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Ralph J. DiClemente

Ralph J. DiClemente

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Social Sciences and Humanities
USA
2026

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Social Sciences and Humanities

D-Index
112
Citations
46437
World Ranking
46
National Ranking
27

Research.com Recognitions

  • 2026 - Research.com Social Sciences and Humanities in United States Leader Award
  • 2025 - Research.com Social Sciences and Humanities in United States Leader Award

Overview

Ralph J. DiClemente is affiliated with New York University in the United States. Their research spans multiple disciplines within medicine, psychology, and social sciences, with significant contributions in areas of adolescent sexual and reproductive health, COVID-19 and mental health, and HIV/AIDS research and interventions.

The scientist's work is published extensively across various venues, with frequent publications appearing in UNC Libraries, Journal of Racial and Ethnic Health Disparities, BMC Public Health, Research Square, and AIDS and Behavior. Their publication record includes numerous papers that contribute to understanding public health challenges and behavioral health interventions.

Among recent papers authored or coauthored by Ralph J. DiClemente are:

  • Trends and Predictors of COVID-19 Information Sources and Their Relationship With Knowledge and Beliefs Related to the Pandemic, 2020, JMIR Public Health and Surveillance
  • Social media as a recruitment platform for a nationwide online survey of COVID-19 knowledge, beliefs, and practices in the United States: methodology and feasibility analysis, 2020, BMC Medical Research Methodology
  • Increased alcohol use during the COVID-19 pandemic: The effect of mental health and age in a cross-sectional sample of social media users in the U.S., 2021, Preventive Medicine
  • Food insecurity among households with children during the COVID-19 pandemic: results from a study among social media users across the United States, 2021, Nutrition Journal
  • Factors associated with phosphatidylethanol (PEth) sensitivity for detecting unhealthy alcohol use: An individual patient data meta-analysis, 2021, Alcoholism Clinical and Experimental Research

Collaboration is notable in their career, with frequent coauthors including Shahmir H. Ali, Ariadna Capasso, Abbey M. Jones, Joshua Foreman, and Niyati Parekh. These partnerships reflect interdisciplinary efforts and enhanced scope in studies concerning public health, epidemiology, and behavioral sciences.

The research fields most represented in their work include medicine (81 publications), psychology (69), and social sciences (62). Within these areas, subfields such as general health professions, clinical psychology, sociology and political science, epidemiology, and health are prominently covered.

Ralph J. DiClemente's research topics focus heavily on adolescent sexual and reproductive health (42 publications), COVID-19 and mental health (32), HIV/AIDS research and interventions (30), as well as HIV, drug use, and sexual risk (24). Other important topics include homelessness and social issues (22), child abuse and trauma (20), and mobile health and mHealth applications (16).

Best Publications

  • Application of the Theory of Gender and Power to Examine HIV-Related Exposures, Risk Factors, and Effective Interventions for Women

    Gina M. Wingood;Ralph J. DiClemente

  • Parental Monitoring: Association With Adolescents' Risk Behaviors

    Ralph J. DiClemente;Gina M. Wingood;Richard Crosby;Catlainn Sionean

  • The ADAPT-ITT model: a novel method of adapting evidence-based HIV Interventions.

    Gina M Wingood;Ralph J DiClemente

  • A randomized controlled trial of an HIV sexual risk-reduction intervention for young African-American women.

    Ralph J. DiClemente;Gina M. Wingood

  • Adolescents and AIDS: a survey of knowledge, attitudes and beliefs about AIDS in San Francisco.

    R J DiClemente;J Zorn;L Temoshok

  • Efficacy of an HIV Prevention Intervention for African American Adolescent Girls: A Randomized Controlled Trial

    Ralph J. DiClemente;Gina M. Wingood;Kathy F. Harrington;Delia L. Lang

  • The effects of an abusive primary partner on the condom use and sexual negotiation practices of African-American women.

    Gina M. Wingood;Ralph J. DiClemente

  • Emerging Theories in Health Promotion Practice and Research

    Ralph J. DiClemente;Richard A. Crosby;Michelle C. Kegler

  • Partner influences and gender-related factors associated with noncondom use among young adult African American women.

    Gina M. Wingood;Ralph J. DiClemente

  • Minorities and AIDS: knowledge, attitudes, and misconceptions among black and Latino adolescents.

    R J DiClemente;C B Boyer;E S Morales

  • The Health and Recovery Peer (HARP) Program: A Peer-Led Intervention to Improve Medical Self-Management for Persons with Serious Mental Illness

    Benjamin G Druss;Liping Zhao;Silke Von Esenwein;Joseph R. Bona

  • Early drinking onset and its association with alcohol use and problem behavior in late adolescence

    Enid Gruber;Ralph J. DiClemente;Martin M. Anderson;Mark Lodico

  • Handbook of adolescent health risk behavior.

    Ralph J. DiClemente;William Bunker Hansen;Lynn E. Ponton

  • Parent-adolescent communication and sexual risk behaviors among African American adolescent females.

    Ralph J. DiClemente;Gina M. Wingood;Gina M. Wingood;Richard Crosby;Richard Crosby;Brenda K. Cobb;Brenda K. Cobb

  • Preventing AIDS : theories and methods of behavioral interventions

    Ralph J. DiClemente;John L. Peterson

  • Research Methods in Health Promotion

    richard A Crosby;Ralph J. Diclemente;Laura Francisca Salazar

  • Prevalence and correlates of cutting behavior: risk for HIV transmission.

    Ralph J. DiClemente;Lynn E. Ponton;Dianna Hartley

  • A Review of STD/HIV Preventive Interventions for Adolescents: Sustaining Effects Using an Ecological Approach

    Ralph J. DiClemente;Laura F. Salazar;Richard A. Crosby

  • The relationship of psychosocial factors to prognostic indicators in cutaneous malignant melanoma

    Lydia Temoshok;Bruce W. Heller;Richard W. Sagebiel;Mardsen S. Blois

  • Religiosity and risky sexual behavior in African-American adolescent females

    Donna Hubbard McCree;Gina M Wingood;Ralph DiClemente;Susan Davies

  • Emerging theories in health promotion practice and research : strategies for improving public health

    Ralph J. DiClemente;Richard A. Crosby;Michelle C. Kegler

Frequent Co-Authors

Gina M. Wingood
Gina M. Wingood Columbia University
Richard A. Crosby
Richard A. Crosby University of Kentucky
Jessica M. Sales
Jessica M. Sales Emory University
Laura F. Salazar
Laura F. Salazar Georgia State University
Larry K. Brown
Larry K. Brown Brown University
Susan L. Davies
Susan L. Davies University of Alabama at Birmingham
Edward W. Hook
Edward W. Hook University of Alabama at Birmingham
Michael P. Carey
Michael P. Carey Brown University
Peter A. Vanable
Peter A. Vanable Syracuse University
Robert F. Valois
Robert F. Valois University of South Carolina

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