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Impact of Technology on Adolescents

Impact of Technology on Adolescents is a research topic within Sociology and Political Science. Science Explorer counts 49k research works in it since 1950. 10.0% of them reached the world's top 10% most cited for their field and year.

This cluster of papers explores the impact of social media, particularly Facebook and online communication, on well-being, addictive behavior, and psychological effects, especially among adolescents. It delves into the concept of digital natives, examines the addictive nature of social media use, and investigates the relationship between social media use and various psychological outcomes.

  • Social Media
  • Addiction
  • Well-being
  • Digital Natives
  • Online Communication
  • Facebook Use
  • Psychological Effects
  • Adolescent Behavior
  • Internet Addiction
  • Self-presentation
Research works
49k
fractional, since 1950
In the world top 10%
4.9k
per year above
Top-10% rate
10.0%
share of its works in the world top 10%
Growth, 2018-21 → 2022-25
+41%
the tick is no change
Largest producer
United States
23% of the 10 largest, 2022-now
Impact of Technology on Adolescents

Which countries lead Impact of Technology on Adolescents research?

By volume, the United States and China publish the most (2.6k and 2.4k works in 2022-now).

By volume, 2022-now

  1. 1 United States 2.6k works
  2. 2 China 2.4k works
  3. 3 Türkiye 1.5k works
  4. 4 India 1.2k works
  5. 5 Indonesia 942 works
  6. 6 United Kingdom 714 works
  7. 7 Spain 601 works
  8. 8 Germany 561 works
  9. 9 Australia 477 works
  10. 10 Malaysia 451 works

How concentrated that is

The same countries as shares of everything the list above accounts for. A node where two countries do two thirds of the work and one spread evenly across twelve read alike as a ranking and not at all alike here.

United States: 22.9%China: 20.7%Türkiye: 13.4%India: 10.4%6 others listed: 32.7%23%largest
United States2,628 · 22.9%China2,374 · 20.7%Türkiye1,533 · 13.4%India1,191 · 10.4%6 others listed3,746 · 32.7%

Shares of the rows listed above, not of the whole node.

Which institutions lead Impact of Technology on Adolescents research?

By volume in 2022-now, Beijing Normal University publishes the most Impact of Technology on Adolescents research, followed by Universiti Teknologi MARA and Islamic Azad University, Tehran.

By volume, 2022-now

  1. 1 Beijing Normal UniversityChina 60 works
  2. 2 Universiti Teknologi MARAMalaysia 57 works
  3. 3 Islamic Azad University, TehranIran 55 works
  4. 4 Central China Normal UniversityChina 51 works
  5. 5 Universiti Putra MalaysiaMalaysia 48 works
  6. 6 University of North Carolina at Chapel HillUnited States 48 works
  7. 7 Pennsylvania State UniversityUnited States 40 works
  8. 8 University of Hong KongChina 39 works
  9. 9 Necmettin Erbakan UniversityTürkiye 39 works
  10. 10 Mi̇lli̇ Eği̇ti̇m BakanliğiTürkiye 38 works

Who are the leading researchers in Impact of Technology on Adolescents?

The most-cited researchers publishing on Impact of Technology on Adolescents include Richard M. Ryan, Ronald C. Kessler and Emelia J. Benjamin.

  1. 1 Richard M. Ryan United States 395k citations
  2. 2 Ronald C. Kessler United States 360k citations
  3. 3 Emelia J. Benjamin United States 341k citations
  4. 4 Edward L. Deci United States 325k citations
  5. 5 Dan J. Stein South Africa 306k citations
  6. 6 Louisa J Degenhardt Australia 269k citations
  7. 7 Bach Xuan Tran Vietnam 263k citations
  8. 8 Andrea C. Tricco Canada 258k citations
  9. 9 Florian Fischer Germany 257k citations
  10. 10 Josep María Haro Spain 250k citations

Ranked by citations received across their whole record, among researchers with at least three works on this topic.

What are the most cited papers in Impact of Technology on Adolescents?

The most cited paper in Impact of Technology on Adolescents is "Users of the world, unite! The challenges and opportunities of Social Media" (Andreas Kaplan, Michael Haenlein, 2009), with 17,866 citations. Next come "Social Network Sites: Definition, History, and Scholarship" (16,252) and "The Benefits of Facebook “Friends:” Social Capital and College Students’ Use of Online Social Network Sites" (9,954).

Most cited papers
#PaperReleasedCitations
1 Users of the world, unite! The challenges and opportunities of Social Media Andreas Kaplan, Michael Haenlein · Business Horizons Open access 14 Oct 2009 17,866
2 Social Network Sites: Definition, History, and Scholarship danah boyd, Nicole B. Ellison · Journal of Computer-Mediated Communication Open access Oct 2007 16,252
3 The Benefits of Facebook “Friends:” Social Capital and College Students’ Use of Online Social Network Sites Nicole B. Ellison, Charles W Steinfield, Cliff A.C. Lampe · Journal of Computer-Mediated Communication Open access Jul 2007 9,954
4 Determinants of Perceived Ease of Use: Integrating Control, Intrinsic Motivation, and Emotion into the Technology Acceptance Model Viswanath Venkatesh · Information Systems Research Dec 2000 6,500
5 Does Gamification Work? -- A Literature Review of Empirical Studies on Gamification Juho Hamari, Jonna Koivisto, Harri Sarsa Conference paperOpen access 2014 5,081
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Where is Impact of Technology on Adolescents research done?

The largest centres of Impact of Technology on Adolescents research in 2022-now are Beijing (China), Istanbul (Türkiye), Ankara (Türkiye) and London (United Kingdom). Among places with at least 20 works in it, it is an unusually large share of all research in Tai Po.

Largest cities, 2022-now

  1. 1 BeijingChina 288 works
  2. 2 IstanbulTürkiye 251 works
  3. 3 AnkaraTürkiye 201 works
  4. 4 LondonUnited Kingdom 177 works
  5. 5 SeoulSouth Korea 175 works
  6. 6 ShanghaiChina 165 works
  7. 7 JakartaIndonesia 139 works
  8. 8 WuhanChina 134 works
  9. 9 GuangzhouChina 123 works
  10. 10 Kuala LumpurMalaysia 123 works

Where it is the local speciality

  1. Tai PoCN · 24.0 works8.7×
← less than its size predicts1×more →

Location quotient: how much more of its research is in Impact of Technology on Adolescents than the world average.

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Where is the best place to study Impact of Technology on Adolescents?

Among universities, judged by research, University of Hong Kong, Chinese University of Hong Kong and Beijing Normal University score highest, combining citation excellence, specialisation, size, growth and international reach. Research strength is one signal when choosing where to study; it does not measure teaching.

0%20%40%mean 23.58%fractional works in this field (log) →share of work in the world top 10% →University of Amster…University of Hong K…Chinese University o…Beijing Normal Unive…
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One dot per university in the first ten of the table below, at the default weights. The upper left is the interesting corner: small places doing unusually strong work.

Citation excellenceshare of its work in the world top 10%, 2022-now and all time averaged
40%
Specialisationhow much of its work is in this field, counted up to 10× the world share
10%
Sizeits output in this field, on a log scale
30%
Growthoutput growth, counted from -20% to +20%
10%
Internationalshare of its work with a co-author abroad
10%
Each slider sets a weight; the share it gets of the score is beside it.
#UniversityScoreTop 10%SpecialisationWorksGrowth
1University of Hong KongChina 73.025.0%2.6×39 +15.1%
2Chinese University of Hong KongChina 71.220.4%3.1×35 +33.9%
3Beijing Normal UniversityChina 70.719.2%4.8×60 +114.4%
4University of AmsterdamNetherlands 69.531.7%2.5×24 -0.2%
5Nottingham Trent UniversityUnited Kingdom 68.927.4%12.3×30 -27.7%
6University of FlorenceItaly 65.726.5%2.6×25 +130.1%
7Central China Normal UniversityChina 65.014.2%12.8×51 +70.5%
8Renmin University of ChinaChina 64.925.1%4.9×25 +47.3%
9Flinders UniversityAustralia 64.125.6%5.4×23 +73.0%
10Education University of Hong KongChina 63.320.7%10.5×24 +91.7%

Universities only. The score blends citation excellence (40%), size (30%), specialisation (10%), growth (10%), international reach (10%), 2022-now; growth compares 2018-21 with 2022-25 and counts up to +20%, since a jump from a small base is mostly noise.

Every institution in Impact of Technology on Adolescents, country by country

Is Impact of Technology on Adolescents research growing?

Output in 2022-2025 was 41% higher than in 2018-2021, peaking in 2025. The fastest-growing topics are Impact of Technology on Adolescents.

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The same series as a ribbon: one cell per year, darker for more. The line above answers how much; this answers when.

Its share of all research

Growing output can still be a shrinking share: all of science grows. This is Impact of Technology on Adolescents as a percentage of every work published that year, 0.076% in 2024.

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Fractional works of Impact of Technology on Adolescents over all fractional works that year. How the balance of science has shifted.

How much of it reaches the world top 10%

Year by year.

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Of each year's works in it, the share that reached the world's 10% most cited for their field and year. A field is the world for its own topics, so there is no other line to hold it against.

Which topics inside it are moving

Growth and decline on one axis around a shared zero. Two lists side by side hide the thing that matters: whether the growth dwarfs the decline, or the other way round.

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