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77
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464
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219

Angela Fagerlin publication distribution in Social Sciences and Humanities in 2026

The chart shows the distribution of publications by all Research.com ranked scientists in the field of Social Sciences and Humanities in 2026. The highlighted bar marks where Angela Fagerlin sits on this spectrum.

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44 publications 570+

This scientist: 333 publications — 91st percentile

91% of scientists in this discipline score the same or lower.

The last bar groups every scientist with 570 publications or more.

Angela Fagerlin D-index placement in Social Sciences and Humanities in 2026

The chart shows the D-index (discipline H-index) distribution of Social Sciences and Humanities scientists ranked by Research.com in 2026. The highlighted bar marks where Angela Fagerlin sits on this spectrum.

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30 D-Index 100+

This scientist: 77 D-Index — 94th percentile

94% of scientists in this discipline score the same or lower.

The last bar groups every scientist with 100 D-Index or more.

Overview

Angela Fagerlin is affiliated with the University of Utah in the United States and has contributed extensively to the fields of Medicine and Health Professions. Their research spans several subfields, including General Health Professions, Economics and Econometrics, Public Health, Environmental and Occupational Health, Oncology, and Epidemiology.

The scientist's work primarily addresses topics within patient-provider communication in healthcare, health systems and economic evaluations, quality of life, global cancer incidence and screening, palliative care and end-of-life issues, patient satisfaction in healthcare, vaccine coverage and hesitancy, and primary care and health outcomes.

Notable recent publications include:

  • Cancer Misinformation and Harmful Information on Facebook and Other Social Media: A Brief Report (2021), JNCI Journal of the National Cancer Institute
  • User Involvement in the Design and Development of Patient Decision Aids and Other Personal Health Tools: A Systematic Review (2021), Medical Decision Making
  • Clarifying Values: An Updated and Expanded Systematic Review and Meta-Analysis (2021), Medical Decision Making
  • Experiences of a Health System's Faculty, Staff, and Trainees' Career Development, Work Culture, and Childcare Needs During the COVID-19 Pandemic (2021), JAMA Network Open
  • Communicating Scientific Uncertainty About the COVID-19 Pandemic: Online Experimental Study of an Uncertainty-Normalizing Strategy (2021), Journal of Medical Internet Research

Frequent coauthors collaborating with Angela Fagerlin include:

  • Alistair Thorpe
  • Laura D. Scherer
  • Peter A. Ubel
  • Rebecca K. Delaney
  • Elissa M. Ozanne

Publication venues where their work appears regularly consist of:

  • JAMA Network Open
  • Medical Decision Making
  • bioRxiv (Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory)
  • MDM Policy & Practice
  • BMJ Open

Best Publications

  • Measuring Numeracy without a Math Test: Development of the Subjective Numeracy Scale

    Angela Fagerlin;Brian J. Zikmund-Fisher;Peter A. Ubel;Aleksandra Jankovic

  • Enough: The Failure of the Living Will

    Angela Fagerlin;Carl E. Schneider

  • Helping Patients Decide: Ten Steps to Better Risk Communication

    Angela Fagerlin;Brian J. Zikmund-Fisher;Peter A. Ubel

  • Advance Directives as Acts of Communication A Randomized Controlled Trial

    Peter Ditto;Joseph Danks;William Smucker;J. Bookwala

  • The impact of the format of graphical presentation on health-related knowledge and treatment choices.

    Sarah T. Hawley;Brian Zikmund-Fisher;Peter Ubel;Aleksandra Jancovic

  • Reducing the Influence of Anecdotal Reasoning on People's Health Care Decisions: Is a Picture Worth a Thousand Statistics?

    Angela Fagerlin;Catharine Wang;Peter A. Ubel

  • Ignorance of Hedonic Adaptation to Hemodialysis: A Study Using Ecological Momentary Assessment

    Jason Riis;George Loewenstein;Jonathan Baron;Christopher Jepson

  • Satisfaction with Surgery Outcomes and the Decision Process in a Population‐Based Sample of Women with Breast Cancer

    Paula M. Lantz;Nancy K. Janz;Angela Fagerlin;Kendra Schwartz

  • Validation of the subjective numeracy scale: Effects of low numeracy on comprehension of risk communications and utility elicitations

    Brian J. Zikmund-Fisher;Dylan M. Smith;Peter A. Ubel;Angela Fagerlin

  • Patient Involvement in Surgery Treatment Decisions for Breast Cancer

    Steven J. Katz;Paula M. Lantz;Nancy K. Janz;Angela Fagerlin

  • Clinical implications of numeracy: theory and practice.

    Wendy Nelson;Valerie F. Reyna;Valerie F. Reyna;Angela Fagerlin;Isaac Lipkus

  • Disciplinary Differences in Self-Regulated Learning in College Students

    Scott W. Vanderstoep;Paul R. Pintrich;Angela Fagerlin

  • Projection in surrogate decisions about life-sustaining medical treatments.

    Angela Fagerlin;Peter H. Ditto;Joseph H. Danks;Renate M. Houts

  • Making numbers matter: present and future research in risk communication

    Angela Fagerlin;Peter A. Ubel;Dylan M. Smith;Brian J. Zikmund-Fisher

  • Clarifying values: an updated review

    Angela Fagerlin;Michael Pignone;Purva Abhyankar;Nananda F. Col

  • The Influence of Race, Ethnicity, and Individual Socioeconomic Factors on Breast Cancer Stage at Diagnosis

    Paula M. Lantz;Mahasin Mujahid;Kendra Schwartz;Nancy K. Janz

  • A Matter of Perspective: Choosing for Others Differs from Choosing for Yourself in Making Treatment Decisions

    Brian J. Zikmund-Fisher;Brianna Sarr;Angela Fagerlin;Peter A. Ubel

  • Biased Assimilation of Sociopolitical Arguments: Evaluating the 1996 U.S. Presidential Debate

    Geoffrey D. Munro;Peter H. Ditto;Lisa K. Lockhart;Angela Fagerlin

  • Population-based study of the relationship of treatment and sociodemographics on quality of life for early stage breast cancer.

    Nancy K. Janz;Mahasin Mujahid;Paula M. Lantz;Angela Fagerlin;Angela Fagerlin

  • Communicating side effect risks in a tamoxifen prophylaxis decision aid: the debiasing influence of pictographs.

    Brian J. Zikmund-Fisher;Peter A. Ubel;Dylan M. Smith;Holly A. Derry

  • The effect of format on parents' understanding of the risks and benefits of clinical research: a comparison between text, tables, and graphics.

    Alan R. Tait;Terri Voepel-Lewis;Brian J. Zikmund-Fisher;Angela Fagerlin

Frequent Co-Authors

Brian J. Zikmund-Fisher
Brian J. Zikmund-Fisher University of Michigan–Ann Arbor
Peter A. Ubel
Peter A. Ubel Duke University
Steven J. Katz
Steven J. Katz University of Michigan–Ann Arbor
Monica Morrow
Monica Morrow Memorial Sloan Kettering Cancer Center
Dennis Deapen
Dennis Deapen University of Southern California
Peter H. Ditto
Peter H. Ditto University of California, Irvine
Lewis B. Morgenstern
Lewis B. Morgenstern University of Michigan–Ann Arbor
John T. Wei
John T. Wei University of Michigan–Ann Arbor
Stacy Loeb
Stacy Loeb New York University
Mick P. Couper
Mick P. Couper University of Michigan–Ann Arbor

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