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Rasmus Kleis Nielsen

Rasmus Kleis Nielsen

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Political Science
Denmark
2026
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Political Science
UK
2023

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Political Science

D-Index
53
Citations
12628
World Ranking
183
National Ranking
5

Research.com Recognitions

  • 2026 - Research.com Political Science in Denmark Leader Award
  • 2023 - Research.com Political Science in United Kingdom Leader Award

Overview

Rasmus Kleis Nielsen is affiliated with the University of Oxford in the United Kingdom. Their research predominantly spans the social sciences, with a particular focus on communication, sociology and political science, economics and econometrics, artificial intelligence, and literature and literary theory.

The main research topics covered by Nielsen's work include social media and politics, misinformation and its impacts, media studies and communication, media influence and politics, COVID-19 pandemic impacts, hate speech and cyberbullying detection, and media influence and health.

Frequent co-authors collaborating with Nielsen are:

  • Richard Fletcher
  • Benjamin Toff
  • Ruth Palmer
  • Antonis Kalogeropoulos
  • Camila Mont'Alverne

Nielsen has contributed to a variety of publication venues, including:

  • Oxford University Research Archive (ORA) (University of Oxford)
  • Journalism Studies
  • The International Journal of Press/Politics
  • Journal of Quantitative Description Digital Media
  • New Media & Society

The recent papers authored by Nielsen cover significant current topics:

  • Reuters Institute digital news report 2020, 2023, SSRN Electronic Journal
  • Beyond (Mis)Representation: Visuals in COVID-19 Misinformation, 2020, The International Journal of Press/Politics
  • Exposure to news grows less fragmented with an increase in mobile access, 2020, Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences
  • Quantifying the "infodemic": People turned to trustworthy news outlets during the 2020 coronavirus pandemic, 2022, Journal of Quantitative Description Digital Media
  • "The Media Covers Up a Lot of Things": Watchdog Ideals Meet Folk Theories of Journalism, 2020, Journalism Studies

Regarding book publications, Nielsen has authored titles published by notable academic presses:

  • Social Media and Democracy, Cambridge University Press, 2020
  • The Power of Platforms, Oxford University Press, 2022
  • Avoiding the News, Columbia University Press, 2023

Best Publications

  • Reuters Institute Digital News Report 2015

    Nic Newman;David A. L. Levy;Rasmus Kleis Nielsen

  • Types, sources, and claims of COVID-19 misinformation

    JS Brennen;FM Simon;PN Howard;RK Nielsen

  • Are people incidentally exposed to news on social media? A comparative analysis:

    Richard Fletcher;Rasmus Kleis Nielsen

  • Reuters Institute digital news report 2019

    Nic Newman;Richard Fletcher;Antonis Kalogeropoulos;Antonis Kalogeropoulos;Rasmus Kleis Nielsen

  • Dealing with digital intermediaries: A case study of the relations between publishers and platforms:

    Rasmus Kleis Nielsen;Sarah Anne Ganter

  • Are News Audiences Increasingly Fragmented? A Cross-National Comparative Analysis of Cross-Platform News Audience Fragmentation and Duplication

    Richard Fletcher;Rasmus Kleis Nielsen

  • Ground Wars: Personalized Communication in Political Campaigns

    Rasmus Kleis Nielsen

  • "News you don't believe": Audience perspectives on fake news

    RK Nielsen;L Graves

  • Reuters Institute digital news report 2020

    N Newman;R Fletcher;A Schultz;S Andi

  • The Relative Importance of Social Media for Accessing, Finding, and Engaging with News

    Rasmus Kleis Nielsen;Kim Christian Schrøder

  • Measuring the reach of “fake news” and online disinformation in Europe

    RK Nielsen;R Fletcher;A Cornia;L Graves

  • The Power of Platforms

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  • Survival is success: journalistic online start-ups in Western Europe

    Nicola Bruno;Rasmus Kleis Nielsen

  • LOCAL JOURNALISM THE DECLINE OF NEWSPAPERS AND THE RISE OF DIGITAL MEDIA

    Rasmus Kleis Nielsen

  • “I Just Google It”: Folk Theories of Distributed Discovery

    Benjamin J Toff;Benjamin J Toff;Rasmus Kleis Nielsen

  • Reuters Institute digital news report 2017

    Nic Newman;Richard Fletcher;Antonis Kalogeropoulos;Antonis Kalogeropoulos;David A. L. Levy

  • Who Shares and Comments on News?: A Cross-National Comparative Analysis of Online and Social Media Participation

    Antonis Kalogeropoulos;Samuel Negredo;Ike Picone;Rasmus Kleis Nielsen

  • Editorial analytics: How news media are developing and using audience data and metrics

    Federica Cherubini;Rasmus Kleis Nielsen

  • How Polarized Are Online and Offline News Audiences? A Comparative Analysis of Twelve Countries:

    Richard Fletcher;Alessio Cornia;Alessio Cornia;Rasmus Kleis Nielsen

  • Do People “Like” Politicians on Facebook? Not really. Large-Scale Direct Candidate-to-Voter Online Communication as an Outlier Phenomenon

    Rasmus Kleis Nielsen;Cristian Vaccari

  • Reuters Institute digital news report 2016

    Nic Newman;Richard Fletcher;David A. L. Levy;Rasmus Kleis Nielsen

  • Generalised scepticism: how people navigate news on social media

    Richard Fletcher;Rasmus Kleis Nielsen

  • HOW NEWSPAPERS BEGAN TO BLOG: Recognizing the role of technologists in old media organizations’ development of new media technologies

    Rasmus Kleis Nielsen

  • Beyond (Mis)Representation: Visuals in COVID-19 Misinformation

    J. Scott Brennen;Felix M. Simon;Rasmus Kleis Nielsen

  • Paying for Online News

    Richard Fletcher;Rasmus Kleis Nielsen

  • What Drives Politicians' Online Popularity? An Analysis of the 2010 U.S. Midterm Elections

    Rasmus Kleis Nielsen;Cristian Vaccari

  • Qualitative Political Communication| Introduction ~ The Role of Qualitative Methods in Political Communication Research: Past, Present, and Future

    David Karpf;Daniel Kreiss;Rasmus Kleis Nielsen;Matthew Powers

  • Automated Serendipity: The effect of using search engines on news repertoire balance and diversity

    Richard Fletcher;Rasmus Kleis Nielsen

Frequent Co-Authors

Cristian Vaccari
Cristian Vaccari University of Edinburgh
Frank Esser
Frank Esser University of Zurich
Daniel Kreiss
Daniel Kreiss University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill
Philip N. Howard
Philip N. Howard University of Oxford
Peter Birch Sørensen
Peter Birch Sørensen University of Copenhagen
Jørgen Goul Andersen
Jørgen Goul Andersen Aalborg University

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