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Discipline name D-Index World Ranking Current World Ranking National Ranking Current National Ranking Publications Citations
Psychology 45 6612 6154 664 632 161 10070

Ryan McKay publications per year

The chart shows the history of publications by Ryan McKay between 2001 and 2025, highlighting the no. of papers published in each year and offering an overview of the publication velocity of this scholar. Ryan McKay published across 25 years, from 2001 to 2025, averaging 8 papers a year. Output peaked at 37 publications in 2021. 22 of the 199 publications appeared in the last two years.

No. of publications
10 20 30
Bar chart. Horizontal axis: year, 2001 to 2025. Vertical axis: number of publications, 0 to 37. Peak 37 publications in 2021. 2001: 2 publications 2002: 0 publications 2003: 0 publications 2004: 1 publication 2005: 2 publications 2006: 4 publications 2007: 9 publications 2008: 3 publications 2009: 3 publications 2010: 5 publications 2011: 5 publications 2012: 3 publications 2013: 6 publications 2014: 5 publications 2015: 7 publications 2016: 4 publications 2017: 17 publications 2018: 11 publications 2019: 9 publications 2020: 19 publications 2021: 37 publications 2022: 16 publications 2023: 9 publications 2024: 12 publications 2025: 10 publications
2001 2025

199 publications in total across all disciplines

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Ryan McKay: publications per year, 2001 to 2025
Year Publications
2001 2
2002 0
2003 0
2004 1
2005 2
2006 4
2007 9
2008 3
2009 3
2010 5
2011 5
2012 3
2013 6
2014 5
2015 7
2016 4
2017 17
2018 11
2019 9
2020 19
2021 37
2022 16
2023 9
2024 12
2025 10
Total 199
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Ryan McKay 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 Ryan McKay sits on this spectrum.

No. of scientists
200 400 600
Bar chart with 69 bars. Horizontal axis: publications, 31–40 to 705+. Vertical axis: number of scientists, 0 to 736. Most scientists, 736, have 101–110 publications. The last bar groups every scientist with 705 publications or more. The highlighted bar, 161–170 publications, is where this scientist sits. 31–40 publications: 6 scientists 41–50 publications: 52 scientists 51–60 publications: 138 scientists 61–70 publications: 299 scientists 71–80 publications: 461 scientists 81–90 publications: 605 scientists 91–100 publications: 713 scientists 101–110 publications: 736 scientists 111–120 publications: 686 scientists 121–130 publications: 670 scientists 131–140 publications: 644 scientists 141–150 publications: 597 scientists 151–160 publications: 576 scientists 161–170 publications: 477 scientists 171–180 publications: 450 scientists 181–190 publications: 397 scientists 191–200 publications: 343 scientists 201–210 publications: 328 scientists 211–220 publications: 313 scientists 221–230 publications: 283 scientists 231–240 publications: 226 scientists 241–250 publications: 196 scientists 251–260 publications: 201 scientists 261–270 publications: 171 scientists 271–280 publications: 151 scientists 281–290 publications: 139 scientists 291–300 publications: 113 scientists 301–310 publications: 102 scientists 311–320 publications: 100 scientists 321–330 publications: 76 scientists 331–340 publications: 92 scientists 341–350 publications: 85 scientists 351–360 publications: 69 scientists 361–370 publications: 71 scientists 371–380 publications: 63 scientists 381–390 publications: 58 scientists 391–400 publications: 57 scientists 401–410 publications: 43 scientists 411–420 publications: 33 scientists 421–430 publications: 50 scientists 431–440 publications: 41 scientists 441–450 publications: 32 scientists 451–460 publications: 27 scientists 461–470 publications: 28 scientists 471–480 publications: 25 scientists 481–490 publications: 28 scientists 491–500 publications: 20 scientists 501–510 publications: 23 scientists 511–520 publications: 26 scientists 521–530 publications: 17 scientists 531–540 publications: 21 scientists 541–550 publications: 14 scientists 551–560 publications: 16 scientists 561–570 publications: 10 scientists 571–580 publications: 22 scientists 581–590 publications: 9 scientists 591–600 publications: 14 scientists 601–610 publications: 9 scientists 611–620 publications: 11 scientists 621–630 publications: 4 scientists 631–640 publications: 7 scientists 641–650 publications: 5 scientists 651–660 publications: 10 scientists 661–670 publications: 8 scientists 671–680 publications: 8 scientists 681–690 publications: 4 scientists 691–700 publications: 3 scientists 701–704 publications: 4 scientists 705+ publications: 100 scientists
31–40 publications 705+

This scientist: 161 publications — 55th percentile

55% of scientists in this discipline score the same or lower.

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

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Number of Psychology scientists by publication count, Research.com 2026 ranking edition. Based on 11,416 ranked scientists.
Publications Scientists This scientist
31–40 6
41–50 52
51–60 138
61–70 299
71–80 461
81–90 605
91–100 713
101–110 736
111–120 686
121–130 670
131–140 644
141–150 597
151–160 576
161–170 477 161
171–180 450
181–190 397
191–200 343
201–210 328
211–220 313
221–230 283
231–240 226
241–250 196
251–260 201
261–270 171
271–280 151
281–290 139
291–300 113
301–310 102
311–320 100
321–330 76
331–340 92
341–350 85
351–360 69
361–370 71
371–380 63
381–390 58
391–400 57
401–410 43
411–420 33
421–430 50
431–440 41
441–450 32
451–460 27
461–470 28
471–480 25
481–490 28
491–500 20
501–510 23
511–520 26
521–530 17
531–540 21
541–550 14
551–560 16
561–570 10
571–580 22
581–590 9
591–600 14
601–610 9
611–620 11
621–630 4
631–640 7
641–650 5
651–660 10
661–670 8
671–680 8
681–690 4
691–700 3
701–704 4
705+ 100
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Ryan McKay 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 Ryan McKay sits on this spectrum.

No. of scientists
200 400 600
Bar chart with 58 bars. Horizontal axis: D-Index, 30–31 to 144+. Vertical axis: number of scientists, 0 to 702. Most scientists, 702, have 32–33 D-Index. The last bar groups every scientist with 144 D-Index or more. The highlighted bar, 44–45 D-Index, is where this scientist sits. 30–31 D-Index: 398 scientists 32–33 D-Index: 702 scientists 34–35 D-Index: 671 scientists 36–37 D-Index: 659 scientists 38–39 D-Index: 641 scientists 40–41 D-Index: 671 scientists 42–43 D-Index: 617 scientists 44–45 D-Index: 558 scientists 46–47 D-Index: 495 scientists 48–49 D-Index: 487 scientists 50–51 D-Index: 445 scientists 52–53 D-Index: 390 scientists 54–55 D-Index: 408 scientists 56–57 D-Index: 345 scientists 58–59 D-Index: 325 scientists 60–61 D-Index: 321 scientists 62–63 D-Index: 248 scientists 64–65 D-Index: 290 scientists 66–67 D-Index: 218 scientists 68–69 D-Index: 219 scientists 70–71 D-Index: 215 scientists 72–73 D-Index: 183 scientists 74–75 D-Index: 169 scientists 76–77 D-Index: 132 scientists 78–79 D-Index: 137 scientists 80–81 D-Index: 120 scientists 82–83 D-Index: 112 scientists 84–85 D-Index: 86 scientists 86–87 D-Index: 101 scientists 88–89 D-Index: 83 scientists 90–91 D-Index: 77 scientists 92–93 D-Index: 70 scientists 94–95 D-Index: 78 scientists 96–97 D-Index: 58 scientists 98–99 D-Index: 53 scientists 100–101 D-Index: 57 scientists 102–103 D-Index: 48 scientists 104–105 D-Index: 53 scientists 106–107 D-Index: 46 scientists 108–109 D-Index: 24 scientists 110–111 D-Index: 35 scientists 112–113 D-Index: 27 scientists 114–115 D-Index: 32 scientists 116–117 D-Index: 31 scientists 118–119 D-Index: 22 scientists 120–121 D-Index: 16 scientists 122–123 D-Index: 24 scientists 124–125 D-Index: 18 scientists 126–127 D-Index: 11 scientists 128–129 D-Index: 19 scientists 130–131 D-Index: 10 scientists 132–133 D-Index: 16 scientists 134–135 D-Index: 10 scientists 136–137 D-Index: 12 scientists 138–139 D-Index: 8 scientists 140–141 D-Index: 5 scientists 142–143 D-Index: 12 scientists 144+ D-Index: 98 scientists
30–31 D-Index 144+

This scientist: 45 D-Index — 43rd percentile

43% of scientists in this discipline score the same or lower.

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

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Number of Psychology scientists by D-index, Research.com 2026 ranking edition. Based on 11,416 ranked scientists.
D-Index Scientists This scientist
30–31 398
32–33 702
34–35 671
36–37 659
38–39 641
40–41 671
42–43 617
44–45 558 45
46–47 495
48–49 487
50–51 445
52–53 390
54–55 408
56–57 345
58–59 325
60–61 321
62–63 248
64–65 290
66–67 218
68–69 219
70–71 215
72–73 183
74–75 169
76–77 132
78–79 137
80–81 120
82–83 112
84–85 86
86–87 101
88–89 83
90–91 77
92–93 70
94–95 78
96–97 58
98–99 53
100–101 57
102–103 48
104–105 53
106–107 46
108–109 24
110–111 35
112–113 27
114–115 32
116–117 31
118–119 22
120–121 16
122–123 24
124–125 18
126–127 11
128–129 19
130–131 10
132–133 16
134–135 10
136–137 12
138–139 8
140–141 5
142–143 12
144+ 98
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Overview

Ryan McKay is affiliated with Royal Holloway University of London in the United Kingdom. Their research primarily spans the fields of Social Sciences and Psychology, with a strong focus on Health, Sociology and Political Science, Clinical Psychology, Social Psychology, and Cognitive Neuroscience.

The scientist's work covers several topics, including:

  • COVID-19 and Mental Health
  • Health disparities and outcomes
  • Psychology of Moral and Emotional Judgment
  • Vaccine Coverage and Hesitancy
  • Misinformation and Its Impacts
  • Psychological Well-being and Life Satisfaction
  • Behavioral Health and Interventions

Ryan McKay has collaborated extensively with several frequent co-authors, who include:

  • Richard P. Bentall
  • Mark Shevlin
  • Orla McBride
  • Todd K. Hartman
  • Kate Bennett

Their research outputs have appeared most often in the following publication venues:

  • Religion Brain & Behavior
  • International Journal of Methods in Psychiatric Research
  • PLoS ONE
  • British Journal of Health Psychology
  • Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences

Notable recent papers by Ryan McKay include:

  • "Psychological characteristics associated with COVID-19 vaccine hesitancy and resistance in Ireland and the United Kingdom," 2021, Nature Communications
  • "Anxiety, depression, traumatic stress and COVID-19-related anxiety in the UK general population during the COVID-19 pandemic," 2020, BJPsych Open
  • "COVID-19-related anxiety predicts somatic symptoms in the UK population," 2020, British Journal of Health Psychology
  • "Refuting the myth of a 'tsunami' of mental ill-health in populations affected by COVID-19: evidence that response to the pandemic is heterogeneous, not homogeneous," 2021, Psychological Medicine
  • "Monitoring the psychological, social, and economic impact of the COVID-19 pandemic in the population: Context, design and conduct of the longitudinal COVID-19 psychological research consortium (C19PRC) study," 2020, International Journal of Methods in Psychiatric Research

Ryan McKay's body of work reflects an emphasis on psychological and social responses to the COVID-19 pandemic, including mental health outcomes, vaccine hesitancy, and public health implications across populations in the UK and Ireland.

Best Publications

  • Psychological characteristics associated with COVID-19 vaccine hesitancy and resistance in Ireland and the United Kingdom.

    Jamie Murphy;Frédérique Vallières;Richard P. Bentall;Mark Shevlin

  • The evolution of misbelief.

    Ryan T. McKay;Daniel C. Dennett

  • Attractiveness of Facial Averageness and Symmetry in Non-Western Cultures: In Search of Biologically Based Standards of Beauty

    Gillian Rhodes;Sakiko Yoshikawa;Alison Clark;Kieran Lee

  • Do facial averageness and symmetry signal health

    Gillian Rhodes;Leslie A. Zebrowitz;Alison Clark;S. Michael Kalick

  • Religion and morality.

    Ryan McKay;Harvey Whitehouse

  • Wrath of God: religious primes and punishment

    Ryan McKay;Charles Efferson;Harvey Whitehouse;Ernst Fehr

  • The evolution of extreme cooperation via shared dysphoric experiences

    Harvey Whitehouse;Jonathan Jong;Michael D. Buhrmester;Ángel Gómez

  • Schizophrenia and Monothematic Delusions

    Max Coltheart;Robyn Langdon;Ryan McKay

  • Jumping to Conclusions About the Beads Task? A Meta-analysis of Delusional Ideation and Data-Gathering.

    Robert Malcolm Ross;Ryan McKay;Max Coltheart;Robyn Langdon

  • Global evidence of extreme intuitive moral prejudice against atheists

    Will M. Gervais;Dimitris Xygalatas;Dimitris Xygalatas;Ryan T. Mckay;Michiel Van Elk

  • COVID-19-related anxiety predicts somatic symptoms in the UK population.

    Mark Shevlin;Emma Nolan;Marcin Owczarek;Orla McBride

  • “Sleights of mind”: Delusions, defences, and self-deception

    Ryan McKay;Robyn Langdon;Max Coltheart

  • The Illusion of Moral Superiority.

    Ben M Tappin;Ryan T McKay

  • Paranoia, persecutory delusions and attributional biases.

    Ryan McKay;Robyn Langdon;Max Coltheart

  • Measurement invariance of the Patient Health Questionnaire (PHQ-9) and Generalized Anxiety Disorder scale (GAD-7) across four European countries during the COVID-19 pandemic

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  • Refuting the myth of a 'tsunami' of mental ill-health in populations affected by COVID-19: evidence that response to the pandemic is heterogeneous, not homogeneous.

    Mark Shevlin;Sarah Butter;Orla McBride;Jamie Murphy

  • Need for closure, jumping to conclusions, and decisiveness in delusion-prone individuals.

    Ryan McKay;Robyn Langdon;Max Coltheart

  • Pandemic buying: Testing a psychological model of over-purchasing and panic buying using data from the United Kingdom and the Republic of Ireland during the early phase of the COVID-19 pandemic.

    Richard P Bentall;Alex Lloyd;Kate Bennett;Ryan McKay

  • The subtleties of error management

    Ryan McKay;Ryan McKay;Charles Efferson

  • The heart trumps the head: Desirability bias in political belief revision.

    Ben M. Tappin;Leslie van der Leer;Ryan T. McKay

Frequent Co-Authors

Mark Shevlin
Mark Shevlin University of Ulster
Orla McBride
Orla McBride University of Ulster
Richard P. Bentall
Richard P. Bentall University of Sheffield
Liat Levita
Liat Levita University of Sussex
Kate M. Bennett
Kate M. Bennett University of Liverpool
Philip Hyland
Philip Hyland National University of Ireland, Maynooth
Max Coltheart
Max Coltheart Macquarie University
Robyn Langdon
Robyn Langdon Macquarie University
Thanos Karatzias
Thanos Karatzias Edinburgh Napier University
Harvey Whitehouse
Harvey Whitehouse University of Oxford

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