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D-Index
42
Citations
10908
World Ranking
8210
National Ranking
491

Tony J. Prescott publication distribution in Computer Science in 2026

The chart shows the distribution of publications by all Research.com ranked scientists in the field of Computer Science in 2026. The highlighted bar marks where Tony J. Prescott sits on this spectrum.

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32 publications 991+

This scientist: 246 publications — 61st percentile

61% of scientists in this discipline score the same or lower.

The last bar groups every scientist with 991 publications or more.

Tony J. Prescott D-index placement in Computer Science in 2026

The chart shows the D-index (discipline H-index) distribution of Computer Science scientists ranked by Research.com in 2026. The highlighted bar marks where Tony J. Prescott sits on this spectrum.

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This scientist: 42 D-Index — 43rd percentile

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

The last bar groups every scientist with 131 D-Index or more.

Overview

Tony J. Prescott is affiliated with the University of Sheffield in the United Kingdom. Their research spans multiple fields including Neuroscience, Computer Science, and Psychology. Within these areas, they have contributed notably to subfields such as Cognitive Neuroscience, Social Psychology, Artificial Intelligence, Control and Systems Engineering, and Cellular and Molecular Neuroscience.

Their work focuses on key topics including neural dynamics and brain function, social robot interaction and human-robot interaction (HRI), memory and neural mechanisms, artificial intelligence in service interactions, EEG and brain-computer interfaces, death anxiety and social exclusion, as well as ethics and social impacts of AI.

Recent papers authored or co-authored by Tony J. Prescott include:

  • "Are friends electric? The benefits and risks of human-robot relationships", 2020, published in iScience
  • "A Systematic Review of Attitudes, Anxiety, Acceptance, and Trust Towards Social Robots", 2020, published in International Journal of Social Robotics
  • "Socially Assistive Robots as Mental Health Interventions for Children: A Scoping Review", 2020, published in International Journal of Social Robotics
  • "User perspectives on emotionally aligned social robots for older adults and persons living with dementia", 2022, published in Journal of Rehabilitation and Assistive Technologies Engineering
  • "Scaffolding layered control architectures through constraint closure: insights into brain evolution and development", 2021, published in Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society B Biological Sciences

Frequent publication venues for their research include:

  • International Journal of Social Robotics
  • Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society B Biological Sciences
  • Science Robotics
  • White Rose Research Online (University of Leeds, The University of Sheffield, University of York)
  • iScience

Tony J. Prescott has collaborated regularly with several co-authors including Julie M. Robillard, Alejandro Jiménez-Rodríguez, Marina Sardà Gou, Jill A. Dosso, and François Michaud.

In addition to journal publications, their work extends to books published by Springer Science+Business Media. They contributed to the titles "Biomimetic and Biohybrid Systems" published in 2020 and 2022.

Best Publications

  • The basal ganglia: a vertebrate solution to the selection problem?

    P. Redgrave;T.J. Prescott;K. Gurney

  • A computational model of action selection in the basal ganglia. I. A new functional anatomy.

    Kevin N. Gurney;Tony J. Prescott;Peter Redgrave

  • The brainstem reticular formation is a small-world, not scale-free, network

    M.D Humphries;K Gurney;T.J Prescott

  • Is the short-latency dopamine response too short to signal reward error?

    Peter Redgrave;Tony J. Prescott;Kevin Gurney

  • A computational model of action selection in the basal ganglia. II. Analysis and simulation of behaviour.

    Kevin N. Gurney;Tony J. Prescott;Peter Redgrave

  • The state of the art in biomimetics.

    Nathan F. Lepora;Paul F. M. J. Verschure;Tony J. Prescott

  • A Systematic Review of Attitudes, Anxiety, Acceptance, and Trust Towards Social Robots

    Stanislava Naneva;Marina Sarda Gou;Thomas L. Webb;Tony J. Prescott

  • Feedback control in active sensing: rat exploratory whisking is modulated by environmental contact

    Ben Mitchinson;Chris J Martin;Robyn A Grant;Tony J Prescott

  • Layered control architectures in robots and vertebrates

    Tony J. Prescott;Peter Redgrave;Kevin Gurney

  • Active touch sensing

    Tony J. Prescott;Mathew E. Diamond;Alan M. Wing

  • A robot model of the basal ganglia: Behavior and intrinsic processing

    Tony J. Prescott;Fernando M. Montes González;Kevin Gurney;Mark D. Humphries

  • Computational models of the basal ganglia: from robots to membranes.

    Kevin Gurney;Tony J. Prescott;Jeffery R. Wickens;Peter Redgrave

  • Whisking with robots

    T.J. Prescott;M.J. Pearson;B. Mitchinson;J.C.W. Sullivan

  • Biomimetic vibrissal sensing for robots

    Martin J. Pearson;Ben Mitchinson;J. Charles Sullivan;Anthony G. Pipe

  • Whiskerbot: A Robotic Active Touch System Modeled on the Rat Whisker Sensory System

    Martin J. Pearson;Anthony G. Pipe;Chris Melhuish;Ben Mitchinson

  • Response times for visually guided saccades in persons with Parkinson's disease: A meta-analytic review

    Jonathan M. Chambers;Tony J. Prescott

  • Connectionist Simulation of Attitude Learning: Asymmetries in the Acquisition of Positive and Negative Evaluations

    J. Richard Eiser;Russell H. Fazio;Tom Stafford;Tony J. Prescott

  • Tactile Discrimination Using Active Whisker Sensors

    J. C. Sullivan;B. Mitchinson;M. J. Pearson;M. Evans

  • Kinematic Invariants: an Efficient And Flexible Approach For Velocity Model Building

    Patrice Guillaume;Gilles Lambaré;Olivier Leblanc;Pierre Mitouard

  • Active contour following to explore object shape with robot touch

    U. Martinez-Hernandez;T. J. Dodd;L. Natale;G. Metta

  • Spatial representation for navigation in animats

    Tony J. Prescott

Frequent Co-Authors

Kevin Gurney
Kevin Gurney University of Sheffield
Paul F. M. J. Verschure
Paul F. M. J. Verschure Institució Catalana de Recerca i Estudis Avançats
Peter Redgrave
Peter Redgrave University of Sheffield
Anthony G. Pipe
Anthony G. Pipe University of the West of England
Roger K. Moore
Roger K. Moore University of Sheffield
Chris Melhuish
Chris Melhuish University of the West of England
Anil K. Seth
Anil K. Seth University of Sussex
Vanessa Evers
Vanessa Evers Nanyang Technological University
Giorgio Metta
Giorgio Metta Italian Institute of Technology
John Porrill
John Porrill University of Sheffield

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