David Scales

1.1k total citations
47 papers, 746 citations indexed

About

David Scales is a scholar working on Sociology and Political Science, Health and Public Health, Environmental and Occupational Health. According to data from OpenAlex, David Scales has authored 47 papers receiving a total of 746 indexed citations (citations by other indexed papers that have themselves been cited), including 15 papers in Sociology and Political Science, 13 papers in Health and 9 papers in Public Health, Environmental and Occupational Health. Recurrent topics in David Scales's work include Misinformation and Its Impacts (13 papers), Vaccine Coverage and Hesitancy (12 papers) and COVID-19 epidemiological studies (5 papers). David Scales is often cited by papers focused on Misinformation and Its Impacts (13 papers), Vaccine Coverage and Hesitancy (12 papers) and COVID-19 epidemiological studies (5 papers). David Scales collaborates with scholars based in United States, Lebanon and Greece. David Scales's co-authors include Jack M. Gorman, Kathleen Hall Jamieson, Georgetta Cannon, Houping Ni, Drew Weissman, Ziad El‐Khatib, Jo Vearey, Birger C. Forsberg, John Capodici and Annie Dude and has published in prestigious journals such as Nature, New England Journal of Medicine and The Lancet.

In The Last Decade

David Scales

42 papers receiving 714 citations

Peers — A (Enhanced Table)

Peers by citation overlap · career bar shows stage (early→late) cites · hero ref

Name h Career Trend Papers Cites
David Scales United States 14 132 123 117 113 104 47 746
Patricia Morgan United States 14 95 0.7× 86 0.7× 63 0.5× 160 1.4× 77 0.7× 33 617
Anna N. Chard United States 17 87 0.7× 34 0.3× 125 1.1× 244 2.2× 133 1.3× 28 788
Mariam Siddiqui United States 14 60 0.5× 157 1.3× 32 0.3× 128 1.1× 233 2.2× 23 845
Rushina Cholera United States 15 62 0.5× 186 1.5× 91 0.8× 231 2.0× 47 0.5× 40 987
Pradip Dashraath Singapore 11 45 0.3× 82 0.7× 95 0.8× 246 2.2× 57 0.5× 27 1.3k
Pınar Okyay Türkiye 17 65 0.5× 54 0.4× 81 0.7× 136 1.2× 22 0.2× 59 1.1k
Abdulkarim Alrabiaah Saudi Arabia 15 67 0.5× 69 0.6× 72 0.6× 272 2.4× 186 1.8× 25 930
Eva H. Clark United States 15 96 0.7× 101 0.8× 59 0.5× 126 1.1× 71 0.7× 46 950
Juliette Lee United States 16 51 0.4× 280 2.3× 131 1.1× 225 2.0× 60 0.6× 27 1.2k
Kenneth A. Katz United States 25 137 1.0× 68 0.6× 77 0.7× 167 1.5× 21 0.2× 70 1.6k

Countries citing papers authored by David Scales

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Fields of papers citing papers by David Scales

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Physical SciencesHealth SciencesLife SciencesSocial Sciences

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Co-authorship network of co-authors of David Scales

This figure shows the co-authorship network connecting the top 25 collaborators of David Scales. A scholar is included among the top collaborators of David Scales based on the total number of citations received by their joint publications. Widths of edges represent the number of papers authors have co-authored together. Node borders signify the number of papers an author published with David Scales. David Scales is excluded from the visualization to improve readability, since they are connected to all nodes in the network.

All Works

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Purnat, Tina D, Elisabeth Wilhelm, Becky K White, et al.. (2025). Health promotion in the algorithmic age: recognizing the information environment as a determinant of health. Health Promotion International. 40(5). 3 indexed citations
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Purnat, Tina D, et al.. (2025). Trust is a verb: how to reimagine confidence in health systems. Health Promotion International. 41(1).
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Purnat, Tina D & David Scales. (2025). Health information in age of social media and influence. BMJ. 391. r2419–r2419.
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Scales, David, et al.. (2024). Perspectives and Recommendations from Hospitalized Patients with Substance Use Disorders: A Qualitative Study. Journal of General Internal Medicine. 39(11). 2087–2096. 2 indexed citations
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Luan, Danny, et al.. (2024). Point-of-care ultrasound (POCUS): Assessing patient satisfaction and socioemotional benefits in the hospital setting. PLoS ONE. 19(2). e0298665–e0298665. 5 indexed citations
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Titanji, Boghuma K, et al.. (2023). Pre-emptively tackling vaccine misinformation for a successful large-scale roll-out of malaria vaccines in Africa. The Lancet Infectious Diseases. 23(9). 997–999. 3 indexed citations
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Scales, David, et al.. (2022). Multiple Evanescent White Dot Syndrome Developing Three Days following Administration of mRNA-1273 Booster Vaccine: Case Report. Case Reports in Ophthalmology. 13(2). 570–577. 9 indexed citations
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Scales, David, et al.. (2022). Community-oriented Motivational Interviewing (MI): A novel framework extending MI to address COVID-19 vaccine misinformation in online social media platforms. Computers in Human Behavior. 141. 107609–107609. 10 indexed citations
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Shah, Adarsh, et al.. (2022). Community Health Worker Program Outcomes for Diabetes and Hypertension Control in West Bank Refugee Camps: A Retrospective Matched Cohort Study. Global Health Science and Practice. 10(5). e2200168–e2200168. 4 indexed citations
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Wiesner, Valerie L., David Scales, Nathan S. Johnson, et al.. (2020). Calcium–magnesium aluminosilicate (CMAS) interactions with ytterbium silicate environmental barrier coating material at elevated temperatures. Ceramics International. 46(10). 16733–16742. 42 indexed citations
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Scales, David, et al.. (2020). A Novel Viral Epidemic Collides with an Ancient Scourge: COVID-19 Associated with Tuberculosis. American Journal of Respiratory and Critical Care Medicine. 202(5). 748–749. 11 indexed citations
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Scales, David, et al.. (2015). Comparing timeliness, content, and disease severity of formal and informal source outbreak reporting. BMC Infectious Diseases. 15(1). 135–135. 23 indexed citations
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El‐Khatib, Ziad, David Scales, Jo Vearey, & Birger C. Forsberg. (2013). Syrian refugees, between rocky crisis in Syria and hard inaccessibility to healthcare services in Lebanon and Jordan. Conflict and Health. 7(1). 18–18. 81 indexed citations
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Scales, David, et al.. (2012). Forecasting High-Priority Infectious Disease Surveillance Regions: A Socioeconomic Model. Clinical Infectious Diseases. 56(4). 517–524. 7 indexed citations
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Chokshi, Dave A., et al.. (2007). Closing the access gap for health innovations: an open licensing proposal for universities. Globalization and Health. 3(1). 1–1. 59 indexed citations
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Scales, David, Houping Ni, Farida Shaheen, et al.. (2001). Nonproliferating Bystander CD4+ T Cells Lacking Activation Markers Support HIV Replication During Immune Activation. The Journal of Immunology. 166(10). 6437–6443. 22 indexed citations
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Weissman, Drew, Houping Ni, David Scales, et al.. (2000). HIV Gag mRNA Transfection of Dendritic Cells (DC) Delivers Encoded Antigen to MHC Class I and II Molecules, Causes DC Maturation, and Induces a Potent Human In Vitro Primary Immune Response. The Journal of Immunology. 165(8). 4710–4717. 147 indexed citations

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