Page D. Dobbs Data-verified

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Last publication 2026 Last refreshed 2026-05-16

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14 h-index 93 pubs 625 cited

Biography and Research Information

OverviewAI-generated summary

Page D. Dobbs' research focuses on public health issues related to tobacco and nicotine products, particularly among young adults. Dobbs has investigated the effectiveness of policies such as Tobacco 21 and examined user motivations for engaging with products like JUULs, as evidenced by publications in these areas. Current federally funded projects include an NIH award of $162,051 to study loopholes, enforcement challenges, and tobacco industry interference with tobacco control policies, with Dobbs serving as PI. Additionally, a $1,000,000 NSF grant, for which Dobbs is Co-PI, aims to develop a large-scale multi-modality learning system to identify tobacco addiction and predictive analytics via social media platforms.

Dobbs' work also extends to utilizing advanced computational methods for analyzing social media data. Publications such as "Classification of Twitter Vaping Discourse Using BERTweet: Comparative Deep Learning Study" and "Sogar: Self-Supervised Spatiotemporal Attention-Based Social Group Activity Recognition" demonstrate an interest in applying machine learning and deep learning techniques to understand health-related online discourse and behaviors. Collaborations include extensive work with researchers at the University of Arkansas at Fayetteville, including Pha Nguyen, Eric D. Schisler, Han‐Seok Seo, and Alexander Nelson, with whom Dobbs has co-authored multiple publications.

With a career total of 93 publications and 602 citations, Dobbs has an h-index of 13. The research group led by Dobbs is actively engaged in these areas, with recent activity indicated by publications as recent as 2024 and a potential 2026 publication.

Metrics

  • h-index: 14
  • Publications: 93
  • Citations: 625

Selected Publications

  • Cooling the Conversation: Discourse About Menthol and Flavored Tobacco Restrictions on TikTok (2026)
  • The experiences of young adults attempting to quit e-cigarettes: A mixed-methods analysis (2025)
    2 citations DOI OpenAlex
  • Online Interest in Elf Bar in the United States: Google Health Trends Analysis (2024)
    1 citation DOI OpenAlex
  • Do-It-Yourself Flavored Capsule Cigarettes: Exploiting Potential Regulatory Loopholes? (2024)
    4 citations DOI OpenAlex
  • Tobacco control policies discussed on social media: a scoping review (2024)
    5 citations DOI OpenAlex
  • Patient–provider communication about cigarette and e-cigarette use during pregnancy: Adaptation and validation of frequency and quality of communication measures among a sample of pregnant patients (2024)
    1 citation DOI OpenAlex
  • React: recognize every action everywhere all at once (2024)
    5 citations DOI OpenAlex
  • ‘Cashing in’ nicotine pouches for prizes (2024)
    7 citations DOI OpenAlex
  • HAtt-Flow: Hierarchical Attention-Flow Mechanism for Group-Activity Scene Graph Generation in Videos (2024)
    3 citations DOI OpenAlex
  • #Discreetshipping: Selling E-cigarettes on TikTok (2024)
    12 citations DOI OpenAlex
  • Cigarette and E-Cigarette Harm Perceptions During Pregnancy (2024)
    2 citations DOI OpenAlex
  • REACT: Recognize Every Action Everywhere All At Once (2024)
  • Twitter Sentiment About the US Federal Tobacco 21 Law: Mixed Methods Analysis (Preprint) (2023)
  • Twitter Sentiment About the US Federal Tobacco 21 Law: Mixed Methods Analysis (2023)
    5 citations DOI OpenAlex
  • SPARTAN: Self-supervised Spatiotemporal Transformers Approach to Group Activity Recognition (2023)
    30 citations DOI OpenAlex

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Federal Grants 2 $1,162,051 total

NIH/NIH Office of the Director Contact PI Sep 2022 - Aug 2027

Loopholes, Enforcement Challenges, and Tobacco Industry Interference with Tobacco Control Policies

NIH Office of the Director $162,051 K01

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