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Mark Blades 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 Mark Blades sits on this spectrum.

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31 publications 705+

This scientist: 168 publications — 58th percentile

58% of scientists in this discipline score the same or lower.

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

Mark Blades 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 Mark Blades sits on this spectrum.

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30 D-Index 144+

This scientist: 54 D-Index — 61st percentile

61% of scientists in this discipline score the same or lower.

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

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

  • The Cognition of Geographic Space

    Rob Kitchin;Mark Blades

  • Advertising to Children on TV: Content, Impact, and Regulation

    Barrie Gunter;Caroline Oates;Mark Blades

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

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

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

    Caroline Oates;Mark Blades;Barrie Gunter

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

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

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

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

  • 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

  • Children and their Environments: Learning, Using and Designing Spaces

    Christopher Spencer;Mark Blades

  • The reliability of data collected from sketch maps

    Mark Blades

  • Mapping as a Cultural and Cognitive Universal

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

  • Do children try to answer nonsensical questions

    Amanda H. Waterman;Mark Blades;Christopher Spencer

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

    Mark Blades;Christopher Spencer

  • 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

  • Children's Source Monitoring

    Kim P. Roberts;Mark Blades

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

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

  • The Construction of Cognitive Maps by Children with Visual Impairments

    Simon Ungar;Mark Blades;Christopher Spencer

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

    Mark Blades;Zana Cooke

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

    Moondore Ali;Mark Blades;Caroline Oates;Fran Blumberg

  • Cognitive Maps, Spatial Abilities, and Human Wayfinding

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

Frequent Co-Authors

Christopher J. Spencer
Christopher J. Spencer Queen's University
Barrie Gunter
Barrie Gunter University of Leicester
Rob Kitchin
Rob Kitchin National University of Ireland, Maynooth
Reginald G. Golledge
Reginald G. Golledge University of California, Santa Barbara
Olivier Pascalis
Olivier Pascalis Grenoble Alpes University
Christine Eiser
Christine Eiser University of Sheffield
Michael Siegal
Michael Siegal University of Sheffield
Michael J. Coleman
Michael J. Coleman Brigham and Women's Hospital
Jill Boucher
Jill Boucher City, University of London
Jackie Andrade
Jackie Andrade Plymouth University

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