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D-Index
60
Citations
40558
World Ranking
1395
National Ranking
657

Research.com Recognitions

  • 1999 - Fellow of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences
  • 1991 - Helen Dinerman Prize, World Association of Public Opinion Research

Overview

Elihu Katz was affiliated with the University of Pennsylvania in the United States. Their research mainly focused within the Social Sciences, covering several subfields such as Cultural Studies, Political Science and International Relations, and Sociology and Political Science.

Their work addressed multiple topics including Diverse Cultural and Historical Studies, Multiculturalism, Politics, Migration, Gender, as well as Religion and Society Interactions.

Among their recent scholarly contributions was the paper titled Devenir " dayan et katz ", published in 2024 in the journal Réseaux.

Elihu Katz frequently collaborated with other researchers, including:

  • Eric Zinner
  • Ciara Mclaughlin
  • Karen Tongson
  • Henry Jenkins
  • Despina Gimbel

Their work appeared primarily in the publication venue Réseaux, which hosted at least one of their papers.

Throughout their career, Elihu Katz received recognitions such as becoming a Fellow of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences in 1999 and being awarded the Helen Dinerman Prize by the World Association of Public Opinion Research in 1991.

Best Publications

  • Personal Influence: The Part Played by People in the Flow of Mass Communications

    Elihu Katz;Paul Felix Lazarsfeld

  • USES AND GRATIFICATIONS RESEARCH

    Elihu Katz;Jay G. Blumler;Michael Gurevitch

  • Personal Influence: The Part Played by People in the Flow of Mass Communications

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  • Personal Influence: The Part Played by People in the Flow of Mass Communications

    Irving Roshwalb;Elihu Katz;Paul F. Lazarsfeld

  • The Diffusion of an Innovation Among Physicians

    James Coleman;Elihu Katz;Herbert Menzel

  • Utilization of mass communication by the individual

    E. Katz

  • On the use of the mass media for important things.

    Elihu Katz;Michael Gurevitch;Hadassah Haas

  • Medical Innovation: A Diffusion Study.

    David Mechanic;James S. Coleman;Elihu Katz;Herbert Menzel

  • The Two-Step Flow of Communication: An Up-To-Date Report on an Hypothesis

    Elihu Katz

  • Media Events: The Live Broadcasting of History

    Daniel Dayan;Elihu Katz

  • Traditions of Research on the Diffusion of Innovation

    Elihu Katz;Martin L. Levin;Herbert Hamilton

  • The Export of Meaning: Cross-Cultural Readings of Dallas

    Tamar Liebes;Elihu Katz

  • News, Talk, Opinion, Participation: The Part Played by Conversation in Deliberative Democracy

    Joohan Kim;Robert O. Wyatt;Elihu Katz

  • ON THE USE OF THE MASS MEDIA AS “ESCAPE”: CLARIFICATION OF A CONCEPT

    Elihu Katz;David Foulkes

  • Bridging the spheres: political and personal conversation in public and private spaces

    Robert O. Wyatt;Elihu Katz;Joohan Kim

  • Mass Communications Research and the Study of Popular Culture: An Editorial Note on a Possible Future for This Journal

    Elihu Katz

  • And Deliver Us from Segmentation

    Elihu Katz

  • Broadcasting in the Third World: Promise and Performance

    Elihu Katz;George Wedell

  • Social Relations and Innovation in the Medical Profession: The Epidemiology of a New Drug

    Herbert Menzel;Elihu Katz

  • COMMUNICATIONS RESEARCH SINCE LAZARSFELD

    Elihu Katz

  • Media, Ritual and Identity

    Tamar Liebes;James Curran;Elihu Katz

  • Medical Innovation: A Diffusion Study.

    Christopher Sower;James S. Coleman;Elihu Katz;Herbert Menzel

Frequent Co-Authors

Paul F. Lazarsfeld
Paul F. Lazarsfeld Columbia University
James S. Coleman
James S. Coleman University of Chicago
Jeffrey C. Alexander
Jeffrey C. Alexander Yale University
James Curran
James Curran University of Sydney
David L. Altheide
David L. Altheide Arizona State University
Tom R. Burns
Tom R. Burns London Metropolitan University
Sonia Livingstone
Sonia Livingstone London School of Economics and Political Science
David Mechanic
David Mechanic Rutgers, The State University of New Jersey
Yaacov Trope
Yaacov Trope New York University
Robert K. Merton
Robert K. Merton Columbia University

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