Aitor Rovira

1.4k total citations
32 papers, 779 citations indexed

About

Aitor Rovira is a scholar working on Human-Computer Interaction, Psychiatry and Mental health and Social Psychology. According to data from OpenAlex, Aitor Rovira has authored 32 papers receiving a total of 779 indexed citations (citations by other indexed papers that have themselves been cited), including 16 papers in Human-Computer Interaction, 9 papers in Psychiatry and Mental health and 8 papers in Social Psychology. Recurrent topics in Aitor Rovira's work include Virtual Reality Applications and Impacts (16 papers), Psychosomatic Disorders and Their Treatments (9 papers) and Augmented Reality Applications (4 papers). Aitor Rovira is often cited by papers focused on Virtual Reality Applications and Impacts (16 papers), Psychosomatic Disorders and Their Treatments (9 papers) and Augmented Reality Applications (4 papers). Aitor Rovira collaborates with scholars based in United Kingdom, Spain and Japan. Aitor Rovira's co-authors include Mel Slater, John A. King, Caroline J. Falconer, Paul Gilbert, Chris R. Brewin, Angus Antley, David Swapp, Pasco Fearon, Jianjun Zhang and Richard Southern and has published in prestigious journals such as PLoS ONE, Scientific Reports and Behaviour Research and Therapy.

In The Last Decade

Aitor Rovira

30 papers receiving 751 citations

Peers — A (Enhanced Table)

Peers by citation overlap · career bar shows stage (early→late) cites · hero ref

Name h Career Trend Papers Cites
Aitor Rovira United Kingdom 12 380 235 159 155 120 32 779
Geneviève Robillard Canada 11 507 1.3× 219 0.9× 214 1.3× 222 1.4× 263 2.2× 16 1.0k
Alessandra Preziosa Italy 10 490 1.3× 314 1.3× 209 1.3× 205 1.3× 173 1.4× 15 1.1k
Jakki O. Bailey United States 12 233 0.6× 137 0.6× 92 0.6× 206 1.3× 58 0.5× 26 750
Katharina Meyerbröker Netherlands 12 393 1.0× 165 0.7× 175 1.1× 265 1.7× 315 2.6× 23 984
Sameer Kishore Spain 9 338 0.9× 182 0.8× 172 1.1× 46 0.3× 95 0.8× 14 579
Leon Beutl Austria 12 323 0.8× 327 1.4× 128 0.8× 109 0.7× 152 1.3× 14 749
Lena Reuterskiöld Sweden 14 269 0.7× 104 0.4× 141 0.9× 237 1.5× 287 2.4× 18 754
Dan Opdyke United States 7 655 1.7× 195 0.8× 269 1.7× 226 1.5× 241 2.0× 7 1.1k
Dominik Gall Germany 12 710 1.9× 310 1.3× 264 1.7× 58 0.4× 66 0.6× 21 1.0k
Diogo Morais Portugal 14 220 0.6× 72 0.3× 160 1.0× 86 0.6× 92 0.8× 41 716

Countries citing papers authored by Aitor Rovira

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Fields of papers citing papers by Aitor Rovira

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Physical SciencesHealth SciencesLife SciencesSocial Sciences

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Co-authorship network of co-authors of Aitor Rovira

This figure shows the co-authorship network connecting the top 25 collaborators of Aitor Rovira. A scholar is included among the top collaborators of Aitor Rovira based on the total number of citations received by their joint publications. Widths of edges represent the number of papers authors have co-authored together. Node borders signify the number of papers an author published with Aitor Rovira. Aitor Rovira is excluded from the visualization to improve readability, since they are connected to all nodes in the network.

All Works

20 of 20 papers shown
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Freeman, Daniel, et al.. (2025). Virtual Humans in Virtual Reality Mental Health Research: Systematic Review. PubMed. 2. e75087–e75087.
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Rovira, Aitor, Sinéad Lambe, Helen Beckwith, et al.. (2024). A randomized controlled experiment testing the use of virtual reality to trigger cigarette craving in people who smoke. Scientific Reports. 14(1). 19445–19445. 1 indexed citations
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Freeman, Daniel, et al.. (2024). A randomised controlled test in virtual reality of the effects on paranoid thoughts of virtual humans’ facial animation and expression. Scientific Reports. 14(1). 17102–17102. 3 indexed citations
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Freeman, Daniel, et al.. (2023). A randomised controlled test of emotional attributes of a virtual coach within a virtual reality (VR) mental health treatment. Scientific Reports. 13(1). 11517–11517. 16 indexed citations
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Rovira, Aitor & Mel Slater. (2022). Encouraging bystander helping behaviour in a violent incident: a virtual reality study using reinforcement learning. Scientific Reports. 12(1). 3843–3843. 7 indexed citations
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Freeman, Daniel, Sinéad Lambe, Ushma Galal, et al.. (2022). Agoraphobic avoidance in patients with psychosis: Severity and response to automated VR therapy in a secondary analysis of a randomised controlled clinical trial. Schizophrenia Research. 250. 50–59. 5 indexed citations
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Lambe, Sinéad, Thomas Kabir, Jonathan West, et al.. (2020). Developing an automated VR cognitive treatment for psychosis: gameChange VR therapy. Royal College of Art Research Repository (Royal College of Art). 30(1). 33–40. 28 indexed citations
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Rovira, Aitor, et al.. (2020). Guidance and surroundings awareness in outdoor handheld augmented reality. PLoS ONE. 15(3). e0230518–e0230518. 7 indexed citations
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Brown, Poppy, Felicity Waite, Aitor Rovira, Alecia Nickless, & Daniel Freeman. (2020). Virtual reality clinical-experimental tests of compassion treatment techniques to reduce paranoia. Scientific Reports. 10(1). 8547–8547. 30 indexed citations
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Fornells‐Ambrojo, Miriam, Chris Barker, David Swapp, et al.. (2016). Hypersensitivity to Contingent Behavior in Paranoia. The Journal of Nervous and Mental Disease. 204(2). 148–152. 12 indexed citations
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Falconer, Caroline J., Aitor Rovira, John A. King, et al.. (2016). Embodying self-compassion within virtual reality and its effects on patients with depression. BJPsych Open. 2(1). 74–80. 193 indexed citations
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Rovira, Aitor, Sei Ikeda, Alexander Plopski, et al.. (2016). EyeAR: Refocusable Augmented Reality Content through Eye Measurements. NAIST Digital Library (Nara Institute of Science and Technology). 34. 334–335. 5 indexed citations
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Rovira, Aitor & Mel Slater. (2016). Reinforcement Learning as a tool to make people move to a specific location in Immersive Virtual Reality. International Journal of Human-Computer Studies. 98. 89–94. 26 indexed citations
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Falconer, Caroline J., Mel Slater, Aitor Rovira, et al.. (2014). Embodying Compassion: A Virtual Reality Paradigm for Overcoming Excessive Self-Criticism. PLoS ONE. 9(11). e111933–e111933. 99 indexed citations
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Slater, Mel, Aitor Rovira, Richard Southern, et al.. (2013). Bystander Responses to a Violent Incident in an Immersive Virtual Environment. PLoS ONE. 8(1). e52766–e52766. 127 indexed citations
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Steptoe, William, Anthony Steed, Aitor Rovira, & John Rae. (2010). Lie tracking. 1039–1048. 43 indexed citations
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Rovira, Aitor. (2009). The use of virtual reality in the study of people’s responses to violent incidents. Frontiers in Behavioral Neuroscience. 3. 59–59. 85 indexed citations

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