Tom Valente

742 total citations · 1 hit paper
8 papers, 516 citations indexed

About

Tom Valente is a scholar working on Sociology and Political Science, Communication and General Health Professions. According to data from OpenAlex, Tom Valente has authored 8 papers receiving a total of 516 indexed citations (citations by other indexed papers that have themselves been cited), including 4 papers in Sociology and Political Science, 2 papers in Communication and 2 papers in General Health Professions. Recurrent topics in Tom Valente's work include Impact of Technology on Adolescents (3 papers), Social Media and Politics (2 papers) and Youth Development and Social Support (1 paper). Tom Valente is often cited by papers focused on Impact of Technology on Adolescents (3 papers), Social Media and Politics (2 papers) and Youth Development and Social Support (1 paper). Tom Valente collaborates with scholars based in United States, Switzerland and Canada. Tom Valente's co-authors include Jennifer B. Unger, Michele Mouttapa, Peggy Gallaher, Louise A. Rohrbach, Anthony J. Hanley, Stewart B. Harris, Bernard Zinman, Brit I. Saksvig, Joel Gittelsohn and Julia Vassey and has published in prestigious journals such as The Lancet, PLoS ONE and Journal of Nutrition.

In The Last Decade

Tom Valente

8 papers receiving 469 citations

Hit Papers

align trajectories

What are hit papers?

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.

E-cigarette brands and social media influencers on Instagram: a social network analysis

2022 103 citations Julia Vassey, Tom Valente et al. Tobacco Control profile →

Peers — A (Enhanced Table)

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

Name	h						Papers	Cites
Tom Valente United States	8	166	123	115	107	101	8	516
Fabrizia Giannotta Sweden	15	114 0.7×	152 1.2×	98 0.9×	72 0.7×	106 1.0×	44	661
Gabriela Nazar Chile	12	120 0.7×	175 1.4×	65 0.6×	111 1.0×	58 0.6×	93	516
Beth R. Hoffman United States	8	205 1.2×	231 1.9×	240 2.1×	82 0.8×	71 0.7×	10	893
Rachel Smith Australia	12	222 1.3×	199 1.6×	111 1.0×	39 0.4×	210 2.1×	27	676
JongSerl Chun South Korea	17	227 1.4×	147 1.2×	332 2.9×	127 1.2×	193 1.9×	110	1.0k
Erik Crankshaw United States	10	116 0.7×	158 1.3×	113 1.0×	123 1.1×	19 0.2×	19	615
Jaime M. Booth United States	16	90 0.5×	229 1.9×	204 1.8×	51 0.5×	84 0.8×	47	650
Janet Okamoto United States	11	56 0.3×	180 1.5×	201 1.7×	133 1.2×	41 0.4×	29	737
Natasha Fitzgerald‐Yau United Kingdom	9	176 1.1×	180 1.5×	81 0.7×	83 0.8×	168 1.7×	12	546
Kit‐Aun Tan Malaysia	14	215 1.3×	66 0.5×	228 2.0×	44 0.4×	132 1.3×	51	621

Countries citing papers authored by Tom Valente

Since Specialization

Citations

This map shows the geographic impact of Tom Valente's research. It shows the number of citations coming from papers published by authors working in each country. You can also color the map by specialization and compare the number of citations received by Tom Valente with the expected number of citations based on a country's size and research output (numbers larger than one mean the country cites Tom Valente more than expected).

Fields of papers citing papers by Tom Valente

Since Specialization

Physical SciencesHealth SciencesLife SciencesSocial Sciences

This network shows the impact of papers produced by Tom Valente. Nodes represent research fields, and links connect fields that are likely to share authors. Colored nodes show fields that tend to cite the papers produced by Tom Valente. The network helps show where Tom Valente may publish in the future.

Co-authorship network of co-authors of Tom Valente

This figure shows the co-authorship network connecting the top 25 collaborators of Tom Valente. A scholar is included among the top collaborators of Tom Valente 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 Tom Valente. Tom Valente is excluded from the visualization to improve readability, since they are connected to all nodes in the network.

All Works

Sort: Min cites: Since: Top N: Style:

8 of 8 papers shown

1.

Vassey, Julia, Ho-Chun Herbert Chang, Tom Valente, & Jennifer B. Unger. (2024). Worldwide connections of influencers who promote e-cigarettes on Instagram and TikTok: A social network analysis. Computers in Human Behavior. 165. 108545–108545. 7 indexed citations

2.

Vassey, Julia, Tom Valente, Joshua Barker, et al.. (2022). E-cigarette brands and social media influencers on Instagram: a social network analysis. Tobacco Control. 32(e2). e184–e191. 103 indexed citations breakdown →

3.

Naanyu, Violet, Gerald S. Bloomfield, David Edelman, et al.. (2021). Chronic disease stigma, skepticism of the health system, and socio-economic fragility: Qualitative assessment of factors impacting receptiveness to group medical visits and microfinance for non-communicable disease care in rural Kenya. PLoS ONE. 16(6). e0248496–e0248496. 9 indexed citations

4.

Hunter, Ruth F., Kayla de la Haye, Jennifer Badham, et al.. (2017). Social network interventions for health behaviour change: a systematic review. The Lancet. 390. S47–S47. 17 indexed citations

5.

Quintane, Eric, Adam M. Kleinbaum, Galina Daraganova, et al.. (2011). Matter Over Mind? E-mail Data and the Measurement of Social Networks. 33 indexed citations

6.

Ritt‐Olson, Anamara, Jennifer B. Unger, Tom Valente, et al.. (2005). Exploring Peers as a Mediator of the Association Between Depression and Smoking in Young Adolescents. Substance Use & Misuse. 40(1). 77–98. 33 indexed citations

7.

Saksvig, Brit I., Joel Gittelsohn, Stewart B. Harris, et al.. (2005). A Pilot School-Based Healthy Eating and Physical Activity Intervention Improves Diet, Food Knowledge, and Self-Efficacy for Native Canadian Children. Journal of Nutrition. 135(10). 2392–2398. 140 indexed citations

8.

Mouttapa, Michele, Tom Valente, Peggy Gallaher, Louise A. Rohrbach, & Jennifer B. Unger. (2004). Social network predictors of bullying and victimization.. PubMed. 39(154). 315–35. 174 indexed citations

Rankless uses publication and citation data sourced from OpenAlex, an open and comprehensive bibliographic database. While OpenAlex provides broad and valuable coverage of the global research landscape, it—like all bibliographic datasets—has inherent limitations. These include incomplete records, variations in author disambiguation, differences in journal indexing, and delays in data updates. As a result, some metrics and network relationships displayed in Rankless may not fully capture the entirety of a scholar's output or impact.

Explore authors with similar magnitude of impact