Kjerstin Thorson

Kjerstin Thorson 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 Kjerstin Thorson sits on this spectrum.

Kjerstin Thorson 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 Kjerstin Thorson sits on this spectrum.

Best Publications

• Curated Flows: A Framework for Mapping Media Exposure in the Digital Age

  Kjerstin Thorson;Chris Wells

  559
  Citations

• Relationships Between Blogs as EWOM and Interactivity, Perceived Interactivity, and Parasocial Interaction

  Kjerstin S. Thorson;Shelly Rodgers

  543
  Citations

• Partisan Selective Sharing: The Biased Diffusion of Fact-Checking Messages on Social Media

  Jieun Shin;Kjerstin Thorson

  420
  Citations

• Moderation, Response Rate, and Message Interactivity: Features of Online Communities and Their Effects on Intent to Participate

  Kevin R. Wise;Brian Hamman;Kjerstin Thorson

  330
  Citations

• Credibility in Context: How Uncivil Online Commentary Affects News Credibility

  Kjerstin Thorson;Emily Vraga;Brian Ekdale

  269
  Citations

• Integrating Survey Data and Digital Trace Data: Key Issues in Developing an Emerging Field:

  Sebastian Stier;Johannes Breuer;Pascal Siegers;Kjerstin Thorson

  266
  Citations

• YOUTUBE, TWITTER AND THE OCCUPY MOVEMENT: Connecting content and circulation practices

  Kjerstin Thorson;Kevin Driscoll;Brian Ekdale;Stephanie Edgerly

  246
  Citations

• How individual sensitivities to disagreement shape youth political expression on Facebook

  Emily K. Vraga;Kjerstin Thorson;Neta Kligler-Vilenchik;Emily Gee

  233
  Citations

• New Media, New Relationship to Participation? A Closer Look at Youth News Repertoires and Political Participation:

  Stephanie Edgerly;Emily K. Vraga;Leticia Bode;Kjerstin Thorson

  197
  Citations

• Algorithmic inference, political interest, and exposure to news and politics on Facebook

  Kjerstin Thorson;Kelley Cotter;Mel Medeiros;Chankyung Pak

  195
  Citations

• Facing an uncertain reception: young citizens and political interaction on Facebook

  Kjerstin Thorson

  158
  Citations

• Good citizenship as a frame contest: Kony2012, memes, and critiques of the networked citizen

  Neta Kligler-Vilenchik;Kjerstin Thorson

  118
  Citations

• Combining Big Data and Survey Techniques to Model Effects of Political Content Flows in Facebook

  Chris Wells;Kjerstin Thorson

  118
  Citations

• What Does It Mean to Be a Good Citizen? Citizenship Vocabularies as Resources for Action

  Kjerstin Thorson

  105
  Citations

• Attracting the news: Algorithms, platforms, and reframing incidental exposure:

  Kjerstin Thorson

  82
  Citations

• Youtube and proposition 8: A case study in video activism

  Kjerstin Thorson;Brian Ekdale;Porismita Borah;Kang Namkoong

  58
  Citations

• Do parents still model news consumption? Socializing news use among adolescents in a multi-device world:

  Stephanie Edgerly;Kjerstin Thorson;Esther Thorson;Emily K. Vraga

  53
  Citations

• Posting about politics: Media as resources for political expression on Facebook

  Stephanie Lynn Edgerly;Kjerstin Thorson;Leila Bighash;Mark Hannah

  46
  Citations

• “Reach the right people”: The politics of “interests” in Facebook’s classification system for ad targeting:

  Kelley Cotter;Mel Medeiros;Chankyung Pak;Kjerstin Thorson

  39
  Citations

• Platform Civics: Facebook in the Local Information Infrastructure

  Kjerstin Thorson;Mel Medeiros;Kelley Cotter;Yingying Chen

  29
  Citations