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Ruth Filik

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Psychology

D-Index
34
Citations
3845
World Ranking
10292
National Ranking
1011

Ruth Filik 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 Ruth Filik sits on this spectrum.

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31 publications 705+

This scientist: 80 publications — 8th percentile

8% of scientists in this discipline score the same or lower.

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

Ruth Filik 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 Ruth Filik 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

Ruth Filik is a researcher affiliated with the University of Nottingham in the United Kingdom. Their work predominantly spans the fields of psychology and neuroscience, with significant contributions within experimental and cognitive psychology as well as cognitive neuroscience. Additional subfields of study include human-computer interaction, artificial intelligence, and clinical psychology.

Their research interests focus on topics related to language, metaphor, and cognition, as well as the neurobiology of language and bilingualism. Other areas of work include digital communication and language, reading and literacy development, eating disorders and behaviors, humor studies and applications, and linguistics and discourse analysis.

Ruth Filik has published numerous papers across various academic journals. Recent papers include:

  • Investigating effects of emoji on neutral narrative text: Evidence from eye movements and perceived emotional valence, 2020, Computers in Human Behavior
  • Emoji as a tool to aid the comprehension of written sarcasm: Evidence from younger and older adults, 2021, Computers in Human Behavior
  • The role of emoticons in sarcasm comprehension in younger and older adults: Evidence from an eye-tracking experiment, 2020, Quarterly Journal of Experimental Psychology
  • Development and validation of new figural scales for female body dissatisfaction assessment on two dimensions: thin-ideal and muscularity-ideal, 2020, BMC Public Health
  • The impact of hyperbole on perception of victim testimony, 2021, Journal of Pragmatics

Ruth Filik's research has been published frequently in journals such as the Quarterly Journal of Experimental Psychology, Discourse Processes, Computers in Human Behavior, Journal of Experimental Psychology: Learning, Memory and Cognition, and the Journal of Memory and Language.

  • Quarterly Journal of Experimental Psychology (3 publications)
  • Discourse Processes (3 publications)
  • Computers in Human Behavior (2 publications)
  • Journal of Experimental Psychology: Learning, Memory and Cognition (2 publications)
  • Journal of Memory and Language (2 publications)

Several frequent coauthors have collaborated with Ruth Filik, including Hannah Howman, Michael G. Cutter, Kevin B. Paterson, Christina Ralph-Nearman, and Christopher J. Hand.

  • Hannah Howman
  • Michael G. Cutter
  • Kevin B. Paterson
  • Christina Ralph-Nearman
  • Christopher J. Hand

Best Publications

  • Sarcasm in Written Communication: Emoticons are Efficient Markers of Intention

    Dominic Thompson;Ruth Filik

  • Testing theories of irony processing using eye-tracking and ERPs.

    Ruth Filik;Hartmut Leuthold;Katie Wallington;Jemma Page

  • Labeling of medicines and patient safety : Evaluating methods of reducing drug name confusion

    Ruth Filik;Kevin J. Purdy;Alastair G. Gale;David Gerrett

  • Sarcasm and emoticons: Comprehension and emotional impact.

    Ruth Filik;Alexandra Țurcan;Dominic Thompson;Nicole Harvey

  • The on-line processing of written irony.

    Ruth Filik;Linda M. Moxey

  • Processing local pragmatic anomalies in fictional contexts: evidence from the N400.

    Ruth Filik;Hartmut Leuthold

  • Emotional responses to irony and emoticons in written language: Evidence from EDA and facial EMG.

    Dominic Thompson;Ian G. Mackenzie;Hartmut Leuthold;Ruth Filik

  • Drug name confusion: evaluating the effectiveness of capital ("Tall Man") letters using eye movement data.

    Ruth Filik;Kevin Purdy;Alastair G. Gale;David Gerrett

  • Children's comprehension of sentences with focus particles

    Kevin B Paterson;Simon Paul Liversedge;Caroline Rowland;Ruth Filik

  • Contextual override of pragmatic anomalies: evidence from eye movements.

    Ruth Filik

  • Inner Speech during Silent Reading Reflects the Reader's Regional Accent

    Ruth Filik;Emma Barber

  • The on-line processing of socio-emotional information in prototypical scenarios: inferences from brain potentials

    Hartmut Leuthold;Ruth Filik;Kirsty Murphy;Ian G. Mackenzie

  • Processing pronouns without antecedents: Evidence from event-related brain potentials

    Ruth Filik;Anthony J. Sanford;Hartmut Leuthold

  • Online processing of moral transgressions: ERP evidence for spontaneous evaluation

    Hartmut Leuthold;Angelika Kunkel;Ian G. Mackenzie;Ruth Filik

  • Processing doubly quantified sentences: evidence from eye movements.

    Ruth. Filik;Kevin.B. Paterson;Simon Paul Liversedge

  • "They" as a gender-unspecified singular pronoun: eye tracking reveals a processing cost.

    Anthony J. Sanford;Ruth Filik

  • The emotional impact of verbal irony: Eye-tracking evidence for a two-stage process

    Ruth Filik;Emily Brightman;Chloe Gathercole;Hartmut Leuthold

  • An eye-tracking investigation of written sarcasm comprehension: The roles of familiarity and context.

    Alexandra Țurcan;Ruth Filik

  • The role of defaultness and personality factors in sarcasm interpretation: evidence from eye-tracking during reading

    Ruth Filik;Hannah Howman;Christina Ralph-Nearman;Rachel Giora

  • New body scales reveal body dissatisfaction, thin-ideal, and muscularity-ideal in males

    Christina Ralph-Nearman;Ruth Filik

  • The role of character-based knowledge in online narrative comprehension: Evidence from eye movements and ERPs

    Ruth Filik;Hartmut Leuthold

  • A systematic and methodological review of attentional biases in eating disorders: Food, body, and perfectionism.

    Christina Ralph‐Nearman;Christina Ralph‐Nearman;Margaret Achee;Rachel Lapidus;Jennifer L. Stewart;Jennifer L. Stewart

  • Focus identification during sentence comprehension: evidence from eye movements.

    Kevin B. Paterson;Simon P. Liversedge;Ruth Filik;Barbara J. Juhasz

  • Parsing with focus particles in context: Eye movements during the processing of relative clause ambiguities

    Ruth Filik;Kevin B. Paterson;Simon Paul Liversedge

  • Competition during the processing of quantifier scope ambiguities: evidence from eye movements during reading.

    Kevin B. Paterson;Ruth Filik;Simon P. Liversedge

  • Processing contextual and lexical cues to focus: Evidence from eye movements in reading

    Antje Sauermann;Ruth Filik;Kevin B. Paterson

Frequent Co-Authors

Kevin B. Paterson
Kevin B. Paterson University of Leicester
Hartmut Leuthold
Hartmut Leuthold University of Tübingen
Simon Paul Liversedge
Simon Paul Liversedge University of Central Lancashire
Anthony J. Sanford
Anthony J. Sanford University of Glasgow
John Maltby
John Maltby University of Leicester
Sahib S. Khalsa
Sahib S. Khalsa Laureate Institute for Brain Research
Jennifer L. Stewart
Jennifer L. Stewart MIT
Rachel Giora
Rachel Giora Tel Aviv University
Claire Lawrence
Claire Lawrence University of Nottingham
Sarah J. White
Sarah J. White University of Leicester

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