Petter Törnberg

2.3k total citations · 3 hit papers
47 papers, 1.2k citations indexed

About

Petter Törnberg is a scholar working on Sociology and Political Science, Communication and Statistical and Nonlinear Physics. According to data from OpenAlex, Petter Törnberg has authored 47 papers receiving a total of 1.2k indexed citations (citations by other indexed papers that have themselves been cited), including 20 papers in Sociology and Political Science, 15 papers in Communication and 9 papers in Statistical and Nonlinear Physics. Recurrent topics in Petter Törnberg's work include Social Media and Politics (14 papers), Opinion Dynamics and Social Influence (8 papers) and Sharing Economy and Platforms (7 papers). Petter Törnberg is often cited by papers focused on Social Media and Politics (14 papers), Opinion Dynamics and Social Influence (8 papers) and Sharing Economy and Platforms (7 papers). Petter Törnberg collaborates with scholars based in Netherlands, Sweden and Switzerland. Petter Törnberg's co-authors include Anton Törnberg, Claes Andersson, Justus Uitermark, Kristian Lindgren, Sven Banisch, Philippe J. Giabbanelli, Alexey Voinov, Brian Castellani, Jacob G. Foster and Sophie Oldfield and has published in prestigious journals such as Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, SHILAP Revista de lepidopterología and PLoS ONE.

In The Last Decade

Petter Törnberg

41 papers receiving 1.1k citations

Hit Papers

Echo chambers and viral misinformation: Modeling fake new... 2018 2026 2020 2023 2018 2022 2025 50 100 150 200
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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.

  1. Echo chambers and viral misinformation: Modeling fake news as complex contagion
    2018 223 citations Petter Törnberg PLoS ONE profile →
  2. How digital media drive affective polarization through partisan sorting
    2022 119 citations Petter Törnberg profile →
  3. When Do Parties Lie? Misinformation and Radical-Right Populism Across 26 Countries
    2025 11 citations Petter Törnberg et al. The International Journal of Press/Politics profile →

Peers — A (Enhanced Table)

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

Name h Career Trend Papers Cites
Petter Törnberg Netherlands 18 626 377 179 176 125 47 1.2k
Iina Hellsten Netherlands 22 646 1.0× 432 1.1× 193 1.1× 126 0.7× 35 0.3× 64 1.5k
Weiai Wayne Xu United States 19 654 1.0× 663 1.8× 155 0.9× 121 0.7× 82 0.7× 39 1.1k
Steven R. Corman United States 18 466 0.7× 305 0.8× 184 1.0× 137 0.8× 48 0.4× 60 1.5k
Kasper Welbers Netherlands 14 510 0.8× 481 1.3× 81 0.5× 285 1.6× 65 0.5× 34 1.3k
Mark Boukes Netherlands 21 834 1.3× 756 2.0× 52 0.3× 231 1.3× 191 1.5× 68 1.5k
Carolin Gerlitz Netherlands 11 669 1.1× 409 1.1× 70 0.4× 98 0.6× 85 0.7× 27 1.2k
Cornelius Puschmann Germany 18 434 0.7× 428 1.1× 105 0.6× 168 1.0× 70 0.6× 48 912
Silke Adam Switzerland 14 562 0.9× 541 1.4× 53 0.3× 183 1.0× 337 2.7× 51 1.3k
Barbara Pfetsch Germany 16 656 1.0× 879 2.3× 67 0.4× 228 1.3× 331 2.6× 59 1.5k
Neil Thurman Germany 21 1.1k 1.7× 1.4k 3.6× 80 0.4× 205 1.2× 75 0.6× 65 2.1k

Countries citing papers authored by Petter Törnberg

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Fields of papers citing papers by Petter Törnberg

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Physical SciencesHealth SciencesLife SciencesSocial Sciences

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Co-authorship network of co-authors of Petter Törnberg

This figure shows the co-authorship network connecting the top 25 collaborators of Petter Törnberg. A scholar is included among the top collaborators of Petter Törnberg 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 Petter Törnberg. Petter Törnberg 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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Törnberg, Petter, et al.. (2025). Validation is the central challenge for generative social simulation: a critical review of LLMs in agent-based modeling. Artificial Intelligence Review. 59(1). 15–15.
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Törnberg, Petter, et al.. (2025). Artificial intelligence and the state: Seeing like an artificial neural network. Big Data & Society. 12(2). 2 indexed citations
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Törnberg, Petter & Ola Söderström. (2025). Comparative platform urbanism: Cities in a world of platforms. SHILAP Revista de lepidopterología. 8. 100119–100119.
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Törnberg, Petter, et al.. (2025). When Do Parties Lie? Misinformation and Radical-Right Populism Across 26 Countries. The International Journal of Press/Politics. 31(2). 367–386. 11 indexed citations breakdown →
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Pierri, Francesco, et al.. (2025). Toxic Bias: Perspective API Misreads German as More Toxic. Proceedings of the International AAAI Conference on Web and Social Media. 19. 1346–1357. 1 indexed citations
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Törnberg, Petter, et al.. (2024). Network toxicity analysis: an information-theoretic approach to studying the social dynamics of online toxicity. Journal of Computational Social Science. 7(1). 305–330. 1 indexed citations
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Törnberg, Petter, et al.. (2024). Did Russia’s invasion of Ukraine unite Europe? Cohesion and divisions of the European Parliament on Twitter. SHILAP Revista de lepidopterología. 6(1). 3 indexed citations
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Törnberg, Anton & Petter Törnberg. (2023). White supremacists anonymous: how digital media emotionally energize far-right movements. Journal of Information Technology & Politics. 22(1). 131–148. 3 indexed citations
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Törnberg, Petter, et al.. (2023). Political groups over national parties: Measuring the Europeanization of the political arena through MEPs’ Twitter interactions. Party Politics. 30(3). 479–492. 1 indexed citations
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Törnberg, Petter & Anton Törnberg. (2022). Inside a White Power echo chamber: Why fringe digital spaces are polarizing politics. New Media & Society. 26(8). 4511–4533. 19 indexed citations
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Törnberg, Petter & Justus Uitermark. (2022). Urban Mediatization and Planetary Gentrification: The Rise and Fall of a Favela across Media Platforms. City and Community. 21(4). 340–361. 13 indexed citations
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Törnberg, Petter & Justus Uitermark. (2021). Tweeting ourselves to death: the cultural logic of digital capitalism. Media Culture & Society. 44(3). 574–590. 18 indexed citations
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Törnberg, Petter, et al.. (2020). Selling black places on Airbnb: Colonial discourse and the marketing of black communities in New York City. Environment and Planning A Economy and Space. 52(3). 553–572. 27 indexed citations
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Leonelli, Sabina, Nancy J. Nersessian, Michel Janssen, et al.. (2019). Beyond the Meme. PhilSci-Archive (University of Pittsburgh). 2 indexed citations
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Törnberg, Petter & Anton Törnberg. (2018). The limits of computation: A philosophical critique of contemporary Big Data research. Big Data & Society. 5(2). 34 indexed citations
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Törnberg, Petter. (2018). Echo chambers and viral misinformation: Modeling fake news as complex contagion. PLoS ONE. 13(9). e0203958–e0203958. 223 indexed citations breakdown →
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Andersson, Claes, Anton Törnberg, & Petter Törnberg. (2014). Societal systems – Complex or worse?. Futures. 63. 145–157. 62 indexed citations
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Törnberg, Petter & Anton Törnberg. (2011). Using Complexity Theory Methods for Sociological Theory Development.. Chalmers Publication Library (Chalmers University of Technology). 1 indexed citations

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