Richard Skarbez

1.5k total citations · 2 hit papers
26 papers, 988 citations indexed

About

Richard Skarbez is a scholar working on Human-Computer Interaction, Cognitive Neuroscience and Social Psychology. According to data from OpenAlex, Richard Skarbez has authored 26 papers receiving a total of 988 indexed citations (citations by other indexed papers that have themselves been cited), including 22 papers in Human-Computer Interaction, 8 papers in Cognitive Neuroscience and 4 papers in Social Psychology. Recurrent topics in Richard Skarbez's work include Virtual Reality Applications and Impacts (19 papers), Tactile and Sensory Interactions (5 papers) and Visual perception and processing mechanisms (4 papers). Richard Skarbez is often cited by papers focused on Virtual Reality Applications and Impacts (19 papers), Tactile and Sensory Interactions (5 papers) and Visual perception and processing mechanisms (4 papers). Richard Skarbez collaborates with scholars based in Australia, United States and United Kingdom. Richard Skarbez's co-authors include Mary C. Whitton, Missie Smith, Frederick P. Brooks, Solène Neyret, Mel Slater, Pascal Perez, Matthew C. Farrelly, Stephen Palmisano, Doug A. Bowman and Chris North and has published in prestigious journals such as SHILAP Revista de lepidopterología, Communications of the ACM and Computers & Education.

In The Last Decade

Richard Skarbez

25 papers receiving 949 citations

Hit Papers

A Survey of Presence and ... 2017 2026 2020 2023 2017 2021 100 200 300
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. A Survey of Presence and Related Concepts
    2017 337 citations Richard Skarbez, Mary C. Whitton et al. ACM Computing Surveys profile →
  2. Revisiting Milgram and Kishino's Reality-Virtuality Continuum
    2021 231 citations Richard Skarbez, Missie Smith et al. SHILAP Revista de lepidopterología profile →

Peers — A (Enhanced Table)

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

Name h Career Trend Papers Cites
Richard Skarbez Australia 11 783 356 232 200 90 26 988
Ye Pan United Kingdom 14 610 0.8× 272 0.8× 177 0.8× 234 1.2× 54 0.6× 21 758
Thomas Waltemate Germany 7 631 0.8× 197 0.6× 260 1.1× 292 1.5× 84 0.9× 10 828
Carolin Wienrich Germany 20 662 0.8× 195 0.5× 203 0.9× 355 1.8× 92 1.0× 99 1.2k
William Steptoe United Kingdom 16 827 1.1× 364 1.0× 272 1.2× 285 1.4× 46 0.5× 24 1.0k
Christos Mousas United States 19 674 0.9× 404 1.1× 235 1.0× 334 1.7× 133 1.5× 108 1.3k
Dominik Gall Germany 12 710 0.9× 181 0.5× 264 1.1× 310 1.6× 90 1.0× 21 1.0k
Jean-Luc Lugrin Germany 19 906 1.2× 327 0.9× 334 1.4× 361 1.8× 177 2.0× 70 1.3k
Séamas Weech Canada 11 741 0.9× 171 0.5× 337 1.5× 246 1.2× 85 0.9× 14 1.0k
Andrea Brogni Italy 11 562 0.7× 191 0.5× 194 0.8× 272 1.4× 41 0.5× 29 769
Jane Lessiter United Kingdom 7 732 0.9× 184 0.5× 227 1.0× 258 1.3× 99 1.1× 15 1.0k

Countries citing papers authored by Richard Skarbez

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Fields of papers citing papers by Richard Skarbez

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Physical SciencesHealth SciencesLife SciencesSocial Sciences

This network shows the impact of papers produced by Richard Skarbez. 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 Richard Skarbez. The network helps show where Richard Skarbez may publish in the future.

Co-authorship network of co-authors of Richard Skarbez

This figure shows the co-authorship network connecting the top 25 collaborators of Richard Skarbez. A scholar is included among the top collaborators of Richard Skarbez 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 Richard Skarbez. Richard Skarbez 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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Skarbez, Richard, et al.. (2024). Linear perspective cues have a greater effect on the perceptual rescaling of distant stimuli than textures in the virtual environment. Attention Perception & Psychophysics. 86(2). 653–665.
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Zielasko, Daniel, Gerd Bruder, Gregor Domes, et al.. (2024). Walking > Walking-in-Place > Flying/Steering > Teleportation? Designing Locomotion Research for Replication and Extension. 1–2. 2 indexed citations
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Skarbez, Richard, et al.. (2024). A Scientometric History of IEEE VR. 990–999. 1 indexed citations
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Perusquía-Hernández, Monica, et al.. (2023). Identification of Language-Induced Mental Load from Eye Behaviors in Virtual Reality. Sensors. 23(15). 6667–6667. 9 indexed citations
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Skarbez, Richard, Missie Smith, & Mary C. Whitton. (2023). It Is Time to Let Go of 'Virtual Reality'. Communications of the ACM. 66(10). 41–43. 4 indexed citations
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Duh, Henry Been‐Lirn, et al.. (2022). Outcomes of virtual reality technology in the management of generalised anxiety disorder: a systematic review and meta-analysis. Behaviour and Information Technology. 42(14). 2353–2365. 10 indexed citations
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Kempitiya, Thimal, Daswin De Silva, Ebonie Rio, Richard Skarbez, & Damminda Alahakoon. (2022). Personalised Physiotherapy Rehabilitation using Artificial Intelligence and Virtual Reality Gaming. 1–6. 5 indexed citations
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Skarbez, Richard, et al.. (2021). Virtual Replicas of Real Places: Experimental Investigations. IEEE Transactions on Visualization and Computer Graphics. 28(12). 4594–4608. 9 indexed citations
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Tu, Huawei, Jin Huang, Hai‐Ning Liang, et al.. (2021). Distractor Effects on Crossing-Based Interaction. 1–13. 2 indexed citations
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Skarbez, Richard, Missie Smith, & Mary C. Whitton. (2021). Revisiting Milgram and Kishino's Reality-Virtuality Continuum. SHILAP Revista de lepidopterología. 2. 231 indexed citations breakdown →
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Skarbez, Richard, Frederick P. Brooks, & Mary C. Whitton. (2020). Immersion and Coherence: Research Agenda and Early Results. IEEE Transactions on Visualization and Computer Graphics. 27(10). 3839–3850. 43 indexed citations
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Palmisano, Stephen, et al.. (2020). Investigating the process of mine rescuers' safety training with immersive virtual reality: A structural equation modelling approach. Computers & Education. 153. 103891–103891. 72 indexed citations
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Skarbez, Richard, et al.. (2019). Immersive Analytics: Theory and Research Agenda. Frontiers in Robotics and AI. 6. 82–82. 56 indexed citations
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Skarbez, Richard, Frederick P. Brooks, & Mary C. Whitton. (2018). Immersion and coherence in a stressful virtual environment. 1–11. 31 indexed citations
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Skarbez, Richard, et al.. (2017). A Survey of Presence and Related Concepts. ACM Computing Surveys. 50(6). 1–39. 337 indexed citations breakdown →
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Skarbez, Richard, Frederick P. Brooks, & Mary C. Whitton. (2017). Immersion and coherence in a visual cliff environment. 397–398. 4 indexed citations
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Skarbez, Richard, Greg Welch, Frederick P. Brooks, & Mary C. Whitton. (2017). Coherence changes gaze behavior in virtual human interactions. Journal of International Crisis and Risk Communication Research. 173. 287–288. 3 indexed citations
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Skarbez, Richard, Aaron Kotranza, Frederick P. Brooks, Benjamin Lok, & Mary C. Whitton. (2011). An initial exploration of conversational errors as a novel method for evaluating virtual human experiences. 243–244. 8 indexed citations
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Johnson, Tyler, et al.. (2006). RANSAC-Assisted Display Model Reconstruction for Projective Display. 46. 318–318. 12 indexed citations
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Skarbez, Richard, et al.. (2006). Formal methods for verification and validation of distributed interacting devices. 313–318. 1 indexed citations

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