Michael Brüggemann

3.6k total citations · 2 hit papers
67 papers, 1.9k citations indexed

About

Michael Brüggemann is a scholar working on Communication, Sociology and Political Science and Political Science and International Relations. According to data from OpenAlex, Michael Brüggemann has authored 67 papers receiving a total of 1.9k indexed citations (citations by other indexed papers that have themselves been cited), including 43 papers in Communication, 37 papers in Sociology and Political Science and 13 papers in Political Science and International Relations. Recurrent topics in Michael Brüggemann's work include Media Studies and Communication (34 papers), Climate Change Communication and Perception (28 papers) and Social Media and Politics (20 papers). Michael Brüggemann is often cited by papers focused on Media Studies and Communication (34 papers), Climate Change Communication and Perception (28 papers) and Social Media and Politics (20 papers). Michael Brüggemann collaborates with scholars based in Germany, Switzerland and Netherlands. Michael Brüggemann's co-authors include Sven Engesser, Edda Humprecht, Laia Castro, Stefanie Walter, Florin Büchel, Katharina Kleinen‐von Königslöw, Ines Lörcher, Hartmut Weßler, Bernhard Peters and Lars Guenther and has published in prestigious journals such as Nature Climate Change, Global Environmental Change and Journal of Communication.

In The Last Decade

Michael Brüggemann

62 papers receiving 1.7k 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. Hallin and Mancini Revisited: Four Empirical Types of Western Media Systems
    2014 365 citations Michael Brüggemann, Sven Engesser et al. Journal of Communication profile →
  2. Media Systems in the Digital Age: An Empirical Comparison of 30 Countries
    2022 81 citations Edda Humprecht, Laia Castro et al. Journal of Communication profile →

Peers

Michael Brüggemann
Andreas Schuck Netherlands
Rune Slothuus Denmark
David Nicolas Hopmann Denmark
Adam Shehata Sweden
Guobin Yang United States
Jason Barabas United States
Erik Albæk Denmark
André Bächtiger Switzerland
Jane Suiter Ireland
Simon Cottle United Kingdom
Andreas Schuck Netherlands
Michael Brüggemann
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Countries citing papers authored by Michael Brüggemann

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Fields of papers citing papers by Michael Brüggemann

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Physical SciencesHealth SciencesLife SciencesSocial Sciences

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Co-authorship network of co-authors of Michael Brüggemann

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

All Works

20 of 20 papers shown
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Reif, Anne, Lars Guenther, & Michael Brüggemann. (2025). Unveiling the Backlash in Public Opinion on Climate Change: A Longitudinal Study of Climate Change-Related Population Segments and Communicative Engagement in Germany. Environmental Communication. 20(2). 317–339. 2 indexed citations
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Brüggemann, Michael, et al.. (2024). Collecting Data in an Immersive Video Environment to Set up an Agent-Based Model of Pedestrians’ Compliance with COVID-Related Interventions. Journal of Artificial Societies and Social Simulation. 27(2). 1 indexed citations
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Guenther, Lars, et al.. (2024). Global climate change will “not be decided in Duisburg”: An exemplary investigation into local journalists’ frames and potential contextual factors. Studies in Communication and Media. 13(2). 208–213. 1 indexed citations
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Brüggemann, Michael, et al.. (2023). When debates break apart: discursive polarization as a multi-dimensional divergence emerging in and through communication. Communication Theory. 33(2-3). 132–142. 21 indexed citations
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Guenther, Lars, et al.. (2023). Between Calls for Action and Narratives of Denial: Climate Change Attention Structures on Twitter. Media and Communication. 11(1). 278–292. 10 indexed citations
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Brüggemann, Michael, et al.. (2023). Towards dynamically generating immersive video scenes for studying human-environment interactions. 4. 1–5. 2 indexed citations
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Kunert, Jessica, et al.. (2022). “You suck it up and you deal with it”: Blind spots in investigative reporting and how to overcome them. Journalism. 25(2). 255–274. 3 indexed citations
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Brüggemann, Michael, et al.. (2020). Mutual Group Polarization in the Blogosphere: Tracking the Hoax Discourse on Climate Change. International journal of communication. 14. 24. 19 indexed citations
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Brüggemann, Michael, et al.. (2020). Electrocoat. 5 indexed citations
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Walter, Stefanie, et al.. (2020). Climate Feedback: Wissenschaft kommentiert Journalismus und entwickelt Mehrsystemkompetenz. Publizistik. 65(4). 567–589.
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Walter, Stefanie, et al.. (2018). Digital Traces in Context| From “Knowledge Brokers” to Opinion Makers: How Physical Presence Affected Scientists’ Twitter Use During the COP21 Climate Change Conference. International journal of communication. 12. 22. 1 indexed citations
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Walter, Stefanie, et al.. (2018). From “Knowledge Brokers” to Opinion Makers: How Physical Presence Affected Scientists’ Twitter Use During the COP21 Climate Change Conference. International journal of communication. 11. 570–591. 14 indexed citations
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Brüggemann, Michael, Sven Engesser, Florin Büchel, Edda Humprecht, & Laia Castro. (2014). Hallin and Mancini Revisited: Four Empirical Types of Western Media Systems. Journal of Communication. 64(6). 1037–1065. 365 indexed citations breakdown →
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Brüggemann, Michael & Sven Engesser. (2014). Between Consensus and Denial. Science Communication. 36(4). 399–427. 83 indexed citations
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Brüggemann, Michael & Sven Engesser. (2013). Climate Journalists as Interpretive Community: Identifying Transnational Frames of Climate Change: NCCR Working Paper 59. Zurich Open Repository and Archive (University of Zurich). 2 indexed citations
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Brüggemann, Michael. (2012). Transnationale Kulturen des Journalismus. Praktiken journalistischer Themenfindung im Vergleich. Medien & Kommunikationswissenschaft. 60. 76–92. 2 indexed citations
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Weßler, Hartmut, et al.. (2008). Transnationalization of Public Spheres. Palgrave Macmillan UK eBooks. 86 indexed citations

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