Scott A. Hale

3.6k total citations · 2 hit papers
91 papers, 1.6k citations indexed

About

Scott A. Hale is a scholar working on Artificial Intelligence, Communication and Sociology and Political Science. According to data from OpenAlex, Scott A. Hale has authored 91 papers receiving a total of 1.6k indexed citations (citations by other indexed papers that have themselves been cited), including 30 papers in Artificial Intelligence, 25 papers in Communication and 22 papers in Sociology and Political Science. Recurrent topics in Scott A. Hale's work include Social Media and Politics (18 papers), Hate Speech and Cyberbullying Detection (17 papers) and Misinformation and Its Impacts (13 papers). Scott A. Hale is often cited by papers focused on Social Media and Politics (18 papers), Hate Speech and Cyberbullying Detection (17 papers) and Misinformation and Its Impacts (13 papers). Scott A. Hale collaborates with scholars based in United Kingdom, United States and Iran. Scott A. Hale's co-authors include Helen Margetts, Mark Graham, Devin Gaffney, Taha Yasseri, Peter John, Bertie Vidgen, Brian E. Farkas, Dong Nguyen, Rebekah Tromble and Hannah Rose Kirk and has published in prestigious journals such as Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, PLoS ONE and Journal of Agricultural and Food Chemistry.

In The Last Decade

Scott A. Hale

85 papers receiving 1.5k 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.

The benefits, risks and bounds of personalizing the alignment of large language models to individuals

2024 47 citations Hannah Rose Kirk, Bertie Vidgen et al. profile →
Why human–AI relationships need socioaffective alignment

2025 14 citations Hannah Rose Kirk, Bertie Vidgen et al. profile →

Peers — A (Enhanced Table)

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

Name	h						Papers	Cites
Scott A. Hale United Kingdom	22	500	481	471	162	147	91	1.6k
Yan Qu United States	13	481 1.0×	170 0.4×	513 1.1×	172 1.1×	45 0.3×	34	1.0k
Jonathan J. H. Zhu Hong Kong	24	773 1.5×	175 0.4×	647 1.4×	399 2.5×	217 1.5×	96	2.1k
David Jurgens United States	23	327 0.7×	1.2k 2.5×	113 0.2×	122 0.8×	109 0.7×	90	1.9k
Ingo Feinerer Austria	12	249 0.5×	453 0.9×	81 0.2×	59 0.4×	46 0.3×	38	1.4k
Marc–André Kaufhold Germany	15	800 1.6×	391 0.8×	690 1.5×	83 0.5×	59 0.4×	58	1.5k
Philip Fei Wu United Kingdom	15	704 1.4×	178 0.4×	311 0.7×	52 0.3×	46 0.3×	40	1.1k
Miriam Fernández United Kingdom	21	375 0.8×	1.5k 3.1×	217 0.5×	116 0.7×	42 0.3×	106	2.3k
Brian Keegan United States	20	765 1.5×	511 1.1×	568 1.2×	273 1.7×	32 0.2×	69	1.8k
Yelena Mejova United States	15	500 1.0×	296 0.6×	209 0.4×	126 0.8×	16 0.1×	74	1.1k
Scott A. Golder United States	11	649 1.3×	746 1.6×	557 1.2×	577 3.6×	40 0.3×	14	2.7k

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Co-authorship network of co-authors of Scott A. Hale

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All Works

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20 of 20 papers shown

Hale, Scott A., et al.. (2025). When Claims Evolve: Evaluating and Enhancing the Robustness of Embedding Models Against Misinformation Edits. 22374–22404. 1 indexed citations

Tappin, Ben M, et al.. (2025). Scaling language model size yields diminishing returns for single-message political persuasion. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences. 122(10). e2413443122–e2413443122. 4 indexed citations

Hale, Scott A., et al.. (2024). SynDy: Syn thetic Dy namic Dataset Generation Framework for Misinformation Tasks. arXiv (Cornell University). 2801–2805.

Hale, Scott A., et al.. (2024). Analyzing Misinformation Claims During the 2022 Brazilian General Election on WhatsApp, Twitter, and Kwai. International Journal of Public Opinion Research. 36(3). 2 indexed citations

Kirk, Hannah Rose, et al.. (2024). Indian-BhED: A Dataset for Measuring India-Centric Biases in Large Language Models. 231–239. 4 indexed citations

Hou, Rui, et al.. (2023). Query Rewriting for Effective Misinformation Discovery. 398–407. 1 indexed citations

Kirk, Hannah Rose, Bertie Vidgen, Paul Röttger, Tristan Thrush, & Scott A. Hale. (2022). Hatemoji: A Test Suite and Adversarially-Generated Dataset for Benchmarking and Detecting Emoji-Based Hate. Proceedings of the 2022 Conference of the North American Chapter of the Association for Computational Linguistics: Human Language Technologies. 1352–1368. 24 indexed citations

Camargo, Chico Q., Peter John, Helen Margetts, & Scott A. Hale. (2021). Measuring the Volatility of the Political agenda in Public Opinion and News Media. Public Opinion Quarterly. 85(2). 493–516. 3 indexed citations

Vidgen, Bertie, Scott A. Hale, Ella Guest, et al.. (2020). Detecting East Asian Prejudice on Social Media. 162–172. 52 indexed citations

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Vidgen, Bertie, Scott A. Hale, Sam Staton, et al.. (2020). Recalibrating classifiers for interpretable abusive content detection. Edinburgh Research Explorer. 132–138. 5 indexed citations

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Gong, Zhaoya, et al.. (2020). Measuring relative opinion from location-based social media: A case study of the 2016 U.S. presidential election. PLoS ONE. 15(5). e0233660–e0233660. 8 indexed citations

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Nguyen, Dong, et al.. (2019). Room to Glo: A Systematic Comparison of Semantic Change Detection Approaches with Word Embeddings. Oxford University Research Archive (ORA) (University of Oxford). 66–76. 29 indexed citations

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Camargo, Chico Q., Jonathan Bright, & Scott A. Hale. (2019). Diagnosing the performance of human mobility models at small spatial scales using volunteered geographical information. Royal Society Open Science. 6(11). 191034–191034. 3 indexed citations

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Nowak, Glen, Nathaniel Evans, Bartosz W. Wojdynski, et al.. (2019). Using immersive virtual reality to improve the beliefs and intentions of influenza vaccine avoidant 18-to-49-year-olds: Considerations, effects, and lessons learned. Vaccine. 38(5). 1225–1233. 53 indexed citations

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Hale, Scott A., et al.. (2017). The October 2014 United States Treasury bond flash crash and the contributory effect of mini flash crashes. PLoS ONE. 12(11). e0186688–e0186688. 5 indexed citations

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Kim, Suin, et al.. (2016). Understanding Editing Behaviors in Multilingual Wikipedia. PLoS ONE. 11(5). e0155305–e0155305. 14 indexed citations

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Farkas, Brian E., et al.. (2003). Numerical Simulation of Skipjack Tuna (Katsuwonas pelamis) Thawing. Journal of Aquatic Food Product Technology. 12(4). 93–112. 3 indexed citations

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Dodd, Tim H., et al.. (2000). An aroma-based method for determining the storage time of fishery products.. 1–11. 1 indexed citations

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Hale, Scott A., et al.. (1977). Association between Soluble Solids/Acid Content and Days from Full Bloom of Three Red Strains of ‘Delicious’ and ‘Law Rome’ Apple Fruits1. Journal of the American Society for Horticultural Science. 102(6). 733–738. 2 indexed citations

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Hale, Scott A., et al.. (1977). Association between Soluble Solids/Acid Content and Days from Full Bloom of ‘Golden Delicious’ Apple Fruits1. Journal of the American Society for Horticultural Science. 102(4). 429–431. 2 indexed citations

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