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Social Sciences and Humanities
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2026

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Social Sciences and Humanities

D-Index
74
Citations
43073
World Ranking
565
National Ranking
99

Research.com Recognitions

  • 2026 - Research.com Social Sciences and Humanities in United Kingdom Leader Award

Overview

Rob Gray is affiliated with the University of East Anglia in the United Kingdom. Their research primarily focuses on the field of Medicine, with a particular emphasis on developmental and educational psychology, orthopedics and sports medicine, cognitive neuroscience, education, and biomedical engineering.

The scientist's work covers several interrelated topics, including:

  • Sport Psychology and Performance
  • Sports Performance and Training
  • Motor Control and Adaptation
  • Sports Dynamics and Biomechanics
  • Sports Analytics and Performance
  • Physical Education and Pedagogy
  • Sports injuries and prevention

Rob Gray has published in the following venues multiple times:

  • Frontiers in Psychology
  • Curiosity Interdisciplinary Journal of Research and Innovation
  • Psychonomic Bulletin & Review
  • Accounting Auditing & Accountability Journal
  • Sports Medicine - Open

Selected recent publications include:

  • Changes in Movement Coordination Associated With Skill Acquisition in Baseball Batting: Freezing/Freeing Degrees of Freedom and Functional Variability, 2020, Frontiers in Psychology
  • A critical systematic review of the Neurotracker perceptual-cognitive training tool, 2021, Psychonomic Bulletin & Review
  • Debating accounting and sustainability: from incompatibility to rapprochement in the pursuit of corporate sustainability, 2022, Accounting Auditing & Accountability Journal
  • Enskilment: an Ecological-Anthropological Worldview of Skill, Learning and Education in Sport, 2021, Sports Medicine - Open
  • Comparing the constraints led approach, differential learning and prescriptive instruction for training opposite-field hitting in baseball, 2020, Psychology of sport and exercise

Frequent collaborators in Rob Gray's research include:

  • Christian Vater
  • Alex O. Holcombe
  • Keith Davids
  • Thomas Schack
  • Christian Thue Bjørndal

Rob Gray has contributed to book publications with Frontiers Media, notably authoring Learning and Skill Acquisition in Sports: Theoretical Perspectives in 2024.

Best Publications

  • Corporate social and environmental reporting

    Rob Gray;Reza Kouhy;Simon Lavers

  • Accounting and accountability : changes and challenges in corporate social and environmental reporting

    Rob Gray;Dave Owen;Carol A. Adams

  • Accounting for the Environment

    Rob Gray;Jan Bebbington;Martin Houldin

  • Is accounting for sustainability actually accounting for sustainability…and how would we know? An exploration of narratives of organisations and the planet

    Rob Gray

  • W(h)ither Ecology? The Triple Bottom Line, the Global Reporting Initiative, and Corporate Sustainability Reporting

    Markus J. Milne;Rob Gray

  • Social and Environmental Disclosure and Corporate Characteristics: A Research Note and Extension

    Rob Gray;Mohammed Javad;David M. Power;C. Donald Sinclair

  • Corporate social reporting : accounting and accountability

    Rob Gray;Dave Owen;Keith Maunders

  • The social accounting project and Accounting Organizations and Society. Privileging engagement, imaginings, new accountings and pragmatism over critique?

    Rob Gray

  • Accounting and environmentalism: An exploration of the challenge of gently accounting for accountability, transparency and sustainability

    Rob Gray

  • Constructing a research database of social and environmental reporting by UK companies

    Rob Gray;Reza Kouhy;Simon Lavers

  • Social, environmental and sustainability reporting and organisational value creation?

    Rob Gray

  • Struggling with the praxis of social accounting: Stakeholders, accountability, audits and procedures

    Rob Gray;Colin Dey;Dave Owen;Richard Evans

  • Thirty years of social accounting, reporting and auditing: what (if anything) have we learnt?

    Rob Gray

  • Attending to the execution of a complex sensorimotor skill: expertise differences, choking, and slumps.

    Robert Gray

  • Corporate Social Reporting: Emerging Trends in Accountability and the Social Contract

    Rob Gray;Dave Owen;Keith Maunders

  • An account of sustainability: Failure, success and a reconceptualization

    Jan Bebbington;Rob Gray

  • NGOs, civil society and accountability: making the people accountable to capital

    Rob Gray;Jan Bebbington;David Collison

  • Evaluating the performance of ethical and non-ethical funds: a matched pair analysis

    N. Kreander;R.H. Gray;D.M. Power;C.D. Sinclair

  • Do financial markets care about social and environmental disclosure?: Further evidence and exploration from the UK

    Alan Murray;Donald Sinclair;David Power;Rob Gray

  • Sustainability Reporting: Who's Kidding Whom?

    Rob Gray;Markus J. Milne

Frequent Co-Authors

Charles Spence
Charles Spence University of Oxford
Nancy J. Cooke
Nancy J. Cooke Arizona State University
Sian L. Beilock
Sian L. Beilock Barnard College
Heinrich H. Bülthoff
Heinrich H. Bülthoff Max Planck Institute for Biological Cybernetics
Jennifer Cumming
Jennifer Cumming University of Birmingham
Tim Woodman
Tim Woodman Bangor University
Keith Davids
Keith Davids Sheffield Hallam University
Robert West
Robert West DePauw University
Thomas H. Carr
Thomas H. Carr Michigan State University
Richard A. Evans
Richard A. Evans Commonwealth Scientific and Industrial Research Organisation

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