×	612 2.5×	46	3.4k
Barbara K. Kaye United States	30	2.6k 1.3×	2.4k 1.3×	392 0.9×	227 0.8×	291 1.2×	73	3.8k
Gina Masullo Chen United States	22	1.2k 0.6×	1.2k 0.7×	511 1.1×	109 0.4×	129 0.5×	64	2.0k
Pablo J. Boczkowski United States	29	1.9k 1.0×	2.8k 1.5×	195 0.4×	141 0.5×	188 0.8×	91	3.6k
Hernando Rojas United States	28	1.7k 0.9×	2.1k 1.1×	394 0.9×	238 0.9×	489 2.0×	76	2.8k
Alfred Hermida Canada	25	1.6k 0.8×	2.8k 1.5×	216 0.5×	211 0.8×	159 0.6×	51	3.5k
Caleb T. Carr United States	23	2.0k 1.0×	1.2k 0.6×	235 0.5×	142 0.5×	133 0.5×	58	2.9k
S. Mo Jones-Jang United States	23	1.8k 0.9×	1.3k 0.7×	446 1.0×	172 0.6×	135 0.6×	62	2.6k
Brian E. Weeks United States	24	2.0k 1.0×	2.0k 1.0×	452 1.0×	335 1.2×	369 1.5×	48	2.8k

Countries citing papers authored by Kjerstin Thorson

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Physical SciencesHealth SciencesLife SciencesSocial Sciences

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Co-authorship network of co-authors of Kjerstin Thorson

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All Works

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Proferes, Nicholas, et al.. (2025). LOCALIZED VOLUNTEER MODERATION AND ITS DISCURSIVE CONSTRUCTION. AoIR Selected Papers of Internet Research.

Proferes, Nicholas, et al.. (2025). Local platformized utopias? corporate discourse, community groups, and volunteer moderation on Facebook, Reddit, and NextDoor. 2.

Thorson, Kjerstin, et al.. (2023). Spurring and sustaining online consumer activism: the role of cause support and brand relationship in microlevel action frames. Journal of Brand Management. 30(5). 461–477. 8 indexed citations

Thorson, Kjerstin, Marisa Smith, Stephanie Edgerly, et al.. (2023). Who Will Tell the Stories of Health Inequities? Platform Challenges (and Opportunities) in Local Civic Information Infrastructure. The Annals of the American Academy of Political and Social Science. 707(1). 144–171. 1 indexed citations

Suk, Jiyoun, Dhavan V. Shah, Leticia Bode, et al.. (2022). Political Events in a Partisan Media Ecology: Asymmetric Influence on Candidate Appraisals. Mass Communication & Society. 26(2). 275–299. 1 indexed citations

Pak, Chankyung, Kelley Cotter, & Kjerstin Thorson. (2022). Correcting Sample Selection Bias of Historical Digital Trace Data: Inverse Probability Weighting (IPW) and Type II Tobit Model. Communication Methods and Measures. 16(2). 134–155. 3 indexed citations

Bergan, Daniel E., et al.. (2021). Promoting the Youth Vote: The Role of Informational Cues and Social Pressure. Political Behavior. 44(4). 2027–2047. 11 indexed citations

Thorson, Kjerstin. (2020). Attracting the news: Algorithms, platforms, and reframing incidental exposure. Journalism. 21(8). 1067–1082. 87 indexed citations

Thorson, Kjerstin, et al.. (2019). Algorithmic inference, political interest, and exposure to news and politics on Facebook. Information Communication & Society. 24(2). 183–200. 173 indexed citations

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Bode, Leticia, Emily K. Vraga, & Kjerstin Thorson. (2018). Fake News. Oxford University Press eBooks. 2 indexed citations

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Edgerly, Stephanie, et al.. (2016). Posting about politics: Media as resources for political expression on Facebook. Journal of Information Technology & Politics. 13(2). 108–125. 29 indexed citations

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Thorson, Kjerstin, et al.. (2016). Seeking Visibility in a Big Tent: Digital Communication and the People's Climate March. 10. 4784–4806. 15 indexed citations

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Thorson, Kjerstin, Stephanie Edgerly, Neta Kligler-Vilenchik, Yu Xu, & Luping Wang. (2016). Climate and Sustainability| Seeking Visibility in a Big Tent: Digital Communication and the People’s Climate March. SHILAP Revista de lepidopterología. 10. 23. 6 indexed citations

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Bode, Leticia, Emily K. Vraga, JungHwan Yang, et al.. (2016). Political engagement within parent-child dyads: Rethinking the transmission model of socialization in digital media environments. 127–144. 1 indexed citations

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Wells, Chris & Kjerstin Thorson. (2015). Combining Big Data and Survey Techniques to Model Effects of Political Content Flows in Facebook. Social Science Computer Review. 35(1). 33–52. 69 indexed citations

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Driscoll, Kevin & Kjerstin Thorson. (2015). Searching and Clustering Methodologies. The Annals of the American Academy of Political and Social Science. 659(1). 134–148. 10 indexed citations

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Borah, Porismita, Kjerstin Thorson, & Hyunseo Hwang. (2015). Causes and Consequences of Selective Exposure Among Political Blog Readers: The Role of Hostile Media Perception in Motivated Media Use and Expressive Participation. Journal of Information Technology & Politics. 12(2). 186–199. 19 indexed citations

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Driscoll, Kevin, Mike Ananny, François Bar, et al.. (2013). Big Bird, Binders, and Bayonets: Humor and live-tweeting during the 2012 U.S. Presidential Debates. AoIR Selected Papers of Internet Research. 3. 4 indexed citations

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Vraga, Emily K., Leticia Bode, Chris Wells, Kevin Driscoll, & Kjerstin Thorson. (2013). The Rules of Engagement: Comparing Two Social Protest Movements on YouTube. Cyberpsychology Behavior and Social Networking. 17(3). 133–140. 17 indexed citations

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Thorson, Kjerstin & Shelly Rodgers. (2006). Relationships Between Blogs as EWOM and Interactivity, Perceived Interactivity, and Parasocial Interaction. Journal of Interactive Advertising. 6(2). 5–44. 259 indexed citations

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