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Ruud G. J. Meulenbroek

Ruud G. J. Meulenbroek

D-Index & Metrics

Psychology

D-Index
42
Citations
6682
World Ranking
7603
National Ranking
341

Ruud G. J. Meulenbroek publication distribution in Psychology in 2026

The chart shows the distribution of publications by all Research.com ranked scientists in the field of Psychology in 2026. The highlighted bar marks where Ruud G. J. Meulenbroek sits on this spectrum.

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31 publications 705+

This scientist: 142 publications — 45th percentile

45% of scientists in this discipline score the same or lower.

The last bar groups every scientist with 705 publications or more.

Ruud G. J. Meulenbroek D-index placement in Psychology in 2026

The chart shows the D-index (discipline H-index) distribution of Psychology scientists ranked by Research.com in 2026. The highlighted bar marks where Ruud G. J. Meulenbroek sits on this spectrum.

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30 D-Index 144+

This scientist: 42 D-Index — 36th percentile

36% of scientists in this discipline score the same or lower.

The last bar groups every scientist with 144 D-Index or more.

Overview

Ruud G. J. Meulenbroek is affiliated with Radboud University in the Netherlands. Their research spans several interdisciplinary fields including Engineering, Medicine, and Psychology, with a significant focus on Biomedical Engineering, Cognitive Neuroscience, and Social Psychology.

Their scientific work is concentrated around several main topics, including:

  • Muscle activation and electromyography studies
  • Motor Control and Adaptation
  • Action Observation and Synchronization
  • Sport Psychology and Performance
  • Neuroscience and Music Perception
  • Total Knee Arthroplasty Outcomes
  • Lower Extremity Biomechanics and Pathologies

Meulenbroek has contributed to multiple publications, frequently collaborating with colleagues such as Jurjen Bosga, Werner A. F. van de Ven, Wim Hullegie, Wiebe C. Verra, and Derrick D. Brown. Their research outputs appear repeatedly in journals that intersect psychology and engineering disciplines.

They have published papers in the following venues most often:

  • Frontiers in Psychology
  • Motor Control
  • International Journal of Advanced Robotic Systems
  • Acta Psychologica
  • Sensors

Some recent publications by Meulenbroek include:

  • "A Human-like Upper-limb Motion Planner: Generating naturalistic movements for humanoid robots," 2021, International Journal of Advanced Robotic Systems
  • "Individual Differences in Sequential Movement Coordination in Hip-Hop Dance: Capturing Joint Articulation in Practicing the Wave," 2021, Frontiers in Psychology
  • "Thinking on your feet: Anticipatory foot placements in repeated bimanual object displacements," 2023, Acta Psychologica
  • "Inertial-Sensor-Based Monitoring of Sample Entropy and Peak Frequency Changes in Treadmill Walking during Recovery after Total Knee Arthroplasty," 2023, Sensors
  • "Leg-amplitude differentiation guided by haptic and visual feedback to detect alterations in motor flexibility due to Total Knee Replacement," 2020, Human Movement Science

Best Publications

  • Effects of physical exercise on Autism Spectrum Disorders: A meta-analysis

    Michelle Sowa;Ruud Meulenbroek

  • Planning reaches by evaluating stored postures.

    David A. Rosenbaum;Loukia D. Loukopoulos;Ruud G. J. Meulenbroek;Jonathan Vaughan

  • Posture-based motion planning: applications to grasping.

    David A. Rosenbaum;Ruud J. Meulenbroek;Jonathan Vaughan;Chris Jansen

  • Egocentric and allocentric constraints in the expression of patterns of interlimb coordination

    Stephan P. Swinnen;Kris Jardin;Ruud Meulenbroek;Natalia Dounskaia

  • Between-limb asynchronies during bimanual coordination: Effects of manual dominance and attentional cueing

    Stephan P. Swinnen;Kris Jardin;Ruud Meulenbroek

  • Joint Action: Neurocognitive Mechanisms Supporting Human Interaction

    Harold Bekkering;Ellen R. A. de Bruijn;Raymond H. Cuijpers;Roger D. Newman-Norlund

  • Exploring interlimb constraints during bimanual graphic performance: effects of muscle grouping and direction

    Stephan P Swinnen;Kris Jardin;Sabine Verschueren;Ruud Meulenbroek

  • Anatomical substrates of cooperative joint-action in a continuous motor task: virtual lifting and balancing.

    Roger D Newman-Norlund;Jurjen Bosga;Ruud G J Meulenbroek;Harold Bekkering

  • The coordination of reaching and grasping in spastic hemiparesis

    Bert Steenbergen;Edwin van Thiel;Wouter Hulstijn;Ruud G.J. Meulenbroek

  • The Acquisition of Skilled Handwriting: Discontinuous Trends in Kinematic Variables

    Ruud G.J. Meulenbroek;Gerard P. van Galen

  • Exploring the brain basis of joint action: Co-ordination of actions, goals and intentions

    Roger D. Newman-Norlund;Matthijs Leendert Noordzij;Ruud G.J. Meulenbroek;Harold Bekkering

  • Plans for grasping objects

    David A. Rosenbaum;Rajal G. Cohen;Ruud G. J. Meulenbroek;Jonathan Vaughan

  • Effects of sitting versus standing and scanner type on cashiers.

    K. R. Lehman;J. P. Psihogios;R. G. J. Meulenbroek

  • Constraints on grip selection in hemiparetic cerebral palsy: effects of lesional side, end-point accuracy, and context.

    Bert Steenbergen;Ruud G.J. Meulenbroek;David A. Rosenbaum

  • Forearm EMG response activity during motor performance in individuals prone to increased stress reactivity.

    Gerard P. Van Galen;Martijn L.T.M. Müller;Ruud G.J. Meulenbroek;Arend W.A. Van Gemmert

  • Behavioral evidence for left-hemisphere specialization of motor planning

    Loes Janssen;Ruud G. J. Meulenbroek;Bert Steenbergen

  • Movement Analysis of Repetitive Writing Behaviour of First, Second and Third Grade Primary School Children

    Ruud G.J. Meulenbroek;Gerard P. van Galen

  • Perceptual-motor complexity of printed and cursive letters.

    Ruud G. J. Meulenbroek;Gerard P. Van Galen

  • THE ROLE OF SHORT-TERM MEMORY AND THE MOTOR BUFFER IN HANDWRITING UNDER VISUAL AND NON-VISUAL GUIDANCE

    Gerard P. Van Galen;Mary M. Smyth;Ruud G.J. Meulenbroek;Henk Hylkema

  • Stroke-direction preferences in drawing and handwriting

    Ruud G.J. Meulenbroek;Arnold J.W.M. Thomassen

Frequent Co-Authors

David A. Rosenbaum
David A. Rosenbaum University of California, Riverside
Bert Steenbergen
Bert Steenbergen Radboud University
Wouter Hulstijn
Wouter Hulstijn University of Antwerp
Harold Bekkering
Harold Bekkering Radboud University
Antonius H. N. Cillessen
Antonius H. N. Cillessen Radboud University
Ellen R.A. de Bruijn
Ellen R.A. de Bruijn Leiden University
Jan K. Buitelaar
Jan K. Buitelaar Radboud University
Martijn L.T.M. Müller
Martijn L.T.M. Müller University of Michigan–Ann Arbor
Jeroen B. J. Smeets
Jeroen B. J. Smeets Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam

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