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Sexuality, Behavior, and Technology

Sexuality, Behavior, and Technology is a research topic within Clinical Psychology. Science Explorer counts 25k 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 phenomenon of hypersexual disorder, compulsive sexual behavior, and the consumption of pornography, particularly on the internet. It delves into the psychological impact, treatment approaches, gender differences, and social attitudes surrounding this topic.

  • Hypersexual Disorder
  • Pornography Consumption
  • Compulsive Sexual Behavior
  • Internet Pornography
  • Sexual Addiction
  • Adolescent Exposure
  • Psychological Impact
  • Treatment Approaches
  • Gender Differences
  • Social Attitudes
Research works
25k
fractional, since 1950
In the world top 10%
2.5k
per year above
Top-10% rate
10.0%
share of its works in the world top 10%
Growth, 2018-21 → 2022-25
+14%
the tick is no change
Largest producer
United States
43% of the 10 largest, 2022-now
Sexuality, Behavior, and Technology

Which countries lead Sexuality, Behavior, and Technology research?

By volume, the United States and the United Kingdom publish the most (2k and 532 works in 2022-now).

By volume, 2022-now

  1. 1 United States 2k works
  2. 2 United Kingdom 532 works
  3. 3 Canada 364 works
  4. 4 Australia 316 works
  5. 5 China 287 works
  6. 6 Spain 276 works
  7. 7 Germany 271 works
  8. 8 India 211 works
  9. 9 Italy 209 works
  10. 10 Brazil 188 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: 42.6%United Kingdom: 11.5%Canada: 7.9%Australia: 6.8%6 others listed: 31.2%43%largest
United States1,971 · 42.6%United Kingdom532 · 11.5%Canada364 · 7.9%Australia316 · 6.8%6 others listed1,443 · 31.2%

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

Which institutions lead Sexuality, Behavior, and Technology research?

By volume in 2022-now, Sapienza University of Rome publishes the most Sexuality, Behavior, and Technology research, followed by Indiana University and University of Toronto.

By volume, 2022-now

  1. 1 Sapienza University of RomeItaly 45 works
  2. 2 Indiana UniversityUnited States 41 works
  3. 3 University of TorontoCanada 36 works
  4. 4 University of North Carolina at Chapel HillUnited States 34 works
  5. 5 Harvard UniversityUnited States 33 works
  6. 6 University of MichiganUnited States 33 works
  7. 7 University of British ColumbiaCanada 26 works
  8. 8 The University of MelbourneAustralia 23 works
  9. 9 City University of New YorkUnited States 22 works
  10. 10 Monash UniversityAustralia 22 works

Who are the leading researchers in Sexuality, Behavior, and Technology?

The most-cited researchers publishing on Sexuality, Behavior, and Technology include Ronald C. Kessler, Dan J. Stein and Virginia Braun.

  1. 1 Ronald C. Kessler United States 360k citations
  2. 2 Dan J. Stein South Africa 306k citations
  3. 3 Virginia Braun New Zealand 286k citations
  4. 4 Victoria Clarke United Kingdom 285k citations
  5. 5 Louisa J Degenhardt Australia 269k citations
  6. 6 Bach Xuan Tran Vietnam 263k citations
  7. 7 Florian Fischer Germany 257k 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 Sexuality, Behavior, and Technology?

The most cited paper in Sexuality, Behavior, and Technology is "The Female Sexual Function Index (FSFI): A Multidimensional Self-Report Instrument for the Assessment of Female Sexual Function" (R. Rosen, 2000), with 6,627 citations. Next come "Sexual Dysfunction in the United States" (5,146) and "The Prevalence and Correlates of Eating Disorders in the National Comorbidity Survey Replication" (5,014).

Most cited papers
#PaperReleasedCitations
1 The Female Sexual Function Index (FSFI): A Multidimensional Self-Report Instrument for the Assessment of Female Sexual Function R. Rosen · Journal of Sex & Marital Therapy Open access Apr 2000 6,627
2 Sexual Dysfunction in the United States Edward O. Laumann, Anthony Paik, Raymond C. Rosen · JAMA 10 Feb 1999 5,146
3 The Prevalence and Correlates of Eating Disorders in the National Comorbidity Survey Replication James I. Hudson, Eva Hiripi, Harrison Graham Pope et al. · Biological Psychiatry Open access 6 Jul 2006 5,014
4 A cognitive-behavioral model of pathological Internet use Richard A. Davis · Computers in Human Behavior Mar 2001 3,013
5 Evolution and Tinkering François Jacob · Science 10 Jun 1977 2,741
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Where is Sexuality, Behavior, and Technology research done?

The largest centres of Sexuality, Behavior, and Technology research in 2022-now are London (United Kingdom), New York (United States), Melbourne (Australia) and Rome (Italy). Among places with at least 20 works in it, it is an unusually large share of all research in Bloomington.

Largest cities, 2022-now

  1. 1 LondonUnited Kingdom 123 works
  2. 2 New YorkUnited States 97 works
  3. 3 MelbourneAustralia 92 works
  4. 4 RomeItaly 70 works
  5. 5 MadridSpain 66 works
  6. 6 TorontoCanada 64 works
  7. 7 MontrealCanada 57 works
  8. 8 BostonUnited States 52 works
  9. 9 SydneyAustralia 51 works
  10. 10 Los AngelesUnited States 48 works

Where it is the local speciality

  1. BloomingtonUS · 32.7 works12×
← less than its size predicts1×more →

Location quotient: how much more of its research is in Sexuality, Behavior, and Technology than the world average.

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Where is the best place to study Sexuality, Behavior, and Technology?

Among universities, judged by research, La Trobe University, Curtin University and Nottingham Trent University score highest, combining 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 21.38%fractional works in this field (log) →share of work in the world top 10% →Curtin UniversityLa Trobe UniversityNottingham Trent Uni…Harvard University
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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.

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
1La Trobe UniversityAustralia 74.027.2%10.5×17 +53.2%
2Curtin UniversityAustralia 72.532.5%6.8×12 +42.2%
3Nottingham Trent UniversityUnited Kingdom 70.319.4%22.9×20 +5.2%
4Harvard UniversityUnited States 70.118.2%1.9×33 +7.9%
5University of MichiganUnited States 68.817.0%3.9×33 +10.8%
6Indiana UniversityUnited States 68.317.9%7.6×41 -7.8%
7Universidad de GranadaSpain 66.321.7%6.8×22 +99.7%
8Flinders UniversityAustralia 65.422.9%8.0×12 +24.5%
9Pennsylvania State UniversityUnited States 64.325.4%3.0×18 +11.0%
10University of TorontoCanada 62.211.6%3.2×36 +9.9%

Universities only. The score blends 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 Sexuality, Behavior, and Technology, country by country

Is Sexuality, Behavior, and Technology research growing?

Output in 2022-2025 was 14% higher than in 2018-2021, peaking in 2024. The fastest-growing topics are Sexuality, Behavior, and Technology.

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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 Sexuality, Behavior, and Technology as a percentage of every work published that year, 0.029% in 2024.

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Fractional works of Sexuality, Behavior, and Technology 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.

still counting5%10%15%Sexuality, Behavior, and Technology10.1% in 2025200020102020

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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