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Arvind Singhal 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 Arvind Singhal sits on this spectrum.

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44 publications 570+

This scientist: 223 publications — 72nd percentile

72% of scientists in this discipline score the same or lower.

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

Arvind Singhal 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 Arvind Singhal sits on this spectrum.

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This scientist: 39 D-Index — 30th percentile

30% of scientists in this discipline score the same or lower.

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Overview

Arvind Singhal is affiliated with The University of Texas at El Paso in the United States. Their research spans social sciences and medicine, with a concentration on communication and health-related topics. The work often explores intersections between media influence, health, and infection control.

Their recent published papers include:

  • "An Artificial Intelligence Chatbot for Young People's Sexual and Reproductive Health in India (SnehAI): Instrumental Case Study," 2022, Journal of Medical Internet Research
  • "New directions for diffusion of innovations research: Dissemination, implementation, and positive deviance," 2020, Human Behavior and Emerging Technologies
  • "Creating safe spaces to prevent unintentional childhood injuries among the Bedouins in southern Israel: A hybrid model comprising positive deviance, community-based participatory research, and entertainment-education," 2021, PLoS ONE
  • "The Role of the Communication Discipline to Tackle COVID-19: Interrogating Positive Deviations and Critical Discourses," 2021, Journal of Creative Communications
  • "What distinguishes positive deviance (PD) health professionals from their peers and what impact does a PD intervention have on behaviour change: a cross-sectional study of infection control and prevention in three Israeli hospitals," 2020, Epidemiology and Infection

Frequent coauthors include:

  • Srinivas R. Melkote
  • Anat Gesser-Edelsburg
  • Ricky Cohen
  • Hua Wang
  • Shmuel Benenson

They have published in notable journals such as:

  • PLoS ONE
  • Journal of Medical Internet Research
  • Human Behavior and Emerging Technologies
  • Journal of Creative Communications
  • Epidemiology and Infection

In addition to journal articles, the scientist has contributed to academic books, including a publication with Edward Elgar Publishing titled "Handbook of Communication and Development" published in 2021.

Their primary fields of study are Social Sciences and Medicine, with relevant subfields covering Literature and Literary Theory, General Health Professions, Gender Studies, Communication, and Infectious Diseases.

The main topics addressed in their work are:

  • Media Influence and Health
  • Media, Gender, and Advertising
  • Infection Control in Healthcare
  • Infection Control and Ventilation
  • AI in Service Interactions
  • FinTech, Crowdfunding, Digital Finance
  • Mobile Health and mHealth Applications

Best Publications

  • Entertainment-Education: A Communication Strategy for Social Change

    Arvind Singhal;Everett M. Rogers

  • Entertainment-education and social change : history, research, and practice

    Arvind Singhal;Michael J. Cody;Everett M. Rogers;Miguel Sabido

  • A Theoretical Agenda for Entertainment—Education

    Arvind Singhal;Everett M. Rogers

  • Diffusion of Innovations 1

    Everett M. Rogers;Arvind Singhal;Margaret M. Quinlan

  • Managing Human Resources for Innovation and Creativity

    Ashok K. Gupta;Arvind Singhal

  • Entertainment-Education and Social Change: An Analysis of Parasocial Interaction, Social Learning, Collective Efficacy, and Paradoxical Communication.

    Michael J. Papa;Arvind Singhal;Sweety Law;Saumya Pant

  • Combating AIDS: Communication Strategies in Action

    Arvind Singhal;Everett M. Rogers

  • Risk of self-harm and suicide in people with specific psychiatric and physical disorders: comparisons between disorders using English national record linkage

    Arvind Singhal;Jack Ross;Olena Seminog;Keith E. Hawton

  • India′s Communication Revolution: From Bullock Carts to Cyber Marts

    Arvind Singhal;Everett M. Rogers

  • The Status of Entertainment-Education Worldwide.

    Arvind Singhal;Everett M. Rogers

  • Entertainment-education and HIV / AIDS prevention: a field experiment in Tanzania.

    Peter W. Vaughan;Everett M. Rogers;Arvind Singhal;Ramadhan M. Swalehe

  • India's information revolution

    Arvind Singhal;Everett M. Rogers

  • Organizing for Social Change: A Dialectic Journey of Theory and Praxis

    Michael J. Papa;Arvind Singhal;Wendy H. Papa

  • Organizing for social change within concertive control systems: Member identification, empowerment, and the masking of discipline

    Michael J. Papa;Mohammad A. Auwal;Arvind Singhal

  • Dialectic of control and emancipation in organizing for social change: a multitheoretic study of the Grameen Bank in Bangladesh

    Michael J. Papa;Mohammad A. Auwal;Arvind Singhal

  • Empowerment and Communication: Lessons Learned From Organizing for Social Change

    Everett M. Rogers;Arvind Singhal

  • Harnessing the potential of entertainment-education telenovelas

    Arvind Singhal;Everett M. Rogers;William J. Brown

  • The Entertainment-Education Strategy in Communication Campaigns

    Arvind Singhal;Everett M. Rogers

  • Pencils and Photos as Tools of Communicative Research and Praxis Analyzing Minga Perú’s Quest for Social Justice in the Amazon

    Arvind Singhal;Elizabeth Rattine-Flaherty

  • Entertainment-Education and Possibilities for Second-Order Social Change:

    Arvind Singhal;Nagesh Rao;Saumya Pant

  • Prosocial television for development in India.

    Singhal A;Rogers Em

Frequent Co-Authors

Everett M. Rogers
Everett M. Rogers University of New Mexico
Gary L. Kreps
Gary L. Kreps George Mason University
Noshir Contractor
Noshir Contractor Northwestern University
Kim Witte
Kim Witte Michigan State University
Thomas W. Valente
Thomas W. Valente University of Southern California
Michael J. Cody
Michael J. Cody University of Southern California
Peter R. Monge
Peter R. Monge University of Southern California
Janet Fulk
Janet Fulk University of Southern California
Peter Lang
Peter Lang University of Bern

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