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Richard J. Cook

Richard J. Cook

D-Index & Metrics

Medicine

D-Index
104
Citations
41950
World Ranking
7025
National Ranking
267

Richard J. Cook publication distribution in Medicine in 2026

The chart shows the distribution of publications by all Research.com ranked scientists in the field of Medicine in 2026. The highlighted bar marks where Richard J. Cook sits on this spectrum.

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101 publications 1,796+

This scientist: 585 publications — 70th percentile

70% of scientists in this discipline score the same or lower.

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Richard J. Cook D-index placement in Medicine in 2026

The chart shows the D-index (discipline H-index) distribution of Medicine scientists ranked by Research.com in 2026. The highlighted bar marks where Richard J. Cook sits on this spectrum.

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This scientist: 104 D-Index — 66th percentile

66% of scientists in this discipline score the same or lower.

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Research.com Recognitions

  • 2008 - Fellow of the American Statistical Association (ASA)

Overview

Richard J. Cook is affiliated with the University of Waterloo in Canada. Their main fields of study encompass Neuroscience and Psychology, with notable contributions in Cognitive Neuroscience and Experimental and Cognitive Psychology. The subfields also include Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition, Clinical Psychology, and Developmental and Educational Psychology.

The scientist's research primarily focuses on Face Recognition and Perception, Evolutionary Psychology and Human Behavior, and Visual Perception and Processing Mechanisms. Additional topics of interest involve Neural and Behavioral Psychology Studies, the Psychology of Moral and Emotional Judgment, Autism Spectrum Disorder Research, and Child and Animal Learning Development.

Richard J. Cook has published several papers in prominent journals. Recent publications include:

  • "How does the presence of a surgical face mask impair the perceived intensity of facial emotions?" (2022, PLoS ONE)
  • "Why are social interactions found quickly in visual search tasks?" (2020, Cognition)
  • "Why is the literature on first impressions so focused on White faces?" (2021, Royal Society Open Science)
  • "The Twenty Item Prosopagnosia Index (PI20) provides meaningful evidence of face recognition impairment" (2021, Royal Society Open Science)
  • "Visual search for facing and non-facing people: The effect of actor inversion" (2020, Cognition)

The scientist frequently collaborates with a number of co-authors, including:

  • Katie L. H. Gray
  • Harriet Over
  • Tim Vestner
  • Maria Tsantani
  • Adam Eggleston

Publications are often found in journals such as:

  • Scientific Reports
  • Cognition
  • PLoS ONE
  • Cortex
  • Quarterly Journal of Experimental Psychology

In 2008, Richard J. Cook was awarded the title of Fellow of the American Statistical Association (ASA).

Best Publications

  • The number needed to treat: a clinically useful measure of treatment effect.

    Richard J Cook;David L Sackett

  • Methods for assessing responsiveness: a critical review and recommendations

    Janice A. Husted;Richard J. Cook;Vern T. Farewell;Dafna D. Gladman

  • Incidence of and Risk Factors for Ventilator-Associated Pneumonia in Critically Ill Patients

    Deborah J. Cook;Stephen D. Walter;Richard J. Cook;Lauren E. Griffith

  • Users' Guides to the Medical Literature: IX. A Method for Grading Health Care Recommendations

    Gordon H. Guyatt;David L. Sackett;John C. Sinclair;Robert Hayward

  • Users' guides to the medical literature. IX. A method for grading health care recommendations. Evidence-Based Medicine Working Group.

    Guyatt Gh;Sackett Dl;Sinclair Jc;Hayward R

  • Systematic review : Efficacy and safety of rituximab for adults with idiopathic thrombocytopenic purpura

    Donald M. Arnold;Francesco Dentali;Mark A. Crowther;Ralph M. Meyer

  • Determining asthma treatment by monitoring sputum cell counts: effect on exacerbations

    Jayaram L;Pizzichini Mm;Cook Rj;Boulet Lp

  • Canadian Hemodialysis Morbidity Study

    David N. Churchill;D. Wayne Taylor;Richard J. Cook;Patricia LaPlante

  • Pathologic fractures correlate with reduced survival in patients with malignant bone disease.

    Fred Saad;Allan Lipton;Richard Cook;Yin Miao Chen

  • Mirror neurons: from origin to function

    Richard Cook;Geoffrey Bird;Caroline Catmur;Clare Press

  • Mixed emotions: the contribution of alexithymia to the emotional symptoms of autism.

    Geoffrey Bird;Richard Cook

  • Bone Turnover Markers as Predictors of Skeletal Complications in Prostate Cancer, Lung Cancer, and Other Solid Tumors

    Janet E. Brown;Richard J. Cook;Pierre Major;Pierre Major;Allan Lipton

  • Predictive Value of Bone Resorption and Formation Markers in Cancer Patients With Bone Metastases Receiving the Bisphosphonate Zoledronic Acid

    Robert E. Coleman;Pierre Major;Allan Lipton;Janet E. Brown

  • Natural history of rising serum prostate-specific antigen in men with castrate nonmetastatic prostate cancer.

    Matthew R. Smith;Fairooz Kabbinavar;Fred Saad;Arif Hussain

  • Molecular mechanisms of defense by rhizobacteria against root disease.

    R. J. Cook;L. S. Thomashow;D. M. Weller;D. Fujimoto

  • The influence of dietary and nondietary calcium supplementation on blood pressure: an updated metaanalysis of randomized controlled trials.

    Lauren E. Griffith;Gordon H. Guyatt;Richard J. Cook;Heiner C. Bucher

  • Monitoring surgical performance using risk-adjusted cumulative sum charts

    Stefan H. Steiner;Richard J. Cook;Vern T. Farewell;Tom Treasure

  • Alexithymia, Not Autism, Predicts Poor Recognition of Emotional Facial Expressions

    Richard Cook;Rebecca Brewer;Punit Shah;Geoffrey Bird;Geoffrey Bird

  • Health-related quality of life of patients with psoriatic arthritis: a comparison with patients with rheumatoid arthritis.

    Janice A. Husted;Dafna D. Gladman;Vernon T. Farewell;Richard J. Cook

  • Effects of Dietary Calcium Supplementation on Blood Pressure: A Meta-analysis of Randomized Controlled Trials

    Heiner C. Bucher;Richard J. Cook;Gordon H. Guyatt;Jefferey D. Lang

Frequent Co-Authors

Dafna D. Gladman
Dafna D. Gladman Toronto Western Hospital
Geoffrey Bird
Geoffrey Bird University of Oxford
Allan Lipton
Allan Lipton Penn State Milton S. Hershey Medical Center
Robert E. Coleman
Robert E. Coleman University of Sheffield
Timothy F. Watson
Timothy F. Watson King's College London
Fred Saad
Fred Saad University of Montreal
Deborah J. Cook
Deborah J. Cook McMaster University
Jerald F. Lawless
Jerald F. Lawless University of Waterloo
Matthew R. Smith
Matthew R. Smith Harvard University
Gordon H. Guyatt
Gordon H. Guyatt McMaster University

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