Lara N. Wolfers

792 total citations · 1 hit paper
21 papers, 477 citations indexed

About

Lara N. Wolfers is a scholar working on Sociology and Political Science, Education and Literature and Literary Theory. According to data from OpenAlex, Lara N. Wolfers has authored 21 papers receiving a total of 477 indexed citations (citations by other indexed papers that have themselves been cited), including 15 papers in Sociology and Political Science, 10 papers in Education and 9 papers in Literature and Literary Theory. Recurrent topics in Lara N. Wolfers's work include Impact of Technology on Adolescents (13 papers), Child Development and Digital Technology (9 papers) and Media Influence and Health (9 papers). Lara N. Wolfers is often cited by papers focused on Impact of Technology on Adolescents (13 papers), Child Development and Digital Technology (9 papers) and Media Influence and Health (9 papers). Lara N. Wolfers collaborates with scholars based in Germany, Netherlands and United States. Lara N. Wolfers's co-authors include Sonja Utz, Frank M. Schneider, Ruth Festl, Robin L. Nabi, Nina Sommer, S. Sauer, Nathan Walter, Mariek Vanden Abeele, Daniela Becker and Anja S. Göritz and has published in prestigious journals such as SHILAP Revista de lepidopterología, Computers in Human Behavior and Journal of Child Psychology and Psychiatry.

In The Last Decade

Lara N. Wolfers

20 papers receiving 454 citations

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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.

Social media use, stress, and coping

2022 104 citations Lara N. Wolfers, Sonja Utz Current Opinion in Psychology profile →

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Name	h						Papers	Cites
Lara N. Wolfers Germany	11	342	181	118	90	82	21	477
Jessica D. Zurcher United States	8	403 1.2×	221 1.2×	151 1.3×	95 1.1×	63 0.8×	16	558
Mustafa Savcı Türkiye	12	447 1.3×	259 1.4×	93 0.8×	70 0.8×	54 0.7×	27	508
Suliman S. Aljomaa Saudi Arabia	6	395 1.2×	196 1.1×	114 1.0×	68 0.8×	32 0.4×	10	482
Vittoria Franchina Austria	5	328 1.0×	137 0.8×	94 0.8×	55 0.6×	37 0.5×	7	422
Ismael Salamah Albursan Saudi Arabia	7	414 1.2×	208 1.1×	143 1.2×	102 1.1×	30 0.4×	14	544
Maria Kalpidou United States	6	443 1.3×	167 0.9×	90 0.8×	69 0.8×	68 0.8×	9	542
Bahadır Bozoğlan Türkiye	7	279 0.8×	191 1.1×	99 0.8×	62 0.7×	29 0.4×	13	434
Nalan Bostan Türkiye	4	388 1.1×	241 1.3×	59 0.5×	88 1.0×	39 0.5×	6	478
Nino Gugushvili Netherlands	7	369 1.1×	108 0.6×	106 0.9×	49 0.5×	78 1.0×	12	490

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20 of 20 papers shown

Wolfers, Lara N., et al.. (2025). The next media-fueled moral technology panic? News media’s and audience’s views on ChatGPT. AI & Society. 40(8). 6761–6781. 1 indexed citations

Eden, Allison, et al.. (2025). Examining Comfort Media: A Tool for Self-Regulation and Refuge?. Mass Communication & Society. 29(2). 245–268. 1 indexed citations

Wolfers, Lara N., et al.. (2025). What do you mean by “social media”? Introducing the Reporting Items for Social Media Research (RISoMeR). Annals of the International Communication Association. 49(3). 192–204.

Wolfers, Lara N., et al.. (2024). Coping with the COVID-19 Pandemic by Using Media: Extending the Coping Goodness-of-Fit Hypothesis to Media Use. Communication Studies. 75(5). 712–732. 3 indexed citations

Wolfers, Lara N., Robin L. Nabi, & Nathan Walter. (2024). Too Much Screen Time or Too Much Guilt? How Child Screen Time and Parental Screen Guilt Affect Parental Stress and Relationship Satisfaction. Media Psychology. 28(1). 102–133. 8 indexed citations

Halfmann, Annabell, et al.. (2024). Can mothers avoid guilt about their smartphone usage behavior? Effects of the availability norm and goal conflict on guilt, recovery, and accomplishment experiences. Mobile Media & Communication. 13(1). 5–27. 2 indexed citations

Azrout, Rachid, et al.. (2024). Has the AI Revolution Started Yet?. Tijdschrift voor Communicatiewetenschappen. 52(3). 267–287. 4 indexed citations

Wolfers, Lara N.. (2024). A social constructivist viewpoint of media effects: extending the social influence model of technology use to media effects. Communication Theory. 34(4). 178–190. 5 indexed citations

Wolfers, Lara N., et al.. (2023). Commentary: Technoference or parental phubbing? A call for greater conceptual and operational clarity of parental smartphone use around children. Journal of Child Psychology and Psychiatry. 65(8). 1108–1114. 14 indexed citations

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Wolfers, Lara N., et al.. (2023). Conditionally helpful? The influence of person-, situation-, and device-specific factors on maternal smartphone use for stress coping and on coping effectiveness. Cyberpsychology Journal of Psychosocial Research on Cyberspace. 17(3). 8 indexed citations

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Wolfers, Lara N., Ruth Festl, Daniela Becker, & Sonja Utz. (2023). Do you love your phone more than your child? The consequences of norms and guilt around maternal smartphone use. Human Communication Research. 49(3). 285–295. 12 indexed citations

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Nabi, Robin L. & Lara N. Wolfers. (2022). Does Digital Media Use Harm Children’s Emotional Intelligence? A Parental Perspective. Media and Communication. 10(1). 350–360. 14 indexed citations

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Wolfers, Lara N. & Sonja Utz. (2022). Social media use, stress, and coping. Current Opinion in Psychology. 45. 101305–101305. 104 indexed citations breakdown →

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Nabi, Robin L., et al.. (2022). Coping with COVID-19 stress: The role of media consumption in emotion- and problem-focused coping.. Psychology of Popular Media. 11(3). 292–298. 26 indexed citations

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Wolfers, Lara N.. (2021). Parental mobile media use for coping with stress: A focus groups study. Human Behavior and Emerging Technologies. 3(2). 304–315. 35 indexed citations

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Utz, Sonja, Lara N. Wolfers, & Anja S. Göritz. (2021). The Effects of Situational and Individual Factors on Algorithm Acceptance in COVID-19-Related Decision-Making: A Preregistered Online Experiment. SHILAP Revista de lepidopterología. 3. 27–46. 5 indexed citations

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Wolfers, Lara N., Ruth Festl, & Sonja Utz. (2020). Do smartphones and social network sites become more important when experiencing stress? Results from longitudinal data. Computers in Human Behavior. 109. 106339–106339. 43 indexed citations

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Wolfers, Lara N. & Frank M. Schneider. (2020). Using Media for Coping: A Scoping Review. Communication Research. 48(8). 1210–1234. 94 indexed citations

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Utz, Sonja & Lara N. Wolfers. (2020). How-to videos on YouTube: the role of the instructor. Information Communication & Society. 25(7). 959–974. 21 indexed citations

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Wolfers, Lara N., et al.. (2019). Phone use while parenting: An observational study to assess the association of maternal sensitivity and smartphone use in a playground setting. Computers in Human Behavior. 102. 31–38. 63 indexed citations

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