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Discipline name D-Index World Ranking Current World Ranking National Ranking Current National Ranking Publications Citations
Psychology 91 917 802 109 99 428 34972

Nick Chater publications per year

The chart shows the history of publications by Nick Chater between 1970 and 2025, highlighting the no. of papers published in each year and offering an overview of the publication velocity of this scholar. Nick Chater published across 56 years, from 1970 to 2025, averaging 10 papers a year. Output peaked at 36 publications in 2009. 36 of the 561 publications appeared in the last two years.

No. of publications
10 20 30
Bar chart. Horizontal axis: year, 1970 to 2025. Vertical axis: number of publications, 0 to 36. Peak 36 publications in 2009. 1970: 1 publication 1971: 0 publications 1972: 0 publications 1973: 0 publications 1974: 0 publications 1975: 0 publications 1976: 0 publications 1977: 0 publications 1978: 0 publications 1979: 0 publications 1980: 0 publications 1981: 0 publications 1982: 0 publications 1983: 0 publications 1984: 0 publications 1985: 0 publications 1986: 0 publications 1987: 0 publications 1988: 1 publication 1989: 0 publications 1990: 6 publications 1991: 3 publications 1992: 10 publications 1993: 8 publications 1994: 11 publications 1995: 12 publications 1996: 11 publications 1997: 9 publications 1998: 20 publications 1999: 17 publications 2000: 7 publications 2001: 18 publications 2002: 11 publications 2003: 23 publications 2004: 10 publications 2005: 17 publications 2006: 20 publications 2007: 21 publications 2008: 22 publications 2009: 36 publications 2010: 24 publications 2011: 19 publications 2012: 18 publications 2013: 15 publications 2014: 9 publications 2015: 17 publications 2016: 24 publications 2017: 15 publications 2018: 11 publications 2019: 11 publications 2020: 15 publications 2021: 15 publications 2022: 20 publications 2023: 18 publications 2024: 20 publications 2025: 16 publications
1970 2025

561 publications in total across all disciplines

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Nick Chater: publications per year, 1970 to 2025
Year Publications
1970 1
1971 0
1972 0
1973 0
1974 0
1975 0
1976 0
1977 0
1978 0
1979 0
1980 0
1981 0
1982 0
1983 0
1984 0
1985 0
1986 0
1987 0
1988 1
1989 0
1990 6
1991 3
1992 10
1993 8
1994 11
1995 12
1996 11
1997 9
1998 20
1999 17
2000 7
2001 18
2002 11
2003 23
2004 10
2005 17
2006 20
2007 21
2008 22
2009 36
2010 24
2011 19
2012 18
2013 15
2014 9
2015 17
2016 24
2017 15
2018 11
2019 11
2020 15
2021 15
2022 20
2023 18
2024 20
2025 16
Total 561
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Nick Chater 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 Nick Chater sits on this spectrum.

No. of scientists
200 400 600
Bar chart with 69 bars. Horizontal axis: publications, 31–40 to 705+. Vertical axis: number of scientists, 0 to 736. Most scientists, 736, have 101–110 publications. The last bar groups every scientist with 705 publications or more. The highlighted bar, 421–430 publications, is where this scientist sits. 31–40 publications: 6 scientists 41–50 publications: 52 scientists 51–60 publications: 138 scientists 61–70 publications: 299 scientists 71–80 publications: 461 scientists 81–90 publications: 605 scientists 91–100 publications: 713 scientists 101–110 publications: 736 scientists 111–120 publications: 686 scientists 121–130 publications: 670 scientists 131–140 publications: 644 scientists 141–150 publications: 597 scientists 151–160 publications: 576 scientists 161–170 publications: 477 scientists 171–180 publications: 450 scientists 181–190 publications: 397 scientists 191–200 publications: 343 scientists 201–210 publications: 328 scientists 211–220 publications: 313 scientists 221–230 publications: 283 scientists 231–240 publications: 226 scientists 241–250 publications: 196 scientists 251–260 publications: 201 scientists 261–270 publications: 171 scientists 271–280 publications: 151 scientists 281–290 publications: 139 scientists 291–300 publications: 113 scientists 301–310 publications: 102 scientists 311–320 publications: 100 scientists 321–330 publications: 76 scientists 331–340 publications: 92 scientists 341–350 publications: 85 scientists 351–360 publications: 69 scientists 361–370 publications: 71 scientists 371–380 publications: 63 scientists 381–390 publications: 58 scientists 391–400 publications: 57 scientists 401–410 publications: 43 scientists 411–420 publications: 33 scientists 421–430 publications: 50 scientists 431–440 publications: 41 scientists 441–450 publications: 32 scientists 451–460 publications: 27 scientists 461–470 publications: 28 scientists 471–480 publications: 25 scientists 481–490 publications: 28 scientists 491–500 publications: 20 scientists 501–510 publications: 23 scientists 511–520 publications: 26 scientists 521–530 publications: 17 scientists 531–540 publications: 21 scientists 541–550 publications: 14 scientists 551–560 publications: 16 scientists 561–570 publications: 10 scientists 571–580 publications: 22 scientists 581–590 publications: 9 scientists 591–600 publications: 14 scientists 601–610 publications: 9 scientists 611–620 publications: 11 scientists 621–630 publications: 4 scientists 631–640 publications: 7 scientists 641–650 publications: 5 scientists 651–660 publications: 10 scientists 661–670 publications: 8 scientists 671–680 publications: 8 scientists 681–690 publications: 4 scientists 691–700 publications: 3 scientists 701–704 publications: 4 scientists 705+ publications: 100 scientists
31–40 publications 705+

This scientist: 428 publications — 95th percentile

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

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

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Number of Psychology scientists by publication count, Research.com 2026 ranking edition. Based on 11,416 ranked scientists.
Publications Scientists This scientist
31–40 6
41–50 52
51–60 138
61–70 299
71–80 461
81–90 605
91–100 713
101–110 736
111–120 686
121–130 670
131–140 644
141–150 597
151–160 576
161–170 477
171–180 450
181–190 397
191–200 343
201–210 328
211–220 313
221–230 283
231–240 226
241–250 196
251–260 201
261–270 171
271–280 151
281–290 139
291–300 113
301–310 102
311–320 100
321–330 76
331–340 92
341–350 85
351–360 69
361–370 71
371–380 63
381–390 58
391–400 57
401–410 43
411–420 33
421–430 50 428
431–440 41
441–450 32
451–460 27
461–470 28
471–480 25
481–490 28
491–500 20
501–510 23
511–520 26
521–530 17
531–540 21
541–550 14
551–560 16
561–570 10
571–580 22
581–590 9
591–600 14
601–610 9
611–620 11
621–630 4
631–640 7
641–650 5
651–660 10
661–670 8
671–680 8
681–690 4
691–700 3
701–704 4
705+ 100
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Nick Chater 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 Nick Chater sits on this spectrum.

No. of scientists
200 400 600
Bar chart with 58 bars. Horizontal axis: D-Index, 30–31 to 144+. Vertical axis: number of scientists, 0 to 702. Most scientists, 702, have 32–33 D-Index. The last bar groups every scientist with 144 D-Index or more. The highlighted bar, 90–91 D-Index, is where this scientist sits. 30–31 D-Index: 398 scientists 32–33 D-Index: 702 scientists 34–35 D-Index: 671 scientists 36–37 D-Index: 659 scientists 38–39 D-Index: 641 scientists 40–41 D-Index: 671 scientists 42–43 D-Index: 617 scientists 44–45 D-Index: 558 scientists 46–47 D-Index: 495 scientists 48–49 D-Index: 487 scientists 50–51 D-Index: 445 scientists 52–53 D-Index: 390 scientists 54–55 D-Index: 408 scientists 56–57 D-Index: 345 scientists 58–59 D-Index: 325 scientists 60–61 D-Index: 321 scientists 62–63 D-Index: 248 scientists 64–65 D-Index: 290 scientists 66–67 D-Index: 218 scientists 68–69 D-Index: 219 scientists 70–71 D-Index: 215 scientists 72–73 D-Index: 183 scientists 74–75 D-Index: 169 scientists 76–77 D-Index: 132 scientists 78–79 D-Index: 137 scientists 80–81 D-Index: 120 scientists 82–83 D-Index: 112 scientists 84–85 D-Index: 86 scientists 86–87 D-Index: 101 scientists 88–89 D-Index: 83 scientists 90–91 D-Index: 77 scientists 92–93 D-Index: 70 scientists 94–95 D-Index: 78 scientists 96–97 D-Index: 58 scientists 98–99 D-Index: 53 scientists 100–101 D-Index: 57 scientists 102–103 D-Index: 48 scientists 104–105 D-Index: 53 scientists 106–107 D-Index: 46 scientists 108–109 D-Index: 24 scientists 110–111 D-Index: 35 scientists 112–113 D-Index: 27 scientists 114–115 D-Index: 32 scientists 116–117 D-Index: 31 scientists 118–119 D-Index: 22 scientists 120–121 D-Index: 16 scientists 122–123 D-Index: 24 scientists 124–125 D-Index: 18 scientists 126–127 D-Index: 11 scientists 128–129 D-Index: 19 scientists 130–131 D-Index: 10 scientists 132–133 D-Index: 16 scientists 134–135 D-Index: 10 scientists 136–137 D-Index: 12 scientists 138–139 D-Index: 8 scientists 140–141 D-Index: 5 scientists 142–143 D-Index: 12 scientists 144+ D-Index: 98 scientists
30–31 D-Index 144+

This scientist: 91 D-Index — 92nd percentile

92% of scientists in this discipline score the same or lower.

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

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Number of Psychology scientists by D-index, Research.com 2026 ranking edition. Based on 11,416 ranked scientists.
D-Index Scientists This scientist
30–31 398
32–33 702
34–35 671
36–37 659
38–39 641
40–41 671
42–43 617
44–45 558
46–47 495
48–49 487
50–51 445
52–53 390
54–55 408
56–57 345
58–59 325
60–61 321
62–63 248
64–65 290
66–67 218
68–69 219
70–71 215
72–73 183
74–75 169
76–77 132
78–79 137
80–81 120
82–83 112
84–85 86
86–87 101
88–89 83
90–91 77 91
92–93 70
94–95 78
96–97 58
98–99 53
100–101 57
102–103 48
104–105 53
106–107 46
108–109 24
110–111 35
112–113 27
114–115 32
116–117 31
118–119 22
120–121 16
122–123 24
124–125 18
126–127 11
128–129 19
130–131 10
132–133 16
134–135 10
136–137 12
138–139 8
140–141 5
142–143 12
144+ 98
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Research.com Recognitions

  • 2026 - Research.com Psychology in United Kingdom Leader Award
  • 1996 - Spearman Medal, British Psychological Society

Overview

Nick Chater is affiliated with the University of Warwick in the United Kingdom. Their research spans multiple areas within decision sciences and cognitive psychology, with a particular emphasis on behavioral economics and the psychology of moral and emotional judgment.

Their recent papers include:

  • The i-frame and the s-frame: How focusing on individual-level solutions has led behavioral public policy astray, 2022, Behavioral and Brain Sciences
  • The i-Frame and the s-Frame: How Focusing on the Individual-Level Solutions Has Led Behavioral Public Policy Astray, 2022, SSRN Electronic Journal
  • The Bayesian sampler: Generic Bayesian inference causes incoherence in human probability judgments, 2020, Psychological Review
  • Facing up to the uncertainties of COVID-19, 2020, Nature Human Behaviour
  • Changing behaviour for net zero 2050, 2021, BMJ

Nick Chater has collaborated frequently with several coauthors, including:

  • Adam N. Sanborn (20 coauthored works)
  • Jian-Qiao Zhu (16 coauthored works)
  • George Loewenstein (12 coauthored works)
  • Jake Spicer (11 coauthored works)
  • Joakim Sundh (8 coauthored works)

The scientist has published often in the following venues:

  • Trends in Cognitive Sciences (9 publications)
  • Behavioral and Brain Sciences (8 publications)
  • SSRN Electronic Journal (8 publications)
  • Psychological Review (5 publications)
  • Cognition (5 publications)

Their research covers several subfields including:

  • General Decision Sciences
  • Cognitive Neuroscience
  • Sociology and Political Science
  • Artificial Intelligence
  • Safety Research

Main topics addressed in Nick Chater's work include:

  • Decision-Making and Behavioral Economics
  • Psychology of Moral and Emotional Judgment
  • Experimental Behavioral Economics Studies
  • Child and Animal Learning Development
  • Language and cultural evolution
  • Behavioral Health and Interventions
  • Bayesian Modeling and Causal Inference

Nick Chater was awarded the Spearman Medal by the British Psychological Society in 1996.

Best Publications

  • Language as shaped by the brain

    Morten H. Christiansen;Nick Chater

  • A rational analysis of the selection task as optimal data selection.

    Mike Oaksford;Nick Chater

  • Bayesian Rationality: The Probabilistic Approach to Human Reasoning

    Mike Oaksford;Nick Chater

  • A Temporal Ratio Model of Memory

    Gordon D. A. Brown;Ian Neath;Nick Chater

  • Decision by sampling

    Neil Stewart;Nick Chater;Gordon D A Brown

  • Probabilistic models of cognition: exploring representations and inductive biases

    Thomas L. Griffiths;Nick Chater;Charles Kemp;Amy Perfors

  • Probabilistic models of cognition: Conceptual foundations

    Nick Chater;Joshua B. Tenenbaum;Alan Yuille

  • The Now-or-Never bottleneck: A fundamental constraint on language.

    Morten H. Christiansen;Nick Chater

  • Proceedings of the fourteenth annual conference of the cognitive science society

    Richard Shillcock;G Lindsey;J Levy;N Chater

  • Distributional Information: A Powerful Cue for Acquiring Syntactic Categories

    Martin Redington;Nick Chater;Steven Finch

  • Herding in humans.

    Ramsey M. Raafat;Nick Chater;Chris Frith;Chris Frith

  • Simplicity: a unifying principle in cognitive science?

    Nick Chater;Paul Vitányi

  • Toward a connectionist model of recursion in human linguistic performance

    Morten H Christiansen;Nick Chater

  • Probabilistic models of language processing and acquisition

    Nick Chater;Christopher D. Manning

  • Associations between a one-shot delay discounting measure and age, income, education and real-world impulsive behavior

    Stian Reimers;Elizabeth Ann Maylor;Neil Stewart;Nick Chater

  • Absolute Identification by Relative Judgment.

    Neil Stewart;Gordon D. A. Brown;Nick Chater

  • Ten years of the rational analysis of cognition

    Nick Chater;Mike Oaksford

  • The Probability Heuristics Model of Syllogistic Reasoning.

    Nick Chater;Mike Oaksford

  • Rational Models of Cognition

    Fernand Gobet;M. Oaksford;N. Chater

  • Bayesian Brains without Probabilities

    Adam N. Sanborn;Nick Chater

  • Précis of Bayesian Rationality: The Probabilistic Approach to Human Reasoning

    Mike Oaksford;Nick Chater

Frequent Co-Authors

Mike Oaksford
Mike Oaksford Birkbeck, University of London
Morten H. Christiansen
Morten H. Christiansen Cornell University
Neil Stewart
Neil Stewart University of Warwick
Ulrike Hahn
Ulrike Hahn Birkbeck, University of London
Paul M. B. Vitányi
Paul M. B. Vitányi Centrum Wiskunde & Informatica
Richard Shillcock
Richard Shillcock University of Edinburgh
Gordon D. A. Brown
Gordon D. A. Brown University of Warwick
Emmanuel M. Pothos
Emmanuel M. Pothos City, University of London
Marius Usher
Marius Usher Tel Aviv University

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