2026 Arvind Singhal: Social Sciences and Humanities Researcher – H-Index, Publications & Awards

Discipline name	D-Index	World Ranking	Current World Ranking	National Ranking	Current National Ranking	Publications	Citations
Social Sciences and Humanities	39	5516	5117	2609	2373	223	11271

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

1660
Citations
Entertainment-education and social change : history, research, and practice

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

914
Citations
A Theoretical Agenda for Entertainment—Education

Arvind Singhal;Everett M. Rogers

688
Citations
Diffusion of Innovations 1

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

590
Citations
Managing Human Resources for Innovation and Creativity

Ashok K. Gupta;Arvind Singhal

569
Citations
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

497
Citations
Combating AIDS: Communication Strategies in Action

Arvind Singhal;Everett M. Rogers

441
Citations
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

331
Citations
India′s Communication Revolution: From Bullock Carts to Cyber Marts

Arvind Singhal;Everett M. Rogers

327
Citations
The Status of Entertainment-Education Worldwide.

Arvind Singhal;Everett M. Rogers

325
Citations
Entertainment-education and HIV / AIDS prevention: a field experiment in Tanzania.

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

317
Citations
India's information revolution

Arvind Singhal;Everett M. Rogers

287
Citations
Organizing for Social Change: A Dialectic Journey of Theory and Praxis

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

224
Citations
Organizing for social change within concertive control systems: Member identification, empowerment, and the masking of discipline

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

205
Citations
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

178
Citations
Empowerment and Communication: Lessons Learned From Organizing for Social Change

Everett M. Rogers;Arvind Singhal

165
Citations
Harnessing the potential of entertainment-education telenovelas

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

160
Citations
The Entertainment-Education Strategy in Communication Campaigns

Arvind Singhal;Everett M. Rogers

156
Citations
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

154
Citations
Entertainment-Education and Possibilities for Second-Order Social Change:

Arvind Singhal;Nagesh Rao;Saumya Pant

151
Citations
Prosocial television for development in India.

Singhal A;Rogers Em

146
Citations

Frequent Co-Authors

Everett M. Rogers University of New Mexico

Gary L. Kreps George Mason University

Noshir Contractor Northwestern University

Kim Witte Michigan State University

Thomas W. Valente University of Southern California

Michael J. Cody University of Southern California

Peter R. Monge University of Southern California

Janet Fulk University of Southern California

External Links

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