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Researcher · Microsoft (United States) · United States

danah boyd

danah boyd publishes mostly in Sociology and Political Science, Communication and Artificial Intelligence, on topics such as Social Media and Politics, Impact of Technology on Adolescents and Digital Games and Media.

ORCID 0000-0002-7722-7778 OpenAlex
World rank
#22,490
of 7,710,434 ranked researchers
Rank in United States
#8,272
of 1,627,098
Works
210
Citations
52k
Citations per work
247.8
h-index
59
i10-index 101Top 0.2% in Sociology and Political Science
danah boyd

What does danah boyd research?

danah boyd's work is mostly in Social Sciences (55%), Computer Science (6%).

Social Sciences: 116 works · 55.1% of their workSocial Sciences: 116 works · 55.1% of their workSociology and Political Science: 57 works · 27.0% of their workCommunication: 32 works · 15.1% of their workEducation: 10 works · 4.6% of their workGender Studies: 9 works · 4.2% of their workSafety Research: 9 works · 4.2% of their workEverything else: 82 works · 39.1% of their workPhysical Sciences: 12 works · 5.8% of their workComputer Science: 12 works · 5.8% of their workArtificial Intelligence: 12 works · 5.8% of their workTHEIR WORKdanah boyd210works
Physical Sciences6%Social Sciences55%

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 Sciences11655.1%
  2. Everything else8239.1%
    1. Computer Science125.8%
  1. 1Sociology and Political Science27% of their works
  2. 2Communication15% of their works
  3. 3Artificial Intelligence6% of their works
  4. 4Education5% of their works
  5. 5Gender Studies4% of their works
  6. 6Safety Research4% of their works

Research topics

Which keywords describe danah boyd's research?

The keywords of their largest research topics: Social Media, Online Communication, Digital Divide, Political Participation, Surveillance, Addiction, Well-being 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 19 words, with their numbers
  1. Social Media1093 topics
  2. Online Communication912 topics
  3. Digital Divide621 topic
  4. Political Participation621 topic
  5. Surveillance402 topics
  6. Addiction291 topic
  7. Well-being291 topic
  8. Online Gaming211 topic
  9. Video Games211 topic
  10. Digital Technology201 topic
  11. Ethics201 topic
  12. Fairness201 topic
  13. Online Social Networks201 topic
  14. Parental Mediation201 topic
  15. Privacy Concerns201 topic
  16. Feminism181 topic
  17. Neoliberalism181 topic
  18. Community Structure121 topic
  19. Network Dynamics121 topic

Where does danah boyd work?

danah boyd's main affiliation in the publication record is Microsoft (United States), United States.

How many publications and citations does danah boyd have?

OpenAlex counts 210 works and 52,031 citations for danah boyd, an h-index of 59, ranking #22,490 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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