Rachel Kuo

1.2k total citations · 1 hit paper
20 papers, 681 citations indexed

About

Rachel Kuo is a scholar working on Sociology and Political Science, Communication and Philosophy. According to data from OpenAlex, Rachel Kuo has authored 20 papers receiving a total of 681 indexed citations (citations by other indexed papers that have themselves been cited), including 12 papers in Sociology and Political Science, 6 papers in Communication and 5 papers in Philosophy. Recurrent topics in Rachel Kuo's work include Rhetoric and Communication Studies (5 papers), Social Media and Politics (4 papers) and Critical Race Theory in Education (4 papers). Rachel Kuo is often cited by papers focused on Rhetoric and Communication Studies (5 papers), Social Media and Politics (4 papers) and Critical Race Theory in Education (4 papers). Rachel Kuo collaborates with scholars based in United States, Switzerland and China. Rachel Kuo's co-authors include Paula Chakravartty, Charlton D. McIlwain, Alice Marwick, Daniel Kreiss, Deen Freelon, Lan Li, Rachel E. Moran, Cynthia Wang, Sarah J. Jackson and Cynthia L. Bennett and has published in prestigious journals such as SHILAP Revista de lepidopterología, Journal of Communication and New Media & Society.

In The Last Decade

Rachel Kuo

17 papers receiving 641 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.

#CommunicationSoWhite

2018 379 citations Paula Chakravartty, Rachel Kuo et al. Journal of Communication profile →

Peers — A (Enhanced Table)

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

Name	h						Papers	Cites
Rachel Kuo United States	8	310	307	114	77	76	20	681
André Brock United States	13	471 1.5×	467 1.5×	312 2.7×	78 1.0×	109 1.4×	18	977
Ryan J. Thomas United States	18	478 1.5×	667 2.2×	116 1.0×	78 1.0×	86 1.1×	57	991
Marc Perelló-Sobrepere Spain	4	302 1.0×	363 1.2×	151 1.3×	44 0.6×	79 1.0×	6	644
Gwen Bouvier China	12	213 0.7×	184 0.6×	95 0.8×	29 0.4×	64 0.8×	28	467
Christina Neumayer Denmark	14	315 1.0×	367 1.2×	99 0.9×	39 0.5×	128 1.7×	38	616
Lindsay H. Hoffman United States	15	446 1.4×	497 1.6×	138 1.2×	35 0.5×	61 0.8×	31	871
Patrick C. Meirick United States	13	392 1.3×	350 1.1×	69 0.6×	23 0.3×	41 0.5×	29	618
Benjamin R. Warner United States	16	419 1.4×	403 1.3×	58 0.5×	52 0.7×	59 0.8×	40	734
Innocent Chiluwa Nigeria	16	296 1.0×	267 0.9×	51 0.4×	95 1.2×	154 2.0×	54	800
Koen Leurs Netherlands	15	601 1.9×	246 0.8×	75 0.7×	39 0.5×	17 0.2×	50	846

Countries citing papers authored by Rachel Kuo

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Co-authorship network of co-authors of Rachel Kuo

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All Works

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20 of 20 papers shown

1.

Marwick, Alice & Rachel Kuo. (2025). Critical disinformation studies: History, power, and politics. UNC Libraries.

2.

Kuo, Rachel. (2025). Visible Solidarities: #Asians4BlackLives and Affective Racial Counterpublics. Social Science Open Access Repository (GESIS – Leibniz Institute for the Social Sciences). 10(2). 40–54.

3.

Kuo, Rachel & Sarah J. Jackson. (2023). The political uses of memory: Instagram and Black-Asian solidarities. Media Culture & Society. 46(1). 164–186. 4 indexed citations

4.

Dorsch, Michael P., et al.. (2023). A Computable Algorithm for Medication Optimization in Heart Failure With Reduced Ejection Fraction. JACC Advances. 2(3). 100289–100289. 2 indexed citations

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Kuo, Rachel, et al.. (2023). Translation as (Re)mediation: How Ethnic Community-Based Organizations Negotiate Legitimacy. 1–14. 12 indexed citations

6.

Kuo, Rachel, et al.. (2023). Destabilizing Race in Political Communication: Social Movements as Sites of Political Imagination. Political Communication. 40(4). 484–503. 7 indexed citations

7.

Freelon, Deen, et al.. (2023). Inequities of race, place, and gender among the communication citation elite, 2000–2019. Journal of Communication. 73(4). 356–367. 26 indexed citations

8.

Kuo, Rachel, et al.. (2022). Studying mis- and disinformation in Asian diasporic communities: The need for critical transnational research beyond Anglocentrism. 17 indexed citations

9.

Kuo, Rachel, et al.. (2022). #FeministAntibodies: Asian American Media in the Time of Coronavirus. UNC Libraries. 1 indexed citations

10.

Kuo, Rachel, et al.. (2022). Towards Collective Safety: Transformative Methodologies. SSRN Electronic Journal.

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Kuo, Rachel, Yuchen Chen, Cindy Lin, & Seyram Avle. (2022). Triangulating Race, Capital, and Technology. CHI Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems Extended Abstracts. 1–5. 4 indexed citations

12.

Kuo, Rachel, et al.. (2021). Identity propaganda: Racial narratives and disinformation. New Media & Society. 25(8). 2201–2218. 44 indexed citations

13.

Kuo, Rachel & Alice Marwick. (2021). Critical disinformation studies: History, power, and politics. SHILAP Revista de lepidopterología. 67 indexed citations

14.

Kuo, Rachel, et al.. (2021). Against carceral data collection in response to anti-Asian violences. Big Data & Society. 8(1). 4 indexed citations

15.

Kuo, Rachel, et al.. (2020). Asian American Feminist Antibodies: Care in the Time of Coronavirus. eYLS (Yale Law School). 3 indexed citations

16.

Kuo, Rachel, et al.. (2020). #FeministAntibodies: Asian American Media in the Time of Coronavirus. Social Media + Society. 6(4). 10 indexed citations

17.

Chakravartty, Paula, et al.. (2018). #CommunicationSoWhite. Journal of Communication. 68(2). 254–266. 379 indexed citations breakdown →

18.

Kuo, Rachel. (2017). Scripting Raced and Gendered Myths of (Un)belonging. 68–90. 1 indexed citations

19.

Kuo, Rachel. (2017). Review of Alien Capital: Asian Racialization and the Logic of Settler Colonial Capitalism by Iyko Day (Duke University Press). SHILAP Revista de lepidopterología. 6(2). 1 indexed citations

20.

Kuo, Rachel. (2016). Racial justice activist hashtags: Counterpublics and discourse circulation. New Media & Society. 20(2). 495–514. 99 indexed citations

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