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Reinoud J. Bootsma

Reinoud J. Bootsma

D-Index & Metrics

Engineering and Technology

D-Index
32
Citations
4855
World Ranking
9547
National Ranking
232

Reinoud J. Bootsma publication distribution in Engineering and Technology in 2026

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38 publications 804+

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Reinoud J. Bootsma D-index placement in Engineering and Technology in 2026

The chart shows the D-index (discipline H-index) distribution of Engineering and Technology scientists ranked by Research.com in 2026. The highlighted bar marks where Reinoud J. Bootsma sits on this spectrum.

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30 D-Index 107+

This scientist: 32 D-Index — 3rd percentile

3% of scientists in this discipline score the same or lower.

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Overview

Reinoud J. Bootsma is affiliated with Aix-Marseille University in France. Their research spans multiple areas within neuroscience and psychology, with a particular focus on cognitive neuroscience and social psychology.

Bootsma's work primarily addresses topics related to motor control and adaptation, action observation and synchronization, sport psychology and performance, visual perception and processing mechanisms, muscle activation and electromyography studies, language and cultural evolution, and aspects of Pleistocene-era hominins and archaeology.

The scientist has published in a variety of venues, showing a concentration in a few key journals:

  • Frontiers in Psychology
  • Journal of Vision
  • Human Movement Science
  • PLoS ONE
  • Journal of Experimental Psychology Human Perception & Performance

Notable recent papers include:

  • "Traditional craftspeople are not copycats: Potter idiosyncrasies in vessel morphogenesis," 2020, PLoS ONE
  • "Task constraints act at the level of synergies and at the level of end-effector kinematics in manual reaching and manual lateral interception," 2020, Journal of Experimental Psychology Human Perception & Performance
  • "Freezing and freeing of degrees of freedom in joint action learning," 2023, Frontiers in Psychology
  • "Reversals in Movement Direction in Locomotor Interception of Uniformly Moving Targets," 2021, Frontiers in Psychology
  • "Visual guidance of locomotor interception is based on nulling changes in target bearing (not egocentric target direction nor target-heading angle)," 2022, Human Movement Science

Frequent coauthors in their publications include:

  • Rémy Casanova
  • Frank T. J. M. Zaal
  • Marijn S. J. Hafkamp
  • Albertha A. M. van Opstal
  • Samruddhi Damle

Their contributions cover 21 publications in neuroscience with a strong emphasis on cognitive neuroscience, accompanied by 20 works in psychology, including social and developmental and educational psychology subfields.

Best Publications

  • Catching balls: How to get the hand to the right place at the right time.

    Lieke Peper;Reinoud J. Bootsma;Daniel R. Mestre;Frank C. Bakker

  • Postural coordination modes considered as emergent phenomena

    Benoît G. Bardy;Benoît G. Bardy;Ludovic Marin;Thomas A. Stoffregen;Reinoud J. Bootsma

  • The speed-accuracy trade-off in manual prehension: effects of movement amplitude, object size and object width on kinematic characteristics.

    Reinoud J. Bootsma;Ronald G. Marteniuk;Christine L. MacKenzie;Frank T. J. M. Zaal

  • Visual information about time-to-collision between two objects.

    Reinoud J. Bootsma;Raôul R. D. Oudejans

  • Dynamics of human postural transitions.

    Benoît G. Bardy;Olivier Oullier;Reinoud J. Bootsma;Thomas A. Stoffregen

  • The dynamics of goal-directed rhythmical aiming.

    Denis Mottet;Reinoud J. Bootsma

  • On the information-based regulation of movement: What Wann (1996) may want to consider.

    Reinoud J. Bootsma;Valérie Fayt;Frank T. J. M. Zaal;Michel Laurent

  • Chapter 12 Predictive Visual Information Sources for the Regulation of Action with Special Emphasis on Catching and Hitting

    Reinoud J. Bootsma;C. (Lieke) E. Peper

  • Accuracy of Perceptual Processes Subserving Different Perception–Action Systems:

    Reinoud J. Bootsma

  • Behind Fitts' law: kinematic patterns in goal-directed movements

    R. J. Bootsma;L. Fernandez;D. Mottet

  • Two-handed performance of a rhythmical fitts task by individuals and dyads.

    Denis Mottet;Yves Guiard;Thierry Ferrand;Reinoud J. Bootsma

  • Dynamics of reaching for stationary and moving objects: Data and Model

    Frank T. J. M. Zaal;Reinoud J. Bootsma;Piet C. W. van Wieringen

  • The effect of video-modelling and video-feedback on the learning of the tennis service by novices.

    H. H. Emmen;L. G. Wesseling;R. J. Bootsma;H. T. A. Whiting

  • Dynamics of balancing space and time in memory: tau and kappa effects revisited.

    Jean-Christophe Sarrazin;Marie-Dominique Giraudo;Jean Pailhous;Reinoud J. Bootsma

  • Virtual reality as a tool for the study of perception-action: The case of running to catch fly balls

    Frank T. J. M. Zaal;Reinoud J. Bootsma

  • Effects of biomechanical and task constraints on the organization of movement in precision aiming

    Laure Fernandez;Reinoud J. Bootsma

  • The perceptual control of goal-directed locomotion: a common control architecture for interception and navigation?

    A. Chardenon;G. Montagne;M. Laurent;R. J. Bootsma

  • Coordination in Prehension: information-based coupling of reaching and grasping

    F. T. J. M. Zaal;R. J. Bootsma;P. C. W. Van Wieringen

  • Fitts' law is not continuous in reciprocal aiming

    Raoul Huys;Laure Fernandez;Reinoud J. Bootsma;Viktor K. Jirsa

  • The effect of video‐feedback on the learning of the tennis service by intermediate players

    P.C.W. Van Wieringen;H.H. Emmen;R.J. Bootsma;M. Hoogesteger

  • Physical and informational principles in modelling coordinated movements

    Peter J. Beek;Peter J. Beek;Reinoud J. Bootsma

  • Global and local contributions to the optical specification of time to contact: observer sensitivity to composite tau.

    Reinoud J Bootsma;Cathy M Craig

  • A proxy of potters’ throwing skill: ceramic vessels considered in terms of mechanical stress

    Enora Gandon;Rémy Casanova;Patrick Sainton;Thelma Coyle

  • Non-linear gaining in precision aiming: making Fitts' task a bit easier.

    Laure Fernandez;Reinoud J. Bootsma

Frequent Co-Authors

Thomas A. Stoffregen
Thomas A. Stoffregen University of Minnesota
Benoît G. Bardy
Benoît G. Bardy University of Montpellier
John A. Endler
John A. Endler Deakin University
Frank C. Bakker
Frank C. Bakker Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam
Jan Mulder
Jan Mulder Broadcom (United States)
Raôul R. D. Oudejans
Raôul R. D. Oudejans Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam
Lew Hardy
Lew Hardy Bangor University
Viktor K. Jirsa
Viktor K. Jirsa Aix-Marseille University

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