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Researcher · University of Gothenburg · Sweden

Oscar Westlund

Oscar Westlund publishes mostly in Communication, Sociology and Political Science and Information Systems and Management, on topics such as Media Studies and Communication, Social Media and Politics and Radio, Podcasts, and Digital Media.

ORCID 0000-0002-2533-6737 OpenAlex
World rank
#50,697
of 7,710,434 ranked researchers
Rank in Sweden
#384
of 71,437
Works
111
Citations
3.7k
Citations per work
33.6
h-index
33
i10-index 53Top 2% in Communication
Oscar Westlund

What does Oscar Westlund research?

Oscar Westlund's work is mostly in Social Sciences (75%), Decision Sciences (4%), Engineering (2%).

Social Sciences: 88 works · 79.1% of their workSocial Sciences: 83 works · 75.2% of their workCommunication: 54 works · 48.6% of their workSociology and Political Science: 24 works · 21.3% of their workEducation: 4 works · 3.2% of their workPolitical Science and International Relations: 2 works · 2.1% of their workDecision Sciences: 4 works · 3.9% of their workInformation Systems and Management: 4 works · 3.9% of their workEverything else: 21 works · 18.8% of their workPhysical Sciences: 2 works · 2.1% of their workEngineering: 2 works · 2.1% of their workMedia Technology: 2 works · 2.1% of their workTHEIR WORKOscar Westlund111works
Physical Sciences2%Social Sciences79%

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 Sciences8375.2%
    2. Decision Sciences43.9%
  2. Everything else2118.8%
    1. Engineering22.1%
  1. 1Communication49% of their works
  2. 2Sociology and Political Science21% of their works
  3. 3Information Systems and Management4% of their works
  4. 4Education3% of their works
  5. 5Media Technology2% of their works
  6. 6Political Science and International Relations2% of their works

Research topics

Which keywords describe Oscar Westlund's research?

The keywords of their largest research topics: Social Media, Agenda Setting, Media Framing, Online Communication, Digital Divide, Deliberative Democracy, Political Participation and Audio Storytelling.

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 Media1026 topics
  2. Agenda Setting571 topic
  3. Media Framing571 topic
  4. Online Communication532 topics
  5. Digital Divide522 topics
  6. Deliberative Democracy461 topic
  7. Political Participation461 topic
  8. Audio Storytelling151 topic
  9. Podcasting151 topic
  10. Fake News141 topic
  11. Misinformation141 topic
  12. Consumer Engagement101 topic
  13. Crisis Communication101 topic
  14. Electronic Word-of-Mouth101 topic
  15. Public Relations101 topic
  16. Addiction71 topic
  17. Well-being71 topic
  18. Economic Development61 topic
  19. Telecommunications61 topic

Where does Oscar Westlund work?

Oscar Westlund's main affiliation in the publication record is University of Gothenburg, Sweden.

How many publications and citations does Oscar Westlund have?

OpenAlex counts 111 works and 3,725 citations for Oscar Westlund, an h-index of 33, ranking #50,697 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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