Christopher J. Ferguson

21.2k total citations · 6 hit papers
217 papers, 13.1k citations indexed

About

Christopher J. Ferguson is a scholar working on Sociology and Political Science, Social Psychology and Clinical Psychology. According to data from OpenAlex, Christopher J. Ferguson has authored 217 papers receiving a total of 13.1k indexed citations (citations by other indexed papers that have themselves been cited), including 121 papers in Sociology and Political Science, 79 papers in Social Psychology and 70 papers in Clinical Psychology. Recurrent topics in Christopher J. Ferguson's work include Bullying, Victimization, and Aggression (68 papers), Impact of Technology on Adolescents (56 papers) and Child Development and Digital Technology (37 papers). Christopher J. Ferguson is often cited by papers focused on Bullying, Victimization, and Aggression (68 papers), Impact of Technology on Adolescents (56 papers) and Child Development and Digital Technology (37 papers). Christopher J. Ferguson collaborates with scholars based in United States, Australia and United Kingdom. Christopher J. Ferguson's co-authors include Moritz Heene, Michael Τ. Brannick, Robert G. Gilbert, John C. Kilburn, Brian S. Hawkett, Claudia San Miguel, Christopher H. Such, Algirdas K. Serelis, Binh T. T. Pham and Richard D. Hartley and has published in prestigious journals such as Journal of Personality and Social Psychology, PLoS ONE and American Psychologist.

In The Last Decade

Christopher J. Ferguson

207 papers receiving 12.3k citations

Hit Papers

An effect size primer: A guide for clinicians and researc... 2005 2026 2012 2019 2009 2005 2012 2011 2015 500 1000 1.5k 2.0k 2.5k
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.

  1. An effect size primer: A guide for clinicians and researchers.
    2009 2.6k citations Christopher J. Ferguson profile →
  2. Ab Initio Emulsion Polymerization by RAFT-Controlled Self-Assembly
    2005 564 citations Christopher J. Ferguson, Brian S. Hawkett et al. profile →
  3. A Vast Graveyard of Undead Theories
    2012 404 citations Christopher J. Ferguson et al. profile →
  4. Publication bias in psychological science: Prevalence, methods for identifying and controlling, and implications for the use of meta-analyses.
    2011 392 citations Christopher J. Ferguson et al. profile →
  5. Do Angry Birds Make for Angry Children? A Meta-Analysis of Video Game Influences on Children’s and Adolescents’ Aggression, Mental Health, Prosocial Behavior, and Academic Performance
    2015 318 citations Christopher J. Ferguson profile →
  6. Social Media Use and Mental Health among Young Adults
    2017 301 citations Christopher J. Ferguson et al. Psychiatric Quarterly profile →

Peers — A (Enhanced Table)

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Name h Career Trend Papers Cites
Christopher J. Ferguson United States 55 5.3k 3.6k 3.3k 2.6k 1.4k 217 13.1k
Steven J. Spencer United States 57 6.8k 1.3× 1.5k 0.4× 5.5k 1.6× 1.4k 0.6× 2.3k 1.6× 178 16.5k
David L. Morgan United States 40 3.4k 0.6× 2.0k 0.5× 1.4k 0.4× 1.6k 0.6× 661 0.5× 110 11.2k
Daniel J. Bauer United States 45 3.1k 0.6× 4.2k 1.2× 3.8k 1.1× 1.4k 0.6× 3.0k 2.1× 156 15.7k
Norman Miller United States 42 3.9k 0.7× 1.2k 0.3× 3.4k 1.0× 581 0.2× 968 0.7× 140 7.6k
Margaret L. Kern Australia 48 2.5k 0.5× 3.6k 1.0× 4.9k 1.5× 1.5k 0.6× 2.1k 1.5× 120 11.7k
et al United States 66 1.9k 0.4× 8.6k 2.4× 4.0k 1.2× 1.1k 0.4× 3.0k 2.1× 327 19.2k
Thomas Goetz Germany 62 1.5k 0.3× 2.5k 0.7× 8.0k 2.4× 6.7k 2.6× 7.0k 4.9× 147 16.8k
Richard Gonzalez United States 61 1.6k 0.3× 1.0k 0.3× 2.1k 0.6× 419 0.2× 1.5k 1.0× 329 12.7k
W. Keith Campbell United States 85 8.8k 1.7× 14.7k 4.0× 10.6k 3.2× 1.4k 0.6× 4.9k 3.5× 199 25.9k
Jason W. Osborne United States 43 1.9k 0.4× 1.6k 0.4× 1.9k 0.6× 2.3k 0.9× 1.3k 0.9× 245 14.2k

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All Works

20 of 20 papers shown
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Ferguson, Christopher J.. (2025). Longer-term interventions to reduce social media time do not improve mental health: A reply to Thrul et al. (2025).. Psychology of Popular Media. 14(2). 210–212. 1 indexed citations
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Ferguson, Christopher J., et al.. (2024). Economic correlates of crime: An empirical test in Houston. Journal of Criminal Justice. 95. 102306–102306. 1 indexed citations
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Ferguson, Christopher J., et al.. (2024). Police shootings, violent crime, race and socio‐economic factors in municipalities in the United States of America. Criminal Behaviour and Mental Health. 34(3). 296–310.
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Morscher, Gregory N., et al.. (2024). Acoustic emission accuracy from a tensile test of a ceramic matrix composite. Journal of the American Ceramic Society. 107(12). 8556–8571. 4 indexed citations
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Devilly, Grant J., et al.. (2023). Directional is the new null? A comment on Bushman and Anderson (2021).. Psychology of Popular Media. 12(3). 364–372. 2 indexed citations
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Ferguson, Christopher J., et al.. (2022). Social, health and ethnicity correlates of complaints of excessive police force. Criminal Behaviour and Mental Health. 32(4). 284–294. 6 indexed citations
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Drummond, Aaron, James D. Sauer, Christopher J. Ferguson, & Lauren C. Hall. (2020). The relationship between problem gambling, excessive gaming, psychological distress and spending on loot boxes in Aotearoa New Zealand, Australia, and the United States—A cross-national survey. PLoS ONE. 15(3). e0230378–e0230378. 98 indexed citations
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Markey, Patrick M., et al.. (2020). Video Game Play: Myths and Benefits.. 13(1). 87–106. 3 indexed citations
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Jeong, Eui Jun, et al.. (2019). Pathological Gaming in Young Adolescents: A Longitudinal Study Focused on Academic Stress and Self-Control in South Korea. Journal of Youth and Adolescence. 48(12). 2333–2342. 79 indexed citations
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Ferguson, Christopher J., et al.. (2018). Learning to blast a way into crime, or just good clean fun? Examining aggressive play with toy weapons and its relation with crime. Criminal Behaviour and Mental Health. 28(4). 313–323. 3 indexed citations
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Markey, Patrick M. & Christopher J. Ferguson. (2017). Teaching Us to Fear: The Violent Video Game Moral Panic and The Politics of Game Research.. 10(1). 99–115. 17 indexed citations
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Ferguson, Christopher J. & John Colwell. (2015). Scholarly Consensus on Video Game Violence Effects Continues to Elude: Examining Factors Related to Differing Opinions Among Scholars on Whether Violent Video Games Cause Societal Violence. WestminsterResearch (University of Westminster). 1 indexed citations
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Ferguson, Christopher J.. (2014). Is video game violence bad. Psychologist. 3 indexed citations
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Ferguson, Christopher J., et al.. (2013). Reality Television Predicts Both Positive and Negative Outcomes for Adolescent Girls. The Journal of Pediatrics. 162(6). 1175–1180. 15 indexed citations
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Ferguson, Christopher J.. (2012). Spanking, corporal punishment and negative long-term outcomes: A meta-analytic review of longitudinal studies. Clinical Psychology Review. 33(1). 196–208. 198 indexed citations
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Ferguson, Christopher J., et al.. (2010). Introduction to the Special Issue on Video Games. Review of General Psychology. 14(2). 66–67. 10 indexed citations
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Ferguson, Christopher J.. (2010). The influence of television and video game use on attention and school problems: A multivariate analysis with other risk factors controlled. Journal of Psychiatric Research. 45(6). 808–813. 93 indexed citations
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Ferguson, Christopher J., et al.. (2010). Saturday Night’s Alright for Fighting: Antisocial Traits, Fighting, and Weapons Carrying in a Large Sample of Youth. Psychiatric Quarterly. 81(4). 293–302. 29 indexed citations
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Ahmad, Nasir M., Bernadette Charleux, Céline Farcet, et al.. (2009). Chain Transfer to Polymer and Branching in Controlled Radical Polymerizations of n‐Butyl Acrylate. Macromolecular Rapid Communications. 30(23). 2002–2021. 127 indexed citations
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Ferguson, Christopher J. & John C. Kilburn. (2009). The Public Health Risks of Media Violence: A Meta-Analytic Review. The Journal of Pediatrics. 154(5). 759–763. 217 indexed citations

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