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Colin M. Brown

Colin M. Brown

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Psychology

D-Index
41
Citations
12951
World Ranking
7719
National Ranking
370

Colin M. Brown 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 Colin M. Brown sits on this spectrum.

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31 publications 705+

This scientist: 68 publications — 4th percentile

4% of scientists in this discipline score the same or lower.

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

Colin M. Brown 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 Colin M. Brown sits on this spectrum.

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30 D-Index 144+

This scientist: 41 D-Index — 33rd percentile

33% of scientists in this discipline score the same or lower.

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

Overview

Colin M. Brown is affiliated with the Max Planck Society in Germany and has contributed to multiple research fields, primarily within the social sciences and business, management, and accounting. Their work spans various subfields including education, strategy and management, sociology and political science, political science and international relations, as well as astronomy and astrophysics.

Their research topics cover a broad spectrum, focusing notably on innovative teaching methodologies in social sciences, international arbitration and investment law, evaluation of teaching practices, educator training and historical pedagogy, student assessment and feedback, astrophysics and star formation studies, and atmospheric ozone and climate.

Several recent papers by Colin M. Brown demonstrate this diversity:

  • "SPLASH: the Southern Parkes Large-Area Survey in Hydroxyl - data description and release" (2022), published in Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society
  • "Explicit Content: Two Experiments on Bringing Writing Instruction into the Political Science Classroom" (2020), published in Journal of Political Science Education
  • "The contribution of the European Union to the rule of law in the field of international investment law through the creation of a Multilateral Investment Court" (2021), published in European Law Journal
  • "Setting Expectations: Rubrics as a Formative Tool for Communicating in the Social Sciences" (2023), published in College Teaching

Frequent co-authors connected to their work include Sarah James, George Soroka, J. R. Dawson, P. A. Jones, and Cormac Purcell. These collaborations have spanned topics related to social sciences and astrophysics.

Colin M. Brown's publications have appeared in several notable venues:

  • Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society
  • Journal of Political Science Education
  • European Law Journal
  • College Teaching
  • BCDR International Arbitration Review

Their work engages core aspects of teaching and learning in social sciences, often emphasizing evaluation, feedback, and innovative pedagogical strategies. In addition, Brown's contributions address legal and institutional aspects of international investment law, including the functioning and ethical considerations of investor-state dispute settlement mechanisms.

This profile reflects diverse scholarly interests bridging social sciences and natural sciences, with continued participation in academic discourse through articles and collaborative efforts in renowned journals.

Best Publications

  • The syntactic positive shift (sps) as an erp measure of syntactic processing

    Peter Hagoort;Colin M. Brown;Jolanda Groothusen

  • Anticipating upcoming words in discourse: Evidence from ERPs and reading times

    Jos J. A. Van Berkum;Colin M. Brown;Pienie Zwitserlood;Valesca Kooijman

  • The processing nature of the n400: Evidence from masked priming

    Colin Brown;Peter Hagoort

  • Semantic Integration in Sentences and Discourse: Evidence from the N400

    Jos J. A. Van Berkum;Peter Hagoort;Colin M. Brown

  • The N400 as a function of the level of processing.

    Dorothee J. Chwilla;Colin M. Brown;Peter Hagoort

  • The neurocognition of language

    Colin M. Brown;Peter Hagoort

  • The Neural Circuitry Involved in the Reading of German Words and Pseudowords: A PET Study

    Peter Hagoort;Peter Indefrey;Colin Brown;Hans Herzog

  • Early referential context effects in sentence processing: Evidence from event-related brain potentials

    Jos J. A. Van Berkum;Colin M. Brown;Peter Hagoort

  • ERP effects of listening to speech compared to reading: the P600/SPS to syntactic violations in spoken sentences and rapid serial visual presentation.

    Peter Hagoort;Colin M. Brown

  • The neurocognition of syntactic processing

    Peter Hagoort;Colin M. Brown;Lee Osterhout

  • ERP effects of listening to speech: Semantic ERP effects

    Peter Hagoort;Colin M Brown

  • Electrophysiological Evidence for Early Contextual Influences during Spoken-Word Recognition: N200 Versus N400 Effects

    Daniëlle Van Den Brink;Colin M. Brown;Peter Hagoort

  • When and how do listeners relate a sentence to the wider discourse? Evidence from the N400 effect

    Jos J.A. van Berkum;Pienie Zwitserlood;Peter Hagoort;Colin M. Brown

  • Lexical—semantic event–related potential effects in patients with left hemisphere lesions and aphasia, and patients with right hemisphere lesions without aphasia

    Peter Hagoort;Colin M. Brown;Tamara Y. Swaab

  • Brain Activity During Speaking: From Syntax to Phonology in 40 Milliseconds

    Miranda van Turennout;Peter Hagoort;Colin M. Brown

  • Electrophysiological evidence on the time course of semantic and phonological processes in speech production.

    Miranda Van Turennout;Peter Hagoort;Colin M. Brown

  • A neural correlate of syntactic encoding during speech production

    Peter Indefrey;Colin M. Brown;Frauke M. Hellwig;Katrin Amunts

  • Crossed and nested dependencies in German and Dutch: A psycholinguistic study

    Emmon Bach;Colin Brown;William Marslen-wilson

  • Electrophysiological Signatures of Visual Lexical Processing: Open- and Closed-Class Words

    Colin M. Brown;Peter Hagoort;Mariken Ter Keurs

  • Syntactic processing in left prefrontal cortex is independent of lexical meaning

    Peter Indefrey;Peter Hagoort;Hans Herzog;Rüdiger J. Seitz

  • Speaking words: Electrophysiological evidence on the time course of semantic and phonological processes in speech production

    Miranda van Turennout;Peter Hagoort;Colin M. Brown

Frequent Co-Authors

Peter Hagoort
Peter Hagoort Max Planck Institute for Psycholinguistics
Peter Indefrey
Peter Indefrey Heinrich Heine University Düsseldorf
Jos J. A. Van Berkum
Jos J. A. Van Berkum Utrecht University
Pienie Zwitserlood
Pienie Zwitserlood University of Münster
Rüdiger J. Seitz
Rüdiger J. Seitz Heinrich Heine University Düsseldorf
Dorothee J. Chwilla
Dorothee J. Chwilla Radboud University
William D. Marslen-Wilson
William D. Marslen-Wilson University of Cambridge
Andreas Kleinschmidt
Andreas Kleinschmidt University of Geneva
Katrin Amunts
Katrin Amunts Forschungszentrum Jülich
Marta Kutas
Marta Kutas University of California, San Diego

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