Peter H. Kahn

12.7k total citations · 2 hit papers
117 papers, 6.2k citations indexed

About

Peter H. Kahn is a scholar working on Social Psychology, Health, Toxicology and Mutagenesis and Sociology and Political Science. According to data from OpenAlex, Peter H. Kahn has authored 117 papers receiving a total of 6.2k indexed citations (citations by other indexed papers that have themselves been cited), including 51 papers in Social Psychology, 26 papers in Health, Toxicology and Mutagenesis and 23 papers in Sociology and Political Science. Recurrent topics in Peter H. Kahn's work include Social Robot Interaction and HRI (28 papers), Urban Green Space and Health (26 papers) and Environmental Education and Sustainability (22 papers). Peter H. Kahn is often cited by papers focused on Social Robot Interaction and HRI (28 papers), Urban Green Space and Health (26 papers) and Environmental Education and Sustainability (22 papers). Peter H. Kahn collaborates with scholars based in United States, Japan and China. Peter H. Kahn's co-authors include Batya Friedman, Rachel L. Severson, Stephen R. Kellert, Jolina H. Ruckert, Nathan G. Freier, Takayuki Kanda, Hiroshi Ishiguro, Brian T. Gill, Terry Hartig and Jennifer Hagman and has published in prestigious journals such as Science, Contemporary Sociology A Journal of Reviews and The Science of The Total Environment.

In The Last Decade

Peter H. Kahn

111 papers receiving 5.8k 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.

Nature Contact and Human Health: A Research Agenda

2017 824 citations Gregory N. Bratman, Peter H. Kahn et al. profile →
Living in cities, naturally

2016 287 citations Peter H. Kahn et al. profile →

Peers — A (Enhanced Table)

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

Name	h						Papers	Cites
Peter H. Kahn United States	40	2.7k	2.0k	1.2k	976	843	117	6.2k
Irwin Altman United States	36	3.4k 1.2×	2.0k 1.0×	5.7k 4.9×	689 0.7×	258 0.3×	77	11.5k
Stephen Kaplan United States	37	4.6k 1.7×	11.6k 5.8×	3.5k 3.0×	1.6k 1.7×	1.5k 1.8×	101	17.9k
Netta Weinstein United Kingdom	41	3.6k 1.3×	739 0.4×	3.1k 2.7×	296 0.3×	464 0.6×	142	8.0k
Marco Perugini Italy	46	3.8k 1.4×	317 0.2×	4.2k 3.6×	630 0.6×	2.5k 2.9×	151	14.0k
Rachel Kaplan United States	38	2.6k 1.0×	8.1k 4.0×	2.7k 2.4×	900 0.9×	470 0.6×	82	11.7k
Robert Gifford Canada	51	2.2k 0.8×	2.3k 1.2×	7.5k 6.4×	5.8k 5.9×	308 0.4×	154	14.6k
Mark van Vugt Netherlands	57	3.2k 1.2×	277 0.1×	5.3k 4.6×	1.0k 1.0×	1.5k 1.8×	168	10.4k
John M. Zelenski Canada	29	2.8k 1.0×	3.0k 1.5×	1.6k 1.4×	1.9k 2.0×	309 0.4×	62	6.7k
Franz X. Bogner Germany	43	2.4k 0.9×	863 0.4×	1.6k 1.4×	3.7k 3.8×	100 0.1×	229	7.0k
Florian G. Kaiser Germany	47	1.8k 0.7×	1.6k 0.8×	3.4k 2.9×	6.7k 6.9×	135 0.2×	93	9.8k

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Co-authorship network of co-authors of Peter H. Kahn

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Riederer, Anne M., Christopher D. Simpson, Amanda J. Gassett, et al.. (2025). Forest terpenes and stress: Examining the associations of filtered vs. non-filtered air in a real-life natural environment. Environmental Research. 276. 121482–121482. 2 indexed citations

Kahn, Peter H., et al.. (2025). The importance of (not just visual) interaction with nature: A study with the Girl Scouts. The Journal of Environmental Education. 56(2). 126–143.

Bratman, Gregory N., Gretchen C. Daily, Richard L. Doty, et al.. (2024). Nature and human well-being: The olfactory pathway. Science Advances. 10(20). eadn3028–eadn3028. 30 indexed citations

Kahn, Peter H., et al.. (2023). Time Spent Interacting with Nature Is Associated with Greater Well-Being for Girl Scouts Before and during the COVID-19 Pandemic. Land. 12(7). 1303–1303. 3 indexed citations

Browning, Matthew H.E.M., Timothy Beatley, J. Aaron Hipp, et al.. (2023). Quantifying Nature: Introducing NatureScore^TM and NatureDose^TM as Health Analysis and Promotion Tools. American Journal of Health Promotion. 38(1). 126–134. 9 indexed citations

Kahn, Peter H., et al.. (2022). Inequitable Changes to Time Spent in Urban Nature during COVID-19: A Case Study of Seattle, WA with Asian, Black, Latino, and White Residents. Land. 11(8). 1277–1277. 5 indexed citations

DeVille, Nicole V., Linda Powers Tomasso, Grete E. Wilt, et al.. (2021). Time Spent in Nature Is Associated with Increased Pro-Environmental Attitudes and Behaviors. International Journal of Environmental Research and Public Health. 18(14). 7498–7498. 115 indexed citations

Ruckert, Jolina H., Peter H. Kahn, Takayuki Kanda, et al.. (2013). Designing for sociality in HRI by means of multiple personas in robots. Human-Robot Interaction. 217–218. 5 indexed citations

Kahn, Peter H.. (2013). Revisioning Ecopsychology: Perspectives from the Community. Ecopsychology. 5(4). 207–211. 2 indexed citations

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Kahn, Peter H., Heather E. Gary, & Solace Shen. (2012). Children's Social Relationships With Current and Near-Future Robots. Child Development Perspectives. 7(1). 32–37. 83 indexed citations

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Billard, Aude, Peter H. Kahn, Julie A. Adams, & J. Gregory Trafton. (2011). Proceedings of the 6th international conference on Human-robot interaction. Human-Robot Interaction. 6 indexed citations

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Kahn, Peter H., et al.. (2011). Validating characterizations of sociality in HRI. Human-Robot Interaction. 57–72. 2 indexed citations

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Hinds, Pamela, Hiroshi Ishiguro, Takayuki Kanda, & Peter H. Kahn. (2010). Proceedings of the 5th ACM/IEEE international conference on Human-robot interaction. Human-Robot Interaction. 78 indexed citations

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Friedman, Batya, Alan Borning, Janet Davis, et al.. (2008). Laying the foundations for public participation and value advocacy: interaction design for a large scale urban simulation. 305–314. 32 indexed citations

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Borning, Alan, Batya Friedman, & Peter H. Kahn. (2004). Designing for Human Values in a Urban Simulation System: Value Sensitive Design and Participatory design. Participatory Design Conference. 68–71. 15 indexed citations

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Kahn, Peter H.. (2004). Why the Wild Things Are. Animals in the Lives of Children. Child and Adolescent Mental Health. 9(1). 45–46. 8 indexed citations

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Kahn, Peter H. & Stephen R. Kellert. (2002). Children and Nature: Psychological, Sociocultural and Evolutionary Investigations. Environmental Values. 13(3). 234 indexed citations

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Kahn, Peter H.. (1997). Bayous and jungle rivers: Cross-cultural perspectives on children's environmental moral reasoning. New Directions for Child and Adolescent Development. 1997(76). 23–36. 7 indexed citations

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Kahn, Peter H.. (1992). Children's Obligatory and Discretionary Moral Judgments. Child Development. 63(2). 416–416. 59 indexed citations

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Kahn, Peter H. & Elliot Turiel. (1988). Children's conceptions of trust in the context of social expectations.. Merrill-palmer Quarterly. 34(4). 37 indexed citations

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