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42
Citations
7734
World Ranking
4739
National Ranking
2246

Overview

George A. Barnett is affiliated with the University of California, Davis in the United States. Their research primarily focuses on social sciences, with a significant body of work related to sociology and political science, statistical and nonlinear physics, communication, health, and epidemiology.

The scientist's studies emphasize complex network analysis techniques and explore topics related to misinformation and its impacts, social media and politics, vaccine coverage and hesitancy, digital marketing and social media, human mobility and location-based analysis, and social capital and networks.

Frequent collaborators include Jieyu Ding Featherstone, Jeanette B. Ruiz, Christopher Calabrese, Matthew Robbins, and Han Woo Park.

George A. Barnett has contributed to several publication venues, notably:

  • Proceedings of the Annual Hawaii International Conference on System Sciences
  • PLoS ONE
  • Scientometrics
  • Journal of Science Communication
  • Telematics and Informatics

Selected recent papers include:

  • "Exploring childhood vaccination themes and public opinions on Twitter: A semantic network analysis" (2020), published in Telematics and Informatics
  • "A social network analysis of international tourism flow" (2020), published in Quality & Quantity
  • "Exploring childhood anti-vaccine and pro-vaccine communities on twitter - a perspective from influential users" (2020), published in Online Social Networks and Media
  • "Will coolness factors predict user satisfaction and loyalty? Evidence from an artificial neural network-structural equation model approach" (2022), published in Information Processing & Management
  • "Identifying Vaccine Hesitant Communities on Twitter and their Geolocations: A Network Approach" (2021), published in Proceedings of the Annual Hawaii International Conference on System Sciences

Best Publications

  • Technological Forecasting & Social Change

    Yoonjae Nam;George A. Barnett

  • Progress in Communication Sciences

    Melvin J. Voigt;Gerhard J. Hanneman;Brenda Dervin;Usha Hariharan

  • A Semantic Network Analysis of the International Communication Association

    Marya L. Doerfel;George A. Barnett

  • The Determinants of International News Flow A Network Analysis

    Kyungmo Kim;George A. Barnett

  • Comparing world city networks: a network analysis of Internet backbone and air transport intercity linkages

    Junho H. Choi;George A. Barnett;Bum‐Soo Chon

  • Research on international student flows from a macro perspective: A network analysis of 1985, 1989 and 1995

    Tse-Mei Chen;George A. Barnett

  • Predicting Employee Turnover from Friendship Networks

    Thomas Hugh Feeley;Jennie Hwang;George A. Barnett

  • A Longitudinal Analysis of the International Telecommunication Network, 1978-1996:

    George A. Barnett

  • Predicting Employee Turnover from Communication Networks.

    Thomas H. Feeley;George A. Barnett

  • Handbook of Organizational Communication

    Gerald M. Goldhaber;George A. Barnett

  • A Structural Analysis of Media Convergence: Cross-Industry Mergers and Acquisitions in the Information Industries

    Bum Soo Chon;Junho H. Choi;George A. Barnett;James A. Danowski

  • Culture and the Structure of the International Hyperlink Network

    George A. Barnett;Eunjung Sung

  • The International Student Exchange Network: 1970 & 1989.

    George A. Barnett;Reggie Yingli Wu

  • The Structure of Communication: A Network Analysis of the International Communication Association.

    George A. Barnett;James A. Danowski

  • The flow of international students from a macro perspective: a network analysis

    George A. Barnett;Moosung Lee;Ke Jiang;Han Woo Park

  • Encyclopedia of social networks

    George A. Barnett

  • Hyperlink-affiliation network structure of top web sites: examining affiliates with hyperlink in Korea

    Han Woo Park;In-Yong Nam

  • Cultural Differences in Organizational Communication: a Semantic Network Analysis 1:

    Ha-Yong Jang;George A. Barnett

  • Globalization of technology: Network analysis of global patents and trademarks

    Yoonjae Nam;George A. Barnett

  • Social Network Influence on Online Behavioral Choices: Exploring Group Formation on Social Network Sites

    K. Hazel Kwon;Michael A. Stefanone;George A. Barnett

  • perspective: A network analysis of 1985, 1989 and 1995

    Tse-Mei Chen;George A. Barnett

Frequent Co-Authors

Han Woo Park
Han Woo Park Yeungnam University
Thomas Hugh Feeley
Thomas Hugh Feeley University at Buffalo, State University of New York
Noshir Contractor
Noshir Contractor Northwestern University
Ronald E. Rice
Ronald E. Rice University of California, Santa Barbara
Pamela C. Ronald
Pamela C. Ronald University of California, Davis
Michael J. Cody
Michael J. Cody University of Southern California
Rolf T. Wigand
Rolf T. Wigand Arizona State University

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