2026 Chris Button: Social Sciences and Humanities Researcher – H-Index, Publications & Awards

Discipline name	D-Index	World Ranking	Current World Ranking	National Ranking	Current National Ranking	Publications	Citations
Social Sciences and Humanities	44	4090	3777	31	30	166	9756

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

538
Citations
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

476
Citations
Unnatural selection: talent identification and development in sport.

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

469
Citations
Skill acquisition in sport: Some applications of an evolving practice ecology

Craig Handford;Keith Davids;Simon Bennett;Chris Button

448
Citations
The role of ecological dynamics in analysing performance in team sports

Luís Vilar;Duarte Araújo;Keith Davids;Chris Button

386
Citations
Key properties of expert movement systems in sport : an ecological dynamics perspective.

Ludovic Seifert;Chris Button;Keith Davids

373
Citations
Nonlinear Pedagogy in Skill Acquisition: An Introduction

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

345
Citations
Emergence of sport skills under constraints

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

333
Citations
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

325
Citations
Physical Literacy: Importance, Assessment and Future Directions

Susan Giblin;Dave Collins;Chris Button

313
Citations
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

267
Citations
Movement Models from Sports Provide Representative Task Constraints for Studying Adaptive Behavior in Human Movement Systems

Keith Davids;Chris Button;Duarte Araújo;Ian Renshaw

262
Citations
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

260
Citations
How Boxers Decide to Punch a Target: Emergent Behaviour in Nonlinear Dynamical Movement Systems

Robert Hristovski;Keith Davids;Duarte Araújo;Chris Button

223
Citations
Individual differences in the visual control of intercepting a penalty kick in association football

Matt Dicks;Keith W. Davids;Chris Button

216
Citations
Why the Constraints-Led Approach is not Teaching Games for Understanding: a clarification

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

200
Citations
Availability of advance visual information constrains association-football goalkeeping performance during penalty kicks

Matt Dicks;Chris Button;Keith W. Davids

166
Citations
Coordination changes in a discrete multi-articular action as a function of practice.

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

154
Citations
Complex systems in sport

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

140
Citations
The psychological and performance demands of association football refereeing.

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

138
Citations
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

125
Citations
Representative task designs for the study of perception and action in sport.

Matt Dicks;Keith Davids;Chris Button

118
Citations
An integrative modeling approach to the study of intentional movement behavior

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

113
Citations
Physical performance and decision making in association football referees: a naturalistic study

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

113
Citations

Frequent Co-Authors

Keith Davids Sheffield Hallam University

Duarte Araújo University of Lisbon

Ian Renshaw Queensland University of Technology

Rich S. W. Masters University of Waikato

Jeffery J. Summers Liverpool John Moores University

John van der Kamp Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam

Dave Collins University of Edinburgh

Ken Hodge University of Otago

Caterina Pesce Sapienza University of Rome

Geert J.P. Savelsbergh Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam

External Links

Personal website of Chris Button Google Scholar page

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