Manuel Freire

1.8k total citations
65 papers, 1.0k citations indexed

About

Manuel Freire is a scholar working on Developmental and Educational Psychology, Computer Science Applications and Sociology and Political Science. According to data from OpenAlex, Manuel Freire has authored 65 papers receiving a total of 1.0k indexed citations (citations by other indexed papers that have themselves been cited), including 44 papers in Developmental and Educational Psychology, 26 papers in Computer Science Applications and 24 papers in Sociology and Political Science. Recurrent topics in Manuel Freire's work include Educational Games and Gamification (42 papers), Digital Games and Media (20 papers) and Online Learning and Analytics (18 papers). Manuel Freire is often cited by papers focused on Educational Games and Gamification (42 papers), Digital Games and Media (20 papers) and Online Learning and Analytics (18 papers). Manuel Freire collaborates with scholars based in Spain, United Kingdom and United States. Manuel Freire's co-authors include Baltasar Fernández‐Manjón, Iván Martínez‐Ortiz, Cristina Alonso‐Fernández, Antonio Calvo-Morata, Ángel del Blanco, Borja Manero, Javier Torrente, Catherine Plaisant, Ben Shneiderman and R. Caballero and has published in prestigious journals such as SHILAP Revista de lepidopterología, Computers in Human Behavior and IEEE Access.

In The Last Decade

Manuel Freire

62 papers receiving 961 citations

Peers — A (Enhanced Table)

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

Name h Career Trend Papers Cites
Manuel Freire Spain 17 504 389 238 230 200 65 1.0k
Vania Dimitrova United Kingdom 18 270 0.5× 440 1.1× 145 0.6× 375 1.6× 253 1.3× 86 1.1k
H. Ulrich Hoppe Germany 17 311 0.6× 342 0.9× 102 0.4× 185 0.8× 266 1.3× 100 967
Owen Conlan Ireland 17 320 0.6× 324 0.8× 151 0.6× 368 1.6× 116 0.6× 135 1.1k
Rosa M. Carro Spain 13 200 0.4× 290 0.7× 154 0.6× 508 2.2× 129 0.6× 42 977
Patrícia A. Jaques Brazil 14 472 0.9× 328 0.8× 145 0.6× 428 1.9× 252 1.3× 110 1.1k
José-Javier Martínez-Herráiz Spain 10 1.0k 2.0× 488 1.3× 373 1.6× 91 0.4× 306 1.5× 23 1.5k
Michael Kickmeier-Rust Austria 15 373 0.7× 242 0.6× 133 0.6× 263 1.1× 183 0.9× 70 928
Andreas Harrer Germany 12 536 1.1× 310 0.8× 53 0.2× 202 0.9× 245 1.2× 84 857
Antonio García‐Cabot Spain 13 278 0.6× 243 0.6× 130 0.5× 92 0.4× 180 0.9× 49 701
Marcelo Soares Pimenta Brazil 17 353 0.7× 195 0.5× 238 1.0× 170 0.7× 55 0.3× 98 1.1k

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Fields of papers citing papers by Manuel Freire

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Co-authorship network of co-authors of Manuel Freire

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All Works

20 of 20 papers shown
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Freire, Manuel, et al.. (2025). A systematic literature review of serious games teaching sign language. Interactive Learning Environments. 33(5). 3230–3244. 1 indexed citations
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Freire, Manuel, et al.. (2024). AI Asyet Another Tool in Undergraduate Student Projects: Preliminary Results. 1–7. 2 indexed citations
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Freire, Manuel, Antonio Calvo-Morata, Iván Martínez‐Ortiz, & Baltasar Fernández‐Manjón. (2023). Bootstrapping serious games to assess learning through analytics. 1–5.
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Freire, Manuel, et al.. (2021). A Tool Supported Approach for Teaching Serious Game Learning Analytics. 2021 IEEE Frontiers in Education Conference (FIE). 1–8.
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Alonso‐Fernández, Cristina, Manuel Freire, Iván Martínez‐Ortiz, & Baltasar Fernández‐Manjón. (2021). Improving evidence-based assessment of players using serious games. Telematics and Informatics. 60. 101583–101583. 12 indexed citations
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Alonso‐Fernández, Cristina, et al.. (2020). Applications of Simva to Simplify Serious Games Validation and Deployment. IEEE Revista Iberoamericana de Tecnologias del Aprendizaje. 15(3). 161–170. 2 indexed citations
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Alonso‐Fernández, Cristina, Antonio Calvo-Morata, Manuel Freire, Iván Martínez‐Ortiz, & Baltasar Fernández‐Manjón. (2020). Evidence-based evaluation of a serious game to increase bullying awareness. Interactive Learning Environments. 31(2). 644–654. 14 indexed citations
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Freire, Manuel, et al.. (2020). Simplifiying Serious Games Authoring and Validation with uAdventure and SIMVA. 106–108. 5 indexed citations
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Alonso‐Fernández, Cristina, Iván Martínez‐Ortiz, R. Caballero, Manuel Freire, & Baltasar Fernández‐Manjón. (2019). Predicting students' knowledge after playing a serious game based on learning analytics data: A case study. Journal of Computer Assisted Learning. 36(3). 350–358. 65 indexed citations
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Freire, Manuel, et al.. (2019). Simplifying the Creation of Adventure Serious Games with Educational Oriented Features.. Educational Technology & Society. 22(3). 32–46. 16 indexed citations
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Freire, Manuel, et al.. (2019). Simplifying the Creation of Adventure Serious Games with Educational Oriented Features. SHILAP Revista de lepidopterología. 5 indexed citations
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Alonso‐Fernández, Cristina, Antonio Calvo-Morata, Manuel Freire, Iván Martínez‐Ortiz, & Baltasar Fernández‐Manjón. (2019). Applications of data science to game learning analytics data: A systematic literature review. Computers & Education. 141. 103612–103612. 100 indexed citations
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Alonso‐Fernández, Cristina, et al.. (2019). Lessons learned applying learning analytics to assess serious games. Computers in Human Behavior. 99. 301–309. 55 indexed citations
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Alonso‐Fernández, Cristina, et al.. (2019). Using "Simva" to evaluate serious games and collect game learning analytics data. 22–34. 4 indexed citations
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Manero, Borja, Javier Torrente, Manuel Freire, & Baltasar Fernández‐Manjón. (2016). An instrument to build a gamer clustering framework according to gaming preferences and habits. Computers in Human Behavior. 62. 353–363. 48 indexed citations
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Freire, Manuel, Iván Martínez‐Ortiz, Pablo Moreno‐Ger, & Baltasar Fernández‐Manjón. (2015). Requirements for educational games in MOOCs. 11. 993–997. 2 indexed citations
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Romero, Cristóbal, Sergio Gutiérrez-Santos, Manuel Freire, & Sebastián Ventura. (2008). Mining and visualizing visited trails in web-based educational systems. BIROn (Birkbeck, University of London). 182–186. 31 indexed citations
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Freire, Manuel. (2007). An approach to the visualization of adaptive hypermedia structures and other small-world networks based on hierarchically Clustered Graphs. 2 indexed citations
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Alfonseca, Enrique, Rosa M. Carro, Manuel Freire, et al.. (2005). Authoring of Adaptive Computer Assisted Assessment of Free-Text Answers. Educational Technology & Society. 8(3). 53–65. 17 indexed citations
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Mallo, Susana, et al.. (2004). Micosis fungoide acrómica. Actas Dermo-Sifiliográficas. 95(8). 511–514.

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