World's Best Scientists 2026 revealed!
Stephen Scott

Stephen Scott

D-Index & Metrics

Medicine

D-Index
102
Citations
34936
World Ranking
7715
National Ranking
296

Neuroscience

D-Index
96
Citations
30271
World Ranking
876
National Ranking
46

Stephen Scott publication distribution in Neuroscience in 2026

The chart shows the distribution of publications by all Research.com ranked scientists in the field of Neuroscience in 2026. The highlighted bar marks where Stephen Scott sits on this spectrum.

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38 publications 887+

This scientist: 493 publications — 94th percentile

94% of scientists in this discipline score the same or lower.

The last bar groups every scientist with 887 publications or more.

Stephen Scott D-index placement in Neuroscience in 2026

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

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30 D-Index 163+

This scientist: 96 D-Index — 91st percentile

91% of scientists in this discipline score the same or lower.

The last bar groups every scientist with 163 D-Index or more.

Overview

Stephen Scott is affiliated with Queen's University in Canada and has a focused research portfolio in psychology and social sciences, particularly within the domains of clinical psychology, education, and cognitive neuroscience.

Their research spans multiple subfields including clinical psychology, education, cognitive neuroscience, general health professions, and public health, environmental and occupational health. The main topics addressed in their work include child and adolescent psychosocial and emotional development, family and disability support research, autism spectrum disorder research, child abuse and trauma, child welfare and adoption, maternal mental health during pregnancy and postpartum, and child nutrition and feeding issues.

Recent publications authored by or involving Stephen Scott include:

  • Attachment goes to court: child protection and custody issues (2021), published in Attachment & Human Development
  • Individual Participant Data Meta-analysis: Impact of Conduct Problem Severity, Comorbid Attention-Deficit/Hyperactivity Disorder and Emotional Problems, and Maternal Depression on Parenting Program Effects (2020), published in Journal of the American Academy of Child & Adolescent Psychiatry
  • A Brief Home-Based Parenting Intervention to Reduce Behavior Problems in Young Children (2021), published in JAMA Pediatrics
  • Is positive school climate associated with better adolescent mental health? Longitudinal study of young people in England (2021), published in SSM - Mental Health
  • Multisystemic therapy versus management as usual in the treatment of adolescent antisocial behaviour (START): 5-year follow-up of a pragmatic, randomised, controlled, superiority trial (2020), published in The Lancet Psychiatry

Frequent co-authors in Stephen Scott's research include Emily Simonoff, Vicky Slonims, Andrew Pickles, Tony Charman, and Melanie Palmer.

The scientist has published extensively in several respected venues such as the Journal of the American Academy of Child & Adolescent Psychiatry, Public Health Research, Journal of Child Psychology and Psychiatry, Journal of Autism and Developmental Disorders, and Health Technology Assessment.

Best Publications

  • Comparing the Strengths and Difficulties Questionnaire and the Child Behavior Checklist: Is Small Beautiful?

    Robert Goodman;Stephen Scott

  • Financial cost of social exclusion: follow up study of antisocial children into adulthood.

    Stephen Scott;Martin Knapp;Juliet Henderson;Barbara Maughan

  • Optimal feedback control and the neural basis of volitional motor control

    Stephen H. Scott

  • Rutter's Child and Adolescent Psychiatry

    Anita Thapar;Daniel S Pine;James F Leckman;Stephen Scott

  • Multicentre controlled trial of parenting groups for childhood antisocial behaviour in clinical practice

    Stephen Scott;Quentin Spender;Moira Doolan;Brian Jacobs

  • Internal forces of chronic running injury sites.

    Stephen H. Scott;David A. Winter

  • Collateral damage: the impact on outcomes from cancer surgery of the COVID-19 pandemic.

    A. Sud;M.E. Jones;J. Broggio;C. Loveday

  • Reaching Movements With Similar Hand Paths But Different Arm Orientations. I. Activity of Individual Cells in Motor Cortex

    Stephen H. Scott;John F. Kalaska

  • Cortical control of reaching movements

    John F Kalaska;Stephen H Scott;Paul Cisek;Lauren E Sergio

  • Effect of delays in the 2-week-wait cancer referral pathway during the COVID-19 pandemic on cancer survival in the UK: a modelling study.

    Amit Sud;Bethany Torr;Michael E Jones;John Broggio

  • Quantitative Assessment of Limb Position Sense Following Stroke

    Sean P. Dukelow;Troy M. Herter;Kimberly D. Moore;Mary Jo Demers

  • Primary motor cortex underlies multi-joint integration for fast feedback control

    J. Andrew Pruszynski;Isaac Kurtzer;Isaac Kurtzer;Joseph Y. Nashed;Mohsen Omrani

  • Apparatus for measuring and perturbing shoulder and elbow joint positions and torques during reaching.

    Stephen H. Scott

  • The computational and neural basis of voluntary motor control and planning

    Stephen H. Scott

  • Optimal feedback control and the long-latency stretch response

    J. Andrew Pruszynski;J. Andrew Pruszynski;Stephen H. Scott

  • Assessment of Upper-Limb Sensorimotor Function of Subacute Stroke Patients Using Visually Guided Reaching

    Angela M. Coderre;Amr Abou Zeid;Sean P. Dukelow;Melanie J. Demmer

  • Long-latency reflexes of the human arm reflect an internal model of limb dynamics.

    Isaac L. Kurtzer;J. Andrew Pruszynski;Stephen H. Scott

  • Reaching movements with similar hand paths but different arm orientations. II. Activity of individual cells in dorsal premotor cortex and parietal area 5.

    Stephen H. Scott;Lauren E. Sergio;John F. Kalaska

  • A Functional Taxonomy of Bottom-Up Sensory Feedback Processing for Motor Actions

    Stephen H. Scott

  • Economic cost of severe antisocial behaviour in children--and who pays it.

    Renee Romeo;Martin Knapp;Stephen Scott

  • TALOCRURAL AND TALOCALCANEAL JOINT KINEMATICS AND KINETICS DURING THE STANCE PHASE OF WALKING

    Stephen H. Scott;David A. Winter

Frequent Co-Authors

Sean P. Dukelow
Sean P. Dukelow University of Calgary
Robert Goodman
Robert Goodman King's College London
Diana Elbourne
Diana Elbourne London School of Hygiene & Tropical Medicine
Eric Taylor
Eric Taylor King's College London
Chris Bonell
Chris Bonell London School of Hygiene & Tropical Medicine
James F. Leckman
James F. Leckman Yale University
Margaret J. Snowling
Margaret J. Snowling University of Oxford
Adam Fletcher
Adam Fletcher Cardiff University
Daniel S. Pine
Daniel S. Pine National Institutes of Health
Anita Thapar
Anita Thapar Cardiff University

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