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Michael J. Richardson

Michael J. Richardson

D-Index & Metrics

Psychology

D-Index
48
Citations
10277
World Ranking
5900
National Ranking
343

Michael J. Richardson 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 Michael J. Richardson sits on this spectrum.

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31 publications 705+

This scientist: 179 publications — 62nd percentile

62% of scientists in this discipline score the same or lower.

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

Michael J. Richardson 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 Michael J. Richardson sits on this spectrum.

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30 D-Index 144+

This scientist: 48 D-Index — 49th percentile

49% of scientists in this discipline score the same or lower.

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

Overview

Michael J. Richardson is a researcher affiliated with Macquarie University in Australia, with a research focus primarily in the field of Psychology. Their work spans multiple subfields including Social Psychology, Cognitive Neuroscience, Sociology and Political Science, Artificial Intelligence, and Control and Systems Engineering.

The main topics addressed in Richardson's research include Action Observation and Synchronization, Robot Manipulation and Learning, Reinforcement Learning in Robotics, Motor Control and Adaptation, Sports Analytics and Performance, Embodied and Extended Cognition, and Opinion Dynamics and Social Influence.

Richardson has published extensively in scientific journals, with frequent contributions to venues such as:

  • Scientific Reports (5 publications)
  • Journal of Science and Medicine in Sport (5 publications)
  • PLoS ONE (2 publications)
  • Frontiers in Psychology (2 publications)
  • Ecological Psychology (2 publications)

Notable recent papers include:

  • Assessing abstract thought and its relation to language with a new nonverbal paradigm: Evidence from aphasia, 2021, Cognition
  • MagneToRE: Mapping the 3-D Magnetic Structure of the Solar Wind Using a Large Constellation of Nanosatellites, 2021, Frontiers in Astronomy and Space Sciences
  • Gaze facilitates responsivity during hand coordinated joint attention, 2021, Scientific Reports
  • Hopf Bifurcations in Complex Multiagent Activity: The Signature of Discrete to Rhythmic Behavioral Transitions, 2020, Brain Sciences
  • Behavioral dynamics of conversation, (mis)communication and coordination in noisy environments, 2023, Scientific Reports

Richardson often collaborates with several frequent co-authors, including:

  • Rachel W. Kallen
  • Patrick Nalepka
  • Gaurav Patil
  • Fabrizia Auletta
  • Mario di Bernardo

The research outputs combine interdisciplinary approaches, uniting principles from psychology, neuroscience, robotics, and social sciences to explore complex behavioral and cognitive processes. The significant number of publications in high-impact journals indicates a consistent contribution to these fields over time.

Best Publications

  • Rocking together: dynamics of intentional and unintentional interpersonal coordination.

    Michael J. Richardson;Kerry L. Marsh;Robert W. Isenhower;Justin R.L. Goodman

  • Social Connection Through Joint Action and Interpersonal Coordination

    Kerry L. Marsh;Michael J. Richardson;Richard C. Schmidt

  • Dynamics of Interpersonal Coordination

    Richard C. Schmidt;Michael J. Richardson

  • Effects of Visual and Verbal Interaction on Unintentional Interpersonal Coordination.

    Michael J. Richardson;Kerry L. Marsh;R. C. Schmidt

  • Judging and actualizing intrapersonal and interpersonal affordances.

    Michael J. Richardson;Kerry L. Marsh;Reuben M. Baron

  • Interpersonal Synergies

    Unknown

  • Contrasting Approaches to Perceiving and Acting With Others

    Kerry L. Marsh;Michael J. Richardson;Reuben M. Baron;R.C. Schmidt

  • An investigation of road crossing in a virtual environment.

    Grahame Simpson;Lisa Johnston;Michael Richardson

  • Too late to coordinate: Contextual influences on behavioral synchrony

    Lynden K. Miles;Lynden K. Miles;Jordan L. Griffiths;Michael J. Richardson;C. Neil Macrae

  • Eroding the Boundaries of Cognition: Implications of Embodiment1

    Michael L. Anderson;Michael L. Anderson;Michael J. Richardson;Anthony Chemero;Anthony Chemero

  • Articulatory constraints on interpersonal postural coordination.

    Kevin D. Shockley;Aimee A. Baker;Michael J. Richardson;Carol A. Fowler

  • Autism and social disconnection in interpersonal rocking.

    Kerry L Marsh;Robert W. Isenhower;Michael J. Richardson;Molly Helt

  • Do birds of a feather move together? Group membership and behavioral synchrony

    Lynden K. Miles;Joanne Lumsden;Michael J. Richardson;C. Neil Macrae

  • Who syncs? Social motives and interpersonal coordination

    Joanne Lumsden;Lynden K. Miles;Michael J. Richardson;Carlene A. Smith

  • Competing together: Assessing the dynamics of team-team and player-team synchrony in professional association football

    Ricardo Duarte;Duarte Araújo;Vanda Correia;Vanda Correia;Keith Davids

  • Measuring the Dynamics of Interactional Synchrony

    R. C. Schmidt;Samantha Morr;Paula Fitzpatrick;Michael J. Richardson

  • Ecological Psychology: Six Principles for an Embodied–Embedded Approach to Behavior

    Michael J. Richardson;Kevin Shockley;Brett R. Fajen;Michael A. Riley

  • Toward a radically embodied, embedded social psychology

    Kerry L. Marsh;Lucy Johnston;Michael J. Richardson;R. C. Schmidt

  • Improvisation and the self-organization of multiple musical bodies

    Ashley E. Walton;Michael J. Richardson;Peter Langland-Hassan;Anthony Chemero

  • Strategic communication and behavioral coupling in asymmetric joint action

    Cordula Vesper;Michael J. Richardson

  • Coordination of sucking, swallowing, and breathing and oxygen saturation during early infant breast-feeding and bottle-feeding

    Eugene C Goldfield;Eugene C Goldfield;Michael J Richardson;Kimberly G Lee;Kimberly G Lee;Stacey Margetts

Frequent Co-Authors

Anthony Chemero
Anthony Chemero University of Cincinnati
Kerry L. Marsh
Kerry L. Marsh University of Connecticut
Kevin Shockley
Kevin Shockley University of Cincinnati
Elliot Saltzman
Elliot Saltzman Boston University
Lucy Johnston
Lucy Johnston University of Canterbury
Claudia Carello
Claudia Carello University of Connecticut
Mario di Bernardo
Mario di Bernardo University of Naples Federico II
Carol A. Fowler
Carol A. Fowler University of Connecticut
C. Neil Macrae
C. Neil Macrae University of Aberdeen
Michael T. Turvey
Michael T. Turvey University of Connecticut

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