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Researcher · Michigan State University · United States

Joseph B. Walther

Joseph B. Walther publishes mostly in Sociology and Political Science, Social Psychology and Communication, on topics such as Team Dynamics and Performance, Knowledge Management and Sharing and Digital Communication and Language.

ORCID 0000-0003-2393-9208 OpenAlex
World rank
#15,637
of 7,710,434 ranked researchers
Rank in United States
#5,568
of 1,627,098
Works
178
Citations
25k
Citations per work
140.1
h-index
58
i10-index 112Top 0.2% in Sociology and Political Science
Joseph B. Walther

What does Joseph B. Walther research?

Joseph B. Walther's work is mostly in Social Sciences (41%), Psychology (20%), Computer Science (14%).

Social Sciences: 109 works · 61.2% of their workSocial Sciences: 73 works · 40.8% of their workSociology and Political Science: 37 works · 20.8% of their workCommunication: 36 works · 20.0% of their workPsychology: 36 works · 20.4% of their workSocial Psychology: 36 works · 20.4% of their workEverything else: 39 works · 21.8% of their workPhysical Sciences: 30 works · 17.0% of their workComputer Science: 24 works · 13.5% of their workHuman-Computer Interaction: 17 works · 9.5% of their workArtificial Intelligence: 7 works · 4.0% of their workPhysics and Astronomy: 6 works · 3.5% of their workStatistical and Nonlinear Physics: 6 works · 3.5% of their workTHEIR WORKJoseph B. Walther178works
Physical Sciences17%Social Sciences61%

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 Sciences7340.8%
    2. Psychology3620.4%
  2. Everything else3921.8%
    1. Computer Science2413.5%
    2. Physics and Astronomy63.5%
  1. 1Sociology and Political Science21% of their works
  2. 2Social Psychology20% of their works
  3. 3Communication20% of their works
  4. 4Human-Computer Interaction10% of their works
  5. 5Artificial Intelligence4% of their works
  6. 6Statistical and Nonlinear Physics4% of their works

Research topics

Which keywords describe Joseph B. Walther's research?

The keywords of their largest research topics: Social Media, Knowledge Sharing, Online Communication, Shared Mental Models, Team Processes, Social Capital, Virtual Communities and Computer-Mediated Communication.

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 Media1234 topics
  2. Knowledge Sharing1212 topics
  3. Online Communication813 topics
  4. Shared Mental Models681 topic
  5. Team Processes681 topic
  6. Social Capital531 topic
  7. Virtual Communities531 topic
  8. Computer-Mediated Communication381 topic
  9. Emoticons381 topic
  10. Consumer Engagement271 topic
  11. Electronic Word-of-Mouth271 topic
  12. Digital Divide241 topic
  13. Political Participation241 topic
  14. Addiction191 topic
  15. Well-being191 topic
  16. Intergroup Contact151 topic
  17. Social Identity151 topic
  18. Opinion Dynamics141 topic
  19. Social Influence141 topic

Where does Joseph B. Walther work?

Joseph B. Walther's main affiliation in the publication record is Michigan State University, United States.

How many publications and citations does Joseph B. Walther have?

OpenAlex counts 178 works and 24,929 citations for Joseph B. Walther, an h-index of 58, ranking #15,637 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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