Penelope Sweetser

2.6k total citations · 1 hit paper
15 papers, 1.6k citations indexed

About

Penelope Sweetser is a scholar working on Sociology and Political Science, Developmental and Educational Psychology and Artificial Intelligence. According to data from OpenAlex, Penelope Sweetser has authored 15 papers receiving a total of 1.6k indexed citations (citations by other indexed papers that have themselves been cited), including 11 papers in Sociology and Political Science, 11 papers in Developmental and Educational Psychology and 7 papers in Artificial Intelligence. Recurrent topics in Penelope Sweetser's work include Educational Games and Gamification (10 papers), Digital Games and Media (9 papers) and Artificial Intelligence in Games (7 papers). Penelope Sweetser is often cited by papers focused on Educational Games and Gamification (10 papers), Digital Games and Media (9 papers) and Artificial Intelligence in Games (7 papers). Penelope Sweetser collaborates with scholars based in Australia. Penelope Sweetser's co-authors include Peta Wyeth, Daniel Johnson, John Gardner, Janet Wiles and Yan Meng and has published in prestigious journals such as Computers in Human Behavior, Plant Cell & Environment and Australasian Journal of Early Childhood.

In The Last Decade

Penelope Sweetser

15 papers receiving 1.5k 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.

GameFlow

2005 1.3k citations Penelope Sweetser, Peta Wyeth Computers in entertainment profile →

Peers — A (Enhanced Table)

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Name	h						Papers	Cites
Penelope Sweetser Australia	10	979	767	437	251	168	15	1.6k
Frans Mäyrä Finland	18	626 0.6×	1.0k 1.3×	475 1.1×	219 0.9×	125 0.7×	62	1.7k
Erik D. van der Spek Netherlands	13	1.0k 1.0×	364 0.5×	257 0.6×	150 0.6×	299 1.8×	31	1.5k
Jussi Holopainen Finland	20	452 0.5×	539 0.7×	571 1.3×	289 1.2×	64 0.4×	54	1.4k
Sandy Louchart United Kingdom	12	615 0.6×	319 0.4×	209 0.5×	211 0.8×	167 1.0×	45	1.3k
Staffan Björk Sweden	21	630 0.6×	865 1.1×	778 1.8×	403 1.6×	121 0.7×	94	2.0k
Gustavo F. Tondello Canada	18	915 0.9×	610 0.8×	295 0.7×	128 0.5×	89 0.5×	37	1.3k
Michele D. Dickey United States	16	1.2k 1.2×	577 0.8×	499 1.1×	159 0.6×	694 4.1×	21	2.1k
Max V. Birk Canada	21	516 0.5×	543 0.7×	423 1.0×	83 0.3×	99 0.6×	67	1.3k
Peta Wyeth Australia	24	1.5k 1.6×	1.1k 1.5×	848 1.9×	356 1.4×	343 2.0×	105	2.9k
Jaakko Stenros Finland	19	454 0.5×	711 0.9×	452 1.0×	138 0.5×	101 0.6×	43	1.3k

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Co-authorship network of co-authors of Penelope Sweetser

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All Works

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15 of 15 papers shown

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Sweetser, Penelope, et al.. (2017). GameFlow in Different Game Genres and Platforms. Computers in entertainment. 15(3). 1–24. 46 indexed citations

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Johnson, Daniel, John Gardner, & Penelope Sweetser. (2016). Motivations for videogame play: Predictors of time spent playing. Computers in Human Behavior. 63. 805–812. 65 indexed citations

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Johnson, Daniel, Peta Wyeth, & Penelope Sweetser. (2013). The People-Game-Play model for understanding videogames' impact on wellbeing. 85–88. 19 indexed citations

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Sweetser, Penelope. (2013). Teaching Games Level Design Using the StarCraft II Editor. 6(2). 1 indexed citations

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Sweetser, Penelope, et al.. (2013). Female game developers wanted Low pay, long hours, inflexible work environments. 243–249. 1 indexed citations

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Sweetser, Penelope, Daniel Johnson, & Peta Wyeth. (2012). Revisiting the GameFlow model with detailed heuristics. Plant Cell & Environment. 35(2). 217–33. 37 indexed citations

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Sweetser, Penelope, et al.. (2012). GameFlow heuristics for designing and evaluating real-time strategy games. QUT ePrints (Queensland University of Technology). 1–10. 2 indexed citations

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Sweetser, Penelope, et al.. (2012). Active versus Passive Screen Time for Young Children. Australasian Journal of Early Childhood. 37(4). 94–98. 80 indexed citations

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Wyeth, Peta, Daniel Johnson, & Penelope Sweetser. (2012). Conceptualising, operationalising and measuring the player experience in videogames. QUT ePrints (Queensland University of Technology). 5 indexed citations

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Sweetser, Penelope. (2008). Emergence in games. 11 indexed citations

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Sweetser, Penelope. (2006). Environmental awareness in game agents. QUT ePrints (Queensland University of Technology). 2 indexed citations

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Sweetser, Penelope & Janet Wiles. (2005). Scripting versus Emergence: Issues for Game Developers and Players in Game Environment Design. QUT ePrints (Queensland University of Technology). 4(1). 1–9. 20 indexed citations

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Sweetser, Penelope & Peta Wyeth. (2005). GameFlow. Computers in entertainment. 3(3). 3–3. 1333 indexed citations breakdown →

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Sweetser, Penelope, et al.. (2003). Creating engaging artificial characters for games. 1–8. 13 indexed citations

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Sweetser, Penelope & Janet Wiles. (2002). Current AI in Games: A Review. QUT ePrints (Queensland University of Technology). 8(1). 24–42. 12 indexed citations

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