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Citations
9684
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2776
National Ranking
1344

Overview

Sherry Emery is affiliated with the University of Chicago in the United States. Their research primarily focuses on medicine and social sciences, with a significant number of publications in the fields of physiology, sociology and political science, public health, environmental and occupational health, communication, and health, toxicology and mutagenesis.

Their main topics of study include smoking behavior and cessation, obesity, physical activity, diet, air quality and health impacts, behavioral health and interventions, media influence and health, misinformation and its impacts, and social media and politics.

Emery has published extensively in several academic journals, with frequent contributions to Tobacco Control, Nicotine & Tobacco Research, UNC Libraries, International Journal of Environmental Research and Public Health, and Social Media + Society.

Notable recent papers include:

  • Boosting Health Campaign Reach and Engagement Through Use of Social Media Influencers and Memes (2020, Social Media + Society)
  • Widening Disparities in Cigarette Smoking by Race/Ethnicity Across Education Level in the United States (2020, Preventive Medicine)
  • Nicotine Pouch Unit Sales in the US, 2016-2020 (2021, JAMA)
  • Tobacco Promotion Restriction Policies on Social Media (2022, Tobacco Control)
  • E-cigarette Advertising Expenditures in the United States, 2014-2018 (2020, Tobacco Control)

Emery frequently collaborates with several researchers including Yoonsang Kim, Ganna Kostygina, Mateusz Borowiecki, Hy Tran, and Barbara Schillo, reflecting a network of active partnerships in tobacco control and public health research.

Best Publications

  • Vaping versus JUULing: how the extraordinary growth and marketing of JUUL transformed the US retail e-cigarette market.

    Jidong Huang;Zongshuan Duan;Julian Kwok;Steven Binns

  • A Nationwide Analysis of US Racial/Ethnic Disparities in Smoking Behaviors, Smoking Cessation, and Cessation-Related Factors

    Dennis R. Trinidad;Eliseo J. Pérez-Stable;Martha M. White;Sherry L. Emery

  • HAS THE CALIFORNIA TOBACCO CONTROL PROGRAM REDUCED SMOKING

    John P. Pierce;Elizabeth A. Gilpin;Sherry L. Emery;Martha M. White

  • A cross-sectional examination of marketing of electronic cigarettes on Twitter.

    Jidong Huang;Rachel Kornfield;Glen Szczypka;Sherry L Emery

  • The End of the Injury Severity Score (ISS) and the Trauma and Injury Severity Score (TRISS): ICISS, an International Classification of Diseases, Ninth Revision-Based Prediction Tool, Outperforms Both ISS and TRISS as Predictors of Trauma Patient Survival, Hospital Charges, and Hospital Length of Stay

    Robert Rutledge;Turner Osler;Sherry Emery;Sharon Kromhout-Schiro

  • Intermittent and light daily smoking across racial/ethnic groups in the United States.

    Dennis R. Trinidad;Eliseo J. Pérez-Stable;Sherry L. Emery;Martha M. White

  • Reasons for Starting and Stopping Electronic Cigarette Use

    Jessica K. Pepper;Kurt M. Ribisl;Sherry L. Emery;Noel T. Brewer

  • Effect of Televised, Tobacco Company–Funded Smoking Prevention Advertising on Youth Smoking-Related Beliefs, Intentions, and Behavior

    Melanie Wakefield;Yvonne Terry-McElrath;Sherry Emery;Henry Saffer

  • Characterizing and identifying "hard-core" smokers: implications for further reducing smoking prevalence.

    Sherry Emery;Elizabeth A. Gilpin;Chris Ake;Arthur J. Farkas

  • Use of tobacco cessation treatments among young adult smokers: 2005 National Health Interview Survey.

    Susan J. Curry;Amy K. Sporer;Oksana Pugach;Richard T. Campbell

  • Transgender Use of Cigarettes, Cigars, and E-Cigarettes in a National Study

    Francisco O. Buchting;Kristen T. Emory;Scout;Yoonsang Kim

  • Garbage in, Garbage Out: Data Collection, Quality Assessment and Reporting Standards for Social Media Data Use in Health Research, Infodemiology and Digital Disease Detection

    Yoonsang Kim;Jidong Huang;Sherry L. Emery

  • Boosting Health Campaign Reach and Engagement Through Use of Social Media Influencers and Memes

    Ganna Kostygina;Hy Tran;Steven Binns;Glen Szczypka

  • Wanna know about vaping? Patterns of message exposure, seeking and sharing information about e-cigarettes across media platforms

    Sherry L Emery;Lisa Vera;Jidong Huang;Glen Szczypka

  • What public health strategies are needed to reduce smoking initiation

    John P Pierce;Victoria M White;Sherry L Emery

  • The Economics of Tobacco and Tobacco Control

    Arnab Acharya;Kathryn Angus;Samira Asma;Douglas W Bettcher

  • Televised State-Sponsored Antitobacco Advertising and Youth Smoking Beliefs and Behavior in the United States, 1999-2000

    Sherry Emery;Melanie A. Wakefield;Yvonne Terry-McElrath;Henry Saffer

  • How risky is it to use e-cigarettes?: Smokers' beliefs about their health risks from using novel and traditional tobacco products

    Jessica K. Pepper;Sherry L. Emery;Kurt M. Ribisl;Christine Marie Rini

  • Tobacco promotion restriction policies on social media

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  • Does cigarette price influence adolescent experimentation

    Sherry Emery;Martha M. White;John P. Pierce

  • The effect of antismoking advertisement executional characteristics on youth comprehension, appraisal, recall, and engagement.

    Yvonne Terry-Mcelrath;Melanie Wakefield;Erin Ruel;George I. Balch

Frequent Co-Authors

Brian R. Flay
Brian R. Flay Boise State University
Kurt M. Ribisl
Kurt M. Ribisl University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill
Yvonne M. Terry-McElrath
Yvonne M. Terry-McElrath University of Michigan–Ann Arbor
Robin J. Mermelstein
Robin J. Mermelstein University of Illinois at Chicago
Lloyd D. Johnston
Lloyd D. Johnston University of Michigan–Ann Arbor
Patrick M. O'Malley
Patrick M. O'Malley University of Michigan–Ann Arbor
Noel T. Brewer
Noel T. Brewer University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill
Elizabeth C. Hair
Elizabeth C. Hair Johns Hopkins University
Henry Saffer
Henry Saffer National Bureau of Economic Research
Lisa M. Powell
Lisa M. Powell University of Illinois at Chicago

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