OOIR: Observatory of International Research

Papers

(The H4-Index of IEEE Transactions on Affective Computing is 61. 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 2022-05-01 to 2026-05-01.)

Article	Citations
Does Gamified Breath-Biofeedback Promote Adherence, Relaxation, and Skill Transfer in the Wild?	1160
Cost-Sensitive Boosting Pruning Trees for Depression Detection on Twitter	705
ECPEC: Emotion-Cause Pair Extraction in Conversations	428
Mechanoreceptive Aβ Primary Afferents Discriminate Naturalistic Social Touch Inputs at a Functionally Relevant Time Scale	298
Classifying Suicide-Related Content and Emotions on Twitter Using Graph Convolutional Neural Networks	298
Major Depressive Disorder Detection Using Graph Domain Adaptation With Global Message-Passing Based on EEG Signals	294
ATTSF-Net: Attention-Based Similarity Fusion Network for Audio-Visual Emotion Recognition	282
The Acoustically Emotion-Aware Conversational Agent With Speech Emotion Recognition and Empathetic Responses	248
DGC-Link: Dual-Gate Chebyshev Linkage Network on EEG Emotion Recognition	225
Perceived Conversation Quality in Spontaneous Interactions	204
Mouse-Cursor Tracking: Simple Scoring Algorithms That Make it Work	201
Automatic Estimation of Action Unit Intensities and Inference of Emotional Appraisals	187
A High-Quality Landmarked Infrared Eye Video Dataset (IREye4Task): Eye Behaviors, Insights and Benchmarks for Wearable Mental State Analysis	166
Creating an Affective Robot That Feels Both Touch and Emotion	158
CAETFN: Context Adaptively Enhanced Text-Guided Fusion Network for Multimodal Sentiment Analysis	148
Progressive Masking Oriented Self-Taught Learning for Occluded Facial Expression Recognition	147
Identity-Free Artificial Emotional Intelligence via Micro-Gesture Understanding	139
Sparse Emotion Dictionary and CWT Spectrogram Fusion With Multi-Head Self-Attention for Depression Recognition in Parkinson's Disease Patients	139
Hug Synchronization Enhances Social Presence and Prosociality in Computer-Mediated Communication	139
From EEG to Eye Movements: Cross-Modal Emotion Recognition Using Constrained Adversarial Network With Dual Attention	132
CausalSymptom: Learning Causal Disentangled Representation for Depression Severity Estimation on Transcribed Clinical Interviews	131
Towards Contrastive Context-Aware Conversational Emotion Recognition	130
Vision Transformer With Attentive Pooling for Robust Facial Expression Recognition	125
Analyzing Emotions and Engagement During Cognitive Stimulation Group Training with the Pepper Robot	118
Subjective Fear in Virtual Reality: A Linear Mixed-Effects Analysis of Skin Conductance	115

The Diagnosis Method of Major Depressive Disorder Using Wavelet Coherence and State-Pathology Separation Network	113
MPRNet: A Temporal-Aware Cross-Modal Encoding Framework for Personality Recognition	110
AM-ConvBLS: Adaptive Manifold Convolutional Broad Learning System for Cross-Session and Cross-Subject Emotion Recognition	110
When is a Haptic Message Like an Inside Joke? Digitally Mediated Emotive Communication Builds on Shared History	109
Real-World Classification of Student Stress and Fatigue Using Wearable PPG Recordings	108
Learning Users Inner Thoughts and Emotion Changes for Social Media Based Suicide Risk Detection	104
Hierarchical Multiscale Recurrent Neural Networks for Detecting Suicide Notes	102
Facial Image-Based Automatic Assessment of Equine Pain	102
Continuous Emotion Ambiguity Prediction: Modeling With Beta Distributions	99
Cluster-Level Contrastive Learning for Emotion Recognition in Conversations	92
Transformer-Based Self-Supervised Multimodal Representation Learning for Wearable Emotion Recognition	86
An Efficient Framework for Constructing Speech Emotion Corpus Based on Integrated Active Learning Strategies	86
The Deep Method: Towards Computational Modeling of the Social Emotion Shame Driven by Theory, Introspection, and Social Signals	85
TouchTales: A Care-Centered Protocol for Recognizing Authentic Emotion from Naturalistic Touching and Telling	81
EmoAgent: A Multi-Agent Framework for Diverse Affective Image Manipulation	80
Are 3D Face Shapes Expressive Enough for Recognising Continuous Emotions and Action Unit Intensities?	79
A Classification Framework for Depressive Episode Using R-R Intervals From Smartwatch	78
Enhancing Cross-Dataset EEG Emotion Recognition: A Novel Approach With Emotional EEG Style Transfer Network	76
Brain-Machine Enhanced Intelligence for Semi-Supervised Facial Emotion Recognition	73
Emotion Arousal Assessment Based on Multimodal Physiological Signals for Game Users	73
PainFormer: A Vision Foundation Model for Automatic Pain Assessment	72
EEG Microstates and fNIRS Metrics Reveal the Spatiotemporal Joint Neural Processing Features of Human Emotions	72
SparseDGCNN: Recognizing Emotion From Multichannel EEG Signals	72
Smart Affect Monitoring With Wearables in the Wild: An Unobtrusive Mood-Aware Emotion Recognition System	72
UBFC-Phys: A Multimodal Database For Psychophysiological Studies of Social Stress	72
A Multi-Componential Approach to Emotion Recognition and the Effect of Personality	72
CMCRD: Cross-Modal Contrastive Representation Distillation for Emotion Recognition	69
Non-Invasive Measurement of Trust in Group Interactions	68
MECA: Manipulation With Emotional Intensity-Aware Contrastive Learning and Attention-Based Discriminative Learning	67
Age Against the Machine: How Age Relates to Listeners' Ability to Recognize Emotions in Robots' Semantic-Free Utterances	67
Computation of Sensory-Affective Relationships Depending on Material Categories of Pictorial Stimuli	66
InterARM: Interpretable Affective Reasoning Model for Multimodal Sarcasm Detection	65
A Micro-Expression Recognition Network Based on Attention Mechanism and Motion Magnification	63
Nasal Dominance and Nostril Breathing Variability: Potential Biomarkers of Acute Stress	62
Towards Efficient and Robust Linguistic Emotion Diagnosis for Mental Health via Multi-Agent Instruction Refinement	62
An Enroll-to-Verify Approach for Cross-Task Unseen Emotion Class Recognition	62