Shivashankar Halan

609 total citations · 1 hit paper
12 papers, 321 citations indexed

About

Shivashankar Halan is a scholar working on Artificial Intelligence, Physiology and Social Psychology. According to data from OpenAlex, Shivashankar Halan has authored 12 papers receiving a total of 321 indexed citations (citations by other indexed papers that have themselves been cited), including 3 papers in Artificial Intelligence, 3 papers in Physiology and 2 papers in Social Psychology. Recurrent topics in Shivashankar Halan's work include AI in Service Interactions (3 papers), Speech and dialogue systems (2 papers) and Multi-Agent Systems and Negotiation (2 papers). Shivashankar Halan is often cited by papers focused on AI in Service Interactions (3 papers), Speech and dialogue systems (2 papers) and Multi-Agent Systems and Negotiation (2 papers). Shivashankar Halan collaborates with scholars based in United States, Singapore and New Zealand. Shivashankar Halan's co-authors include Dalila Szostak, Mel Slater, Zillah Watson, Cristina Gonzalez-Liencres, Charlotte D. W. Vinkers, Patrick Haggard, William Steptoe, Deborah Fox, Jeremy D. Silver and Benjamin Lok and has published in prestigious journals such as Academic Medicine, Journal of Surgical Research and American Journal of Physical Medicine & Rehabilitation.

In The Last Decade

Shivashankar Halan

12 papers receiving 309 citations

Hit Papers

The Ethics of Realism in Virtual and Augmented Reality 2020 2026 2022 2024 2020 50 100 150 200
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 Ethics of Realism in Virtual and Augmented Reality
    2020 237 citations Mel Slater, Cristina Gonzalez-Liencres et al. Frontiers in Virtual Reality profile →

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

Name h Career Trend Papers Cites
Shivashankar Halan United States 7 181 67 53 46 31 12 321
Jessica R. Michaelis United States 6 205 1.1× 71 1.1× 70 1.3× 21 0.5× 48 1.5× 8 394
Maria Christofi Cyprus 10 113 0.6× 43 0.6× 57 1.1× 31 0.7× 23 0.7× 18 255
Dalila Szostak United States 7 214 1.2× 66 1.0× 101 1.9× 48 1.0× 34 1.1× 13 336
Romina Carrasco Australia 9 234 1.3× 44 0.7× 61 1.2× 32 0.7× 54 1.7× 15 394
Alexia Nielsen United States 5 124 0.7× 41 0.6× 90 1.7× 35 0.8× 74 2.4× 8 294
Anders Aaby Denmark 5 177 1.0× 37 0.6× 82 1.5× 38 0.8× 23 0.7× 6 316
Yngve Dahl Norway 14 162 0.9× 57 0.9× 41 0.8× 31 0.7× 65 2.1× 40 480
David Burden United Kingdom 12 85 0.5× 52 0.8× 58 1.1× 16 0.3× 43 1.4× 22 382
Fariba Mostajeran Germany 12 144 0.8× 50 0.7× 94 1.8× 44 1.0× 14 0.5× 32 389
Ramon Oliva Spain 11 304 1.7× 72 1.1× 172 3.2× 89 1.9× 24 0.8× 18 447

Countries citing papers authored by Shivashankar Halan

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Fields of papers citing papers by Shivashankar Halan

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Physical SciencesHealth SciencesLife SciencesSocial Sciences

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Co-authorship network of co-authors of Shivashankar Halan

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

All Works

12 of 12 papers shown
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Miles, Anna, et al.. (2020). What do speech pathology students gain from virtual patient interviewing? A WHO International Classification of Functioning Disability and Health (ICF) analysis. BMJ Simulation & Technology Enhanced Learning. 7(4). bmjstel–2020. 4 indexed citations
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Slater, Mel, Cristina Gonzalez-Liencres, Patrick Haggard, et al.. (2020). The Ethics of Realism in Virtual and Augmented Reality. Frontiers in Virtual Reality. 1. 237 indexed citations breakdown →
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Kishore, Sameer, et al.. (2019). A Virtual Reality Embodiment Technique to Enhance Helping Behavior of Police Toward a Victim of Police Racial Aggression. PRESENCE Virtual and Augmented Reality. 28. 5–27. 18 indexed citations
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Foster, Adriana, et al.. (2017). Teaching Empathy in Healthcare: from Mirror Neurons to Education Technology. Journal of Technology in Behavioral Science. 2(2). 94–105. 8 indexed citations
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Halan, Shivashankar, et al.. (2016). Virtual Patient Simulation Training in Graduate Dysphagia Management Education—A Research-Led Enhancement Targeting Development of Clinical Interviewing and Clinical Reasoning Skills. Perspectives of the ASHA Special Interest Groups. 1(13). 130–139. 7 indexed citations
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Levy, Charles E., et al.. (2015). Virtual Environments and Virtual Humans for Military Mild Traumatic Brain Injury and Posttraumatic Stress Disorder. American Journal of Physical Medicine & Rehabilitation. 94(4). e31–e32. 7 indexed citations
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Halan, Shivashankar, et al.. (2012). Constructionism of virtual humans to improve perceptions of conversational partners. 2387–2392. 4 indexed citations
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Wendling, Adam, Shivashankar Halan, Patrick Tighe, et al.. (2011). Virtual Humans Versus Standardized Patients: Which Lead Residents to More Correct Diagnoses?. Academic Medicine. 86(3). 384–388. 9 indexed citations
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Halan, Shivashankar, et al.. (2010). Description of Web-Enhanced Virtual Character Simulation System to Standardize Patient Hand-Offs. Journal of Surgical Research. 166(2). 176–181. 16 indexed citations

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