Ulrike Klinger

1.7k total citations · 1 hit paper
31 papers, 987 citations indexed

About

Ulrike Klinger is a scholar working on Communication, Political Science and International Relations and Sociology and Political Science. According to data from OpenAlex, Ulrike Klinger has authored 31 papers receiving a total of 987 indexed citations (citations by other indexed papers that have themselves been cited), including 21 papers in Communication, 9 papers in Political Science and International Relations and 7 papers in Sociology and Political Science. Recurrent topics in Ulrike Klinger's work include Social Media and Politics (19 papers), Media Studies and Communication (11 papers) and Misinformation and Its Impacts (5 papers). Ulrike Klinger is often cited by papers focused on Social Media and Politics (19 papers), Media Studies and Communication (11 papers) and Misinformation and Its Impacts (5 papers). Ulrike Klinger collaborates with scholars based in Switzerland, Germany and Austria. Ulrike Klinger's co-authors include Jakob Svensson, Tobias Keller, Uta Rußmann, Karolina Koç-Michalska, Otfried Jarren, W. Lance Bennett, Curd Knüpfer, Andrea Römmele, Annie Waldherr and Barbara Pfetsch and has published in prestigious journals such as Journal of Communication, New Media & Society and Information Communication & Society.

In The Last Decade

Ulrike Klinger

27 papers receiving 917 citations

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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 emergence of network media logic in political communication: A theoretical approach

2014 354 citations Ulrike Klinger, Jakob Svensson New Media & Society profile →

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Name	h						Papers	Cites
Ulrike Klinger Switzerland	11	678	492	223	200	77	31	987
Nick Anstead United Kingdom	14	484 0.7×	423 0.9×	205 0.9×	125 0.6×	51 0.7×	33	818
Adrian Rauchfleisch Taiwan	21	656 1.0×	700 1.4×	178 0.8×	261 1.3×	107 1.4×	45	1.1k
Marta Cantijoch United Kingdom	11	694 1.0×	470 1.0×	390 1.7×	153 0.8×	47 0.6×	32	922
Josephine Lukito United States	15	624 0.9×	598 1.2×	206 0.9×	209 1.0×	62 0.8×	42	956
Dan Mercea United Kingdom	14	709 1.0×	686 1.4×	211 0.9×	258 1.3×	113 1.5×	49	1.1k
Judith Moeller Netherlands	16	474 0.7×	508 1.0×	117 0.5×	120 0.6×	61 0.8×	28	847
Maurice Vergeer Netherlands	17	805 1.2×	499 1.0×	269 1.2×	139 0.7×	24 0.3×	37	1.1k
Денис Стукал Russia	8	534 0.8×	723 1.5×	213 1.0×	247 1.2×	91 1.2×	25	997
Sergey Sanovich United States	7	511 0.8×	661 1.3×	164 0.7×	240 1.2×	88 1.1×	12	906
Marco Bastos Ireland	17	696 1.0×	719 1.5×	151 0.7×	299 1.5×	154 2.0×	78	1.2k

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Co-authorship network of co-authors of Ulrike Klinger

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Klinger, Ulrike, et al.. (2025). Campaigning in the Age of Platforms: A Longitudinal Analysis of German Parties & Politicians. Political Communication. 1–29. 1 indexed citations

Knüpfer, Curd, W. Lance Bennett, & Ulrike Klinger. (2025). Far-right challenges to liberal democratic press norms: “indexing by proxy” in a German immigration debate. Journal of Communication. 1 indexed citations

Koç-Michalska, Karolina, et al.. (2024). Dissonant Public Spheres.

Rußmann, Uta, Ulrike Klinger, & Karolina Koç-Michalska. (2024). Personal, Private, Emotional? How Political Parties Use Personalization Strategies on Facebook in the 2014 and 2019 EP Election Campaigns. Social Science Computer Review. 42(5). 1204–1222. 6 indexed citations

Klinger, Ulrike. (2024). Political Communication in Challenging Times. Political Communication. 41(5). 866–869.

Koç-Michalska, Karolina, et al.. (2023). (Digital) Campaigning in Dissonant Public Spheres. Political Communication. 40(3). 255–262. 6 indexed citations

Klinger, Ulrike, et al.. (2022). From the fringes into mainstream politics: intermediary networks and movement-party coordination of a global anti-immigration campaign in Germany. Information Communication & Society. 26(9). 1890–1907. 25 indexed citations

Klinger, Ulrike, Karolina Koç-Michalska, & Uta Rußmann. (2022). Are Campaigns Getting Uglier, and Who Is to Blame? Negativity, Dramatization and Populism on Facebook in the 2014 and 2019 EP Election Campaigns. Political Communication. 40(3). 263–282. 31 indexed citations

Waldherr, Annie, Ulrike Klinger, & Barbara Pfetsch. (2021). Spaces, Places, and Geographies of Public Spheres: Exploring Dimensions of the Spatial Turn. Media and Communication. 9(3). 1–4. 6 indexed citations

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Geise, Stephanie, Ulrike Klinger, Melanie Magin, et al.. (2021). The Normativity of Communication Research: A Content Analysis of Normative Claims in Peer-Reviewed Journal Articles (1970–2014). Mass Communication & Society. 25(4). 528–553. 5 indexed citations

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Klinger, Ulrike & Jakob Svensson. (2021). The power of code: women and the making of the digital world. Information Communication & Society. 24(14). 2075–2090. 9 indexed citations

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Fischer, Renate, et al.. (2021). What Constitutes a Local Public Sphere? Building a Monitoring Framework for Comparative Analysis. Media and Communication. 9(3). 85–96. 2 indexed citations

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Keller, Tobias & Ulrike Klinger. (2018). Social Bots in Election Campaigns: Theoretical, Empirical, and Methodological Implications. Political Communication. 36(1). 171–189. 124 indexed citations

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Klinger, Ulrike, et al.. (2016). Interactive cities? Local political online communication in Switzerland. Studies in Communication Sciences. 16(2). 141–147. 1 indexed citations

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Klinger, Ulrike, et al.. (2016). Imagining the City. Journalism Studies. 19(7). 960–982. 27 indexed citations

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Klinger, Ulrike & Uta Rußmann. (2015). The sociodemographics of political public deliberation: Measuring deliberative quality in different user groups. Communications. 40(4). 10 indexed citations

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Klinger, Ulrike & Jakob Svensson. (2014). The emergence of network media logic in political communication: A theoretical approach. New Media & Society. 17(8). 1241–1257. 354 indexed citations breakdown →

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Klinger, Ulrike & Uta Rußmann. (2014). Measuring Online Deliberation in Local Politics. Zurich Open Repository and Archive (University of Zurich). 5(1). 61–77. 4 indexed citations

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Klinger, Ulrike. (2011). Democratizing media policy: Community radios in Mexico and Latin America. Zurich Open Repository and Archive (University of Zurich). 1(2). 4–22. 8 indexed citations

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Klinger, Ulrike, et al.. (2010). Media pluralism between market mechanisms and control: the German divide. Open MIND. 4 indexed citations

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