Sebastian Stier

3.4k total citations · 2 hit papers
61 papers, 1.7k citations indexed

About

Sebastian Stier is a scholar working on Communication, Sociology and Political Science and Political Science and International Relations. According to data from OpenAlex, Sebastian Stier has authored 61 papers receiving a total of 1.7k indexed citations (citations by other indexed papers that have themselves been cited), including 43 papers in Communication, 27 papers in Sociology and Political Science and 20 papers in Political Science and International Relations. Recurrent topics in Sebastian Stier's work include Social Media and Politics (43 papers), Media Influence and Politics (15 papers) and Media Studies and Communication (13 papers). Sebastian Stier is often cited by papers focused on Social Media and Politics (43 papers), Media Influence and Politics (15 papers) and Media Studies and Communication (13 papers). Sebastian Stier collaborates with scholars based in Germany, United States and Netherlands. Sebastian Stier's co-authors include Markus Strohmaier, Arnim Bleier, Johannes Breuer, Haiko Lietz, Franziska Keller, JungHwan Yang, David Schoch, Pascal Siegers, Ralph Schroeder and Kjerstin Thorson and has published in prestigious journals such as Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, SHILAP Revista de lepidopterología and Scientific Reports.

In The Last Decade

Sebastian Stier

56 papers receiving 1.6k 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.

  1. Election Campaigning on Social Media: Politicians, Audiences, and the Mediation of Political Communication on Facebook and Twitter
    2018 329 citations Sebastian Stier et al. profile →
  2. Integrating Survey Data and Digital Trace Data: Key Issues in Developing an Emerging Field
    2019 179 citations Sebastian Stier, Johannes Breuer et al. Social Science Computer Review profile →

Peers

Sebastian Stier
Andreas Jungherr Germany
Andrea Cerón Italy
Shannon C. McGregor United States
Chris J. Vargo United States
Kevin Munger United States
Luigi Curini Italy
Matthew Hindman United States
Adrian Rauchfleisch Taiwan
Judith Möller Netherlands
Steven Livingston United States
Andreas Jungherr Germany
Sebastian Stier
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Countries citing papers authored by Sebastian Stier

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Fields of papers citing papers by Sebastian Stier

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Physical SciencesHealth SciencesLife SciencesSocial Sciences

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Co-authorship network of co-authors of Sebastian Stier

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

All Works

20 of 20 papers shown
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Stier, Sebastian, et al.. (2025). Online election campaigning in changing political environments: A comparison of the 2014 and 2019 European Parliament elections. Party Politics. 32(1). 115–126. 1 indexed citations
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Maier, Jürgen, et al.. (2025). Beyond rationality. Toward a more comprehensive understanding of the use of negative campaigning. European Political Science Review. 17(3). 378–396.
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Oswald, Lisa, WILLIAM SCHULZ, Ralph Hertwig, David Lazer, & Sebastian Stier. (2025). The Tip of the Iceberg: How the Social Media Production-Consumption Gap Distorts Public Opinion for Citizens and Researchers.
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Ulloa, Roberto, et al.. (2025). Beyond time delays: how web scraping distorts measures of online news consumption. Communication Methods and Measures. 19(3). 179–200. 1 indexed citations
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Bachl, Marko, Elena Link, Frank Mangold, & Sebastian Stier. (2024). Search Engine Use for Health-Related Purposes: Behavioral Data on Online Health Information-Seeking in Germany. Health Communication. 39(8). 1651–1664. 9 indexed citations
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Ulloa, Roberto, et al.. (2024). Predicting political attitudes from web tracking data: a machine learning approach. Journal of Information Technology & Politics. 21(4). 564–577. 3 indexed citations
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Stier, Sebastian, et al.. (2024). Analysis of Web Browsing Data: A Guide. Social Science Computer Review. 42(6). 1479–1504. 7 indexed citations
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Mangold, Frank, David Schoch, & Sebastian Stier. (2024). Ideological self-selection in online news exposure: Evidence from Europe and the US. Science Advances. 10(37). eadg9287–eadg9287. 2 indexed citations
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Haim, Mario, Valerie Hase, Marko Bachl, et al.. (2023). Titelei/Inhaltsverzeichnis. Studies in Communication and Media. 12(4). I–III. 1 indexed citations
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Oschatz, Corinna, et al.. (2023). Establishing standards for human-annotated samples applied in supervised machine learning – Evidence from a Monte Carlo simulation. Studies in Communication and Media. 12(4). 289–304. 1 indexed citations
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Stier, Sebastian, et al.. (2023). Mainstreaming the populist radical right? Online news exposure and voting behavior in the 2019 European Parliament election. European Political Science Review. 16(1). 1–17. 1 indexed citations
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Mangold, Frank, et al.. (2023). Neue Infrastrukturen für die Messung digitaler Mediennutzung. Publizistik. 68(2-3). 263–280. 2 indexed citations
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Silber, Henning, Johannes Breuer, Christoph Beuthner, et al.. (2022). Linking Surveys and Digital Trace Data: Insights From two Studies on Determinants of Data Sharing Behaviour. Journal of the Royal Statistical Society Series A (Statistics in Society). 185(Supplement_2). S387–S407. 24 indexed citations
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Froio, Caterina, et al.. (2022). Issue trade-offs and the politics of representation: Experimental evidence from four European democracies. European Journal of Political Research. 62(4). 1009–1030. 7 indexed citations
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Schoch, David, Franziska Keller, Sebastian Stier, & JungHwan Yang. (2022). Coordination patterns reveal online political astroturfing across the world. Scientific Reports. 12(1). 20 indexed citations
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Maier, Michaela, Carlos Jalali, Jürgen Maier, Alessandro Nai, & Sebastian Stier. (2021). When do parties put Europe in the centre? Evidence from the 2019 European Parliament election campaign. Politics. 41(4). 433–450. 17 indexed citations
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Mangold, Frank, Sebastian Stier, Johannes Breuer, & Michael Scharkow. (2021). The overstated generational gap in online news use? A consolidated infrastructural perspective. New Media & Society. 24(10). 2207–2226. 20 indexed citations
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Stier, Sebastian. (2012). Die Bedeutung des Internets als Medium der politischen Kommunikation in Deutschland und den USA - eine vergleichende Fallstudie. MADOC (University of Mannheim).
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Neuhaus, Thomas J., Yon‐Dschun Ko, & Sebastian Stier. (2012). Successful treatment of intractable hiccups by oral application of lidocaine. Supportive Care in Cancer. 20(11). 3009–3011. 7 indexed citations
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Stier, Sebastian, et al.. (1996). Extraction of line properties based on direction fields. IEEE Transactions on Medical Imaging. 15(1). 51–58. 33 indexed citations

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