Mats Ekström

4.6k total citations · 1 hit paper
99 papers, 2.7k citations indexed

About

Mats Ekström is a scholar working on Communication, Sociology and Political Science and Language and Linguistics. According to data from OpenAlex, Mats Ekström has authored 99 papers receiving a total of 2.7k indexed citations (citations by other indexed papers that have themselves been cited), including 44 papers in Communication, 24 papers in Sociology and Political Science and 21 papers in Language and Linguistics. Recurrent topics in Mats Ekström's work include Social Media and Politics (32 papers), Media Studies and Communication (27 papers) and Language, Discourse, Communication Strategies (20 papers). Mats Ekström is often cited by papers focused on Social Media and Politics (32 papers), Media Studies and Communication (27 papers) and Language, Discourse, Communication Strategies (20 papers). Mats Ekström collaborates with scholars based in Sweden, United States and Norway. Mats Ekström's co-authors include Berth Danermark, Jan Ch. Karlsson, Oscar Westlund, Johan Östman, Adam Shehata, Bengt Johansson, Marianna Patrona, Tobias Olsson, Erik Amnå and Håkan Stattin and has published in prestigious journals such as New Media & Society, Communication Research and Journal of Pragmatics.

In The Last Decade

Mats Ekström

89 papers receiving 2.4k citations

Hit Papers

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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.

Explaining Society: Critical Realism in the Social Sciences

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Author						Papers	Cites
Mats Ekström	1.2k	1.1k	361	275	235	99	2.7k
Stephen W.Littlejohn	1.1k 0.9×	565 0.5×	171 0.5×	148 0.5×	529 2.3×	25	2.5k
Eric M. Eisenberg	757 0.6×	633 0.6×	114 0.3×	193 0.7×	153 0.7×	44	2.9k
James E. Grunig	1.4k 1.2×	3.3k 2.9×	189 0.5×	216 0.8×	138 0.6×	96	4.6k
Brent D. Ruben	414 0.3×	706 0.6×	198 0.5×	128 0.5×	571 2.4×	64	2.2k
Carl H. Botan	753 0.6×	1.6k 1.4×	110 0.3×	122 0.4×	157 0.7×	50	2.4k
Glen T. Cameron	1.8k 1.5×	2.6k 2.3×	82 0.2×	471 1.7×	73 0.3×	144	4.0k
Joseph R. Dominick	1.4k 1.2×	1.1k 1.0×	127 0.4×	395 1.4×	298 1.3×	46	3.1k
Nicholas C. Burbules	914 0.8×	237 0.2×	565 1.6×	266 1.0×	2.0k 8.4×	143	3.4k
Robert W. Hodge	1.5k 1.2×	104 0.1×	427 1.2×	226 0.8×	285 1.2×	51	2.9k
Richard D. Waters	1.9k 1.6×	2.0k 1.8×	193 0.5×	107 0.4×	174 0.7×	82	3.2k

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Co-authorship network of co-authors of Mats Ekström

This figure shows the co-authorship network connecting the top 25 collaborators of Mats Ekström. A scholar is included among the top collaborators of Mats Ekström 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 Mats Ekström. Mats Ekström is excluded from the visualization to improve readability, since they are connected to all nodes in the network.

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20 of 20 papers shown

Ekström, Mats. (2025). Authoritarian stereotyping: Values, judgements and representations of groups in conversations on news. Discourse & Society. 37(1). 44–63. 2 indexed citations

Djerf‐Pierre, Monika & Mats Ekström. (2025). Constructive Journalism as Practice—Storytelling in Solutions-Focused News Reporting in Mainstream News Media. Journalism Practice. 1–19.

Ekström, Mats & Marianna Patrona. (2024). Authoritarian Populism and the Challenges for News Journalism. 4 indexed citations

Ekström, Mats. (2023). Authoritarianism in the discourse of online forums: A study of its articulations in the Swedish context. Nordicom review/NORDICOM review. 44(2). 194–216. 4 indexed citations

Ekström, Mats & Melisa Stevanovic. (2023). Conversation analysis and power: examining the descendants and antecedents of social action. Frontiers in Sociology. 8. 1196672–1196672. 7 indexed citations

Shehata, Adam, et al.. (2022). Selective Exposure and New Political Cleavages: Media Use and Ideological Reinforcement Over Time. The International Journal of Press/Politics. 29(3). 733–754. 2 indexed citations

Westlund, Oscar & Mats Ekström. (2021). Critical Moments of Coordination in Newswork. Journalism Practice. 15(6). 728–746. 6 indexed citations

Westlund, Oscar & Mats Ekström. (2018). News and Participation through and beyond Proprietary Platforms in an Age of Social Media. Media and Communication. 6(4). 1–10. 46 indexed citations

Ekström, Mats. (2015). Young people’s everyday political talk: a social achievement of democratic engagement. Journal of Youth Studies. 19(1). 1–19. 65 indexed citations

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Amnå, Erik, Mats Ekström, Margaret Kerr, & Håkan Stattin. (2009). Political socialization and human agency : The development of civic engagement from adolescence to adulthood. KTH Publication Database DiVA (KTH Royal Institute of Technology). 111(1). 27–40. 80 indexed citations

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Ekström, Mats. (2009). Power and affiliation in presidential press conferences. Journal of Language and Politics. 8(3). 386–415. 20 indexed citations

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Ekström, Mats. (2008). Iscensatta samtal : om relationer mellan politik och journalistik. 110(4). 407–424. 1 indexed citations

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Ekström, Mats. (2008). Research on media and democracy : reflections on changes and challenges. Nordicom review/NORDICOM review. 29(2). 45–52.

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Ekström, Mats, et al.. (2008). Avbrott i politiska mediesamtal : en studie av statsministerkandidaterna Persson och Reinfeldt i den svenska valrörelsen 2006. 30(1). 3–17. 2 indexed citations

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Ekström, Mats, et al.. (2006). News from the interview society. 53 indexed citations

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Ekström, Mats, et al.. (2006). Mot en mer oberoende kommunal journalistik. 28(4). 37–53. 1 indexed citations

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Ekström, Mats & Göran Eriksson. (1999). Den medialiserade politikens paradoxer Exempel från den svenska valrörelsen 1998. KTH Publication Database DiVA (KTH Royal Institute of Technology). 21(4). 39–58. 1 indexed citations

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Danermark, Berth, et al.. (1997). Att förklara samhället. 31 indexed citations

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Ekström, Mats & Berth Danermark. (1993). Migration patterns and migration motives among the elderly—Swedish data in a comparative perspective. Scandinavian Housing and Planning Research. 10(2). 75–89. 6 indexed citations

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Danermark, Berth & Mats Ekström. (1990). Relocation and Health Effects on the Elderly A Commented Research Review. The Journal of Sociology & Social Welfare. 17(1). 52 indexed citations

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