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Media Influence and Health

Media Influence and Health is a research topic within Literature and Literary Theory. Science Explorer counts 18k research works in it since 1950. 10.0% of them reached the world's top 10% most cited for their field and year.

This cluster of papers explores the role of narrative in persuasive communication, focusing on concepts such as transportation, identification, emotion, entertainment-education, awe, media enjoyment, health behavior change, parasocial interaction, and empathy. It delves into how narratives can influence beliefs, attitudes, intentions, and behaviors across various domains including health communication, entertainment media, and social influence.

  • Narrative Persuasion
  • Transportation
  • Identification
  • Emotion
  • Entertainment-Education
  • Awe
  • Media Enjoyment
  • Health Behavior Change
  • Parasocial Interaction
  • Empathy
Research works
18k
fractional, since 1950
In the world top 10%
1.8k
per year above
Top-10% rate
10.0%
share of its works in the world top 10%
Growth, 2018-21 → 2022-25
+44%
the tick is no change
Largest producer
United States
36% of the 10 largest, 2022-now
Media Influence and Health

Which countries lead Media Influence and Health research?

By volume, the United States and China publish the most (1.5k and 847 works in 2022-now).

By volume, 2022-now

  1. 1 United States 1.5k works
  2. 2 China 847 works
  3. 3 United Kingdom 355 works
  4. 4 Germany 300 works
  5. 5 Türkiye 296 works
  6. 6 India 253 works
  7. 7 Indonesia 178 works
  8. 8 Australia 172 works
  9. 9 Canada 150 works
  10. 10 Spain 147 works

How concentrated that is

The same countries as shares of everything the list above accounts for. A node where two countries do two thirds of the work and one spread evenly across twelve read alike as a ranking and not at all alike here.

United States: 36.4%China: 20.0%United Kingdom: 8.4%Germany: 7.1%6 others listed: 28.2%36%largest
United States1,542 · 36.4%China847 · 20.0%United Kingdom355 · 8.4%Germany300 · 7.1%6 others listed1,196 · 28.2%

Shares of the rows listed above, not of the whole node.

Which institutions lead Media Influence and Health research?

By volume in 2022-now, University of Amsterdam publishes the most Media Influence and Health research, followed by Pennsylvania State University and University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill.

By volume, 2022-now

  1. 1 University of AmsterdamNetherlands 29 works
  2. 2 Pennsylvania State UniversityUnited States 27 works
  3. 3 University of North Carolina at Chapel HillUnited States 26 works
  4. 4 Michigan State UniversityUnited States 24 works
  5. 5 University of ViennaAustria 22 works
  6. 6 Beijing Normal UniversityChina 22 works
  7. 7 University of FloridaUnited States 22 works
  8. 8 Nanyang Technological UniversitySingapore 21 works
  9. 9 The Ohio State UniversityUnited States 20 works
  10. 10 University of ChicagoUnited States 19 works

Who are the leading researchers in Media Influence and Health?

The most-cited researchers publishing on Media Influence and Health include Richard M. Ryan, Albert Bandura and Dan J. Stein.

  1. 1 Richard M. Ryan United States 395k citations
  2. 2 Albert Bandura United States 370k citations
  3. 3 Dan J. Stein South Africa 306k citations
  4. 4 Icek Ajzen United States 267k citations
  5. 5 Florian Fischer Germany 257k citations
  6. 6 Azeem Majeed United Kingdom 235k citations
  7. 7 Graham A. Colditz United States 233k citations

Ranked by citations received across their whole record, among researchers with at least three works on this topic.

What are the most cited papers in Media Influence and Health?

The most cited paper in Media Influence and Health is "The social readjustment rating scale" (Thomas H. Holmes, Richard H. Rahe, 1967), with 11,193 citations. Next come "The Experiential Aspects of Consumption: Consumer Fantasies, Feelings, and Fun" (8,178) and "Bad is Stronger than Good" (7,560).

Most cited papers
#PaperReleasedCitations
1 The social readjustment rating scale Thomas H. Holmes, Richard H. Rahe · Journal of Psychosomatic Research Aug 1967 11,193
2 The Experiential Aspects of Consumption: Consumer Fantasies, Feelings, and Fun Morris B. Holbrook, Elizabeth C. Hirschman · Journal of Consumer Research Sep 1982 8,178
3 Bad is Stronger than Good Roy Frederick Baumeister, Ellen Bratslavsky, Catrin Finkenauer et al. · Review of General Psychology Dec 2001 7,560
4 Communication and Persuasion: Central and Peripheral Routes to Attitude Change Franziska Marquart, Brigitte Naderer Book chapter 5 Nov 2015 5,025
5 Central and Peripheral Routes to Advertising Effectiveness: The Moderating Role of Involvement Richard E. Petty, John T. Cacioppo, David W. Schumann · Journal of Consumer Research Sep 1983 4,638
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Where is Media Influence and Health research done?

The largest centres of Media Influence and Health research in 2022-now are Beijing (China), Shanghai (China), London (United Kingdom) and Seoul (South Korea). Among places with at least 20 works in it, it is an unusually large share of all research in Macao.

Largest cities, 2022-now

  1. 1 BeijingChina 138 works
  2. 2 ShanghaiChina 79 works
  3. 3 LondonUnited Kingdom 74 works
  4. 4 SeoulSouth Korea 73 works
  5. 5 IstanbulTürkiye 67 works
  6. 6 Hong KongChina 55 works
  7. 7 TokyoJapan 55 works
  8. 8 New YorkUnited States 51 works
  9. 9 AmsterdamNetherlands 48 works
  10. 10 GuangzhouChina 46 works

Where it is the local speciality

  1. MacaoCN · 34.9 works7.2×
← less than its size predicts1×more →

Location quotient: how much more of its research is in Media Influence and Health than the world average.

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Where is the best place to study Media Influence and Health?

Among universities, judged by research, University of Amsterdam, City University of Macau and University of Vienna score highest, combining excellence, specialisation, size, growth and international reach. Research strength is one signal when choosing where to study; it does not measure teaching.

0%20%40%mean 24.5%fractional works in this field (log) →share of work in the world top 10% →City University of M…University of Amster…University of ViennaNanyang Technologica…
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One dot per university in the first ten of the table below, at the default weights. The upper left is the interesting corner: small places doing unusually strong work.

Excellenceshare of its work in the world top 10%, 2022-now and all time averaged
40%
Specialisationhow much of its work is in this field, counted up to 10× the world share
10%
Sizeits output in this field, on a log scale
30%
Growthoutput growth, counted from -20% to +20%
10%
Internationalshare of its work with a co-author abroad
10%
Each slider sets a weight; the share it gets of the score is beside it.
#UniversityScoreTop 10%SpecialisationWorksGrowth
1University of AmsterdamNetherlands 85.324.9%9.3×29 +20.0%
2City University of MacauChina 77.730.7%14.2×12 +622.9%
3University of ViennaAustria 75.224.3%8.3×22 +21.2%
4Nanyang Technological UniversitySingapore 71.623.5%5.0×21 +9.7%
5Hong Kong Polytechnic UniversityChina 71.234.9%2.6×12 +63.6%
6University of CambridgeUnited Kingdom 67.430.8%1.8×11 +21.9%
7Michigan State UniversityUnited States 62.917.0%6.2×24 +6.0%
8National University of SingaporeSingapore 61.319.3%2.4×15 +60.1%
9Stanford UniversityUnited States 58.923.2%1.9×15 -3.4%
10Hong Kong Baptist UniversityChina 58.816.4%13.8×13 +72.2%

Universities only. The score blends excellence (40%), size (30%), specialisation (10%), growth (10%), international reach (10%), 2022-now; growth compares 2018-21 with 2022-25 and counts up to +20%, since a jump from a small base is mostly noise.

Every institution in Media Influence and Health, country by country

Is Media Influence and Health research growing?

Output in 2022-2025 was 44% higher than in 2018-2021, peaking in 2025. The fastest-growing topics are Media Influence and Health.

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The same series as a ribbon: one cell per year, darker for more. The line above answers how much; this answers when.

Its share of all research

Growing output can still be a shrinking share: all of science grows. This is Media Influence and Health as a percentage of every work published that year, 0.023% in 2024.

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Fractional works of Media Influence and Health over all fractional works that year. How the balance of science has shifted.

How much of it reaches the world top 10%

Year by year.

still counting5%10%15%Media Influence and Health10.1% in 2025200020102020

Of each year's works in it, the share that reached the world's 10% most cited for their field and year. A field is the world for its own topics, so there is no other line to hold it against.

Which topics inside it are moving

Growth and decline on one axis around a shared zero. Two lists side by side hide the thing that matters: whether the growth dwarfs the decline, or the other way round.

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