Ryan Medders

1.4k total citations · 1 hit paper
4 papers, 964 citations indexed

About

Ryan Medders is a scholar working on Communication, Sociology and Political Science and Information Systems. According to data from OpenAlex, Ryan Medders has authored 4 papers receiving a total of 964 indexed citations (citations by other indexed papers that have themselves been cited), including 4 papers in Communication, 3 papers in Sociology and Political Science and 1 paper in Information Systems. Recurrent topics in Ryan Medders's work include Social Media and Politics (4 papers), Misinformation and Its Impacts (2 papers) and Spam and Phishing Detection (1 paper). Ryan Medders is often cited by papers focused on Social Media and Politics (4 papers), Misinformation and Its Impacts (2 papers) and Spam and Phishing Detection (1 paper). Ryan Medders collaborates with scholars based in United States. Ryan Medders's co-authors include Miriam J. Metzger, Andrew J. Flanagin and Rebekah Pure and has published in prestigious journals such as Journal of Communication, Digital Journalism and The MIT Press eBooks.

In The Last Decade

Ryan Medders

4 papers receiving 885 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.

Social and Heuristic Approaches to Credibility Evaluation Online

2010 911 citations Miriam J. Metzger, Andrew J. Flanagin 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
Ryan Medders United States	3	744	483	133	98	95	4	964
Daisy Lemus United States	7	590 0.8×	411 0.9×	100 0.8×	113 1.2×	74 0.8×	10	948
Veronika Karnowski Germany	14	736 1.0×	560 1.2×	79 0.6×	103 1.1×	95 1.0×	38	1.1k
German Neubaum Germany	17	754 1.0×	523 1.1×	148 1.1×	149 1.5×	60 0.6×	47	1.1k
Lois Ann Scheidt United States	8	575 0.8×	717 1.5×	125 0.9×	188 1.9×	248 2.6×	12	1.4k
Anna Sophie Kümpel Germany	16	740 1.0×	763 1.6×	172 1.3×	107 1.1×	62 0.7×	38	1.1k
Thomas Lento United States	6	857 1.2×	493 1.0×	71 0.5×	108 1.1×	121 1.3×	10	1.2k
Debbie Goh Singapore	13	517 0.7×	473 1.0×	126 0.9×	41 0.4×	103 1.1×	17	864
Alcides Velásquez United States	14	459 0.6×	466 1.0×	69 0.5×	36 0.4×	60 0.6×	26	754
Monika Taddicken Germany	13	697 0.9×	285 0.6×	73 0.5×	75 0.8×	58 0.6×	51	859
Toby Hopp United States	16	431 0.6×	325 0.7×	138 1.0×	47 0.5×	37 0.4×	41	697

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Fields of papers citing papers by Ryan Medders

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Physical SciencesHealth SciencesLife SciencesSocial Sciences

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Co-authorship network of co-authors of Ryan Medders

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

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4 of 4 papers shown

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Medders, Ryan & Miriam J. Metzger. (2017). The Role of News Brands and Leads in Exposure to Political Information on the Internet. Digital Journalism. 6(5). 599–618. 8 indexed citations

2.

Medders, Ryan & Miriam J. Metzger. (2015). The Role of Credibility Assessment in Exposure to Political Information on the Internet. 1 indexed citations

3.

Metzger, Miriam J., Andrew J. Flanagin, & Ryan Medders. (2010). Social and Heuristic Approaches to Credibility Evaluation Online. Journal of Communication. 60(3). 413–439. 911 indexed citations breakdown →

4.

Flanagin, Andrew J., et al.. (2010). Kids and Credibility. The MIT Press eBooks. 44 indexed citations

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