Ofir Turel

13.5k total citations · 5 hit papers
265 papers, 10.1k citations indexed

About

Ofir Turel is a scholar working on Sociology and Political Science, Information Systems and Management and Social Psychology. According to data from OpenAlex, Ofir Turel has authored 265 papers receiving a total of 10.1k indexed citations (citations by other indexed papers that have themselves been cited), including 137 papers in Sociology and Political Science, 76 papers in Information Systems and Management and 36 papers in Social Psychology. Recurrent topics in Ofir Turel's work include Impact of Technology on Adolescents (79 papers), Technology Adoption and User Behaviour (70 papers) and Digital Marketing and Social Media (54 papers). Ofir Turel is often cited by papers focused on Impact of Technology on Adolescents (79 papers), Technology Adoption and User Behaviour (70 papers) and Digital Marketing and Social Media (54 papers). Ofir Turel collaborates with scholars based in United States, Canada and China. Ofir Turel's co-authors include Alexander Serenko, Nick Bontis, Antoine Bechara, Yufei Yuan, Qinghua He, Hamed Qahri‐Saremi, Giles, Catherine E. Connelly, Monideepa Tarafdar and Damien Brevers and has published in prestigious journals such as PLoS ONE, NeuroImage and Scientific Reports.

In The Last Decade

Ofir Turel

252 papers receiving 9.6k citations

Hit Papers

5 papers align trajectories

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 benefits and dangers of enjoyment with social networking websites

2012 520 citations Ofir Turel, Alexander Serenko profile →
Integrating Technology Addiction and Use: an Empirical Investigation of Online Auction Users1

2011 445 citations Ofir Turel, Alexander Serenko et al. profile →
Online game addiction among adolescents: motivation and prevention factors

2011 283 citations Ofir Turel et al. profile →
Problematic Use of Social Networking Sites: Antecedents and Consequence from a Dual-System Theory Perspective

2016 252 citations Ofir Turel, Hamed Qahri‐Saremi Journal of Management Information Systems profile →
The buffering effect of flow experience on the relationship between overload and social media users’ discontinuance intentions

2020 141 citations Ofir Turel et al. profile →

Peers — A (Enhanced Table)

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

Name	h						Papers	Cites
Ofir Turel United States	52	6.1k	3.2k	1.3k	1.3k	1.2k	265	10.1k
Francesca Gino United States	70	4.9k 0.8×	3.1k 1.0×	4.3k 3.2×	3.0k 2.3×	1.1k 1.0×	235	15.8k
Juho Hamari Finland	64	11.2k 1.8×	3.7k 1.2×	2.0k 1.5×	633 0.5×	4.0k 3.4×	327	22.9k
Qimei Chen United States	29	4.3k 0.7×	1.8k 0.6×	1.8k 1.4×	3.0k 2.3×	3.5k 2.9×	66	11.6k
S. Shyam Sundar United States	59	7.6k 1.2×	1.9k 0.6×	2.2k 1.6×	432 0.3×	1.7k 1.4×	248	13.0k
Matthew S. Eastin United States	38	5.0k 0.8×	1.7k 0.5×	701 0.5×	360 0.3×	1.2k 1.0×	67	7.2k
Louis Leung Hong Kong	45	5.6k 0.9×	1.4k 0.4×	777 0.6×	336 0.3×	493 0.4×	84	7.3k
Deborah Compeau Canada	22	4.0k 0.7×	5.5k 1.7×	678 0.5×	1.1k 0.9×	827 0.7×	59	9.3k
Charles J. Kacmar United States	25	5.0k 0.8×	3.8k 1.2×	1.4k 1.1×	3.9k 3.1×	1.4k 1.2×	44	9.1k
M. Ronald Buckley United States	50	2.5k 0.4×	1.1k 0.3×	2.3k 1.7×	4.7k 3.8×	685 0.6×	190	9.9k
Peter Wright United Kingdom	53	4.3k 0.7×	754 0.2×	1.3k 1.0×	1.3k 1.0×	4.1k 3.4×	303	13.6k

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Davis, Fred D., et al.. (2025). Unpacking conflicting evaluations and ambivalence in online hotel booking: The moderating role of perceived enjoyment in user retention. Journal of Retailing and Consumer Services. 85. 104266–104266. 3 indexed citations

Turel, Ofir, et al.. (2025). Group closeness effects on co-owned information sharing: A multilevel perspective. International Journal of Information Management. 86. 102977–102977.

Li, Dandan, et al.. (2024). Neural mechanisms of cooperation and fairness in iterative prisoner’s dilemma. Behavioural Brain Research. 476. 115272–115272.

Turel, Ofir, et al.. (2024). Mobile Technology Addiction Effect on Risky Behaviours: the Moderating Role of Use-Regulation. Information Systems Frontiers. 27(4). 1603–1617.

Qahri‐Saremi, Hamed, Isaac Vaghefi, & Ofir Turel. (2024). Not all IT addictions are handled equally: guilt-vs shame-driven coping with IT addiction. Internet Research. 35(1). 152–177. 2 indexed citations

Turel, Ofir & Hamed Qahri‐Saremi. (2024). Role of “Likes” and “Dislikes” in Influencing User Behaviors on Social Media. Journal of Management Information Systems. 41(2). 515–545. 6 indexed citations

Zhang, Rong, et al.. (2023). Gender-specific resting-state rDMPFC-centric functional connectivity underpinnings of intertemporal choice. Cerebral Cortex. 33(18). 10066–10075. 7 indexed citations

Hasani, Jafar, et al.. (2023). Cognitive emotion regulation mediates the relationship between big-five personality traits and internet use disorder tendencies. Computers in Human Behavior. 152. 108020–108020. 9 indexed citations

Turel, Ofir & Hamed Qahri‐Saremi. (2022). Responses to ambivalence toward social networking sites: A typological perspective. Information Systems Journal. 33(2). 385–416. 16 indexed citations

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Mäntymäki, Matti, A.K.M. Najmul Islam, Ofir Turel, & Amandeep Dhir. (2022). Coping with pandemics using social network sites: A psychological detachment perspective to COVID-19 stressors. Technological Forecasting and Social Change. 179. 121660–121660. 33 indexed citations

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Robert, Lionel, Suprateek Sarker, Christy M.K. Cheung, et al.. (2021). Artificial intelligence and robots in individuals' lives: how to align technological possibilities and ethical issues. Internet Research. 31(1). 1–10. 33 indexed citations

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Islam, A.K.M. Najmul, Matti Mäntymäki, Samuli Laato, & Ofir Turel. (2021). Adverse consequences of emotional support seeking through social network sites in coping with stress from a global pandemic. International Journal of Information Management. 62. 102431–102431. 70 indexed citations

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Qahri‐Saremi, Hamed & Ofir Turel. (2020). Ambivalence and Coping Responses in Post-Adoptive Information Systems Use. Journal of Management Information Systems. 37(3). 820–848. 41 indexed citations

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Wegmann, Elisa, Silke M. Müller, Ofir Turel, & Matthias Brand. (2020). Interactions of impulsivity, general executive functions, and specific inhibitory control explain symptoms of social-networks-use disorder: An experimental study. Scientific Reports. 10(1). 3866–3866. 96 indexed citations

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Turel, Ofir, Christian Matt, Manuel Trenz, et al.. (2019). Panel report: the dark side of the digitization of the individual. Internet Research. 29(2). 274–288. 61 indexed citations

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Turel, Ofir, et al.. (2019). Electronic device use and beverage related sugar and caffeine intake in US adolescents. PLoS ONE. 14(10). e0223912–e0223912. 20 indexed citations

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Qahri‐Saremi, Hamed & Ofir Turel. (2016). School engagement, information technology use, and educational development: An empirical investigation of adolescents. Computers & Education. 102. 65–78. 34 indexed citations

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Tarafdar, Monideepa, John D’Arcy, Ofir Turel, & Ashish Gupta. (2015). The dark side of information technology. MIT Sloan management review. 56(2). 61–70. 108 indexed citations

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Turel, Ofir, Alexander Serenko, & Paul Giles. (2011). Integrating Technology Addiction and Use: An Empirical Investigation of Online Auction Users. Journal of the Association for Information Systems. 21 indexed citations

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Serenko, Alexander, Ofir Turel, & Nick Bontis. (2007). User Acceptance of Hedonic Information Technologies: A Perceived Value Perspective. Journal of the Association for Information Systems. 5 indexed citations

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