2026 Andrew J. Flanagin: Social Sciences and Humanities Researcher – H-Index, Publications & Awards

Discipline name	D-Index	World Ranking	Current World Ranking	National Ranking	Current National Ranking	Publications	Citations
Social Sciences and Humanities	53	2227	2024	1074	963	109	20897

Overview

Andrew J. Flanagin is affiliated with the University of California, Santa Barbara in the United States. Their research primarily spans the field of Social Sciences, with a focus on subfields such as Sociology and Political Science, Communication, Artificial Intelligence, Statistical and Nonlinear Physics, and Cognitive Neuroscience.

The main topics addressed in their work include:

Misinformation and Its Impacts
Social Media and Politics
Hate Speech and Cyberbullying Detection
Impact of Technology on Adolescents
Complex Network Analysis Techniques
Spam and Phishing Detection
Topic Modeling

Recent papers authored or co-authored by Flanagin include:

Individual Inferences in Web-Based Information Environments: How Cognitive Processing Fluency, Information Access, Active Search Behaviors, and Task Competency Affect Metacognitive and Task Judgments (2022), published in Media Psychology
Tackling misinformation: What researchers could do with social media data (2020), published in Harvard Kennedy School Misinformation Review
From Dark to Light: The Many Shades of Sharing Misinformation Online (2021), published in Media and Communication
Modeling and Measuring Expressed (Dis)belief in (Mis)information (2020), published in Proceedings of the International AAAI Conference on Web and Social Media
Toxic positivity on social media: The drawbacks and benefits of sharing positive (but potentially platitudinous) messages online (2023), published in New Media & Society

Flanagin frequently collaborates with a group of scholars including Miriam J. Metzger, Zijian Lew, Shan Jiang, Christo Wilson, and Irene V. Pasquetto. These collaborations appear across multiple papers, contributing to various aspects of misinformation, social media studies, and communication.

Their work has been published in several venues such as:

New Media & Society
Harvard Kennedy School Misinformation Review
Media and Communication
Proceedings of the International AAAI Conference on Web and Social Media
Media Psychology

Flanagin's research covers the analysis of misinformation and its societal impacts, the role of social media in political contexts, and the detection of harmful online behavior such as hate speech and cyberbullying. The interdisciplinary approach incorporates aspects of artificial intelligence and cognitive neuroscience, addressing how technology influences individuals and information environments.

Best Publications

Perceptions of internet information credibility

Andrew J. Flanagin;Miriam J. Metzger

1776
Citations
Social and Heuristic Approaches to Credibility Evaluation Online

Miriam J. Metzger;Andrew J. Flanagin;Ryan B. Medders

1707
Citations
Credibility for the 21st Century: Integrating Perspectives on Source, Message, and Media Credibility in the Contemporary Media Environment

Miriam J. Metzger;Andrew J. Flanagin;Keren Eyal;Daisy R. Lemus

1210
Citations
Internet use in the contemporary media environment.

Andrew J. Flanagin;Miriam J. Metzger

1151
Citations
Credibility and trust of information in online environments: The use of cognitive heuristics

Miriam J. Metzger;Andrew J. Flanagin

1112
Citations
The role of site features, user attributes, and information verification behaviors on the perceived credibility of web-based information

Andrew J. Flanagin;Miriam J. Metzger

1062
Citations
Reconceptualizing Collective Action in the Contemporary Media Environment

Bruce Bimber;Andrew J. Flanagin;Cynthia Stohl

1041
Citations
The credibility of volunteered geographic information

Andrew J. Flanagin;Miriam J. Metzger

1039
Citations
College student web use, perceptions of information credibility, and verification behavior

Miriam J. Metzger;Andrew J. Flanagin;Lara Zwarun

728
Citations
Collective Action in Organizations: Interaction and Engagement in an Era of Technological Change

Bruce A. Bimber;Andrew J. Flanagin;Cynthia Stohl

615
Citations
Reconceptualizing ‘flaming’ and other problematic messages

Patrick B. O’Sullivan;Andrew J. Flanagin

481
Citations
Digital Media, Youth, and Credibility

Miriam J. Metzger;Andrew J. Flanagin

481
Citations
Digital media and youth: Unparalleled opportunity and unprecedented responsibility

Andrew J. Flanagin;Miriam J. Metzger

419
Citations
Connective and Communal Public Goods in Interactive Communication Systems

Janet Fulk;Andrew J. Flanagin;Michael E. Kalman;Peter R. Monge

409
Citations
Production of Collective Action in Alliance-Based Interorganizational Communication and Information Systems

Peter R. Monge;Janet Fulk;Michael E. Kalman;Andrew J. Flanagin

399
Citations
Modeling the Structure of Collective Action

Andrew J. Flanagin;Cynthia Stohl;Bruce Bimber

393
Citations
Mitigating risk in ecommerce transactions: perceptions of information credibility and the role of user-generated ratings in product quality and purchase intention

Andrew J. Flanagin;Miriam J. Metzger;Rebekah Pure;Alex Markov

364
Citations
Trusting expert- versus user-generated ratings online: The role of information volume, valence, and consumer characteristics

Andrew J. Flanagin;Miriam J. Metzger

348
Citations
The perceived credibility of personal Web page information as influenced by the sex of the source

Andrew J Flanagin;Miriam J Metzger

327
Citations
Collective Action in Organizations: Contents

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236
Citations
behaviors on the perceived credibility of web-based information The role of site features, user attributes, and information verification

Andrew J. Flanagin;Miriam J. Metzger

2
Citations

Frequent Co-Authors

Miriam J. Metzger University of California, Santa Barbara

Cynthia Stohl University of California, Santa Barbara

Peter R. Monge University of Southern California

Janet Fulk University of Southern California

David R. Seibold University of California, Santa Barbara

Gordon Pennycook Cornell University

Nicole C. Krämer University of Duisburg-Essen

Stephan Lewandowsky University of Bristol

David G. Rand Cornell University

Bassam Bamieh University of California, Santa Barbara

External Links

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