Robert W. Gehl

1.2k total citations
46 papers, 601 citations indexed

About

Robert W. Gehl is a scholar working on Sociology and Political Science, Information Systems and Communication. According to data from OpenAlex, Robert W. Gehl has authored 46 papers receiving a total of 601 indexed citations (citations by other indexed papers that have themselves been cited), including 20 papers in Sociology and Political Science, 10 papers in Information Systems and 8 papers in Communication. Recurrent topics in Robert W. Gehl's work include Social Media and Politics (7 papers), Cybercrime and Law Enforcement Studies (6 papers) and Digital Games and Media (6 papers). Robert W. Gehl is often cited by papers focused on Social Media and Politics (7 papers), Cybercrime and Law Enforcement Studies (6 papers) and Digital Games and Media (6 papers). Robert W. Gehl collaborates with scholars based in United States, Canada and Australia. Robert W. Gehl's co-authors include Diana Zulli, Miao Liu, Fenwick McKelvey, Sara K. Yeo, Lucas Moyer‐Horner, Douglas Grossman, Jakob D. Jensen, Andy J. King, Maria Bakardjieva and Amelia Johns and has published in prestigious journals such as SHILAP Revista de lepidopterología, New Media & Society and Journal of Computer-Mediated Communication.

In The Last Decade

Robert W. Gehl

39 papers receiving 533 citations

Peers — A (Enhanced Table)

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

Name	h						Papers	Cites
Robert W. Gehl United States	13	332	172	116	72	63	46	601
David Nemer United States	14	222 0.7×	126 0.7×	207 1.8×	43 0.6×	56 0.9×	53	675
Priscilla M. Regan United States	16	362 1.1×	158 0.9×	106 0.9×	109 1.5×	83 1.3×	59	786
Blake Hallinan Israel	11	328 1.0×	170 1.0×	56 0.5×	59 0.8×	67 1.1×	29	572
D. Bondy Valdovinos Kaye Australia	8	369 1.1×	149 0.9×	45 0.4×	72 1.0×	90 1.4×	21	608
Greg Elmer Canada	13	363 1.1×	295 1.7×	61 0.5×	54 0.8×	56 0.9×	43	712
Daniel Trottier Netherlands	14	424 1.3×	184 1.1×	110 0.9×	123 1.7×	82 1.3×	39	631
Esther Weltevrede Netherlands	11	256 0.8×	170 1.0×	62 0.5×	44 0.6×	34 0.5×	20	505
Fenwick McKelvey Canada	14	267 0.8×	197 1.1×	70 0.6×	78 1.1×	34 0.5×	48	537
John Cheney-Lippold United States	5	335 1.0×	106 0.6×	95 0.8×	37 0.5×	61 1.0×	8	672
Sun Joo Yoo United States	10	208 0.6×	120 0.7×	112 1.0×	52 0.7×	46 0.7×	16	626

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20 of 20 papers shown

Gehl, Robert W.. (2025). Move Slowly and Build Bridges.

Gehl, Robert W., et al.. (2024). Shifting your research from X to Mastodon? Here’s what you need to know. Patterns. 5(1). 100914–100914. 2 indexed citations

Paris, Britt, et al.. (2023). IF NOT, ELSE: STANDARDS, PROTOCOLS, NETWORKS AND HOW THEY MAKE A DIFFERENCE. AoIR Selected Papers of Internet Research.

Gehl, Robert W., et al.. (2022). Darknet imaginaries in Internet memes: the discursive malleability of the cultural status of digital technologies. Journal of Computer-Mediated Communication. 28(1). 3 indexed citations

McKelvey, Fenwick & Robert W. Gehl. (2022). Canada’s public broadcaster should use Mastodon to provide a social media service.

Gehl, Robert W., et al.. (2021). Does ‘deplatforming’ work to curb hate speech and calls for violence? 3 experts in online communications weigh in. 1 indexed citations

Gehl, Robert W., et al.. (2021). When Wikipedia met Tor: trials of legitimacy at a key moment in internet history. 7(2). 105–121. 1 indexed citations

Gehl, Robert W., Lucas Moyer‐Horner, & Sara K. Yeo. (2016). Training Computers to See Internet Pornography: Gender and Sexual Discrimination in Computer Vision Science. Television & New Media. 18(6). 529–547. 19 indexed citations

Gehl, Robert W.. (2016). The politics of punctualization and depunctualization in the Digital Advertising Alliance. The Communication Review. 19(1). 35–54. 8 indexed citations

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Gehl, Robert W., et al.. (2016). The Need for Social Media Alternatives. Scholarworks (University of Massachusetts Amherst). 27(1). 78–78. 4 indexed citations

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Gehl, Robert W.. (2015). Building a Better Twitter: A Study of the Twitter Alternatives GNU Social, Quitter, rstat.us, and Twister. SSRN Electronic Journal. 1 indexed citations

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Cummings, K. D., et al.. (2015). Communication and Control: Tools, Systems, and New Dimensions. CERN Document Server (European Organization for Nuclear Research). 1 indexed citations

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Gehl, Robert W.. (2014). Colin Koopman, Genealogy as Critique: Foucault and the Problems of Modernity. International journal of communication. 8. 3. 1 indexed citations

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Gehl, Robert W.. (2014). Power/Freedom on the Dark Web: A Digital Ethnography of the Dark Web Social Network. SSRN Electronic Journal. 1 indexed citations

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Gehl, Robert W.. (2014). Power/freedom on the dark web: A digital ethnography of the Dark Web Social Network. New Media & Society. 18(7). 1219–1235. 105 indexed citations

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Gehl, Robert W.. (2013). A History of Like. 1 indexed citations

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King, Andy J., Robert W. Gehl, Douglas Grossman, & Jakob D. Jensen. (2013). Skin self-examinations and visual identification of atypical nevi: Comparing individual and crowdsourcing approaches. Cancer Epidemiology. 37(6). 979–984. 22 indexed citations

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Gehl, Robert W.. (2013). The Computerized Socialbot Turing Test: New Technologies of Noopower. SSRN Electronic Journal. 2 indexed citations

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Gehl, Robert W. & Timothy A. Gibson. (2011). Building a Blog Cabin during a Financial Crisis. Television & New Media. 13(1). 48–67.

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Gehl, Robert W.. (2009). YouTube as archive. International Journal of Cultural Studies. 12(1). 43–60. 62 indexed citations

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