Rachel E. Moran

780 total citations · 2 hit papers
23 papers, 432 citations indexed

About

Rachel E. Moran is a scholar working on Sociology and Political Science, Communication and Artificial Intelligence. According to data from OpenAlex, Rachel E. Moran has authored 23 papers receiving a total of 432 indexed citations (citations by other indexed papers that have themselves been cited), including 18 papers in Sociology and Political Science, 15 papers in Communication and 9 papers in Artificial Intelligence. Recurrent topics in Rachel E. Moran's work include Social Media and Politics (14 papers), Misinformation and Its Impacts (14 papers) and Hate Speech and Cyberbullying Detection (9 papers). Rachel E. Moran is often cited by papers focused on Social Media and Politics (14 papers), Misinformation and Its Impacts (14 papers) and Hate Speech and Cyberbullying Detection (9 papers). Rachel E. Moran collaborates with scholars based in United States, Netherlands and Australia. Rachel E. Moran's co-authors include Efrat Nechushtai, Carl T. Bergstrom, Jonathan F. Donges, Jennifer Jacquet, Daniel I. Rubenstein, Nikki Usher, Mirta Galešić, Albert B. Kao, Iain D. Couzin and Joseph B. Bak-Coleman and has published in prestigious journals such as Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, New Media & Society and Journal of the American Veterinary Medical Association.

In The Last Decade

Rachel E. Moran

23 papers receiving 416 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. Stewardship of global collective behavior
    2021 164 citations Joseph B. Bak-Coleman, Mark Alfano et al. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences profile →
  2. Robots in the News and Newsrooms: Unpacking Meta-Journalistic Discourse on the Use of Artificial Intelligence in Journalism
    2022 85 citations Rachel E. Moran et al. Digital Journalism profile →

Peers — A (Enhanced Table)

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

Name h Career Trend Papers Cites
Rachel E. Moran United States 11 253 165 69 53 49 23 432
Yotam Shmargad United States 11 182 0.7× 142 0.9× 86 1.2× 34 0.6× 44 0.9× 23 397
Douglas Guilbeault United States 10 280 1.1× 118 0.7× 89 1.3× 120 2.3× 19 0.4× 23 489
Thomas Spielhofer United Kingdom 9 283 1.1× 204 1.2× 46 0.7× 18 0.3× 12 0.2× 23 444
Mark Latonero United States 10 356 1.4× 148 0.9× 49 0.7× 19 0.4× 49 1.0× 21 522
Simon Hegelich Germany 14 339 1.3× 207 1.3× 179 2.6× 48 0.9× 25 0.5× 39 601
Michaël Opgenhaffen Belgium 14 308 1.2× 401 2.4× 57 0.8× 13 0.2× 34 0.7× 47 578
Petro Tolochko Austria 10 271 1.1× 309 1.9× 81 1.2× 43 0.8× 6 0.1× 17 543
Yunya Song Hong Kong 15 419 1.7× 273 1.7× 168 2.4× 73 1.4× 9 0.2× 64 704
Luke Goode New Zealand 9 228 0.9× 291 1.8× 31 0.4× 14 0.3× 17 0.3× 13 507
Jeongsub Lim South Korea 9 147 0.6× 170 1.0× 39 0.6× 17 0.3× 23 0.5× 33 344

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Fields of papers citing papers by Rachel E. Moran

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Physical SciencesHealth SciencesLife SciencesSocial Sciences

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Co-authorship network of co-authors of Rachel E. Moran

This figure shows the co-authorship network connecting the top 25 collaborators of Rachel E. Moran. A scholar is included among the top collaborators of Rachel E. Moran 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 Rachel E. Moran. Rachel E. Moran 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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Moran, Rachel E., et al.. (2025). How can the veterinary profession tackle social media misinformation?. Journal of the American Veterinary Medical Association. 263(6). 802–808. 2 indexed citations
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Moran, Rachel E., et al.. (2024). Gender as a central site of inquiry within mis- and disinformation studies. Feminist Media Studies. 25(7). 1739–1743. 1 indexed citations
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Moran, Rachel E., et al.. (2023). Sending News Back Home: Misinformation Lost in Transnational Social Networks. Proceedings of the ACM on Human-Computer Interaction. 7(CSCW1). 1–36. 8 indexed citations
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Moran, Rachel E., et al.. (2023). Navigating Information-Seeking in Conspiratorial Waters: Anti-Trafficking Advocacy and Education Post QAnon. Proceedings of the ACM on Human-Computer Interaction. 7(CSCW1). 1–27. 2 indexed citations
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Moran, Rachel E., et al.. (2022). Recognize the bias? News media partisanship shapes the coverage of facial recognition technology in the United States. New Media & Society. 26(5). 2829–2850. 10 indexed citations
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Moran, Rachel E., et al.. (2022). Misinformation or activism?: analyzing networked moral panic through an exploration of #SaveTheChildren. Information Communication & Society. 26(16). 3197–3217. 5 indexed citations
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Moran, Rachel E., et al.. (2022). Robots in the News and Newsrooms: Unpacking Meta-Journalistic Discourse on the Use of Artificial Intelligence in Journalism. Digital Journalism. 10(10). 1756–1774. 85 indexed citations breakdown →
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Moran, Rachel E., et al.. (2022). Folk Theories of Avoiding Content Moderation: How Vaccine-Opposed Influencers Amplify Vaccine Opposition on Instagram. Social Media + Society. 8(4). 16 indexed citations
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Moran, Rachel E. & Efrat Nechushtai. (2022). Before reception: Trust in the news as infrastructure. Journalism. 24(3). 457–474. 24 indexed citations
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Bak-Coleman, Joseph B., Mark Alfano, Wolfram Barfuß, et al.. (2021). Stewardship of global collective behavior. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences. 118(27). 164 indexed citations breakdown →
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Moran, Rachel E., et al.. (2021). MISINFORMATION OR ACTIVISM: MAPPING NETWORKED MORAL PANIC THROUGH AN ANALYSIS OF #SAVETHECHILDREN. AoIR Selected Papers of Internet Research. 5 indexed citations
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Koltai, Kolina, et al.. (2021). Addressing the root of vaccine hesitancy during the COVID-19 pandemic. XRDS Crossroads The ACM Magazine for Students. 28(2). 34–38. 8 indexed citations
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Moran, Rachel E.. (2020). Subscribing to Transparency: Trust-Building Within Virtual Newsrooms on Slack. Journalism Practice. 15(10). 1580–1596. 10 indexed citations
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Moran, Rachel E. & Nikki Usher. (2020). Objects of journalism, revised: Rethinking materiality in journalism studies through emotion, culture and ‘unexpected objects’. Journalism. 22(5). 1155–1172. 19 indexed citations
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Billard, Thomas J & Rachel E. Moran. (2019). Networked political brands: consumption, community and political expression in contemporary brand culture. Media Culture & Society. 42(4). 588–604. 2 indexed citations
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Moran, Rachel E.. (2018). Examining switching power: Mark Zuckerberg as a novel networked media mogul. Information Communication & Society. 23(4). 491–506. 3 indexed citations

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