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D-Index
48
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8330
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5970
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350

Elinor McKone 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 Elinor McKone sits on this spectrum.

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31 publications 705+

This scientist: 118 publications — 31st percentile

31% of scientists in this discipline score the same or lower.

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

Elinor McKone 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 Elinor McKone sits on this spectrum.

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30 D-Index 144+

This scientist: 48 D-Index — 49th percentile

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

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

Overview

Elinor McKone is affiliated with the Australian National University in Australia. Their research spans multiple fields, notably Medicine and Psychology, with a particular focus on cognitive and experimental and cognitive psychology, as well as ophthalmology, radiology, nuclear medicine, and epidemiology.

Their main research topics cover areas such as face recognition and perception, retinal diseases and treatments, retinal imaging and analysis, ophthalmology and visual impairment studies, evolutionary psychology and human behavior, social and intergroup psychology, and deception detection and forensic psychology.

The recent scholarly output includes the following papers:

  • Why the other-race effect matters: Poor recognition of other-race faces impacts everyday social interactions, 2021, British Journal of Psychology
  • Correlation of Central Versus Peripheral Macular Structure-Function With Acuity in Age-Related Macular Degeneration, 2021, Translational Vision Science & Technology
  • Relationships between retinal structure and function and vision-related quality of life measures in advanced age-related macular degeneration, 2021, Graefe s Archive for Clinical and Experimental Ophthalmology
  • A stimulus set of people famous to current generation Australian undergraduates, with recognition norms for face images and names, 2020, Australian Journal of Psychology
  • The composite effect reveals that human (but not other primate) faces are special to humans, 2023, PLoS ONE

Frequent co-authors collaborating on research projects include:

  • Rachel A. Robbins
  • Faran Sabeti
  • Jo Lane
  • Emilie M. F. Rohan
  • Rohan W. Essex

Their work has been published in various academic journals, including:

  • British Journal of Psychology
  • Translational Vision Science & Technology
  • Graefe s Archive for Clinical and Experimental Ophthalmology
  • Australian Journal of Psychology
  • PLoS ONE

Best Publications

  • Can generic expertise explain special processing for faces

    Elinor McKone;Nancy Kanwisher;Bradley C. Duchaine

  • Not just fear and sadness: Meta-analytic evidence of pervasive emotion recognition deficits for facial and vocal expressions in psychopathy

    Amy Dawel;Richard O'Kearney;Elinor McKone;Romina Palermo;Romina Palermo

  • Diagnosing prosopagnosia: Effects of ageing, sex, and participant–stimulus ethnic match on the Cambridge Face Memory Test and Cambridge Face Perception Test

    Devin C. Bowles;Elinor McKone;Amy Dawel;Bradley Duchaine

  • No face-like processing for objects-of-expertise in three behavioural tasks

    Rachel Robbins;Elinor McKone

  • Why does picture-plane inversion sometimes dissociate perception of features and spacing in faces, and sometimes not? Toward a new theory of holistic processing

    Elinor McKone;Galit Yovel

  • Early maturity of face recognition: no childhood development of holistic processing, novel face encoding, or face-space.

    Kate Crookes;Elinor McKone

  • A critical review of the development of face recognition: Experience is less important than previously believed

    Elinor McKone;Kate Crookes;Linda Jeffery;Daniel D Dilks

  • Impaired holistic coding of facial expression and facial identity in congenital prosopagnosia

    Romina Palermo;Romina Palermo;Megan Louise Willis;Davide Rivolta;Elinor McKone

  • Short-term implicit memory for words and nonwords.

    Elinor McKone

  • The Cambridge Car Memory Test: A task matched in format to the Cambridge Face Memory Test, with norms, reliability, sex differences, dissociations from face memory, and expertise effects

    Hugh W. Dennett;Elinor McKone;Elinor McKone;Raka Tavashmi;Ashleigh Hall

  • Categorical Perception of Face Identity in Noise Isolates Configural Processing

    Elinor McKone;Paolo Martini;Ken Nakayama

  • Asia has the global advantage: Race and visual attention.

    Elinor McKone;Anne Aimola Davies;Anne Aimola Davies;Dinusha Fernando;Rachel Aalders

  • Domain-specific development of face memory but not face perception

    Sarah Weigelt;Sarah Weigelt;Kami Koldewyn;Daniel D. Dilks;Benjamin Balas;Benjamin Balas

  • Isolating the Special Component of Face Recognition: Peripheral Identification and a Mooney Face

    Elinor McKone

  • Are Faces Special

    Elinor McKone;Rachel Robbins

  • Face ethnicity and measurement reliability affect face recognition performance in developmental prosopagnosia: evidence from the Cambridge Face Memory Test-Australian.

    Elinor McKone;Ashleigh Hall;Madeleine Pidcock;Romina Palermo

  • Individual Differences in the Ability to Recognise Facial Identity Are Associated with Social Anxiety

    Joshua M. Davis;Elinor McKone;Elinor McKone;Hugh Dennett;Kirsty B. O'Connor

  • Aftereffects for face attributes with different natural variability: adapter position effects and neural models.

    Rachel Anne Robbins;Elinor McKone;Mark Edwards

  • Dissociations between implicit and explicit memory in children: the role of strategic processing and the knowledge base.

    Kristina Murphy;Elinor McKone;Judith Slee

  • Do people have insight into their face recognition abilities

    Romina Palermo;Bruno Rossion;Gillian Rhodes;Renaud Laguesse

  • Sensitivity of 4-year-olds to featural and second-order relational changes in face distinctiveness.

    Elinor McKone;Barbara L Boyer

Frequent Co-Authors

Romina Palermo
Romina Palermo University of Western Australia
Nick Barnes
Nick Barnes Australian National University
Gillian Rhodes
Gillian Rhodes University of Western Australia
Linda Jeffery
Linda Jeffery Curtin University
Xuming He
Xuming He Washington University in St. Louis
Richard O'Kearney
Richard O'Kearney Australian National University
Elizabeth Pellicano
Elizabeth Pellicano University College London
Galit Yovel
Galit Yovel Tel Aviv University
Ken Nakayama
Ken Nakayama Harvard University

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