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Researcher · Northeastern University · United States

David M. J. Lazer

David M. J. Lazer publishes mostly in Sociology and Political Science, Political Science and International Relations and Communication, on topics such as Social Media and Politics, Misinformation and Its Impacts and Vaccine Coverage and Hesitancy.

ORCID 0000-0002-7991-9110 OpenAlex
World rank
#5,386
of 7,710,434 ranked researchers
Rank in United States
#1,855
of 1,627,098
Works
518
Citations
27k
Citations per work
52.9
h-index
62
i10-index 152Top 0.2% in Sociology and Political Science
David M. J. Lazer

What does David M. J. Lazer research?

David M. J. Lazer's work is mostly in Social Sciences (44%), Physics and Astronomy (8%), Psychology (5%).

Social Sciences: 255 works · 49.2% of their workSocial Sciences: 230 works · 44.4% of their workSociology and Political Science: 95 works · 18.4% of their workPolitical Science and International Relations: 49 works · 9.4% of their workCommunication: 48 works · 9.2% of their workHealth: 38 works · 7.4% of their workPsychology: 25 works · 4.8% of their workClinical Psychology: 25 works · 4.8% of their workEverything else: 223 works · 43.1% of their workPhysical Sciences: 40 works · 7.7% of their workPhysics and Astronomy: 40 works · 7.7% of their workStatistical and Nonlinear Physics: 40 works · 7.7% of their workTHEIR WORKDavid M. J. Lazer518works
Physical Sciences8%Social Sciences49%

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 Sciences23044.4%
    2. Psychology254.8%
  2. Everything else22343.1%
    1. Physics and Astronomy407.7%
  1. 1Sociology and Political Science18% of their works
  2. 2Political Science and International Relations9% of their works
  3. 3Communication9% of their works
  4. 4Statistical and Nonlinear Physics8% of their works
  5. 5Health7% of their works
  6. 6Clinical Psychology5% of their works

Research topics

Which keywords describe David M. J. Lazer's research?

The keywords of their largest research topics: Social Media, Polarization, COVID-19, Network Dynamics, Social Influence, Digital Divide, Political Participation and Fake News.

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 21 words, with their numbers
  1. Social Media2463 topics
  2. Polarization1362 topics
  3. COVID-19922 topics
  4. Network Dynamics892 topics
  5. Social Influence892 topics
  6. Digital Divide851 topic
  7. Political Participation851 topic
  8. Fake News831 topic
  9. Misinformation831 topic
  10. COVID-19 Vaccine781 topic
  11. Vaccine Hesitancy781 topic
  12. Bounded Confidence531 topic
  13. Opinion Dynamics531 topic
  14. Anxiety511 topic
  15. Mental Health511 topic
  16. Empirical Analysis451 topic
  17. Political Science451 topic
  18. Modeling411 topic
  19. transmission dynamics411 topic
  20. Community Structure361 topic
  21. Scale-Free Networks361 topic

Where does David M. J. Lazer work?

David M. J. Lazer's main affiliation in the publication record is Northeastern University, United States.

How many publications and citations does David M. J. Lazer have?

OpenAlex counts 518 works and 27,411 citations for David M. J. Lazer, an h-index of 62, ranking #5,386 of 7,710,434 researchers worldwide on the quality 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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