2026 Patti M. Valkenburg: Social Sciences and Humanities Researcher – H-Index, Publications & Awards

Discipline name	D-Index	World Ranking	Current World Ranking	National Ranking	Current National Ranking	Publications	Citations
Social Sciences and Humanities	94	138	115	6	5	314	43763

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

4179
Citations
Friend networking sites and their relationship to adolescents' well-being and social self-esteem.

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

2466
Citations
Development and validation of a game addiction scale for adolescents

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

1843
Citations
Online communication among adolescents: an integrated model of its attraction, opportunities, and risks.

Patti M. Valkenburg;Jochen Peter

1394
Citations
Social Consequences of the Internet for Adolescents: A Decade of Research

Patti M. Valkenburg;Jochen Peter

1346
Citations
The Differential Susceptibility to Media Effects Model

Patti M. Valkenburg;Jochen Peter

1307
Citations
Preadolescents' and adolescents' online communication and their closeness to friends

Patti M. Valkenburg;Jochen Peter

1297
Citations
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

1068
Citations
Online Communication and Adolescent Well-Being: Testing the Stimulation versus the Displacement Hypothesis

Patti M. Valkenburg;Jochen Peter

1044
Citations
The Effects of News Frames on Readers' Thoughts and Recall

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

1007
Citations
The Social Media Disorder Scale

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

998
Citations
Adolescents’ identity experiments on the internet

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

864
Citations
The Internet gaming disorder scale

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

798
Citations
Psychosocial causes and consequences of pathological gaming

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

781
Citations
Norms of online expressions of emotion: Comparing Facebook, Twitter, Instagram, and WhatsApp:

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

597
Citations
Adolescents and Pornography: A Review of 20 Years of Research

Jochen Peter;Patti M. Valkenburg

576
Citations
Developing a model of adolescent friendship formation on the internet.

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

569
Citations
The development of a child into a consumer.

Patti M Valkenburg;Joanne Cantor

562
Citations
Media Effects: Theory and Research.

Patti M. Valkenburg;Jochen Peter;Joseph Bart Walther

540
Citations
Social media use and its impact on adolescent mental health: An umbrella review of the evidence.

Patti M. Valkenburg;Adrian Meier;Ine Beyens

528
Citations
Adolescents’ Exposure to Sexually Explicit Material on the Internet

Jochen Peter;Patti M. Valkenburg

525
Citations
Development and Validation of a Game Addiction Scale

Jeroen S Lemmens;Patti M. Valkenburg;Jochen Peter

4
Citations

Frequent Co-Authors

Jochen Peter University of Amsterdam

Moniek Buijzen Erasmus University Rotterdam

Loes Keijsers Erasmus University Rotterdam

Marina Krcmar Wake Forest University

Joseph B. Walther University of California, Santa Barbara

Sonia Livingstone London School of Economics and Political Science

Joanne Cantor University of Wisconsin–Madison

Douglas A. Gentile Iowa State University

Regina J. J. M. van den Eijnden Utrecht University

Sandra L. Calvert Georgetown University

External Links

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