María Malfáz

1.3k total citations
57 papers, 795 citations indexed

About

María Malfáz is a scholar working on Artificial Intelligence, Social Psychology and Control and Systems Engineering. According to data from OpenAlex, María Malfáz has authored 57 papers receiving a total of 795 indexed citations (citations by other indexed papers that have themselves been cited), including 35 papers in Artificial Intelligence, 34 papers in Social Psychology and 19 papers in Control and Systems Engineering. Recurrent topics in María Malfáz's work include Social Robot Interaction and HRI (31 papers), Reinforcement Learning in Robotics (18 papers) and Robotics and Automated Systems (13 papers). María Malfáz is often cited by papers focused on Social Robot Interaction and HRI (31 papers), Reinforcement Learning in Robotics (18 papers) and Robotics and Automated Systems (13 papers). María Malfáz collaborates with scholars based in Spain, United Kingdom and France. María Malfáz's co-authors include Miguel Á. Salichs, Álvaro Castro‐González, Fernándo Alonso-Martín, José Carlos Castillo, Marcos Maroto‐Gómez, Ramón Barber, João Sequeira, Alaa Khamis, Santiago Garrido and Dolores Blanco and has published in prestigious journals such as SHILAP Revista de lepidopterología, Expert Systems with Applications and IEEE Access.

In The Last Decade

María Malfáz

55 papers receiving 769 citations

Peers — A (Enhanced Table)

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

Name h Career Trend Papers Cites
María Malfáz Spain 16 387 360 177 169 116 57 795
Manuel Giuliani United Kingdom 19 552 1.4× 485 1.3× 228 1.3× 285 1.7× 90 0.8× 61 1.1k
Álvaro Castro‐González Spain 15 370 1.0× 323 0.9× 131 0.7× 115 0.7× 82 0.7× 57 680
Rachel Gockley United States 7 539 1.4× 296 0.8× 218 1.2× 233 1.4× 51 0.4× 8 769
Frank Joublin Germany 15 394 1.0× 347 1.0× 182 1.0× 145 0.9× 67 0.6× 57 871
Sven Wachsmuth Germany 15 314 0.8× 295 0.8× 170 1.0× 337 2.0× 41 0.4× 103 853
Rodolphe Gélin France 7 327 0.8× 230 0.6× 190 1.1× 132 0.8× 36 0.3× 17 645
Mikio Nakano Japan 17 291 0.8× 636 1.8× 120 0.7× 143 0.8× 73 0.6× 120 964
Jesse Gray United States 18 586 1.5× 371 1.0× 368 2.1× 187 1.1× 53 0.5× 24 966
Fernándo Alonso-Martín Spain 14 209 0.5× 181 0.5× 90 0.5× 100 0.6× 70 0.6× 38 485
Kazuhiko Shinozawa Japan 17 740 1.9× 356 1.0× 260 1.5× 145 0.9× 85 0.7× 52 1.0k

Countries citing papers authored by María Malfáz

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Physical SciencesHealth SciencesLife SciencesSocial Sciences

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Co-authorship network of co-authors of María Malfáz

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All Works

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Maroto‐Gómez, Marcos, María Malfáz, José Carlos Castillo, Álvaro Castro‐González, & Miguel Á. Salichs. (2024). Personalizing Activity Selection in Assistive Social Robots from Explicit and Implicit User Feedback. International Journal of Social Robotics. 17(10). 1999–2017. 1 indexed citations
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Maroto‐Gómez, Marcos, et al.. (2024). A Bio-Inspired Dopamine Model for Robots with Autonomous Decision-Making. Biomimetics. 9(8). 504–504. 1 indexed citations
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Maroto‐Gómez, Marcos, Fernándo Alonso-Martín, María Malfáz, et al.. (2023). A Systematic Literature Review of Decision-Making and Control Systems for Autonomous and Social Robots. International Journal of Social Robotics. 15(5). 745–789. 21 indexed citations
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Maroto‐Gómez, Marcos, et al.. (2023). Adaptive Circadian Rhythms for Autonomous and Biologically Inspired Robot Behavior. Biomimetics. 8(5). 413–413.
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Alonso-Martín, Fernándo, José Carlos Castillo, María Malfáz, & Álvaro Castro‐González. (2022). Applications and Trends in Social Robotics. Electronics. 11(2). 212–212. 2 indexed citations
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Maroto‐Gómez, Marcos, et al.. (2022). Emotion and Mood Blending in Embodied Artificial Agents: Expressing Affective States in the Mini Social Robot. International Journal of Social Robotics. 14(8). 1841–1864. 13 indexed citations
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Malfáz, María, et al.. (2021). Waymarking in Social Robots: Environment Signaling Using Human–Robot Interaction. Sensors. 21(23). 8145–8145. 3 indexed citations
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Maroto‐Gómez, Marcos, Rodrigo A. González, Álvaro Castro‐González, María Malfáz, & Miguel Á. Salichs. (2021). Speeding-Up Action Learning in a Social Robot With Dyna-Q+: A Bioinspired Probabilistic Model Approach. IEEE Access. 9. 98381–98397. 7 indexed citations
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Alonso-Martín, Fernándo, María Malfáz, Álvaro Castro‐González, José Carlos Castillo, & Miguel Á. Salichs. (2020). Four-Features Evaluation of Text to Speech Systems for Three Social Robots. Electronics. 9(2). 267–267. 13 indexed citations
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Castillo, José Carlos, et al.. (2019). The Influence of Speed and Position in Dynamic Gesture Recognition for Human-Robot Interaction. Journal of Sensors. 2019. 1–12. 3 indexed citations
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Castro‐González, Álvaro, et al.. (2018). Bioinspired decision-making for a socially interactive robot. Cognitive Systems Research. 54. 287–301. 12 indexed citations
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Castillo, José Carlos, et al.. (2017). Projection Surfaces Detection and Image Correction for Mobile Robots in HRI. Journal of Sensors. 2017. 1–16. 1 indexed citations
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Castro‐González, Álvaro, María Malfáz, & Miguel Á. Salichs. (2013). An Autonomous Social Robot in Fear. e-Archivo (Carlos III University of Madrid). 5(2). 135–151. 17 indexed citations
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Castro‐González, Álvaro, Farshid Amirabdollahian, Daniel Polani, María Malfáz, & Miguel Á. Salichs. (2011). Robot self-preservation and adaptation to user preferences in game play, a preliminary study. University of Hertfordshire Research Archive (University of Hertfordshire). 2491–2498. 5 indexed citations
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Salichs, Miguel Á., et al.. (2010). Toma de Decisiones en Robótica. Revista Iberoamericana de Automática e Informática Industrial RIAI. 7(4). 5–16. 5 indexed citations
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Malfáz, María & Miguel Á. Salichs. (2009). Learning to deal with objects. 1–6. 7 indexed citations
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Malfáz, María & Miguel Á. Salichs. (2006). Using Emotions for Behaviour-Selection Learning. European Conference on Artificial Intelligence. 697–698. 5 indexed citations

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