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Discipline name D-Index World Ranking Current World Ranking National Ranking Current National Ranking Publications Citations
Social Sciences and Humanities 55 1989 1801 146 137 173 16054

Scott D. Brown publications per year

The chart shows the history of publications by Scott D. Brown between 2000 and 2025, highlighting the no. of papers published in each year and offering an overview of the publication velocity of this scholar. Scott D. Brown published across 26 years, from 2000 to 2025, averaging 9.8 papers a year. Output peaked at 19 publications in 2024. 35 of the 254 publications appeared in the last two years.

No. of publications
5 10 15
Bar chart. Horizontal axis: year, 2000 to 2025. Vertical axis: number of publications, 0 to 19. Peak 19 publications in 2024. 2000: 3 publications 2001: 0 publications 2002: 5 publications 2003: 4 publications 2004: 4 publications 2005: 5 publications 2006: 4 publications 2007: 3 publications 2008: 3 publications 2009: 11 publications 2010: 8 publications 2011: 11 publications 2012: 18 publications 2013: 12 publications 2014: 13 publications 2015: 10 publications 2016: 8 publications 2017: 11 publications 2018: 15 publications 2019: 9 publications 2020: 11 publications 2021: 18 publications 2022: 16 publications 2023: 17 publications 2024: 19 publications 2025: 16 publications
2000 2025

254 publications in total across all disciplines

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Scott D. Brown: publications per year, 2000 to 2025
Year Publications
2000 3
2001 0
2002 5
2003 4
2004 4
2005 5
2006 4
2007 3
2008 3
2009 11
2010 8
2011 11
2012 18
2013 12
2014 13
2015 10
2016 8
2017 11
2018 15
2019 9
2020 11
2021 18
2022 16
2023 17
2024 19
2025 16
Total 254
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Scott D. Brown 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 Scott D. Brown sits on this spectrum.

No. of scientists
100 200 300 400
Bar chart with 54 bars. Horizontal axis: publications, 44–53 to 570+. Vertical axis: number of scientists, 0 to 474. Most scientists, 474, have 114–123 publications. The last bar groups every scientist with 570 publications or more. The highlighted bar, 164–173 publications, is where this scientist sits. 44–53 publications: 28 scientists 54–63 publications: 61 scientists 64–73 publications: 161 scientists 74–83 publications: 225 scientists 84–93 publications: 301 scientists 94–103 publications: 390 scientists 104–113 publications: 406 scientists 114–123 publications: 474 scientists 124–133 publications: 453 scientists 134–143 publications: 434 scientists 144–153 publications: 407 scientists 154–163 publications: 411 scientists 164–173 publications: 391 scientists 174–183 publications: 313 scientists 184–193 publications: 319 scientists 194–203 publications: 304 scientists 204–213 publications: 285 scientists 214–223 publications: 246 scientists 224–233 publications: 213 scientists 234–243 publications: 170 scientists 244–253 publications: 167 scientists 254–263 publications: 162 scientists 264–273 publications: 138 scientists 274–283 publications: 138 scientists 284–293 publications: 113 scientists 294–303 publications: 106 scientists 304–313 publications: 95 scientists 314–323 publications: 101 scientists 324–333 publications: 81 scientists 334–343 publications: 69 scientists 344–353 publications: 56 scientists 354–363 publications: 36 scientists 364–373 publications: 42 scientists 374–383 publications: 41 scientists 384–393 publications: 44 scientists 394–403 publications: 27 scientists 404–413 publications: 30 scientists 414–423 publications: 20 scientists 424–433 publications: 29 scientists 434–443 publications: 29 scientists 444–453 publications: 25 scientists 454–463 publications: 19 scientists 464–473 publications: 21 scientists 474–483 publications: 11 scientists 484–493 publications: 17 scientists 494–503 publications: 7 scientists 504–513 publications: 6 scientists 514–523 publications: 12 scientists 524–533 publications: 10 scientists 534–543 publications: 7 scientists 544–553 publications: 6 scientists 554–563 publications: 12 scientists 564–569 publications: 8 scientists 570+ publications: 100 scientists
44–53 publications 570+

This scientist: 173 publications — 53rd percentile

53% of scientists in this discipline score the same or lower.

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

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Number of Social Sciences and Humanities scientists by publication count, Research.com 2026 ranking edition. Based on 7,777 ranked scientists.
Publications Scientists This scientist
44–53 28
54–63 61
64–73 161
74–83 225
84–93 301
94–103 390
104–113 406
114–123 474
124–133 453
134–143 434
144–153 407
154–163 411
164–173 391 173
174–183 313
184–193 319
194–203 304
204–213 285
214–223 246
224–233 213
234–243 170
244–253 167
254–263 162
264–273 138
274–283 138
284–293 113
294–303 106
304–313 95
314–323 101
324–333 81
334–343 69
344–353 56
354–363 36
364–373 42
374–383 41
384–393 44
394–403 27
404–413 30
414–423 20
424–433 29
434–443 29
444–453 25
454–463 19
464–473 21
474–483 11
484–493 17
494–503 7
504–513 6
514–523 12
524–533 10
534–543 7
544–553 6
554–563 12
564–569 8
570+ 100
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Scott D. Brown 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 Scott D. Brown sits on this spectrum.

No. of scientists
100 200 300
Bar chart with 71 bars. Horizontal axis: D-Index, 30 to 100+. Vertical axis: number of scientists, 0 to 313. Most scientists, 313, have 42 D-Index. The last bar groups every scientist with 100 D-Index or more. The highlighted bar, 55 D-Index, is where this scientist sits. 30 D-Index: 177 scientists 31 D-Index: 210 scientists 32 D-Index: 222 scientists 33 D-Index: 188 scientists 34 D-Index: 181 scientists 35 D-Index: 243 scientists 36 D-Index: 261 scientists 37 D-Index: 272 scientists 38 D-Index: 278 scientists 39 D-Index: 300 scientists 40 D-Index: 297 scientists 41 D-Index: 308 scientists 42 D-Index: 313 scientists 43 D-Index: 300 scientists 44 D-Index: 269 scientists 45 D-Index: 260 scientists 46 D-Index: 228 scientists 47 D-Index: 251 scientists 48 D-Index: 203 scientists 49 D-Index: 186 scientists 50 D-Index: 187 scientists 51 D-Index: 166 scientists 52 D-Index: 138 scientists 53 D-Index: 141 scientists 54 D-Index: 131 scientists 55 D-Index: 137 scientists 56 D-Index: 109 scientists 57 D-Index: 129 scientists 58 D-Index: 95 scientists 59 D-Index: 105 scientists 60 D-Index: 106 scientists 61 D-Index: 86 scientists 62 D-Index: 94 scientists 63 D-Index: 77 scientists 64 D-Index: 79 scientists 65 D-Index: 59 scientists 66 D-Index: 68 scientists 67 D-Index: 51 scientists 68 D-Index: 49 scientists 69 D-Index: 40 scientists 70 D-Index: 43 scientists 71 D-Index: 40 scientists 72 D-Index: 50 scientists 73 D-Index: 46 scientists 74 D-Index: 43 scientists 75 D-Index: 45 scientists 76 D-Index: 45 scientists 77 D-Index: 30 scientists 78 D-Index: 25 scientists 79 D-Index: 31 scientists 80 D-Index: 29 scientists 81 D-Index: 18 scientists 82 D-Index: 21 scientists 83 D-Index: 26 scientists 84 D-Index: 15 scientists 85 D-Index: 15 scientists 86 D-Index: 19 scientists 87 D-Index: 19 scientists 88 D-Index: 12 scientists 89 D-Index: 7 scientists 90 D-Index: 19 scientists 91 D-Index: 20 scientists 92 D-Index: 13 scientists 93 D-Index: 9 scientists 94 D-Index: 13 scientists 95 D-Index: 8 scientists 96 D-Index: 7 scientists 97 D-Index: 6 scientists 98 D-Index: 6 scientists 99 D-Index: 6 scientists 100+ D-Index: 97 scientists
30 D-Index 100+

This scientist: 55 D-Index — 75th percentile

75% of scientists in this discipline score the same or lower.

The last bar groups every scientist with 100 D-Index or more.

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Number of Social Sciences and Humanities scientists by D-index, Research.com 2026 ranking edition. Based on 7,777 ranked scientists.
D-Index Scientists This scientist
30 177
31 210
32 222
33 188
34 181
35 243
36 261
37 272
38 278
39 300
40 297
41 308
42 313
43 300
44 269
45 260
46 228
47 251
48 203
49 186
50 187
51 166
52 138
53 141
54 131
55 137 55
56 109
57 129
58 95
59 105
60 106
61 86
62 94
63 77
64 79
65 59
66 68
67 51
68 49
69 40
70 43
71 40
72 50
73 46
74 43
75 45
76 45
77 30
78 25
79 31
80 29
81 18
82 21
83 26
84 15
85 15
86 19
87 19
88 12
89 7
90 19
91 20
92 13
93 9
94 13
95 8
96 7
97 6
98 6
99 6
100+ 97
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Overview

Scott D. Brown is affiliated with the University of Newcastle Australia in Australia. Their research intersects multiple disciplines with a primary focus on cognitive processes, decision-making, and human interaction with automation. The scientist's work explores diverse aspects of psychology and systems engineering, spanning topics from neural and behavioral psychology studies to mental health and environmental communication.

Brown has contributed to several prominent research areas, including:

  • Cognitive Neuroscience
  • Control and Systems Engineering
  • Social Psychology
  • General Decision Sciences
  • General Health Professions

The main topics covered in their publications reflect a broad engagement with both theoretical and applied aspects:

  • Neural and Behavioral Psychology Studies
  • Decision-Making and Behavioral Economics
  • Human-Automation Interaction and Safety
  • Mental Health Research Topics
  • Environmental Education and Sustainability
  • Climate Change Communication and Perception
  • Patient-Provider Communication in Healthcare

The scientist has authored and co-authored papers published in notable venues, frequently contributing to:

  • arXiv (Cornell University)
  • In Practice
  • Psychonomic Bulletin & Review
  • Psychological Methods
  • Behavior Research Methods

Several recent papers showcase the scope and focus of Brown's research, such as:

  • How is multi-tasking different from increased difficulty? (2020, Psychonomic Bulletin & Review)
  • The Effects of Increased Visual Information on Cognitive Workload in a Helicopter Simulator (2020, Human Factors The Journal of the Human Factors and Ergonomics Society)
  • Time-evolving psychological processes over repeated decisions. (2022, Psychological Review)
  • Socioeconomic factors and parents' preferences for internet- and mobile-based parenting interventions to prevent youth mental health problems: A discrete choice experiment (2022, Internet Interventions)
  • Unraveling the Physiological Correlates of Mental Workload Variations in Tracking and Collision Prediction Tasks (2022, IEEE Transactions on Neural Systems and Rehabilitation Engineering)

Frequent collaborators in Brown's work include:

  • Guy E. Hawkins
  • Ami Eidels
  • David Gunawan
  • Robert Kohn
  • Minh-Ngoc Tran

Best Publications

  • Diffusion Decision Model: Current Issues and History

    Roger Ratcliff;Philip L. Smith;Scott D. Brown;Gail McKoon

  • The Simplest Complete Model of Choice Response Time: Linear Ballistic Accumulation.

    Scott D. Brown;Andrew Heathcote

  • The power law repealed: the case for an exponential law of practice.

    Andrew Heathcote;Scott Brown;D. J. K. Mewhort

  • Striatum and pre-SMA facilitate decision-making under time pressure

    Birte U. Forstmann;Gilles Dutilh;Scott Brown;Jane Neumann

  • A simple introduction to Markov Chain Monte-Carlo sampling.

    Don van Ravenzwaaij;Don van Ravenzwaaij;Pete Cassey;Scott D. Brown

  • Cortico-striatal connections predict control over speed and accuracy in perceptual decision making

    Birte U. Forstmann;Alfred Anwander;Andreas Schäfer;Jane Neumann

  • On the linear relation between the mean and the standard deviation of a response time distribution.

    Eric-Jan Wagenmakers;Scott Brown

  • Revisiting the evidence for collapsing boundaries and urgency signals in perceptual decision-making

    Guy E. Hawkins;Birte U. Forstmann;Eric-Jan Wagenmakers;Roger Ratcliff

  • A method for efficiently sampling from distributions with correlated dimensions

    Brandon M. Turner;Per B. Sederberg;Scott D. Brown;Mark Steyvers

  • Not Just for Consumers Context Effects Are Fundamental to Decision Making

    Jennifer S. Trueblood;Scott D. Brown;Andrew Heathcote;Jerome R. Busemeyer

  • The multiattribute linear ballistic accumulator model of context effects in multialternative choice.

    Jennifer S. Trueblood;Scott D. Brown;Andrew Heathcote

  • Quantile maximum likelihood estimation of response time distributions.

    A. Heathcote;Scott David Brown;D. J. K. Mewhort

  • A ballistic model of choice response time.

    Scott Brown;Andrew Heathcote

  • The speed-accuracy tradeoff in the elderly brain: a structural model-based approach.

    Birte U. Forstmann;Marc Tittgemeyer;Eric-Jan Wagenmakers;Jan Derrfuss

  • The hare and the tortoise: emphasizing speed can change the evidence used to make decisions.

    Babette Rae;Andrew Heathcote;Chris Donkin;Lee Averell

  • Domain general mechanisms of perceptual decision making in human cortex.

    Tiffany C. Ho;Scott Brown;John T. Serences

  • Diffusion versus linear ballistic accumulation: different models but the same conclusions about psychological processes?

    Chris Donkin;Scott Brown;Andrew Heathcote;Eric-Jan Wagenmakers

  • A purely confirmatory replication study of structural brain-behavior correlations

    Wouter Boekel;Eric-Jan Wagenmakers;Luam Belay;Josine Verhagen

  • A Bayesian framework for simultaneously modeling neural and behavioral data

    Brandon M. Turner;Birte U. Forstmann;Eric-Jan Wagenmakers;Scott D. Brown

  • Neural Correlates of Trial-to-Trial Fluctuations in Response Caution

    L. van Maanen;S.D. Brown;T. Eichele;E.-J. Wagenmakers

  • Fitting distributions using maximum likelihood: methods and packages

    Denis Cousineau;Scott Brown;Andrew Heathcote

Frequent Co-Authors

Andrew Heathcote
Andrew Heathcote University of Newcastle Australia
Eric-Jan Wagenmakers
Eric-Jan Wagenmakers University of Amsterdam
Chris Donkin
Chris Donkin Ludwig-Maximilians-Universität München
Mark Steyvers
Mark Steyvers University of California, Irvine
Birte U. Forstmann
Birte U. Forstmann University of Amsterdam
John T. Serences
John T. Serences University of California, San Diego
Tiffany C. Ho
Tiffany C. Ho University of California, San Francisco
Frini Karayanidis
Frini Karayanidis University of Newcastle Australia
Roger Ratcliff
Roger Ratcliff The Ohio State University
Gordon D. Logan
Gordon D. Logan Vanderbilt University

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