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D-Index
45
Citations
23594
World Ranking
3722
National Ranking
1778

Miriam J. Metzger publication distribution in Social Sciences and Humanities in 2026

The chart shows the distribution of publications by all Research.com ranked scientists in the field of Social Sciences and Humanities in 2026. The highlighted bar marks where Miriam J. Metzger sits on this spectrum.

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44 publications 570+

This scientist: 98 publications — 12th percentile

12% of scientists in this discipline score the same or lower.

The last bar groups every scientist with 570 publications or more.

Miriam J. Metzger D-index placement in Social Sciences and Humanities in 2026

The chart shows the D-index (discipline H-index) distribution of Social Sciences and Humanities scientists ranked by Research.com in 2026. The highlighted bar marks where Miriam J. Metzger sits on this spectrum.

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This scientist: 45 D-Index — 52nd percentile

52% of scientists in this discipline score the same or lower.

The last bar groups every scientist with 100 D-Index or more.

Overview

Miriam J. Metzger is affiliated with the University of California, Santa Barbara in the United States. Their research spans multiple disciplines, primarily focusing on social sciences and computer science, with notable contributions in sociology, political science, communication, artificial intelligence, information systems, and social psychology.

The scientist's work covers several main topics including misinformation and its impacts, privacy, security, and data protection, social media and politics, hate speech and cyberbullying detection, deception detection and forensic psychology, social and intergroup psychology, as well as spam and phishing detection.

Frequent coauthors in their research include Andrew J. Flanagin, Laurent H. Wang, Norah E. Dunbar, Jay F. Nunamaker, and Xingyu Liu.

They have published in various academic venues, notably including Communication Research, Harvard Kennedy School Misinformation Review, Media and Communication, Proceedings of the International AAAI Conference on Web and Social Media, and Collabra Psychology.

Selected recent papers authored or coauthored by Miriam J. Metzger include:

  • From Dark to Light: The Many Shades of Sharing Misinformation Online, 2021, Media and Communication
  • Tackling misinformation: What researchers could do with social media data, 2020, Harvard Kennedy School Misinformation Review
  • Checking the Fact-Checkers: The Role of Source Type, Perceived Credibility, and Individual Differences in Fact-Checking Effectiveness, 2023, Communication Research
  • Modeling and Measuring Expressed (Dis)belief in (Mis)information, 2020, Proceedings of the International AAAI Conference on Web and Social Media
  • How Subjective Norms Relate to Personal Privacy Regulation in Social Media: A Cross-National Approach, 2023, Social Media + Society

Miriam J. Metzger has also contributed to book publications, notably with a title published by IntechOpen:

  • The Psychology of Trust, 2021

Their research interests are reflected across a variety of fields and subfields:

  • Main fields of study: Social Sciences, Computer Science
  • Subfields of study: Sociology and Political Science, Communication, Artificial Intelligence, Information Systems, Social Psychology

Highlighted research topics include:

  • Misinformation and Its Impacts
  • Privacy, Security, and Data Protection
  • Social Media and Politics
  • Hate Speech and Cyberbullying Detection
  • Deception Detection and Forensic Psychology
  • Social and Intergroup Psychology
  • Spam and Phishing Detection

Best Publications

  • The science of fake news

    David M. J. Lazer;Matthew A. Baum;Yochai Benkler;Adam J. Berinsky

  • Perceptions of internet information credibility

    Andrew J. Flanagin;Miriam J. Metzger

  • Social and Heuristic Approaches to Credibility Evaluation Online

    Miriam J. Metzger;Andrew J. Flanagin;Ryan B. Medders

  • Making sense of credibility on the Web: Models for evaluating online information and recommendations for future research

    Miriam J. Metzger

  • Credibility for the 21st Century: Integrating Perspectives on Source, Message, and Media Credibility in the Contemporary Media Environment

    Miriam J. Metzger;Andrew J. Flanagin;Keren Eyal;Daisy R. Lemus

  • Internet use in the contemporary media environment.

    Andrew J. Flanagin;Miriam J. Metzger

  • Credibility and trust of information in online environments: The use of cognitive heuristics

    Miriam J. Metzger;Andrew J. Flanagin

  • The role of site features, user attributes, and information verification behaviors on the perceived credibility of web-based information

    Andrew J. Flanagin;Miriam J. Metzger

  • The credibility of volunteered geographic information

    Andrew J. Flanagin;Miriam J. Metzger

  • College student web use, perceptions of information credibility, and verification behavior

    Miriam J. Metzger;Andrew J. Flanagin;Lara Zwarun

  • Privacy, Trust, and Disclosure: Exploring Barriers to Electronic Commerce

    Miriam J. Metzger

  • The End of Mass Communication

    Steven H. Chaffee;Miriam J. Metzger

  • Digital Media, Youth, and Credibility

    Miriam J. Metzger;Andrew J. Flanagin

  • Digital media and youth: Unparalleled opportunity and unprecedented responsibility

    Andrew J. Flanagin;Miriam J. Metzger

  • Mitigating risk in ecommerce transactions: perceptions of information credibility and the role of user-generated ratings in product quality and purchase intention

    Andrew J. Flanagin;Miriam J. Metzger;Rebekah Pure;Alex Markov

  • An Extended Privacy Calculus Model for SNSs: Analyzing Self-Disclosure and Self-Withdrawal in a Representative U.S. Sample

    Tobias Dienlin;Miriam J. Metzger

  • Communication Privacy Management in Electronic Commerce

    Miriam J. Metzger

  • Trusting expert- versus user-generated ratings online: The role of information volume, valence, and consumer characteristics

    Andrew J. Flanagin;Miriam J. Metzger

  • The perceived credibility of personal Web page information as influenced by the sex of the source

    Andrew J Flanagin;Miriam J Metzger

  • Effects of Site, Vendor, and Consumer Characteristics on Web Site Trust and Disclosure:

    Miriam J. Metzger

  • The effect of “open access” on citation impact: An analysis of ArXiv's condensed matter section

    Henk F. Moed

  • behaviors on the perceived credibility of web-based information The role of site features, user attributes, and information verification

    Andrew J. Flanagin;Miriam J. Metzger

Frequent Co-Authors

Andrew J. Flanagin
Andrew J. Flanagin University of California, Santa Barbara
Ben Y. Zhao
Ben Y. Zhao University of Chicago
Christo Wilson
Christo Wilson Northeastern University
Haitao Zheng
Haitao Zheng University of Chicago
Steven A. Sloman
Steven A. Sloman Brown University
Elizabeth Belding
Elizabeth Belding University of California, Santa Barbara
Gordon Pennycook
Gordon Pennycook Cornell University
Hugo Mercier
Hugo Mercier School for Advanced Studies in the Social Sciences
Dan Sperber
Dan Sperber Central European University
Daniel Linz
Daniel Linz University of California, Santa Barbara

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