2026 David L. Altheide: Social Sciences and Humanities Researcher – H-Index, Publications & Awards

D-Index & Metrics

Discipline name	D-Index	World Ranking	Current World Ranking	National Ranking	Current National Ranking	Publications	Citations
Social Sciences and Humanities	36	6310	5863	3024	2758	161	20040

Discipline name

D-Index

World Ranking

Current World Ranking

National Ranking

Current National Ranking

Publications

Citations

Social Sciences and Humanities

6310

5863

3024

2758

161

20040

Social Sciences and Humanities

D-Index

Citations

20040

World Ranking

6310

National Ranking

3024

Best Publications

Qualitative media analysis

David L. Altheide

3544
Citations
Criteria for assessing interpretive validity in qualitative research.

David L. Altheide;John M. Johnson

3159
Citations
Reflections: Ethnographic content analysis

David L. Altheide

2040
Citations
Creating Fear: News and the Construction of Crisis

David L. Altheide

1417
Citations
Terrorism and the politics of fear

David L. Altheide

1112
Citations
Qualitative Media Analysis

Unknown

858
Citations
Ethnographic Content Analysis

David L. Altheide

813
Citations
“The News Media, the Problem Frame, and the Production of Fear”

David L. Altheide

788
Citations
Media worlds in the postjournalism era

David L. Altheide;Robert P. Snow

725
Citations
Media Logic and Political Communication

David L. Altheide

458
Citations
Media Logic, Social Control, and Fear

David L. Altheide

363
Citations
Fear in the news : A discourse of control

David L. Altheide;R. Sam Michalowski

331
Citations
Emergent qualitative document analysis.

David Altheide;Michael Coyle;Katie DeVriese;Christopher Schneider

325
Citations
Creating Reality: How TV News Distorts Events

David L. Altheide

320
Citations
An Ecology of Communication: Cultural Formats of Control

David L. Altheide

318
Citations
The Columbine Shootings and the Discourse of Fear

David L. Altheide

275
Citations
Media Hegemony: A Failure of Perspective

David L. Altheide

270
Citations
Moral panic: From sociological concept to public discourse

David L. Altheide

194
Citations
Tracking discourse and qualitative document analysis

David L. Altheide

182
Citations
Identity and the Definition of the Situation in a Mass-Mediated Context

David L. Altheide

169
Citations
The mass media and terrorism

David L. Altheide

127
Citations
An ecology of communication

David L. Altheide

119
Citations
Representing Order: Crime, Law, and Justice in the News Media.

David L. Altheide;Richard V. Ericson;Patricia M. Baranek;Janet B. L. Chan

30
Citations

Frequent Co-Authors

Elihu Katz University of Pennsylvania

Rita J. Simon American University

External Links

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