2026 Emmanuel M. Pothos: Psychology Researcher – H-Index, Publications & Awards

Discipline name	D-Index	World Ranking	Current World Ranking	National Ranking	Current National Ranking	Publications	Citations
Psychology	38	8806	8225	891	851	162	7140

Overview

Emmanuel M. Pothos is affiliated with City, University of London in the United Kingdom. The research spans fields primarily related to Physics and Astronomy, with a notable presence in subfields such as Atomic and Molecular Physics, and Optics; Artificial Intelligence; General Decision Sciences; Statistical and Nonlinear Physics; and Cognitive Neuroscience.

Their work is concentrated on main topics including Quantum Mechanics and Applications, Decision-Making and Behavioral Economics, Quantum Information and Cryptography, Behavioral Health and Interventions, Forecasting Techniques and Applications, Complex Systems and Time Series Analysis, and Bayesian Modeling and Causal Inference.

Frequent research collaborators include Paweł Błasiak, James M. Yearsley, Christoph Gallus, Jerome R. Busemeyer, and B. W. Wojciechowski.

Publications have appeared regularly in several venues, with multiple contributions to Entropy, arXiv (Cornell University), Decision, Topics in Cognitive Science, and Scientific Reports.

Recent papers authored or coauthored by Emmanuel M. Pothos highlight key research themes:

Quantum Cognition, 2021, Annual Review of Psychology
Information overload for (bounded) rational agents, 2021, Proceedings of the Royal Society B Biological Sciences
Violations of locality and free choice are equivalent resources in Bell experiments, 2021, Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences
Top-down and bottom-up attentional biases for smoking-related stimuli: Comparing dependent and non-dependent smokers, 2021, Addictive Behaviors
Quantum Circuit Components for Cognitive Decision-Making, 2023, Entropy

The research threads reflect a strong emphasis on the intersection of quantum theory with cognition and decision-making processes, as well as broader applications in behavioral economics and cognitive neuroscience.

Best Publications

The addiction-stroop test: Theoretical considerations and procedural recommendations.

W. Miles Cox;Javad Salehi Fadardi;Emmanuel M. Pothos

644
Citations
A quantum probability explanation for violations of ‘rational’ decision theory

Emmanuel M. Pothos;Jerome R. Busemeyer

610
Citations
A Quantum Theoretical Explanation for Probability Judgment Errors.

Jerome R. Busemeyer;Emmanuel M. Pothos;Riccardo Franco;Jennifer S. Trueblood

585
Citations
Can quantum probability provide a new direction for cognitive modeling

Emmanuel M. Pothos;Jerome R. Busemeyer

528
Citations
Theories of artificial grammar learning.

Emmanuel M. Pothos

403
Citations
A simplicity principle in unsupervised human categorization

Emmanuel M. Pothos;Nick Chater

318
Citations
The Potential of Using Quantum Theory to Build Models of Cognition

Zheng Wang;Jerome R. Busemeyer;Harald Atmanspacher;Emmanuel M. Pothos

258
Citations
The rules versus similarity distinction.

Emmanuel M. Pothos

199
Citations
Formal approaches in categorization

Emmanuel M. Pothos;Andy J. Wills

183
Citations
Cognitive biases to healthy and unhealthy food words predict change in BMI.

Raff Calitri;Emmanuel M. Pothos;Katy Tapper;Jeffrey M. Brunstrom

151
Citations
The role of similarity in artificial grammar learning.

Emmanuel M. Pothos;Todd M. Bailey

143
Citations
A quantum geometric model of similarity.

Emmanuel M. Pothos;Jerome R. Busemeyer;Jennifer S. Trueblood

138
Citations
Cognitive-motivational predictors of excessive drinkers’ success in changing

W. Miles Cox;Emmanuel M. Pothos;Steven G. Hosier

137
Citations
On the adequacy of current empirical evaluations of formal models of categorization.

Andy J. Wills;Emmanuel M. Pothos

137
Citations
Feast Your Eyes: Hunger and Trait Reward Drive Predict Attentional Bias for Food Cues

Katy Tapper;Emmanuel M. Pothos;Andrew David Lawrence

123
Citations
So concepts aren't definitions, but do they have necessary or sufficient features?

Emmanuel M. Pothos;Ulrike Hahn

119
Citations
Understanding cooperation in the Prisoner's Dilemma game

Emmanuel M. Pothos;Gavin Perry;Philip J. Corr;Mervin R. Matthew

112
Citations
Estimating everyday portion size using a 'method of constant stimuli': in a student sample, portion size is predicted by gender, dietary behaviour, and hunger, but not BMI.

Jeffrey M. Brunstrom;Peter J. Rogers;Emmanuel M. Pothos;Raff Calitri

101
Citations
One or two dimensions in spontaneous classification: a simplicity approach.

Emmanuel M. Pothos;James Close

90
Citations
Restraint, disinhibition and food-related processing bias.

Katy Tapper;Emmanuel M. Pothos;Javad S. Fadardi;Javad S. Fadardi;Eleni Ziori

80
Citations
Understanding developmental language disorder-The Helsinki longitudinal SLI study (HelSLI): A study protocol

Marja Laasonen;Marja Laasonen;Sini Smolander;Sini Smolander;Pekka Lahti-Nuuttila;Miika Leminen

46
Citations

Frequent Co-Authors

Jerome R. Busemeyer Indiana University

Katy Tapper City, University of London

Nick Chater University of Warwick

Ulrike Hahn Birkbeck, University of London

W. Miles Cox Bangor University

Joseph Tzelgov Ben-Gurion University of the Negev

Richard M. Shiffrin Indiana University

Jeffrey M. Brunstrom University of Bristol

Martin A. Conway City, University of London

Axel Cleeremans Université Libre de Bruxelles

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