Sebastián Valenzuela

11.8k total citations · 6 hit papers
99 papers, 7.8k citations indexed

About

Sebastián Valenzuela is a scholar working on Communication, Sociology and Political Science and Political Science and International Relations. According to data from OpenAlex, Sebastián Valenzuela has authored 99 papers receiving a total of 7.8k indexed citations (citations by other indexed papers that have themselves been cited), including 75 papers in Communication, 52 papers in Sociology and Political Science and 14 papers in Political Science and International Relations. Recurrent topics in Sebastián Valenzuela's work include Social Media and Politics (70 papers), Media Studies and Communication (23 papers) and Misinformation and Its Impacts (19 papers). Sebastián Valenzuela is often cited by papers focused on Social Media and Politics (70 papers), Media Studies and Communication (23 papers) and Misinformation and Its Impacts (19 papers). Sebastián Valenzuela collaborates with scholars based in Chile, United States and Canada. Sebastián Valenzuela's co-authors include Namsu Park, Kerk F. Kee, Homero Gil de Zúñiga, Nakwon Jung, Daniel Halpern, James E. Katz, Arturo Arriagada, Andrés Scherman, Teresa Correa and Maxwell McCombs and has published in prestigious journals such as SHILAP Revista de lepidopterología, Scientific Reports and Computers in Human Behavior.

In The Last Decade

Sebastián Valenzuela

90 papers receiving 7.2k citations

Hit Papers

5 papers align trajectories

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.

Is There Social Capital in a Social Network Site?: Facebook Use and College Students' Life Satisfaction, Trust, and Participation

2009 1.6k citations Sebastián Valenzuela, Namsu Park et al. profile →
Social Media Use for News and Individuals' Social Capital, Civic Engagement and Political Participation

2012 1.3k citations Homero Gil de Zúñiga, Sebastián Valenzuela et al. profile →
Being Immersed in Social Networking Environment: Facebook Groups, Uses and Gratifications, and Social Outcomes

2009 1.1k citations Namsu Park, Kerk F. Kee et al. CyberPsychology & Behavior profile →
Unpacking the Use of Social Media for Protest Behavior

2013 381 citations Sebastián Valenzuela profile →
The Social Media Basis of Youth Protest Behavior: The Case of Chile

2012 295 citations Sebastián Valenzuela et al. profile →
The Paradox of Participation Versus Misinformation: Social Media, Political Engagement, and the Spread of Misinformation

2019 191 citations Sebastián Valenzuela, Daniel Halpern et al. Digital Journalism profile →

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Name	h						Papers	Cites
Sebastián Valenzuela Chile	35	5.5k	5.1k	929	776	650	99	7.8k
Homero Gil de Zúñiga United States	48	7.1k 1.3×	7.2k 1.4×	1.4k 1.5×	1.2k 1.5×	435 0.7×	180	10.3k
Zizi Papacharissi United States	25	4.2k 0.8×	4.3k 0.9×	722 0.8×	836 1.1×	534 0.8×	50	7.3k
Andrew J. Flanagin United States	42	6.0k 1.1×	4.6k 0.9×	455 0.5×	1.1k 1.4×	944 1.5×	71	9.6k
José van Dijck Netherlands	36	4.9k 0.9×	2.9k 0.6×	803 0.9×	628 0.8×	235 0.4×	91	9.3k
Anabel Quan‐Haase Canada	30	3.9k 0.7×	2.4k 0.5×	317 0.3×	375 0.5×	670 1.0×	97	6.3k
Axel Bruns Australia	47	3.2k 0.6×	4.1k 0.8×	443 0.5×	735 0.9×	163 0.3×	214	6.8k
William P. Eveland United States	35	4.0k 0.7×	4.3k 0.8×	1.2k 1.3×	465 0.6×	151 0.2×	76	6.2k
Miriam J. Metzger United States	35	8.1k 1.5×	4.5k 0.9×	279 0.3×	1.8k 2.4×	1.2k 1.8×	73	11.4k
Jessica Vitak United States	33	4.6k 0.8×	2.7k 0.5×	203 0.2×	806 1.0×	507 0.8×	91	6.8k
Alice Marwick United States	28	4.7k 0.8×	3.3k 0.6×	348 0.4×	997 1.3×	207 0.3×	64	7.5k

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20 of 20 papers shown

Humprecht, Edda, Sebastián Valenzuela, Frank Esser, & Edson C. Tandoc. (2025). Advancing the Study of Political Misinformation Across Countries and Platforms—Introduction to the Special Issue. The International Journal of Press/Politics. 31(2). 253–263. 2 indexed citations

McGregor, Shannon C., Kevin Coe, Magdalena Saldaña, et al.. (2025). Dialogue on difference: Identity and political communication. Communication Monographs. 92(2). 217–238. 2 indexed citations

Valenzuela, Sebastián, et al.. (2025). Using large language models for survey research in communication: opportunities and challenges. 1(1).

Jara, Claudia, Marcela Sjöberg, M Ricca, et al.. (2025). Identifying a novel Mecp2-mediated epigenetic mechanism controlling Lonp1 in the hippocampus and its disruption by aging. Scientific Reports. 15(1). 40887–40887.

Jensen, Klaus Bruhn, Melissa Aronczyk, John Cook, et al.. (2025). Information Integrity about Climate Science: A Systematic Review. 1 indexed citations

Toro, Sergio, et al.. (2025). The Missing Link: Identifying Digital Intermediaries in E‐Government. Public Administration Review. 86(2). 507–519.

Valenzuela, Sebastián, et al.. (2024). The Threat of Misinformation on Journalism’s Epistemology: Exploring the Gap between Journalist’s and Audience’s Expectations when Facing Fake Content. Digital Journalism. 13(3). 478–499. 2 indexed citations

Valenzuela, Sebastián. (2024). Cuando los algoritmos son editores: Cómo las redes sociales, la IA y la desinformación alteran el consumo de noticias. Comunicación y Medios. 33(49). 186–191. 1 indexed citations

Mendoza, Marcelo, et al.. (2024). Detection and impact estimation of social bots in the Chilean Twitter network. Scientific Reports. 14(1). 6525–6525. 7 indexed citations

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Mendoza, Marcelo, et al.. (2023). A Study on Information Disorders on Social Networks during the Chilean Social Outbreak and COVID-19 Pandemic. Applied Sciences. 13(9). 5347–5347. 6 indexed citations

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Luna, Juan Pablo, et al.. (2023). Local Government, Social Media and Management of COVID-19: The Case of Chilean Mayoral Communication. Political Communication. 41(4). 672–691. 3 indexed citations

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Bachmann, Ingrid & Sebastián Valenzuela. (2023). Studying the Downstream Effects of Fact-Checking on Social Media: Experiments on Correction Formats, Belief Accuracy, and Media Trust. Social Media + Society. 9(2). 23 indexed citations

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Valenzuela, Sebastián, et al.. (2021). Competing Frames and Melodrama: The Effects of Facebook Posts on Policy Preferences about COVID-19. Digital Journalism. 9(9). 1411–1430. 7 indexed citations

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Valenzuela, Sebastián, et al.. (2021). What “Emergency Sources” Expect From Journalists: Applying the Hierarchy of Influences Model to Disaster News Coverage. International journal of communication. 15. 23. 3 indexed citations

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Luna, Juan Pablo, et al.. (2021). Much Ado About Facebook? Evidence from 80 Congressional Campaigns in Chile. Journal of Information Technology & Politics. 19(2). 129–139. 6 indexed citations

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Matthes, Jörg, Johannes Knoll, Sebastián Valenzuela, David Nicolas Hopmann, & Christian von Sikorski. (2019). A Meta-Analysis of the Effects of Cross-Cutting Exposure on Political Participation. Political Communication. 36(4). 523–542. 56 indexed citations

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Valenzuela, Sebastián, et al.. (2017). Comparing Disaster News on Twitter and Television: an Intermedia Agenda Setting Perspective. Journal of Broadcasting & Electronic Media. 61(4). 615–637. 70 indexed citations

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Valenzuela, Sebastián. (2014). Facebook, Twitter, and Youth Engagement: A Quasi-experimental Study of Social Media Use and Protest Behavior Using Propensity Score Matching. International journal of communication. 8. 25. 71 indexed citations

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Zúñiga, Homero Gil de, et al.. (2011). Blogging as a journalistic practice: A model linking perception, motivation, and behavior. Journalism. 12(5). 586–606. 40 indexed citations

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Park, Namsu, Kerk F. Kee, & Sebastián Valenzuela. (2009). Being Immersed in Social Networking Environment: Facebook Groups, Uses and Gratifications, and Social Outcomes. CyberPsychology & Behavior. 12(6). 729–733. 1126 indexed citations breakdown →

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