International Journal of Social Robotics

Papers
(The TQCC of International Journal of Social Robotics is 9. 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 2021-11-01 to 2025-11-01.)
ArticleCitations
Editorial94
Editorial73
Familiarity Breeds Affinity – How Personal Experiences Change Employees’ Attitudes Towards a Social Robot71
Correction to: Integrative Robo-Ethics: Uncovering Roboticists’ Attitudes to Ethics and Moving Forward64
Correction: How Non-experts Kinesthetically Teach a Robot over Multiple Sessions: Diversity in Teaching Styles and Effects on Performance59
Enhancing the Audio Achievement of the TIAGo Robot for Assistance in Medical Monitoring58
Defining, Designing and Distinguishing Artificial Companions: A Systematic Literature Review50
A Scoping Review Using the Almere Model to Understand Factors Facilitating and Hindering the Acceptance of Social Robots in Nursing Homes49
Human-Like Movements of Industrial Robots Positively Impact Observer Perception45
A Mind-inspired Architecture for Adaptive HRI43
Assessing the Acceptability of a Humanoid Robot for Alzheimer’s Disease and Related Dementia Care Using an Online Survey39
The Acceptance of Telepresence Robots in Higher Education37
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 Study36
Moffuly-II: A Robot that Hugs and Rubs Heads35
Exploring the Role of Robots in Inpatient Care: Caregivers´ Perspectives on the Development and Evaluation of Collaborative Robot Applications – A Qualitative Research Approach35
The Impact of Socially Assistive Robots on Human Flourishing in the Context of Dementia: A Scoping Review33
Artificial Morality: Differences in Responses to Moral Choices by Human and Artificial Agents33
Affective Responses to Trust Violations in a Human-Autonomy Teaming Context: Humans Versus Robots32
Face to Face with a Sexist Robot: Investigating How Women React to Sexist Robot Behaviors32
No Evidence for an Effect of the Smell of Hexanal on Trust in Human–Robot Interaction31
A Hybrid Cognitive Architecture to Generate, Control, Plan, and Monitor Behaviors for Interactive Autonomous Robots29
Robot Gaze During Autonomous Navigation and Its Effect on Social Presence26
UJI-Butler: A Symbolic/Non-symbolic Robotic System that Learns Through Multi-modal Interaction26
Differential Outcomes Training of Visuospatial Memory: A Gamified Approach Using a Socially Assistive Robot26
Learning-Based Compensation-Corrective Control Strategy for Upper Limb Rehabilitation Robots25
Being in a Crowd Shifts People’s Attitudes Toward Humanoids25
Editorial Introduction to Special Issue on Machine Learning for Social Human-Robot Interaction24
Semiotic Analysis of Robot Sounds in Films: Implications for Sound Design in Social Robotics24
Does the Social Robot Nao Facilitate Cooperation in High Functioning Children with ASD?24
“Superhuman” Robots in Teams: The Effect of Augmented Cognitive Capabilities on Human-Robot Communication23
Implementation of Actors’ Emotional Talent into Social Robots Through Capture of Human Head’s Motion and Basic Expression23
Effects of Privacy Warning on the Intention to Disclose Personal Information During Interaction with a Robot in Public Spaces23
LLM-Driven Robots Risk Enacting Discrimination, Violence, and Unlawful Actions23
Exploring the Future Development of Artificial Intelligence (AI) Applications in Chatbots: A Bibliometric Analysis23
System Development and Evaluation of a Social Robot as a Public Speaking Coach23
Human-machine Collaborative Decision-making: An Evolutionary Roadmap Based on Cognitive Intelligence22
Knowledge Engineering Framework for IoT Robotics Applied to Smart Healthcare and Emotional Well-Being22
Effects of Mobile Robot Passing-Motion Path Curvature on Human Affective States in a Hallway Environment22
Robot Feedback Design for Response Delay21
Effectiveness of Conversational Robots Capable of Estimating and Modeling User Values21
Expressing Robot Emotion Using Eye Colors, Pupil Sizes, Eye Direction and Head Postures21
Shape of the Uncanny Valley and Emotional Attitudes Toward Robots Assessed by an Analysis of YouTube Comments20
“I Want to Send a Message to My Friend”: Exploring the Shift of Agency to Older Adults in HRI20
Correction to: Towards Human–Robot Teaming: Tradeoffs of Explanation-Based Communication Strategies in a Virtual Search and Rescue Task20
Correction to: Autonomous Systems and Technology Resistance: New Tools for Monitoring Acceptance, Trust, and Tolerance20
Towards a Socio-Legal Robotics: A Theoretical Framework on Norms and Adaptive Technologies19
Why Social Robots Need Self-Preservation to Be Objects of Moral Consideration19
The Making of Gendered Bodies in Human-Robot Interactions18
Healthcare Robotics Control for Upper Limb Paralysis in Neuromuscular Diseases: User-Centered Design for Responsible Technology Development18
“I Have to Praise You Like I Should?” The Effects of Implicit Self-Theories and Robot-Delivered Praise on Evaluations of a Social Robot18
Should Violence Against Robots be Banned?18
Experiences of a Humanoid Robot-Led Physical Training Program for Home-Living Older Persons - A Qualitative Pilot Study17
Enhancing Robot Assistive Behaviour by Mentalising User Intent and Beliefs with Reinforcement Learning17
How Service Robots Can Improve Workplace Experience: Camaraderie, Customization, and Humans-in-the-Loop17
CASPER: Cognitive Architecture for Social Perception and Engagement in Robots17
Is Politeness Better than Impoliteness? Comparisons of Robot's Encouragement Effects Toward Performance, Moods, and Propagation17
The Uncanny Effect of Speech: The Impact of Appearance and Speaking on Impression Formation in Human–Robot Interactions17
Sonic Sleight of Hand: Sound Induces Illusory Distortions in the Perception and Prediction of Robot Action17
Adaptive Social Planner to Accompany People in Real-Life Dynamic Environments17
Continual Learning Through Human-Robot Interaction: Human Perceptions of a Continual Learning Robot in Repeated Interactions16
Relational Dimensions in the Implementation and Use of Robotics in Outpatient Care – An Empirical Exploration and Ethical Analysis of Stakeholder Perspectives16
Designing Robot Identity: The Role of Voice, Clothing, and Task on Robot Gender Perception16
What is Appropriate? On the Assessment of Human-Robot Proxemics for Casual Encounters in Closed Environments16
Machine Learning Driven Developments in Behavioral Annotation: A Recent Historical Review16
Voice Over Body? Older Adults’ Reactions to Robot and Voice Assistant Facilitators of Group Conversation16
Editorial16
Is It Personal? The Impact of Personally Relevant Robotic Failures (PeRFs) on Humans' Trust, Likeability, and Willingness to Use the Robot16
Creation and Evaluation of a Canvas to Capture, Visualise, and Assess Human-Robot Games15
Investigating the Feasibility of a Wizard-of-Oz Robotic Interface (R2C3) in a Social Skills Group for Children with Autism Spectrum Disorder15
“It’s Important to Think of Pepper as a Teaching Aid or Resource External to the Classroom”: A Social Robot in a School for Autistic Children15
Exploring the Dynamics of Human-Robot Interaction: Robot Error, Sentiment Analysis, and Politeness15
Strategies for Controlling the Conversation Dynamics in Multi-Party Human-Robot Interaction15
Investigation of Joint Action in Go/No-Go Tasks: Development of a Human-Like Eye Robot and Verification of Action Space14
Exploring How People with Expressive Aphasia Interact with and Perceive a Social Robot14
How Should a Social Mediator Robot Convey Messages About the Self-Disclosures of Elderly People to Recipients?14
Socially Pertinent Robots in Gerontological Healthcare14
Cognitive Processing of Humanoid Robot Faces: Empirical Evidence and Factors Influencing Anthropomorphism14
New Short Scale to Measure Workers’ Attitudes Toward the Implementation of Cooperative Robots in Industrial Work Settings: Instrument Development and Exploration of Attitude Structure14
Social Robots for Sleep Health: A Scoping Review14
Experimental and Integrative Approaches to Robo-ethics. An Introduction14
Driving Emotional Well-Being: Exploring Public Acceptance and Design Guidelines for Emotional Engagement Robotaxis (EERs)14
Design and Evaluation of a Mobile Robotic Assistant for Emotional Learning in Individuals with ASD: Expert Evaluation Stage13
Timing and Integration of Directional Cues13
Gendered Actions with a Genderless Robot: Gender Attribution to Humanoid Robots in Action13
The Social Triad Model: Considering the Deployer in a Novel Approach to Trust in Human–Robot Interaction13
Empathy in Long-Term Human–Robot Interaction: A Scoping Review of Emotion Understanding13
Lonely Minds and Robotic Bonds: Effects of Human Loneliness on the Anthropomorphization of Robots13
Emotion and Mood Blending in Embodied Artificial Agents: Expressing Affective States in the Mini Social Robot13
Gendered Human–Robot Interactions in Services13
Simulation Evidence of Trust Calibration: Using POMDP with Signal Detection Theory to Adapt Agent Features for Optimised Task Outcome During Human-Agent Collaboration13
Enhancing Swift and Socially-Aware Navigation with Continuous Spatial-Temporal Routing12
Design and Field Evaluation of a Mission Specialist Interface for Small Unmanned Aerial Systems12
Having Different Dialog Roles in Telecommunication by Using Two Teleoperated Robots Reduces an Operator’s Guilt12
Analysing Children’s Responses from Multiple Modalities During Robot-Assisted Assessment of Mental Wellbeing12
Human Dishonesty in the Presence of a Robot: The Effects of Situation Awareness12
Benefits, Challenges, and Opportunities for Empathetic Social Assistance Robots in Hospitals: An Acceptability Study12
Using Online Customer Reviews to Classify, Predict, and Learn About Domestic Robot Failures11
Attention Sharing Handling Through Projection Capability Within Human–Robot Collaboration11
Robot-Mediated Intergenerational Childcare: Experimental Study Based on Health-Screening Task in Nursery School11
The Zoomorphic Miro Robot’s Affective Expression Design and Perceived Appearance11
Multidimensional Measurement of Robot Morphology (RoMo): English Translation and Validation of the RoMo Questionnaire Series11
Editorial11
Mechatronic Design of a Self-Contained Dexterous Robotic Hand for Gestural Communication11
Exploring the Role of Sociability, Ownership, and Affinity for Technology in Shaping Acceptance and Intention to Use Personal Assistance Robots.11
Making Meaning Together: Co-designing a Social Robot for Older Adults with Ikigai Experts11
Perceptions of Technology-Related Job Insecurity among Healthcare Personnel: A Cross-Sectional Study11
A Study on Social Inclusion of Humanoid Robots: A Novel Embodied Adaptation of the Cyberball Paradigm11
Artificial Emotions: Toward a Human-Centric Ethics11
The Development of Attentional Inhibition Through Coding and Robotics: Associating Between Tinkering, Creating, and Problem Solving in a Group Setting11
How Ethical Issues Raised by Human–Robot Interaction can Impact the Intention to use the Robot?10
When is Human–Robot Joint Agency Effective? The Case of Cooperative Reaction Games10
How does Modality Matter? Investigating the Synthesis and Effects of Multi-modal Robot Behavior on Social Intelligence10
Enabling AI and Robotic Coaches for Physical Rehabilitation Therapy: Iterative Design and Evaluation with Therapists and Post-stroke Survivors10
BRILLO: Personalised HRI with a Bartender Robot10
Co-existing with Drones: A Virtual Exploration of Proxemic Behaviours and Users’ Insights on Social Drones10
Enhancing the Mobile Humanoid Robot’s Emotional Expression with Affective Vertical-Oscillations10
Social robot recognition of human social movements: teaching a robot social etiquette using cognitive architecture10
Designing Companion Robots: Perceived Nonverbal Cues for Empathic Human–Robot Interaction10
Shared Task Representation for Human–Robot Collaborative Navigation: The Collaborative Search Case10
Coping with Emotional Distress via Self-Disclosure to Robots: An Intervention with Caregivers10
Robot-Locust Social Information Transfer Occurs in Predator Avoidance Contexts9
Will Virtual Companionship Enhance Subjective Well-Being — A Comparison of Cross-Cultural Context9
Gaze Motion and Subjective Workload Assessment While Performing a Task Walking Hand in Hand with a Mobile Robot9
Human–Robot Companionship: Cultural Ideas, Limitations, and Aspirations. An Analysis of Sex Robot Marketing Videos9
Evaluation of User Experience in Human–Robot Interaction: A Systematic Literature Review9
How do Robot Touch Characteristics Impact Users’ Emotional Responses: Evidence from ECG and fNIRS9
Immersive Commodity Telepresence with the AVATRINA Robot Avatar9
Acceptability and Intention to Use Mobile Robotic Telepresence to Carry Out Leisure Activities in Older Adults: An Observational Study9
An User-Centered Evaluation of Two Socially Assistive Robots Integrated in a Retirement Home9
Robotic Gaze Responsiveness in Multiparty Teamwork9
Beyond Anthropomorphism9
Psychometric Properties of the Chinese Version of Service Robot Integration Willingness (SRIW) Scale in the Chinese Sample of Adults9
Once Upon a Time… Acquisition of Second Language Vocabulary Through Robotic Storytelling in Classroom Settings9
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