Nick Yee

14.9k total citations · 7 hit papers
42 papers, 9.5k citations indexed

About

Nick Yee is a scholar working on Sociology and Political Science, Human-Computer Interaction and Experimental and Cognitive Psychology. According to data from OpenAlex, Nick Yee has authored 42 papers receiving a total of 9.5k indexed citations (citations by other indexed papers that have themselves been cited), including 26 papers in Sociology and Political Science, 15 papers in Human-Computer Interaction and 13 papers in Experimental and Cognitive Psychology. Recurrent topics in Nick Yee's work include Digital Games and Media (19 papers), Virtual Reality Applications and Impacts (12 papers) and Impact of Technology on Adolescents (12 papers). Nick Yee is often cited by papers focused on Digital Games and Media (19 papers), Virtual Reality Applications and Impacts (12 papers) and Impact of Technology on Adolescents (12 papers). Nick Yee collaborates with scholars based in United States, United Kingdom and Japan. Nick Yee's co-authors include Jeremy N. Bailenson, Dmitri Williams, Nicolas Ducheneaut, Scott E. Caplan, Gerard George, Amy E. Colbert, Eric Nickell, Les Nelson, Francis Chang and Yuanyuan Zhang and has published in prestigious journals such as Academy of Management Journal, Psychological Science and Computers in Human Behavior.

In The Last Decade

Nick Yee

41 papers receiving 8.7k 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.

Motivations for Play in Online Games

2006 1.9k citations Nick Yee CyberPsychology & Behavior profile →
The Proteus Effect: The Effect of Transformed Self-Representation on Behavior

2007 1.2k citations Nick Yee, Jeremy N. Bailenson profile →
The Demographics, Motivations, and Derived Experiences of Users of Massively Multi-User Online Graphical Environments

2006 834 citations Nick Yee PRESENCE Virtual and Augmented Reality profile →
Who plays, how much, and why? Debunking the stereotypical gamer profile

2008 474 citations Dmitri Williams, Nick Yee et al. Journal of Computer-Mediated Communication profile →
From Tree House to Barracks

2006 440 citations Dmitri Williams, Nicolas Ducheneaut et al. Games and Culture profile →
The Unbearable Likeness of Being Digital: The Persistence of Nonverbal Social Norms in Online Virtual Environments

2007 421 citations Nick Yee, Jeremy N. Bailenson et al. CyberPsychology & Behavior profile →
The Digital Workforce and the Workplace of the Future

2016 418 citations Nick Yee et al. profile →

Author Peers

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Author						Papers	Cites
Nick Yee	5.4k	2.6k	2.1k	1.7k	1.2k	42	9.5k
Jesse Fox	3.4k 0.6×	1.2k 0.5×	1.9k 0.9×	1.4k 0.8×	825 0.7×	64	7.2k
Frank Biocca	3.3k 0.6×	4.9k 1.9×	2.5k 1.2×	690 0.4×	1.4k 1.2×	112	11.0k
Peter Vorderer	3.2k 0.6×	1.1k 0.4×	1.4k 0.7×	1.1k 0.6×	2.2k 1.8×	109	6.2k
Lennart E. Nacke	4.3k 0.8×	3.2k 1.2×	1.4k 0.7×	7.4k 4.3×	500 0.4×	226	13.0k
Andrew K Przybylski	7.1k 1.3×	700 0.3×	2.3k 1.1×	1.9k 1.1×	1.1k 0.9×	86	11.0k
Nicole C. Krämer	3.1k 0.6×	902 0.3×	2.0k 1.0×	537 0.3×	783 0.6×	219	6.8k
Sherry Turkle	3.5k 0.6×	1.0k 0.4×	1.1k 0.5×	760 0.4×	628 0.5×	61	7.6k
Richard Buchanan	1.9k 0.3×	1.2k 0.5×	1.7k 0.8×	1.9k 1.1×	298 0.2×	61	8.9k
Daniel Johnson	2.4k 0.4×	835 0.3×	1.5k 0.7×	1.6k 0.9×	296 0.2×	219	6.5k
Judee K. Burgoon	7.1k 1.3×	1.7k 0.7×	9.7k 4.7×	841 0.5×	1.5k 1.2×	270	18.2k

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20 of 20 papers shown

Yee, Nick & Nicolas Ducheneaut. (2018). Gamer motivation profiling: uses and applications. Oxford University Press eBooks. 5 indexed citations

Lopes, Cristina V., et al.. (2014). Retention and progression: Seven months in World of Warcraft.. Foundations of Digital Games. 9 indexed citations

Yee, Nick, Nicolas Ducheneaut, Les Nelson, & Peter Likarish. (2011). Introverted elves & conscientious gnomes. 753–762. 100 indexed citations

Fischer, Joel E., Nick Yee, Victoria Bellotti, et al.. (2010). Effects of content and time of delivery on receptivity to mobile interruptions. 103–112. 105 indexed citations

Yee, Nick, Helen Harris, Maria Jabon, & Jeremy N. Bailenson. (2010). The Expression of Personality in Virtual Worlds. Social Psychological and Personality Science. 2(1). 5–12. 64 indexed citations

Yee, Nick & Jeremy N. Bailenson. (2009). The Difference Between Being and Seeing: The Relative Contribution of Self-Perception and Priming to Behavioral Changes via Digital Self-Representation. Media Psychology. 12(2). 195–209. 110 indexed citations

Yee, Nick, Jeremy N. Bailenson, & Nicolas Ducheneaut. (2009). The Proteus Effect. Communication Research. 36(2). 285–312. 495 indexed citations

Yee, Nick, et al.. (2009). Virtual Worlds Round Table. Journal of Virtual Worlds Research. 1(3). 1 indexed citations

Caplan, Scott E., Dmitri Williams, & Nick Yee. (2009). Problematic Internet use and psychosocial well-being among MMO players. Computers in Human Behavior. 25(6). 1312–1319. 325 indexed citations

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Yee, Nick & Jeremy N. Bailenson. (2008). A Method for Longitudinal Behavioral Data Collection in Second Life. PRESENCE Virtual and Augmented Reality. 17(6). 594–596. 31 indexed citations

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Williams, Dmitri, Nick Yee, & Scott E. Caplan. (2008). Who plays, how much, and why? Debunking the stereotypical gamer profile. Journal of Computer-Mediated Communication. 13(4). 993–1018. 474 indexed citations breakdown →

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Yee, Nick, et al.. (2007). The Unbearable Likeness of Being Digital: The Persistence of Nonverbal Social Norms in Online Virtual Environments. CyberPsychology & Behavior. 10(1). 115–121. 421 indexed citations breakdown →

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Bailenson, Jeremy N., Nick Yee, Kayur Patel, & Andrew C. Beall. (2007). Detecting digital chameleons. Computers in Human Behavior. 24(1). 66–87. 52 indexed citations

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Bailenson, Jeremy N. & Nick Yee. (2007). Virtual Interpersonal Touch and Digital Chameleons. Journal of Nonverbal Behavior. 31(4). 225–242. 25 indexed citations

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Yee, Nick. (2006). Motivations for Play in Online Games. CyberPsychology & Behavior. 9(6). 772–775. 1880 indexed citations breakdown →

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Bailenson, Jeremy N. & Nick Yee. (2006). A Longitudinal Study of Task Performance, Head Movements, Subjective Report, Simulator Sickness, and Transformed Social Interaction in Collaborative Virtual Environments. PRESENCE Virtual and Augmented Reality. 15(6). 699–716. 97 indexed citations

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Yee, Nick. (2006). The Demographics, Motivations, and Derived Experiences of Users of Massively Multi-User Online Graphical Environments. PRESENCE Virtual and Augmented Reality. 15(3). 309–329. 834 indexed citations breakdown →

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Bailenson, Jeremy N., et al.. (2006). The Effect of Behavioral Realism and Form Realism of Real-Time Avatar Faces on Verbal Disclosure, Nonverbal Disclosure, Emotion Recognition, and Copresence in Dyadic Interaction. PRESENCE Virtual and Augmented Reality. 15(4). 359–372. 255 indexed citations

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Yee, Nick. (2005). The Labor of Fun. Games and Culture. 1(1). 68–71. 220 indexed citations

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Bailenson, Jeremy N. & Nick Yee. (2005). Digital Chameleons. Psychological Science. 16(10). 814–819. 374 indexed citations

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