Christopher Kannen

780 total citations · 1 hit paper
24 papers, 535 citations indexed

About

Christopher Kannen is a scholar working on Sociology and Political Science, Applied Psychology and Experimental and Cognitive Psychology. According to data from OpenAlex, Christopher Kannen has authored 24 papers receiving a total of 535 indexed citations (citations by other indexed papers that have themselves been cited), including 18 papers in Sociology and Political Science, 10 papers in Applied Psychology and 8 papers in Experimental and Cognitive Psychology. Recurrent topics in Christopher Kannen's work include Impact of Technology on Adolescents (16 papers), Digital Mental Health Interventions (8 papers) and Mental Health Research Topics (8 papers). Christopher Kannen is often cited by papers focused on Impact of Technology on Adolescents (16 papers), Digital Mental Health Interventions (8 papers) and Mental Health Research Topics (8 papers). Christopher Kannen collaborates with scholars based in Germany, United Kingdom and Australia. Christopher Kannen's co-authors include Christian Montag, Rayna Sariyska, Halley M. Pontes, Bruno Schivinski, Bernd Lachmann, Zsolt Demetrovics, Andrew Cooper, Alexander Markowetz, Harald Baumeister and Eva-Maria Meßner and has published in prestigious journals such as PLoS ONE, Social Science & Medicine and International Journal of Environmental Research and Public Health.

In The Last Decade

Christopher Kannen

23 papers receiving 517 citations

Hit Papers

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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 interplay between time spent gaming and disordered gaming: A large-scale world-wide study

2022 68 citations Halley M. Pontes, Bruno Schivinski et al. Social Science & Medicine profile →

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Name	h						Papers	Cites
Christopher Kannen Germany	12	374	189	154	129	115	24	535
Elfrid Krossbakken Norway	7	578 1.5×	264 1.4×	227 1.5×	111 0.9×	109 0.9×	8	751
Jianling Ma China	10	336 0.9×	125 0.7×	120 0.8×	78 0.6×	62 0.5×	15	467
Ahmad M. Alghraibeh Saudi Arabia	6	380 1.0×	140 0.7×	122 0.8×	84 0.7×	104 0.9×	15	483
Daniel Kardefelt‐Winther Sweden	6	571 1.5×	277 1.5×	262 1.7×	136 1.1×	97 0.8×	8	712
Onat Yılmaz Türkiye	8	491 1.3×	223 1.2×	185 1.2×	75 0.6×	76 0.7×	19	640
Giovanni Del Puente Italy	8	445 1.2×	273 1.4×	126 0.8×	86 0.7×	53 0.5×	25	610
Yuan‐Chien Pan Taiwan	11	512 1.4×	289 1.5×	145 0.9×	128 1.0×	106 0.9×	13	664
Norharlina Bahar Malaysia	8	496 1.3×	303 1.6×	206 1.3×	90 0.7×	55 0.5×	15	616
Serdar Nurmedov Türkiye	8	489 1.3×	222 1.2×	176 1.1×	73 0.6×	72 0.6×	15	638

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Liebherr, Magnus, et al.. (2025). Working memory and the need for explainable AI – Scenarios from healthcare, social media and insurance. Heliyon. 11(2). e41871–e41871. 1 indexed citations

Terhorst, Yannik, Eva-Maria Meßner, Kennedy Opoku Asare, et al.. (2024). Investigating Smartphone-Based Sensing Features for Depression Severity Prediction: Observation Study. Journal of Medical Internet Research. 27. e55308–e55308. 2 indexed citations

Kannen, Christopher, Cornelia Sindermann, & Christian Montag. (2024). On the Willingness to Pay for social media/messenger services taking into account personality and sent/received messages among WhatsApp users. Heliyon. 10(9). e28840–e28840. 4 indexed citations

Montag, Christian, Halley M. Pontes, Christopher Kannen, et al.. (2024). Examining the interplay between internet use disorder tendencies and well-being in relation to sofalizing during the COVID-19 pandemic. Comprehensive Psychiatry. 130. 152452–152452. 7 indexed citations

Montag, Christian, Jon D. Elhai, Christopher Kannen, et al.. (2024). Insights into psychological characteristics of persons (not) agreeing to use an e-coach-application to reduce elevated Internet Use Disorder tendencies. Addictive Behaviors Reports. 20. 100564–100564.

Sindermann, Cornelia, Christopher Kannen, & Christian Montag. (2023). Linking primary emotional traits to ideological attitudes and personal value types. PLoS ONE. 18(1). e0279885–e0279885. 1 indexed citations

Wegmann, Elisa, Anja Bischof, Dmitri Rozgonjuk, et al.. (2022). Implicit Cognitions, Use Expectancies and Gratification in Social-Networks-Use Disorder and Tobacco Use Disorder. SUCHT - Zeitschrift für Wissenschaft und Praxis / Journal of Addiction Research and Practice. 68(5). 279–291. 2 indexed citations

Bischof, Anja, Dominique Brandt, Maren Vens, et al.. (2022). Study protocol for a randomised controlled trial of an e-health stepped care approach for the treatment of internet use disorders versus a placebo condition: the SCAPIT study. BMJ Open. 12(11). e061453–e061453. 7 indexed citations

Pontes, Halley M., Bruno Schivinski, Christopher Kannen, & Christian Montag. (2022). The interplay between time spent gaming and disordered gaming: A large-scale world-wide study. Social Science & Medicine. 296. 114721–114721. 68 indexed citations breakdown →

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Montag, Christian, Bruno Schivinski, Christopher Kannen, & Halley M. Pontes. (2022). Investigating gaming disorder and individual differences in gaming motives among professional and non-professional gamers: An empirical study. Addictive Behaviors. 134. 107416–107416. 16 indexed citations

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Rosen, Marlene, Linda T. Betz, Christian Montag, Christopher Kannen, & Joseph Kambeitz. (2022). Transdiagnostic Psychopathology in a Help-Seeking Population of an Early Recognition Center for Mental Disorders: Protocol for an Experience Sampling Study. JMIR Research Protocols. 11(8). e35206–e35206. 2 indexed citations

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Sindermann, Cornelia, Christopher Kannen, & Christian Montag. (2022). Longitudinal data on (political) news consumption and political attitudes in a German sample collected during the election year 2021. Data in Brief. 43. 108326–108326. 1 indexed citations

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Marengo, Davide, Rayna Sariyska, Helena Schmitt, et al.. (2021). Exploring the Associations Between Self-reported Tendencies Toward Smartphone Use Disorder and Objective Recordings of Smartphone, Instant Messaging, and Social Networking App Usage: Correlational Study. Journal of Medical Internet Research. 23(9). e27093–e27093. 11 indexed citations

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Montag, Christian, Christopher Kannen, Bruno Schivinski, & Halley M. Pontes. (2021). Empirical evidence for robust personality-gaming disorder associations from a large-scale international investigation applying the APA and WHO frameworks. PLoS ONE. 16(12). e0261380–e0261380. 17 indexed citations

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Meßner, Eva-Maria, Rayna Sariyska, Benjamin Mayer, et al.. (2019). Insights: Anwendungsmöglichkeiten von passivem Smartphone-Tracking im therapeutischen Kontext. Verhaltenstherapie. 29(3). 155–165. 10 indexed citations

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Meßner, Eva-Maria, Rayna Sariyska, Benjamin Mayer, et al.. (2019). Insights – Future Implications of Passive Smartphone Sensing in the Therapeutic Context. Verhaltenstherapie. 32(Suppl. 1). 86–95. 12 indexed citations

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Montag, Christian, Bruno Schivinski, Rayna Sariyska, et al.. (2019). Psychopathological Symptoms and Gaming Motives in Disordered Gaming—A Psychometric Comparison between the WHO and APA Diagnostic Frameworks. Journal of Clinical Medicine. 8(10). 1691–1691. 110 indexed citations

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Lachmann, Bernd, Rayna Sariyska, Christopher Kannen, Maria Stavrou, & Christian Montag. (2017). Commuting, Life-Satisfaction and Internet Addiction. International Journal of Environmental Research and Public Health. 14(10). 1176–1176. 29 indexed citations

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Lachmann, Bernd, Rayna Sariyska, Christopher Kannen, Andrew Cooper, & Christian Montag. (2016). Life satisfaction and problematic Internet use: Evidence for gender specific effects. Psychiatry Research. 238. 363–367. 66 indexed citations

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Montag, Christian, Christopher Kannen, Bernd Lachmann, et al.. (2015). The importance of analogue zeitgebers to reduce digital addictive tendencies in the 21st century. Addictive Behaviors Reports. 2. 23–27. 35 indexed citations

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