Paolo Viviani

8.2k total citations · 1 hit paper
98 papers, 5.6k citations indexed

About

Paolo Viviani is a scholar working on Cognitive Neuroscience, Social Psychology and Biomedical Engineering. According to data from OpenAlex, Paolo Viviani has authored 98 papers receiving a total of 5.6k indexed citations (citations by other indexed papers that have themselves been cited), including 54 papers in Cognitive Neuroscience, 20 papers in Social Psychology and 14 papers in Biomedical Engineering. Recurrent topics in Paolo Viviani's work include Motor Control and Adaptation (33 papers), Visual perception and processing mechanisms (23 papers) and Tactile and Sensory Interactions (22 papers). Paolo Viviani is often cited by papers focused on Motor Control and Adaptation (33 papers), Visual perception and processing mechanisms (23 papers) and Tactile and Sensory Interactions (22 papers). Paolo Viviani collaborates with scholars based in Italy, Switzerland and France. Paolo Viviani's co-authors include C.A. Terzuolo, Natale Stucchi, Tamar Flash, Philippe Vindras, Francesco Lacquaniti, Roland Schneider, Marco Cenzato, Richard G. Swensson, Gabriel Baud‐Bovy and Gin McCollum and has published in prestigious journals such as Journal of Neuroscience, PLoS ONE and Journal of Neurophysiology.

In The Last Decade

Paolo Viviani

93 papers receiving 5.4k citations

Hit Papers

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What are hit papers?

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.

  1. The law relating the kinematic and figural aspects of drawing movements
    1983 514 citations Francesco Lacquaniti, Paolo Viviani et al. profile →

Peers — A (Enhanced Table)

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

Name h Career Trend Papers Cites
Paolo Viviani Italy 40 4.4k 1.8k 1.1k 749 521 98 5.6k
Eli Brenner Netherlands 47 7.2k 1.6× 2.0k 1.1× 1.4k 1.2× 494 0.7× 646 1.2× 333 8.0k
David Α. Rosenbaum United States 42 6.1k 1.4× 3.0k 1.6× 1.2k 1.0× 2.1k 2.8× 727 1.4× 154 7.5k
David N. Lee United Kingdom 26 2.5k 0.6× 1.1k 0.6× 458 0.4× 585 0.8× 319 0.6× 41 4.7k
Claude Prablanc France 41 7.3k 1.7× 2.1k 1.2× 1.8k 1.6× 806 1.1× 389 0.7× 80 8.1k
Alan M. Wing United Kingdom 50 6.6k 1.5× 1.9k 1.0× 2.5k 2.2× 545 0.7× 776 1.5× 208 9.0k
Howard Poizner United States 46 4.7k 1.1× 1.2k 0.7× 1.6k 1.4× 1.5k 2.0× 697 1.3× 164 8.4k
James R. Tresilian Australia 34 3.1k 0.7× 858 0.5× 963 0.9× 387 0.5× 200 0.4× 99 3.7k
David J. Ostry Canada 51 4.9k 1.1× 1.7k 0.9× 1.8k 1.6× 1.1k 1.5× 2.1k 4.0× 146 7.1k
Nikolaus F. Troje Canada 44 3.6k 0.8× 2.3k 1.3× 552 0.5× 871 1.2× 1.1k 2.2× 199 6.9k
Reinoud J. Bootsma France 38 3.0k 0.7× 1.2k 0.7× 924 0.8× 851 1.1× 164 0.3× 130 4.4k

Countries citing papers authored by Paolo Viviani

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Fields of papers citing papers by Paolo Viviani

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Physical SciencesHealth SciencesLife SciencesSocial Sciences

This network shows the impact of papers produced by Paolo Viviani. Nodes represent research fields, and links connect fields that are likely to share authors. Colored nodes show fields that tend to cite the papers produced by Paolo Viviani. The network helps show where Paolo Viviani may publish in the future.

Co-authorship network of co-authors of Paolo Viviani

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

All Works

20 of 20 papers shown
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Viviani, Paolo, Matteo Barbieri, Elisabetta Boella, et al.. (2025). Assessing the Elephant in the Room in Scheduling for Current Hybrid HPC-QC Clusters. 184–187.
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Russo, Mario, et al.. (2024). A High-Performance Code for Analyzing Loss Transport Equations in High-Fidelity Simulations. CINECA IRIS Institutial Research Information System (University of Genoa). 1 indexed citations
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Chasparis, Georgios C., Maurizio Drocco, Paolo Viviani, et al.. (2019). 27th Euromicro International Conference on Parallel, Distributed and Network-Based Processing PDP 2019. v–xiii. 26 indexed citations
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Henning, Joerg, et al.. (2017). Factors influencing the success of aerial rabies vaccination of foxes. Scientific Reports. 7(1). 14376–14376. 8 indexed citations
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Viviani, Paolo, et al.. (2017). Multiple back-end support for the armadillo linear algebra interface. CINECA IRIS Institutial research information system (University of Pisa). 1566–1573. 2 indexed citations
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Scaleia, Barbara La, Myrka Zago, Alessandro Moscatelli, Francesco Lacquaniti, & Paolo Viviani. (2014). Implied Dynamics Biases the Visual Perception of Velocity. PLoS ONE. 9(3). e93020–e93020. 14 indexed citations
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Viviani, Paolo, et al.. (2004). Perceptual asynchronies for biological and non-biological visual events. Vision Research. 44(13). 1547–1563. 28 indexed citations
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Vindras, Philippe & Paolo Viviani. (2004). Planning short pointing sequences. Experimental Brain Research. 160(2). 141–153. 19 indexed citations
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Gentaz, Édouard, et al.. (2003). The kinaesthetic perception of Euclidean distance: a study of the detour effect. Experimental Brain Research. 152(2). 166–172. 23 indexed citations
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Viviani, Paolo, et al.. (1999). Does visual sensitivity improve between 5 and 8 years? A study of automated visual field examination. Vision Research. 39(6). 1107–1119. 21 indexed citations
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Safran, Avinoam B., et al.. (1998). Automated visual field examination in children aged 5–8 years. Vision Research. 38(14). 2203–2210. 43 indexed citations
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Vindras, Philippe, Michel Desmurget, Claude Prablanc, & Paolo Viviani. (1998). Pointing Errors Reflect Biases in the Perception of the InitialHand Position. Journal of Neurophysiology. 79(6). 3290–3294. 121 indexed citations
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Safran, Avinoam B., et al.. (1998). Automated visual field examination in children aged 5–8 years. Vision Research. 38(14). 2211–2218. 37 indexed citations
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Viviani, Paolo, et al.. (1996). Motor templates in typing.. Journal of Experimental Psychology Human Perception & Performance. 22(2). 417–445. 24 indexed citations
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Viviani, Paolo & Natale Stucchi. (1992). Biological movements look uniform: Evidence of motor-perceptual interactions.. Journal of Experimental Psychology Human Perception & Performance. 18(3). 603–623. 246 indexed citations
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Viviani, Paolo & Natale Stucchi. (1992). Biological movements look uniform: Evidence of motor-perceptual interactions.. Journal of Experimental Psychology Human Perception & Performance. 18(3). 603–623. 220 indexed citations
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Viviani, Paolo, Paola Campadelli, & Pierre Mounoud. (1987). Visuo-manual pursuit tracking of human two-dimensional movements.. Journal of Experimental Psychology Human Perception & Performance. 13(1). 62–78. 55 indexed citations
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Viviani, Paolo. (1979). Choice reaction times for temporal numerosity.. Journal of Experimental Psychology Human Perception & Performance. 5(1). 157–167. 11 indexed citations
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Viviani, Paolo, et al.. (1975). CHANGES IN THE DYNAMIC BEHAVIOUR IN THE HEAD AND NECK SYSTEM SUBJECTED TO A FRONTAL DECELERATION (-GX) RELATED TO THE ACTION OF CERVICAL MUSCLES. Proceedings of the International Research Council on the Biomechanics of Injury conference. 3. 207–219. 2 indexed citations

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