Mark Sagar

2.5k total citations · 1 hit paper
47 papers, 1.6k citations indexed

About

Mark Sagar is a scholar working on Social Psychology, Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition and Applied Psychology. According to data from OpenAlex, Mark Sagar has authored 47 papers receiving a total of 1.6k indexed citations (citations by other indexed papers that have themselves been cited), including 14 papers in Social Psychology, 12 papers in Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition and 12 papers in Applied Psychology. Recurrent topics in Mark Sagar's work include Digital Mental Health Interventions (12 papers), Face recognition and analysis (7 papers) and Social Robot Interaction and HRI (6 papers). Mark Sagar is often cited by papers focused on Digital Mental Health Interventions (12 papers), Face recognition and analysis (7 papers) and Social Robot Interaction and HRI (6 papers). Mark Sagar collaborates with scholars based in New Zealand, United States and Slovakia. Mark Sagar's co-authors include Tim Hawkins, Paul Debevec, Haarm-Pieter Duiker, Chris Tchou, Elizabeth Broadbent, Peter Hunter, Kate Loveys, Gordon D. Mallinson, David Bullivant and S. Lafontaine and has published in prestigious journals such as Nature Communications, Communications of the ACM and Health Psychology.

In The Last Decade

Mark Sagar

43 papers receiving 1.5k citations

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Name	h						Papers	Cites
Mark Sagar New Zealand	15	760	505	288	232	180	47	1.6k
Martin Riemer Germany	23	637 0.8×	342 0.7×	298 1.0×	270 1.2×	356 2.0×	91	2.0k
Kosuke Sato Japan	23	962 1.3×	173 0.3×	61 0.2×	310 1.3×	135 0.8×	226	2.1k
Maic Masuch Germany	21	324 0.4×	114 0.2×	80 0.3×	162 0.7×	26 0.1×	89	1.3k
Pedro Gamito Portugal	17	139 0.2×	101 0.2×	59 0.2×	97 0.4×	26 0.1×	79	1.1k
Veronica Sundstedt Sweden	18	453 0.6×	187 0.4×	66 0.2×	77 0.3×	15 0.1×	78	860
Samuel Silva Portugal	17	515 0.7×	69 0.1×	45 0.2×	117 0.5×	33 0.2×	116	1.1k
Tapio Takala Finland	20	538 0.7×	96 0.2×	48 0.2×	308 1.3×	144 0.8×	77	1.4k
Douglas W. Cunningham Germany	24	705 0.9×	150 0.3×	61 0.2×	372 1.6×	40 0.2×	109	1.7k
Daryush D. Mehta United States	30	158 0.2×	64 0.1×	33 0.1×	125 0.5×	69 0.4×	132	3.3k
Mendel Kleiner Sweden	20	200 0.3×	53 0.1×	65 0.2×	197 0.8×	310 1.7×	67	1.3k

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Henderson, Annette M. E., et al.. (2025). From theory to practice: virtual children as platforms for research and training.

Loveys, Kate, Mark Sagar, Michael H. Antoni, & Elizabeth Broadbent. (2023). The Impact of Virtual Humans on Psychosomatic Medicine. Psychosomatic Medicine. 85(7). 619–626. 6 indexed citations

Loveys, Kate, et al.. (2023). Development of a Virtual Human for Supporting Tobacco Cessation During the COVID-19 Pandemic. Journal of Medical Internet Research. 25. e42310–e42310. 2 indexed citations

Sagar, Mark, et al.. (2022). Deconstructing and reconstructing turn‐taking in caregiver‐infant interactions: a platform for embodied models of early cooperation. Journal of the Royal Society of New Zealand. 53(1). 148–168. 5 indexed citations

Sagar, Mark, et al.. (2022). A Platform for Holistic Embodied Models of Infant Cognition, and Its Use in a Model of Event Processing. IEEE Transactions on Cognitive and Developmental Systems. 15(4). 1916–1927. 2 indexed citations

Loveys, Kate, Mark Sagar, Xueyuan Zhang, Gregory L. Fricchione, & Elizabeth Broadbent. (2021). Effects of Emotional Expressiveness of a Female Digital Human on Loneliness, Stress, Perceived Support, and Closeness Across Genders: Randomized Controlled Trial. Journal of Medical Internet Research. 23(11). e30624–e30624. 11 indexed citations

Loveys, Kate, et al.. (2021). A Digital Human for Delivering a Remote Loneliness and Stress Intervention to At-Risk Younger and Older Adults During the COVID-19 Pandemic: Randomized Pilot Trial. JMIR Mental Health. 8(11). e31586–e31586. 48 indexed citations

Henderson, Annette M. E., et al.. (2021). Peek-a-who? Exploring the dynamics of early communication with an interactive partner swap paradigm and state space grid visualization. Infant Behavior and Development. 64. 101576–101576. 2 indexed citations

Loveys, Kate, Mark Sagar, & Elizabeth Broadbent. (2020). The Effect of Multimodal Emotional Expression on Responses to a Digital Human during a Self-Disclosure Conversation: a Computational Analysis of User Language. Journal of Medical Systems. 44(9). 143–143. 17 indexed citations

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Loveys, Kate, Gregory L. Fricchione, Kavitha Kolappa, Mark Sagar, & Elizabeth Broadbent. (2019). Reducing Patient Loneliness With Artificial Agents: Design Insights From Evolutionary Neuropsychiatry. Journal of Medical Internet Research. 21(7). e13664–e13664. 28 indexed citations

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Wilkes, Carissa, Robert R. Kydd, Mark Sagar, & Elizabeth Broadbent. (2016). Upright posture improves affect and fatigue in people with depressive symptoms. Journal of Behavior Therapy and Experimental Psychiatry. 54. 143–149. 77 indexed citations

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Sagar, Mark & Elizabeth Broadbent. (2016). Participatory medicine: model based tools for engaging and empowering the individual. Interface Focus. 6(2). 20150092–20150092. 6 indexed citations

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Sagar, Mark, et al.. (2014). Do slumped and upright postures affect stress responses? A randomized trial.. Health Psychology. 34(6). 632–641. 121 indexed citations

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Sagar, Mark. (2011). Creating models for simulating the face. 394–394. 1 indexed citations

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Obaid, Mohammad, Ramakrishnan Mukundan, Mark Billinghurst, & Mark Sagar. (2009). Facial Expression Representation Using a Quadratic Deformation Model. 44–49. 6 indexed citations

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Sagar, Mark. (2004). Reflectance field rendering of human faces for "Spider-Man 2". 118–118. 8 indexed citations

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Sagar, Mark, et al.. (1999). EVALUATION OF SOMACLONAL VARIANTS FOR YIELD AND SOME QUALITY PARAMETERS. Pakistan journal of scientific and industrial research. 42(1). 47–50. 1 indexed citations

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Hunter, Ian W., Lynette A. Jones, Mark Sagar, S. Lafontaine, & Peter Hunter. (1995). Ophthalmic microsurgical robot and associated virtual environment. Computers in Biology and Medicine. 25(2). 173–182. 49 indexed citations

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Habib‐ur‐Rehman, et al.. (1990). Milling recovery of Basmati as affected by threshing methods and crop harvesting time.. Pakistan Journal of Agricultural Research. 11(1). 7–12. 6 indexed citations

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Sagar, Mark, et al.. (1988). Grain quality characteristics of Pakistani commercial rice varieties.. Pakistan Journal of Agricultural Research. 9(4). 431–436. 3 indexed citations

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