2026 Neil Levy: Social Sciences and Humanities Researcher – H-Index, Publications & Awards

Discipline name	D-Index	World Ranking	Current World Ranking	National Ranking	Current National Ranking	Publications	Citations
Social Sciences and Humanities	53	2323	2116	167	158	306	9667

Overview

Neil Levy is affiliated with Macquarie University in Australia and specializes in research primarily within the social sciences and neuroscience. Their work spans several subfields including cognitive neuroscience, sociology and political science, philosophy, political science and international relations, as well as general health professions.

Their research covers a variety of main topics, notably:

Psychology of Moral and Emotional Judgment
Epistemology, Ethics, and Metaphysics
Free Will and Agency
Misinformation and Its Impacts
Political Philosophy and Ethics
Corporate Insolvency and Governance
Legal principles and applications

Neil Levy has contributed papers to various academic journals and publication venues. Frequent publication outlets include:

Philosophical Psychology
Social Epistemology
Nature Human Behaviour
Synthese
Journal of Medical Ethics

Examples of recent papers authored or co-authored by Neil Levy include:

"A multi-country test of brief reappraisal interventions on emotions during the COVID-19 pandemic" (2021, Nature Human Behaviour)
"Virtue signalling is virtuous" (2020, Synthese)
"Does encouraging a belief in determinism increase cheating? Reconsidering the value of believing in free will" (2020, Cognition)
"The Einstein effect provides global evidence for scientific source credibility effects and the influence of religiosity" (2022, Nature Human Behaviour)
"Echoes of covid misinformation" (2021, Philosophical Psychology)

Neil Levy has collaborated frequently with several co-authors, including:

Hugh Sims
Stefan Ramel
Holly Doyle
James Hannant
Samuel Parsons

In addition to journal publications, Neil Levy has authored books published by Edward Elgar Publishing and Cambridge University Press. Titles include:

"Insolvency Practitioners" (2020 and 2024, Edward Elgar Publishing)
"Philosophy, Bullshit, and Peer Review" (2023, Cambridge University Press)

Best Publications

Neuroethics: Challenges for the 21st Century

Neil Levy

625
Citations
Hard Luck: How Luck Undermines Free Will and Moral Responsibility

Neil Levy

519
Citations
Amputees By Choice: Body Integrity Identity Disorder and the Ethics of Amputation

Tim Bayne;Neil Levy

292
Citations
The Good, the Bad and the Blameworthy

Neil Levy

282
Citations
The neuroethics of non-invasive brain stimulation

Roi Cohen Kadosh;Neil Levy;Neil Levy;Jacinta O'Shea;Nicholas Shea

258
Citations
Addiction is Not a Brain Disease (and it Matters)

Neil Levy

257
Citations
Consciousness and Moral Responsibility

Neil Levy

249
Citations
Neither Fish nor Fowl: Implicit Attitudes as Patchy Endorsements

Neil Levy

242
Citations
The Responsibility of the Psychopath Revisited

Neil Levy

230
Citations
Autonomy and Addiction

Neil Levy

190
Citations
The Feeling of Doing: Deconstructing the Phenomenology of Agency

Timothy J. Bayne;Neil Levy

156
Citations
DOWNSHIFTING AND MEANING IN LIFE

Neil Levy

147
Citations
Consciousness, Implicit Attitudes and Moral Responsibility

Neil Levy

146
Citations
A multi-country test of brief reappraisal interventions on emotions during the COVID-19 pandemic.

Ke Wang;Amit Goldenberg;Charles A. Dorison;Jeremy K. Miller

139
Citations
Analytic and Continental Philosophy: Explaining the Differences

Neil Levy

128
Citations
Recent Work on Free Will and Moral Responsibility

Neil Levy;Michael McKenna

128
Citations
Deafness, culture, and choice

N Levy

117
Citations
Due deference to denialism: explaining ordinary people’s rejection of established scientific findings

Neil Levy

117
Citations
The regulation of cognitive enhancement devices: extending the medical model

Hannah Maslen;Thomas Douglas;Roi Cohen Kadosh;Neil Levy

107
Citations
Radically Socialized Knowledge and Conspiracy Theories

Neil Levy;Neil Levy

92
Citations
The Routledge Companion to Free Will

Kevin Timpe;Meghan Griffith;Neil Levy

85
Citations
Implicit Bias and Moral Responsibility: Probing the Data.

Neil Levy;Neil Levy

81
Citations
Building Better Beings: A Theory of Moral Responsibility

Neil Levy

18
Citations

Frequent Co-Authors

Julian Savulescu University of Oxford

Tim Bayne Monash University

Roi Cohen Kadosh University of Surrey

Miles Hewstone University of Oxford

David Shum Hong Kong Polytechnic University

Sarah E. Medland QIMR Berghofer Medical Research Institute

Glenda M. Halliday University of Sydney

Lyn R. Griffiths Queensland University of Technology

Peter R. Schofield Neuroscience Research Australia

Sharath Sriram RMIT University

External Links

Personal website of Neil Levy Google Scholar page

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