Nikki Usher

3.3k total citations
64 papers, 2.0k citations indexed

About

Nikki Usher is a scholar working on Communication, Sociology and Political Science and Literature and Literary Theory. According to data from OpenAlex, Nikki Usher has authored 64 papers receiving a total of 2.0k indexed citations (citations by other indexed papers that have themselves been cited), including 43 papers in Communication, 18 papers in Sociology and Political Science and 5 papers in Literature and Literary Theory. Recurrent topics in Nikki Usher's work include Media Studies and Communication (36 papers), Social Media and Politics (22 papers) and Public Relations and Crisis Communication (11 papers). Nikki Usher is often cited by papers focused on Media Studies and Communication (36 papers), Social Media and Politics (22 papers) and Public Relations and Crisis Communication (11 papers). Nikki Usher collaborates with scholars based in United States, Ireland and Belgium. Nikki Usher's co-authors include Seth C. Lewis, Matt Carlson, Robert M. Entman, Lian Jian, Justin Littman, Rachel E. Moran, Yee Man Margaret Ng, Shannon C. McGregor, Jessica Vitak and Brooke Foucault Welles and has published in prestigious journals such as SHILAP Revista de lepidopterología, Journal of Communication and New Media & Society.

In The Last Decade

Nikki Usher

62 papers receiving 1.9k citations

Peers — A (Enhanced Table)

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

Name h Career Trend Papers Cites
Nikki Usher United States 25 1.5k 862 158 123 104 64 2.0k
Zvi Reich Israel 23 1.6k 1.1× 868 1.0× 136 0.9× 119 1.0× 113 1.1× 61 2.0k
Dominic L. Lasorsa United States 16 1.1k 0.7× 696 0.8× 135 0.9× 96 0.8× 136 1.3× 31 1.6k
Chris Peters Denmark 22 919 0.6× 668 0.8× 126 0.8× 59 0.5× 141 1.4× 46 1.4k
Tom Rosenstiel United States 9 1.0k 0.7× 716 0.8× 77 0.5× 126 1.0× 124 1.2× 10 1.5k
Natalie Fenton United Kingdom 20 917 0.6× 724 0.8× 213 1.3× 232 1.9× 69 0.7× 57 1.5k
Eugenia Mitchelstein Argentina 18 1.3k 0.9× 947 1.1× 126 0.8× 82 0.7× 108 1.0× 41 1.7k
Wilson Lowrey United States 22 1.1k 0.7× 753 0.9× 103 0.7× 69 0.6× 115 1.1× 69 1.6k
Oscar Westlund Sweden 26 1.6k 1.0× 1.2k 1.4× 110 0.7× 77 0.6× 110 1.1× 63 2.2k
David Domingo Belgium 20 2.0k 1.3× 879 1.0× 162 1.0× 111 0.9× 137 1.3× 72 2.4k
Tamara Witschge Netherlands 16 969 0.6× 452 0.5× 128 0.8× 120 1.0× 79 0.8× 37 1.3k

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Fields of papers citing papers by Nikki Usher

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Physical SciencesHealth SciencesLife SciencesSocial Sciences

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Co-authorship network of co-authors of Nikki Usher

This figure shows the co-authorship network connecting the top 25 collaborators of Nikki Usher. A scholar is included among the top collaborators of Nikki Usher 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 Nikki Usher. Nikki Usher 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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Usher, Nikki. (2025). Generative AI and Journalism: Hype, The Always Already New, and Directions for Scholarly Imagination. Digital Journalism. 14(2). 400–409. 1 indexed citations
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Usher, Nikki. (2023). Delegitimizing Rural Public Health Departments: How Decaying Local News Ecologies, Misinformation, and Radicalization Undermine Community Storytelling Networks. The Annals of the American Academy of Political and Social Science. 707(1). 90–108. 2 indexed citations
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McIlwain, Charlton D. & Nikki Usher. (2023). Introducing: the JOC academic posse cut. Journal of Communication. 73(6). 620–620. 1 indexed citations
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Usher, Nikki. (2021). News for the Rich, White, and Blue. Columbia University Press eBooks. 94 indexed citations
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Usher, Nikki. (2020). The New York Times in Trump’s America: A Failure for Liberals, A Champion for Liberalism. Political Communication. 37(4). 573–581. 4 indexed citations
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Usher, Nikki. (2020). News cartography and epistemic authority in the era of big data: Journalists as map-makers, map-users, and map-subjects. New Media & Society. 22(2). 247–263. 30 indexed citations
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Usher, Nikki. (2019). Alfabetización digital y el futuro del periodismo. Redalyc (Universidad Autónoma del Estado de México). 28(40). 216–225. 1 indexed citations
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Usher, Nikki. (2019). "Funnel Time” in the Heartland: Shifting Temporalities and Changing Materialities at The Omaha World-Herald. International journal of communication. 13. 21.
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Entman, Robert M. & Nikki Usher. (2018). Framing in a Fractured Democracy: Impacts of Digital Technology on Ideology, Power and Cascading Network Activation. Journal of Communication. 68(2). 298–308. 125 indexed citations
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Usher, Nikki. (2017). Making Business News: A Production Analysis of The New York Times. International journal of communication. 11. 20. 15 indexed citations
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Alexander, Jeffrey C., Elizabeth Butler Breese, Håkon Larsen, et al.. (2016). The Crisis of Journalism Reconsidered. Cambridge University Press eBooks. 52 indexed citations
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Carlson, Matt & Nikki Usher. (2015). News Startups as Agents of Innovation. Digital Journalism. 4(5). 563–581. 129 indexed citations
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Usher, Nikki. (2012). Going Web-First at the Christian Science Monitor: A Three Part Study of Change. International journal of communication. 6. 20. 13 indexed citations
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Usher, Nikki, et al.. (2010). The Quest to Save Journalism: A Legal Analysis of New Models for Newspapers from Nonprofit Tax-Exempt Organizations to L3Cs. Utah law review. 2010(4). 1315–1371. 2 indexed citations
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Usher, Nikki. (2009). Reviewing Global Journalism Studies: Three Books and a Look at the Future. International journal of communication. 3. 6. 1 indexed citations
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Usher, Nikki. (2009). Michael Schudson: Why Democracies Need an Unlovable Press. International journal of communication. 3. 5. 2 indexed citations

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