Divine Maloney

1.4k total citations · 2 hit papers
21 papers, 991 citations indexed

About

Divine Maloney is a scholar working on Sociology and Political Science, Human-Computer Interaction and Social Psychology. According to data from OpenAlex, Divine Maloney has authored 21 papers receiving a total of 991 indexed citations (citations by other indexed papers that have themselves been cited), including 15 papers in Sociology and Political Science, 13 papers in Human-Computer Interaction and 5 papers in Social Psychology. Recurrent topics in Divine Maloney's work include Virtual Reality Applications and Impacts (11 papers), Digital Games and Media (8 papers) and Innovative Human-Technology Interaction (6 papers). Divine Maloney is often cited by papers focused on Virtual Reality Applications and Impacts (11 papers), Digital Games and Media (8 papers) and Innovative Human-Technology Interaction (6 papers). Divine Maloney collaborates with scholars based in United States, Australia and Germany. Divine Maloney's co-authors include Guo Freeman, Samaneh Zamanifard, Donghee Yvette Wohn, Andrew Robb, Dane Acena, Kangsoo Kim, Gerd Bruder, Greg Welch, Maic Masuch and Jeremy N. Bailenson and has published in prestigious journals such as Proceedings of the ACM on Human-Computer Interaction, Computer Animation and Virtual Worlds and CHI Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems.

In The Last Decade

Divine Maloney

21 papers receiving 953 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.

Body, Avatar, and Me

2021 183 citations Guo Freeman, Divine Maloney Proceedings of the ACM on Human-Computer Interaction profile →
Disturbing the Peace: Experiencing and Mitigating Emerging Harassment in Social Virtual Reality

2022 89 citations Guo Freeman, Samaneh Zamanifard et al. Proceedings of the ACM on Human-Computer Interaction profile →

Peers — A (Enhanced Table)

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

Name	h						Papers	Cites
Divine Maloney United States	12	691	289	263	145	128	21	991
Benjamin J. Li Singapore	15	351 0.5×	250 0.9×	280 1.1×	131 0.9×	84 0.7×	33	865
Julian Frommel Canada	17	578 0.8×	339 1.2×	190 0.7×	57 0.4×	261 2.0×	57	1.1k
Max V. Birk Canada	21	423 0.6×	543 1.9×	197 0.7×	163 1.1×	106 0.8×	67	1.3k
Tim Tijs Netherlands	4	630 0.9×	415 1.4×	186 0.7×	165 1.1×	238 1.9×	4	1.3k
Fernanda Herrera United States	10	509 0.7×	140 0.5×	270 1.0×	138 1.0×	189 1.5×	11	918
Bartholomäus Wissmath Switzerland	13	394 0.6×	285 1.0×	192 0.7×	191 1.3×	89 0.7×	26	978
Kathleen Curtiss United States	7	221 0.3×	305 1.1×	124 0.5×	87 0.6×	77 0.6×	7	840
Penelope Sweetser Australia	10	437 0.6×	767 2.7×	135 0.5×	94 0.6×	157 1.2×	15	1.6k
Ana Sacau Portugal	8	630 0.9×	191 0.7×	262 1.0×	227 1.6×	141 1.1×	16	936
Jeanne Brockmyer United States	4	224 0.3×	249 0.9×	112 0.4×	74 0.5×	76 0.6×	4	706

Countries citing papers authored by Divine Maloney

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Co-authorship network of co-authors of Divine Maloney

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All Works

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20 of 20 papers shown

Freeman, Guo, Samaneh Zamanifard, Divine Maloney, & Dane Acena. (2022). Disturbing the Peace: Experiencing and Mitigating Emerging Harassment in Social Virtual Reality. Proceedings of the ACM on Human-Computer Interaction. 6(CSCW1). 1–30. 89 indexed citations breakdown →

Freeman, Guo, et al.. (2022). (Re)discovering the Physical Body Online: Strategies and Challenges to Approach Non-Cisgender Identity in Social Virtual Reality. CHI Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems. 1–15. 54 indexed citations

Maloney, Divine, et al.. (2022). Something Personal from the Metaverse: Goals, Topics, and Contextual Factors of Self-Disclosure in Commercial Social VR. CHI Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems. 1–17. 40 indexed citations

Freeman, Guo & Divine Maloney. (2021). Body, Avatar, and Me. Proceedings of the ACM on Human-Computer Interaction. 4(CSCW3). 1–27. 183 indexed citations breakdown →

Maloney, Divine, Guo Freeman, & Andrew Robb. (2021). Stay Connected in An Immersive World: Why Teenagers Engage in Social Virtual Reality. Interaction Design and Children. 69–79. 45 indexed citations

Li, Lingyuan, Divine Maloney, & Guo Freeman. (2021). Collaboration, Dedication, and Social Pressure: A Comparative Analysis of Virtual and Face-to-Face Game Jams. Proceedings of the ... Annual Hawaii International Conference on System Sciences. 1 indexed citations

Freeman, Guo, et al.. (2020). My Body, My Avatar: How People Perceive Their Avatars in Social Virtual Reality. 1–8. 105 indexed citations

Maloney, Divine, Samaneh Zamanifard, & Guo Freeman. (2020). Anonymity vs. Familiarity: Self-Disclosure and Privacy in Social Virtual Reality. 1–9. 54 indexed citations

Maloney, Divine, Guo Freeman, & Andrew Robb. (2020). It Is Complicated: Interacting with Children in Social Virtual Reality. 2020 IEEE Conference on Virtual Reality and 3D User Interfaces Abstracts and Workshops (VRW). 343–347. 28 indexed citations

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Maloney, Divine, Guo Freeman, & Donghee Yvette Wohn. (2020). "Talking without a Voice". Proceedings of the ACM on Human-Computer Interaction. 4(CSCW2). 1–25. 143 indexed citations

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Maloney, Divine, Guo Freeman, & Andrew Robb. (2020). A Virtual Space for All: Exploring Children's Experience in Social Virtual Reality. 472–483. 60 indexed citations

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Maloney, Divine & Guo Freeman. (2020). Falling Asleep Together: What Makes Activities in Social Virtual Reality Meaningful to Users. 510–521. 105 indexed citations

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Maloney, Divine, et al.. (2020). Differentiated Instruction further Realized through Teacher-Agent Teaming. Proceedings of the Human Factors and Ergonomics Society Annual Meeting. 64(1). 1318–1322. 2 indexed citations

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Maloney, Divine & Andrew Robb. (2019). An Initial Investigation into Stereotypical Influences on Implicit Racial Bias and Embodied Avatars. 1074–1075. 4 indexed citations

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Maloney, Divine. (2019). [DC] Embodied Virtual Avatars and Potential Negative Effects on Implicit Racial Bias. 1373–1374. 1 indexed citations

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Maloney, Divine, et al.. (2019). Ethical Concerns of the Use of Virtual Avatars in Consumer Entertainment. 5. 1489–1492. 4 indexed citations

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Maloney, Divine. (2018). Mitigating Negative Effects of Immersive Virtual Avatars on Racial Bias. 39–43. 8 indexed citations

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Kim, Kangsoo, Divine Maloney, Gerd Bruder, Jeremy N. Bailenson, & Greg Welch. (2017). The effects of virtual human's spatial and behavioral coherence with physical objects on social presence in AR. Computer Animation and Virtual Worlds. 28(3-4). 48 indexed citations

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Bodenheimer, Bobby, Yiming Wang, Divine Maloney, & John J. Rieser. (2016). Induction of linear and circular vection in real and virtual worlds. 153–154. 6 indexed citations

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Kim, Kangsoo, Gerd Bruder, Divine Maloney, & Greg Welch. (2016). The Influence of Real Human Personality on Social Presence with a Virtual Human in Augmented Reality. Journal of International Crisis and Risk Communication Research. 10 indexed citations

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