Amy Orben

7.4k total citations · 9 hit papers
51 papers, 3.9k citations indexed

About

Amy Orben is a scholar working on Sociology and Political Science, Education and Applied Psychology. According to data from OpenAlex, Amy Orben has authored 51 papers receiving a total of 3.9k indexed citations (citations by other indexed papers that have themselves been cited), including 36 papers in Sociology and Political Science, 25 papers in Education and 14 papers in Applied Psychology. Recurrent topics in Amy Orben's work include Impact of Technology on Adolescents (32 papers), Child Development and Digital Technology (25 papers) and Digital Mental Health Interventions (11 papers). Amy Orben is often cited by papers focused on Impact of Technology on Adolescents (32 papers), Child Development and Digital Technology (25 papers) and Digital Mental Health Interventions (11 papers). Amy Orben collaborates with scholars based in United Kingdom, United States and Netherlands. Amy Orben's co-authors include Andrew K Przybylski, Sarah‐Jayne Blakemore, Livia Tomova, Tobias Dienlin, Rogier Kievit, Netta Weinstein, Stephen Houghton, Robin Dunbar, David A. Ellis and Simon C. Hunter and has published in prestigious journals such as Nature, Science and Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences.

In The Last Decade

Amy Orben

47 papers receiving 3.8k citations

Hit Papers

5 papers align trajectories

What are hit papers?

Hit papers significantly outperform the citation benchmark for their cohort. A paper qualifies if it has ≥500 total citations, achieves ≥1.5× the top-1% citation threshold for papers in the same subfield and year (this is the minimum needed to enter the top 1%, not the average within it), or reaches the top citation threshold in at least one of its specific research topics.

The association between adolescent well-being and digital technology use

2019 783 citations Amy Orben, Andrew K Przybylski Nature Human Behaviour profile →
The effects of social deprivation on adolescent development and mental health

2020 734 citations Amy Orben, Sarah‐Jayne Blakemore et al. profile →
Teenagers, screens and social media: a narrative review of reviews and key studies

2020 409 citations Amy Orben profile →
Social media’s enduring effect on adolescent life satisfaction

2019 278 citations Amy Orben, Tobias Dienlin et al. profile →
Screens, Teens, and Psychological Well-Being: Evidence From Three Time-Use-Diary Studies

2019 269 citations Amy Orben, Andrew K Przybylski Psychological Science profile →
Windows of developmental sensitivity to social media

2022 185 citations Amy Orben, Andrew K Przybylski et al. profile →
The Sisyphean Cycle of Technology Panics

2020 157 citations Amy Orben Perspectives on Psychological Science profile →
The Conceptual and Methodological Mayhem of “Screen Time”

2020 156 citations Amy Orben et al. profile →
Mechanisms linking social media use to adolescent mental health vulnerability

2024 57 citations Amy Orben, Sarah‐Jayne Blakemore et al. profile →

Peers — A (Enhanced Table)

Peers by citation overlap · career bar shows stage (early→late) cites · hero ref

Name	h						Papers	Cites
Amy Orben United Kingdom	23	2.4k	1.4k	1.1k	751	592	51	3.9k
Claudia Marino Italy	31	1.9k 0.8×	1.0k 0.7×	1.1k 0.9×	576 0.8×	495 0.8×	89	3.1k
Vasileios Stavropoulos Australia	32	2.6k 1.1×	1.4k 1.0×	1.1k 0.9×	581 0.8×	340 0.6×	146	3.5k
Steven Eggermont Belgium	32	2.6k 1.1×	1.1k 0.8×	1.6k 1.4×	528 0.7×	562 0.9×	151	4.4k
Geir Scott Brunborg Norway	22	2.4k 1.0×	1.3k 0.9×	1.0k 0.9×	561 0.7×	356 0.6×	60	3.7k
Kai W. Müller Germany	30	2.7k 1.1×	1.4k 1.0×	1.4k 1.2×	677 0.9×	401 0.7×	101	3.8k
Agata Błachnio Poland	31	2.1k 0.9×	879 0.6×	823 0.7×	546 0.7×	580 1.0×	88	3.0k
Aneta Przepiórka Poland	32	2.0k 0.8×	801 0.6×	760 0.7×	602 0.8×	598 1.0×	83	3.0k
Olatz López-Fernández Spain	26	2.6k 1.1×	1.5k 1.1×	698 0.6×	503 0.7×	269 0.5×	74	3.5k
Zongkui Zhou China	42	2.3k 1.0×	1.4k 1.0×	1.7k 1.5×	619 0.8×	1.6k 2.8×	175	4.8k
Albert K. Liau Singapore	23	2.2k 0.9×	1.8k 1.3×	1.0k 0.9×	319 0.4×	1.1k 1.8×	41	3.6k

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Co-authorship network of co-authors of Amy Orben

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Mehta, Ashish, James J. Gross, Sean A. Munson, et al.. (2025). Micro-narratives: A Scalable Method for Eliciting Stories of People’s Lived Experience. PubMed. 2025. 1–20. 1 indexed citations

Eichstaedt, Johannes C., et al.. (2025). A computational model of reward learning and habits on social media.

Dienlin, Tobias, David Šmahel, & Amy Orben. (2025). Global Analysis of Perceived Social Media Effects on Well-Being. Cyberpsychology Behavior and Social Networking. 28(8). 588–593.

Ferguson, Amanda M, et al.. (2024). Old Strategies, New Environments: Reinforcement Learning on Social Media. Biological Psychiatry. 97(10). 989–1001. 5 indexed citations

Mills, Kathryn L., et al.. (2023). Impact of digital screen media activity on functional brain organization in late childhood: Evidence from the ABCD study. Cortex. 169. 290–308. 13 indexed citations

Leightley, Daniel, Amanda Bye, Ben Carter, et al.. (2023). Maximizing the positive and minimizing the negative: Social media data to study youth mental health with informed consent. Frontiers in Psychiatry. 13. 1096253–1096253. 3 indexed citations

Minihan, Savannah, Amy Orben, Elaine Fox, et al.. (2022). Social determinants of mental health during a year of the COVID-19 pandemic. Development and Psychopathology. 35(4). 1701–1713. 18 indexed citations

Pi‐Sunyer, Blanca Piera, Jack L. Andrews, Amy Orben, Lydia Gabriela Speyer, & Sarah‐Jayne Blakemore. (2022). The relationship between perceived income inequality, adverse mental health and interpersonal difficulties in UK adolescents. Journal of Child Psychology and Psychiatry. 64(3). 417–425. 16 indexed citations

Anvari, Farid, Rogier Kievit, Daniël Lakens, et al.. (2022). Not All Effects Are Indispensable: Psychological Science Requires Verifiable Lines of Reasoning for Whether an Effect Matters. Perspectives on Psychological Science. 18(2). 503–507. 52 indexed citations

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Livingstone, Sonia, Amy Orben, & Candice L. Odgers. (2022). Debate: Should academics collaborate with digital companies to improve young people's mental health?. Child and Adolescent Mental Health. 28(1). 150–152. 7 indexed citations

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Ghai, Sakshi, et al.. (2022). Digital access constraints predict worse mental health among adolescents during COVID-19. Scientific Reports. 12(1). 19088–19088. 21 indexed citations

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Vuorre, Matti, Amy Orben, & Andrew K Przybylski. (2021). There Is No Evidence That Associations Between Adolescents’ Digital Technology Engagement and Mental Health Problems Have Increased. Clinical Psychological Science. 9(5). 823–835. 80 indexed citations

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Ghai, Sakshi, et al.. (2021). Lack of sample diversity in research on adolescent depression and social media use: a scoping review and meta-analysis. PsyArXiv (OSF Preprints). 4 indexed citations

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Orben, Amy. (2020). The Sisyphean Cycle of Technology Panics. Perspectives on Psychological Science. 15(5). 1143–1157. 157 indexed citations breakdown →

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Orben, Amy & Daniël Lakens. (2020). Crud (Re)Defined. Advances in Methods and Practices in Psychological Science. 3(2). 238–247. 40 indexed citations

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Lucas, Richard E., Amy Orben, Delia Fuhrmann, & Rogier Kievit. (2020). Trajectories of adolescent life satisfaction. OSF Preprints (OSF Preprints). 1 indexed citations

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Crüwell, Sophia, Johnny van Doorn, Alexander Etz, et al.. (2019). Seven Easy Steps to Open Science. Zeitschrift für Psychologie. 227(4). 237–248. 77 indexed citations

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Orben, Amy & Andrew K Przybylski. (2019). Screens, Teens, and Psychological Well-Being: Evidence From Three Time-Use-Diary Studies. Psychological Science. 30(5). 682–696. 269 indexed citations breakdown →

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Orben, Amy & Andrew K Przybylski. (2019). The association between adolescent well-being and digital technology use. Nature Human Behaviour. 3(2). 173–182. 783 indexed citations breakdown →

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Orben, Amy. (2018). Cyberpsychology: A field lacking theoretical foundations. 1(107). 12–14. 7 indexed citations

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