Sandra Matz

5.3k total citations · 5 hit papers
56 papers, 2.9k citations indexed

About

Sandra Matz is a scholar working on Sociology and Political Science, Clinical Psychology and Applied Psychology. According to data from OpenAlex, Sandra Matz has authored 56 papers receiving a total of 2.9k indexed citations (citations by other indexed papers that have themselves been cited), including 19 papers in Sociology and Political Science, 17 papers in Clinical Psychology and 16 papers in Applied Psychology. Recurrent topics in Sandra Matz's work include Behavioral Health and Interventions (11 papers), Personality Traits and Psychology (11 papers) and Mental Health Research Topics (8 papers). Sandra Matz is often cited by papers focused on Behavioral Health and Interventions (11 papers), Personality Traits and Psychology (11 papers) and Mental Health Research Topics (8 papers). Sandra Matz collaborates with scholars based in United States, United Kingdom and Germany. Sandra Matz's co-authors include David Stillwell, Michał Kosiński, Gideon Nave, Samuel D. Gosling, Kai Ruggeri, Áine Maguire, Eduardo García‐Garzón, Felicia A. Huppert, Joe J. Gladstone and Gabriella M. Harari and has published in prestigious journals such as Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, Journal of Personality and Social Psychology and Nature Communications.

In The Last Decade

Sandra Matz

55 papers receiving 2.7k 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.

Facebook as a research tool for the social sciences: Opportunities, challenges, ethical considerations, and practical guidelines.

2015 602 citations Michał Kosiński, Sandra Matz et al. American Psychologist profile →
Psychological targeting as an effective approach to digital mass persuasion

2017 469 citations Sandra Matz, Michał Kosiński et al. profile →
Well-being is more than happiness and life satisfaction: a multidimensional analysis of 21 countries

2020 434 citations Kai Ruggeri, Eduardo García‐Garzón et al. Health and Quality of Life Outcomes profile →
The potential of generative AI for personalized persuasion at scale

2024 99 citations Sandra Matz, Jacob D. Teeny et al. Scientific Reports profile →
Large language models can infer psychological dispositions of social media users

2024 29 citations Heinrich Peters, Sandra Matz profile →

Peers — A (Enhanced Table)

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

Name	h						Papers	Cites
Sandra Matz United States	23	1.0k	633	521	402	354	56	2.9k
Michael Scharkow Germany	23	1.9k 1.9×	818 1.3×	660 1.3×	324 0.8×	321 0.9×	61	4.0k
Tara S. Behrend United States	24	1.1k 1.0×	689 1.1×	415 0.8×	244 0.6×	230 0.6×	68	3.4k
Jonathan Robinson United States	12	1.2k 1.2×	707 1.1×	484 0.9×	328 0.8×	342 1.0×	15	2.8k
David Hauser United States	16	950 0.9×	675 1.1×	325 0.6×	513 1.3×	294 0.8×	43	2.5k
Anuj Shah United States	18	801 0.8×	650 1.0×	216 0.4×	225 0.6×	339 1.0×	48	3.2k
Rosanna E. Guadagno United States	30	2.0k 2.0×	885 1.4×	534 1.0×	566 1.4×	248 0.7×	82	3.6k
Eyal Peer Israel	13	1.9k 1.9×	983 1.6×	669 1.3×	441 1.1×	513 1.4×	26	4.6k
Stefan Palan Austria	11	742 0.7×	444 0.7×	294 0.6×	272 0.7×	220 0.6×	42	2.8k
S. Bartholomew Craig United States	12	992 1.0×	982 1.6×	739 1.4×	424 1.1×	478 1.4×	23	3.4k
Christian Schitter Austria	3	715 0.7×	439 0.7×	292 0.6×	266 0.7×	213 0.6×	4	2.2k

Countries citing papers authored by Sandra Matz

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Fields of papers citing papers by Sandra Matz

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Physical SciencesHealth SciencesLife SciencesSocial Sciences

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Co-authorship network of co-authors of Sandra Matz

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20 of 20 papers shown

Goethals, Sofie, et al.. (2025). The Impact of Cloaking Digital Footprints on User Privacy and Personalization. Big Data. 13(5). 345–363.

Ward, George, H. Andrew Schwartz, Salvatore Giorgi, Jochen I. Menges, & Sandra Matz. (2024). The role of negative affect in shaping populist support: Converging field evidence from across the globe.. American Psychologist. 80(3). 323–344. 1 indexed citations

Peters, Heinrich, et al.. (2024). Machine learning in recruiting: predicting personality from CVs and short text responses. 1. 3 indexed citations

Peters, Heinrich, et al.. (2024). Social media use is predictable from app sequences: Using LSTM and transformer neural networks to model habitual behavior. Computers in Human Behavior. 161. 108381–108381. 2 indexed citations

Matz, Sandra, et al.. (2024). The potential of generative AI for personalized persuasion at scale. Scientific Reports. 14(1). 4692–4692. 99 indexed citations breakdown →

Peters, Heinrich, Sandra Matz, & Moran Cerf. (2023). Sensory substitution can improve decision-making. Computers in Human Behavior. 146. 107797–107797. 1 indexed citations

Matz, Sandra, et al.. (2023). Using machine learning to predict student retention from socio-demographic characteristics and app-based engagement metrics. Scientific Reports. 13(1). 27 indexed citations

Cerf, Moran, Sandra Matz, & Malcolm A. MacIver. (2023). Participating in a climate futures market increases support for costly climate policies. Nature Climate Change. 13(6). 511–512. 1 indexed citations

Müller, Sandrine R., et al.. (2023). The impact of the early stages of COVID-19 on mental health in the United States, Germany, and the United Kingdom.. Journal of Personality and Social Psychology. 124(3). 620–639. 10 indexed citations

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Peters, Heinrich, Friedrich M. Götz, Tobias Ebert, et al.. (2022). Regional personality differences predict variation in early COVID-19 infections and mobility patterns indicative of social distancing.. Journal of Personality and Social Psychology. 124(4). 848–872. 15 indexed citations

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Matz, Sandra, et al.. (2022). Personality similarity predicts synchronous neural responses in fMRI and EEG data. Scientific Reports. 12(1). 14325–14325. 9 indexed citations

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Müller, Sandrine R., et al.. (2021). Depression predictions from GPS-based mobility do not generalize well to large demographically heterogeneous samples. Scientific Reports. 11(1). 14007–14007. 36 indexed citations

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Matz, Sandra. (2021). Personal echo chambers: Openness-to-experience is linked to higher levels of psychological interest diversity in large-scale behavioral data.. Journal of Personality and Social Psychology. 121(6). 1284–1300. 31 indexed citations

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Ebert, Tobias, Friedrich M. Götz, Joe J. Gladstone, Sandrine R. Müller, & Sandra Matz. (2020). Spending reflects not only who we are but also who we are around: The joint effects of individual and geographic personality on consumption.. Journal of Personality and Social Psychology. 121(2). 378–393. 30 indexed citations

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Ruggeri, Kai, Eduardo García‐Garzón, Áine Maguire, Sandra Matz, & Felicia A. Huppert. (2020). Well-being is more than happiness and life satisfaction: a multidimensional analysis of 21 countries. Health and Quality of Life Outcomes. 18(1). 192–192. 434 indexed citations breakdown →

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Matz, Sandra & Michał Kosiński. (2019). Using Consumers’ Digital Footprints for More Persuasive Mass Communication. 11(2). 18–23. 3 indexed citations

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Kulkarni, Vivek, Margaret L. Kern, David Stillwell, et al.. (2018). Latent human traits in the language of social media: An open-vocabulary approach. PLoS ONE. 13(11). e0201703–e0201703. 29 indexed citations

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Matz, Sandra, Michał Kosiński, David Stillwell, & Gideon Nave. (2017). Psychological Framing As an Effective Approach to Real-Life Persuasive Communication. ACR North American Advances. 4 indexed citations

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Matz, Sandra, Joe J. Gladstone, & David Stillwell. (2016). Money Buys Happiness When Spending Fits Our Personality. Psychological Science. 27(5). 715–725. 96 indexed citations

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Kosiński, Michał, et al.. (2015). Facebook as a research tool for the social sciences: Opportunities, challenges, ethical considerations, and practical guidelines.. American Psychologist. 70(6). 543–556. 602 indexed citations breakdown →

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