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Papers

(The H4-Index of International Journal of Social Robotics is 28. 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 2022-08-01 to 2026-08-01.)

Article	Citations
Face to Face with a Sexist Robot: Investigating How Women React to Sexist Robot Behaviors	117
The Impact of Socially Assistive Robots on Human Flourishing in the Context of Dementia: A Scoping Review	97
Enhancing the Audio Achievement of the TIAGo Robot for Assistance in Medical Monitoring	82
Correction to: Integrative Robo-Ethics: Uncovering Roboticists’ Attitudes to Ethics and Moving Forward	69
Correction: How Non-experts Kinesthetically Teach a Robot over Multiple Sessions: Diversity in Teaching Styles and Effects on Performance	63
The Influence of Gendered Physical Attributes and Personality Traits on Robot Perception	49
Editorial	46
Familiarity Breeds Affinity – How Personal Experiences Change Employees’ Attitudes Towards a Social Robot	43
Moffuly-II: A Robot that Hugs and Rubs Heads	43
No Evidence for an Effect of the Smell of Hexanal on Trust in Human–Robot Interaction	43
Robot Gaze During Autonomous Navigation and Its Effect on Social Presence	43
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	40
Artificial Morality: Differences in Responses to Moral Choices by Human and Artificial Agents	40
Exploring the Role of Robots in Inpatient Care: Caregivers´ Perspectives on the Development and Evaluation of Collaborative Robot Applications – A Qualitative Research Approach	39
Differential Outcomes Training of Visuospatial Memory: A Gamified Approach Using a Socially Assistive Robot	39
A Hybrid Cognitive Architecture to Generate, Control, Plan, and Monitor Behaviors for Interactive Autonomous Robots	38
Defining, Designing and Distinguishing Artificial Companions: A Systematic Literature Review	38
A Scoping Review Using the Almere Model to Understand Factors Facilitating and Hindering the Acceptance of Social Robots in Nursing Homes	38
Affective Responses to Trust Violations in a Human-Autonomy Teaming Context: Humans Versus Robots	36
Human-Like Movements of Industrial Robots Positively Impact Observer Perception	35
Being in a Crowd Shifts People’s Attitudes Toward Humanoids	33
Learning-Based Compensation-Corrective Control Strategy for Upper Limb Rehabilitation Robots	33
Editorial Introduction to Special Issue on Machine Learning for Social Human-Robot Interaction	33
“Superhuman” Robots in Teams: The Effect of Augmented Cognitive Capabilities on Human-Robot Communication	31
Implementation of Actors’ Emotional Talent into Social Robots Through Capture of Human Head’s Motion and Basic Expression	30

UJI-Butler: A Symbolic/Non-symbolic Robotic System that Learns Through Multi-modal Interaction	30
System Development and Evaluation of a Social Robot as a Public Speaking Coach	29
Does the Social Robot Nao Facilitate Cooperation in High Functioning Children with ASD?	28
Semiotic Analysis of Robot Sounds in Films: Implications for Sound Design in Social Robotics	28