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Researcher · University of Washington · United States

Kate Starbird

Kate Starbird publishes mostly in Sociology and Political Science, Communication and Statistical and Nonlinear Physics, on topics such as Misinformation and Its Impacts, Social Media and Politics and Public Relations and Crisis Communication.

ORCID 0000-0003-1661-4608 OpenAlex
World rank
#15,974
of 7,710,434 ranked researchers
Rank in United States
#5,705
of 1,627,098
Works
136
Citations
8.2k
Citations per work
60.1
h-index
40
i10-index 73Top 0.9% in Sociology and Political Science
Kate Starbird

What does Kate Starbird research?

Kate Starbird's work is mostly in Social Sciences (55%), Computer Science (14%), Physics and Astronomy (9%).

Social Sciences: 74 works · 54.6% of their workSocial Sciences: 74 works · 54.6% of their workSociology and Political Science: 40 works · 29.3% of their workCommunication: 34 works · 25.3% of their workPhysical Sciences: 32 works · 23.6% of their workComputer Science: 19 works · 14.2% of their workArtificial Intelligence: 11 works · 8.2% of their workInformation Systems: 5 works · 3.7% of their workComputer Science Applications: 3 works · 2.3% of their workPhysics and Astronomy: 13 works · 9.4% of their workStatistical and Nonlinear Physics: 13 works · 9.4% of their workEverything else: 30 works · 21.8% of their workTHEIR WORKKate Starbird136works
Physical Sciences24%Social Sciences55%

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 Sciences7454.6%
    1. Computer Science1914.2%
    2. Physics and Astronomy139.4%
  3. Everything else3021.8%
  1. 1Sociology and Political Science29% of their works
  2. 2Communication25% of their works
  3. 3Statistical and Nonlinear Physics9% of their works
  4. 4Artificial Intelligence8% of their works
  5. 5Information Systems4% of their works
  6. 6Computer Science Applications2% of their works

Research topics

Which keywords describe Kate Starbird's research?

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

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 20 words, with their numbers
  1. Social Media1504 topics
  2. Polarization672 topics
  3. Fake News561 topic
  4. Misinformation561 topic
  5. Digital Divide431 topic
  6. Political Participation431 topic
  7. Crisis Communication341 topic
  8. Public Relations341 topic
  9. Network Dynamics332 topics
  10. Social Influence332 topics
  11. Community Structure221 topic
  12. Scale-Free Networks221 topic
  13. Disaster181 topic
  14. Resilience181 topic
  15. Detection171 topic
  16. Hate Speech171 topic
  17. Bounded Confidence111 topic
  18. Opinion Dynamics111 topic
  19. Agenda Setting81 topic
  20. Media Framing81 topic

Where does Kate Starbird work?

Kate Starbird's main affiliation in the publication record is University of Washington, United States.

How many publications and citations does Kate Starbird have?

OpenAlex counts 136 works and 8,178 citations for Kate Starbird, an h-index of 40, ranking #15,974 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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