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Researcher · University of California, Santa Barbara · United States

Bruce Bimber

Bruce Bimber publishes mostly in Communication, Political Science and International Relations and Sociology and Political Science, on topics such as Social Media and Politics, Media Studies and Communication and Electoral Systems and Political Participation.

ORCID 0000-0002-4458-5413 OpenAlex
World rank
#48,883
of 7,710,434 ranked researchers
Rank in United States
#18,863
of 1,627,098
Works
122
Citations
8.4k
Citations per work
69.0
h-index
37
i10-index 58Top 1.2% in Communication
Bruce Bimber

What does Bruce Bimber research?

Bruce Bimber's work is mostly in Social Sciences (69%), Computer Science (4%), Physics and Astronomy (4%).

Social Sciences: 84 works · 69.1% of their workSocial Sciences: 84 works · 69.1% of their workCommunication: 47 works · 38.6% of their workPolitical Science and International Relations: 17 works · 13.8% of their workSociology and Political Science: 16 works · 13.4% of their workEducation: 4 works · 3.3% of their workEverything else: 29 works · 23.5% of their workPhysical Sciences: 9 works · 7.4% of their workComputer Science: 5 works · 3.7% of their workArtificial Intelligence: 5 works · 3.7% of their workPhysics and Astronomy: 5 works · 3.7% of their workStatistical and Nonlinear Physics: 5 works · 3.7% of their workTHEIR WORKBruce Bimber122works
Physical Sciences7%Social Sciences69%

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 Sciences8469.1%
  2. Everything else2923.5%
    1. Computer Science53.7%
    2. Physics and Astronomy53.7%
  1. 1Communication39% of their works
  2. 2Political Science and International Relations14% of their works
  3. 3Sociology and Political Science13% of their works
  4. 4Statistical and Nonlinear Physics4% of their works
  5. 5Artificial Intelligence4% of their works
  6. 6Education3% of their works

Research topics

Which keywords describe Bruce Bimber's research?

The keywords of their largest research topics: Social Media, Digital Divide, Political Participation, News Media, Agenda Setting, Media Framing, Empirical Analysis and Political Science.

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 19 words, with their numbers
  1. Social Media905 topics
  2. Digital Divide671 topic
  3. Political Participation671 topic
  4. News Media302 topics
  5. Agenda Setting231 topic
  6. Media Framing231 topic
  7. Empirical Analysis201 topic
  8. Political Science201 topic
  9. Polarization132 topics
  10. Opinion Dynamics81 topic
  11. Social Influence81 topic
  12. Media Bias71 topic
  13. Political Economy71 topic
  14. Detection61 topic
  15. Hate Speech61 topic
  16. E-Government51 topic
  17. Fake News51 topic
  18. Misinformation51 topic
  19. Transparency51 topic

Where does Bruce Bimber work?

Bruce Bimber's main affiliation in the publication record is University of California, Santa Barbara, United States.

How many publications and citations does Bruce Bimber have?

OpenAlex counts 122 works and 8,423 citations for Bruce Bimber, an h-index of 37, ranking #48,883 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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