Heather Akin

28 papers and 528 indexed citations
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About

Heather Akin is a scholar working on Sociology and Political Science, Communication and Plant Science. According to data from OpenAlex, Heather Akin has authored 28 papers receiving a total of 528 indexed citations (citations by other indexed papers that have themselves been cited), including 26 papers in Sociology and Political Science, 8 papers in Communication and 4 papers in Plant Science. Recurrent topics in Heather Akin’s work include Climate Change Communication and Perception (18 papers), Misinformation and Its Impacts (7 papers) and Media Studies and Communication (5 papers). Heather Akin is often cited by papers focused on Climate Change Communication and Perception (18 papers), Misinformation and Its Impacts (7 papers) and Media Studies and Communication (5 papers). Heather Akin collaborates with scholars based in United States, China and Australia. Heather Akin's co-authors include Dominique Brossard, Michael A. Xenos, Dietram A. Scheufele, Kathleen Hall Jamieson, Leona Yi-Fan Su, Asheley R. Landrum, Albert C. L. G. Günther, Stephanie Edgerly, James Broesch and Nan Li and has published in prestigious journals such as Energy Policy, BioScience and Cognition.

In The Last Decade

Co-authorship network of co-authors of Heather Akin

This figure shows the co-authorship network connecting the top 25 collaborators of Heather Akin. A scholar is included among the top collaborators of Heather Akin based on the total number of citations received by their joint publications. Widths of edges represent the number of papers authors have co-authored together. Node borders signify the number of papers an author published with Heather Akin. Heather Akin is excluded from the visualization to improve readability, since they are connected to all nodes in the network.

Fields of papers citing papers by Heather Akin

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Physical SciencesHealth SciencesLife SciencesSocial Sciences

This network shows the impact of papers produced by Heather Akin. Nodes represent research fields, and links connect fields that are likely to share authors. Colored nodes show fields that tend to cite the papers produced by Heather Akin. The network helps show where Heather Akin may publish in the future.

Countries citing papers authored by Heather Akin

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This map shows the geographic impact of Heather Akin's research. It shows the number of citations coming from papers published by authors working in each country. You can also color the map by specialization and compare the number of citations received by Heather Akin with the expected number of citations based on a country's size and research output (numbers larger than one mean the country cites Heather Akin more than expected).

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