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Researcher · Iowa State University · United States

Douglas A. Gentile

Douglas A. Gentile publishes mostly in Sociology and Political Science, Education and Social Psychology, on topics such as Impact of Technology on Adolescents, Child Development and Digital Technology and Bullying, Victimization, and Aggression.

ORCID 0000-0002-5934-2860 OpenAlex
World rank
#4,516
of 7,710,434 ranked researchers
Rank in United States
#1,549
of 1,627,098
Works
279
Citations
19k
Citations per work
69.3
h-index
71
i10-index 157Top 0.1% in Sociology and Political Science
Douglas A. Gentile

What does Douglas A. Gentile research?

Douglas A. Gentile's work is mostly in Social Sciences (38%), Psychology (20%), Medicine (4%).

Social Sciences: 173 works · 62.0% of their workSocial Sciences: 106 works · 38.0% of their workSociology and Political Science: 59 works · 21.2% of their workEducation: 47 works · 16.8% of their workPsychology: 56 works · 20.1% of their workSocial Psychology: 36 works · 12.8% of their workClinical Psychology: 20 works · 7.3% of their workArts and Humanities: 11 works · 3.9% of their workLiterature and Literary Theory: 11 works · 3.9% of their workEverything else: 95 works · 34.1% of their workHealth Sciences: 11 works · 3.9% of their workMedicine: 11 works · 3.9% of their workPublic Health, Environmental and Occupational Health: 11 works · 3.9% of their workTHEIR WORKDouglas A.Gentile279works
Health Sciences4%Social Sciences62%

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. Social Sciences10638.0%
    2. Psychology5620.1%
    3. Arts and Humanities113.9%
  2. Everything else9534.1%
    1. Medicine113.9%
  1. 1Sociology and Political Science21% of their works
  2. 2Education17% of their works
  3. 3Social Psychology13% of their works
  4. 4Clinical Psychology7% of their works
  5. 5Literature and Literary Theory4% of their works
  6. 6Public Health, Environmental and Occupational Health4% of their works

Research topics

Which keywords describe Douglas A. Gentile's research?

The keywords of their largest research topics: Social Media, Online Communication, Addiction, Well-being, Digital Technology, Parental Mediation, Cyberbullying and Aggression.

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.

All 19 words, with their numbers
  1. Social Media1393 topics
  2. Online Communication1252 topics
  3. Addiction1061 topic
  4. Well-being1061 topic
  5. Digital Technology1001 topic
  6. Parental Mediation1001 topic
  7. Cyberbullying872 topics
  8. Aggression731 topic
  9. Bullying731 topic
  10. Online Gaming261 topic
  11. Video Games261 topic
  12. Narrative Persuasion251 topic
  13. Transportation251 topic
  14. Obesity221 topic
  15. Overweight221 topic
  16. Digital Divide191 topic
  17. Political Participation191 topic
  18. Detection141 topic
  19. Hate Speech141 topic

Where does Douglas A. Gentile work?

Douglas A. Gentile's main affiliation in the publication record is Iowa State University, United States.

How many publications and citations does Douglas A. Gentile have?

OpenAlex counts 279 works and 19,328 citations for Douglas A. Gentile, an h-index of 71, ranking #4,516 of 7,710,434 researchers worldwide on the quality score.

Ranked on field-normalised 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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