2026 Jennifer Golbeck: Computer Science Researcher – H-Index, Publications & Awards

Discipline name	D-Index	World Ranking	Current World Ranking	National Ranking	Current National Ranking	Publications	Citations
Computer Science	58	3569	3468	1714	1653	226	17334

Research.com Recognitions

2018 - ACM Distinguished Member

Overview

Jennifer Golbeck is affiliated with the University of Maryland, College Park in the United States. Their research spans multiple interdisciplinary fields, focusing primarily on social sciences, psychology, and computer science.

The subfields in which they have contributed include sociology and political science, artificial intelligence, clinical psychology, social psychology, and communication.

The main topics covered in their work consist of:

Hate Speech and Cyberbullying Detection
Terrorism, Counterterrorism, and Political Violence
Personality Traits and Psychology
Misinformation and Its Impacts
Bullying, Victimization, and Aggression
Social Media and Politics
Media Influence and Health

Jennifer Golbeck has collaborated frequently with several coauthors, including:

Dritjon Gruda
Dimitra Karanatsiou
Athena Vakali
Cody Buntain
Brooke Fisher Liu

The venues in which they have published most often include:

Science
Harvard Dataverse
Proceedings of the International AAAI Conference on Web and Social Media
Personality and Social Psychology Bulletin
Journal of the Association for Information Science and Technology

Recent publications by Jennifer Golbeck and collaborators include:

"Evaluating Public Response to the Boston Marathon Bombing and Other Acts of Terrorism through Twitter," 2021, Proceedings of the International AAAI Conference on Web and Social Media
"Don't Go Chasing Narcissists: A Relational-Based and Multiverse Perspective on Leader Narcissism and Follower Engagement Using a Machine Learning Approach," 2022, Personality and Social Psychology Bulletin
"I Alone Can Fix It: Examining interactions between narcissistic leaders and anxious followers on Twitter using a machine learning approach," 2021, Journal of the Association for Information Science and Technology
"Recommender System-Induced Eating Disorder Relapse: Harmful Content and the Challenges of Responsible Recommendation," 2024, ACM Transactions on Intelligent Systems and Technology
"Social media and shared reality Off the Edge: Flat Earthers, Conspiracy Culture, and Why People Will Believe Anything Kelly Weill Algonquin Books, 2022. 256 pp.," 2022, Science

Jennifer Golbeck was awarded the ACM Distinguished Member recognition in 2018.

Best Publications

Computing and applying trust in web-based social networks

Jennifer Ann Golbeck;James Hendler

1253
Citations
Predicting personality with social media

Jennifer Golbeck;Cristina Robles;Karen Turner

837
Citations
Predicting Personality from Twitter

Jennifer Golbeck;Cristina Robles;Michon Edmondson;Karen Turner

810
Citations
Trust Networks on the Semantic Web

Jennifer Golbeck;Bijan Parsia;James A. Hendler

691
Citations
Inferring binary trust relationships in Web-based social networks

Jennifer Golbeck;James Hendler

663
Citations
Generating predictive movie recommendations from trust in social networks

Jennifer Golbeck

602
Citations
Investigating interactions of trust and interest similarity

Cai-Nicolas Ziegler;Jennifer Golbeck

556
Citations
Twitter use by the U.S. Congress

Jennifer Golbeck;Justin M. Grimes;Anthony Rogers

546
Citations
Trust and nuanced profile similarity in online social networks

Jennifer Golbeck

545
Citations
FilmTrust: movie recommendations using trust in web-based social networks

J. Golbeck;J. Hendler

528
Citations
The National Cancer Institute's Thesaurus and Ontology

Jennifer Golbeck;Gilberto Fragoso;Frank W Hartel;James A Hendler

419
Citations
Metcalfe's law, Web 2.0, and the Semantic Web

James Hendler;Jennifer Golbeck

363
Citations
SUNNY: a new algorithm for trust inference in social networks using probabilistic confidence models

Ugur Kuter;Jennifer Golbeck

333
Citations
Automatically Identifying Fake News in Popular Twitter Threads

Cody Buntain;Jennifer Golbeck

331
Citations
Social networks applied

S. Staab;P. Domingos;P. Mike;J. Golbeck

323
Citations
Accuracy of Metrics for Inferring Trust and Reputation in Semantic Web-Based Social Networks

Jennifer Golbeck;James A. Hendler

310
Citations
Reputation Network Analysis for Email Filtering.

Jennifer Golbeck;James A. Hendler

304
Citations
Analyzing the Social Web

Jennifer Golbeck

295
Citations
Special Issue: The First Provenance Challenge

Luc Moreau;Bertram Ludäscher;Ilkay Altintas;Roger S. Barga

285
Citations
The First Provenance Challenge

Luc Moreau;Bertram Ludaescher;Ilkay Altintas;Roger S. Barga

285
Citations
Challenges for Robust Trust and Reputation Systems

Audun Jøsang;Jennifer Golbeck

283
Citations

Frequent Co-Authors

James A. Hendler Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute

Bijan Parsia University of Manchester

Ben Shneiderman University of Maryland, College Park

Paul T. Jaeger University of Maryland, College Park

Lise Getoor University of California, Santa Cruz

Derek L. Hansen Brigham Young University

Aravind Srinivasan University of Maryland, College Park

Jimmy Lin University of Waterloo

Allison Druin University of Maryland, College Park

Dana S. Nau University of Maryland, College Park

External Links

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