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Researcher · RTI International · United States

Brian G. Southwell

Brian G. Southwell publishes mostly in Sociology and Political Science, Communication and General Health Professions, on topics such as Misinformation and Its Impacts, Media Influence and Health and Smoking Behavior and Cessation.

ORCID 0000-0001-5091-8782 OpenAlex
World rank
#213,534
of 7,710,434 ranked researchers
Rank in United States
#79,134
of 1,627,098
Works
214
Citations
5k
Citations per work
23.4
h-index
38
i10-index 86Top 1.1% in Sociology and Political Science
Brian G. Southwell

What does Brian G. Southwell research?

Brian G. Southwell's work is mostly in Social Sciences (35%), Health Professions (7%), Arts and Humanities (6%).

Everything else: 103 works · 48.0% of their workSocial Sciences: 87 works · 40.5% of their workSocial Sciences: 75 works · 34.9% of their workSociology and Political Science: 37 works · 17.3% of their workCommunication: 24 works · 11.2% of their workHealth: 14 works · 6.4% of their workArts and Humanities: 12 works · 5.6% of their workLiterature and Literary Theory: 12 works · 5.6% of their workHealth Sciences: 25 works · 11.5% of their workHealth Professions: 15 works · 7.1% of their workGeneral Health Professions: 15 works · 7.1% of their workMedicine: 9 works · 4.4% of their workPhysiology: 9 works · 4.4% of their workTHEIR WORKBrian G.Southwell214works
Health Sciences12%Social Sciences40%

Their six largest subfields, inside their fields and domains; the grey slice is everything else they publish. The interactive view splits every one of their works down to single topics.

The fields and subfields, with their numbers
  1. Everything else10348.0%
    1. Social Sciences7534.9%
    2. Arts and Humanities125.6%
    1. Health Professions157.1%
    2. Medicine94.4%
  1. 1Sociology and Political Science17% of their works
  2. 2Communication11% of their works
  3. 3General Health Professions7% of their works
  4. 4Health6% of their works
  5. 5Literature and Literary Theory6% of their works
  6. 6Physiology4% of their works

Research topics

Which keywords describe Brian G. Southwell's research?

The keywords of their largest research topics: Social Media, Fake News, Misinformation, Narrative Persuasion, Transportation, Digital Divide, Political Participation and Smoking Cessation.

Size is their works in the topics tagged with each word, from their 8 largest topics. Each links to the topic it comes from most. The words come from the keyword list OpenAlex gives each topic, not from the text of the papers, so a word can appear that none of the papers uses.

All 17 words, with their numbers
  1. Social Media532 topics
  2. Fake News311 topic
  3. Misinformation311 topic
  4. Narrative Persuasion241 topic
  5. Transportation241 topic
  6. Digital Divide221 topic
  7. Political Participation221 topic
  8. Smoking Cessation221 topic
  9. Tobacco Use221 topic
  10. Self-Regulation211 topic
  11. Theory of Planned Behaviour211 topic
  12. Agenda Setting181 topic
  13. Conflict of Interest181 topic
  14. Media Framing181 topic
  15. Pharmaceutical Industry181 topic
  16. Climate Change171 topic
  17. Public Perception171 topic

Where does Brian G. Southwell work?

Brian G. Southwell's main affiliation in the publication record is RTI International, United States.

How many publications and citations does Brian G. Southwell have?

OpenAlex counts 214 works and 5,002 citations for Brian G. Southwell, an h-index of 38, ranking #213,534 of 7,710,434 researchers worldwide on the quality score.

Ranked on field-normalised citation excellence (50%), output (30%) and citations (20%). Counts come from OpenAlex author records, which occasionally merge different people who share a name or split one person into several.

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