Scholarly Index

Social Media and Politics

2021-2025 World Top1000 Scholar ranking for Social Media and Politics.

World rank	Scholar	Impact score	Total citations	Total publications
1	David G. Rand	99.83	46,079	365
2	Jörg Matthes	99.78	18,375	356
3	Michael Hameleers	99.77	4,404	127
4	Homero Gil de Zúñiga	99.61	14,903	205
5	Edson C. Tandoc	99.61	10,627	190
6	Andrew M. Guess	99.52	8,586	51
7	Shelley Boulianne	99.47	6,064	71
8	Magdalena Wojcieszak	99.42	5,941	128
9	Yan Su	99.40	2,347	89
10	Rasmus Kleis Nielsen	99.38	8,375	171
11	Stephan Lewandowsky	99.38	34,264	464
12	Saifuddin Ahmed	99.37	2,648	104
13	Porismita Borah	99.36	3,727	105
14	Gordon Pennycook	99.29	30,462	170
15	Desirée Schmuck	99.18	4,250	75
16	Claes H. de Vreese	99.16	26,489	456
17	Sander van der Linden	99.13	31,321	283
18	Sangwon Lee	99.07	1,273	93
19	Xizhu Xiao	99.07	1,498	43
20	Jesper Strömbäck	98.94	12,040	317
21	Nicolas Pröllochs	98.94	1,489	56
22	Joshua A. Tucker	98.78	23,006	234
23	Mykola Makhortykh	98.77	1,609	132
24	Richard Fletcher	98.68	4,549	195
25	Emilio Ferrara	98.59	16,357	212
26	Sergiu Gherghina	98.48	2,698	268
27	Rens Vliegenthart	98.40	11,017	274
28	Laura Cervi	98.36	2,371	98
29	Ahmed Al‐Rawi	98.32	1,728	109
30	Francis Lee	98.31	9,990	411
31	Sebastian Stier	98.28	3,065	72
32	Adam Enders	98.27	3,325	65
33	Manuel Goyanes	98.25	1,617	121
34	Mike S. Schäfer	98.20	7,613	221
35	Jakob Ohme	98.16	1,577	69
36	James Druckman	98.15	34,976	299
37	Toni G.L.A. van der Meer	98.09	3,257	109
38	Mark D. Griffiths	98.05	120,023	1,971
39	Sebastián Valenzuela	98.02	11,387	120
40	Stephen Cushion	98.01	1,428	97
41	Eelco Harteveld	97.91	2,329	44
42	Michael Chan	97.90	2,653	68
43	Kevin Munger	97.88	2,037	47
44	Kathleen M. Carley	97.87	23,631	571
45	Sandra González‐Bailón	97.86	4,247	94
46	Petter Törnberg	97.84	2,035	52
47	Benjamin Toff	97.84	1,434	38
48	Hua Pang	97.82	2,071	71
49	Jonathan Nagler	97.80	10,871	141
50	Sophie Lecheler	97.80	3,993	110