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James C. Johnston 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 James C. Johnston sits on this spectrum.

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31 publications 705+

This scientist: 67 publications — 3rd percentile

3% of scientists in this discipline score the same or lower.

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

James C. Johnston 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 James C. Johnston sits on this spectrum.

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30 D-Index 144+

This scientist: 35 D-Index — 16th percentile

16% of scientists in this discipline score the same or lower.

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

Overview

James C. Johnston is affiliated with the Ames Research Center in the United States. Their research is concentrated primarily in the fields of Medicine and Health Professions, with a focus on Pediatrics, Perinatology and Child Health, Clinical Psychology, Statistics and Probability, Pharmacy, and General Health Professions.

The major topics addressed in Johnston's work include Ethics and Legal Issues in Pediatric Healthcare, Medical Malpractice and Liability Issues, Grief, Bereavement, and Mental Health, Maternal and Perinatal Health Interventions, Advanced Causal Inference Techniques, Statistical Methods and Inference, and Health Systems, Economic Evaluations, Quality of Life.

Johnston has contributed to a variety of publication venues with notable frequency, including Neurologic Clinics, Medicine and Law, Clinical Ethics, Statistics in Biosciences, and the Indian Journal of Medical Ethics.

  • Neurologic Clinics
  • Medicine and Law
  • Clinical Ethics
  • Statistics in Biosciences
  • Indian Journal of Medical Ethics

Some of the recent papers by Johnston are:

  • "Medical Malpractice and the Neurologist," 2023, published in Neurologic Clinics
  • "Medical Malpractice and the Neurologist: Specific Neurological Claims," 2023, published in Neurologic Clinics
  • "Benefits of Repeated Matched-Cohort and Nested Case-Control Analyses with Time-dependent Exposure in Observational Studies," 2024, published in Statistics in Biosciences (co-authored with Md. Belal Hossain)
  • "Electronic fetal monitoring in the twenty-first century: Language, logic and Lewis Carroll," 2020, published in Clinical Ethics (co-authored with Thomas P. Sartwelle)
  • "Cerebral palsy litigation after fifty years: A hoax on you," 2020, published in Indian Journal of Medical Ethics (co-authored with Thomas P. Sartwelle)

Frequent co-authors in Johnston's research include:

  • Thomas P. Sartwelle
  • Mehila Zebenigus
  • Md. Belal Hossain
  • Hubert Wong
  • Mohsen Sadatsafavi

Johnston's research encompasses a multidisciplinary approach integrating clinical medicine with ethical, legal, and statistical perspectives, particularly within pediatric healthcare contexts and neurological specialties.

Best Publications

  • Involuntary covert orienting is contingent on attentional control settings.

    Charles L. Folk;Roger W. Remington;James C. Johnston

  • Chronometric evidence for central postponement in temporally overlapping tasks

    Harold Pashler;James C. Johnston

  • Involuntary attentional capture by abrupt onsets.

    Roger W. Remington;James C. Johnston;Steven Yantis

  • Attentional limitations in dual-task performance.

    Harold Pashler;James C. Johnston

  • On the locus of visual selection: evidence from focused attention tasks

    Steven Yantis;James C. Johnston

  • Locus of the single-channel bottleneck in dual-task interference

    Robert S. McCann;James C. Johnston

  • Can practice eliminate the psychological refractory period effect

    M. Van Selst;E. Ruthruff;J. C. Johnston

  • Chronometric Evidence for two Types of Attention

    James C. Johnston;Robert S. McCann;Roger W. Remington

  • How does practice reduce dual-task interference: Integration, automatization, or just stage-shortening?

    Eric Ruthruff;Mark Van Selst;James C. Johnston;Roger Remington

  • Switching between simple cognitive tasks: The interaction of top-down and bottom-up factors

    Eric Ruthruff;Roger W. Remington;James C. Johnston

  • Why practice reduces dual-task interference.

    Eric Ruthruff;James C. Johnston;Mark Van Selst

  • Perception of letters in words: seek not and ye shall find.

    James C. Johnston;James L. McClelland

  • The role of familiar units in perception of words and nonwords

    James L. McClelland;James C. Johnston

  • Experimental tests of a hierarchical model of word identification

    James C. Johnston;James L. McClelland

  • A test of the Sophisticated Guessing Theory of word perception

    James C Johnston

  • Visual factors in word perception

    James C. Johnston;James L. McClelland

  • Contingent attentional capture: A reply to Yantis (1993).

    Charles L. Folk;Roger W. Remington;James C. Johnston

  • Vanishing dual-task interference after practice: has the bottleneck been eliminated or is it merely latent?

    Eric Ruthruff;James C. Johnston;Mark Van Selst;Shelly Whitsell

  • On the locus of visual selection: Evidence from focused attention tasks.

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  • Close binding of identity and location in visual feature perception

    James C. Johnston;Harold Pashler

  • Attention and Performance

    Harold Pashler;James C. Johnston;Eric Ruthruff

Frequent Co-Authors

Eric Ruthruff
Eric Ruthruff University of New Mexico
Roger W. Remington
Roger W. Remington University of Minnesota
James L. McClelland
James L. McClelland Stanford University
Harold Pashler
Harold Pashler University of California, San Diego
Charles L. Folk
Charles L. Folk Villanova University
Steven Yantis
Steven Yantis Johns Hopkins University
Alan Kingstone
Alan Kingstone University of British Columbia
Elizabeth A. Franz
Elizabeth A. Franz University of Otago
Arthur G. Samuel
Arthur G. Samuel Stony Brook University
Richard B. Ivry
Richard B. Ivry University of California, Berkeley

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