OOIR: Observatory of International Research

Papers

(The H4-Index of International Journal of Social Robotics is 27. The table below lists those papers that are above that threshold based on CrossRef citation counts [max. 250 papers]. The publications cover those that have been published in the past four years, i.e., from 2022-01-01 to 2026-01-01.)

Article	Citations
Editorial	109
Editorial	79
Familiarity Breeds Affinity – How Personal Experiences Change Employees’ Attitudes Towards a Social Robot	77
Correction to: Integrative Robo-Ethics: Uncovering Roboticists’ Attitudes to Ethics and Moving Forward	67
Correction: How Non-experts Kinesthetically Teach a Robot over Multiple Sessions: Diversity in Teaching Styles and Effects on Performance	66
Enhancing the Audio Achievement of the TIAGo Robot for Assistance in Medical Monitoring	61
Possible Applications and Conditions for the Development and Integration of Robotic Assistance Systems in the Acute Inpatient Setting from the Perspective of Nursing Professionals: A Qualitative Study	59
Exploring the Role of Robots in Inpatient Care: Caregivers´ Perspectives on the Development and Evaluation of Collaborative Robot Applications – A Qualitative Research Approach	52
Artificial Morality: Differences in Responses to Moral Choices by Human and Artificial Agents	50
No Evidence for an Effect of the Smell of Hexanal on Trust in Human–Robot Interaction	47
Defining, Designing and Distinguishing Artificial Companions: A Systematic Literature Review	47
Assessing the Acceptability of a Humanoid Robot for Alzheimer’s Disease and Related Dementia Care Using an Online Survey	46
Affective Responses to Trust Violations in a Human-Autonomy Teaming Context: Humans Versus Robots	43
A Mind-inspired Architecture for Adaptive HRI	40
A Hybrid Cognitive Architecture to Generate, Control, Plan, and Monitor Behaviors for Interactive Autonomous Robots	36
Face to Face with a Sexist Robot: Investigating How Women React to Sexist Robot Behaviors	36
Human-Like Movements of Industrial Robots Positively Impact Observer Perception	35
Moffuly-II: A Robot that Hugs and Rubs Heads	35
Robot Gaze During Autonomous Navigation and Its Effect on Social Presence	33
A Scoping Review Using the Almere Model to Understand Factors Facilitating and Hindering the Acceptance of Social Robots in Nursing Homes	32
Differential Outcomes Training of Visuospatial Memory: A Gamified Approach Using a Socially Assistive Robot	32
The Impact of Socially Assistive Robots on Human Flourishing in the Context of Dementia: A Scoping Review	31
The Acceptance of Telepresence Robots in Higher Education	31
Learning-Based Compensation-Corrective Control Strategy for Upper Limb Rehabilitation Robots	29
Editorial Introduction to Special Issue on Machine Learning for Social Human-Robot Interaction	27

Being in a Crowd Shifts People’s Attitudes Toward Humanoids	27
Implementation of Actors’ Emotional Talent into Social Robots Through Capture of Human Head’s Motion and Basic Expression	27