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Researcher · University of Bologna · Italy

Cristian Vaccari

Cristian Vaccari publishes mostly in Communication, Sociology and Political Science and Political Science and International Relations, on topics such as Social Media and Politics, Media Studies and Communication and Misinformation and Its Impacts.

ORCID 0000-0003-0380-8921 OpenAlex
World rank
#92,764
of 7,710,434 ranked researchers
Rank in Italy
#1,755
of 242,206
Works
175
Citations
7.6k
Citations per work
43.5
h-index
34
i10-index 50Top 1.8% in Communication
Cristian Vaccari

What does Cristian Vaccari research?

Cristian Vaccari's work is mostly in Social Sciences (75%), Computer Science (6%), Physics and Astronomy (3%).

Social Sciences: 135 works · 76.9% of their workSocial Sciences: 131 works · 74.6% of their workCommunication: 65 works · 36.9% of their workSociology and Political Science: 45 works · 25.6% of their workPolitical Science and International Relations: 21 works · 12.1% of their workEconomics, Econometrics and Finance: 4 works · 2.3% of their workEconomics and Econometrics: 4 works · 2.3% of their workEverything else: 25 works · 14.2% of their workPhysical Sciences: 16 works · 8.9% of their workComputer Science: 10 works · 5.6% of their workArtificial Intelligence: 10 works · 5.6% of their workPhysics and Astronomy: 6 works · 3.3% of their workStatistical and Nonlinear Physics: 6 works · 3.3% of their workTHEIR WORKCristian Vaccari175works
Physical Sciences9%Social Sciences77%

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 Sciences13174.6%
    2. Economics, Econometrics and Finance42.3%
  2. Everything else2514.2%
    1. Computer Science105.6%
    2. Physics and Astronomy63.3%
  1. 1Communication37% of their works
  2. 2Sociology and Political Science26% of their works
  3. 3Political Science and International Relations12% of their works
  4. 4Artificial Intelligence6% of their works
  5. 5Statistical and Nonlinear Physics3% of their works
  6. 6Economics and Econometrics2% of their works

Research topics

Which keywords describe Cristian Vaccari's research?

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

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 20 words, with their numbers
  1. Social Media1664 topics
  2. Digital Divide981 topic
  3. Political Participation981 topic
  4. News Media592 topics
  5. Polarization432 topics
  6. Agenda Setting401 topic
  7. Media Framing401 topic
  8. Propaganda342 topics
  9. Fake News311 topic
  10. Misinformation311 topic
  11. Empirical Analysis231 topic
  12. Political Science231 topic
  13. Media Bias191 topic
  14. Political Economy191 topic
  15. Detection181 topic
  16. Hate Speech181 topic
  17. Fascism151 topic
  18. Totalitarianism151 topic
  19. Opinion Dynamics121 topic
  20. Social Influence121 topic

Where does Cristian Vaccari work?

Cristian Vaccari's main affiliation in the publication record is University of Bologna, Italy.

How many publications and citations does Cristian Vaccari have?

OpenAlex counts 175 works and 7,610 citations for Cristian Vaccari, an h-index of 34, ranking #92,764 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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