Aimee van Wynsberghe

3.1k total citations · 1 hit paper
43 papers, 1.6k citations indexed

About

Aimee van Wynsberghe is a scholar working on Safety Research, Cognitive Neuroscience and Sociology and Political Science. According to data from OpenAlex, Aimee van Wynsberghe has authored 43 papers receiving a total of 1.6k indexed citations (citations by other indexed papers that have themselves been cited), including 20 papers in Safety Research, 16 papers in Cognitive Neuroscience and 10 papers in Sociology and Political Science. Recurrent topics in Aimee van Wynsberghe's work include Ethics and Social Impacts of AI (20 papers), Neuroethics, Human Enhancement, Biomedical Innovations (15 papers) and Social Robot Interaction and HRI (9 papers). Aimee van Wynsberghe is often cited by papers focused on Ethics and Social Impacts of AI (20 papers), Neuroethics, Human Enhancement, Biomedical Innovations (15 papers) and Social Robot Interaction and HRI (9 papers). Aimee van Wynsberghe collaborates with scholars based in Netherlands, Germany and United States. Aimee van Wynsberghe's co-authors include Scott Robbins, Filippo Santoni de Sio, Chris Gastmans, Tina Comes, S. Falk, Tijs Vandemeulebroucke, Vanja Subotić, Kris P Croome, Mark de Reuver and Ibo van de Poel and has published in prestigious journals such as Sustainability, Lecture notes in computer science and IEEE Robotics & Automation Magazine.

In The Last Decade

Aimee van Wynsberghe

41 papers receiving 1.5k citations

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Sustainable AI: AI for sustainability and the sustainability of AI

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Name	h						Papers	Cites
Aimee van Wynsberghe Netherlands	21	569	389	314	264	238	43	1.6k
Filippo Santoni de Sio Netherlands	15	469 0.8×	354 0.9×	196 0.6×	208 0.8×	101 0.4×	33	1.3k
Eduard Fosch‐Villaronga Netherlands	22	626 1.1×	213 0.5×	498 1.6×	313 1.2×	408 1.7×	77	1.8k
Jeroen van den Hoven Netherlands	24	538 0.9×	394 1.0×	303 1.0×	131 0.5×	667 2.8×	64	2.5k
Jason Borenstein United States	20	535 0.9×	255 0.7×	290 0.9×	281 1.1×	151 0.6×	59	1.3k
Ugo Pagallo Italy	17	1.1k 1.9×	379 1.0×	741 2.4×	105 0.4×	352 1.5×	74	2.3k
Nathan J. McNeese United States	27	621 1.1×	133 0.3×	629 2.0×	1.4k 5.3×	317 1.3×	142	2.4k
Kevin A. Hoff United States	11	515 0.9×	117 0.3×	349 1.1×	1.1k 4.3×	208 0.9×	31	1.9k
Hall P. Beck United States	18	296 0.5×	126 0.3×	276 0.9×	1.0k 3.9×	108 0.5×	37	1.8k
Niels van Berkel Denmark	24	209 0.4×	227 0.6×	341 1.1×	304 1.2×	359 1.5×	147	2.1k
Masooda Bashir United States	15	416 0.7×	122 0.3×	484 1.5×	1.1k 4.0×	342 1.4×	59	2.1k

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Wynsberghe, Aimee van, et al.. (2025). Where are the missing values: an exploration of the need to incorporate Ubuntu values into African AI policy. AI and Ethics. 5(4). 4365–4375.

Wynsberghe, Aimee van, et al.. (2025). Considering the Social and Economic Sustainability of AI. Science and Engineering Ethics. 31(4). 19–19.

Falk, S., Aimee van Wynsberghe, & Lisa Biber‐Freudenberger. (2024). The attribution problem of a seemingly intangible industry. Environmental Challenges. 16. 101003–101003. 3 indexed citations

Vandemeulebroucke, Tijs, et al.. (2023). Mind who’s testing: Turing tests and the post-colonial imposition of their implicit conceptions of intelligence. AI & Society. 40(2). 995–1006. 1 indexed citations

Falk, S. & Aimee van Wynsberghe. (2023). Challenging AI for Sustainability: what ought it mean?. AI and Ethics. 4(4). 1345–1355. 22 indexed citations

Reuver, Mark de, Aimee van Wynsberghe, Marijn Janssen, & Ibo van de Poel. (2020). Digital platforms and responsible innovation: expanding value sensitive design to overcome ontological uncertainty. Ethics and Information Technology. 22(3). 257–267. 35 indexed citations

Wynsberghe, Aimee van, et al.. (2019). Designing Nursing Care Practices Complemented by Robots: Ethical Implications and Application of Caring Frameworks. International Journal for Human Caring. 23(2). 132–140. 5 indexed citations

Schoenhofer, Savina O., Aimee van Wynsberghe, & Anne Boykin. (2019). Engaging Robots as Nursing Partners in Caring: Nursing as Caring Meets Care-Centered Value-Sensitive Design. International Journal for Human Caring. 23(2). 157–167. 12 indexed citations

Wynsberghe, Aimee van, et al.. (2019). A Semblance of Aliveness. Techné Research in Philosophy and Technology. 23(3). 290–317. 2 indexed citations

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Wynsberghe, Aimee van. (2016). Service robots, care ethics, and design. Ethics and Information Technology. 18(4). 311–321. 88 indexed citations

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Sio, Filippo Santoni de & Aimee van Wynsberghe. (2015). When Should We Use Care Robots? The Nature-of-Activities Approach. Science and Engineering Ethics. 22(6). 1745–1760. 35 indexed citations

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Dietrich, Sven, Jeroen van der Ham, Aiko Pras, et al.. (2014). Ethics in Data Sharing: Developing a Model for Best Practice. UvA-DARE (University of Amsterdam). 34. 5–9. 7 indexed citations

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Wynsberghe, Aimee van, et al.. (2013). To use or not to use: guidelines for researchers using data from online social networking sites. University of Twente Research Information. 4 indexed citations

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Wynsberghe, Aimee van & Scott Robbins. (2013). Ethicist as Designer: A Pragmatic Approach to Ethics in the Lab. Science and Engineering Ethics. 20(4). 947–961. 52 indexed citations

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Wynsberghe, Aimee van. (2013). A method for integrating ethics into the design of robots. Industrial Robot the international journal of robotics research and application. 40(5). 433–440. 39 indexed citations

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Wynsberghe, Aimee van. (2012). Designing Robots for Care: Care Centered Value-Sensitive Design. Science and Engineering Ethics. 19(2). 407–433. 257 indexed citations

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Jayaraman, Shiva, et al.. (2009). Are there advantages to robotic-assisted surgery over laparoscopy from the surgeon’s perspective?. Journal of Robotic Surgery. 3(2). 79–82. 39 indexed citations

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Wynsberghe, Aimee van & Chris Gastmans. (2008). Telesurgery: an ethical appraisal. Journal of Medical Ethics. 34(10). e22–e22. 20 indexed citations

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Croome, Kris P, R. Scott McClure, Stephanie Peterson, et al.. (2007). Robotic telesurgery: a real‐world comparison of ground‐ and satellite‐based internet performance. International Journal of Medical Robotics and Computer Assisted Surgery. 3(2). 111–116. 31 indexed citations

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Croome, Kris P, R. Scott McClure, Stephanie Peterson, et al.. (2006). Long‐distance robotic telesurgery: a feasibility study for care in remote environments. International Journal of Medical Robotics and Computer Assisted Surgery. 2(3). 216–224. 46 indexed citations

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