Professor Mohan Dutta, Dean’s Chair in Communication and Director of the Center for Culture-Centered Approach to Research and Evaluation (CARE) at Massey University, has been recognised by ScholarGPS as one of the world’s leading scholars in Journalism and in multiple specialised areas of communication for social justice.
In the highly competitive discipline of Journalism, Professor Dutta ranks in the global Top 10 scholars and stands at #4 worldwide for lifetime research impact and #7 worldwide for research impact over the past five years.
ScholarGPS, a global analytics platform that ranks over 300 million scholars and 350,000 specialities, also places Professor Dutta at:
These extraordinary rankings highlight Professor Dutta’s decades-long commitment to culture-centered, community-led research that amplifies marginalised voices, challenges power structures, and co-creates solutions with communities across the Global South and beyond.
“These recognitions belong to the communities we work alongside every day,” said Professor Dutta. “From domestic workers in Singapore to farmers in India and Indigenous activists in Aotearoa, it is their knowledge, struggle, and resistance that drive transformative scholarship.”
Professor Dutta’s work continues to shape global conversations on decolonising communication, health justice, and grassroots social change.
