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32
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10477
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7189
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512

Michael L. Kent 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 Michael L. Kent sits on this spectrum.

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44 publications 570+

This scientist: 68 publications — 2nd percentile

2% of scientists in this discipline score the same or lower.

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

Michael L. Kent 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 Michael L. Kent sits on this spectrum.

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This scientist: 32 D-Index — 8th percentile

8% of scientists in this discipline score the same or lower.

The last bar groups every scientist with 100 D-Index or more.

Overview

Michael L. Kent is affiliated with the University of New South Wales in Australia. Their research primarily centers in the field of Social Sciences with a focus on communication and public relations. They have contributed notably to subfields including Communication, Philosophy, Social Psychology, Sociology and Political Science, and Management Information Systems.

The topics of their work cover various areas such as Public Relations and Crisis Communication, Social Media and Politics, Communication in Education and Healthcare, Media, Religion, Digital Communication, Rhetoric and Communication Studies, Emotional Labor in Professions, and Media Studies and Communication.

Michael L. Kent's publication record includes research articles published mainly in the following venues:

  • Public Relations Review
  • Social Media + Society

Recent papers authored or co-authored by Kent include:

  • "Fostering Dialogic Engagement: Toward an Architecture of Social Media for Social Change," 2021, Social Media + Society
  • "Two-way communication, symmetry, negative spaces, and dialogue," 2021, Public Relations Review
  • "Public relations as "dirty work": Disconfirmation, cognitive dissonance, and emotional labor among public relations professors," 2020, Public Relations Review
  • "Explorations on mediated communication and beyond: Toward a theory of social media," 2021, Public Relations Review
  • "Social License to Operate in Crowdfunding Campaigns," 2021, Public Relations Review

Frequent co-authors collaborating with Michael L. Kent include:

  • Maureen Taylor
  • Anne B. Lane
  • Erich J. Sommerfeldt
  • Chaoyuan Li
  • Shima Saniei

Their academic contributions emphasize dialogic engagement and social media's role in social change, communication strategies in public relations, and the emotional labor associated with the profession. The research also extends into social media theories and issues surrounding the social license to operate in crowdfunding contexts.

Best Publications

  • Building Dialogic Relationships through the World Wide Web.

    Michael L Kent;Maureen Taylor

  • Toward a dialogic theory of public relations

    Michael L. Kent;Maureen Taylor

  • How activist organizations are using the Internet to build relationships

    Maureen Taylor;Michael L. Kent;William Joseph White

  • Dialogic Engagement: Clarifying Foundational Concepts

    Maureen Taylor;Michael L. Kent

  • The relationship between Web site design and organizational responsiveness to stakeholders

    Michael L. Kent;Maureen Taylor;William J. White

  • Critical analysis of blogging in public relations

    Michael L. Kent

  • Using social media dialogically: Public relations role in reviving democracy

    Michael L. Kent

  • Anticipatory socialization in the use of social media in public relations: A content analysis of PRSA's Public Relations Tactics

    Maureen Taylor;Michael L. Kent

  • Taxonomy of mediated crisis responses

    Maureen Taylor;Michael L. Kent

  • The power of storytelling in public relations: : Introducing the 20 master plots

    Michael L. Kent

  • From Homo Economicus to Homo dialogicus: Rethinking social media use in CSR communication

    Michael L. Kent;Maureen Taylor

  • Activist practitioner perspectives of website public relations: Why aren’t activist websites fulfilling the dialogic promise?

    Erich J. Sommerfeldt;Michael L. Kent;Maureen Taylor

  • A Delphi study of the future of new technology research in public relations

    Michael L. Kent;Adam J. Saffer

  • Challenging Assumptions of International Public Relations: When Government Is the Most Important Public.

    Maureen Taylor;Michael L. Kent

  • Congressional Web Sites and Their Potential for Public Dialogue

    Maureen Taylor;Michael L. Kent

  • Dialogic Public Relations and Resource Dependency: New Jersey Community Colleges as Models for Web Site Effectiveness

    Sheila M. McAllister-Spooner;Michael L. Kent

  • The Oxford Dictionary of Sports Science and Medicine

    Michael Kent

  • Toward a normative social media theory for public relations

    Michael L. Kent;Chaoyuan Li

  • Learning web analytics: A tool for strategic communication

    Michael L. Kent;Bryan J. Carr;Rebekah A. Husted;Rebeca A. Pop

  • A rhizomatous metaphor for dialogic theory

    Michael L. Kent;Anne B. Lane

  • Social media and organizational visibility: A sample of Fortune 500 corporations

    Aimei Yang;Michael Kent

  • Do the ends justify the means? Dialogue, development communication, and deontological ethics

    Michael Paquette;Erich J. Sommerfeldt;Michael L. Kent

Frequent Co-Authors

Maureen Taylor
Maureen Taylor University of Technology Sydney

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