Bruce H. Westley

1.6k total citations · 1 hit paper
26 papers, 978 citations indexed

About

Bruce H. Westley is a scholar working on Education, Communication and Literature and Literary Theory. According to data from OpenAlex, Bruce H. Westley has authored 26 papers receiving a total of 978 indexed citations (citations by other indexed papers that have themselves been cited), including 5 papers in Education, 3 papers in Communication and 3 papers in Literature and Literary Theory. Recurrent topics in Bruce H. Westley's work include Social Media and Politics (3 papers), Literacy, Media, and Education (3 papers) and Digital Storytelling and Education (2 papers). Bruce H. Westley is often cited by papers focused on Social Media and Politics (3 papers), Literacy, Media, and Education (3 papers) and Digital Storytelling and Education (2 papers). Bruce H. Westley collaborates with scholars based in United States. Bruce H. Westley's co-authors include Malcolm MacLean, Jeanne C. Watson, Ronald Lippitt, Richard Brotman, Werner J. Severin, Guido H. Stempel, Steven H. Chaffee, Mervin D. Lynch and Timothy Burke and has published in prestigious journals such as American Sociological Review, Journal of Communication and American Behavioral Scientist.

In The Last Decade

Bruce H. Westley

25 papers receiving 701 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.

The Dynamics of Planned Change.

1958 339 citations Richard Brotman, Ronald Lippitt et al. American Sociological Review profile →

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Name	h						Papers	Cites
Bruce H. Westley United States	10	269	263	114	112	87	26	978
John T. Gullahorn United States	11	401 1.5×	263 1.0×	110 1.0×	185 1.7×	29 0.3×	20	888
Kim Giffin United States	10	147 0.5×	365 1.4×	230 2.0×	60 0.5×	51 0.6×	32	921
Richard W. Budd United States	10	145 0.5×	209 0.8×	54 0.5×	165 1.5×	37 0.4×	25	708
Phillip K. Tompkins United States	13	289 1.1×	384 1.5×	615 5.4×	58 0.5×	117 1.3×	39	1.2k
Michael J Papa United States	17	245 0.9×	359 1.4×	200 1.8×	97 0.9×	196 2.3×	38	995
Lawrence C. Soley United States	19	206 0.8×	399 1.5×	62 0.5×	54 0.5×	79 0.9×	56	1.2k
Theodore E. Zorn New Zealand	19	239 0.9×	349 1.3×	311 2.7×	120 1.1×	60 0.7×	48	1.0k
A. A. Lumsdaine United States	4	171 0.6×	448 1.7×	60 0.5×	66 0.6×	97 1.1×	8	858
Cora Marrett United States	12	63 0.2×	221 0.8×	84 0.7×	197 1.8×	16 0.2×	22	817
Elfreda A. Chatman United States	19	653 2.4×	572 2.2×	32 0.3×	176 1.6×	44 0.5×	26	1.8k

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Stempel, Guido H. & Bruce H. Westley. (1981). Research methods in mass communication. Prentice Hall eBooks. 116 indexed citations

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Westley, Bruce H.. (1976). Setting the Political Agenda: What Makes It Change?.. 3 indexed citations

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Westley, Bruce H.. (1976). What Makes It Change?. Journal of Communication. 26(2). 43–47. 4 indexed citations

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Westley, Bruce H.. (1971). Communication and Social Change. American Behavioral Scientist. 14(5). 719–743. 31 indexed citations

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Westley, Bruce H., et al.. (1970). An Information Campaign That Changed Community Attitudes. Journalism Quarterly. 47(3). 479–492. 33 indexed citations

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Westley, Bruce H. & Werner J. Severin. (1965). Viewer location and student achievement. AV communication review. 13(3). 270–274. 4 indexed citations

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Westley, Bruce H. & Werner J. Severin. (1964). Some Correlates of Media Credibility. Journalism Quarterly. 41(3). 325–335. 103 indexed citations

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Westley, Bruce H. & Werner J. Severin. (1964). A Profile of the Daily Newspaper Non-Reader. Journalism Quarterly. 41(1). 45–156. 29 indexed citations

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Westley, Bruce H., et al.. (1964). AN EXPERIMENTAL STUDY OF THE USE OF TELEVISION IN TEACHING BASIC NURSING SKILLS. Nursing Research. 13(3). 205???209–205???209. 2 indexed citations

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Westley, Bruce H., et al.. (1963). Instructional television and student attitudes toward teacher, course, and medium. 11(3). 47–60. 3 indexed citations

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Westley, Bruce H., et al.. (1963). The News Magazines and the 1960 Conventions. Journalism Quarterly. 40(4). 525–647. 4 indexed citations

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Westley, Bruce H., et al.. (1962). Dimensions of teachers’ attitudes toward instructional television. 10(3). 179–185. 5 indexed citations

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Westley, Bruce H. & Mervin D. Lynch. (1962). Multiple Factor Analysis of Dichotomous Audience Data. Journalism Quarterly. 39(3). 369–372. 2 indexed citations

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Westley, Bruce H., et al.. (1960). A closer look at the non‐television household. Journal of Broadcasting. 4(2). 164–173. 6 indexed citations

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Westley, Bruce H., et al.. (1959). Comparative teaching effectiveness of radio and television. 7(2). 14–23. 22 indexed citations

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Westley, Bruce H.. (1958). Journalism Research and Scientific Method: I. Journalism Quarterly. 35(2). 161–169. 1 indexed citations

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Westley, Bruce H.. (1958). Journalism Research and Scientific Method: II. Journalism Quarterly. 35(3). 307–316. 1 indexed citations

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Brotman, Richard, Ronald Lippitt, Jeanne C. Watson, & Bruce H. Westley. (1958). The Dynamics of Planned Change.. American Sociological Review. 23(3). 341–341. 339 indexed citations breakdown →

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Westley, Bruce H. & Malcolm MacLean. (1957). A Conceptual Model for Communications Research. Journalism Quarterly. 34(1). 31–38. 103 indexed citations

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MacLean, Malcolm & Bruce H. Westley. (1955). Research on “fortuitous” communication: A review. Educational Technology Research and Development. 3(2). 119–137. 1 indexed citations

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