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danah boyd

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

World rank
#18,890
of 1,633,909 ranked researchers
Rank in United States
#8,982
of 358,040
Works
39
Citations
1.9k
Citations per work
47.6

What does danah boyd research?

Sociology and Political Science: 29.5%Communication: 19.7%Gender Studies: 6.6%Human-Computer Interaction: 6.6%other fields: 37.6%30%top field
Sociology and Political Science29.5%Communication19.7%Gender Studies6.6%Human-Computer Interaction6.6%other fields37.6%

Shares of their own output, by the field each of their topics belongs to. The grey slice is everything not listed.

  1. 1Sociology and Political Science30% of their works
  2. 2Communication20% of their works
  3. 3Gender Studies7% of their works
  4. 4Human-Computer Interaction7% of their works
  5. 5Education5% of their works
  6. 6Statistics and Probability3% 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, Addiction, Well-being, Online Gaming and Video Games.

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.

All 18 words, with their numbers
  1. Social Media173 topics
  2. Online Communication142 topics
  3. Digital Divide81 topic
  4. Political Participation81 topic
  5. Addiction61 topic
  6. Well-being61 topic
  7. Online Gaming41 topic
  8. Video Games41 topic
  9. Feminism31 topic
  10. Neoliberalism31 topic
  11. Agenda Setting21 topic
  12. Capture-Recapture21 topic
  13. Design Research21 topic
  14. Digital Technology21 topic
  15. Media Framing21 topic
  16. Parental Mediation21 topic
  17. Population Size Estimation21 topic
  18. User Experience21 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?

Science Explorer counts 39 works and 1,856 citations for danah boyd, ranking #18,890 of 1,633,909 researchers worldwide on the composite score.

Ranked on field-normalised 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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