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Researcher · Massachusetts Institute of Technology · United States

Gordon Pennycook

Gordon Pennycook publishes mostly in Sociology and Political Science, Cognitive Neuroscience and Communication, on topics such as Misinformation and Its Impacts, Psychology of Moral and Emotional Judgment and Social Media and Politics.

ORCID 0000-0003-1344-6143 OpenAlex
World rank
#200
of 7,710,434 ranked researchers
Rank in United States
#107
of 1,627,098
Works
313
Citations
35k
Citations per work
111.5
h-index
78
i10-index 175Top 0.1% in Sociology and Political Science
Gordon Pennycook

What does Gordon Pennycook research?

Gordon Pennycook's work is mostly in Social Sciences (44%), Neuroscience (10%), Computer Science (7%).

Social Sciences: 152 works · 48.7% of their workSocial Sciences: 137 works · 43.7% of their workSociology and Political Science: 100 works · 32.1% of their workCommunication: 26 works · 8.2% of their workHealth: 11 works · 3.4% of their workDecision Sciences: 16 works · 5.0% of their workGeneral Decision Sciences: 16 works · 5.0% of their workEverything else: 108 works · 34.4% of their workLife Sciences: 32 works · 10.3% of their workNeuroscience: 32 works · 10.3% of their workCognitive Neuroscience: 32 works · 10.3% of their workPhysical Sciences: 21 works · 6.6% of their workComputer Science: 21 works · 6.6% of their workArtificial Intelligence: 21 works · 6.6% of their workTHEIR WORKGordon Pennycook313works
Life Sciences10%Physical Sciences7%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 Sciences13743.7%
    2. Decision Sciences165.0%
  2. Everything else10834.4%
    1. Neuroscience3210.3%
    1. Computer Science216.6%
  1. 1Sociology and Political Science32% of their works
  2. 2Cognitive Neuroscience10% of their works
  3. 3Communication8% of their works
  4. 4Artificial Intelligence7% of their works
  5. 5General Decision Sciences5% of their works
  6. 6Health3% of their works

Research topics

Which keywords describe Gordon Pennycook's research?

The keywords of their largest research topics: Social Media, Polarization, Fake News, Misinformation, Emotion, Disgust, Moral Judgment and Digital Divide.

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 19 words, with their numbers
  1. Social Media2583 topics
  2. Polarization1802 topics
  3. Fake News1591 topic
  4. Misinformation1591 topic
  5. Emotion1203 topics
  6. Disgust621 topic
  7. Moral Judgment621 topic
  8. Digital Divide611 topic
  9. Political Participation611 topic
  10. Decision Making391 topic
  11. Risk Aversion391 topic
  12. Detection381 topic
  13. Hate Speech381 topic
  14. Intergroup Contact261 topic
  15. Social Identity261 topic
  16. Opinion Dynamics211 topic
  17. Social Influence211 topic
  18. Narrative Persuasion191 topic
  19. Transportation191 topic

Where does Gordon Pennycook work?

Gordon Pennycook's main affiliation in the publication record is Massachusetts Institute of Technology, United States.

How many publications and citations does Gordon Pennycook have?

OpenAlex counts 313 works and 34,907 citations for Gordon Pennycook, an h-index of 78, ranking #200 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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