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Researcher · University of British Columbia · Canada

Alfred Hermida

Alfred Hermida publishes mostly in Communication, Sociology and Political Science and Philosophy, on topics such as Media Studies and Communication, Social Media and Politics and Radio, Podcasts, and Digital Media.

ORCID 0000-0002-4632-3791 OpenAlex
World rank
#59,192
of 7,710,434 ranked researchers
Rank in Canada
#1,690
of 183,316
Works
117
Citations
6.1k
Citations per work
52.1
h-index
34
i10-index 46Top 1.8% in Communication
Alfred Hermida

What does Alfred Hermida research?

Alfred Hermida's work is mostly in Social Sciences (80%), Arts and Humanities (4%), Decision Sciences (2%).

Social Sciences: 100 works · 85.1% of their workSocial Sciences: 93 works · 79.9% of their workCommunication: 69 works · 59.1% of their workSociology and Political Science: 19 works · 16.1% of their workGender Studies: 4 works · 3.0% of their workAnthropology: 2 works · 1.7% of their workArts and Humanities: 4 works · 3.5% of their workPhilosophy: 4 works · 3.5% of their workDecision Sciences: 2 works · 1.7% of their workInformation Systems and Management: 2 works · 1.7% of their workEverything else: 17 works · 14.9% of their workTHEIR WORKAlfred Hermida117works
Social Sciences85%

Their six largest subfields, inside their fields and domains; the grey slice is everything else they publish. The interactive view splits every one of their works down to single topics.

The fields and subfields, with their numbers
    1. Social Sciences9379.9%
    2. Arts and Humanities43.5%
    3. Decision Sciences21.7%
  2. Everything else1714.9%
  1. 1Communication59% of their works
  2. 2Sociology and Political Science16% of their works
  3. 3Philosophy4% of their works
  4. 4Gender Studies3% of their works
  5. 5Anthropology2% of their works
  6. 6Information Systems and Management2% of their works

Research topics

Which keywords describe Alfred Hermida's research?

The keywords of their largest research topics: Social Media, Agenda Setting, Media Framing, Digital Divide, Political Participation, Audio Storytelling, Podcasting and Crisis Communication.

Size is their works in the topics tagged with each word, from their 8 largest topics. Each links to the topic it comes from most. The words come from the keyword list OpenAlex gives each topic, not from the text of the papers, so a word can appear that none of the papers uses.

All 17 words, with their numbers
  1. Social Media785 topics
  2. Agenda Setting671 topic
  3. Media Framing671 topic
  4. Digital Divide451 topic
  5. Political Participation451 topic
  6. Audio Storytelling121 topic
  7. Podcasting121 topic
  8. Crisis Communication81 topic
  9. Online Gaming81 topic
  10. Public Relations81 topic
  11. Video Games81 topic
  12. Feminism71 topic
  13. Neoliberalism71 topic
  14. Fake News61 topic
  15. Misinformation61 topic
  16. Democracy51 topic
  17. Rhetoric51 topic

Where does Alfred Hermida work?

Alfred Hermida's main affiliation in the publication record is University of British Columbia, Canada.

How many publications and citations does Alfred Hermida have?

OpenAlex counts 117 works and 6,091 citations for Alfred Hermida, an h-index of 34, ranking #59,192 of 7,710,434 researchers worldwide on the quality score.

Ranked on field-normalised citation excellence (50%), output (30%) and citations (20%). Counts come from OpenAlex author records, which occasionally merge different people who share a name or split one person into several.

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