Sebastian Deterding

16.8k total citations · 7 hit papers
87 papers, 9.7k citations indexed

About

Sebastian Deterding is a scholar working on Sociology and Political Science, Developmental and Educational Psychology and Artificial Intelligence. According to data from OpenAlex, Sebastian Deterding has authored 87 papers receiving a total of 9.7k indexed citations (citations by other indexed papers that have themselves been cited), including 45 papers in Sociology and Political Science, 44 papers in Developmental and Educational Psychology and 15 papers in Artificial Intelligence. Recurrent topics in Sebastian Deterding's work include Educational Games and Gamification (43 papers), Digital Games and Media (35 papers) and Impact of Technology on Adolescents (13 papers). Sebastian Deterding is often cited by papers focused on Educational Games and Gamification (43 papers), Digital Games and Media (35 papers) and Impact of Technology on Adolescents (13 papers). Sebastian Deterding collaborates with scholars based in United Kingdom, United States and Canada. Sebastian Deterding's co-authors include Lennart E. Nacke, Dan Dixon, Rilla Khaled, Miguel Sicart, Kenton O’Hara, Daniel Johnson, Stoyan Stoyanov, Leanne Hides, Aleksandra Staneva and Steffen P. Walz and has published in prestigious journals such as PLoS ONE, Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society B Biological Sciences and BMJ.

In The Last Decade

Sebastian Deterding

84 papers receiving 9.0k citations

Hit Papers

From game design elements to gamefulness 2011 2026 2016 2021 2011 2011 2016 2011 2012 1000 2.0k 3.0k 4.0k

Peers

Sebastian Deterding
Comparison fields: 5 of 167
  • Developmental and Educational Psychology 6.0k
  • Sociology and Political Science 3.2k
  • Human-Computer Interaction 1.9k
  • Computer Science Applications 1.8k
  • Education 1.2k
Replace Lennart E. Nacke with:
Lennart E. Nacke Canada
Jonna Koivisto Finland
Dan Dixon United Kingdom
Rilla Khaled Canada
Juho Hamari Finland
Mary Beth Rosson United States
Yvonne Rogers United Kingdom
Marc Prensky Spain
Jeroen J. G. van Merriënboer Netherlands
Roy Pea United States
Lennart E. Nacke Canada View profile →
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Countries citing papers authored by Sebastian Deterding

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Fields of papers citing papers by Sebastian Deterding

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Physical SciencesHealth SciencesLife SciencesSocial Sciences

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Co-authorship network of co-authors of Sebastian Deterding

This figure shows the co-authorship network connecting the top 25 collaborators of Sebastian Deterding. A scholar is included among the top collaborators of Sebastian Deterding based on the total number of citations received by their joint publications. Widths of edges represent the number of papers authors have co-authored together. Node borders signify the number of papers an author published with Sebastian Deterding. Sebastian Deterding is excluded from the visualization to improve readability, since they are connected to all nodes in the network.

All Works

20 of 20 papers shown
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2 4
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Casual Creators in the Wild: A Typology of Commercial Generative Creativity Support Tools.
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10 10
11 17
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Desperately Seeking Theory: Gamification, Design, Data, Machine Learning, and the Promise of Double Loop Learning Systems.
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14 9
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The Joys of Absence: Emotion, Emotion Display, and Interaction Tension in Video Game Play
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16 9
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The Gameful World: Approaches, Issues, Applications
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The Ambiguity of Games: Histories and Discourses of a Gameful World
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19 80
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From Game Design Elements to Gamefulness: Defining “Gamification” breakdown →
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