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Discipline name D-Index World Ranking Current World Ranking National Ranking Current National Ranking Publications Citations
Political Science 33 887 803 469 403 73 7591

Deen Freelon publications per year

The chart shows the history of publications by Deen Freelon between 2009 and 2025, highlighting the no. of papers published in each year and offering an overview of the publication velocity of this scholar. Deen Freelon published across 17 years, from 2009 to 2025, averaging 6 papers a year. Output peaked at 21 publications in 2020. 16 of the 102 publications appeared in the last two years.

No. of publications
5 10 15 20
Bar chart. Horizontal axis: year, 2009 to 2025. Vertical axis: number of publications, 0 to 21. Peak 21 publications in 2020. 2009: 1 publication 2010: 2 publications 2011: 7 publications 2012: 3 publications 2013: 5 publications 2014: 5 publications 2015: 8 publications 2016: 3 publications 2017: 2 publications 2018: 6 publications 2019: 0 publications 2020: 21 publications 2021: 6 publications 2022: 2 publications 2023: 15 publications 2024: 4 publications 2025: 12 publications
2009 2025

102 publications in total across all disciplines

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Deen Freelon: publications per year, 2009 to 2025
Year Publications
2009 1
2010 2
2011 7
2012 3
2013 5
2014 5
2015 8
2016 3
2017 2
2018 6
2019 0
2020 21
2021 6
2022 2
2023 15
2024 4
2025 12
Total 102
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Deen Freelon 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 Deen Freelon sits on this spectrum.

No. of scientists
20 40 60 80
Bar chart with 61 bars. Horizontal axis: publications, 36–40 to 333+. Vertical axis: number of scientists, 0 to 97. Most scientists, 97, have 333+ publications. The last bar groups every scientist with 333 publications or more. The highlighted bar, 71–75 publications, is where this scientist sits. 36–40 publications: 10 scientists 41–45 publications: 11 scientists 46–50 publications: 25 scientists 51–55 publications: 27 scientists 56–60 publications: 44 scientists 61–65 publications: 52 scientists 66–70 publications: 62 scientists 71–75 publications: 62 scientists 76–80 publications: 79 scientists 81–85 publications: 71 scientists 86–90 publications: 82 scientists 91–95 publications: 65 scientists 96–100 publications: 85 scientists 101–105 publications: 76 scientists 106–110 publications: 66 scientists 111–115 publications: 78 scientists 116–120 publications: 67 scientists 121–125 publications: 73 scientists 126–130 publications: 73 scientists 131–135 publications: 64 scientists 136–140 publications: 45 scientists 141–145 publications: 53 scientists 146–150 publications: 44 scientists 151–155 publications: 45 scientists 156–160 publications: 33 scientists 161–165 publications: 32 scientists 166–170 publications: 28 scientists 171–175 publications: 31 scientists 176–180 publications: 29 scientists 181–185 publications: 27 scientists 186–190 publications: 36 scientists 191–195 publications: 27 scientists 196–200 publications: 24 scientists 201–205 publications: 16 scientists 206–210 publications: 16 scientists 211–215 publications: 19 scientists 216–220 publications: 16 scientists 221–225 publications: 17 scientists 226–230 publications: 18 scientists 231–235 publications: 23 scientists 236–240 publications: 17 scientists 241–245 publications: 13 scientists 246–250 publications: 17 scientists 251–255 publications: 9 scientists 256–260 publications: 13 scientists 261–265 publications: 8 scientists 266–270 publications: 12 scientists 271–275 publications: 8 scientists 276–280 publications: 10 scientists 281–285 publications: 13 scientists 286–290 publications: 13 scientists 291–295 publications: 5 scientists 296–300 publications: 6 scientists 301–305 publications: 11 scientists 306–310 publications: 9 scientists 311–315 publications: 6 scientists 316–320 publications: 4 scientists 321–325 publications: 4 scientists 326–330 publications: 2 scientists 331–332 publications: 5 scientists 333+ publications: 97 scientists
36–40 publications 333+

This scientist: 73 publications — 13th percentile

13% of scientists in this discipline score the same or lower.

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

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Number of Political Science scientists by publication count, Research.com 2026 ranking edition. Based on 2,033 ranked scientists.
Publications Scientists This scientist
36–40 10
41–45 11
46–50 25
51–55 27
56–60 44
61–65 52
66–70 62
71–75 62 73
76–80 79
81–85 71
86–90 82
91–95 65
96–100 85
101–105 76
106–110 66
111–115 78
116–120 67
121–125 73
126–130 73
131–135 64
136–140 45
141–145 53
146–150 44
151–155 45
156–160 33
161–165 32
166–170 28
171–175 31
176–180 29
181–185 27
186–190 36
191–195 27
196–200 24
201–205 16
206–210 16
211–215 19
216–220 16
221–225 17
226–230 18
231–235 23
236–240 17
241–245 13
246–250 17
251–255 9
256–260 13
261–265 8
266–270 12
271–275 8
276–280 10
281–285 13
286–290 13
291–295 5
296–300 6
301–305 11
306–310 9
311–315 6
316–320 4
321–325 4
326–330 2
331–332 5
333+ 97
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Deen Freelon 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 Deen Freelon sits on this spectrum.

No. of scientists
25 50 75 100
Bar chart with 43 bars. Horizontal axis: D-Index, 20 to 62+. Vertical axis: number of scientists, 0 to 100. Most scientists, 100, have 62+ D-Index. The last bar groups every scientist with 62 D-Index or more. The highlighted bar, 33 D-Index, is where this scientist sits. 20 D-Index: 76 scientists 21 D-Index: 79 scientists 22 D-Index: 84 scientists 23 D-Index: 68 scientists 24 D-Index: 88 scientists 25 D-Index: 82 scientists 26 D-Index: 76 scientists 27 D-Index: 75 scientists 28 D-Index: 99 scientists 29 D-Index: 96 scientists 30 D-Index: 96 scientists 31 D-Index: 81 scientists 32 D-Index: 86 scientists 33 D-Index: 81 scientists 34 D-Index: 84 scientists 35 D-Index: 72 scientists 36 D-Index: 58 scientists 37 D-Index: 53 scientists 38 D-Index: 48 scientists 39 D-Index: 40 scientists 40 D-Index: 40 scientists 41 D-Index: 32 scientists 42 D-Index: 26 scientists 43 D-Index: 25 scientists 44 D-Index: 33 scientists 45 D-Index: 33 scientists 46 D-Index: 17 scientists 47 D-Index: 21 scientists 48 D-Index: 22 scientists 49 D-Index: 18 scientists 50 D-Index: 19 scientists 51 D-Index: 19 scientists 52 D-Index: 15 scientists 53 D-Index: 14 scientists 54 D-Index: 10 scientists 55 D-Index: 13 scientists 56 D-Index: 9 scientists 57 D-Index: 11 scientists 58 D-Index: 12 scientists 59 D-Index: 10 scientists 60 D-Index: 5 scientists 61 D-Index: 7 scientists 62+ D-Index: 100 scientists
20 D-Index 62+

This scientist: 33 D-Index — 57th percentile

57% of scientists in this discipline score the same or lower.

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

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Number of Political Science scientists by D-index, Research.com 2026 ranking edition. Based on 2,033 ranked scientists.
D-Index Scientists This scientist
20 76
21 79
22 84
23 68
24 88
25 82
26 76
27 75
28 99
29 96
30 96
31 81
32 86
33 81 33
34 84
35 72
36 58
37 53
38 48
39 40
40 40
41 32
42 26
43 25
44 33
45 33
46 17
47 21
48 22
49 18
50 19
51 19
52 15
53 14
54 10
55 13
56 9
57 11
58 12
59 10
60 5
61 7
62+ 100
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Overview

Deen Freelon is affiliated with the University of Pennsylvania in the United States and works primarily within the social sciences. Their academic focus spans several interconnected fields and subfields, including sociology and political science, communication, artificial intelligence, statistical and nonlinear physics, and gender studies.

Their research covers a variety of main topics related to social media and politics, misinformation and its impacts, hate speech and cyberbullying detection, media influence and politics, media studies and communication, complex network analysis techniques, and opinion dynamics and social influence.

They have published extensively in multiple venues, with frequent publications appearing in:

  • Harvard Dataverse
  • UNC Libraries
  • Science
  • Nature
  • SSRN Electronic Journal

Deen Freelon's recent scholarly articles include:

  • "Disinformation as Political Communication," 2020, Political Communication
  • "False equivalencies: Online activism from left to right," 2020, Science

Additional recent papers relevant to their research but with other lead authors include:

  • "Computational social science: Obstacles and opportunities," 2020, Science
  • "Asymmetric ideological segregation in exposure to political news on Facebook," 2023, Science
  • "How do social media feed algorithms affect attitudes and behavior in an election campaign?" 2023, Science

Deen Freelon collaborates regularly with several scholars including Sandra González-Bailón, David Lazer, Hunt Allcott, Adriana Crespo-Tenorio, and Matthew Gentzkow.

Best Publications

  • Opening Closed Regimes: What was the Role of Social Media during the Arab Spring?

    Philip Howard;Aiden Duffy;Deen Freelon;Muzammil M. Hussain

  • Communicating Civic Engagement: Contrasting Models of Citizenship in the Youth Web Sphere

    W. Lance Bennett;Chris Wells;Deen Freelon

  • Computational social science: Obstacles and opportunities.

    David M. J. Lazer;David M. J. Lazer;Alex Pentland;Duncan J. Watts;Sinan Aral

  • Quantifying the power and consequences of social media protest

    Deen Freelon;Charlton McIlwain;Meredith Clark

  • Analyzing online political discussion using three models of democratic communication

    Deen G. Freelon

  • Asymmetric ideological segregation in exposure to political news on Facebook

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  • Supporting reflective public thought with considerit

    Travis Kriplean;Jonathan Morgan;Deen Freelon;Alan Borning

  • How do social media feed algorithms affect attitudes and behavior in an election campaign?

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  • Like-minded sources on Facebook are prevalent but not polarizing

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  • Beyond the Hashtags: #Ferguson, #Blacklivesmatter, and the Online Struggle for Offline Justice

    Deen Freelon;Charlton D. McIlwain;Meredith D Clark

  • Computational Research in the Post-API Age

    Deen Freelon

  • False equivalencies: Online activism from left to right.

    Deen Freelon;Alice Marwick;Daniel Kreiss

  • Discourse architecture, ideology, and democratic norms in online political discussion

    Deen Freelon

  • Of big birds and bayonets: hybrid Twitter interactivity in the 2012 Presidential debates

    Deen Freelon;David Karpf

  • Assessing the Russian Internet Research Agency's impact on the political attitudes and behaviors of American Twitter users in late 2017.

    Christopher A. Bail;Brian Guay;Emily Maloney;Aidan Combs

  • Syria’s socially mediated civil war

    Marc Lynch;Deen Freelon;Sean Aday

  • On the Interpretation of Digital Trace Data in Communication and Social Computing Research

    Deen Freelon

  • Changing Citizen Identity and the Rise of a Participatory Media Culture

    W. Lance Bennett;Deen Freelon;Chris Wells

  • Watching From Afar : Media Consumption Patterns Around the Arab Spring

    Sean Aday;Henry Farrell;Deen Freelon;Marc Lynch

  • Black Trolls Matter: Racial and Ideological Asymmetries in Social Media Disinformation:

    Deen Freelon;Michael Bossetta;Chris Wells;Josephine Lukito

  • Introduction to the Special Issue on New Media and Social Unrest

    Zeynep Tufekci;Deen Freelon

  • The Evolving Journalistic Roles on Social Media: Exploring “Engagement” as Relationship-Building between Journalists and Citizens

    Yiping Xia;Sue Robinson;Megan Zahay;Deen Freelon

  • Beyond the hashtags: #Ferguson, #Blacklivesmatter, and the online struggle for offline justice (Research Report)

    Deen Freelon;Charlton McIlwain;Meredith Clark

Frequent Co-Authors

W. Lance Bennett
W. Lance Bennett University of Washington
Alan Borning
Alan Borning University of Washington
David Lazer
David Lazer Northeastern University
Sandra González-Bailón
Sandra González-Bailón University of Pennsylvania
Alice E. Marwick
Alice E. Marwick University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill
Helen Margetts
Helen Margetts University of Oxford
Daniel Kreiss
Daniel Kreiss University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill
Frederick G. Conrad
Frederick G. Conrad University of Michigan–Ann Arbor
Stephan Lewandowsky
Stephan Lewandowsky University of Bristol
David G. Rand
David G. Rand Cornell University

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