Doron Friedman

3.4k total citations · 1 hit paper
74 papers, 2.1k citations indexed

About

Doron Friedman is a scholar working on Cognitive Neuroscience, Human-Computer Interaction and Social Psychology. According to data from OpenAlex, Doron Friedman has authored 74 papers receiving a total of 2.1k indexed citations (citations by other indexed papers that have themselves been cited), including 37 papers in Cognitive Neuroscience, 36 papers in Human-Computer Interaction and 18 papers in Social Psychology. Recurrent topics in Doron Friedman's work include Virtual Reality Applications and Impacts (28 papers), EEG and Brain-Computer Interfaces (21 papers) and Neural dynamics and brain function (13 papers). Doron Friedman is often cited by papers focused on Virtual Reality Applications and Impacts (28 papers), EEG and Brain-Computer Interfaces (21 papers) and Neural dynamics and brain function (13 papers). Doron Friedman collaborates with scholars based in Israel, United Kingdom and Spain. Doron Friedman's co-authors include Mel Slater, Robert Leeb, Gert Pfurtscheller, Reinhold Scherer, Christoph Guger, Béatrice S. Hasler, Gernot Müller-Putz, Joan Llobera, Bernhard Spanlang and María V. Sánchez-Vives and has published in prestigious journals such as Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, Nature Communications and Journal of Neuroscience.

In The Last Decade

Doron Friedman

69 papers receiving 1.9k citations

Hit Papers

Immersive Journalism: Immersive Virtual Reality for the F... 2010 2026 2015 2020 2010 100 200 300
What are hit papers?

Hit papers significantly outperform the citation benchmark for their cohort. A paper qualifies if it has ≥500 total citations, achieves ≥1.5× the top-1% citation threshold for papers in the same subfield and year (this is the minimum needed to enter the top 1%, not the average within it), or reaches the top citation threshold in at least one of its specific research topics.

  1. Immersive Journalism: Immersive Virtual Reality for the First-Person Experience of News
    2010 369 citations Bernhard Spanlang, Doron Friedman et al. profile →

Peers — A (Enhanced Table)

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

Name h Career Trend Papers Cites
Doron Friedman Israel 23 998 938 404 365 204 74 2.1k
Tom Carlson United Kingdom 23 911 0.9× 698 0.7× 275 0.7× 426 1.2× 174 0.9× 83 1.9k
Guillaume Chanel Switzerland 24 1.2k 1.2× 299 0.3× 462 1.1× 66 0.2× 270 1.3× 53 2.3k
Miriam Reiner Israel 24 1.1k 1.1× 359 0.4× 379 0.9× 221 0.6× 87 0.4× 65 2.3k
Ferran Argelaguet France 20 900 0.9× 1.2k 1.3× 409 1.0× 73 0.2× 409 2.0× 76 1.9k
Chang S. Nam United States 26 1.4k 1.4× 501 0.5× 477 1.2× 484 1.3× 100 0.5× 113 2.5k
Fotis Liarokapis United Kingdom 28 552 0.6× 1.1k 1.2× 130 0.3× 148 0.4× 1.1k 5.4× 144 2.7k
Moran Cerf United States 19 1.1k 1.1× 182 0.2× 180 0.4× 244 0.7× 503 2.5× 47 2.1k
Rainer Malaka Germany 25 224 0.2× 579 0.6× 234 0.6× 92 0.3× 407 2.0× 171 1.7k
Giovanni Vecchiato Italy 28 2.1k 2.1× 298 0.3× 1.1k 2.6× 131 0.4× 49 0.2× 79 3.3k
Dirk Heylen Netherlands 25 467 0.5× 482 0.5× 758 1.9× 51 0.1× 344 1.7× 189 2.3k

Countries citing papers authored by Doron Friedman

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Fields of papers citing papers by Doron Friedman

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Physical SciencesHealth SciencesLife SciencesSocial Sciences

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Co-authorship network of co-authors of Doron Friedman

This figure shows the co-authorship network connecting the top 25 collaborators of Doron Friedman. A scholar is included among the top collaborators of Doron Friedman 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 Doron Friedman. Doron Friedman 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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Friedman, Doron, et al.. (2025). Self-conversation with a sporting celebrity enhances later physical exercise: an exploratory study. Virtual Reality. 29(3). 1 indexed citations
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Oliva, Ramon, S. Marshall Perry, Bernhard Spanlang, et al.. (2025). AI-Enhanced Virtual Reality Self-Talk for Psychological Counseling: Formative Qualitative Study. JMIR Formative Research. 9. e67782–e67782. 3 indexed citations
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Friedman, Doron, et al.. (2025). Invariant inter-subject relational structures in high order human visual cortex. Nature Communications. 16(1). 8015–8015.
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Klomek, Anat Brunstein, et al.. (2025). Intrapersonal emotion regulation training in virtual reality: embodying self-talk. Virtual Reality. 29(2).
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Oliva, Ramon, et al.. (2023). Sushi with Einstein. 1–6. 12 indexed citations
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Hasler, Béatrice S., Yossi Hasson, Doron Friedman, et al.. (2023). Young generations’ hopelessness perpetuates long-term conflicts. Scientific Reports. 13(1). 4926–4926. 13 indexed citations
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Birnbaum, Gurit E., et al.. (2022). Biting the forbidden fruit: The effect of flirting with a virtual agent on attraction to real alternative and existing partners. SHILAP Revista de lepidopterología. 4. 100084–100084. 4 indexed citations
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Friedman, Doron, et al.. (2021). Image Co-Creation by Non-Programmers and Generative Adversarial Networks.. 1 indexed citations
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Friedman, Doron, et al.. (2021). Body Ownership of Anatomically Implausible Hands in Virtual Reality. Frontiers in Human Neuroscience. 15. 713931–713931. 2 indexed citations
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Hasler, Béatrice S., et al.. (2020). Virtual Embodiment Using 180° Stereoscopic Video. Frontiers in Psychology. 11. 1229–1229. 13 indexed citations
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Hasson, Yossi, Noa Schori‐Eyal, Béatrice S. Hasler, et al.. (2019). The enemy’s gaze: Immersive virtual environments enhance peace promoting attitudes and emotions in violent intergroup conflicts. PLoS ONE. 14(9). e0222342–e0222342. 28 indexed citations
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Dahan, Nir, et al.. (2016). Thought-Controlled Nanoscale Robots in a Living Host. PLoS ONE. 11(8). e0161227–e0161227. 33 indexed citations
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Harmelech, Tal, Doron Friedman, & Rafael Malach. (2015). Differential Magnetic Resonance Neurofeedback Modulations across Extrinsic (Visual) and Intrinsic (Default-Mode) Nodes of the Human Cortex. Journal of Neuroscience. 35(6). 2588–2595. 33 indexed citations
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Cohen, Ori, Moshe Koppel, Rafael Malach, & Doron Friedman. (2014). Controlling an avatar by thought using real-time fMRI. Journal of Neural Engineering. 11(3). 35006–35006. 28 indexed citations
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Leeb, Robert, Doron Friedman, Mel Slater, & Gert Pfurtscheller. (2007). A tetraplegic patient controls a wheelchair in virtual reality. 25–28. 4 indexed citations
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Friedman, Doron, Andrea Brogni, Angus Antley, Christoph Guger, & Mel Slater. (2005). Sharing and Analysing Presence Experiments Data. UCL Discovery (University College London). 2 indexed citations
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Friedman, Doron, et al.. (2004). Automated creation of movie summaries in interactive virtual environments. 191–290. 7 indexed citations
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Friedman, Doron & Yishai Feldman. (2004). Knowledge-based cinematography and its applications. UCL Discovery (University College London). 256–260. 6 indexed citations
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Garau, Maia, et al.. (2004). Temporal and Spatial Variations in Presence: A Qualitative Analysis. Acta Medica Academica. 53(2). 193–198. 10 indexed citations
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Feldman, Yishai & Doron Friedman. (1999). Portability by automatic translation: A large-scale case study. Artificial Intelligence. 107(1). 1–28. 1 indexed citations

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