Sharon Meraz

1.7k total citations · 1 hit paper
15 papers, 1.1k citations indexed

About

Sharon Meraz is a scholar working on Communication, Sociology and Political Science and Statistical and Nonlinear Physics. According to data from OpenAlex, Sharon Meraz has authored 15 papers receiving a total of 1.1k indexed citations (citations by other indexed papers that have themselves been cited), including 8 papers in Communication, 5 papers in Sociology and Political Science and 3 papers in Statistical and Nonlinear Physics. Recurrent topics in Sharon Meraz's work include Social Media and Politics (7 papers), Media Studies and Communication (6 papers) and Opinion Dynamics and Social Influence (3 papers). Sharon Meraz is often cited by papers focused on Social Media and Politics (7 papers), Media Studies and Communication (6 papers) and Opinion Dynamics and Social Influence (3 papers). Sharon Meraz collaborates with scholars based in United States, Chile and Ireland. Sharon Meraz's co-authors include Zizi Papacharissi, Andrew Rojecki, Amy Schmitz Weiss, Bing Liu, Arjun Mukherjee, Vivek V. Venkataraman, Лэй Гуо, Dietram A. Scheufele, Elizabeth Stoycheff and Gerald M. Kosicki and has published in prestigious journals such as New Media & Society, Journal of Computer-Mediated Communication and Journalism & Mass Communication Quarterly.

In The Last Decade

Sharon Meraz

15 papers receiving 960 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.

Networked Gatekeeping and Networked Framing on #Egypt

2013 348 citations Sharon Meraz, Zizi Papacharissi The International Journal of Press/Politics profile →

Peers — A (Enhanced Table)

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

Name	h						Papers	Cites
Sharon Meraz United States	9	805	536	130	124	116	15	1.1k
Maurice Vergeer Netherlands	17	805 1.0×	499 0.9×	81 0.6×	107 0.9×	269 2.3×	37	1.1k
David Karpf United States	13	762 0.9×	469 0.9×	96 0.7×	101 0.8×	296 2.6×	28	994
Tal Samuel-Azran Israel	16	516 0.6×	440 0.8×	151 1.2×	50 0.4×	107 0.9×	62	838
Christian von Sikorski Germany	16	517 0.6×	717 1.3×	82 0.6×	87 0.7×	184 1.6×	53	1.0k
Jessica T. Feezell United States	14	760 0.9×	691 1.3×	58 0.4×	66 0.5×	227 2.0×	24	1.1k
Moran Yarchi Israel	16	630 0.8×	607 1.1×	235 1.8×	83 0.7×	180 1.6×	51	1.1k
Chang Sup Park United States	16	612 0.8×	675 1.3×	51 0.4×	121 1.0×	94 0.8×	45	996
Liesbeth Hermans Netherlands	16	783 1.0×	358 0.7×	61 0.5×	72 0.6×	204 1.8×	29	947
H. Denis Wu United States	15	693 0.9×	555 1.0×	46 0.4×	61 0.5×	151 1.3×	40	969
Paul Zube United States	9	683 0.8×	519 1.0×	59 0.5×	55 0.4×	134 1.2×	15	898

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Fields of papers citing papers by Sharon Meraz

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Co-authorship network of co-authors of Sharon Meraz

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

All Works

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15 of 15 papers shown

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Schmierbach, Mike, Maxwell McCombs, Sebastián Valenzuela, et al.. (2022). Reflections on a Legacy: Thoughts from Scholars about Agenda-Setting Past and Future. Mass Communication & Society. 25(4). 500–527. 8 indexed citations

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Meraz, Sharon. (2014). Quantifying Partisan Selective Exposure Through Network Text Analysis of Elite Political Blog Networks During the U.S. 2012 Presidential Election. Journal of Information Technology & Politics. 12(1). 37–53. 10 indexed citations

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Rojecki, Andrew & Sharon Meraz. (2014). Rumors and factitious informational blends: The role of the web in speculative politics. New Media & Society. 18(1). 25–43. 92 indexed citations

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Mukherjee, Arjun, Vivek V. Venkataraman, Bing Liu, & Sharon Meraz. (2013). Public Dialogue: Analysis of Tolerance in Online Discussions. Meeting of the Association for Computational Linguistics. 1680–1690. 12 indexed citations

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Meraz, Sharon & Zizi Papacharissi. (2013). Networked Gatekeeping and Networked Framing on #Egypt. The International Journal of Press/Politics. 18(2). 138–166. 348 indexed citations breakdown →

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Meraz, Sharon. (2012). The Democratic Contribution of Weakly Tied Political Networks. Social Science Computer Review. 31(2). 191–207. 4 indexed citations

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Meraz, Sharon. (2011). Using Time Series Analysis to Measure Intermedia Agenda-Setting Influence in Traditional Media and Political Blog Networks. Journalism & Mass Communication Quarterly. 88(1). 176–194. 147 indexed citations

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Meraz, Sharon. (2011). The fight for ‘how to think’: Traditional media, social networks, and issue interpretation. Journalism. 12(1). 107–127. 68 indexed citations

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Meraz, Sharon, et al.. (2010). Finding Women in the Newsroom and in the News. 84–106. 6 indexed citations

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Meraz, Sharon, et al.. (2010). Women, Men and News. 6 indexed citations

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Meraz, Sharon, et al.. (2010). The Softer Side of News. 107–119. 3 indexed citations

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Meraz, Sharon. (2009). The Many Faced “You” of Social Media. 141–166. 2 indexed citations

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Meraz, Sharon. (2009). Is There an Elite Hold? Traditional Media to Social Media Agenda Setting Influence in Blog Networks. Journal of Computer-Mediated Communication. 14(3). 682–707. 288 indexed citations

14.

Meraz, Sharon, et al.. (2007). Strengthening the news connection with women and cultivating the next generation. 347–365. 1 indexed citations

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Meraz, Sharon, et al.. (2007). Women, men and news: Divided and disconnected in the news media landscape. 39–53. 63 indexed citations

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