Everything about IRL

🧭 Start here: a 6-step reading path

1. Read the overview: IRLA 5-minute orientation
2. Skim a recent paper: Project IRL: Playful Co-Located Interactions with Mobile Augmented RealityInfluential work since 2022
3. Pick up a classic book: StrategyThe most-reprinted book on the subject
4. Read the landmark paper: A potent and specific agonist, Suc-[Glu9,Ala11,15]-endothelin-1(8-21), IRL 1620, for the ETB receptorCited 192 times
5. Go sideways: ImmortalA closely related topic
6. Go sideways: TestA closely related topic

🏆 Landmark papers (most cited)

• A potent and specific agonist, Suc-[Glu9,Ala11,15]-endothelin-1(8-21), IRL 1620, for the ETB receptor

  Michihiro Takai, Ichiro Umemura, Keiko Yamasaki · 1992 · Biochemical and Biophysical Research Communications · 192 citations

• An endothelin B receptor‐selective antagonist: IRL 1038, [Cys11‐Cys15]‐endothelin‐1(11–21)

  Yoshihiro Urade, Yasushi Fujitani, Kyoko Oda · 1992 · FEBS Letters · 86 citations

• Gas‐Phase Reactions of the [(PHOX)IrL2]+ Ion Olefin‐Hydrogenation Catalyst Support an IrI/IrIII Cycle

  Rolf Dietiker, Peter Chen · 2004 · Angewandte Chemie International Edition · 69 citations

• Modeling pedestrian behavior in pedestrian-vehicle near misses: A continuous Gaussian Process Inverse Reinforcement Learning (GP-IRL) approach

  Payam Nasernejad, Tarek Sayed, Rushdi Alsaleh · 2021 · Accident Analysis & Prevention · 62 citations

• From Virtual Strangers to IRL Friends

  Jeff T. Sheng, Sanjay R. Kairam · 2020 · Proceedings of the ACM on Human-Computer Interaction · 60 citations

• Rover-IRL: Inverse Reinforcement Learning With Soft Value Iteration Networks for Planetary Rover Path Planning

  Max Pflueger, Ali Agha, Gaurav S. Sukhatme · 2019 · IEEE Robotics and Automation Letters · 54 citations

• Endothelin B receptor agonist, IRL-1620, enhances angiogenesis and neurogenesis following cerebral ischemia in rats

  Mary G. Leonard, Anil Gulati · 2013 · Brain Research · 53 citations

• Endothelin B receptor agonist, IRL-1620, reduces neurological damage following permanent middle cerebral artery occlusion in rats

  Mary G. Leonard, Seema Briyal, Anil Gulati · 2011 · Brain Research · 52 citations

🆕 Influential since 2022

• Project IRL: Playful Co-Located Interactions with Mobile Augmented Reality

  Ella Dagan, Ana María Cárdenas Gasca, Ava Robinson · 2022 · Proceedings of the ACM on Human-Computer Interaction · 25 citations

• Event-triggered explorized IRL-based decentralized fault-tolerant guaranteed cost control for interconnected systems against actuator failures

  Yuling Liang, Yanhong Luo, Hanguang Su · 2025 · Neurocomputing · 24 citations

• Trajectory Tracking of Underactuated VTOL Aerial Vehicles With Unknown System Parameters Via IRL

  Shaobao Li, Petar Durdevic, Zhenyu Yang · 2022 · IEEE Transactions on Automatic Control · 15 citations

• Neuroprotective Effect of Sovateltide (IRL 1620, PMZ 1620) in a Neonatal Rat Model of Hypoxic-Ischemic Encephalopathy

  Michelle Davis Ramos, Seema Briyal, Preetha Prazad · 2022 · Neuroscience · 11 citations

• Transcending Instagram: Affective Swedish hashtags taking intimate feminist entanglements from viral to ‘IRL’

  Astri Moksnes Barbala · 2022 · Media, Culture & Society · 10 citations

📚 Books worth reading

• 📕StrategyLiam O'Callaghan · 1995

Ranked by number of editions on Open Library, a rough measure of how lasting a book is.

🔗 Related topics

• Immortal Look up immortal, immortality, or immortals in Wiktionary, the free dictionary. Immortality is the ability to live forever, or eternal life. Immortal or…
• Test Look up test, testing, Test, or TEST in Wiktionary, the free dictionary. Test(s), testing, or TEST most often refers to: Test (assessment), an educational…
• Air (disambiguation) Look up air in Wiktionary, the free dictionary. Air is the name given to the atmosphere of Earth. Air or AIR may also refer to: Air (Maillol), a sculpture…
• Code (disambiguation) Look up Code, code, or codé in Wiktionary, the free dictionary. A code is a rule for converting a piece of information into another object or action, not…
• Dummy Look up dummy in Wiktionary, the free dictionary. Dummy may refer to: Mannequin, a model of the human body Dummy (ventriloquism) Crash test dummy Dummy…
• The Immortals The Immortals may refer to: The Immortals (poem), by Isaac Rosenburg (1918) The Immortals (Barjavel novel), a 1973 novel by René Barjavel The Immortals…
• ET Look up ET or et in Wiktionary, the free dictionary. ET, Et or et may refer to: E.T. the Extra-Terrestrial, a 1982 film E.T. the Extra-Terrestrial (video…
• Deadline Look up Deadline or deadline in Wiktionary, the free dictionary. Deadline(s) or The Deadline(s) most commonly refers to: Time limit, a narrow field of…