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Paul M. Smeets 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 Paul M. Smeets sits on this spectrum.

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31 publications 705+

This scientist: 124 publications — 35th percentile

35% of scientists in this discipline score the same or lower.

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

Paul M. Smeets 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 Paul M. Smeets sits on this spectrum.

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30 D-Index 144+

This scientist: 34 D-Index — 13th percentile

13% of scientists in this discipline score the same or lower.

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

Overview

Paul M. Smeets is affiliated with Leiden University in the Netherlands. Their research encompasses a range of topics within behavioral and psychological studies, autism spectrum disorder research, and the cognitive and developmental aspects of mathematical skills.

Their work spans several subfields, including:

  • Developmental and Educational Psychology
  • Cognitive Neuroscience
  • Statistics and Probability

Paul M. Smeets has contributed scholarly articles to venues such as Behavioural Processes and Arabixiv (OSF Preprints). Recent publications include:

  • "Children's emergent relations of equivalence using stimuli with opposite verbal labels: Exclusion and minimal training conditions" (2021, Behavioural Processes)
  • "Food-related fMRI tasks" (2021, Arabixiv (OSF Preprints))

Collaborative efforts are evident through frequent co-authorship with researchers including Jacqueline J. Schenk, Mickey Keenan, Harrie Boelens, and Simon Dymond.

Publication venues where their work frequently appears include:

  • Behavioural Processes
  • Arabixiv (OSF Preprints)

Best Publications

  • ESTABLISHING EQUIVALENCE RELATIONS USING A RESPONDENT-TYPE TRAINING PROCEDURE III

    Geraldine Leader;Dermot Barnes-Holmes;Paul M. Smeets

  • Establishing Relational Responding in Accordance with More-than and Less-than as Generalized Operant Behavior in Young Children

    Yvonne Barnes-Holmes;Dermot Barnes-Holmes;Paul M. Smeets;Paul Strand

  • DERIVED RELATIONAL RESPONDING AS GENERALIZED OPERANT BEHAVIOR

    Olive Healy;Dermot Barnes-Holmes;Paul M. Smeets

  • Derived Stimulus Relations, Semantic Priming, and Event-Related Potentials: Testing a Behavioral Theory of Semantic Networks

    Dermot Barnes-Holmes;Carmel Staunton;Robert Whelan;Robert Whelan;Yvonne Barnes-Holmes

  • DERIVED RELATIONAL NETWORKS AND CONTROL BY NOVEL INSTRUCTIONS: A POSSIBLE MODEL OF GENERATIVE VERBAL RESPONDING

    Denis O'Hora;Dermot Barnes-Holmes;Bryan Roche;Paul M. Smeets

  • A Transfer of Functions and a Conditional Transfer of Functions through Equivalence Relations in Three- to Six-Year-Old Children

    Dermot Barnes;Mary Browne;Paul Smeets;Bryan Roche

  • Contextual Control over the Derived Transformation of Discriminative and Sexual Arousal Functions

    Bryan Roche;Dermot Barnes-Holmes;Yvonne Barnes-Holmes;Paul M. Smeets

  • Relational Frame Theory and Stimulus Equivalence: Conceptual and Procedural Issues

    Dermot Barnes-Holmes;Yvonne Barnes-Holmes;Paul M. Smeets;Veronica A. Cullinan

  • Relating equivalence relations to equivalence relations: A relational framing model of complex human functioning.

    Dermot Barnes;Neil Hegarty;Paul M. Smeets

  • Exemplar Training and a Derived Transformation of Function in Accordance with Symmetry

    Yvonne Barnes-Holmes;Dermot Barnes-Holmes;Bryan Roche;Paul M. Smeets

  • Establishing stimulus classes in adults and children using a respondent-type training procedure: A follow-up study

    Paul M. Smeets;Geraldine Leader;Dermot Barnes

  • Response Latencies to Multiple Derived Stimulus Relations: Testing Two Predictions of Relational Frame Theory

    Denis O'Hora;Bryan Roche;Dermot Barnes-Holmes;Paul M. Smeets

  • Generating Derived Relational Networks Via The Abstraction of Common Physical Properties: A Possible Model of Analogical Reasoning

    Ian Stewart;Dermot Barnes-Holmes;Bryan Roche;Paul M. Smeets

  • A functional-analytic model of analogy: a relational frame analysis.

    Ian Stewart;Dermot Barnes-Holmes;Bryan Roche;Paul M Smeets

  • Procedures and Parameters of Errorless Discrimination Training with Developmentally Impaired Individuals

    Giulio E. Lancioni;Paul M. Smeets

  • Exemplar Training and a Derived Transformation of Function in Accordance with Symmetry: II

    Yvonne Barnes-Holmes;Dermot Barnes-Holmes;Bryan Roche;Paul M. Smeets

  • A Derived Transfer of Emotive Functions as a Means of Establishing Differential Preferences for Soft Drinks

    Dermot Barnes-Holmes;John Keane;Yvonne Barnes-Holmes;Paul M. Smeets

  • A Derived Transfer of Mood Functions through Equivalence Relations.

    Yvonne Barnes-Holmes;Dermot Barnes-Holmes;Paul M. Smeets;Carmen Luciano

  • Matching functionally same relations: Implications for equivalence-equivalence as a model for analogical reasoning

    Franck Carpentier;Paul M. Smeets;Dermot Barnes-Holmes

  • Relating Derived Relations as a Model of Analogical Reasoning: Reaction Times and Event-Related Potentials

    Dermot Barnes-Holmes;Donal Regan;Yvonne Barnes-Holmes;Sean Commins

Frequent Co-Authors

Dermot Barnes-Holmes
Dermot Barnes-Holmes University of Ulster
Giulio E. Lancioni
Giulio E. Lancioni University of Bari Aldo Moro
Bryan Roche
Bryan Roche National University of Ireland, Maynooth
Yvonne Barnes-Holmes
Yvonne Barnes-Holmes Ireland Consulting Psychologists Ltd
Simon Dymond
Simon Dymond Swansea University
Robert Whelan
Robert Whelan Trinity College Dublin
Geraldine Leader
Geraldine Leader University of Galway
Olive Healy
Olive Healy Trinity College Dublin

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