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D-Index
45
Citations
11608
World Ranking
3796
National Ranking
1813

Thomas J. Johnson 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 Thomas J. Johnson sits on this spectrum.

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44 publications 570+

This scientist: 129 publications — 30th percentile

30% of scientists in this discipline score the same or lower.

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

Thomas J. Johnson 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 Thomas J. Johnson sits on this spectrum.

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This scientist: 45 D-Index — 52nd percentile

52% of scientists in this discipline score the same or lower.

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

Overview

Thomas J. Johnson is affiliated with The University of Texas at Austin in the United States. Their research primarily focuses on Environmental Science, with significant contributions in the subfields of Health, Toxicology and Mutagenesis, Global and Planetary Change, Speech and Hearing, Food Science, and Economics and Econometrics.

Their work covers a variety of topics related to health and the environment, including:

  • Health, Environment, Cognitive Aging
  • Impact of Light on Environment and Health
  • Urban Green Space and Health
  • Noise Effects and Management
  • Food Supply Chain Traceability
  • Cinema and Media Studies
  • Sexuality, Behavior, and Technology

Johnson has published papers in several venues, with notable frequent publications in:

  • arXiv (Cornell University)
  • IEEE Sensors Letters
  • Computational Urban Science
  • Data in Brief
  • Adaptation

Recent peer-reviewed papers authored or coauthored by Johnson include:

  • "DigitalExposome: quantifying impact of urban environment on wellbeing using sensor fusion and deep learning," 2023, Computational Urban Science
  • "Urban Wellbeing: A Portable Sensing Approach to Unravel the Link Between Environment and Mental Wellbeing," 2023, IEEE Sensors Letters
  • "DigitalExposome: A dataset for wellbeing classification using environmental air quality and human physiological data," 2025, Data in Brief
  • "Appropriation Anxiety: Watchmen (2019)," 2020, Adaptation

While Johnson is not the author of all items in the dataset, such as the paper on livestock monitoring published in 2024, their body of work remains centered on integrating environmental sensing technologies with health and wellbeing research.

The scientist frequently collaborates with several coauthors including:

  • Eiman Kanjo
  • Kieran Woodward
  • Bradley Patrick
  • Michael Gibbs
  • Amna Anwar

Best Publications

  • Wag the Blog: How Reliance on Traditional Media and the Internet Influence Credibility Perceptions of Weblogs Among Blog Users

    Thomas Jerrold Johnson;Barbara K. Kaye

  • Cruising is Believing?: Comparing Internet and Traditional Sources on Media Credibility Measures:

    Thomas Jerrold Johnson;Barbara K. Kaye

  • Online and in the Know: Uses and Gratifications of the Web for Political Information

    Barbara K. Kaye;Thomas J. Johnson

  • The Revolution Will be Networked

    Weiwu Zhang;Thomas J. Johnson;Trent Seltzer;Shannon L. Bichard

  • Using is believing: The influence of reliance on the credibility of online political information among politically interested internet users

    Thomas Jerrold Johnson;Barbara K. Kaye

  • Every Blog Has Its Day: Politically-interested Internet Users' Perceptions of Blog Credibility

    Thomas J. Johnson;Barbara K. Kaye;Shannon L. Bichard;W. Joann Wong

  • Research methodology: Taming the cyber frontier: Techniques for improving online surveys

    Barbara K. Kaye;Thomas Jerrold Johnson

  • Webelievability: A Path Model Examining How Convenience and Reliance Predict Online Credibility:

    Thomas Jerrold Johnson;Barbara K. Kaye

  • A boost or bust for democracy? How the web influenced political attitudes and behaviors in the 1996 and 2000 presidential elections

    Thomas Jerrold Johnson;Barbara K. Kaye

  • A web for all reasons: uses and gratifications of internet components for political information

    Barbara K. Kaye;Thomas J. Johnson

  • In blog we trust? Deciphering credibility of components of the internet among politically interested internet users

    Thomas J. Johnson;Barbara K. Kaye

  • The Arab Spring| Overthrowing the Protest Paradigm? How The New York Times, Global Voices and Twitter Covered the Egyptian Revolution

    Summer Harlow;Thomas J. Johnson

  • Overthrowing the Protest Paradigm? How The New York Times, Global Voices and Twitter Covered the Egyptian Revolution

    Summer Harlow;Thomas J. Johnson

  • Environmentalism and NIMBYism in China: promoting a rules-based approach to public participation

    Thomas Johnson

  • From here to obscurity?: media substitution theory and traditional media in an on-line world

    Barbara K. Kaye;Thomas J. Johnson

  • Credibility of Social Network Sites for Political Information Among Politically Interested Internet Users

    Thomas J. Johnson;Barbara K. Kaye

  • Communication Communities or CyberGhettos?: A Path Analysis Model Examining Factors that Explain Selective Exposure to Blogs

    Thomas Jerrold Johnson;Shannon L. Bichard;Weiwu Zhang

  • Spreading Ebola Panic: Newspaper and Social Media Coverage of the 2014 Ebola Health Crisis

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  • Doing the Traditional Media Sidestep: Comparing the Effects of the Internet and Other Nontraditional Media with Traditional Media in the 1996 Presidential Campaign:

    Thomas Jerrold Johnson;Mahmoud A.M. Braima;Jayanthi Sothirajah

  • Demonstration of ignition radiation temperatures in indirect-drive inertial confinement fusion hohlraums.

    S. H. Glenzer;B. J. MacGowan;N. B. Meezan;P. A. Adams

  • Choosing Is Believing? How Web Gratifications and Reliance Affect Internet Credibility Among Politically Interested Users

    Thomas Jerrold Johnson;Barbara Kaye

  • Around the world wide web in 80 ways: how motives for going online are linked to internet activities among politically interested internet users

    Thomas J. Johnson;Barbara K. Kaye

  • "How We Performed": Embedded Journalists' Attitudes and Perceptions towards Covering the Iraq War

    Shahira Fahmy;Thomas J. Johnson

  • Site Effects: How Reliance on Social Media Influences Confidence in the Government and News Media

    Thomas J. Johnson;Barbara K. Kaye

Frequent Co-Authors

Barbara K. Kaye
Barbara K. Kaye University of Tennessee at Knoxville
Gregory B. Pasternack
Gregory B. Pasternack University of California, Davis
Wayne Wanta
Wayne Wanta University of Florida
Michael Stadermann
Michael Stadermann Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory
S. W. Haan
S. W. Haan Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory
Otto Landen
Otto Landen Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory
A. J. Mackinnon
A. J. Mackinnon Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory
B. J. MacGowan
B. J. MacGowan Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory
Siegfried Glenzer
Siegfried Glenzer Stanford University
Sally Andrews
Sally Andrews University of Sydney

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