2026 Mark Blades: Psychology Researcher – H-Index, Publications & Awards

Discipline name	D-Index	World Ranking	Current World Ranking	National Ranking	Current National Ranking	Publications	Citations
Psychology	54	4679	4333	501	474	168	8592

Overview

Mark Blades is affiliated with the University of Sheffield in the United Kingdom. Their research spans multiple domains primarily within psychology and social sciences, with significant contributions to developmental and educational psychology as well as social psychology.

The research topics that Blades has focused on include:

Hearing Impairment and Communication
Spatial Cognition and Navigation
Child and Animal Learning Development
Memory Processes and Influences
Deception Detection and Forensic Psychology
Child Development and Digital Technology
Interpreting and Communication in Healthcare

Blades has published multiple recent papers across a variety of journals and publication venues. Selected works include:

"Spatial exploration strategies in childhood; exploration behaviours are predictive of navigation success," 2022, Cognitive Development
"Manipulated exposure to television-style healthy food advertising and children's healthy food intake in nurseries," 2021, Appetite
"The impact of investing in the good interviewers policy of practice (IGIpop) on police interviews with children," 2020, Police Practice and Research
"Investigating route learning, metacognition, and beacon-based strategies using virtual environments," 2020, European Review of Applied Psychology
"The Gestural Misinformation Effect in Child Interviews in Switzerland," 2023, Journal of Nonverbal Behavior

The primary journals and publication venues where Blades frequently publishes are:

The Encyclopedia of Child and Adolescent Development
Journal of Nonverbal Behavior
Cognitive Development
Appetite
Police Practice and Research

Collaborations feature several frequent coauthors including:

Kirsty L. Johnstone
Emily K. Farran
Yannick Courbois
Chris Martin
Kerry D. Hudson

Blades's work reflects an interdisciplinary approach, combining elements of psychology, social sciences, and applied research contexts. Their contributions particularly focus on aspects of child development, communication, and cognitive processes within forensic and educational settings.

Best Publications

Factors influencing agreement between child self-report and parent proxy-reports on the Pediatric Quality of Life Inventory 4.0 (PedsQL) generic core scales.

Joanne Cremeens;Christine Eiser;Mark Blades

560
Citations
The Cognition of Geographic Space

Rob Kitchin;Mark Blades

523
Citations
Advertising to Children on TV: Content, Impact, and Regulation

Barrie Gunter;Caroline Oates;Mark Blades

356
Citations
The Child in the Physical Environment: The Development of Spatial Knowledge and Cognition

Hugh Matthews;C. Spencer;M. Blades;K. Morsley

321
Citations
Children and television advertising: when do they understand persuasive intent?

Caroline Oates;Mark Blades;Barrie Gunter

287
Citations
Comparing Methods for Introducing Blind and Visually Impaired People to Unfamiliar Urban Environments

Maria Angeles Espinosa;Simon Ungar;Esperanza Ochaita;Mark Blades

249
Citations
Interviewing children and adults: the effect of question format on the tendency to speculate

Amanda H. Waterman;Amanda H. Waterman;Mark Blades;Christopher Spencer

249
Citations
Characteristics of health-related self-report measures for children aged three to eight years: A review of the literature

Joanne Cremeens;Christine Eiser;Mark Blades

237
Citations
Children and their Environments: Learning, Using and Designing Spaces

Christopher Spencer;Mark Blades

213
Citations
The reliability of data collected from sketch maps

Mark Blades

187
Citations
Mapping as a Cultural and Cognitive Universal

James M. Blaut;David Stea;Christopher Spencer;Mark Blades

180
Citations
Do children try to answer nonsensical questions

Amanda H. Waterman;Mark Blades;Christopher Spencer

169
Citations
The development of children's ability to use spatial representations.

Mark Blades;Christopher Spencer

165
Citations
Indicating when you do not know the answer: The effect of question format and interviewer knowledge on children's ‘don't know’ responses

Amanda H. Waterman;Mark Blades;Christopher Spencer

159
Citations
Children's Source Monitoring

Kim P. Roberts;Mark Blades

158
Citations
A Cross‐Cultural Study of Young Children's Mapping Abilities

Mark Blades;J M Blaut;Zhra Darvizeh;Silvia Elguea

150
Citations
The Construction of Cognitive Maps by Children with Visual Impairments

Simon Ungar;Mark Blades;Christopher Spencer

140
Citations
Young children's ability to understand a model as a spatial representation.

Mark Blades;Zana Cooke

137
Citations
Young children's ability to recognize advertisements in web page designs.

Moondore Ali;Mark Blades;Caroline Oates;Fran Blumberg

134
Citations
Cognitive Maps, Spatial Abilities, and Human Wayfinding

Reginald G.Golledge;R. Daniel Jacobson;Robert Kitchin;Mark Blades

124
Citations

Frequent Co-Authors

Barrie Gunter University of Leicester

Olivier Pascalis Grenoble Alpes University

Christine Eiser University of Sheffield

Michael Siegal University of Sheffield

Michael J. Coleman Brigham and Women's Hospital

Jill Boucher City, University of London

Jackie Andrade Plymouth University

Tommy Gärling University of Gothenburg

David H. Uttal Northwestern University

Kevin Durkin University of Strathclyde

External Links

Personal website of Mark Blades

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