Stephen A. Rains

119 papers and 4.7k indexed citations
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About

Stephen A. Rains is a scholar working on Sociology and Political Science, Social Psychology and Communication. According to data from OpenAlex, Stephen A. Rains has authored 119 papers receiving a total of 4.7k indexed citations (citations by other indexed papers that have themselves been cited), including 72 papers in Sociology and Political Science, 44 papers in Social Psychology and 38 papers in Communication. Recurrent topics in Stephen A. Rains’s work include Social Media and Politics (28 papers), Impact of Technology on Adolescents (25 papers) and Attachment and Relationship Dynamics (22 papers). Stephen A. Rains is often cited by papers focused on Social Media and Politics (28 papers), Impact of Technology on Adolescents (25 papers) and Attachment and Relationship Dynamics (22 papers). Stephen A. Rains collaborates with scholars based in United States, Ireland and Netherlands. Stephen A. Rains's co-authors include Kate Kenski, Kevin Coe, Kevin B. Wright, John A. Banas, Monique Mitchell Turner, Eric Tsetsi, David M. Keating, Valerie J. Young, Robert S. Tokunaga and Steven R. Brunner and has published in prestigious journals such as Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, Social Science & Medicine and Computers in Human Behavior.

In The Last Decade

Co-authorship network of co-authors of Stephen A. Rains

This figure shows the co-authorship network connecting the top 25 collaborators of Stephen A. Rains. A scholar is included among the top collaborators of Stephen A. Rains 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 Stephen A. Rains. Stephen A. Rains is excluded from the visualization to improve readability, since they are connected to all nodes in the network.

Fields of papers citing papers by Stephen A. Rains

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Countries citing papers authored by Stephen A. Rains

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