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Adam J. Berinsky

Adam J. Berinsky

D-Index & Metrics

Political Science

D-Index
44
Citations
18871
World Ranking
361
National Ranking
209

Adam J. Berinsky publication distribution in Political Science in 2026

The chart shows the distribution of publications by all Research.com ranked scientists in the field of Political Science in 2026. The highlighted bar marks where Adam J. Berinsky sits on this spectrum.

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36 publications 333+

This scientist: 128 publications — 53rd percentile

53% of scientists in this discipline score the same or lower.

The last bar groups every scientist with 333 publications or more.

Adam J. Berinsky D-index placement in Political Science in 2026

The chart shows the D-index (discipline H-index) distribution of Political Science scientists ranked by Research.com in 2026. The highlighted bar marks where Adam J. Berinsky sits on this spectrum.

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This scientist: 44 D-Index — 83rd percentile

83% of scientists in this discipline score the same or lower.

The last bar groups every scientist with 62 D-Index or more.

Research.com Recognitions

  • 2016 - Fellow of John Simon Guggenheim Memorial Foundation

Overview

Adam J. Berinsky is affiliated with MIT in the United States and specializes primarily in the social sciences. Their research spans multiple subfields including sociology and political science, communication, political science and international relations, literature and literary theory, and artificial intelligence. The scientist has contributed extensively to topics such as misinformation and its impacts, social media and politics, electoral systems and political participation, media influence on politics and health, hate speech and cyberbullying detection, as well as social and intergroup psychology.

Their scholarly output includes numerous papers published in well-known venues. Notable recent publications include: "Timing matters when correcting fake news" (2021) in Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences; "Understanding and combatting misinformation across 16 countries on six continents" (2023) in Nature Human Behaviour; "Toolbox of individual-level interventions against online misinformation" (2024) in Nature Human Behaviour; "Exploring Lightweight Interventions at Posting Time to Reduce the Sharing of Misinformation on Social Media" (2021) in Proceedings of the ACM on Human-Computer Interaction; and "How to think about whether misinformation interventions work" (2023) in Nature Human Behaviour.

Frequent coauthors include David G. Rand, Michele F. Margolis, Justin De Benedictis-Kessner, Gordon Pennycook, and James Druckman. Collaborative efforts with these colleagues have contributed to a range of topics within the scientist's fields of study.

Adam J. Berinsky has published in several recurring venues, with a significant number of articles appearing in Harvard Dataverse, Nature Human Behaviour, Journal of Experimental Political Science, Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, and the Harvard Kennedy School Misinformation Review.

Their book publications include several editions of Political Rumors released by Princeton University Press in 2023, and Target Estimation and Adjustment Weighting for Survey Nonresponse and Sampling Bias published by Cambridge University Press in 2020.

Among the awards received, Adam J. Berinsky was named a Fellow of the John Simon Guggenheim Memorial Foundation in 2016.

Best Publications

  • Evaluating Online Labor Markets for Experimental Research: Amazon.com's Mechanical Turk

    Adam J. Berinsky;Gregory A. Huber;Gabriel S. Lenz

  • The science of fake news

    David M. J. Lazer;Matthew A. Baum;Yochai Benkler;Adam J. Berinsky

  • Separating the Shirkers from the Workers? Making Sure Respondents Pay Attention on Self‐Administered Surveys

    Adam J. Berinsky;Michele F. Margolis;Michael W. Sances

  • In Time of War: Understanding American Public Opinion from World War II to Iraq

    Adam J. Berinsky

  • Assuming the Costs of War: Events, Elites, and American Public Support for Military Conflict

    Adam J. Berinsky

  • Rumors and Health Care Reform: Experiments in Political Misinformation

    Adam J. Berinsky

  • Processing political misinformation: comprehending the Trump phenomenon

    Briony Swire;Adam J. Berinsky;Stephan Lewandowsky;Ullrich K. H. Ecker

  • The Two Faces of Public Opinion

    Adam J. Berinsky

  • Making Sense of Issues Through Media Frames: Understanding the Kosovo Crisis

    Adam J. Berinsky;Donald R. Kinder

  • The Perverse Consequences of Electoral Reform in the United States

    Adam J. Berinsky

  • Education and Political Participation: Exploring the Causal Link

    Adam J. Berinsky;Gabriel S. Lenz

  • Transitional winners and losers: Attitudes toward EU membership in post-communist countries

    Joshua A. Tucker;Alexander C. Pacek;Adam J. Berinsky

  • Who Votes by Mail?: A Dynamic Model of the Individual-Level Consequences of Voting-by-Mail Systems

    Adam J. Berinsky;Nancy Burns;Michael W. Traugott

  • Timing matters when correcting fake news.

    Nadia M Brashier;Gordon Pennycook;Adam J Berinsky;David G Rand

  • Telling the Truth about Believing the Lies? Evidence for the Limited Prevalence of Expressive Survey Responding

    Adam J. Berinsky

  • Silent Voices: Public Opinion and Political Participation in America

    Adam J. Berinsky

  • The Polls—Review Public Opinion Research and Support for the Iraq War

    Adam J. Berinsky;James N. Druckman

  • Can We Talk? Self‐Presentation and the Survey Response

    Adam J. Berinsky

  • Silent Voices: Social Welfare Policy Opinions and Political Equality in America

    Adam J. Berinsky

  • American Public Opinion in the 1930s and 1940s The Analysis of Quota-Controlled Sample Survey Data

    Adam J. Berinsky

  • The Indirect Effects of Discredited Stereotypes in Judgments of Jewish Leaders

    Adam J. Berinsky;Tali Mendelberg

Frequent Co-Authors

David G. Rand
David G. Rand Cornell University
Gordon Pennycook
Gordon Pennycook Cornell University
Matthew A. Baum
Matthew A. Baum Harvard University
Tali Mendelberg
Tali Mendelberg Princeton University
James N. Druckman
James N. Druckman University of Rochester
Ullrich K. H. Ecker
Ullrich K. H. Ecker University of Western Australia
Stephen Ansolabehere
Stephen Ansolabehere Harvard University
Stephan Lewandowsky
Stephan Lewandowsky University of Bristol
Nicholas A. Valentino
Nicholas A. Valentino University of Michigan–Ann Arbor
R. Michael Alvarez
R. Michael Alvarez California Institute of Technology

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