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Testaluna

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Research works
3
▲ 50% vs 2018-21
Citations
125
48.4 per fractional work
Top-10% rate
18.4%
all institutions 10.0%
Open access
75%
world 40%
International
100%
world 18%
Testaluna

Not ranked overall: Testaluna is under the volume floor below which an excellence rate is noise. Not ranked is not the same as ranked last.

Which fields of science does Testaluna work in?

In all years, 32% of research at Testaluna is in Physical Sciences, 32% in Health Sciences. Its largest fields are Psychology (24%), Health Professions (20%), Computer Science (16%).

Physical Sciences: 1 fractional works · 32.0% of its workComputer Science: 0 fractional works · 16.0% of its workEngineering: 0 fractional works · 16.0% of its workHealth Sciences: 1 fractional works · 32.0% of its workHealth Professions: 0 fractional works · 20.0% of its workMedicine: 0 fractional works · 12.0% of its workSocial Sciences: 1 fractional works · 28.0% of its workPsychology: 1 fractional works · 24.0% of its workSocial Sciences: 0 fractional works · 4.0% of its workLife Sciences: 0 fractional works · 8.0% of its workNeuroscience: 0 fractional works · 8.0% of its workALL ITS WORKTestaluna2fractional works, all years
Life Sciences8%Physical Sciences32%Health Sciences32%Social Sciences28%

Each ring splits the one inside it: the four domains of science, their fields. Size is fractional works in all years. Every slice is a page; the interactive view zooms down to single topics and colours each by how much more of it this institution does than the world.

Its 4 domains and 7 fields, with their numbers
    1. Computer Science016.0%
    2. Engineering016.0%
    1. Health Professions020.0%
    2. Medicine012.0%
    1. Psychology124.0%
    2. Social Sciences04.0%
    1. Neuroscience08.0%
All of science, and how each field's share has moved since 1950: the Science domain explorer

Field profile

Location quotient across every field it publishes in: outside the ring is more than an institution of this size would be expected to publish, inside it is less.

What are the most cited papers from Testaluna?

The most cited paper from Testaluna is "‘Kitchen and cooking,’ a serious game for mild cognitive impairment and Alzheimer’s disease: a pilot study" (Valéria Manera, Pierre‐David Petit, Alexandre Derreumaux et al., 2015), with 221 citations. Next come "Acceptability of a custom-designed game, CityQuest, aimed at improving balance confidence and spatial cognition in fall-prone and healthy older adults" (22) and "“CityQuest,” A Custom-Designed Serious Game, Enhances Spatial Memory Performance in Older Adults" (16).

Most cited papers
#PaperReleasedCitations
1 ‘Kitchen and cooking,’ a serious game for mild cognitive impairment and Alzheimer’s disease: a pilot study Valéria Manera, Pierre‐David Petit, Alexandre Derreumaux et al. · Frontiers in Aging Neuroscience Open access 17 Mar 2015 221
2 Acceptability of a custom-designed game, CityQuest, aimed at improving balance confidence and spatial cognition in fall-prone and healthy older adults Niamh A. Merriman, Eugenie Roudaia, Matteo Romagnoli et al. · Behaviour and Information Technology 12 Apr 2018 22
3 “CityQuest,” A Custom-Designed Serious Game, Enhances Spatial Memory Performance in Older Adults Niamh A. Merriman, Eugenie Roudaia, Jan Ondřej et al. · Frontiers in Aging Neuroscience Open access 8 Mar 2022 16
4 Responsive Action-Based Video Synthesis Corneliu Ilisescu, Kanaci, A, Matteo Romagnoli et al. · The University of Bath Online Publications Store (The University of Bath) Conference paperOpen access 30 Jan 2017 6
5 Requirements Elicitation for New Video Game Development Tools : A Case Study Christos A. Fidas, Nikolaos M. Avouris, Ivan Orvieto · Schriften aus der Fakultät Wirtschaftsinformatik und Angewandte Informatik der Otto-Friedrich-Universität Bamberg. Book chapterOpen access 2015 1
All 5 most cited papers, with filters and sorting

Which research topics does Testaluna publish most on?

By volume in 2022-now: Geotechnical and construction materials studies, Educational Methods and Media Use, Memory and Neural Mechanisms and Language Acquisition and Education.

Geotechnical and construction materials studies: 0 fractional worksEducational Methods and Media Use: 0 fractional worksMemory and Neural Mechan…0Memory and Neural Mechanisms: 0 fractional worksLanguage Acquisition and…0Language Acquisition and Education: 0 fractional worksSpatial Cognition and Na…0Spatial Cognition and Navigation: 0 fractional worksCategorization, percepti…0Categorization, perception, and language: 0 fractional worksEnglish Language Learning and Teaching: 0 fractional works
Civil and Structural EngineeringInformation SystemsCognitive NeuroscienceDevelopmental and Educational Psychology2 others

Area is fractional works; colour is the subfield each topic belongs to.

  1. 1 Geotechnical and construction materials studies Civil and Structural Engineering 0 works
  2. 2 Educational Methods and Media Use Information Systems 0 works
  3. 3 Memory and Neural Mechanisms Cognitive Neuroscience 0 works
  4. 4 Language Acquisition and Education Developmental and Educational Psychology 0 works
  5. 5 Spatial Cognition and Navigation Automotive Engineering 0 works
  6. 6 Categorization, perception, and language Experimental and Cognitive Psychology 0 works
  7. 7 English Language Learning and Teaching Information Systems 0 works

How open and international is its research?

Against the world's own shares: the tick on each track. Both are shares of its output, so they sit on one scale and can be read against each other as well as against the world.

openly available74.9%not open25.1%

World: 40% of research is openly available.

with international co-authors100.0%

World: 18% is written across borders.

How has Testaluna's research output changed?

Output in 2022-2025 was 50% higher than in 2018-2021.

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