Marcus Messner

1.4k total citations · 1 hit paper
28 papers, 970 citations indexed

About

Marcus Messner is a scholar working on Communication, Sociology and Political Science and Health. According to data from OpenAlex, Marcus Messner has authored 28 papers receiving a total of 970 indexed citations (citations by other indexed papers that have themselves been cited), including 19 papers in Communication, 11 papers in Sociology and Political Science and 8 papers in Health. Recurrent topics in Marcus Messner's work include Social Media and Politics (9 papers), Misinformation and Its Impacts (9 papers) and Media Studies and Communication (8 papers). Marcus Messner is often cited by papers focused on Social Media and Politics (9 papers), Misinformation and Its Impacts (9 papers) and Media Studies and Communication (8 papers). Marcus Messner collaborates with scholars based in United States, Italy and Russia. Marcus Messner's co-authors include Jeanine P. D. Guidry, Yan Jin, Marcia W. DiStaso, Shana Meganck, Kellie E. Carlyle, Caroline Orr Bueno, Michail Vafeiadis, Bruce Garrison, Paul B. Perrin and Michael D. Sawdey and has published in prestigious journals such as SHILAP Revista de lepidopterología, Emerging infectious diseases and Vaccine.

In The Last Decade

Marcus Messner

28 papers receiving 917 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.

  1. Ebola on Instagram and Twitter: How health organizations address the health crisis in their social media engagement
    2017 248 citations Jeanine P. D. Guidry, Yan Jin et al. profile →

Peers — A (Enhanced Table)

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

Name h Career Trend Papers Cites
Marcus Messner United States 14 632 500 227 139 92 28 970
Xizhu Xiao China 16 689 1.1× 340 0.7× 363 1.6× 160 1.2× 165 1.8× 36 983
Rowena Briones United States 9 524 0.8× 451 0.9× 265 1.2× 77 0.6× 72 0.8× 18 926
Yotam Ophir United States 17 549 0.9× 336 0.7× 138 0.6× 120 0.9× 176 1.9× 56 865
Hai Liang Hong Kong 18 710 1.1× 323 0.6× 178 0.8× 246 1.8× 33 0.4× 47 1.0k
Cristina Pulido Spain 14 568 0.9× 273 0.5× 157 0.7× 120 0.9× 43 0.5× 42 1.0k
Brooke W. McKeever United States 16 513 0.8× 298 0.6× 180 0.8× 55 0.4× 86 0.9× 41 823
Gisela Redondo-Sama Spain 13 503 0.8× 181 0.4× 163 0.7× 105 0.8× 41 0.4× 41 982
Cameron Martel United States 13 764 1.2× 290 0.6× 143 0.6× 215 1.5× 88 1.0× 22 1.0k
Michelle I. Seelig United States 13 817 1.3× 321 0.6× 197 0.9× 221 1.6× 84 0.9× 40 987
Christina E. Farhart United States 10 878 1.4× 329 0.7× 227 1.0× 228 1.6× 59 0.6× 19 1.0k

Countries citing papers authored by Marcus Messner

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Fields of papers citing papers by Marcus Messner

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Physical SciencesHealth SciencesLife SciencesSocial Sciences

This network shows the impact of papers produced by Marcus Messner. Nodes represent research fields, and links connect fields that are likely to share authors. Colored nodes show fields that tend to cite the papers produced by Marcus Messner. The network helps show where Marcus Messner may publish in the future.

Co-authorship network of co-authors of Marcus Messner

This figure shows the co-authorship network connecting the top 25 collaborators of Marcus Messner. A scholar is included among the top collaborators of Marcus Messner based on the total number of citations received by their joint publications. Widths of edges represent the number of papers authors have co-authored together. Node borders signify the number of papers an author published with Marcus Messner. Marcus Messner is excluded from the visualization to improve readability, since they are connected to all nodes in the network.

All Works

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Guidry, Jeanine P. D., Nicole H. O’Donnell, Shana Meganck, et al.. (2022). Tweeting a Pandemic: Communicating #COVID19 Across the Globe. Health Communication. 38(11). 2377–2386. 8 indexed citations
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Guidry, Jeanine P. D., Shana Meganck, Paul B. Perrin, et al.. (2020). #Ebola: Tweeting and Pinning an Epidemic. Atlantic Journal of Communication. 29(2). 79–92. 13 indexed citations
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Guidry, Jeanine P. D., et al.. (2020). #Arabhealth on Instagram: Examining Public Health Messages to Arabian Gulf State Audiences. Health Communication. 37(1). 39–47. 2 indexed citations
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Guidry, Jeanine P. D., Lucinda Austin, Nicole H. O’Donnell, et al.. (2020). Tweeting the #flushot: Beliefs, Barriers, and Threats During Different Periods of the 2018 to 2019 Flu Season. Journal of Primary Care & Community Health. 11. 3373078386–3373078386. 18 indexed citations
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Guidry, Jeanine P. D., et al.. (2019). Tweeting about #Diseases and #Publichealth: Communicating Global Health Issues across Nations. Health Communication. 35(9). 1137–1145. 32 indexed citations
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Guidry, Jeanine P. D., Kellie E. Carlyle, Paul B. Perrin, et al.. (2019). A path model of psychosocial constructs predicting future Zika vaccine uptake intent. Vaccine. 37(36). 5233–5241. 13 indexed citations
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Guidry, Jeanine P. D., et al.. (2018). Using the Health Belief Model to Analyze Instagram Posts about Zika for Public Health Communications. Emerging infectious diseases. 25(1). 179–180. 48 indexed citations
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Messner, Marcus, et al.. (2016). Global health and social media: using Instagram and Twitter in an open online class for global service-learning projects. Communication Teacher. 30(4). 185–189. 8 indexed citations
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Guidry, Jeanine P. D., Kellie E. Carlyle, Marcus Messner, & Yan Jin. (2015). On pins and needles: How vaccines are portrayed on Pinterest. Vaccine. 33(39). 5051–5056. 158 indexed citations
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Guidry, Jeanine P. D., et al.. (2015). From #mcdonaldsfail to #dominossucks. Corporate Communications An International Journal. 20(3). 344–359. 32 indexed citations
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Messner, Marcus & Marcia W. DiStaso. (2013). Wikipedia versus Encyclopedia Britannica: A Longitudinal Analysis to Identify the Impact of Social Media on the Standards of Knowledge. Mass Communication & Society. 16(4). 465–486. 17 indexed citations
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Messner, Marcus & Bruce Garrison. (2011). Study Shows Some Blogs Affect Traditional News Media Agendas. Newspaper Research Journal. 32(3). 112–126. 22 indexed citations
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DiStaso, Marcia W. & Marcus Messner. (2010). Forced Transparency: Corporate Image on Wikipedia and What it Means for Public Relations. SHILAP Revista de lepidopterología. 16 indexed citations
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Messner, Marcus. (2010). Sources without a name: An analysis of the source interaction between elite traditional news media and filter blogs. 1 indexed citations
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Messner, Marcus, et al.. (2010). LEGITIMIZING WIKIPEDIA. Journalism Practice. 5(2). 145–160. 38 indexed citations
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Messner, Marcus. (2009). The Blog Election: An Analysis of the Source Interaction Between Traditional News Media And Blogs in Their Coverage of the 2006 Congressional Midterm Elections. 3 indexed citations
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Messner, Marcus & Bruce Garrison. (2007). Journalism's ‘Dirty Data’ below Researchers' Radar. Newspaper Research Journal. 28(4). 88–100. 8 indexed citations
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Wenner, Lawrence A., et al.. (1993). The mass media and sport.. 196–248. 10 indexed citations

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