Arul Chib

2.4k total citations · 1 hit paper
75 papers, 1.5k citations indexed

About

Arul Chib is a scholar working on Sociology and Political Science, Information Systems and General Health Professions. According to data from OpenAlex, Arul Chib has authored 75 papers receiving a total of 1.5k indexed citations (citations by other indexed papers that have themselves been cited), including 34 papers in Sociology and Political Science, 22 papers in Information Systems and 16 papers in General Health Professions. Recurrent topics in Arul Chib's work include ICT in Developing Communities (22 papers), Mobile Health and mHealth Applications (14 papers) and ICT Impact and Policies (11 papers). Arul Chib is often cited by papers focused on ICT in Developing Communities (22 papers), Mobile Health and mHealth Applications (14 papers) and ICT Impact and Policies (11 papers). Arul Chib collaborates with scholars based in Singapore, United States and United Kingdom. Arul Chib's co-authors include Josip Car, Michelle Helena van Velthoven, Holley A. Wilkin, Vivian Hsueh Hua Chen, May O. Lwin, Shelly Malik, Rich Ling, Jeong‐Nam Kim, Seungyoon Lee and Saifuddin Ahmed and has published in prestigious journals such as Frontiers in Psychology, Journal of the Association for Information Systems and New Media & Society.

In The Last Decade

Arul Chib

71 papers receiving 1.4k citations

Hit Papers

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Hit papers significantly outperform the citation benchmark for their cohort. A paper qualifies if it has ≥500 total citations, achieves ≥1.5× the top-1% citation threshold for papers in the same subfield and year (this is the minimum needed to enter the top 1%, not the average within it), or reaches the top citation threshold in at least one of its specific research topics.

mHealth Adoption in Low-Resource Environments: A Review of the Use of Mobile Healthcare in Developing Countries

2014 258 citations Arul Chib et al. Journal of Health Communication profile →

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Name	h						Papers	Cites
Arul Chib Singapore	19	630	444	426	195	146	75	1.5k
Timothy M. Hale United States	13	329 0.5×	133 0.3×	541 1.3×	330 1.7×	234 1.6×	25	1.4k
Deborah J. Armstrong United States	22	211 0.3×	340 0.8×	399 0.9×	90 0.5×	188 1.3×	75	2.4k
Albert Abane Ghana	20	290 0.5×	226 0.5×	400 0.9×	63 0.3×	35 0.2×	50	1.2k
Sophie Dupéré Canada	14	351 0.6×	143 0.3×	380 0.9×	61 0.3×	58 0.4×	63	1.2k
Susannah Fox United States	13	573 0.9×	84 0.2×	427 1.0×	82 0.4×	210 1.4×	16	1.3k
Victor Mbarika United States	23	461 0.7×	333 0.8×	287 0.7×	32 0.2×	128 0.9×	101	2.0k
Jae Eun Chung United States	20	237 0.4×	120 0.3×	864 2.0×	99 0.5×	369 2.5×	58	1.7k
Schuster United States	2	313 0.5×	133 0.3×	263 0.6×	30 0.2×	103 0.7×	3	1.4k
Rocco Palumbo Italy	27	809 1.3×	75 0.2×	525 1.2×	89 0.5×	39 0.3×	124	2.3k
Janice Gosby United Kingdom	4	300 0.5×	153 0.3×	367 0.9×	51 0.3×	73 0.5×	8	1.7k

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Co-authorship network of co-authors of Arul Chib

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Ahmed, Saifuddin, et al.. (2024). When experiencing discrimination predicts greater outgroup affiliation: The role of intergroup mobility in moderating rejection-(Dis)identification patterns. International Journal of Intercultural Relations. 101. 102004–102004.

Ahmed, Saifuddin, et al.. (2024). Two sides of a coin: understanding social media use and its relationships to online perceived discrimination and life satisfaction. Asian Journal of Communication. 34(6). 599–617.

Chib, Arul, et al.. (2022). Co-opted Marginality in a Controlled Media Environment: The Influence of Social Media Affordances on the Immigration Discourse. Data Archiving and Networked Services (DANS). 5(1-4). 1–15. 2 indexed citations

Ahmed, Saifuddin, et al.. (2021). Social media use and anti-immigrant attitudes: evidence from a survey and automated linguistic analysis of Facebook posts. Asian Journal of Communication. 31(4). 276–298. 8 indexed citations

Ahmed, Saifuddin, Vivian Hsueh Hua Chen, & Arul Chib. (2021). Xenophobia in the Time of a Pandemic: Social Media Use, Stereotypes, and Prejudice against Immigrants during the COVID-19 Crisis. International Journal of Public Opinion Research. 33(3). 637–653. 33 indexed citations

Chen, Vivian Hsueh Hua, Saifuddin Ahmed, & Arul Chib. (2021). The Role of Social Media Behaviors and Structural Intergroup Relations on Immigrant Stereotypes. International journal of communication. 15. 24. 6 indexed citations

Chib, Arul, et al.. (2020). Differential influences of social support on app use for diabetes self-management – a mixed methods approach. BMC Medical Informatics and Decision Making. 20(1). 13 indexed citations

Rossmann, Constanze, Claudia Riesmeyer, Veronika Karnowski, et al.. (2019). Appropriation of Mobile Health for Diabetes Self-Management: Lessons From Two Qualitative Studies. JMIR Diabetes. 4(1). e10271–e10271. 16 indexed citations

Chib, Arul, et al.. (2018). A critical narrative approach to openness: The impact of open development on structural transformation. Information Systems Journal. 29(4). 787–810. 2 indexed citations

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Chib, Arul, et al.. (2018). Distributed digital contexts and learning: Personal empowerment and social transformation in marginalized populations. Comunicar. 27(58). 51–61. 12 indexed citations

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Ling, Richard, et al.. (2018). The Flip: Mobile Communication of North Korean Migrant Women During Their Journey to South Korea. International journal of communication. 12. 20. 1 indexed citations

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Jiang, Qiaolei, et al.. (2016). Silent but Brewing - Reactive Ethnicity and Interculturality among Chinese Students in Singapore. Journal of Intercultural Communication. 16(1). 1–16. 2 indexed citations

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Karnowski, Veronika, et al.. (2015). Mobile Phone Appropriation and Migrant Acculturation: A Case Study of an Indian Community in Singapore. International journal of communication. 9. 22. 10 indexed citations

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Chib, Arul & Qiaolei Jiang. (2014). Investigating Modern-DayTalaria:Mobile Phones and the Mobility-Impaired in Singapore. Journal of Computer-Mediated Communication. 19(3). 695–711. 16 indexed citations

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Zhang, Weiyu & Arul Chib. (2013). Internet Studies and Development Discourses: The Cases of China and India. Information Technology for Development. 20(4). 324–338. 9 indexed citations

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Chib, Arul, et al.. (2013). International Migrant Workers’ Use of Mobile Phones to Seek Social Support in Singapore. Information Technologies and International Development. 9(4). 19–34. 55 indexed citations

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Chib, Arul, et al.. (2012). The Hope of Mobile Phones in Indian Rural Healthcare. 6(1). 18 indexed citations

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Chib, Arul & Roger W. Harris. (2012). Linking Research to Practice: Strengthening ICT for Development Research Capacity in Asia. TU Digital Collections (Thammasat University). 8 indexed citations

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Chib, Arul, et al.. (2012). You Have an Important Message! Evaluating the Effectiveness of a Text Message HIV/AIDS Campaign in Northwest Uganda. Journal of Health Communication. 17(sup1). 146–157. 74 indexed citations

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Chib, Arul, et al.. (2009). Extending the technology-community-management model to disaster recovery: assessing vulnerability in rural Asia. 328–336. 14 indexed citations

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