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Aidan Moran publication distribution in Psychology in 2026

The chart shows the distribution of publications by all Research.com ranked scientists in the field of Psychology in 2026. The highlighted bar marks where Aidan Moran sits on this spectrum.

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31 publications 705+

This scientist: 212 publications — 72nd percentile

72% of scientists in this discipline score the same or lower.

The last bar groups every scientist with 705 publications or more.

Aidan Moran D-index placement in Psychology in 2026

The chart shows the D-index (discipline H-index) distribution of Psychology scientists ranked by Research.com in 2026. The highlighted bar marks where Aidan Moran sits on this spectrum.

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30 D-Index 144+

This scientist: 42 D-Index — 36th percentile

36% of scientists in this discipline score the same or lower.

The last bar groups every scientist with 144 D-Index or more.

Overview

Aidan Moran was affiliated with University College Dublin in Ireland and contributed extensively to the fields of Psychology and Neuroscience. Their research focused on several subfields, including Cognitive Neuroscience, Developmental and Educational Psychology, Social Psychology, Applied Psychology, and Pharmacology.

The main topics covered in Moran's work encompassed:

  • Sport Psychology and Performance
  • Action Observation and Synchronization
  • Motor Control and Adaptation
  • Behavioral Health and Interventions
  • Musculoskeletal pain and rehabilitation
  • Sports injuries and prevention
  • Motivation and Self-Concept in Sports

Moran's recent publications include:

  • Motor Imagery Practice and Cognitive Processes, 2020, Frontiers in Psychology
  • Does mental practice still enhance performance? A 24 Year follow-up and meta-analytic replication and extension, 2020, Psychology of Sport and Exercise
  • The effectiveness of psychological skills training and behavioral interventions in sport using single-case designs: A meta regression analysis of the peer-reviewed studies, 2020, Psychology of Sport and Exercise
  • Exploring the Orthogonal Relationship between Controlled and Automated Processes in Skilled Action, 2020, Review of Philosophy and Psychology
  • Exploring the vividness of mental imagery and eidetic imagery in people with intellectual disability (ID) in comparison with typically developing (TD) individuals, 2020, Heliyon

They collaborated frequently with peers such as Akhtar Ali Syed, Shazia Neelofur, Gary O'Reilly, Adam J. Toth, and Eoghan McNeill.

Their work appeared most often in the following journals:

  • Psychology of Sport and Exercise
  • Heliyon
  • Frontiers in Psychology
  • Review of Philosophy and Psychology
  • Drugs Education Prevention and Policy

Moran also contributed to academic literature through book publication, including Understanding Sport Psychology (2021) published by Queen's University Belfast.

Best Publications

  • Does mental practice enhance performance

    James E. Driskell;Carolyn Copper;Aidan Moran

  • Defining elite athletes: Issues in the study of expert performance in sport psychology

    Christian Swann;Aidan P. Moran;David Piggott

  • The Psychology of Concentration in Sport Performers: A Cognitive Analysis

    Aidan P. Moran

  • Sport and exercise psychology : a critical introduction

    Aidan P. Moran

  • Exercise and Mental Health

    David Lavallee;John Kremer;Aidan Moran;Mark Williams

  • The Effect of Mindfulness Training on Athletes’ Flow: An Initial Investigation

    Cian Aherne;Aidan P. Moran;Chris Lonsdale

  • Mental Practice Enhances Surgical Technical Skills: A Randomized Controlled Study

    Sonal Arora;Rajesh Aggarwal;Pramudith Sirimanna;Aidan Moran

  • Imagining is not doing but involves specific motor commands: a review of experimental data related to motor inhibition

    Aymeric Guillot;Aymeric Guillot;Frank Di Rienzo;Tadhg E. MacIntyre;Aidan P. Moran

  • Re‐imagining motor imagery: Building bridges between cognitive neuroscience and sport psychology

    Aidan Moran;Aymeric Guillot;Tadhg MacIntyre;Christian Collet

  • Measuring Motor Imagery Using Psychometric, Behavioral, and Psychophysiological Tools

    Christian Collet;Aymeric Guillot;Florent Lebon;Tadhg MacIntyre

  • Sport Psychology: Contemporary Themes

    John Kremer;D. Lavallee;M. Williams;A. Moran

  • Single-Case Research Methods in Sport and Exercise Psychology

    Jamie Barker;Paul McCarthy;Marc Jones;Aidan Moran

  • Flow Among Musicians: Measuring Peak Experiences of Student Performers

    Sarah Sinnamon;Aidan Moran;Michael O’Connell

  • Cognitive psychology in sport: Progress and prospects☆

    Aidan Moran

  • A qualitative analysis of the experiences of elite athletes who have admitted to doping for performance enhancement

    Kate Kirby;Aidan Moran;Suzanne Guerin

  • Does Motor Simulation Theory Explain the Cognitive Mechanisms Underlying Motor Imagery? A Critical Review

    Helen O’Shea;Aidan Moran

  • Metacognition and action: a new pathway to understanding social and cognitive aspects of expertise in sport

    Tadhg E. MacIntyre;Eric Raymond Igou;Mark J. Campbell;Aidan P. Moran

  • Mental Practice: Effective Stress Management Training for Novice Surgeons

    Sonal Arora;Rajesh Aggarwal;Aidan Moran;Pramudith Sirimanna

  • Development and validation of mental practice as a training strategy for laparoscopic surgery

    Sonal Arora;Rajesh Aggarwal;Nick Sevdalis;Aidan Moran

  • Functional equivalence or behavioural matching? A critical reflection on 15 years of research using the PETTLEP model of motor imagery.

    Caroline Wakefield;Dave Smith;Aidan Patrick Moran;Paul Holmes

Frequent Co-Authors

Mark Campbell
Mark Campbell Cornell University
Marc V. Jones
Marc V. Jones Manchester Metropolitan University
Aymeric Guillot
Aymeric Guillot Claude Bernard University Lyon 1
Christian Collet
Christian Collet Claude Bernard University Lyon 1
Suzanne Guerin
Suzanne Guerin University College Dublin
Nick Sevdalis
Nick Sevdalis King's College London
Eric R. Igou
Eric R. Igou University of Limerick
David Lavallee
David Lavallee Abertay University
Roger Kneebone
Roger Kneebone Imperial College London
Prokar Dasgupta
Prokar Dasgupta King's College London

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