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Ronald E. Rice 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 Ronald E. Rice sits on this spectrum.

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44 publications 570+

This scientist: 280 publications — 84th percentile

84% of scientists in this discipline score the same or lower.

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

Ronald E. Rice 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 Ronald E. Rice sits on this spectrum.

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This scientist: 81 D-Index — 96th percentile

96% of scientists in this discipline score the same or lower.

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

Overview

Ronald E. Rice is affiliated with the University of California, Santa Barbara in the United States. Their research primarily focuses on the social sciences, with specific contributions to sociology and political science, communication, information systems and management, management, monitoring, policy and law, and organizational behavior and human resource management.

The main topics addressed in their work include:

  • Knowledge Management and Sharing
  • Climate Change Communication and Perception
  • Social Media and Politics
  • Technology Adoption and User Behaviour
  • Environmental Education and Sustainability
  • Impact of Technology on Adolescents
  • Digital Marketing and Social Media

Rice has published extensively in several venues, with frequent appearances in:

  • Asian Communication Research
  • Public Understanding of Science
  • Computers in Human Behavior
  • Environment and Behavior
  • Journal of Applied Communication Research

Recent papers authored or co-authored by Rice include:

  • "A review of the effects of uncertainty in public science communication", 2020, Public Understanding of Science
  • "Integrating the bright and dark sides of communication visibility for knowledge management and creativity: The moderating role of regulatory focus", 2020, Computers in Human Behavior
  • "Relationships Among Environmental Attitudes, Environmental Efficacy, and Pro-Environmental Behaviors Across and Within 11 Countries", 2022, Environment and Behavior
  • "Boundary communication: how smartphone use after hours is associated with work-life conflict and organizational identification", 2020, Journal of Applied Communication Research
  • "Benefits and drawbacks of communication visibility: from vicarious learning and supplemental work to knowledge reuse and overload", 2022, Journal of Knowledge Management

Frequent collaborators in Rice's research include:

  • Ward van Zoonen
  • Lindsay B. Miller
  • Anu Sivunen
  • Laurent H. Wang
  • Xiayu Chen

Rice's body of work reflects a focus on interdisciplinary approaches to communication and organizational studies, emphasizing the intersection of technology, behavior, and social systems. The diversity in publication venues and research topics shows engagement with evolving issues in knowledge management, environmental communication, and the impacts of digital and mobile technologies on social and organizational dynamics.

Best Publications

  • Electronic Emotion Socioemotional Content in a Computer-Mediated Communication Network

    Ronald E. Rice;Gail Love

  • Social Consequences of Internet Use: Access, Involvement, and Interaction

    James E. Katz;Ronald E. Rice

  • Public Communication Campaigns

    Ronald E. Rice;Charles K. Atkin

  • Technology adaption: the case of a computer-supported inter-organizational virtual team 1

    Ann Majchrzak;Ronald E. Rice;Arvind Malhotra;Nelson King

  • Media Appropriateness Using Social Presence Theory to Compare Traditional and New Organizational Media

    Ronald E. Rice

  • Task Analyzability, Use of New Media, and Effectiveness: A Multi-Site Exploration of Media Richness

    Ronald E. Rice

  • Research methods and the new media

    Frederick Williams;Ronald E. Rice;Everett M. Rogers

  • Technology Adaptation: The Case of a Computer-Supported Inter-Organizational Virtual Team

    Ann Majchrzak;Ronald E. Rice;Arvind Malhotra;Nelson King

  • Attitudes toward New Organizational Technology: Network Proximity as a Mechanism for Social Information Processing.

    Ronald E. Rice;Carolyn Aydin

  • Comparing internet and mobile phone usage: digital divides of usage, adoption, and dropouts

    Ronald E Rice;James E Katz

  • Influences, usage, and outcomes of Internet health information searching: multivariate results from the Pew surveys.

    Ronald E. Rice

  • Evaluating video as a technology for informal communication

    Robert S. Fish;Robert E. Kraut;Robert W. Root;Ronald E. Rice

  • Reinvention in the Innovation Process

    Ronald E. Rice;Everett M. Rogers

  • The Internet, 1995-2000 Access, Civic Involvement, and Social Interaction

    James E. Katz;Ronald E. Rice;Philip Aspden

  • Individual and network influences on the adoption and perceived outcomes of electronic messaging

    Ronald E. Rice;August E. Grant;Joseph Schmitz;Jack Torobin

  • Computer-Mediated Communication and Organizational Innovation

    Ronald E. Rice

  • Varieties of Social Influence: the Role of Utility and Norms in the Success of a New Communication Medium

    Robert E. Kraut;Ronald E. Rice;Colleen Cool;Robert S. Fish

  • Digital Divides From Access to Activities: Comparing Mobile and Personal Computer Internet Users

    Katy E. Pearce;Ronald E. Rice

  • RELATIONSHIPS OF JOB CATEGORIES AND ORGANIZATIONAL LEVELS TO USE OF COMMUNICATION CHANNELS, INCLUDING ELECTRONIC MAIL: A META-ANALYSIS AND EXTENSION*

    Ronald E. Rice;Douglas E. Shook

  • Video as a technology for informal communication

    Robert S. Fish;Robert E. Kraut;Robert W. Root;Ronald E. Rice

  • Electronic Message Systems in the University: A Description of Use and Utility

    Ronald E. Rice;Donald Case

  • The New Media: Communication, Research, and Technology

    Ronald E. Rice

Frequent Co-Authors

James E. Katz
James E. Katz Boston University
Robert E. Kraut
Robert E. Kraut Carnegie Mellon University
Christine L. Borgman
Christine L. Borgman University of California, Los Angeles
Ann Majchrzak
Ann Majchrzak University of Southern California
Arvind Malhotra
Arvind Malhotra University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill
Bert N. Uchino
Bert N. Uchino University of Utah
Everett M. Rogers
Everett M. Rogers University of New Mexico
Richard R. Clayton
Richard R. Clayton University of Kentucky
Noshir Contractor
Noshir Contractor Northwestern University
Mary Jane Rotheram-Borus
Mary Jane Rotheram-Borus University of California, Los Angeles

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