Marco Viola

682 total citations · 1 hit paper
28 papers, 390 citations indexed

About

Marco Viola is a scholar working on Cognitive Neuroscience, Social Psychology and Experimental and Cognitive Psychology. According to data from OpenAlex, Marco Viola has authored 28 papers receiving a total of 390 indexed citations (citations by other indexed papers that have themselves been cited), including 12 papers in Cognitive Neuroscience, 8 papers in Social Psychology and 5 papers in Experimental and Cognitive Psychology. Recurrent topics in Marco Viola's work include Face Recognition and Perception (6 papers), Action Observation and Synchronization (5 papers) and Emotions and Moral Behavior (4 papers). Marco Viola is often cited by papers focused on Face Recognition and Perception (6 papers), Action Observation and Synchronization (5 papers) and Emotions and Moral Behavior (4 papers). Marco Viola collaborates with scholars based in Italy, Spain and United States. Marco Viola's co-authors include Marco Marini, Fausto Caruana, Fabio Paglieri, Alessandro Ansani, Matteo Diano, Arianna Bagnis, Alessia Celeghin, Marco Tamietto, Ralph Buehler and Louis A. Merlin and has published in prestigious journals such as SHILAP Revista de lepidopterología, Scientific Reports and Frontiers in Psychology.

In The Last Decade

Marco Viola

23 papers receiving 370 citations

Hit Papers

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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.

The impact of facemasks on emotion recognition, trust attribution and re-identification

2021 167 citations Marco Marini, Alessandro Ansani et al. Scientific Reports profile →

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Name	h						Papers	Cites
Marco Viola Italy	8	207	141	77	63	49	28	390
Alessandro Ansani Italy	8	162 0.8×	138 1.0×	58 0.8×	45 0.7×	42 0.9×	27	293
W. Quin Yow Singapore	12	256 1.2×	102 0.7×	27 0.4×	21 0.3×	7 0.1×	39	583
Christopher Heaps United States	7	275 1.3×	66 0.5×	145 1.9×	36 0.6×	62 1.3×	7	419
Magdalena Ewa Król Poland	10	163 0.8×	61 0.4×	34 0.4×	56 0.9×	28 0.6×	31	288
Nathan Greenauer United States	9	78 0.4×	71 0.5×	47 0.6×	24 0.4×	21 0.4×	14	296
Marian Sauter Germany	9	238 1.1×	86 0.6×	40 0.5×	20 0.3×	22 0.4×	20	342
Antonella Carassa Switzerland	10	76 0.4×	42 0.3×	87 1.1×	27 0.4×	19 0.4×	22	243
Petar Jerčić Sweden	7	78 0.4×	77 0.5×	63 0.8×	21 0.3×	12 0.2×	11	247
Yury Shevchenko Germany	8	85 0.4×	69 0.5×	42 0.5×	29 0.5×	13 0.3×	25	227

Countries citing papers authored by Marco Viola

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Fields of papers citing papers by Marco Viola

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Physical SciencesHealth SciencesLife SciencesSocial Sciences

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Co-authorship network of co-authors of Marco Viola

This figure shows the co-authorship network connecting the top 25 collaborators of Marco Viola. A scholar is included among the top collaborators of Marco Viola 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 Marco Viola. Marco Viola is excluded from the visualization to improve readability, since they are connected to all nodes in the network.

All Works

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20 of 20 papers shown

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Landi, Germana, Marco Viola, & Fabiana Zama. (2025). A Scaled Gradient Projection method for the realization of the balancing principle in TGV-based image restoration. Computational Optimization and Applications. 91(2). 759–785.

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Viola, Marco, et al.. (2025). Stop Calling It ‘Revenge Porn’. Hermeneutical Injustice in Image-Based Sexual Abuse. Social Epistemology. 1–16.

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Marini, Marco, et al.. (2024). Real is the new sexy: the influence of perceived realness on self-reported arousal to sexual visual stimuli. Cognition & Emotion. 38(3). 348–360. 6 indexed citations

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Viola, Marco. (2024). Almost Faces? ;-) Emoticons and Emojis as Cultural Artifacts for Social Cognition Online. Topoi. 43(3). 673–684. 1 indexed citations

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Viola, Marco, et al.. (2024). Mapping the philosophy and neuroscience nexus through citation analysis. European Journal for Philosophy of Science. 14(4).

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Viola, Marco, et al.. (2023). Designed to abuse? Deepfakes and the non-consensual diffusion of intimate images. Synthese. 201(1). 18 indexed citations

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Viola, Marco, et al.. (2022). The “cognitive neuroscience revolution” is not a (Kuhnian) revolution. Evidence from scientometrics. SHILAP Revista de lepidopterología. 1 indexed citations

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Marini, Marco, Fabio Paglieri, Alessandro Ansani, Fausto Caruana, & Marco Viola. (2022). Facial impression of trustworthiness biases statement credibility unless suppressed by facemask. Current Psychology. 43(14). 13072–13082. 7 indexed citations

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Viola, Marco & Massimo Leone. (2022). Introduction: What’s so Special About Faces? Visages at the Crossroad Between Philosophy, Semiotics and Cognition. Topoi. 41(4). 623–628. 2 indexed citations

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Viola, Marco, et al.. (2022). The structure underlying core affect and perceived affective qualities of human vocal bursts. Cognition & Emotion. 37(1). 1–17. 1 indexed citations

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Marini, Marco, Alessandro Ansani, Fabio Paglieri, Fausto Caruana, & Marco Viola. (2021). The impact of facemasks on emotion recognition, trust attribution and re-identification. Scientific Reports. 11(1). 5577–5577. 167 indexed citations breakdown →

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Merlin, Louis A., et al.. (2021). Redrawing the Planners’ Circle. Journal of the American Planning Association. 87(4). 470–483. 12 indexed citations

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Viola, Marco. (2021). Three Varieties of Affective Artifacts: Feeling, Evaluative and Motivational Artifacts. Iris (Roma Tre University). 15–15. 7 indexed citations

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Viola, Marco. (2020). La scienza dei premi Nobel per le scienze. SHILAP Revista de lepidopterología. 82(LXIV). 83–93.

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Viola, Marco. (2020). Beyond the Platonic Brain: facing the challenge of individual differences in function-structure mapping. Synthese. 199(1-2). 2129–2155. 9 indexed citations

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Viola, Marco, et al.. (2018). Social Epistemology at Work: from Philosophical Theory to Policy Advice. SHILAP Revista de lepidopterología. 6(1). 3 indexed citations

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Caruana, Fausto & Marco Viola. (2018). Come funzionano le emozioni: da Darwin alle neuroscienze. 1–216. 3 indexed citations

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Celeghin, Alessia, Matteo Diano, Arianna Bagnis, Marco Viola, & Marco Tamietto. (2017). Basic Emotions in Human Neuroscience: Neuroimaging and Beyond. Frontiers in Psychology. 8. 1432–1432. 100 indexed citations

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Viola, Marco, et al.. (2017). The standard ontological framework of cognitive neuroscience: Some lessons from Broca’s area. Philosophical Psychology. 30(7). 945–969. 7 indexed citations

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Viola, Marco, et al.. (1995). Ontario Hydro experience in the identification and mitigation of potential failures in safety critical software systems. IEEE Transactions on Nuclear Science. 42(4). 987–992. 1 indexed citations

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