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Alexander Pollatsek 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 Alexander Pollatsek sits on this spectrum.

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31 publications 705+

This scientist: 226 publications — 76th percentile

76% of scientists in this discipline score the same or lower.

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

Alexander Pollatsek 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 Alexander Pollatsek sits on this spectrum.

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30 D-Index 144+

This scientist: 95 D-Index — 93rd percentile

93% of scientists in this discipline score the same or lower.

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

Overview

Alexander Pollatsek was a researcher affiliated with the University of Massachusetts Amherst in the United States. Their work predominantly spanned the fields of psychology, neuroscience, and computer science, with a focus on specialized subfields including developmental and educational psychology, cognitive neuroscience, experimental and cognitive psychology, artificial intelligence, and information systems.

Pollatsek's research covered a range of topics centered on language and cognition. Key subjects included the neurobiology of language and bilingualism, reading and literacy development, phonetics and phonology research, autism spectrum disorder research, behavioral and psychological studies, natural language processing techniques, and investigations into language, metaphor, and cognition.

Their published papers were frequently featured in several academic journals, including:

  • Behavior Research Methods (7 publications)
  • Psychonomic Bulletin & Review (2 publications)
  • Journal of Autism and Developmental Disorders (2 publications)
  • Quarterly Journal of Experimental Psychology (2 publications)
  • PLoS ONE (2 publications)

Some recent notable papers include:

  • The Auditory English Lexicon Project: A multi-talker, multi-region psycholinguistic database of 10,170 spoken words and nonwords, 2020, Behavior Research Methods
  • What we mean when we say semantic: Toward a multidisciplinary semantic glossary, 2024, Psychonomic Bulletin & Review
  • Consistency norms for 37,677 English words, 2020, Behavior Research Methods
  • Effects of Physical Exercise Interventions on Stereotyped Motor Behaviours in Children with ASD: A Meta-Analysis, 2021, Journal of Autism and Developmental Disorders
  • The Chinese Lexicon Project II: A megastudy of speeded naming performance for 25,000+ traditional Chinese two-character words, 2022, Behavior Research Methods

Frequent co-authors throughout Pollatsek's career included Chi-Shing Tse, Qian Wen Chee, Marc Brysbaert, Winston D. Goh, and Yuen-Lai Chan.

Best Publications

  • Psychology of reading

    Keith Rayner;Alexander Pollatsek;Jane Ashby;Charles Clifton

  • The psychology of reading

    Keith Rayner;Alexander Pollatsek

  • Toward a model of eye movement control in reading.

    Erik D. Reichle;Alexander Pollatsek;Donald L. Fisher;Keith Rayner

  • The E-Z reader model of eye-movement control in reading: comparisons to other models

    Erik D. Reichle;Keith Rayner;Alexander Pollatsek

  • The Interaction of Contextual Constraints and Parafoveal Visual Information in Reading

    David A Balota;Alexander Pollatsek;Keith Rayner

  • Asymmetries in the perceptual span for Israeli readers

    Alexander Pollatsek;Shmuel Bolozky;Arnold D. Well;Keith Rayner

  • On the use of counterbalanced designs in cognitive research: a suggestion for a better and more powerful analysis

    Alexander Pollatsek;Arnold D. Well

  • Unspaced Text Interferes with Both Word Identification and Eye Movement Control

    Keith Rayner;Martin H. Fischer;Alexander Pollatsek

  • Asymmetry of the effective visual field in reading.

    Keith Rayner;Arnold D. Well;Alexander Pollatsek

  • The effect of word frequency, word predictability, and font difficulty on the eye movements of young and older readers.

    Keith Rayner;Erik D. Reichle;Michael J. Stroud;Carrick C. Williams

  • Phonological codes are used in integrating information across saccades in word identification and reading.

    Alexander Pollatsek;Mary Lesch;Robin K. Morris;Keith Rayner

  • Using eye movements to evaluate effects of driver age on risk perception in a driving simulator.

    Ashoke Kumar Pradhan;Kim R. Hammel;Rosa DeRamus;Alexander Pollatsek

  • The effects of frequency and predictability on eye fixations in reading: implications for the E-Z Reader model.

    Keith Rayner;Jane Ashby;Alexander Pollatsek;Erik D. Reichle

  • The availability of useful information to the right of fixation in reading

    Keith Rayner;Arnold D. Well;Alexander Pollatsek;James H. Bertera

  • Data Analysis as the Search for Signals in Noisy Processes.

    Clifford Konold;Alexander Pollatsek

  • Tests of the E-Z Reader Model: Exploring the Interface between Cognition and Eye-Movement Control.

    Alexander Pollatsek;Erik D. Reichle;Keith Rayner

  • E-Z Reader: A cognitive-control, serial-attention model of eye-movement behavior during reading

    Erik D. Reichle;Alexander Pollatsek;Keith Rayner

  • Inconsistencies in Students' Reasoning about Probability.

    Clifford Konold;Alexander Pollatsek;Arnold Well;Jill Lohmeier

  • Integrating pictorial information across eye movements.

    Alexander Pollatsek;Keith Rayner;William E. Collins

  • Covert visual attention and extrafoveal information use during object identification.

    John M. Henderson;Alexander Pollatsek;Keith Rayner

  • The E-Z Reader model of eye movement control in reading

    Alexander Pollatsek;Keith Rayner;Keith Rayner;Erik Reichle

Frequent Co-Authors

Keith Rayner
Keith Rayner University of California, San Diego
Donald L. Fisher
Donald L. Fisher University of Massachusetts Amherst
Erik D. Reichle
Erik D. Reichle Macquarie University
Jukka Hyönä
Jukka Hyönä University of Turku
Denis Drieghe
Denis Drieghe University of Southampton
Manuel Perea
Manuel Perea University of Valencia
Simon Paul Liversedge
Simon Paul Liversedge University of Central Lancashire
Raymond Bertram
Raymond Bertram University of Turku
Michael I. Posner
Michael I. Posner University of Oregon
John M. Henderson
John M. Henderson University of California, Davis

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