Michael Hameleers

Michael Hameleers publication distribution in Political Science in 2026

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Michael Hameleers D-index placement in Political Science in 2026

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Overview

Best Publications

• “They Did It”: The Effects of Emotionalized Blame Attribution in Populist Communication:

  Michael Hameleers;Linda Bos;Claes H. de Vreese

  343
  Citations

• Misinformation and Polarization in a High-Choice Media Environment: How Effective Are Political Fact-Checkers?:

  Michael Hameleers;Toni G. L. A. van der Meer

  239
  Citations

• It’s us against them: a comparative experiment on the effects of populist messages communicated via social media

  Michael Hameleers;Desirée Schmuck

  185
  Citations

• A Picture Paints a Thousand Lies? The Effects and Mechanisms of Multimodal Disinformation and Rebuttals Disseminated via Social Media

  Michael Hameleers;Thomas E. Powell;Toni G.L.A. Van Der Meer;Lieke Bos

  151
  Citations

• Separating truth from lies: comparing the effects of news media literacy interventions and fact-checkers in response to political misinformation in the US and Netherlands

  Michael Hameleers

  141
  Citations

• The effects of populism as a social identity frame on persuasion and mobilisation: Evidence from a 15-country experiment

  Linda Bos;Christian Schemer;Nicoleta Corbu;Michael Hameleers

  138
  Citations

• The Appeal of Media Populism: The Media Preferences of Citizens with Populist Attitudes

  M. Hameleers;L. Bos;C.H. de Vreese

  137
  Citations

• Whom to trust? Media exposure patterns of citizens with perceptions of misinformation and disinformation related to the news media

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  120
  Citations

• Visual Mis- and Disinformation, Social Media, and Democracy:

  Viorela Dan;Britt Paris;Joan Donovan;Michael Hameleers

  115
  Citations

• Can Fighting Misinformation Have a Negative Spillover Effect? How Warnings for the Threat of Misinformation Can Decrease General News Credibility

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  104
  Citations

• Closer to the people: A comparative content analysis of populist communication on social networking sites in pre- and post-Election periods

  Desirée Schmuck;Michael Hameleers

  88
  Citations

• Disinformation as a context-bound phenomenon: toward a conceptual clarification integrating actors, intentions and techniques of creation and dissemination

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  85
  Citations

• Selective Exposure to Populist Communication: How Attitudinal Congruence Drives the Effects of Populist Attributions of Blame

  M. Hameleers;L. Bos;C.H. de Vreese

  77
  Citations

• Prospect Theory in Times of a Pandemic: The Effects of Gain versus Loss Framing on Risky Choices and Emotional Responses During the 2020 Coronavirus Outbreak - Evidence from the US and the Netherlands

  Michael Hameleers

  62
  Citations

• They Are Selling Themselves Out to the Enemy! The Content and Effects of Populist Conspiracy Theories

  Michael Hameleers

  61
  Citations

• Start Spreading the News: A Comparative Experiment on the Effects of Populist Communication on Political Engagement in Sixteen European Countries:

  Michael Hameleers;Linda Bos;Nayla Fawzi;Carsten Reinemann

  58
  Citations

• Feeling “disinformed” lowers compliance with COVID-19 guidelines: Evidence from the US, UK, Netherlands and Germany

  Michael Hameleers;Toni G. L. A. van der Meer;Anna Brosius

  49
  Citations

• Framing blame: toward a better understanding of the effects of populist communication on populist party preferences

  M. Hameleers;L. Bos;C. de Vreese

  48
  Citations

• Populist Disinformation: Exploring Intersections between Online Populism and Disinformation in the US and the Netherlands

  Michael Hameleers

  47
  Citations

• The Rise of a Populist Zeitgeist? A Content Analysis of Populist Media Coverage in Newspapers Published between 1990 and 2017

  Michael Hameleers;Rens Vliegenthart

  45
  Citations

• Constructing Discourses on (Un)truthfulness: Attributions of Reality, Misinformation, and Disinformation by Politicians in a Comparative Social Media Setting:

  Michael Hameleers;Sophie Minihold

  44
  Citations

• The populism of online communities: Constructing the boundary between “blameless” people and “culpable” others

  Michael Hameleers

  42
  Citations

• Shoot the messenger? The media’s role in framing populist attributions of blame:

  M. Hameleers;L. Bos;C.H. de Vreese

  37
  Citations

• Fighting for truth? The role perceptions of Filipino journalists in an era of mis- and disinformation

  Hon Sophia S Balod;Michael Hameleers

  36
  Citations

• Putting Our Own People First: The Content and Effects of Online Right-wing Populist Discourse Surrounding the European Refugee Crisis

  Michael Hameleers

  33
  Citations

• The Effects of Populist Identity Framing on Populist Attitudes Across Europe: Evidence From a 15-Country Comparative Experiment

  Michael Hameleers;Desirée Schmuck;Anne Schulz;Dominique Stefanie Wirz

  31
  Citations