Limor Shifman

4.9k total citations · 2 hit papers
53 papers, 2.7k citations indexed

About

Limor Shifman is a scholar working on Communication, Social Psychology and Sociology and Political Science. According to data from OpenAlex, Limor Shifman has authored 53 papers receiving a total of 2.7k indexed citations (citations by other indexed papers that have themselves been cited), including 26 papers in Communication, 26 papers in Social Psychology and 26 papers in Sociology and Political Science. Recurrent topics in Limor Shifman's work include Humor Studies and Applications (25 papers), Social Media and Politics (19 papers) and Gender, Feminism, and Media (13 papers). Limor Shifman is often cited by papers focused on Humor Studies and Applications (25 papers), Social Media and Politics (19 papers) and Gender, Feminism, and Media (13 papers). Limor Shifman collaborates with scholars based in Israel, United Kingdom and Japan. Limor Shifman's co-authors include Asaf Nissenbaum, Zohar Kampf, Noam Gal, Dafna Lemish, Mike Thelwall, Blake Hallinan, Elad Segev, Menahem Blondheim, Elihu Katz and Stephen Coleman and has published in prestigious journals such as American Sociological Review, Journal of Communication and New Media & Society.

In The Last Decade

Limor Shifman

50 papers receiving 2.4k 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.

Memes in Digital Culture

2013 552 citations Limor Shifman profile →
Memes in a Digital World: Reconciling with a Conceptual Troublemaker

2013 474 citations Limor Shifman Journal of Computer-Mediated Communication profile →

Peers — A (Enhanced Table)

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

Name	h						Papers	Cites
Limor Shifman Israel	22	1.2k	1.1k	848	722	551	53	2.7k
Geoff Kaufman United States	18	1.1k 0.9×	363 0.3×	461 0.5×	490 0.7×	821 1.5×	57	2.3k
Arthur A. Raney United States	27	1.3k 1.1×	560 0.5×	475 0.6×	841 1.2×	1.4k 2.6×	81	2.6k
Robin Tolmach Lakoff United States	20	466 0.4×	324 0.3×	445 0.5×	989 1.4×	1.1k 1.9×	45	3.8k
Michele Zappavigna Australia	20	711 0.6×	134 0.1×	689 0.8×	254 0.4×	659 1.2×	62	2.1k
James J. Bradac United States	26	636 0.5×	755 0.7×	324 0.4×	231 0.3×	581 1.1×	64	2.4k
Catalina L. Toma United States	22	1.5k 1.3×	637 0.6×	408 0.5×	306 0.4×	259 0.5×	44	2.5k
Kira Hall United States	18	547 0.5×	160 0.1×	287 0.3×	458 0.6×	889 1.6×	39	2.7k
Caleb T. Carr United States	23	2.0k 1.7×	347 0.3×	1.2k 1.4×	130 0.2×	354 0.6×	58	2.9k
Jonathan Culpeper United Kingdom	26	342 0.3×	434 0.4×	1.2k 1.4×	204 0.3×	2.0k 3.7×	101	4.7k
Brandon Van Der Heide United States	18	2.1k 1.8×	328 0.3×	1.2k 1.4×	158 0.2×	278 0.5×	31	2.8k

Countries citing papers authored by Limor Shifman

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Co-authorship network of co-authors of Limor Shifman

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All Works

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Shifman, Limor, et al.. (2025). The expression of values on social media: An analytical framework. New Media & Society. 28(3). 1148–1170. 1 indexed citations

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Hallinan, Blake, et al.. (2025). Liking without borders? Authenticity and the evaluation of Instagram photo genres. Journal of Computer-Mediated Communication. 30(4).

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Hallinan, Blake, et al.. (2023). “I love this photo, I can feel their hearts!” How users across the world evaluate social media portraiture. Journal of Communication. 73(3). 235–246. 4 indexed citations

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Hallinan, Blake, et al.. (2023). HOW TO DO THINGS WITH “VALUES”: A CROSS-LINGUISTIC ANALYSIS OF THE MEANINGS AND FUNCTIONS OF A CORE CONCEPT ON TWITTER. AoIR Selected Papers of Internet Research. 1 indexed citations

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Hallinan, Blake, et al.. (2023). Governing principles: Articulating values in social media platform policies. New Media & Society. 26(11). 6658–6677. 22 indexed citations

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Hallinan, Blake, et al.. (2022). A typology of social media rituals. Journal of Computer-Mediated Communication. 27(4). 17 indexed citations

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Hallinan, Blake, et al.. (2021). The value(s) of social media rituals: a cross-cultural analysis of New Year’s resolutions. Information Communication & Society. 26(4). 764–785. 21 indexed citations

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Hallinan, Blake, et al.. (2021). Mapping the transnational imaginary of social media genres. New Media & Society. 25(3). 559–583. 13 indexed citations

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Shifman, Limor, et al.. (2021). Memetic commemorations: remixing far-right values in digital spheres. Information Communication & Society. 24(16). 2482–2501. 21 indexed citations

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Hallinan, Blake, et al.. (2021). What Does #Freedom Look Like? Instagram and the Visual Imagination of Values. Journal of Communication. 71(6). 875–897. 9 indexed citations

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Hallinan, Blake, et al.. (2021). THE CHESHIRE CAT OF SOCIAL MEDIA: VALUES IN PLATFORM POLICIES. AoIR Selected Papers of Internet Research. 1 indexed citations

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Shifman, Limor, et al.. (2018). Digital political infographics: A rhetorical palette of an emergent genre. New Media & Society. 20(10). 3540–3559. 29 indexed citations

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Shifman, Limor, et al.. (2017). Making sense? The structure and meanings of digital memetic nonsense. Information Communication & Society. 20(6). 825–842. 54 indexed citations

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Shifman, Limor, et al.. (2016). Making Sense? The structure and meaning of digital memetic nonsense. AoIR Selected Papers of Internet Research. 6. 1 indexed citations

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Shifman, Limor, et al.. (2015). When Gangnam Hits the Middle East. 12(2). 10–31. 1 indexed citations

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Shifman, Limor, et al.. (2014). Meme : Kunst, Kultur und Politik im digitalen Zeitalter. Suhrkamp eBooks. 10 indexed citations

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Shifman, Limor, et al.. (2014). Evasive Targets: Deciphering Polysemy in Mediated Humor. Journal of Communication. 64(5). 977–998. 37 indexed citations

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Shifman, Limor & Dafna Lemish. (2010). “Mars and Venus” in Virtual Space: Post-feminist Humor and the Internet. Critical Studies in Media Communication. 28(3). 253–273. 40 indexed citations

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Shifman, Limor & Mike Thelwall. (2009). Assessing global diffusion with Web memetics: The spread and evolution of a popular joke. Journal of the American Society for Information Science and Technology. 60(12). 2567–2576. 45 indexed citations

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Shifman, Limor & Dafna Lemish. (2009). Blondejokes.com: The New Generation. Society. 47(1). 19–22. 3 indexed citations

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