Sonja Utz

7.4k total citations · 4 hit papers
93 papers, 4.7k citations indexed

About

Sonja Utz is a scholar working on Sociology and Political Science, Communication and Social Psychology. According to data from OpenAlex, Sonja Utz has authored 93 papers receiving a total of 4.7k indexed citations (citations by other indexed papers that have themselves been cited), including 63 papers in Sociology and Political Science, 37 papers in Communication and 23 papers in Social Psychology. Recurrent topics in Sonja Utz's work include Impact of Technology on Adolescents (35 papers), Social Media and Politics (19 papers) and Knowledge Management and Sharing (17 papers). Sonja Utz is often cited by papers focused on Impact of Technology on Adolescents (35 papers), Social Media and Politics (19 papers) and Knowledge Management and Sharing (17 papers). Sonja Utz collaborates with scholars based in Germany, Netherlands and United States. Sonja Utz's co-authors include Friederike Schultz, Ruoyun Lin, Anja S. Göritz, Nicole L. Muscanell, Camiel J. Beukeboom, Johannes Breuer, Lara N. Wolfers, Peter Kerkhof, Ivar Vermeulen and Martin Tanis and has published in prestigious journals such as SHILAP Revista de lepidopterología, Scientific Reports and Computers in Human Behavior.

In The Last Decade

Sonja Utz

86 papers receiving 4.4k 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.

Is the medium the message? Perceptions of and reactions to crisis communication via twitter, blogs and traditional media

2011 532 citations Sonja Utz et al. profile →
Crisis communication online: How medium, crisis type and emotions affected public reactions in the Fukushima Daiichi nuclear disaster

2012 373 citations Sonja Utz et al. profile →
The emotional responses of browsing Facebook: Happiness, envy, and the role of tie strength

2015 248 citations Ruoyun Lin, Sonja Utz Computers in Human Behavior profile →
Social media use, stress, and coping

2022 104 citations Lara N. Wolfers, Sonja Utz Current Opinion in Psychology profile →

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

Name	h						Papers	Cites
Sonja Utz Germany	32	3.2k	1.9k	859	477	450	93	4.7k
Yair Amichai‐Hamburger Israel	36	2.9k 0.9×	1.1k 0.6×	853 1.0×	289 0.6×	462 1.0×	87	4.4k
Stephen A. Rains United States	35	2.8k 0.9×	1.7k 0.9×	1.0k 1.2×	584 1.2×	245 0.5×	124	5.1k
Katelyn Y. A. McKenna United States	15	4.0k 1.2×	1.9k 1.0×	1.3k 1.5×	463 1.0×	474 1.1×	19	5.7k
Dmitri Williams United States	36	4.3k 1.3×	1.3k 0.7×	650 0.8×	570 1.2×	367 0.8×	77	5.4k
Moira Burke United States	30	3.1k 1.0×	2.0k 1.1×	488 0.6×	337 0.7×	365 0.8×	44	4.9k
Carolyn A. Lin United States	33	3.2k 1.0×	1.3k 0.7×	461 0.5×	447 0.9×	1.1k 2.4×	128	4.9k
R. Lance Holbert United States	37	2.5k 0.8×	2.3k 1.2×	944 1.1×	990 2.1×	127 0.3×	97	4.7k
Ran Wei United States	27	2.2k 0.7×	965 0.5×	271 0.3×	319 0.7×	716 1.6×	107	3.2k
Alice Marwick United States	28	4.7k 1.5×	3.3k 1.7×	536 0.6×	628 1.3×	207 0.5×	64	7.5k
Brandon Van Der Heide United States	18	2.1k 0.7×	1.2k 0.6×	328 0.4×	278 0.6×	295 0.7×	31	2.8k

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Physical SciencesHealth SciencesLife SciencesSocial Sciences

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20 of 20 papers shown

Utz, Sonja, et al.. (2024). Chatbot vs. Human: The Impact of Responsive Conversational Features on Users’ Responses to Chat Advisors Authors. SHILAP Revista de lepidopterología. 8. 73–99. 4 indexed citations

Wolfers, Lara N., et al.. (2024). Coping with the COVID-19 Pandemic by Using Media: Extending the Coping Goodness-of-Fit Hypothesis to Media Use. Communication Studies. 75(5). 712–732. 3 indexed citations

Anderl, Christine, et al.. (2024). Conversational presentation mode increases credibility judgements during information search with ChatGPT. Scientific Reports. 14(1). 17127–17127. 7 indexed citations

Utz, Sonja, et al.. (2023). Is Hearing Really Believing?. Journal of Media Psychology Theories Methods and Applications. 36(2). 93–106. 4 indexed citations

Utz, Sonja, et al.. (2023). Diplomacy online: A case of mistaking broadcasting for dialogue. European Journal of Social Psychology. 54(1). 314–331. 1 indexed citations

Anderl, Christine, Ana Levordashka, & Sonja Utz. (2023). Ambient Awareness of Who Knows What: Spontaneous Inferences of Domain Expertise. Media Psychology. 27(3). 329–351.

Wolfers, Lara N. & Sonja Utz. (2022). Social media use, stress, and coping. Current Opinion in Psychology. 45. 101305–101305. 104 indexed citations breakdown →

Pawlowski, Tim, et al.. (2021). Trust in fairness, doping, and the demand for sports: a study on international track and field events. European Sport Management Quarterly. 21(5). 731–747. 7 indexed citations

Domahidi, Emese, et al.. (2021). You Want This Job? Influence and Interplay of Self-Generated Text and Picture Cues in Professional Networking Service Profiles on Expertise Evaluation. Media Psychology. 25(2). 290–317. 2 indexed citations

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Bozkir, Efe, et al.. (2021). FakeNewsPerception: An eye movement dataset on the perceived believability of news stories. SHILAP Revista de lepidopterología. 35. 106909–106909. 7 indexed citations

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Wolfers, Lara N., Ruth Festl, & Sonja Utz. (2020). Do smartphones and social network sites become more important when experiencing stress? Results from longitudinal data. Computers in Human Behavior. 109. 106339–106339. 43 indexed citations

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Kim, Su Hyun, Yeoungsuk Song, Jihyun Park, & Sonja Utz. (2019). Patients’ Experiences of Diabetes Self-Management Education According to Health-Literacy Levels. Clinical Nursing Research. 29(5). 285–292. 21 indexed citations

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Utz, Sonja & Nicole L. Muscanell. (2018). Your Co-author Received 150 Citations: Pride, but Not Envy, Mediates the Effect of System-Generated Achievement Messages on Motivation. Frontiers in Psychology. 9. 628–628. 10 indexed citations

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Utz, Sonja, et al.. (2018). Understanding the relationship between Facebook use and adaptation to financial hardship: Evidence from a longitudinal panel study. Computers in Human Behavior. 89. 221–229. 6 indexed citations

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Lin, Ruoyun, Niels van de Ven, & Sonja Utz. (2018). What triggers envy on Social Network Sites? A comparison between shared experiential and material purchases. Computers in Human Behavior. 85. 271–281. 64 indexed citations

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Levordashka, Ana & Sonja Utz. (2016). Ambient awareness: From random noise to digital closeness in online social networks. Computers in Human Behavior. 60. 147–154. 50 indexed citations

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Lin, Ruoyun & Sonja Utz. (2015). The emotional responses of browsing Facebook: Happiness, envy, and the role of tie strength. Computers in Human Behavior. 52. 29–38. 248 indexed citations breakdown →

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Utz, Sonja, Martin Tanis, & Ivar Vermeulen. (2011). It Is All About Being Popular: The Effects of Need for Popularity on Social Network Site Use. Cyberpsychology Behavior and Social Networking. 15(1). 37–42. 164 indexed citations

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Utz, Sonja, Uwe Matzat, & Chris Snijders. (2009). On-line Reputation Systems: The Effects of Feedback Comments and Reactions on Building and Rebuilding Trust in On-line Auctions. International Journal of Electronic Commerce. 13(3). 95–118. 83 indexed citations

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Utz, Sonja. (2004). Enter Your E-mail Address: How German Internet Users Manage their E-mail Addresses. CyberPsychology & Behavior. 7(2). 241–246. 4 indexed citations

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