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Danny Valdez

Psychology · Indiana University

OpenAlex ORCID
Mid career · publishing since 2012
Mental Health via WritingSocial Media in Health EducationMisinformation and Its ImpactsDigital Mental Health InterventionsHealth Literacy and Information Accessibility

Publications

86

Citations

1,103

Est. group size

—

Recurring co-author estimate

Active years

15

Publishing since 2012

Research summary
AI-generated

Danny Valdez studies how people discuss health, mental health, and behavior on social media and other online platforms, using computational text-analysis methods to make sense of large amounts of user-generated content. Projects examine topics such as substance use recovery communities, the quality of cancer information online, depression markers in everyday language, and health misinformation. The work combines public health, health communication, and natural language processing techniques.

Social media and health communicationDigital mental health and language analysisSubstance use and online recovery communitiesHealth information quality and misinformationComputational text analysis (topic modeling, NLP)

Publication activity grew substantially from the late 2010s, peaked around 2021-2022, and has remained steady at roughly a dozen papers per year since.

Generated by claude-opus-4-8 from public bibliographic data · Jul 9, 2026

In context
Among 479 mid career Psychology PIs within our index
Citations: 1,103cohort median 561
h-index: 16cohort median 11
Publications / year (recent): 11.6cohort median 3

Typically publishes in teams of ~5 · 20% small-team papers (≤3 authors) · across 43 venues

Publication cadence
Publications per year over the last 10 years — averaging 11.6/year recently
2017: 1 publication172018: 4 publications182019: 3 publications192020: 6 publications202021: 12 publications212022: 17 publications17222023: 10 publications232024: 11 publications242025: 12 publications252026: 8 publications26
Collaborators per year
Distinct co-authors at Indiana University each year — a rough indication of whether the group around this researcher has been growing or contracting. An estimate from co-authorship, not a roster: collaborators are not necessarily lab members, and recent years can be under-counted while indexing catches up.
2017: 0 collaborators at the same institution2018: 0 collaborators at the same institution2019: 0 collaborators at the same institution2020: 2 collaborators at the same institution2021: 2 collaborators at the same institution2022: 4 collaborators at the same institution2023: 4 collaborators at the same institution2024: 0 collaborators at the same institution2025: 7 collaborators at the same institution1719212325
Recent publications
Publishes in
  • Journal of Medical Internet Research×8
  • Health Behavior Research×4
  • Sexuality Research and Social Policy×3
  • PLoS ONE×3
  • Social Science & Medicine×2
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This profile was generated automatically from public scholarly data (OpenAlex). Group size and activity levels are estimates derived from co-authorship patterns.

Last updated Jul 27, 2026.

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