Winter Mason

7.4k total citations · 4 hit papers
35 papers, 4.1k citations indexed

About

Winter Mason is a scholar working on Sociology and Political Science, Statistical and Nonlinear Physics and Computer Science Applications. According to data from OpenAlex, Winter Mason has authored 35 papers receiving a total of 4.1k indexed citations (citations by other indexed papers that have themselves been cited), including 17 papers in Sociology and Political Science, 13 papers in Statistical and Nonlinear Physics and 9 papers in Computer Science Applications. Recurrent topics in Winter Mason's work include Complex Network Analysis Techniques (12 papers), Opinion Dynamics and Social Influence (11 papers) and Mobile Crowdsensing and Crowdsourcing (8 papers). Winter Mason is often cited by papers focused on Complex Network Analysis Techniques (12 papers), Opinion Dynamics and Social Influence (11 papers) and Mobile Crowdsensing and Crowdsourcing (8 papers). Winter Mason collaborates with scholars based in United States, Israel and United Kingdom. Winter Mason's co-authors include Duncan J. Watts, Jake M. Hofman, Eytan Bakshy, Shaomei Wu, Samuel D. Gosling, Siddharth Suri, Eliot R. Smith, Frederica R. Conrey, Sharad Goel and Robert L. Goldstone and has published in prestigious journals such as Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, Journal of Personality and Social Psychology and PLoS ONE.

In The Last Decade

Winter Mason

32 papers receiving 3.9k citations

Hit Papers

Everyone's an influencer 2009 2026 2014 2020 2011 2011 2009 2014 250 500 750 1000
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. Everyone's an influencer
    2011 1.1k citations Eytan Bakshy, Jake M. Hofman et al. profile →
  2. Who says what to whom on twitter
    2011 616 citations Jake M. Hofman, Winter Mason et al. profile →
  3. Financial incentives and the "performance of crowds"
    2009 369 citations Winter Mason, Duncan J. Watts profile →
  4. Internet Research in Psychology
    2014 288 citations Winter Mason et al. profile →

Peers — A (Enhanced Table)

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

Name h Career Trend Papers Cites
Winter Mason United States 18 1.5k 1.5k 881 737 715 35 4.1k
Bongwon Suh South Korea 25 1.2k 0.8× 771 0.5× 1.3k 1.5× 1.3k 1.8× 1.2k 1.7× 76 5.0k
Siddharth Suri United States 28 1.7k 1.1× 991 0.6× 281 0.3× 556 0.8× 859 1.2× 63 4.8k
Eytan Bakshy United States 16 2.6k 1.7× 2.1k 1.4× 2.2k 2.5× 456 0.6× 1.1k 1.6× 30 5.4k
Dan Cosley United States 38 2.0k 1.3× 828 0.5× 1.5k 1.7× 963 1.3× 1.4k 2.0× 108 6.5k
Karrie Karahalios United States 38 2.1k 1.4× 603 0.4× 937 1.1× 521 0.7× 1.5k 2.1× 168 5.9k
Jacob Goldenberg Israel 33 2.1k 1.4× 1.5k 1.0× 463 0.5× 247 0.3× 529 0.7× 83 5.5k
Cameron Marlow United States 17 3.2k 2.1× 2.0k 1.3× 2.0k 2.2× 260 0.4× 941 1.3× 26 6.6k
Sharad Goel United States 28 2.5k 1.6× 1.0k 0.7× 1.2k 1.4× 169 0.2× 1.3k 1.8× 85 5.6k
Mor Naaman United States 42 2.4k 1.6× 1.3k 0.9× 1.5k 1.7× 446 0.6× 2.2k 3.1× 132 8.0k
Daniel M. Romero United States 22 1.1k 0.7× 1.3k 0.9× 864 1.0× 239 0.3× 633 0.9× 63 3.1k

Countries citing papers authored by Winter Mason

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Fields of papers citing papers by Winter Mason

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Physical SciencesHealth SciencesLife SciencesSocial Sciences

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Co-authorship network of co-authors of Winter Mason

This figure shows the co-authorship network connecting the top 25 collaborators of Winter Mason. A scholar is included among the top collaborators of Winter Mason 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 Winter Mason. Winter Mason 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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Lin, Yu‐Ru, et al.. (2023). Mapping language literacy at scale: a case study on Facebook. EPJ Data Science. 12(1). 1 indexed citations
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Kooti, Farshad, Karthik Subbian, Winter Mason, Lada A. Adamic, & Kristina Lerman. (2017). Understanding Short-term Changes in Online Activity Sessions. 555–563. 9 indexed citations
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Mao, Andrew, Winter Mason, Siddharth Suri, & Duncan J. Watts. (2016). An Experimental Study of Team Size and Performance on a Complex Task. PLoS ONE. 11(4). e0153048–e0153048. 83 indexed citations
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Herdağdelen, Amaç, Bogdan State, Lada A. Adamic, & Winter Mason. (2016). The social ties of immigrant communities in the United States. 78–84. 30 indexed citations
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Ozturk, Pinar, et al.. (2014). The motivations and experiences of the on-demand mobile workforce. 236–247. 80 indexed citations
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Mason, Winter, Jennifer Wortman Vaughan, & Hanna Wallach. (2013). Computational social science and social computing. Machine Learning. 95(3). 257–260. 28 indexed citations
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Mason, Winter, et al.. (2013). Classifying Short Messages using Collaborative Knowledge Bases: Reading Wikipedia to Understand Twitter.. 50–53. 2 indexed citations
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Jacobs, Abigail Z., et al.. (2013). Detecting Friendship Within Dynamic Online Interaction Networks. arXiv (Cornell University). 4 indexed citations
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Mason, Winter, et al.. (2012). Semantic Transforms Using Collaborative Knowledge Bases. SSRN Electronic Journal.
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Kooti, Farshad, Winter Mason, Krishna P. Gummadi, & Meeyoung Cha. (2012). Predicting emerging social conventions in online social networks. 445–454. 33 indexed citations
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Swarup, Samarth, Madhav Marathe, Kiran Lakkaraju, et al.. (2012). Social networks and social contagion : papers from the AAAI Fall Symposium. Medical Entomology and Zoology. 1 indexed citations
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Bakshy, Eytan, Jake M. Hofman, Winter Mason, & Duncan J. Watts. (2011). Everyone's an influencer. 16 indexed citations
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Mason, Winter & Siddharth Suri. (2011). How to use Mechanical Turk for Cognitive Science Research. Cognitive Science. 33(33). 4 indexed citations
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Mason, Winter & Siddharth Suri. (2011). Conducting behavioral research on Amazon’s Mechanical Turk. Behavior Research Methods. 44(1). 1–23. 165 indexed citations
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Goel, Sharad, Winter Mason, & Duncan J. Watts. (2010). Real and perceived attitude agreement in social networks.. Journal of Personality and Social Psychology. 99(4). 611–621. 153 indexed citations
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Mason, Winter & Duncan J. Watts. (2010). Financial incentives and the "performance of crowds". ACM SIGKDD Explorations Newsletter. 11(2). 100–108. 329 indexed citations
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Mason, Winter & Duncan J. Watts. (2009). Financial incentives and the "performance of crowds". 77–85. 369 indexed citations breakdown →
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Mason, Winter, et al.. (2008). Propagation of innovations in networked groups.. Journal of Experimental Psychology General. 137(3). 422–433. 105 indexed citations
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Mason, Winter. (2007). Implicit Social Influence. IUScholarWorks (Indiana University).
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Schell, Terry L., et al.. (2006). A novel view of between-categories contrast and within-category assimilation.. Journal of Personality and Social Psychology. 91(3). 406–422. 14 indexed citations

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