Xueni Pan

2.1k total citations · 1 hit paper
48 papers, 1.2k citations indexed

About

Xueni Pan is a scholar working on Human-Computer Interaction, Social Psychology and Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition. According to data from OpenAlex, Xueni Pan has authored 48 papers receiving a total of 1.2k indexed citations (citations by other indexed papers that have themselves been cited), including 32 papers in Human-Computer Interaction, 25 papers in Social Psychology and 9 papers in Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition. Recurrent topics in Xueni Pan's work include Virtual Reality Applications and Impacts (29 papers), Action Observation and Synchronization (13 papers) and Social Robot Interaction and HRI (5 papers). Xueni Pan is often cited by papers focused on Virtual Reality Applications and Impacts (29 papers), Action Observation and Synchronization (13 papers) and Social Robot Interaction and HRI (5 papers). Xueni Pan collaborates with scholars based in United Kingdom, Spain and Cyprus. Xueni Pan's co-authors include Antonia F. de C. Hamilton, Marco Gillies, Mel Slater, Paul Forbes, Sylvie Delacroix, Yiorgos Chrysanthou, Marios Kyriakou, David Swapp, David M. Clark and Chris Barker and has published in prestigious journals such as SHILAP Revista de lepidopterología, PLoS ONE and Scientific Reports.

In The Last Decade

Xueni Pan

42 papers receiving 1.2k citations

Hit Papers

Why and how to use virtual reality to study human social ... 2018 2026 2020 2023 2018 100 200 300 400
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. Why and how to use virtual reality to study human social interaction: The challenges of exploring a new research landscape
    2018 420 citations Xueni Pan, Antonia F. de C. Hamilton profile →

Peers — A (Enhanced Table)

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

Name h Career Trend Papers Cites
Xueni Pan United Kingdom 16 628 433 340 217 125 48 1.2k
Maia Garau United Kingdom 11 732 1.2× 437 1.0× 299 0.9× 239 1.1× 107 0.9× 15 1.1k
David Swapp United Kingdom 19 627 1.0× 437 1.0× 486 1.4× 208 1.0× 168 1.3× 40 1.5k
Jean-Luc Lugrin Germany 19 906 1.4× 361 0.8× 334 1.0× 327 1.5× 72 0.6× 70 1.3k
Andrea Stevenson Won United States 20 607 1.0× 330 0.8× 265 0.8× 194 0.9× 110 0.9× 67 1.2k
Marco Gillies United Kingdom 18 459 0.7× 306 0.7× 179 0.5× 279 1.3× 118 0.9× 71 994
Vinoba Vinayagamoorthy United Kingdom 15 528 0.8× 268 0.6× 180 0.5× 277 1.3× 105 0.8× 27 881
Valentin Schwind Germany 20 1.4k 2.2× 451 1.0× 597 1.8× 423 1.9× 135 1.1× 85 1.7k
Andrea Brogni Italy 11 562 0.9× 272 0.6× 194 0.6× 191 0.9× 75 0.6× 29 769
Dominik Gall Germany 12 710 1.1× 310 0.7× 264 0.8× 181 0.8× 66 0.5× 21 1.0k
Carolin Wienrich Germany 20 662 1.1× 355 0.8× 203 0.6× 195 0.9× 62 0.5× 99 1.2k

Countries citing papers authored by Xueni Pan

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Fields of papers citing papers by Xueni Pan

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Physical SciencesHealth SciencesLife SciencesSocial Sciences

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Co-authorship network of co-authors of Xueni Pan

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

All Works

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Lin, Wei, et al.. (2025). Sensing Nature. 1–14. 1 indexed citations
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Lukosch, Heide, Mohamed Khamis, Victoria Sánchez, et al.. (2025). Shaping the future: principles for policy recommendations for responsible innovation in virtual worlds. Frontiers in Virtual Reality. 6.
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Pan, Xueni, et al.. (2025). Setting the Stage: Using Virtual Reality to Assess the Effects of Music Performance Anxiety in Pianists. IEEE Transactions on Visualization and Computer Graphics. 31(5). 2504–2514. 1 indexed citations
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Pan, Xueni, et al.. (2025). Embodied time travel in VR: from witnessing climate change to action for prevention. Frontiers in Virtual Reality. 5.
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Rovira, Aitor, Sinéad Lambe, Helen Beckwith, et al.. (2024). A randomized controlled experiment testing the use of virtual reality to trigger cigarette craving in people who smoke. Scientific Reports. 14(1). 19445–19445. 1 indexed citations
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Fraser, Danaë Stanton, et al.. (2024). Shaping The Future: Developing Principles for Policy Recommendations for Responsible Innovation in Virtual Worlds. Pure (University of Bath). 1–6. 3 indexed citations
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Pan, Xueni, et al.. (2023). Prototyping Large Scale Projection Based Experiences in VR. Goldsmiths (University of London). 1005–1006. 1 indexed citations
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Pan, Xueni, et al.. (2021). Using Eye Gaze for Navigation: A User Study Inspired by Lucid Dreams. 2021 IEEE Conference on Virtual Reality and 3D User Interfaces Abstracts and Workshops (VRW). 665–666. 3 indexed citations
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Zibrek, Katja, et al.. (2020). From Perception to Interaction with Virtual Characters. Eurographics. 2 indexed citations
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Gillies, Marco, et al.. (2019). A Discussion of the Use of Virtual Reality for Training Healthcare Practitioners to Recognize Child Protection Issues. Frontiers in Public Health. 7. 255–255. 8 indexed citations
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Pan, Xueni, Angus Antley, Harry Brenton, et al.. (2018). A Study of Professional Awareness Using Immersive Virtual Reality: The Responses of General Practitioners to Child Safeguarding Concerns. Frontiers in Robotics and AI. 5. 80–80. 9 indexed citations
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Pan, Xueni, Mel Slater, Alejandro Beacco, et al.. (2016). The Responses of Medical General Practitioners to Unreasonable Patient Demand for Antibiotics - A Study of Medical Ethics Using Immersive Virtual Reality. PLoS ONE. 11(2). e0146837–e0146837. 92 indexed citations
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Forbes, Paul, Xueni Pan, & Antonia F. de C. Hamilton. (2016). Reduced Mimicry to Virtual Reality Avatars in Autism Spectrum Disorder. Journal of Autism and Developmental Disorders. 46(12). 3788–3797. 37 indexed citations
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Pan, Xueni & Antonia F. de C. Hamilton. (2015). Automatic imitation in a rich social context with virtual characters. Frontiers in Psychology. 6. 790–790. 19 indexed citations
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Friedman, Doron, et al.. (2014). A method for generating an illusion of backwards time travel using immersive virtual reality—an exploratory study. Frontiers in Psychology. 5. 943–943. 47 indexed citations
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Cook, Jennifer, David Swapp, Xueni Pan, Nadia Bianchi‐Berthouze, & Sarah‐Jayne Blakemore. (2013). Atypical interference effect of action observation in autism spectrum conditions. Psychological Medicine. 44(4). 731–740. 35 indexed citations
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Pan, Xueni, Marco Gillies, Chris Barker, David M. Clark, & Mel Slater. (2012). Socially Anxious and Confident Men Interact with a Forward Virtual Woman: An Experimental Study. PLoS ONE. 7(4). e32931–e32931. 69 indexed citations
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Gillies, Marco, Xueni Pan, & Mel Slater. (2010). Piavca: a framework for heterogeneous interactions with virtual characters. Virtual Reality. 14(4). 221–228. 7 indexed citations

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