Manuel Ninaus

4.3k total citations · 1 hit paper
78 papers, 2.4k citations indexed

About

Manuel Ninaus is a scholar working on Developmental and Educational Psychology, Experimental and Cognitive Psychology and Cognitive Neuroscience. According to data from OpenAlex, Manuel Ninaus has authored 78 papers receiving a total of 2.4k indexed citations (citations by other indexed papers that have themselves been cited), including 40 papers in Developmental and Educational Psychology, 21 papers in Experimental and Cognitive Psychology and 19 papers in Cognitive Neuroscience. Recurrent topics in Manuel Ninaus's work include Educational Games and Gamification (37 papers), Cognitive and developmental aspects of mathematical skills (11 papers) and EEG and Brain-Computer Interfaces (11 papers). Manuel Ninaus is often cited by papers focused on Educational Games and Gamification (37 papers), Cognitive and developmental aspects of mathematical skills (11 papers) and EEG and Brain-Computer Interfaces (11 papers). Manuel Ninaus collaborates with scholars based in Germany, Austria and Finland. Manuel Ninaus's co-authors include Korbinian Moeller, Kristian Kiili, Silvia Erika Kober, Guilherme Wood, Theodore Lim, Christa Neuper, Michela Ott, Cláudia Ribeiro, Elizabeth Boyle and Thomas Connolly and has published in prestigious journals such as SHILAP Revista de lepidopterología, PLoS ONE and Annals of the New York Academy of Sciences.

In The Last Decade

Manuel Ninaus

73 papers receiving 2.3k citations

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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.

An update to the systematic literature review of empirical evidence of the impacts and outcomes of computer games and serious games

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Name	h						Papers	Cites
Manuel Ninaus Germany	25	1.2k	593	533	458	385	78	2.4k
Deborah I. Fels Canada	19	1.3k 1.1×	373 0.6×	314 0.6×	229 0.5×	574 1.5×	82	2.5k
Art Graesser United States	27	1.2k 1.0×	480 0.8×	663 1.2×	540 1.2×	224 0.6×	55	2.8k
Pavlo Antonenko United States	24	544 0.5×	363 0.6×	420 0.8×	1.0k 2.2×	135 0.4×	86	2.5k
Bruce D. Homer United States	25	2.0k 1.7×	479 0.8×	432 0.8×	1.2k 2.7×	447 1.2×	58	3.7k
Kristian Kiili Finland	24	2.1k 1.8×	150 0.3×	659 1.2×	607 1.3×	596 1.5×	76	2.9k
Peta Wyeth Australia	24	1.5k 1.3×	250 0.4×	388 0.7×	343 0.7×	1.1k 3.0×	105	2.9k
Günter Daniel Rey Germany	30	1.1k 1.0×	252 0.4×	310 0.6×	882 1.9×	250 0.6×	105	2.9k
James Minogue United States	15	660 0.6×	261 0.4×	205 0.4×	565 1.2×	181 0.5×	33	1.5k
Scotty D. Craig United States	27	1.2k 1.0×	229 0.4×	613 1.2×	529 1.2×	144 0.4×	105	2.6k
Mireille Bétrancourt Switzerland	19	850 0.7×	338 0.6×	124 0.2×	671 1.5×	227 0.6×	60	2.7k

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Ninaus, Manuel, Stefan E. Huber, Kristian Kiili, et al.. (2025). Enhancing Situational Mastery Experience and Willingness to Learn with Game Elements in Children with Specific Learning Disorders. Mind Brain and Education. 19(4). 232–240.

Kiili, Kristian, Manuel Ninaus, Antero Lindstedt, et al.. (2024). The effectiveness of explanatory adaptive feedback within a digital educational game to enhance fraction understanding. Learning and Instruction. 94. 101976–101976. 4 indexed citations

Huber, Stefan E., Monika Edlinger, Antero Lindstedt, Kristian Kiili, & Manuel Ninaus. (2024). Game elements improve affect and motivation in a learning task. International Journal of Serious Games. 11(4). 103–126.

Huber, Stefan E., Kristian Kiili, Steve Nebel, et al.. (2024). Leveraging the Potential of Large Language Models in Education Through Playful and Game-Based Learning. Educational Psychology Review. 36(1). 22 indexed citations

Kiili, Kristian, et al.. (2024). Tackling misinformation with games: a systematic literature review. Interactive Learning Environments. 32(10). 7086–7101. 9 indexed citations

Ninaus, Manuel, et al.. (2023). A digital game-based training improves spelling in German primary school children – A randomized controlled field trial. Learning and Instruction. 87. 101771–101771. 1 indexed citations

Ninaus, Manuel, et al.. (2023). The added value of game elements: better training performance but comparable learning gains. Educational Technology Research and Development. 71(5). 1917–1939. 7 indexed citations

Scharinger, Christian, et al.. (2023). Gamification of an n-back working memory task – Is it worth the effort? An EEG and eye-tracking study. Biological Psychology. 179. 108545–108545. 14 indexed citations

Kaufmann, Liane, Manuel Ninaus, Elisabeth M. Weiss, Walter Gruber, & Guilherme Wood. (2022). Self‐efficacy matters: Influence of students’ perceived self‐efficacy on statistics anxiety. Annals of the New York Academy of Sciences. 1514(1). 187–197. 15 indexed citations

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Weiss, Elisabeth M., Liane Kaufmann, Manuel Ninaus, & Markus Canazei. (2022). Belastungen durch Fernlehre und psychische Gesundheit von Studierenden während der COVID-19-Pandemie. Lernen und Lernstörungen. 11(3). 167–179. 6 indexed citations

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Nebel, Steve & Manuel Ninaus. (2022). Does Playing Apart Really Bring Us Together? Investigating the Link Between Perceived Loneliness and the Use of Video Games During a Period of Social Distancing. Frontiers in Psychology. 13. 683842–683842. 17 indexed citations

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Kober, Silvia Erika, Manuel Ninaus, Matthias Witte, et al.. (2022). Triathletes are experts in self-regulating physical activity – But what about self-regulating neural activity?. Biological Psychology. 173. 108406–108406. 1 indexed citations

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Ninaus, Manuel, et al.. (2021). Measuring Cognitive Load Using In-Game Metrics of a Serious Simulation Game. Frontiers in Psychology. 12. 572437–572437. 22 indexed citations

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Schroeder, Philipp A., et al.. (2021). Preserved Inhibitory Control Deficits of Overweight Participants in a Gamified Stop-Signal Task: Experimental Study of Validity. JMIR Serious Games. 9(1). e25063–e25063. 7 indexed citations

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Bloechle, Johannes, Manuel Ninaus, Kristian Kiili, et al.. (2020). Neurofunctional plasticity in fraction learning: An fMRI training study. Trends in Neuroscience and Education. 21. 100141–100141. 7 indexed citations

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Reichert, Johanna Louise, et al.. (2017). Functional brain networks during picture encoding and recognition in different odor contexts. Behavioural Brain Research. 333. 98–108. 11 indexed citations

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Ninaus, Manuel, Korbinian Moeller, Liane Kaufmann, et al.. (2017). Cognitive Mechanisms Underlying Directional and Non-directional Spatial-Numerical Associations across the Lifespan. Frontiers in Psychology. 8. 1421–1421. 25 indexed citations

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Kober, Silvia Erika, et al.. (2013). Control beliefs can predict the ability to up-regulate sensorimotor rhythm during neurofeedback training. Frontiers in Human Neuroscience. 7. 478–478. 117 indexed citations

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Kober, Silvia Erika, Matthias Witte, Manuel Ninaus, Christa Neuper, & Guilherme Wood. (2013). Learning to modulate one's own brain activity: the effect of spontaneous mental strategies. Frontiers in Human Neuroscience. 7. 695–695. 160 indexed citations

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Ebner, Franz, Karl Koschutnig, Christa Neuper, et al.. (2013). Individual differences in solving arithmetic word problems. Behavioral and Brain Functions. 9(1). 28–28. 16 indexed citations

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