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D-Index
34
Citations
5664
World Ranking
6905
National Ranking
413

Peter Dixon publication distribution in Social Sciences and Humanities in 2026

The chart shows the distribution of publications by all Research.com ranked scientists in the field of Social Sciences and Humanities in 2026. The highlighted bar marks where Peter Dixon sits on this spectrum.

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44 publications 570+

This scientist: 129 publications — 30th percentile

30% of scientists in this discipline score the same or lower.

The last bar groups every scientist with 570 publications or more.

Peter Dixon D-index placement in Social Sciences and Humanities in 2026

The chart shows the D-index (discipline H-index) distribution of Social Sciences and Humanities scientists ranked by Research.com in 2026. The highlighted bar marks where Peter Dixon sits on this spectrum.

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30 D-Index 100+

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 100 D-Index or more.

Overview

Peter Dixon is affiliated with the University of Alberta in Canada. Their research focuses primarily on the social sciences, with particular emphasis on sociology and political science. The body of their work spans topics such as peacebuilding and international security, children's rights and participation, political conflict and governance, child and adolescent health, migration, health and trauma, epilepsy research and treatment, and emergency and acute care studies.

Dixon has published papers in several academic journals, including multiple contributions to the journal Law & Social Inquiry. Other venues featuring their work include BMJ Paediatrics Open, Clinical Medicine, Journal of Human Rights Practice, and Ecological Management & Restoration.

Their notable recent papers include:

  • "Thirtieth anniversary of the UN Convention on the Rights of the Child: advancing a child rights-based approach to child health and well-being" (2020), published in BMJ Paediatrics Open
  • "Computed tomography in patients with epileptic seizures admitted acutely to hospital: A population level analysis of routinely collected healthcare data" (2020), published in Clinical Medicine
  • "Collective Justice: Ex-Combatants and Community Reparations in Colombia" (2022), published in Journal of Human Rights Practice
  • "The Darwin Agreement: A collaboration between Australian restoration organisations in support of the UN Decade on Ecosystem Restoration" (2021), published in Ecological Management & Restoration
  • "Images and indicators: mixing participatory methods to build inclusive rigour" (2022), published in Action Research

Peter Dixon has collaborated frequently with other researchers in their field, including Pamina Firchow, Jeffrey Goldhagen, Andrew Clarke, Ana Isabel Fernandes Guerreiro, and Gerison Lansdown.

In addition to articles, Dixon has contributed to book publications, notably with Cambridge University Press. Their book titled The Analogical Reader was published in 2023.

Their work covers several fields and subfields, notably:

  • Social Sciences
  • Sociology and Political Science
  • General Health Professions
  • Law
  • Clinical Psychology
  • Psychiatry and Mental health

Research topics addressed across their publications include:

  • Peacebuilding and International Security
  • Children's Rights and Participation
  • Political Conflict and Governance
  • Child and Adolescent Health
  • Migration, Health and Trauma
  • Epilepsy research and treatment
  • Emergency and Acute Care Studies

Best Publications

  • Grasping the meaning of words.

    Scott Glover;Scott Glover;David A. Rosenbaum;Jeremy Graham;Peter Dixon

  • Psychonarratology: Foundations for the Empirical Study of Literary Response

    Marisa Bortolussi;Peter Dixon

  • University of Alberta norms of relative meaning frequency for 566 homographs

    Leslie C. Twilley;Peter Dixon;Dean Taylor;Karen Clark

  • Word Knowledge and Working Memory as Predictors of Reading Skill.

    Peter Dixon;Jo-Anne LeFevre;Leslie C. Twilley

  • Do Written Instructions Need Examples

    Jo-Anne LeFevre;Peter Dixon

  • Likelihood ratios: A simple and flexible statistic for empirical psychologists

    Scott Glover;Peter Dixon

  • Dynamic illusion effects in a reaching task: evidence for separate visual representations in the planning and control of reaching.

    Scott R. Glover;Peter Dixon

  • Repetition Effects in Grasping

    Peter Dixon;Scott McAnsh;Lenore Read

  • Dynamic effects of the Ebbinghaus illusion in grasping: Support for a planning/control model of action

    Scott Glover;Peter Dixon

  • Semantics affect the planning but not control of grasping

    Scott Glover;Peter Dixon

  • Literary processing and interpretation: Towards empirical foundations

    Peter Dixon;Marisa Bortolussi;Leslie C. Twilley;Alice Leung

  • Two forms of persistence in visual information processing.

    Vincent Di Lollo;Peter Dixon

  • Beyond visible persistence: an alternative account of temporal integration and segregation in visual processing.

    P Dixon;V Di Lollo

  • The p-value fallacy and how to avoid it.

    Peter Dixon

  • The processing of organizational and component step information in written directions

    Peter Dixon

  • EVIDENCE FOR THE USE OF PHONOLOGICAL REPRESENTATIONS DURING TRANSSACCADIC WORD RECOGNITION

    John M. Henderson;Peter Dixon;Alan Petersen;Leslie C. Twilley

  • Motor adaptation to an optical illusion.

    Scott Glover;Peter Dixon

  • Normalization of irrelevant dimensions in stimulus comparisons.

    Peter Dixon;Marcel A. Just

  • Textual determinants of a component of literary identification

    Maria Kotovych;Peter Dixon;Marisa Bortolussi;Mark Holden

  • Conceptual and physical differences in the category effect.

    Peter Dixon;Judith M. Shedden

  • The structure of mental plans for following directions.

    Peter Dixon

Frequent Co-Authors

Kimron L. Shapiro
Kimron L. Shapiro University of Birmingham
Vincent Di Lollo
Vincent Di Lollo Simon Fraser University
Marcel Adam Just
Marcel Adam Just Carnegie Mellon University
Jo-Anne LeFevre
Jo-Anne LeFevre Carleton University
Matthew F. S. Rushworth
Matthew F. S. Rushworth University of Oxford
John M. Henderson
John M. Henderson University of California, Davis
David A. Rosenbaum
David A. Rosenbaum University of California, Riverside
Alan Kingstone
Alan Kingstone University of British Columbia
Umberto Castiello
Umberto Castiello University of Padua
Walter F. Bischof
Walter F. Bischof University of British Columbia

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