2026 Alan R. Dennis: Business and Management Researcher – H-Index, Publications & Awards

Discipline name	D-Index	World Ranking	Current World Ranking	National Ranking	Current National Ranking	Publications	Citations
Computer Science	78	1175	1136	623	599	285	31253
Business and Management	77	185	171	92	84	241	30737

Research.com Recognitions

2026 - Research.com Business and Management in United States Leader Award
2021 - AIS LEO Award, Association for Information Systems
2012 - Fellow of the Association for Information Systems (AIS)

Overview

Alan R. Dennis is affiliated with Indiana University in the United States, with a research focus primarily spanning social sciences and computer science. Their work is distributed over multiple subfields including sociology and political science, communication, artificial intelligence, information systems, and social psychology.

The scientist's research topics cover areas such as misinformation and its impacts, knowledge management and sharing, digital marketing and social media, AI in service interactions, technology adoption and user behaviour, hate speech and cyberbullying detection, and team dynamics and performance.

Frequent coauthors of Alan R. Dennis include:

Antino Kim
Ching-I Teng
Tzu-Ling Huang
Lingyao Yuan
Gen-Yih Liao

Prominent venues for their publications comprise:

Proceedings of the Annual Hawaii International Conference on System Sciences
Journal of Management Information Systems
Decision Support Systems
Information Systems Research
International Journal of Information Management

Notable recent papers authored by Alan R. Dennis include:

"AI Agents as Team Members: Effects on Satisfaction, Conflict, Trustworthiness, and Willingness to Work With" (2023), Journal of Management Information Systems
"Digital Nudging: Numeric and Semantic Priming in E-Commerce" (2020), Journal of Management Information Systems
"User reactions to COVID-19 screening chatbots from reputable providers" (2020), Journal of the American Medical Informatics Association

Other relevant papers in the wider research context that are associated closely with the themes Alan R. Dennis addresses include:

"Appealing to Sense and Sensibility: System 1 and System 2 Interventions for Fake News on Social Media" (2020), Information Systems Research
"Have We Crossed the Uncanny Valley? Understanding Affinity, Trustworthiness, and Preference for Realistic Digital Humans in Immersive Environments" (2021), Journal of the Association for Information Systems

Alan R. Dennis has received professional recognition including the AIS LEO Award from the Association for Information Systems in 2021 and was named a Fellow of the Association for Information Systems in 2012.

Best Publications

Electronic meeting systems

J. F. Nunamaker;Alan R. Dennis;Joseph S. Valacich;Douglas Vogel

2662
Citations
Media, tasks, and communication processes: a theory of media synchronicity

Alan R. Dennis;Robert M. Fuller;Joseph S. Valacich

1951
Citations
Testing Media Richness Theory in the New Media: the Effects of Cues, Feedback, and Task Equivocality

Alan R. Dennis;Susan T. Kinney

1512
Citations
Rethinking media richness: towards a theory of media synchronicity

A.R. Dennis;J.S. Valacich

1460
Citations
Systems Analysis and Design: An Object-Oriented Approach with UML

Alan Dennis;Barbara Haley Wixom;David Tegarden

1173
Citations
Information technology to support electronic meetings

Alan R. Dennis;Joey F. George;Len M. Jessup;Jay F. Nunamaker

1167
Citations
ELECTRONIC BRAINSTORMING AND GROUP SIZE

R. Brent Gallupe;Alan R. Dennis;William H. Cooper;Joseph S. Valacich

1069
Citations
Computer brainstorms: More heads are better than one.

Alan R. Dennis;Joseph S. Valacich

864
Citations
Understanding fit and appropriation effects in group support systems via meta-analysis

Alan R. Dennis;Barbara H. Wixom;Robert J. Vandenberg

847
Citations
Predicting Collaboration Technology Use: Integrating Technology Adoption and Collaboration Research

Susan Brown;Alan Dennis;Viswanath Venkatesh

816
Citations
On the use of neurophysiological tools in is research: developing a research agenda for neurois

Angelika Dimoka;Rajiv D. Banker;Izak Benbasat;Fred D. Davis

716
Citations
Idea Generation in Computer-Based Groups: A New Ending to an Old Story

Joseph S. Valacich;Alan R. Dennis;Terry Connolly

652
Citations
Information exchange and use in group decision making: you can lead a group to information, but you can't make it think

Alan R. Dennis

618
Citations
Social Capital and Knowledge Integration in Digitally Enabled Teams

Lionel P. Robert;Alan R. Dennis;Manju K. Ahuja

531
Citations
Paradox of richness: a cognitive model of media choice

L.P. Robert;A.R. Dennis

433
Citations
Group Size and Anonymity Effects on Computer-Mediated Idea Generation:

Joseph S. Valacich;Alan R. Dennis;J. F. Nunamaker

425
Citations
Serving Constituencies In Business Schools: M.B.A. Program Versus Research Performance

James S. Trieschmann;Alan R. Dennis;Gregory B. Northcraft;Albert W. Nieme

399
Citations
Fake News on Social Media: People Believe What They Want to Believe When it Makes No Sense At All

Patricia L. Moravec;Randall K. Minas;Alan R. Dennis

383
Citations
Information technology for negotiating groups: generating options for mutual gain

J. F. Nunamaker;Alan R. Dennis;Joseph S. Valacich;Douglas R. Vogel

330
Citations
A comparison of laboratory and field research in the study of electronic meeting systems

Alan R. Dennis;Jay F. Nunamaker;Douglas R. Vogel

329
Citations
The adoption and use of GSS in project teams: toward more participative processes and outcomes

Alan R. Dennis;Monica J. Garfield

315
Citations
Says Who?: The Effects of Presentation Format and Source Rating on Fake News in Social Media

Antino Kim;Alan R. Dennis

250
Citations

Frequent Co-Authors

Joseph S. Valacich University of Arizona

Jay F. Nunamaker University of Arizona

Douglas R. Vogel Harbin Institute of Technology

Susan A. Brown University of Arizona

Joey F. George Iowa State University

Dennis F. Galletta University of Pittsburgh

Carol Saunders University of Central Florida

Jan C. Recker Universität Hamburg

Suprateek Sarker University of Virginia

Ting-Peng Liang National Sun Yat-sen University

External Links

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