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ACM Transactions on Human-Robot Interaction
H-index 23

ACM Transactions on Human-Robot Interaction

Ranking & Metrics

Discipline name Position Best Scientists Publications D-Index
Computer Science 278 61 90 21

Additional Metrics

Number of Best Scientists*: 92
Documents by Best Scientists*: 115
Top 100 Ranked Scientists*: 3
SCIMAGO H-index: 30
SCIMAGO SJR: 1.164
Impact Factor: 5.5

Top Publications

  • Core Challenges of Social Robot Navigation: A Survey

    (2021)
    194 Citations
  • A Taxonomy of Social Errors in Human-Robot Interaction

    (2021)
    108 Citations
  • Trust-Aware Decision Making for Human-Robot Collaboration: Model Learning and Planning

    Min Chen;Stefanos Nikolaidis;Harold Soh;David Hsu

    (2020)
    104 Citations
  • SocNavBench: A Grounded Simulation Testing Framework for Evaluating Social Navigation

    (2021)
    59 Citations
  • Social Robots for the Care of Persons with Dementia: A Systematic Review

    Moojan Ghafurian;Jesse Hoey;Kerstin Dautenhahn

    (2021)
    56 Citations
  • Robotic Vision for Human-Robot Interaction and Collaboration: A Survey and Systematic Review

    (2022)
    51 Citations
  • Explainable Embodied Agents Through Social Cues: A Review

    Sebastian Wallkötter;Silvia Tulli;Ginevra Castellano;Ana Paiva

    (2021)
    46 Citations
  • In the Arms of a Robot: Designing Autonomous Hugging Robots with Intra-Hug Gestures

    (2022)
    43 Citations
  • Non-Dyadic Interaction: A Literature Review of 15 Years of Human-Robot Interaction Conference Publications

    (2022)
    43 Citations
  • Design and Evaluation of an Augmented Reality Head-mounted Display Interface for Human Robot Teams Collaborating in Physically Shared Manufacturing Tasks

    (2022)
    43 Citations

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