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Max Coltheart 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 Max Coltheart sits on this spectrum.

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31 publications 705+

This scientist: 472 publications — 96th percentile

96% of scientists in this discipline score the same or lower.

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

Max Coltheart 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 Max Coltheart sits on this spectrum.

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30 D-Index 144+

This scientist: 103 D-Index — 95th percentile

95% of scientists in this discipline score the same or lower.

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

Research.com Recognitions

  • 2023 - Research.com Neuroscience in Australia Leader Award
  • 2022 - Research.com Neuroscience in Australia Leader Award
  • 2001 - Fellow of the Australian Academy of Science

Overview

Max Coltheart is affiliated with Macquarie University in Australia and conducts research primarily in the fields of neuroscience and psychology. Their work spans various subfields including cognitive neuroscience, philosophy, clinical psychology, developmental and educational psychology, and artificial intelligence.

The scientist's research topics cover a diverse range of areas, notably:

  • Body Image and Dysmorphia Studies
  • Psychology of Moral and Emotional Judgment
  • Pragmatism in Philosophy and Education
  • Mental Health and Psychiatry
  • Face Recognition and Perception
  • Reading and Literacy Development
  • Neurobiology of Language and Bilingualism

Max Coltheart has published extensively in several academic venues, with the most frequent being:

  • Cognitive Neuropsychiatry
  • Psychonomic Bulletin & Review
  • Transactions of the Charles S Peirce Society
  • Consciousness and Cognition
  • Historical Records of Australian Science

Recent papers authored or co-authored by this researcher include:

  • "Failure of hypothesis evaluation as a factor in delusional belief" (2021, Cognitive Neuropsychiatry)
  • "What is Capgras delusion?" (2021, Cognitive Neuropsychiatry)
  • "Are people consistent when reading nonwords aloud on different occasions?" (2021, Psychonomic Bulletin & Review)
  • "A Peircean Pathway from Surprising Facts to New Beliefs" (2020, Transactions of the Charles S Peirce Society)
  • "How unexpected observations lead to new beliefs: A Peircean pathway" (2020, Consciousness and Cognition)

Their frequent collaborators include Martin Davies, Anastasia Ulicheva, Oxana Grosseck, Kathleen Rastle, and Davies.

Max Coltheart was awarded the title of Fellow of the Australian Academy of Science in 2001.

Best Publications

  • DRC: a dual route cascaded model of visual word recognition and reading aloud.

    Max Coltheart;Kathleen Rastle;Conrad Perry;Robyn Langdon

  • The MRC Psycholinguistic Database

    Max Coltheart

  • Models of reading aloud: Dual-route and parallel-distributed-processing approaches.

    Max Coltheart;Brent Curtis;Paul Atkins;Micheal Haller

  • Lexical access in simple reading tasks

    M. Coltheart

  • Access to the internal lexicon

    M. Coltheart

  • Psycholinguistic assessments of language processing in aphasia (PALPA): An introduction.

    Janice Kay;Ruth Lesser;Max Coltheart

  • Varieties of developmental dyslexia

    Anne Castles;Max Coltheart

  • Deep dyslexia since 1980.

    Max Coltheart;Karalyn Patterson;John C. Marshall

  • Iconic memory and visible persistence

    Max Coltheart

  • Is there a causal link from phonological awareness to success in learning to read

    Anne Castles;Max Coltheart

  • Psycholinguistic assessments of language processing in aphasia (PALPA)

    Janice Kay;Ruth Lesser;Max Coltheart

  • Modularity of music processing.

    Isabelle Peretz;Max Coltheart

  • Attention and Performance XII: The Psychology of Reading

    Max Coltheart

  • Surface dyslexia: neuropsychological and cognitive studies of phonological reading

    K. E. Patterson;J. C. Marshall;M. Coltheart

  • Modeling Reading: The Dual‐Route Approach

    Max Coltheart

  • 358,534 nonwords: The ARC Nonword Database

    Kathleen Rastle;Jonathan Harrington;Max Coltheart

  • Serial processing in reading aloud: Evidence for dual-route models of reading.

    Max Coltheart;Kathleen Rastle

  • Modularity and cognition

    Max Coltheart

  • Disorders of reading and their implications for models of normal reading.

    Max Coltheart

  • Does reading develop in a sequence of stages

    Morag Stuart;Max Coltheart

Frequent Co-Authors

Robyn Langdon
Robyn Langdon Macquarie University
Anne Castles
Anne Castles Macquarie University
Lyndsey Nickels
Lyndsey Nickels Macquarie University
Melissa J. Green
Melissa J. Green University of New South Wales
Kathleen Rastle
Kathleen Rastle Royal Holloway University of London
Ryan McKay
Ryan McKay Royal Holloway University of London
Amanda J. Barnier
Amanda J. Barnier Macquarie University
Genevieve McArthur
Genevieve McArthur Macquarie University
Anthony Harris
Anthony Harris University of Sydney
Derek Besner
Derek Besner University of Waterloo

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