About

Rudolf Bond, MD, is a family medicine physician and assistant professor at Ohio State University Wexner Medical Center. He graduated from the Ohio State University College of Medicine and completed his residency in Family Medicine at MetroHealth Medical Center in Cleveland. Dr. Bond is certified by the American Board of Family Medicine and has a broad clinical practice treating a wide range of conditions in both children and adults. His particular interests include the management of diabetes, osteoarthritis, asthma, and COPD. As a native Spanish speaker, he emphasizes individualized, compassionate care, focusing on listening to his patients and meeting them where they are. Dr. Bond is committed to working with a diverse patient population, teaching residents and medical students, and practicing at the leading edge of medicine. Outside of his clinical work, he enjoys spending time with his family and watching OSU football.

Research topics

• Political Science
• Law
• Psychology
• Sociology
• Economics
• Social psychology
• Positive economics
• Art history
• Public relations
• Art
• Public economics
• Gerontology
• Demography
• Immunology
• Medicine
• Internal medicine

Selected publications

• COVID on Trees and Infinite Grids

  The PUMP Journal of Undergraduate Research · 2025-05-10

  articleOpen access

  We use Hartnell's model for virus spread on a graph, also known as firefighting. For rooted trees, we propose an Unburning Algorithm, a type of greedy algorithm starting from the leaves and working back towards the root. We show that the algorithm saves at least half the vertices of the optimal solution and that this is bound is sharp. We confirm a conjecture of Hartke about integrality gaps when comparing linear and integer program solutions. For general graphs, we propose a Containment Protocol, which looks ahead two time steps to decide where to place vaccinations. We show that the protocol performs near optimally on four well-studied infinite grids. The protocol is available for any graph and we realize this flexibility by investigating an infinite pentagonal graph.

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• Self-Reported Exposure and Beliefs About Misinformation Across a U.S. Presidential Election Cycle: Expressive Responding and Motivated Reasoning

  Political Communication · 2025-07-22

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• COVID on trees and infinite grids

  arXiv (Cornell University) · 2024-09-22

  preprintOpen access

  We use Hartnell's model for virus spread on a graph, also known as firefighting. For rooted trees, we propose an Unburning Algorithm, a type of greedy algorithm starting from the leaves and working back towards the root. We show that the algorithm saves at least half the vertices of the optimal solution and that this is bound is sharp. We confirm a conjecture of Hartke about integrality gaps when comparing linear and integer program solutions. For general graphs, we propose a Containment Protocol, which looks ahead two time steps to decide where to place vaccinations. We show that the protocol performs near optimally on four well-studied infinite grids. The protocol is available for any graph and we realize this flexibility by investigating an infinite pentagonal graph.

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• Replication Data for: Engagement with fact-checked posts on Reddit

  Harvard Dataverse · 2023-02-14

  datasetOpen access1st authorCorresponding

  Data and code to replicate analyses.

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• Replication Data for: Misperceptions in Sociopolitical Context: Belief Sensitivity’s Relationship with Battleground State Status and Partisan Segregation

  Harvard Dataverse · 2023-03-24

  datasetOpen access

  Replication data, analysis files, and supporting information for Conservatives' susceptibility to political misperceptions.

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• Misperceptions in sociopolitical context: belief sensitivity’s relationship with battleground state status and partisan segregation

  Journal of Communication · 2023-04-19 · 5 citations

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  Abstract Numerous studies have shown that individuals’ belief sensitivity—their ability to discriminate between true and false political statements—varies according to psychological and demographic characteristics. We argue that sensitivity also varies with the political and social communication contexts in which they live. Both battleground state status of the state in which individuals live and the level of partisan segregation in a state are associated with Americans’ belief sensitivity. We leverage panel data collected from two samples of Americans, one collected in the first half of 2019 and the other during the 2020 U.S. presidential campaign season. Results indicate that the relationship between living in battleground states and belief sensitivity is contingent on political ideology: living in battleground states, versus in Democratic-leaning states, is associated with lower belief sensitivity among conservatives and higher belief sensitivity among liberals. Moreover, living in a less politically segregated state is associated with greater belief sensitivity. These relationships were only in evidence in the election year.

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• Bursts of contemporaneous publication among high- and low-credibility online information providers

  New Media & Society · 2023-07-31 · 4 citations

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  In studies of misinformation, the distinction between high- and low-credibility publishers is fundamental. However, there is much that we do not know about the relationship between the subject matter and timing of content produced by the two types of publishers. By analyzing the content of several million unique articles published over 28 months, we show that high- and low-credibility publishers operate in distinct news ecosystems. Bursts of news coverage generated by the two types of publishers tend to cover different subject matter at different times, even though fluctuations in their overall news production tend to be highly correlated. Regardless of the mechanism, temporally convergent coverage among low-credibility publishers has troubling implications for American news consumers.

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• Journalists’ networks: Homophily and peering over the shoulder of other journalists

  PLoS ONE · 2023-10-18 · 6 citations

  articleOpen accessSenior authorCorresponding

  Social media plays an important role in how journalists gather and report news. To understand journalists' professional environment, we examine the networks of journalists on Twitter who cover politics for U.S. newspapers in conjunction with a sample of journalists who completed a survey. By combining both their network data and survey responses, we examine the distribution of journalists' ideology (n = 264) and journalistic values (n = 247); and using the network data, we examine the directional relationships between journalists working at large and small papers (n = 4,661). We find that journalists tend to form connections with those who share similar journalistic values. However, we find little evidence that journalists build professional relationships based on similarity in political ideology. Lastly, journalists at larger media outlets are more likely to be central in journalists' Twitter networks, providing evidence that journalists look to other journalists at larger outlets for direction in news coverage. Our evidence provides unique insights into how social media illuminates journalists' professional environment and how that environment may shape news coverage.

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• Comparing beliefs in falsehoods based on satiric and non-satiric news

  PLoS ONE · 2023-01-19 · 3 citations

  articleOpen accessCorresponding

  This article seeks to quantify the extent to which Americans hold beliefs that are consistent with interpreting satiric news literally, and to assess whether factors known to promote misperceptions work differently depending on whether the source of the misperception is satire. We also test the robustness of those factors across a diverse set of real-world falsehoods. The study uses secondary data analysis, relying on data drawn from a 12-wave six-month panel conducted in 2019. Analyses focus on participants' beliefs about 120 falsehoods derived from high-profile political content in circulation before each survey wave, including 48 based on satiric news. A non-trivial number of participants believed claims originating in satire, but it is less than the proportion who believed falsehoods derived from other misleading content. Results also confirm the robustness of established predictors of misperceptions while demonstrating that the associations differ in magnitude between satiric and non-satiric news.

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• Engagement with fact-checked posts on Reddit

  PNAS Nexus · 2023-01-27 · 27 citations

  articleOpen access1st authorCorresponding

  Contested factual claims shared online are of increasing interest to scholars and the public. Characterizing temporal patterns of sharing and engagement with such information, as well as the effect of sharing associated fact-checks, can help us understand the online political news environment more fully. Here, we investigate differential engagement with fact-checked posts shared online via Reddit from 2016 to 2018. The data comprise ∼29,000 conversations, ∼849,000 users, and ∼9.8 million comments. We classified the veracity of the posts being discussed as true, mixed, or false using three fact-checking organizations. Regardless of veracity, fact-checked posts had larger and longer lasting conversations than claims that were not fact-checked. Among those that were fact-checked, posts rated as false were discussed less and for shorter periods of time than claims that were rated as true. We also observe that fact-checks of posts rated as false tend to happen more quickly than fact-checks of posts rated as true. Finally, we observe that thread deletion and removal are systematically related to the presence of a fact-check and the veracity of the fact-check, but when deletion and removal are combined the differences are minimal. Theoretical and practical implications of the findings are discussed.

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Frequent coauthors

• Anis Yazidi

  OsloMet – Oslo Metropolitan University

  81 shared

• Anuradhaa Subramanian

  University of Birmingham

  81 shared

• Pamela C. Cosman

  University of California, San Diego

  81 shared

• Pedro Lencastre

  OsloMet – Oslo Metropolitan University

  81 shared

• E Shachar

  University of California, San Diego

  81 shared

• C Mccausland

  The University of Texas at Arlington

  81 shared

• Erica Feldman

  University of California, San Diego

  81 shared

• Russell Schachar

  Hospital for Sick Children

  81 shared

Education

• PhD, Political Science

  University of California, San Diego

  2013

• Master of Arts, Political Science

  Arizona State University

  2007

• Bachelor of Arts, Political Science

  Arizona State University

  2006