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D-Index
62
Citations
22012
World Ranking
1236
National Ranking
37

Christian Fuchs 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 Christian Fuchs sits on this spectrum.

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44 publications 570+

This scientist: 458 publications — 97th percentile

97% of scientists in this discipline score the same or lower.

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

Christian Fuchs 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 Christian Fuchs sits on this spectrum.

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This scientist: 62 D-Index — 84th percentile

84% of scientists in this discipline score the same or lower.

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

Overview

Christian Fuchs is affiliated with the University of Paderborn in Germany and contributes primarily to the Social Sciences, with 53 publications in this broad field. Their research spans several subfields, including Sociology and Political Science (35 publications), Communication (10 publications), Political Science and International Relations (5 publications), Electrical and Electronic Engineering (5 publications), and Philosophy (4 publications).

The research topics addressed by Fuchs cover a diverse range, with a significant focus on Critical Theory and Philosophy, accounting for 24 publications. Other notable topics include Social Media and Politics (14 publications), Political Economy and Marxism (14 publications), Digital Economy and Work Transformation (8 publications), Misinformation and Its Impacts (6 publications), Digital Education and Society (6 publications), and Integrated Energy Systems Optimization (6 publications).

Fuchs has published extensively in several academic venues. Frequent publication venues include:

  • tripleC Communication Capitalism & Critique Open Access Journal for a Global Sustainable Information Society (16 publications)
  • Critical Sociology (3 publications)
  • Journal of Media Ethics (2 publications)
  • SSRN Electronic Journal (2 publications)
  • Westminster Papers in Communication and Culture (1 publication)

Recent papers authored by Christian Fuchs comprise:

  • Everyday Life and Everyday Communication in Coronavirus Capitalism, 2020, published in tripleC Communication Capitalism & Critique Open Access Journal for a Global Sustainable Information Society
  • The Digital Commons and the Digital Public Sphere: How to Advance Digital Democracy Today, 2021, published in Westminster Papers in Communication and Culture
  • Towards a critical theory of communication as renewal and update of Marxist humanism in the age of digital capitalism, 2020, published in Journal for the Theory of Social Behaviour
  • Communicative Socialism/Digital Socialism, 2020, published in tripleC Communication Capitalism & Critique Open Access Journal for a Global Sustainable Information Society
  • The Ethics of the Digital Commons, 2020, published in Journal of Media Ethics

Co-authors frequently collaborating with Fuchs include Carolin Monsberger, Klara Maggauer, Bernadette Fina, Demet Suna, and Benedikt Leitner, each having collaborated on three publications.

In addition to articles, Christian Fuchs has published books, mainly through University of Westminster Press eBooks. Notable book titles are:

  • Communication and Capitalism: A Critical Theory, 2020
  • World War and World Peace in the Age of Digital Capitalism, 2025
  • Communication and Capitalism, 2020

Best Publications

  • Social Media: A Critical Introduction

    Christian Fuchs

  • Internet and Society: Social Theory in the Information Age

    Christian Fuchs

  • Labor in Informational Capitalism and on the Internet

    Christian Fuchs

  • Digital Labour and Karl Marx

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  • Africa and the digital divide

    Christian Fuchs;Eva Horak

  • Foundations of Critical Media and Information Studies

    Christian Fuchs

  • Alternative Media as Critical Media

    Christian Fuchs

  • What Is Digital Labour? What Is Digital Work? What’s their Difference? And Why Do These Questions Matter for Understanding Social Media?

    Christian Fuchs;Sebastian Sevignani

  • Culture and Economy in the Age of Social Media

    Christian Fuchs

  • The political economy of privacy on Facebook

    Christian Fuchs

  • Information and Communication Technologies and Society: A Contribution to the Critique of the Political Economy of the Internet

    Christian Fuchs

  • Web 2.0, Prosumption, and Surveillance

    Christian Fuchs

  • Dallas Smythe Today - The Audience Commodity, the Digital Labour Debate, Marxist Political Economy and Critical Theory.

    Christian Fuchs

  • Social Media and the Public Sphere

    Christian Fuchs

  • The implications of new information and communication technologies for sustainability

    Christian Fuchs

  • Digital prosumption labour on social media in the context of the capitalist regime of time

    Christian Fuchs

  • Theoretical Foundations of the Web: Cognition, Communication, and Co-Operation. Towards an Understanding of Web 1.0, 2.0, 3.0

    Christian Fuchs;Wolfgang Hofkirchner;Matthias Schafranek;Celina Raffl

  • Towards a critical theory of alternative media

    Marisol Sandoval;Christian Fuchs

  • The Role of Income Inequality in a Multivariate Cross-National Analysis of the Digital Divide

    Christian Fuchs

  • Structuration Theory and Self-Organization

    Christian Fuchs

  • What Is Social Media

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  • Wikipedia: An Info-Communist Manifesto

    Sylvain Firer-Blaess;Christian Fuchs

Frequent Co-Authors

David Chandler
David Chandler University of Westminster
Kenneth J. Gergen
Kenneth J. Gergen Swarthmore College
Ezequiel A. Di Paolo
Ezequiel A. Di Paolo University of the Basque Country
Niels Birbaumer
Niels Birbaumer University of Tübingen
Martin V. Butz
Martin V. Butz University of Tübingen
Marianna Obrist
Marianna Obrist University College London

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