David A. Ellis

5.7k total citations · 4 hit papers
88 papers, 3.0k citations indexed

About

David A. Ellis is a scholar working on Sociology and Political Science, General Health Professions and Applied Psychology. According to data from OpenAlex, David A. Ellis has authored 88 papers receiving a total of 3.0k indexed citations (citations by other indexed papers that have themselves been cited), including 26 papers in Sociology and Political Science, 18 papers in General Health Professions and 15 papers in Applied Psychology. Recurrent topics in David A. Ellis's work include Impact of Technology on Adolescents (16 papers), Healthcare Policy and Management (11 papers) and Chronic Disease Management Strategies (8 papers). David A. Ellis is often cited by papers focused on Impact of Technology on Adolescents (16 papers), Healthcare Policy and Management (11 papers) and Chronic Disease Management Strategies (8 papers). David A. Ellis collaborates with scholars based in United Kingdom, Canada and United States. David A. Ellis's co-authors include Lukasz Piwek, Sally Andrews, Heather Shaw, Adam Joinson, Brittany I Davidson, Andrea Williamson, Thomas Wilcockson, Philip Wilson, Ross McQueenie and Alex McConnachie and has published in prestigious journals such as SHILAP Revista de lepidopterología, PLoS ONE and Biochemistry.

In The Last Decade

David A. Ellis

82 papers receiving 2.9k citations

Hit Papers

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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 Rise of Consumer Health Wearables: Promises and Barriers

2016 697 citations Lukasz Piwek, David A. Ellis et al. profile →
Beyond Self-Report: Tools to Compare Estimated and Real-World Smartphone Use

2015 267 citations David A. Ellis, Heather Shaw et al. profile →
Do smartphone usage scales predict behavior?

2019 205 citations David A. Ellis, Brittany I Davidson et al. profile →
The Conceptual and Methodological Mayhem of “Screen Time”

2020 156 citations David A. Ellis et al. profile →

Peers — A (Enhanced Table)

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

Name	h						Papers	Cites
David A. Ellis United Kingdom	23	1.1k	607	475	427	356	88	3.0k
Joshua Fogel United States	31	1.2k 1.1×	795 1.3×	482 1.0×	252 0.6×	344 1.0×	216	3.9k
Clint Bowers United States	38	618 0.6×	349 0.6×	590 1.2×	499 1.2×	494 1.4×	157	5.3k
Rita Orji Canada	33	1.6k 1.5×	715 1.2×	1.3k 2.7×	298 0.7×	271 0.8×	238	4.4k
Paul van Schaik United Kingdom	34	921 0.9×	356 0.6×	186 0.4×	352 0.8×	259 0.7×	174	3.9k
Geraldine Fitzpatrick Austria	30	689 0.6×	462 0.8×	329 0.7×	366 0.9×	119 0.3×	132	3.4k
A. T. Panter United States	33	934 0.9×	431 0.7×	326 0.7×	606 1.4×	570 1.6×	121	4.2k
Harri Oinas‐Kukkonen Finland	26	1.2k 1.1×	859 1.4×	1.2k 2.5×	210 0.5×	201 0.6×	143	3.7k
Jacob E. Barkley United States	34	1.7k 1.6×	287 0.5×	450 0.9×	893 2.1×	267 0.8×	112	3.9k
Fred Zijlstra Netherlands	28	836 0.8×	1.2k 1.9×	252 0.5×	200 0.5×	672 1.9×	85	3.9k
Choi K. Wan United States	27	862 0.8×	812 1.3×	403 0.8×	196 0.5×	452 1.3×	43	4.2k

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Co-authorship network of co-authors of David A. Ellis

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Basrani, Bettina, et al.. (2025). Healing Outcomes Following the Treatment of Molars Using Different Root Canal Disinfection Methods: A Prospective Cohort Study. Journal of Endodontics. 51(7). 909–919. 1 indexed citations

Mackenzie, Mhairi, Catherine O’Donnell, David A. Ellis, et al.. (2025). Fundamental causation and candidacy: Harnessing explanatory frames to better understand how structural determinants of health inequalities shape disengagement from primary healthcare. Social Science & Medicine. 374. 118043–118043.

Ellis, David A., John N. Towse, Brittany I Davidson, et al.. (2024). Assessing computational reproducibility in Behavior Research Methods. Behavior Research Methods. 56(8). 8745–8760. 2 indexed citations

Smith, Laura G. E., et al.. (2024). “I just embodied you”: Psychological Ownership of Personalized Photorealistic Avatars. 1–7. 1 indexed citations

Mackenzie, Mhairi, David A. Ellis, Catherine O’Donnell, et al.. (2024). A realist review of the causes of, and current interventions to address ‘missingness’ in health care.. SHILAP Revista de lepidopterología. 3. 33–33. 4 indexed citations

Mackenzie, Mhairi, David A. Ellis, Catherine O’Donnell, et al.. (2024). Understanding the causes of missingness in primary care: a realist review. BMC Medicine. 22(1). 235–235. 5 indexed citations

Joinson, Adam, et al.. (2023). Motivations for Collecting Digital NFT Fashion. 1–7. 2 indexed citations

Ellis, David A., et al.. (2023). Exploring User Motivations Behind iOS App Tracking Transparency Decisions. Bristol Research (University of Bristol). 1–12. 2 indexed citations

Shaw, Heather, Paul Taylor, David A. Ellis, & Stacey M. Conchie. (2022). Behavioral Consistency in the Digital Age. Psychological Science. 33(3). 364–370. 10 indexed citations

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Towse, John N., et al.. (2021). Making Data Meaningful. OSF Preprints (OSF Preprints). 1 indexed citations

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Ellis, David A., et al.. (2021). Open-source smartphone app and tools for measuring, quantifying, and visualizing technology use. Behavior Research Methods. 54(1). 1–12. 17 indexed citations

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Shaw, Heather, David A. Ellis, & Brittany I Davidson. (2020). Fuzzy Constructs: The Overlap between Mental Health and Technology ‘Use’. OSF Preprints (OSF Preprints). 4 indexed citations

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Towse, John N., et al.. (2020). Opening Pandora’s Box: Peeking inside Psychology’s data sharing practices, and seven recommendations for change. Behavior Research Methods. 53(4). 1455–1468. 30 indexed citations

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Williamson, Andrea, David A. Ellis, Philip Wilson, Ross McQueenie, & Alex McConnachie. (2017). Understanding repeated non-attendance in health services: a pilot analysis of administrative data and full study protocol for a national retrospective cohort. BMJ Open. 7(2). e014120–e014120. 44 indexed citations

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Ellis, David A. & Lukasz Piwek. (2017). When wearable devices fail : Towards an improved understanding of what makes a successful wearable intervention. Lancaster EPrints (Lancaster University). 1 indexed citations

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Ellis, David A. & Hannah Lena Merdian. (2015). Thinking Outside the Box: Developing Dynamic Data Visualizations for Psychology with Shiny. Frontiers in Psychology. 6. 1782–1782. 21 indexed citations

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Ellis, David A., Mathias Creutz, Timo Honkela, & Mikko Kurimo. (2008). Speech to speech machine translation: Biblical chatter from Finnish to English. International Joint Conference on Natural Language Processing. 123–130. 1 indexed citations

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Ellis, David A., et al.. (2004). Informed Consent in Facial Plastic Surgery. Archives of Facial Plastic Surgery. 6(1). 26–30. 54 indexed citations

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Allen, David K. & David A. Ellis. (1997). Beyond Paradigm Closure in Information Systems Research: Theoretical Possibilities for Pluralism.. European Conference on Information Systems. 737–759. 5 indexed citations

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Ellis, David A. & Hatem Masri. (1989). The Effect of Facial Animation on the Aging Upper Half of the Face. Archives of Otolaryngology - Head and Neck Surgery. 115(6). 710–713. 19 indexed citations

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