2026 Paul Resnick: 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	55	4174	4057	1969	1900	133	35362

Research.com Recognitions

2020 - ACM Fellow For contributions to recommender systems, economics and computation, and online communities
2010 - ACM Software System Award For the GroupLens Collaborative Filtering Recommender Systems, which showed how to automate the process by which a distributed set of users could receive personalized recommendations by sharing ratings, leading to both commercial products and extensive research.

Overview

Paul Resnick is affiliated with the University of Michigan-Ann Arbor in the United States. Their research spans interdisciplinary areas including social sciences and computer science, with numerous publications focusing on the intersection of communication, artificial intelligence, sociology, and political science.

The scientist's main fields of study include:

Social Sciences
Computer Science

Within these fields, specific subfields addressed in their work comprise:

Communication
Artificial Intelligence
Sociology and Political Science
Statistical and Nonlinear Physics
Education

Research topics covered by Paul Resnick feature:

Social Media and Politics
Hate Speech and Cyberbullying Detection
Misinformation and Its Impacts
Opinion Dynamics and Social Influence
Adversarial Robustness in Machine Learning
Public Relations and Crisis Communication
Metamaterials and Metasurfaces Applications

Paul Resnick has contributed extensively to scholarly work, with significant publications appearing in key venues such as:

arXiv (Cornell University)
Proceedings of the International AAAI Conference on Web and Social Media
Proceedings of the ACM on Human-Computer Interaction
Collective Intelligence
Science Advances

Frequent co-authors collaborating with Resnick are:

Ashwin Rajadesingan
Ceren Budak
Siqi Wu
Qiaozhu Mei
Libby Hemphill

Some recent notable papers include:

"Encouraging Reading of Diverse Political Viewpoints with a Browser Widget" (2021), Proceedings of the International AAAI Conference on Web and Social Media
"Classifying the Political Leaning of News Articles and Users from User Votes" (2021), Proceedings of the International AAAI Conference on Web and Social Media
"Quick, Community-Specific Learning: How Distinctive Toxicity Norms Are Maintained in Political Subreddits" (2020), Proceedings of the International AAAI Conference on Web and Social Media
"Feature-Based Explanations Don't Help People Detect Misclassifications of Online Toxicity" (2020), Proceedings of the International AAAI Conference on Web and Social Media
"The Prevalence of Political Discourse in Non-Political Blogs" (2021), Proceedings of the International AAAI Conference on Web and Social Media

Their awards include:

ACM Fellow (2020) for contributions to recommender systems, economics and computation, and online communities
ACM Software System Award (2010) for the GroupLens Collaborative Filtering Recommender Systems, which demonstrated how distributed user data can lead to automated personalized recommendations, influencing both commercial products and research

Best Publications

GroupLens: An Open Architecture for Collaborative Filtering of Netnews

Paul Resnick;Neophytos Iacovou;Mitesh Suchak;Peter Bergstrom

8495
Citations
Recommender systems

Paul Resnick;Hal R. Varian

5932
Citations
Reputation systems

Paul Resnick;Ko Kuwabara;Richard Zeckhauser;Eric Friedman

3610
Citations
Trust among strangers in internet transactions: Empirical analysis of eBay' s reputation system

Paul Resnick;Richard Zeckhauser

2803
Citations
The value of reputation on eBay: A controlled experiment

Paul Resnick;Richard Zeckhauser;John Swanson;Kate Lockwood

1629
Citations
Building Successful Online Communities: Evidence-Based Social Design

Robert E. Kraut;Paul Resnick;Sara Kiesler;Yuqing Ren

948
Citations
The Social Cost of Cheap Pseudonyms

Eric J. Friedman;Paul Resnick

920
Citations
Beyond Bowling Together: SocioTechnical Capital

Paul Resnick

757
Citations
Eliciting Informative Feedback: The Peer-Prediction Method

Nolan Miller;Paul Resnick;Richard Zeckhauser

691
Citations
Enquiring Minds: Early Detection of Rumors in Social Media from Enquiry Posts

Zhe Zhao;Paul Resnick;Qiaozhu Mei

682
Citations
Referee: trust management for Web applications

Yang-Hua Chu;Joan Feigenbaum;Brian LaMacchia;Paul Resnick

567
Citations
It's not that i don't have problems, i'm just not putting them on facebook: challenges and opportunities in using online social networks for health

Mark W. Newman;Debra Lauterbach;Sean A. Munson;Paul Resnick

555
Citations
Using social psychology to motivate contributions to online communities

Gerard Beenen;Kimberly Ling;Xiaoqing Wang;Klarissa Chang

551
Citations
Slash(dot) and burn: distributed moderation in a large online conversation space

Cliff Lampe;Paul Resnick

535
Citations
Adolescents Searching for Health Information on the Internet: An Observational Study

Derek L Hansen;Holly A Derry;Paul J Resnick;Caroline R Richardson

359
Citations
Social navigation: techniques for building more usable systems

A. Dieberger;P. Dourish;K. Höök;P. Resnick

335
Citations
PICS: Internet access controls without censorship

Paul Resnick;James Miller

323
Citations
Presenting diverse political opinions: how and how much

Sean A. Munson;Paul Resnick

322
Citations
Reputation Systems: Facilitating Trust in Internet Interactions

Paul Resnick

312
Citations
Motivating participation by displaying the value of contribution

Al M. Rashid;Kimberly Ling;Regina D. Tassone;Paul Resnick

295
Citations
Recommender systems — beyond matrix completion

Dietmar Jannach;Paul Resnick;Alexander Tuzhilin;Markus Zanker

209
Citations

Frequent Co-Authors

Sean A. Munson University of Washington

Qiaozhu Mei University of Michigan–Ann Arbor

Robert E. Kraut Carnegie Mellon University

Derek L. Hansen Brigham Young University

Cliff Lampe University of Michigan–Ann Arbor

John Riedl University of Minnesota

Sara Kiesler Carnegie Mellon University

Eytan Adar University of Michigan–Ann Arbor

Martin J. Strauss University of Michigan–Ann Arbor

Joan Feigenbaum Yale University

External Links

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