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Patti M. Valkenburg

Patti M. Valkenburg

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Social Sciences and Humanities
Netherlands
2026

D-Index & Metrics

Social Sciences and Humanities

D-Index
94
Citations
43763
World Ranking
138
National Ranking
6

Patti M. Valkenburg publication distribution in Social Sciences and Humanities in 2026

The chart shows the distribution of publications by all Research.com ranked scientists in the field of Social Sciences and Humanities in 2026. The highlighted bar marks where Patti M. Valkenburg sits on this spectrum.

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44 publications 570+

This scientist: 314 publications — 89th percentile

89% of scientists in this discipline score the same or lower.

The last bar groups every scientist with 570 publications or more.

Patti M. Valkenburg D-index placement in Social Sciences and Humanities in 2026

The chart shows the D-index (discipline H-index) distribution of Social Sciences and Humanities scientists ranked by Research.com in 2026. The highlighted bar marks where Patti M. Valkenburg sits on this spectrum.

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30 D-Index 100+

This scientist: 94 D-Index — 98th percentile

98% of scientists in this discipline score the same or lower.

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Research.com Recognitions

  • 2026 - Research.com Social Sciences and Humanities in Netherlands Leader Award
  • 2025 - Research.com Social Sciences and Humanities in Netherlands Leader Award
  • 2011 - Royal Netherlands Academy of Arts and Sciences
  • 2011 - Spinoza Prize, Dutch Research Council
  • 2011 - Dr Hendrik Muller Prize, Royal Netherlands Academy of Arts and Sciences

Overview

Patti M. Valkenburg is affiliated with the University of Amsterdam in the Netherlands. Their primary research spans the social sciences and psychology, with a focus on the impact of technology on adolescents and related mental health topics.

Valkenburg's main fields of study include:

  • Social Sciences
  • Psychology

Within these fields, they have contributed extensively to subfields such as:

  • Sociology and Political Science
  • Education
  • Literature and Literary Theory
  • Applied Psychology
  • Communication

Their research addresses several key topics, notably:

  • Impact of Technology on Adolescents
  • Child Development and Digital Technology
  • Media Influence and Health
  • Digital Mental Health Interventions
  • Social Media and Politics
  • Mental Health Research Topics
  • Child and Adolescent Psychosocial and Emotional Development

Recent publications by Valkenburg include:

  • Social media use and its impact on adolescent mental health: An umbrella review of the evidence, 2021, Current Opinion in Psychology
  • Social media use and well-being: What we know and what we need to know, 2021, Current Opinion in Psychology
  • The associations of active and passive social media use with well-being: A critical scoping review, 2021, New Media & Society
  • Social Media Use and Adolescents' Self-Esteem: Heading for a Person-Specific Media Effects Paradigm, 2021, Journal of Communication

Other notable papers related to their research network include:

  • The effect of social media on well-being differs from adolescent to adolescent, 2020, Scientific Reports (co-authored by Ine Beyens)

Frequent co-authors collaborating with Valkenburg are:

  • Ine Beyens
  • J. Loes Pouwels
  • Loes Keijsers
  • Irene I. van Driel
  • Amber van der Wal

Valkenburg has published across multiple academic journals, with repeated contributions in the following venues:

  • Scientific Reports
  • Current Opinion in Psychology
  • Communication Research
  • Journal of Computer-Mediated Communication
  • Communication Methods and Measures

They have also authored books, including the title published by Cambridge University Press:

  • Handbook of Adolescent Digital Media Use and Mental Health, 2022

Throughout their career, Valkenburg has received several awards, such as:

  • Royal Netherlands Academy of Arts and Sciences (2011)
  • Spinoza Prize, Dutch Research Council (2011)
  • Dr Hendrik Muller Prize, Royal Netherlands Academy of Arts and Sciences (2011)

Best Publications

  • Framing European politics: a content analysis of press and television news

    Holli A. Semetko;Patti M. Valkenburg Valkenburg

  • Friend networking sites and their relationship to adolescents' well-being and social self-esteem.

    Patti M. Valkenburg;Jochen Peter;Alexander P. Schouten

  • Development and validation of a game addiction scale for adolescents

    Jeroen S. Lemmens;Patti M. Valkenburg;Jochen Peter

  • Online communication among adolescents: an integrated model of its attraction, opportunities, and risks.

    Patti M. Valkenburg;Jochen Peter

  • Social Consequences of the Internet for Adolescents: A Decade of Research

    Patti M. Valkenburg;Jochen Peter

  • The Differential Susceptibility to Media Effects Model

    Patti M. Valkenburg;Jochen Peter

  • Preadolescents' and adolescents' online communication and their closeness to friends

    Patti M. Valkenburg;Jochen Peter

  • Developing a scale to assess three styles of television mediation: “Instructive mediation,” “restrictive mediation,” and “social coviewing”

    Patti M. Valkenburg;Marina Krcmar;Allerd L. Peeters;Nies M. Marseille

  • Online Communication and Adolescent Well-Being: Testing the Stimulation versus the Displacement Hypothesis

    Patti M. Valkenburg;Jochen Peter

  • The Effects of News Frames on Readers' Thoughts and Recall

    Patti M. Valkenburg;Holli A. Semetko;Claes H. De Vreese

  • The Social Media Disorder Scale

    Regina J.J.M. van den Eijnden;Jeroen S. Lemmens;Patti M. Valkenburg

  • Adolescents’ identity experiments on the internet

    Patti M. Valkenburg;Alexander P. Schouten;Jochen Peter

  • The Internet gaming disorder scale

    Jeroen S. Lemmens;Patti M. Valkenburg;Douglas A. Gentile

  • Psychosocial causes and consequences of pathological gaming

    Jeroen S. Lemmens;Patti M. Valkenburg;Jochen Peter

  • Norms of online expressions of emotion: Comparing Facebook, Twitter, Instagram, and WhatsApp:

    Sophie F Waterloo;Susanne E Baumgartner;Jochen Peter;Patti M Valkenburg

  • Adolescents and Pornography: A Review of 20 Years of Research

    Jochen Peter;Patti M. Valkenburg

  • Developing a model of adolescent friendship formation on the internet.

    Jochen Peter;Patti M. Valkenburg;Alexander P. Schouten

  • The development of a child into a consumer.

    Patti M Valkenburg;Joanne Cantor

  • Media Effects: Theory and Research.

    Patti M. Valkenburg;Jochen Peter;Joseph Bart Walther

  • Social media use and its impact on adolescent mental health: An umbrella review of the evidence.

    Patti M. Valkenburg;Adrian Meier;Ine Beyens

  • Adolescents’ Exposure to Sexually Explicit Material on the Internet

    Jochen Peter;Patti M. Valkenburg

  • Development and Validation of a Game Addiction Scale

    Jeroen S Lemmens;Patti M. Valkenburg;Jochen Peter

Frequent Co-Authors

Jochen Peter
Jochen Peter University of Amsterdam
Moniek Buijzen
Moniek Buijzen Erasmus University Rotterdam
Loes Keijsers
Loes Keijsers Erasmus University Rotterdam
Holli A. Semetko
Holli A. Semetko Emory University
Sonia Livingstone
Sonia Livingstone London School of Economics and Political Science
Wouter van der Brug
Wouter van der Brug University of Amsterdam
Marina Krcmar
Marina Krcmar Wake Forest University
Joseph B. Walther
Joseph B. Walther University of California, Santa Barbara
Joanne Cantor
Joanne Cantor University of Wisconsin–Madison
Eva A. van Reijmersdal
Eva A. van Reijmersdal University of Amsterdam

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