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43
Citations
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World Ranking
4283
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2043

Barbie Zelizer publication distribution in Social Sciences and Humanities in 2026

The chart shows the distribution of publications by all Research.com ranked scientists in the field of Social Sciences and Humanities in 2026. The highlighted bar marks where Barbie Zelizer sits on this spectrum.

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44 publications 570+

This scientist: 139 publications — 36th percentile

36% of scientists in this discipline score the same or lower.

The last bar groups every scientist with 570 publications or more.

Barbie Zelizer D-index placement in Social Sciences and Humanities in 2026

The chart shows the D-index (discipline H-index) distribution of Social Sciences and Humanities scientists ranked by Research.com in 2026. The highlighted bar marks where Barbie Zelizer sits on this spectrum.

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This scientist: 43 D-Index — 46th percentile

46% of scientists in this discipline score the same or lower.

The last bar groups every scientist with 100 D-Index or more.

Research.com Recognitions

  • 2020 - Fellow of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences
  • 1994 - Fellow of John Simon Guggenheim Memorial Foundation

Overview

Barbie Zelizer is affiliated with the University of Pennsylvania in the United States. Their research primarily focuses on the social sciences, with a significant emphasis on communication studies. They have contributed to several subfields, including communication, sociology and political science, philosophy, and literature and literary theory.

The main topics covered by their work include media studies and communication, rhetoric and communication studies, narrative theory and analysis, climate change communication and perception, sex work and related issues, and social media and politics.

Barbie Zelizer's recent scholarly output includes the following papers:

  • What journalism tells us about memory, mind and media (2021), published in Memory Mind & Media
  • Why journalism's default neglect of temporality is a problem (2021), published in Media Culture & Society
  • Mob Censorship (2023), published in Digital Journalism
  • Editorial for April 2022 (2022), published in Journalism

They have collaborated frequently with several co-authors, such as Howard Tumber, Chu, Jing Guo, Xiaoyan Li, and Tao Tao.

Their work has appeared repeatedly in a variety of academic venues, including Memory Mind & Media, Media Culture & Society, Digital Journalism, and Journalism.

Barbie Zelizer has been recognized through fellowships, including being named a Fellow of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences in 2020 and a Fellow of the John Simon Guggenheim Memorial Foundation in 1994.

Best Publications

  • Taking Journalism Seriously: News and the Academy

    Barbie Zelizer

  • Remembering to Forget: Holocaust Memory through the Camera's Eye

    Barbie Zelizer

  • Journalists as interpretive communities

    Barbie Zelizer

  • Covering the Body: The Kennedy Assassination, the Media, and the Shaping of Collective Memory

    Barbie Zelizer

  • About to Die: How News Images Move the Public

    Barbie Zelizer

  • Journalism After September 11

    Barbie Zelizer;Stuart Allan

  • Reading the Past against the Grain: The Shape of Memory Studies.

    Barbie Zelizer

  • Reporting War: Journalism in Wartime

    Barbie Zelizer

  • Frames of Remembrance: The Dynamics of Collective Memory.

    Barbie Zelizer;Iwona Irwin-Zarecka

  • Why memory's work on journalism does not reflect journalism's work on memory

    Barbie Zelizer

  • On “Having Been There”: “Eyewitnessing” as a Journalistic Key Word

    Barbie Zelizer

  • Framing Public Memory

    Kendall R. Phillips;Stephen Howard Browne;Barbara Biesecker;Barbie Zelizer

  • When facts, truth, and reality are God‐terms: on journalism's uneasy place in cultural studies

    Barbie Zelizer

  • Visual culture and the Holocaust

    Barbie Zelizer

  • The Voice of the Visual in Memory

    Barbie Zelizer

  • WHEN WAR IS REDUCED TO A PHOTOGRAPH

    Barbie Zelizer

  • Keywords in News and Journalism Studies

    Barbie Zelizer;Stuart Allan

  • Why Journalism Is About More Than Digital Technology

    Barbie Zelizer

  • On the shelf life of democracy in journalism scholarship

    Barbie Zelizer

  • Competing memories: Reading the past against the grain: The shape of memory studies

    Barbie Zelizer

  • Explorations in Communication and History

    Barbie Zelizer

  • Remembering to Forget: Holocaust Memory through the Camera's Eye@@@Trespassing through Shadows: Memory, Photography, and the Holocaust

    Dagmar Barnouw;Barbie Zelizer;Andrea Liss

Frequent Co-Authors

Stuart Allan
Stuart Allan Cardiff University
Michael Schudson
Michael Schudson Columbia University

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