Celia Pearce

1.9k total citations · 1 hit paper
35 papers, 967 citations indexed

About

Celia Pearce is a scholar working on Sociology and Political Science, Developmental and Educational Psychology and Clinical Psychology. According to data from OpenAlex, Celia Pearce has authored 35 papers receiving a total of 967 indexed citations (citations by other indexed papers that have themselves been cited), including 22 papers in Sociology and Political Science, 6 papers in Developmental and Educational Psychology and 5 papers in Clinical Psychology. Recurrent topics in Celia Pearce's work include Digital Games and Media (20 papers), Educational Games and Gamification (6 papers) and Innovative Human-Technology Interaction (4 papers). Celia Pearce is often cited by papers focused on Digital Games and Media (20 papers), Educational Games and Gamification (6 papers) and Innovative Human-Technology Interaction (4 papers). Celia Pearce collaborates with scholars based in United States, Mexico and Croatia. Celia Pearce's co-authors include Bonnie Nardi, Tom Boellstorff, TL Taylor, Tracy Fullerton, Jacquelyn Ford Morie, George E. Marcus, Brian Magerko, Mark Riedl, Daniel Fuller and Kurt Luther and has published in prestigious journals such as SHILAP Revista de lepidopterología, Leonardo and Computers & Graphics.

In The Last Decade

Celia Pearce

32 papers receiving 854 citations

Hit Papers

Ethnography and Virtual Worlds 2012 2026 2016 2021 2012 100 200 300

Peers — A (Enhanced Table)

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

Name h Career Trend Papers Cites
Celia Pearce United States 14 610 138 136 130 124 35 967
Yolanda A. Rankin United States 18 309 0.5× 80 0.6× 276 2.0× 190 1.5× 174 1.4× 58 977
Laurie Taylor United States 9 575 0.9× 37 0.3× 98 0.7× 114 0.9× 120 1.0× 21 908
T. L. Taylor Denmark 11 996 1.6× 160 1.2× 150 1.1× 208 1.6× 239 1.9× 18 1.2k
Helen Kennedy United Kingdom 12 392 0.6× 78 0.6× 57 0.4× 88 0.7× 131 1.1× 35 624
Péter Nagy United States 12 396 0.6× 195 1.4× 136 1.0× 32 0.2× 82 0.7× 35 810
TL Taylor United States 8 514 0.8× 111 0.8× 61 0.4× 75 0.6× 162 1.3× 19 729
Anthony M. Limperos United States 11 696 1.1× 361 2.6× 136 1.0× 120 0.9× 101 0.8× 28 1.2k
Saraswathi Bellur United States 14 612 1.0× 146 1.1× 165 1.2× 74 0.6× 29 0.2× 24 1.0k
Will Wright United States 8 460 0.8× 83 0.6× 79 0.6× 394 3.0× 57 0.5× 18 983
Patricia Wallace United States 9 397 0.7× 201 1.5× 63 0.5× 147 1.1× 101 0.8× 18 959

Countries citing papers authored by Celia Pearce

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Fields of papers citing papers by Celia Pearce

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Physical SciencesHealth SciencesLife SciencesSocial Sciences

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Co-authorship network of co-authors of Celia Pearce

This figure shows the co-authorship network connecting the top 25 collaborators of Celia Pearce. A scholar is included among the top collaborators of Celia Pearce based on the total number of citations received by their joint publications. Widths of edges represent the number of papers authors have co-authored together. Node borders signify the number of papers an author published with Celia Pearce. Celia Pearce is excluded from the visualization to improve readability, since they are connected to all nodes in the network.

All Works

20 of 20 papers shown
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Pearce, Celia, et al.. (2017). Designing eBee. 1–10. 7 indexed citations
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Pearce, Celia. (2014). Role-Play, Improvisation, and Emergent Authorship. Oxford University Press eBooks. 2 indexed citations
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Boellstorff, Tom, Bonnie Nardi, Celia Pearce, & TL Taylor. (2012). Ethnography and Virtual Worlds. Princeton University Press eBooks. 328 indexed citations breakdown →
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Pearce, Celia. (2010). Discovering Uru: hard fun and the sublime pleasures of impossible gameplay. Springer eBooks. 144–164. 2 indexed citations
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Pearce, Celia. (2010). The Ending is Not Yet Written: A Conversation with Rand Miller.. 10. 1 indexed citations
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Pearce, Celia, P.M.L. Chan, & Katherine Mancuso. (2009). Collaboration, Creativity and Learning in a Play Community: A Study of The University of There. 4 indexed citations
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Pearce, Celia. (2009). Communities of Play. The MIT Press eBooks. 121 indexed citations
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Morie, Jacquelyn Ford, Tracy Fullerton, & Celia Pearce. (2008). A Game of One’s Own: Towards a New Gendered Poetics of Digital Space. SHILAP Revista de lepidopterología. 18 indexed citations
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Pearce, Celia. (2008). The Truth About Baby Boomer Gamers. Games and Culture. 3(2). 142–174. 96 indexed citations
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Fullerton, Tracy, et al.. (2007). Getting girls into the game: Towards a "Virtuous Cycle". 17 indexed citations
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Pearce, Celia, et al.. (2007). Principles of emergent design in online games. 65–71. 1 indexed citations
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Fullerton, Tracy, et al.. (2007). The Hegemony of Play. 1 indexed citations
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Pearce, Celia. (2006). Games AS Art: The Aesthetics of Play. Visible Language. 40(1). 66. 13 indexed citations
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Pearce, Celia. (2006). Seeing and Being Seen: Presence & Play in Online Virtual Worlds Position Paper for Online, Offline & The Concept of Presence When Games and VR Collide USC Institute for Creative Technologies October 25-27, 2006. 5 indexed citations
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Pearce, Celia. (2003). Game Noir - A Conversation with Tim Schafer.. 3(1). 56–58. 5 indexed citations
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Pearce, Celia, et al.. (2003). BRIDGES I: Interdisciplinary Collaboration as Practice. Leonardo. 36(2). 123–128. 5 indexed citations
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Pearce, Celia, et al.. (2003). Game art. 213–214. 1 indexed citations
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Pearce, Celia. (2002). Emergent authorship: the next interactive revolution. Computers & Graphics. 26(1). 21–29. 30 indexed citations
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Pearce, Celia. (1997). The Interactive Book: A Guide to the Interactive Revolution. 26 indexed citations

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