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D-Index
44
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9756
World Ranking
4089
National Ranking
31

Chris Button publication distribution in Social Sciences and Humanities in 2026

The chart shows the distribution of publications by all Research.com ranked scientists in the field of Social Sciences and Humanities in 2026. The highlighted bar marks where Chris Button sits on this spectrum.

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44 publications 570+

This scientist: 166 publications — 50th percentile

50% of scientists in this discipline score the same or lower.

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Chris Button D-index placement in Social Sciences and Humanities in 2026

The chart shows the D-index (discipline H-index) distribution of Social Sciences and Humanities scientists ranked by Research.com in 2026. The highlighted bar marks where Chris Button sits on this spectrum.

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This scientist: 44 D-Index — 49th percentile

49% of scientists in this discipline score the same or lower.

The last bar groups every scientist with 100 D-Index or more.

Overview

Chris Button is affiliated with the University of Otago in New Zealand. Their research spans multiple topics within medicine and psychology, with significant focus on physical education, motor development, and public health.

Their recent scholarly output includes:

  • Skill Acquisition Methods Fostering Physical Literacy in Early-Physical Education (SAMPLE-PE): Rationale and Study Protocol for a Cluster Randomized Controlled Trial in 5-6-Year-Old Children From Deprived Areas of North West England (2020), Frontiers in Psychology
  • Education and transfer of water competencies: An ecological dynamics approach (2020), European Physical Education Review
  • Teaching Foundational Aquatic Skills to Children in Open Water Environments (2020), International Journal of Aquatic Research and Education
  • The Poor "Wealth" of Brazilian Football: How Poverty May Shape Skill and Expertise of Players (2021), Frontiers in Sports and Active Living
  • The Influence of Equipment and Environment on Children and Young Adults Learning Aquatic Skills (2021), Frontiers in Psychology

Chris Button has also contributed to a book published by Human Kinetics titled Dynamics of Skill Acquisition (2021).

Their research primarily intersects the fields of medicine and psychology, with key subfields including:

  • Developmental and Educational Psychology
  • Public Health, Environmental and Occupational Health
  • Physical Therapy, Sports Therapy and Rehabilitation
  • Sociology and Political Science
  • Social Psychology

Within these domains, main research topics addressed by Button are:

  • Injury Epidemiology and Prevention
  • Children's Physical and Motor Development
  • Physical Education and Pedagogy
  • Infant Development and Preterm Care
  • Sport Psychology and Performance
  • Inclusion and Disability in Education and Sport
  • Child and Animal Learning Development

Their frequent publication venues include:

  • Frontiers in Psychology
  • Frontiers in Sports and Active Living
  • International Journal of Environmental Research and Public Health
  • Developmental Psychobiology
  • Preprints.org

Collaboration is a feature of their research activity, with frequent coauthors being:

  • Carolina Burnay
  • David I. Anderson
  • Ludovic Seifert
  • Rita Cordovil
  • James L. Croft

Best Publications

  • The Role of Nonlinear Pedagogy in Physical Education

    Jia Yi Chow;Keith Davids;Chris Button;Rick Shuttleworth

  • Examination of gaze behaviors under in situ and video simulation task constraints reveals differences in information pickup for perception and action

    Matt Dicks;Chris Button;Keith W. Davids

  • Unnatural selection: talent identification and development in sport.

    A. Abott;C Button;G.-J. Pepping;D. Collins

  • Skill acquisition in sport: Some applications of an evolving practice ecology

    Craig Handford;Keith Davids;Simon Bennett;Chris Button

  • The role of ecological dynamics in analysing performance in team sports

    Luís Vilar;Duarte Araújo;Keith Davids;Chris Button

  • Key properties of expert movement systems in sport : an ecological dynamics perspective.

    Ludovic Seifert;Chris Button;Keith Davids

  • Nonlinear Pedagogy in Skill Acquisition: An Introduction

    Jia Yi Chow;Keith Davids;Chris Button;Ian Renshaw

  • Emergence of sport skills under constraints

    Duarte Araujo;Keith Davids;Simon J Bennett;Chris Button

  • Influence of Familiarization on the Reliability of Vertical Jump and Acceleration Sprinting Performance in Physically Active Men

    Gavin L. Moir;Chris Button;Mark Glaister;Michael H. Stone

  • Physical Literacy: Importance, Assessment and Future Directions

    Susan Giblin;Dave Collins;Chris Button

  • Nonlinear pedagogy: a constraints-led framework for understanding emergence of game play and movement skills.

    Jia Yi Chow;Keith W. Davids;Chris Button;Rick Shuttleworth

  • Movement Models from Sports Provide Representative Task Constraints for Studying Adaptive Behavior in Human Movement Systems

    Keith Davids;Chris Button;Duarte Araújo;Ian Renshaw

  • Nonlinear pedagogy: an effective approach to cater for individual differences in learning a sports skill.

    Miriam Chang Yi Lee;Jia Yi Chow;John Komar;Clara Wee Keat Tan

  • How Boxers Decide to Punch a Target: Emergent Behaviour in Nonlinear Dynamical Movement Systems

    Robert Hristovski;Keith Davids;Duarte Araújo;Chris Button

  • Individual differences in the visual control of intercepting a penalty kick in association football

    Matt Dicks;Keith W. Davids;Chris Button

  • Why the Constraints-Led Approach is not Teaching Games for Understanding: a clarification

    Ian Renshaw;Duarte Araújo;Chris Button;Jia Yi Chow

  • Availability of advance visual information constrains association-football goalkeeping performance during penalty kicks

    Matt Dicks;Chris Button;Keith W. Davids

  • Coordination changes in a discrete multi-articular action as a function of practice.

    Jia Yi Chow;Keith Davids;Chris Button;Michael Koh

  • Complex systems in sport

    Keith Davids;Robert Hristovski;Duarte Araujo;Natalia Balague Serre

  • The psychological and performance demands of association football refereeing.

    D. Mascarenhas;D. O'Hare;H. Plessner;C. Button

  • The influence of familiarization on the reliability of force variables measured during unloaded and loaded vertical jumps.

    Gavin L. Moir;Ross H. Sanders;Chris Button;Mark Glaister

  • Representative task designs for the study of perception and action in sport.

    Matt Dicks;Keith Davids;Chris Button

  • An integrative modeling approach to the study of intentional movement behavior

    Keith Davids;A.M. Williams;C Button;M Court

  • Physical performance and decision making in association football referees: a naturalistic study

    D.R.D. Mascarenhas;C. Button;D. O’Hare;M. Dicks

Frequent Co-Authors

Keith Davids
Keith Davids Sheffield Hallam University
Duarte Araújo
Duarte Araújo University of Lisbon
Ian Renshaw
Ian Renshaw Queensland University of Technology
Rich S. W. Masters
Rich S. W. Masters University of Waikato
Jeffery J. Summers
Jeffery J. Summers Liverpool John Moores University
John van der Kamp
John van der Kamp Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam
Dave Collins
Dave Collins University of Edinburgh
Ken Hodge
Ken Hodge University of Otago
Caterina Pesce
Caterina Pesce Sapienza University of Rome
Geert J.P. Savelsbergh
Geert J.P. Savelsbergh Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam

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