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D-Index
44
Citations
8415
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4137
National Ranking
1970

Rima E. Rudd 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 Rima E. Rudd sits on this spectrum.

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44 publications 570+

This scientist: 133 publications — 32nd percentile

32% of scientists in this discipline score the same or lower.

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

Rima E. Rudd 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 Rima E. Rudd sits on this spectrum.

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This scientist: 44 D-Index — 49th percentile

49% of scientists in this discipline score the same or lower.

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

Overview

Rima E. Rudd is affiliated with Harvard University in the United States and has a research focus primarily in health professions and social sciences. Their body of work extends across several interconnected subfields, including general health professions, sociology and political science, health, artificial intelligence, and management, monitoring, policy, and law.

Their research topics concentrate on health literacy and information accessibility, health sciences research and education, climate change communication and perception, environmental education and sustainability, misinformation and its impacts, vaccine coverage and hesitancy, and text readability and simplification.

Rudd has contributed to various peer-reviewed journals, including multiple publications with the International Journal of Environmental Research and Public Health and the UNC Libraries. Other venues for their work include the Journal of Communications In Healthcare, Environmental Health, and the Health Information & Libraries Journal.

Their recent papers include:

  • "Health literacy and early insights during a pandemic," 2020, Journal of Communications In Healthcare
  • "Characterizing the Environmental Health Literacy and Sensemaking of Indoor Air Quality of Research Participants," 2022, International Journal of Environmental Research and Public Health
  • "A Call for More Rigor in Science and Health Communication," 2022, International Journal of Environmental Research and Public Health
  • "A process for creating data report-back tools to improve equity in environmental health," 2022, Environmental Health
  • "Collaborative updating of an organizational health literacy tool confirms medical librarians' leadership roles," 2021, Health Information & Libraries Journal

The scientist collaborates frequently with several coauthors, including Cynthia Baur, Kathryn S. Tomsho, Erin Polka, Stacey Chacker, and David Queeley, each with multiple coauthored works. These partnerships reflect interdisciplinary engagements within their fields of study.

Best Publications

  • Relationship power, condom use and HIV risk among women in the USA.

    J. Pulerwitz;H. Amaro;W. De Jong;S. L. Gortmaker

  • Social Marketing for Public Health

    Diana Chapman Walsh;Rima E. Rudd;Barbara A. Moeykens;Thomas W. Moloney

  • Health and Literacy: A Review of Medical and Public Health Literature

    Rima E. Rudd;Barbara A. Moeykens;Tayla C. Colton

  • Developing and testing the health literacy universal precautions toolkit

    Darren A. DeWalt;Kimberly A. Broucksou;Victoria Hawk;Cindy Brach

  • Health Literacy and Child Health Promotion: Implications for Research, Clinical Care, and Public Policy

    Lee M. Sanders;Judith S. Shaw;Ghislaine Guez;Cynthia Baur

  • Literacy and Health in America. Policy Information Report.

    Rima Rudd;Irwin Kirsch;Kentaro Yamamoto

  • A mismatch between population health literacy and the complexity of health information: An observational study

    Gillian Rowlands;Joanne Protheroe;John Winkley;Marty Richardson

  • Health literacy skills of U.S. adults.

    Rima E. Rudd

  • Educational attainment and cigarette smoking: a causal association?

    Stephen E Gilman;Laurie T Martin;David B Abrams;Ichiro Kawachi

  • Improving low health literacy and patient engagement: A social ecological approach

    Lauren McCormack;Veronica Thomas;Megan A. Lewis;Rima Rudd

  • A Content Analysis of Direct-to-Consumer Television Prescription Drug Advertisements

    Kimberly A. Kaphingst;William Dejong;Rima E. Rudd;Lawren H. Daltroy

  • Numeracy and communication with patients: they are counting on us.

    Andrea J. Apter;Michael K. Paasche-Orlow;Janine T. Remillard;Ian M. Bennett

  • Improving Americans' health literacy.

    Rima E Rudd

  • Literacy and Learning in Health Care

    Michael S. Wolf;Elizabeth A.H. Wilson;David N. Rapp;Katherine R. Waite

  • Learner Developed Materials: An Empowering Product

    Rima E. Rudd;John P. Comings

  • Current perspectives on patient education in the US.

    Debra L. Roter;Ruth Stashefsky-Margalit;Rima Rudd

  • Health Insurance Literacy of Older Adults

    Lauren McCORMACK;Carla Bann;Jennifer Uhrig;Nancy Berkman

  • Considerations for a New Definition of Health Literacy

    Andrew Pleasant;Rima E Rudd;Catina O’Leary;Michael K Paasche-Orlow

  • Health literacy in the ''oral exchange'': An important element of patient-provider communication

    Sarah S. Nouri;Rima E. Rudd

  • Leave no one behind: improving health and risk communication through attention to literacy.

    Rima E. Rudd;John P. Comings;James N. Hyde

Frequent Co-Authors

Stephen L. Buka
Stephen L. Buka Brown University
Kathryn Pitkin Derose
Kathryn Pitkin Derose RAND Corporation
Karen M. Emmons
Karen M. Emmons Harvard University
William DeJong
William DeJong Boston University
Dolores Acevedo-Garcia
Dolores Acevedo-Garcia Brandeis University
Graham A. Colditz
Graham A. Colditz Washington University in St. Louis
Debra L. Roter
Debra L. Roter Johns Hopkins University
Stephen E. Gilman
Stephen E. Gilman Eunice Kennedy Shriver National Institute of Child Health and Human Development
Michael K. Paasche-Orlow
Michael K. Paasche-Orlow Boston University
Laura D. Kubzansky
Laura D. Kubzansky Harvard University

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