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Researcher · Queensland University of Technology · Australia

Axel Bruns

Axel Bruns publishes mostly in Communication, Sociology and Political Science and Information Systems, on topics such as Social Media and Politics, Media Studies and Communication and Misinformation and Its Impacts.

ORCID 0000-0002-3943-133X OpenAlex
World rank
#81,007
of 7,710,434 ranked researchers
Rank in Australia
#2,603
of 140,210
Works
534
Citations
14k
Citations per work
26.1
h-index
59
i10-index 151Top 0.1% in Communication
Axel Bruns

What does Axel Bruns research?

Axel Bruns's work is mostly in Social Sciences (64%), Computer Science (9%), Physics and Astronomy (4%).

Social Sciences: 344 works · 64.5% of their workSocial Sciences: 344 works · 64.5% of their workCommunication: 216 works · 40.5% of their workSociology and Political Science: 104 works · 19.4% of their workPolitical Science and International Relations: 25 works · 4.6% of their workEverything else: 122 works · 22.8% of their workPhysical Sciences: 68 works · 12.7% of their workComputer Science: 46 works · 8.7% of their workInformation Systems: 30 works · 5.6% of their workComputer Science Applications: 17 works · 3.1% of their workPhysics and Astronomy: 21 works · 4.0% of their workStatistical and Nonlinear Physics: 21 works · 4.0% of their workTHEIR WORKAxel Bruns534works
Physical Sciences13%Social Sciences64%

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 Sciences34464.5%
  2. Everything else12222.8%
    1. Computer Science468.7%
    2. Physics and Astronomy214.0%
  1. 1Communication40% of their works
  2. 2Sociology and Political Science19% of their works
  3. 3Information Systems6% of their works
  4. 4Political Science and International Relations5% of their works
  5. 5Statistical and Nonlinear Physics4% of their works
  6. 6Computer Science Applications3% of their works

Research topics

Which keywords describe Axel Bruns's research?

The keywords of their largest research topics: Social Media, Digital Divide, Political Participation, Agenda Setting, Media Framing, Fake News, Misinformation and Online Gaming.

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 Media3204 topics
  2. Digital Divide1991 topic
  3. Political Participation1991 topic
  4. Agenda Setting1351 topic
  5. Media Framing1351 topic
  6. Fake News591 topic
  7. Misinformation591 topic
  8. Online Gaming431 topic
  9. Video Games431 topic
  10. Crisis Communication401 topic
  11. Public Relations401 topic
  12. Community Structure301 topic
  13. Network Dynamics301 topic
  14. Collaboration251 topic
  15. Wikipedia251 topic
  16. Detection221 topic
  17. Hate Speech221 topic

Where does Axel Bruns work?

Axel Bruns's main affiliation in the publication record is Queensland University of Technology, Australia.

How many publications and citations does Axel Bruns have?

OpenAlex counts 534 works and 13,916 citations for Axel Bruns, an h-index of 59, ranking #81,007 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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