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Researcher · University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill · United States

Deen Freelon

Deen Freelon publishes mostly in Communication, Sociology and Political Science and Statistical and Nonlinear Physics, on topics such as Social Media and Politics, Misinformation and Its Impacts and Media Studies and Communication.

ORCID 0000-0001-5055-0316 OpenAlex
World rank
#49,521
of 7,710,434 ranked researchers
Rank in United States
#19,117
of 1,627,098
Works
109
Citations
7.9k
Citations per work
72.0
h-index
35
i10-index 55Top 1.6% in Communication
Deen Freelon

What does Deen Freelon research?

Deen Freelon's work is mostly in Social Sciences (65%), Physics and Astronomy (8%), Computer Science (7%).

Social Sciences: 74 works · 67.5% of their workSocial Sciences: 70 works · 64.6% of their workCommunication: 38 works · 34.6% of their workSociology and Political Science: 27 works · 24.6% of their workPolitical Science and International Relations: 6 works · 5.4% of their workArts and Humanities: 3 works · 2.9% of their workLiterature and Literary Theory: 3 works · 2.9% of their workEverything else: 20 works · 17.9% of their workPhysical Sciences: 16 works · 14.6% of their workPhysics and Astronomy: 9 works · 7.9% of their workStatistical and Nonlinear Physics: 9 works · 7.9% of their workComputer Science: 7 works · 6.7% of their workArtificial Intelligence: 7 works · 6.7% of their workTHEIR WORKDeen Freelon109works
Physical Sciences15%Social Sciences68%

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 Sciences7064.6%
    2. Arts and Humanities32.9%
  2. Everything else2017.9%
    1. Physics and Astronomy97.9%
    2. Computer Science76.7%
  1. 1Communication35% of their works
  2. 2Sociology and Political Science25% of their works
  3. 3Statistical and Nonlinear Physics8% of their works
  4. 4Artificial Intelligence7% of their works
  5. 5Political Science and International Relations5% of their works
  6. 6Literature and Literary Theory3% of their works

Research topics

Which keywords describe Deen Freelon's research?

The keywords of their largest research topics: Social Media, Online Communication, Digital Divide, Political Participation, Polarization, News Media, Fake News and Misinformation.

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 22 words, with their numbers
  1. Social Media1175 topics
  2. Online Communication652 topics
  3. Digital Divide591 topic
  4. Political Participation591 topic
  5. Polarization352 topics
  6. News Media332 topics
  7. Fake News241 topic
  8. Misinformation241 topic
  9. Agenda Setting211 topic
  10. Media Framing211 topic
  11. Network Dynamics192 topics
  12. Social Influence192 topics
  13. Detection161 topic
  14. Hate Speech161 topic
  15. Media Bias121 topic
  16. Political Economy121 topic
  17. Bounded Confidence111 topic
  18. Opinion Dynamics111 topic
  19. Community Structure81 topic
  20. Scale-Free Networks81 topic
  21. Addiction61 topic
  22. Well-being61 topic

Where does Deen Freelon work?

Deen Freelon's main affiliation in the publication record is University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, United States.

How many publications and citations does Deen Freelon have?

OpenAlex counts 109 works and 7,851 citations for Deen Freelon, an h-index of 35, ranking #49,521 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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