The phrase "found the influence" is correct and can be used in written English.
For example, "I did some research and found the influence of the media on public opinion."
The authors of the study accompanying the survey said that many respondents respected China's cultural heritage, but found the influence of China's politics or popular culture less impressive.
Readers found the influence of Adrian Mole everywhere, from The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-time to the TV comedy The Inbetweeners.
The survey found the influence of friends was the most significant factor in childhood drinking, as the likelihood of youths drinking to excess more than doubled if they spent more than two nights a week socialising.
He studied harmony and counterpoint with the late Vincent d'Indy at the Schola Cantorum for a while, but he gave that up when he found the influence of the French classical school was interfering with his own sense of rhythm.
I hope you found The Influence Project a worthwhile experience.
He studied the asymptotic behavior of solutions and found the influence of the weight function on the existence of global and blow-up solutions.
Hatherley finds the influence of One Week's tipsy machine-home in Soviet architecture.
This measure can find the influence of the know-how contacts in wiki elections.
To find the influence of capsular decompression, patients who were treated with closed reduction were analyzed.
This paper is an attempt to find the influence on the performance of FODS.
Well, no Bob, as a participant, I most certainly did not find The Influence Project a worthwhile experience, not in the slightest.
