2026 Charles E. Basch: 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	58	1662	1491	790	699	215	12273

Overview

Charles E. Basch is affiliated with Columbia University in the United States. Their scholarly work primarily spans the field of Social Sciences, with a focus on subfields including Sociology and Political Science, Health, Clinical Psychology, Infectious Diseases, and Artificial Intelligence.

The research topics most frequently addressed by Basch cover areas such as Misinformation and Its Impacts, Vaccine Coverage and Hesitancy, COVID-19 and Mental Health, Hate Speech and Cyberbullying Detection, Media Influence and Health, SARS-CoV-2 and COVID-19 Research, and Social Media in Health Education.

Basch has contributed numerous papers, particularly related to public health and the social aspects of disease control through digital media platforms. Recent notable publications include:

"A global pandemic in the time of viral memes: COVID-19 vaccine misinformation and disinformation on TikTok," 2021, Human Vaccines & Immunotherapeutics
"Preventive Behaviors Conveyed on YouTube to Mitigate Transmission of COVID-19: Cross-Sectional Study," 2020, JMIR Public Health and Surveillance
"The Role of YouTube and the Entertainment Industry in Saving Lives by Educating and Mobilizing the Public to Adopt Behaviors for Community Mitigation of COVID-19: Successive Sampling Design Study," 2020, JMIR Public Health and Surveillance
"Promoting Mask Use on TikTok: Descriptive, Cross-sectional Study," 2021, JMIR Public Health and Surveillance
"YouTube Videos and Informed Decision-Making About COVID-19 Vaccination: Successive Sampling Study," 2021, JMIR Public Health and Surveillance

Basch has frequently published in venues such as JMIR Public Health and Surveillance, Journal of Community Health, Human Vaccines & Immunotherapeutics, Journal of Medical Internet Research, and Journal of Medicine Surgery and Public Health.

Some of Basch's frequent coauthors include:

Corey H. Basch
Grace Clarke Hillyer
Joseph Fera
Zoe C Meleo-Erwin
Jan Mohlman

Best Publications

Focus Group Interview: An Underutilized Research Technique for Improving Theory and Practice in Health Education

Charles E. Basch

1522
Citations
Healthier students are better learners: a missing link in school reforms to close the achievement gap.

Charles E. Basch

615
Citations
Review and Analysis of Evaluation Measures Used in Nutrition Education Intervention Research

Isobel R. Contento;Jill S. Randell;Charles E. Basch

480
Citations
Avoiding Type III Errors in Health Education Program Evaluations: A Case Study

Charles E. Basch;Elena M. Sliepcevich;Robert S. Gold;David F. Duncan

376
Citations
Critical Connections: Health and Academics.

Shannon L Michael;Caitlin L Merlo;Charles E Basch;Kathryn R Wentzel

297
Citations
Blood pressure, fitness, and fatness in 5- and 6-year-old children.

Bernard Gutin;Charles Basch;Steven Shea;Isobel Contento

256
Citations
A global pandemic in the time of viral memes: COVID-19 vaccine misinformation and disinformation on TikTok.

Corey H Basch;Zoe Meleo-Erwin;Joseph Fera;Christie Jaime

239
Citations
Body image, weight, and food choices of Latina women and their young children.

Isobel R. Contento;Charles Basch;Patricia Zybert

224
Citations
Independent Associations of Educational Attainment and Ethnicity with Behavioral Risk Factors for Cardiovascular Disease

S Shea;A D Stein;C E Basch;R Lantigua

212
Citations
Breakfast and the Achievement Gap Among Urban Minority Youth

Charles E. Basch

202
Citations
Aggression and violence and the achievement gap among urban minority youth.

Charles E. Basch

200
Citations
Reliability of the behavioral risk factor survey in a triethnic population.

Steven Shea;Aryeh D. Stein;Rafael Lantigua;Charles E. Basch

190
Citations
Preventive Behaviors Conveyed on YouTube to Mitigate Transmission of COVID-19: Cross-Sectional Study.

Corey H Basch;Grace C Hillyer;Zoe C Meleo-Erwin;Christie Jaime

188
Citations
Teen pregnancy and the achievement gap among urban minority youth.

Charles E. Basch

183
Citations
A review of five major community-based cardiovascular disease prevention programs. Part II: Intervention strategies, evaluation methods, and results

Steven Shea;Charles E. Basch

176
Citations
Healthier Students Are Better Learners: High-Quality, Strategically Planned, and Effectively Coordinated School Health Programs Must Be a Fundamental Mission of Schools to Help Close the Achievement Gap

Charles E. Basch

174
Citations
Physical Activity and the Achievement Gap among Urban Minority Youth.

Charles E. Basch

167
Citations
Relationship of Mothers' Food Choice Criteria to Food Intake of Preschool Children: Identification of Family Subgroups

Isobel R. Contento;Charles Basch;Steven Shea;Bernard Gutin

166
Citations
Validation of mothers' reports of dietary intake by four to seven year-old children.

C E Basch;S Shea;R Arliss;I R Contento

161
Citations
Research on Disseminating and Implementing Health Education Programs in Schools

Charles E. Basch

160
Citations

Frequent Co-Authors

Isobel R. Contento Columbia University

Richard J. Deckelbaum Columbia University

Jeffrey S. Gonzalez Albert Einstein College of Medicine

Stephen J. Lepore Temple University

Jeannette R. Ickovics Yale University

Lars Berglund Royal Institute of Technology

Marlene B. Schwartz University of Connecticut

Emma E. McGinty Cornell University

Kathryn R. Wentzel University of Maryland, College Park

King-Wa Fu University of Hong Kong

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