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Media Influence and Politics

Media Influence and Politics is a research topic within Sociology and Political Science. Science Explorer counts 9.4k research works in it since 1950. 10.1% of them reached the world's top 10% most cited for their field and year.

This cluster of papers explores the influence of media bias on government responsiveness, voting behavior, and political polarization. It delves into the impact of various forms of media, including television, social media, and newspapers, on shaping public opinion, political knowledge, and policy outcomes. The research also examines the role of propaganda, partisan control, and information diversity in media content.

  • Media Bias
  • Political Economy
  • Government Responsiveness
  • Voting Behavior
  • News Media
  • Television Impact
  • Social Media
  • Propaganda
  • Partisan Control
  • Information Diversity
Research works
9.4k
fractional, since 1950
In the world top 10%
943
per year above
Top-10% rate
10.1%
share of its works in the world top 10%
Growth, 2018-21 → 2022-25
+24%
the tick is no change
Largest producer
United States
44% of the 10 largest, 2022-now
Media Influence and Politics

Which countries lead Media Influence and Politics research?

By volume, the United States and China publish the most (869 and 203 works in 2022-now).

By volume, 2022-now

  1. 1 United States 869 works
  2. 2 China 203 works
  3. 3 Germany 179 works
  4. 4 United Kingdom 175 works
  5. 5 India 151 works
  6. 6 Italy 107 works
  7. 7 Nigeria 105 works
  8. 8 Spain 70 works
  9. 9 Canada 69 works
  10. 10 Netherlands 66 works

How concentrated that is

The same countries as shares of everything the list above accounts for. A node where two countries do two thirds of the work and one spread evenly across twelve read alike as a ranking and not at all alike here.

United States: 43.6%China: 10.2%Germany: 9.0%United Kingdom: 8.8%6 others listed: 28.5%44%largest
United States869 · 43.6%China203 · 10.2%Germany179 · 9.0%United Kingdom175 · 8.8%6 others listed568 · 28.5%

Shares of the rows listed above, not of the whole node.

Which institutions lead Media Influence and Politics research?

By volume in 2022-now, University of Chicago publishes the most Media Influence and Politics research, followed by University of Amsterdam and New York University.

By volume, 2022-now

  1. 1 University of ChicagoUnited States 25 works
  2. 2 University of AmsterdamNetherlands 22 works
  3. 3 New York UniversityUnited States 20 works
  4. 4 Ludwig-Maximilians-Universität MünchenGermany 17 works
  5. 5 Stanford UniversityUnited States 16 works
  6. 6 Centre National de la Recherche ScientifiqueFrance 15 works
  7. 7 Columbia UniversityUnited States 15 works
  8. 8 University of OxfordUnited Kingdom 15 works
  9. 9 University of North Carolina at Chapel HillUnited States 13 works
  10. 10 University of ZurichSwitzerland 13 works

Who are the leading researchers in Media Influence and Politics?

The most-cited researchers publishing on Media Influence and Politics include Martin McKee, Andrei Shleifer and Harry Eugene Stanley.

  1. 1 Martin McKee United Kingdom 270k citations
  2. 2 Andrei Shleifer United States 234k citations
  3. 3 Harry Eugene Stanley United States 198k citations
  4. 4 V. Sharma France 178k citations
  5. 5 Joseph E. Stiglitz United States 167k citations
  6. 6 Raymond J. Dolan United Kingdom 165k citations
  7. 7 Daron Acemoğlu United States 164k citations

Ranked by citations received across their whole record, among researchers with at least three works on this topic.

What are the most cited papers in Media Influence and Politics?

The most cited paper in Media Influence and Politics is "Social Media and Fake News in the 2016 Election" (Hunt Allcott, Matthew Aaron Gentzkow, 2017), with 6,749 citations. Next come "Identification of Endogenous Social Effects: The Reflection Problem" (6,370) and "Two-Way Fixed Effects Estimators with Heterogeneous Treatment Effects" (5,009).

Most cited papers
#PaperReleasedCitations
1 Social Media and Fake News in the 2016 Election Hunt Allcott, Matthew Aaron Gentzkow · The Journal of Economic Perspectives May 2017 6,749
2 Identification of Endogenous Social Effects: The Reflection Problem Charles F. Manski · The Review of Economic Studies Jul 1993 6,370
3 Two-Way Fixed Effects Estimators with Heterogeneous Treatment Effects Clément de Chaisemartin, Xavier D’Haultfœuille · American Economic Review Open access Sep 2020 5,009
4 Exposure to ideologically diverse news and opinion on Facebook Eytan Bakshy, Solomon Messing, Lada A. Adamic · Science 7 May 2015 3,297
5 News that matters : television and American opinion Shanto Iyengar, Donald R. Kinder 1987 2,680
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Where is Media Influence and Politics research done?

The largest centres of Media Influence and Politics research in 2022-now are London (United Kingdom), New York (United States), Beijing (China) and Washington D.C. (United States). Among places with at least 20 works in it, it is an unusually large share of all research in Amsterdam.

Largest cities, 2022-now

  1. 1 LondonUnited Kingdom 56 works
  2. 2 New YorkUnited States 51 works
  3. 3 BeijingChina 43 works
  4. 4 Washington D.C.United States 41 works
  5. 5 ChicagoUnited States 32 works
  6. 6 AmsterdamNetherlands 30 works
  7. 7 CambridgeUnited States 26 works
  8. 8 MilanItaly 23 works
  9. 9 MunichGermany 23 works
  10. 10 TokyoJapan 23 works

Where it is the local speciality

  1. AmsterdamNL · 30.0 works6.0×
← less than its size predicts1×more →

Location quotient: how much more of its research is in Media Influence and Politics than the world average.

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Where is the best place to study Media Influence and Politics?

Among universities, judged by research, University of Amsterdam, University of Zurich and New York University score highest, combining excellence, specialisation, size, growth and international reach. Research strength is one signal when choosing where to study; it does not measure teaching.

0%10%20%30%mean 20.13%fractional works in this field (log) →share of work in the world top 10% →Stanford UniversityUniversity of Amster…University of ZurichNew York University
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One dot per university in the first ten of the table below, at the default weights. The upper left is the interesting corner: small places doing unusually strong work.

Excellenceshare of its work in the world top 10%, 2022-now and all time averaged
40%
Specialisationhow much of its work is in this field, counted up to 10× the world share
10%
Sizeits output in this field, on a log scale
30%
Growthoutput growth, counted from -20% to +20%
10%
Internationalshare of its work with a co-author abroad
10%
Each slider sets a weight; the share it gets of the score is beside it.
#UniversityScoreTop 10%SpecialisationWorksGrowth
1University of AmsterdamNetherlands 78.122.2%14.4×22 -25.3%
2University of ZurichSwitzerland 68.921.3%7.3×13 +16.0%
3New York UniversityUnited States 67.920.9%6.7×20 +10.9%
4Stanford UniversityUnited States 65.327.8%4.1×16 -21.9%
5Bocconi UniversityItaly 65.225.3%43.5×10 +19.0%
6University of ChicagoUnited States 61.66.5%11.3×25 +58.3%
7University of California, BerkeleyUnited States 59.019.4%4.8×12 +39.2%
8University of OxfordUnited Kingdom 57.523.3%4.0×15 -22.5%
9Princeton UniversityUnited States 57.316.6%10.7×12 -3.0%
10University of ViennaAustria 54.418.0%8.2×11 +60.6%

Universities only. The score blends excellence (40%), size (30%), specialisation (10%), growth (10%), international reach (10%), 2022-now; growth compares 2018-21 with 2022-25 and counts up to +20%, since a jump from a small base is mostly noise.

Every institution in Media Influence and Politics, country by country

Is Media Influence and Politics research growing?

Output in 2022-2025 was 24% higher than in 2018-2021, peaking in 2025. The fastest-growing topics are Media Influence and Politics.

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The same series as a ribbon: one cell per year, darker for more. The line above answers how much; this answers when.

Its share of all research

Growing output can still be a shrinking share: all of science grows. This is Media Influence and Politics as a percentage of every work published that year, 0.013% in 2024.

still counting0.0050%0.010%0.015%Media Influence and Politics0.012% in 202519801990200020102020

Fractional works of Media Influence and Politics over all fractional works that year. How the balance of science has shifted.

How much of it reaches the world top 10%

Year by year.

still counting5%10%15%Media Influence and Politics10.6% in 2025200020102020

Of each year's works in it, the share that reached the world's 10% most cited for their field and year. A field is the world for its own topics, so there is no other line to hold it against.

Which topics inside it are moving

Growth and decline on one axis around a shared zero. Two lists side by side hide the thing that matters: whether the growth dwarfs the decline, or the other way round.

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