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62
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25795
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95
National Ranking
59

Overview

Joshua A. Tucker is affiliated with New York University in the United States and focuses primarily on research within the social sciences. Their scholarly work broadly covers several subfields including Sociology and Political Science, Communication, Artificial Intelligence, Political Science and International Relations, and Clinical Psychology.

The main topics of their research encompass Social Media and Politics, Misinformation and Its Impacts, Media Influence and Politics, Hate Speech and Cyberbullying Detection, Electoral Systems and Political Participation, Media Studies and Communication, and Computational and Text Analysis Methods. These focus areas reflect a multidisciplinary approach combining social science methods with computational techniques.

Tucker has contributed frequently to various academic venues. These include multiple publications in the SSRN Electronic Journal and Harvard Dataverse, alongside contributions to the Journal of Experimental Political Science, Science, and Nature. The diversity of these venues shows engagement with both preprint and peer-reviewed platforms.

Their recent papers illustrate a focus on current political and social issues, including:

  • Using social and behavioural science to support COVID-19 pandemic response (2020, Nature Human Behaviour)
  • Political sectarianism in America (2020, Science)
  • SARS-CoV-2 RNA concentrations in wastewater foreshadow dynamics and clinical presentation of new COVID-19 cases (2021, The Science of The Total Environment)
  • 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)

Tucker's research collaboration network includes frequent partnerships with Jonathan Nagler, Richard Bonneau, Andrew M. Guess, Megan Brown, and Brendan Nyhan. These coauthors appear across many publications, indicating sustained collaborative efforts.

Best Publications

  • Using social and behavioural science to support COVID-19 pandemic response.

    Jay J. Van Bavel;Katherine Baicker;Paulo S. Boggio;Valerio Capraro

  • Tweeting From Left to Right Is Online Political Communication More Than an Echo Chamber

    Pablo Barberá;John T. Jost;Jonathan Nagler;Joshua A. Tucker

  • Emotion shapes the diffusion of moralized content in social networks

    William J. Brady;Julian A. Wills;John T. Jost;Joshua A. Tucker

  • Less than you think: Prevalence and predictors of fake news dissemination on Facebook

    Andrew Guess;Jonathan Nagler;Joshua Tucker

  • Social media, political polarization, and political disinformation: a review of the scientific literature

    Joshua A. Tucker;Andrew Guess;Pablo Barbera;Cristian Vaccari;Cristian Vaccari

  • Enough! Electoral Fraud, Collective Action Problems, and Post-Communist Colored Revolutions

    Joshua A. Tucker

  • Political sectarianism in America

    Eli J. Finkel;Christopher A. Bail;Mina Cikara;Peter H. Ditto

  • How social media facilitates political protest: information, motivation and social networks

    John T. Jost;Pablo Barberá;Richard Bonneau;Melanie Langer

  • Who Leads? Who Follows? Measuring Issue Attention and Agenda Setting by Legislators and the Mass Public Using Social Media Data.

    Pablo Barberá;Andreu Casas;Jonathan Nagler;Patrick J. Egan

  • Transitional winners and losers: Attitudes toward EU membership in post-communist countries

    Joshua A. Tucker;Alexander C. Pacek;Adam J. Berinsky

  • From Liberation to Turmoil: Social Media And Democracy

    Joshua A. Tucker;Yannis Theocharis;Margaret E. Roberts;Pablo Barberá

  • Revisiting Electoral Volatility in Post-Communist Countries: New Data, New Results and New Approaches

    Eleanor Neff Powell;Joshua A. Tucker

  • The Critical Periphery in the Growth of Social Protests

    Pablo Barberá;Ning Wang;Richard Bonneau;John T. Jost

  • Regional Economic Voting: Russia, Poland, Hungary, Slovakia, and the Czech Republic, 1990–1999

    Joshua A. Tucker

  • Political expression and action on social media: Exploring the relationship between lower- and higher-threshold political activities among Twitter users in Italy

    Cristian Vaccari;Cristian Vaccari;Augusto Valeriani;Pablo Barberá;Richard Bonneau

  • Asymmetric ideological segregation in exposure to political news on Facebook

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

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  • How Many People Live in Political Bubbles on Social Media? Evidence From Linked Survey and Twitter Data:

    Gregory Eady;Jonathan Nagler;Andy Guess;Jan Zilinsky

  • SARS-CoV-2 RNA concentrations in wastewater foreshadow dynamics and clinical presentation of new COVID-19 cases.

    Fuqing Wu;Amy Xiao;Jianbo Zhang;Katya Moniz

  • Using social and behavioural science to support COVID-19 pandemic response

    Jay J. Van Bavel;Katherine Baicker;Paulo S. Boggio;Valerio Capraro

  • The economy, corruption, and the vote: Evidence from experiments in Sweden and Moldova

    Marko Klašnja;Joshua A. Tucker

  • An Easy and Accurate Regression Model for Multiparty Electoral Data

    Michael Tomz;Joshua A. Tucker;Jason Wittenberg

  • The emergence of mass partisanship in Russia, 1993-1996

    Ted Brader;Joshua A. Tucker

  • Disenchanted or Discerning: Voter Turnout in Post-Communist Countries

    Alexander C. Pacek;Grigore Pop-Eleches;Joshua A. Tucker

  • Pocketbook vs. Sociotropic Corruption Voting

    Marko Klašnja;Joshua A. Tucker;Kevin Deegan-Krause

  • Communist socialization and post-communist economic and political attitudes

    Grigore Pop-Eleches;Joshua A. Tucker

  • THE FIRST DECADE OF POST-COMMUNIST ELECTIONS AND VOTING: What Have We Studied, and How Have We Studied It?

    Joshua A. Tucker

  • Which Parties Can Lead Opinion? Experimental Evidence on Partisan Cue Taking in Multiparty Democracies

    Ted Brader;Joshua A. Tucker;Dominik Duell

  • Political Psychology in the Digital (mis)Information age: A Model of News Belief and Sharing

    Jay J. Van Bavel;Elizabeth A. Harris;Philip Pärnamets;Philip Pärnamets;Steve Rathje

  • Associated with the Past?: Communist Legacies and Civic Participation in Post-Communist Countries

    Grigore Pop-Eleches;Joshua A. Tucker

  • Communism's Shadow: Historical Legacies and Contemporary Political Attitudes

    Grigore Pop-Eleches;Grigore Pop-Eleches;Joshua A. Tucker;Joshua A. Tucker

  • Elections, Protest, and Alternation of Power

    Andrew T. Little;Joshua A. Tucker;Tom LaGatta

  • People Power or a One-Shot Deal? A Dynamic Model of Protest

    Adam Meirowitz;Joshua A. Tucker

  • Communism's Shadow: Postcommunist Legacies, Values, and Behavior

    Grigore Pop-Eleches;Joshua A. Tucker

Frequent Co-Authors

Jonathan Nagler
Jonathan Nagler New York University
Richard Bonneau
Richard Bonneau New York University
Grigore Pop-Eleches
Grigore Pop-Eleches Princeton University
John T. Jost
John T. Jost New York University
Cristian Vaccari
Cristian Vaccari University of Edinburgh
Jay J. Van Bavel
Jay J. Van Bavel New York University
Eli J. Finkel
Eli J. Finkel Northwestern University
Linda J. Skitka
Linda J. Skitka University of Illinois at Chicago
Mina Cikara
Mina Cikara Harvard University
David G. Rand
David G. Rand Cornell University

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