Research

Peer-reviewed papers

Buehling, K., Becker, J., Zhang, X., Heft, A. (2025). Rechte Verschwörungstheorien in hyperparteiischen Medien – Was hätte ein Verbot des Compact-Magazins für das anti-demokratische Online-Ökosystem bedeutet? In Wissen schafft Demokratie. Schwerpunkt Demokratiegefährdung online, 18, 82-99. Jena. https://doi.org/ 10.19222/202618/06

Schulze H., Buehling, K., Zehring, M. (2025). The Telegram COVID-19 Protest Dataset 2020-2022. Computational Communication Research, 7(1), 1-19. https://doi.org/10.5117/CCR2025.1.9.SCHU

Pasitselska, O., Buehling, K., & Gagrčin, E. (2025). Chat groups as local civic infrastructure: A case study of “Solidary neighborhood help” Telegram groups during the COVID-19 pandemic in Germany. New Media & Society, 0(0). https://doi.org/10.1177/14614448251349426

Schindler, J., Jha, S., Zhang, X., Buehling, K., Heft, A., & Barahona, M. (2025). LGDE: Local Graph-based Dictionary Expansion. Computational Linguistics, 1–32. https://doi.org/10.1162/coli_a_00562

Buehling, K., Zhang, X., & Heft, A. (2025). Veiled conspiracism: Particularities and convergence in the styles and functions of conspiracy-related communication across digital platforms. New Media & Society, 0(0). https://doi.org/10.1177/14614448251315756

Heft, A., Buehling, K., Zhang, X., Schindler, D., & Milzner, M. (2024). Challenges of and approaches to data collection across platforms and time: Conspiracy-related digital traces as examples of political contention. Journal of Information Technology & Politics, 21(3), 323-339. https://doi.org/10.1080/19331681.2023.2250779

Buehling, K. (2024). Message Deletion on Telegram: Affected Data Types and Implications for Computational Analysis. Communication Methods and Measures, 18(1), 92-114. https://doi.org/10.1080/19312458.2023.2183188

Buehling, K., & Heft, A. (2023). Pandemic Protesters on Telegram: How Platform Affordances and Information Ecosystems Shape Digital Counterpublics. Social Media + Society, 9(3), 20563051231199430. https://doi.org/10.1177/20563051231199430

Jost, P., Heft, A., Buehling, K., Zehring, M., Schulze, H., Bitzmann, H., & Domahidi, E. (2023). Mapping a Dark Space: Challenges in Sampling and Classifying Non- Institutionalized Actors on Telegram. M&K Medien & Kommunikationswissenschaft, 71(3–4), 212–229. https://doi.org/10.5771/1615-634X-2023-3-4-212

Heft, A., & Buehling, K. (2022). Measuring the diffusion of conspiracy theories in digital information ecologies. Convergence: The International Journal of Research into New Media Technologies, 28(4), 940–961. https://doi.org/10.1177/13548565221091809

Kindt, A.-M., Geissler, M., & Buehling, K. (2022). Be my (little) partner⁈—Universities’ role in regional innovation systems when large firms are rare. Journal of Regional Science, 62(5), 1274-1295. https://doi.org/10.1111/jors.12596

Buehling, K., Geissler, M., & Strecker, D. (2022). Free access to scientific literature and its influence on the publishing activity in developing countries: The effect of Sci-Hub in the field of mathematics. Journal of the Association for Information Science and Technology, 73(9), 1336-1355. https://doi.org/10.1002/asi.24636

Buehling, K., & Geissler, M. (2022). PhDs with Industry Partners–Assessing Collaboration and Topic Distribution Using a Text Mining Methodology. In University-Industry Knowledge Interactions (pp. 9-24). Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-84669-5_2

Bueckle, A., Buehling, K., Shih, P. C., & Börner, K. (2022). Optimizing Performance and Satisfaction in Matching and Movement Tasks in Virtual Reality with Interventions Using the Data Visualization Literacy Framework. Frontiers in Virtual Reality, 2. https://www.frontiersin.org/article/10.3389/frvir.2021.727344

Buehling, K. (2021). Changing research topic trends as an effect of publication rankings – The case of German economists and the Handelsblatt Ranking. Journal of Informetrics, 15(3), 101199. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.joi.2021.101199

Bueckle, A., Buehling, K., Shih, P. C., & Börner, K. (2021). 3D virtual reality vs. 2D desktop registration user interface comparison. PLOS ONE, 16(10), e0258103. https://doi.org/10.1371/journal.pone.0258103

Working papers

Fan, Y., Buehling, K., & Stocker, V. (2025). Beyond Citations: Measuring Idea-level Knowledge Diffusion from Research to Journalism and Policy-making (Version 1). arXiv. https://doi.org/10.48550/ARXIV.2511.03378