Rocky Cole

421 total citations · 1 hit paper
5 papers, 158 citations indexed

About

Rocky Cole is a scholar working on Sociology and Political Science, Communication and Cognitive Neuroscience. According to data from OpenAlex, Rocky Cole has authored 5 papers receiving a total of 158 indexed citations (citations by other indexed papers that have themselves been cited), including 5 papers in Sociology and Political Science, 2 papers in Communication and 2 papers in Cognitive Neuroscience. Recurrent topics in Rocky Cole's work include Misinformation and Its Impacts (5 papers), Social Media and Politics (2 papers) and Psychology of Moral and Emotional Judgment (2 papers). Rocky Cole is often cited by papers focused on Misinformation and Its Impacts (5 papers), Social Media and Politics (2 papers) and Psychology of Moral and Emotional Judgment (2 papers). Rocky Cole collaborates with scholars based in United States, Canada and United Kingdom. Rocky Cole's co-authors include David G. Rand, Gordon Pennycook, Adam J. Berinsky, Ziv Epstein, Hause Lin, Jackson G. Lu, Yunhao Zhang, Jennifer Allen, Kiran Garimella and Robert M. Ross and has published in prestigious journals such as SHILAP Revista de lepidopterología, Nature Human Behaviour and PNAS Nexus.

In The Last Decade

Rocky Cole

5 papers receiving 146 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.

Understanding and combatting misinformation across 16 countries on six continents

2023 79 citations Antonio A. Arechar, Jennifer Allen et al. Nature Human Behaviour profile →

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

Name	h						Papers	Cites
Rocky Cole United States	4	138	64	39	18	16	5	158
Michael Geers Germany	5	88 0.6×	38 0.6×	31 0.8×	5 0.3×	10 0.6×	7	109
Peter Bjerregaard Vahlstrup Denmark	2	257 1.9×	165 2.6×	79 2.0×	35 1.9×	16 1.0×	4	290
Kornraphop Kawintiranon United States	5	71 0.5×	23 0.4×	78 2.0×	13 0.7×	5 0.3×	9	150
Yara Kyrychenko United Kingdom	4	55 0.4×	21 0.3×	19 0.5×	4 0.2×	8 0.5×	7	91
Kristina Gligorić United States	6	38 0.3×	22 0.3×	37 0.9×	16 0.9×	2 0.1×	19	118
Isabelle van der Vegt United Kingdom	5	95 0.7×	19 0.3×	36 0.9×	2 0.1×	6 0.4×	15	124
Susan Benesch United States	6	57 0.4×	47 0.7×	99 2.5×	5 0.3×	5 0.3×	11	151
Clay Fink United States	7	51 0.4×	29 0.5×	41 1.1×	32 1.8×		14	124
Ernesto de León Switzerland	6	87 0.6×	70 1.1×	15 0.4×	7 0.4×	4 0.3×	18	110
Matthew S. Nurse Australia	2	55 0.4×	18 0.3×	15 0.4×	2 0.1×	11 0.7×	2	70

Countries citing papers authored by Rocky Cole

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Fields of papers citing papers by Rocky Cole

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Physical SciencesHealth SciencesLife SciencesSocial Sciences

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Co-authorship network of co-authors of Rocky Cole

This figure shows the co-authorship network connecting the top 25 collaborators of Rocky Cole. A scholar is included among the top collaborators of Rocky Cole 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 Rocky Cole. Rocky Cole is excluded from the visualization to improve readability, since they are connected to all nodes in the network.

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5 of 5 papers shown

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Pennycook, Gordon, Adam J. Berinsky, Puneet Bhargava, et al.. (2024). Inoculation and accuracy prompting increase accuracy discernment in combination but not alone. Nature Human Behaviour. 8(12). 2330–2341. 7 indexed citations

2.

Mosleh, Mohsen, Rocky Cole, & David G. Rand. (2024). Misinformation and harmful language are interconnected, rather than distinct, challenges. PNAS Nexus. 3(3). pgae111–pgae111. 3 indexed citations

3.

Arechar, Antonio A., Jennifer Allen, Adam J. Berinsky, et al.. (2023). Understanding and combatting misinformation across 16 countries on six continents. Nature Human Behaviour. 7(9). 1502–1513. 79 indexed citations breakdown →

4.

Lin, Hause, Jana Lasser, Stephan Lewandowsky, et al.. (2023). High level of correspondence across different news domain quality rating sets. PNAS Nexus. 2(9). pgad286–pgad286. 34 indexed citations

5.

Epstein, Ziv, et al.. (2021). Developing an accuracy-prompt toolkit to reduce COVID-19 misinformation online. SHILAP Revista de lepidopterología. 35 indexed citations

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