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Overview

Ritu Agarwal is affiliated with Johns Hopkins University in the United States. Their research primarily spans the field of Medicine with specific focus and contributions in several subfields including Sociology and Political Science, Public Health, Environmental and Occupational Health, General Health Professions, Marketing, and Cardiology and Cardiovascular Medicine.

The scientist's work encompasses main topics such as Artificial Intelligence in Healthcare and Education, Digital Marketing and Social Media, COVID-19 Clinical Research Studies, Technology Adoption and User Behaviour, Palliative Care and End-of-Life Issues, COVID-19 epidemiological studies, and Healthcare cost, quality, and practices.

Recent scholarly output includes the following publications:

  • "Unpacking mHealth interventions: A systematic review of behavior change techniques used in randomized controlled trials assessing mHealth effectiveness" (2020, Digital Health)
  • "Socioeconomic privilege and political ideology are associated with racial disparity in COVID-19 vaccination" (2021, Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences)
  • "Addressing algorithmic bias and the perpetuation of health inequities: An AI bias aware framework" (2022, Health Policy and Technology)
  • "Friend or Foe? Teaming Between Artificial Intelligence and Workers with Variation in Experience" (2023, Management Science)
  • "How Digital Word-of-Mouth Affects Consumer Decision Making: Evidence from Doctor Appointment Booking" (2020, Management Science)

Frequent co-authors of Agarwal include Guodong Gao, Michelle Dugas, Margrét V. Bjarnadóttir, Weiguang Wang, and Junjie Luo. The collaboration with these researchers has resulted in multiple joint publications, with the most frequent co-author being Guodong Gao.

Publications have appeared most often in the following venues:

  • Management Science
  • arXiv (Cornell University)
  • Digital Health
  • Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences
  • Health Policy and Technology

Best Publications

  • Time flies when you're having fun: cognitive absorption and beliefs about information technology usage 1

    Ritu Agarwal;Elena Karahanna

  • A Conceptual and Operational Definition of Personal Innovativeness in the Domain of Information Technology

    Ritu Agarwal;Jayesh Prasad

  • The Role of Innovation Characteristics and Perceived Voluntariness in the Acceptance of Information Technologies

    Ritu Agarwal;Jayesh Prasad

  • Are Individual Differences Germane to the Acceptance of New Information Technologies

    Ritu Agarwal;Jayesh Prasad

  • Sources of influence on beliefs about information technology use: an empirical study of knowledge workers

    William Lewis;Ritu Agarwal;V. Sambamurthy

  • Adoption of electronic health records in the presence of privacy concerns: the elaboration likelihood model and individual persuasion

    Corey M. Angst;Ritu Agarwal

  • Through a Glass Darkly: Information Technology Design, Identity Verification, and Knowledge Contribution in Online Communities

    Meng Ma;Ritu Agarwal

  • Assessing a Firm's Web Presence: A Heuristic Evaluation Procedure for the Measurement of Usability

    Ritu Agarwal;Viswanath Venkatesh

  • Research Commentary---The Digital Transformation of Healthcare: Current Status and the Road Ahead

    Ritu Agarwal;Guodong (Gordon) Gao;Catherine DesRoches;Ashish K. Jha

  • Research Report: The Evolving Relationship Between General and Specific Computer Self-Efficacy--An Empirical Assessment

    Ritu Agarwal;V. Sambamurthy;Ralph M. Stair

  • The Role of Push-Pull Technology in Privacy Calculus: The Case of Location-Based Services

    Heng Xu;Hock-Hai Teo;Bernard Tan;Ritu Agarwal

  • Tactical approaches for alleviating distance in global software development

    E. Carmel;R. Agarwal

  • Practicing safe computing: a multimedia empirical examination of home computer user security behavioral intentions

    Catherine L. Anderson;Ritu Agarwal

  • Editorial-Big Data, Data Science, and Analytics: The Opportunity and Challenge for IS Research

    Ritu Agarwal;Vasant Dhar

  • Organizational mechanisms for enhancing user innovation in information technology

    Satish Nambisan;Ritu Agarwal;Mohan Tanniru

  • Individual Acceptance of Information Technologies

    Ritu Agarwal

  • The Digitization of Healthcare: Boundary Risks, Emotion, and Consumer Willingness to Disclose Personal Health Information

    Catherine L. Anderson;Ritu Agarwal

  • The Maturation of Offshore Sourcing of Information Technology Work

    Erran Carmel;Ritu S. Agarwal

  • Managing team interpersonal processes through technology: a task-technology fit perspective.

    Likoebe M. Maruping;Ritu Agarwal

  • The antecedents and consequents of user perceptions in information technology adoption

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  • Reconceptualizing compatability beliefs in technology acceptance research

    Elena Karahanna;Ritu Agarwal;Corey M. Angst

Frequent Co-Authors

Vallabh Sambamurthy
Vallabh Sambamurthy University of Wisconsin–Madison
Elena Karahanna
Elena Karahanna University of Georgia
Jeffrey McCullough
Jeffrey McCullough University of Minnesota
Sunil Mithas
Sunil Mithas University of South Florida
Viswanath Venkatesh
Viswanath Venkatesh Virginia Tech
Catherine M. DesRoches
Catherine M. DesRoches Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center
Robert E. Kraut
Robert E. Kraut Carnegie Mellon University
Rajshree Agarwal
Rajshree Agarwal University of Maryland, College Park
Bernard C. Y. Tan
Bernard C. Y. Tan National University of Singapore
Henry C. Lucas
Henry C. Lucas University of Maryland, College Park

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