2026 Michael Morgan: 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	44	3979	3671	1890	1711	136	19834

Overview

Michael Morgan is affiliated with the University of Massachusetts Amherst in the United States. Their research spans primarily the social sciences and psychology fields, with significant engagement in communication, clinical psychology, sociology and political science, literature and literary theory, and gender studies as subfields.

The scientist's published work covers a range of topics including social media and politics, media influence and health, media studies and communication, media, gender, and advertising, migration, health and trauma, impact of technology on adolescents, and digital marketing and social media.

Recent publications by Michael Morgan include:

Television, Continuity, and Change: A Meta-Analysis of Five Decades of Cultivation Research (2021), Journal of Communication
Cultivation and social media: A meta-analysis (2023), New Media & Society
A review of lahars; past deposits, historic events and present-day simulations from Mt. Ruapehu and Mt. Taranaki, New Zealand (2020), New Zealand Journal of Geology and Geophysics
Social change, cultural resistance: a meta-analysis of the influence of television viewing on gender role attitudes (2021), Communication Monographs
Retrospective cohort study investigating extent of pertussis transmission during a boarding school outbreak, England, December 2017 to June 2018 (2021), Eurosurveillance

Michael Morgan collaborates frequently with several coauthors. The most prominent include:

Erik Hermann
James Shanahan
Amanda C. DeDiego
Jonathan Procter
Anke Zernack

The scientist has contributed to various academic journals, with notable appearances in:

New Media & Society
Journal of Communication
New Zealand Journal of Geology and Geophysics
Communication Monographs
Eurosurveillance

Best Publications

Growing Up with Television: Cultivation Processes

George Gerbner;Larry Gross;Michael Morgan;Nancy Signorielli

2612
Citations
Mutations and Treatment Outcome in Cytogenetically Normal Acute Myeloid Leukemia

Richard F. Schlenk;Konstanze Döhner;Jürgen Krauter;Stefan Fröhling

2088
Citations
Living with Television: The Dynamics of the Cultivation Process

Michael Morgan

2052
Citations
Growing up with television: The cultivation perspective.

George Gerbner;Larry Gross;Michael Morgan;Nancy Signorielli

1907
Citations
The “Mainstreaming” of America: Violence Profile No. 11

George Gerbner;Larry Gross;Michael Morgan;Nancy Signorielli

1545
Citations
Television and its Viewers: Cultivation Theory and Research

James L. Shanahan;Michael Morgan

942
Citations
The Demonstration of Power: Violence Profile No. 10

George Gerbner;Larry Gross;Nancy Signorielli;Michael Morgan

753
Citations
The State of Cultivation

Michael Morgan;James Shanahan

751
Citations
Aging with Television: Images on Television Drama and Conceptions of Social Reality

George Gerbner;Larry Gross;Nancy Signorielli;Michael Morgan

714
Citations
Charting the Mainstream: Television's Contributions to Political Orientations

George Gerbner;Larry Gross;Michael Morgan;Nancy Signorielli

619
Citations
Two Decades of Cultivation Research: An Appraisal and Meta-Analysis

Michael Morgan;James Shanahan

505
Citations
Cultivation analysis : new directions in media effects research

Nancy Signorielli;Michael Morgan

501
Citations
Television and Adolescents' Sex-Role Stereotypes: A Longitudinal Study

Michael Morgan

357
Citations
Cultivation Analysis: Conceptualization and Methodology

Michael Morgan

328
Citations
Health and Medicine on Television

George Gerbner;Larry Gross;Michael Morgan;Nancy Signorielli

324
Citations
Political Correlates of Television Viewing

George Gerbner;Larry Gross;Michael Morgan;Nancy Signorielli

301
Citations
Green or brown? Television and the cultivation of environmental concern

James Shanahan;Michael Morgan;Mads Stenbjerre

223
Citations
Science on Television in the 21st Century: Recent Trends in Portrayals and Their Contributions to Public Attitudes Toward Science

Anthony David Dudo;Dominique Brossard;James Shanahan;Dietram A. Scheufele

203
Citations
Television, Sex-Role Attitudes, and Sex-Role Behavior:

Michael Morgan

186
Citations
Single Nucleotide Polymorphism in the Mutational Hotspot of WT1 Predicts a Favorable Outcome in Patients With Cytogenetically Normal Acute Myeloid Leukemia

Frederik Damm;Michael Heuser;Michael Morgan;Haiyang Yun

167
Citations
Hearth and Home: Images of Women in the Mass Media

Michael Morgan

15
Citations

Frequent Co-Authors

Nancy Signorielli University of Delaware

George Gerbner University of Pennsylvania

James Shanahan Indiana University

Brigitte Schlegelberger Hannover Medical School

Eric D. Brown McMaster University

Gudrun Göhring Hannover Medical School

Amit Sharma Microsoft (United States)

R. Keith Humphries University of British Columbia

Dietram A. Scheufele University of Wisconsin–Madison

Dominique Brossard University of Wisconsin–Madison

External Links

Personal website of Michael Morgan

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