2026 Zoltan Dienes: Psychology Researcher – H-Index, Publications & Awards

Discipline name	D-Index	World Ranking	Current World Ranking	National Ranking	Current National Ranking	Publications	Citations
Psychology	67	2559	2343	284	268	254	23623

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Psychology

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23623

Overview

Zoltan Dienes is affiliated with the University of Sussex in the United Kingdom. Their research primarily spans neuroscience, with specific focus areas in cognitive neuroscience, experimental and cognitive psychology, social psychology, psychiatry, and mental health. Additionally, their work touches on statistics, probability, and uncertainty.

The scientist's research covers key topics which include:

Pain Management and Placebo Effect
Neural and Behavioral Psychology Studies
Mental Health Research Topics
Psychosomatic Disorders and Their Treatments
Decision-Making and Behavioral Economics
Meta-analysis and Systematic Reviews
Virtual Reality Applications and Impacts

Zoltan Dienes has contributed to various peer-reviewed publications. Among recent papers are:

"Trait phenomenological control predicts experience of mirror synaesthesia and the rubber hand illusion," 2020, published in Nature Communications
"A review of applications of the Bayes factor in psychological research," 2022, Psychological Methods
"Discussion points for Bayesian inference," 2020, Nature Human Behaviour
"Raising awareness about measurement error in research on unconscious mental processes," 2021, Psychonomic Bulletin & Review
"Phenomenological control as cold control," 2020, Psychology of Consciousness Theory Research and Practice

Frequent co-authors include:

Peter Lush
Anil K. Seth
Bence Pálfi
R. B. Y. Scott
Benjamin A. Parris

Publishing activity is recurrent in several academic venues, most notably:

Peer Community In Registered Reports
Psychology of Consciousness Theory Research and Practice
Royal Society Open Science
Psychological Methods
Psychonomic Bulletin & Review

Best Publications

Redefine statistical significance

Daniel J. Benjamin;James O. Berger;Magnus Johannesson;Magnus Johannesson;Brian A. Nosek;Brian A. Nosek

2992
Citations
Using Bayes to get the most out of non-significant results

Zoltan Dienes

2206
Citations
A theory of implicit and explicit knowledge

Zoltan Dienes;Josef Perner

1266
Citations
Bayesian versus Orthodox statistics: which side are you on?

Zoltan Dienes

1132
Citations
Implicit Learning: Theoretical and Empirical Issues

Dianne C. Berry;Zoltán Dienes

1087
Citations
Implicit learning: Below the subjective threshold

Z. Dienes;Dianne Claire Berry

610
Citations
Measuring consciousness: relating behavioural and neurophysiological approaches

Anil K. Seth;Zoltán Dienes;Axel Cleeremans;Morten Overgaard

535
Citations
Understanding Psychology as a Science: An Introduction to Scientific and Statistical Inference

Zoltan P. Dienes

521
Citations
Implicit and explicit knowledge bases in artificial grammar learning.

Zoltan Dienes;Donald Broadbent;Dianne C. Berry

516
Citations
Unconscious knowledge of artificial grammars is applied strategically.

Zoltán Dienes;Gerry T.M. Altmann;Liam Kwan;Alastair Goode

489
Citations
Measuring unconscious knowledge: distinguishing structural knowledge and judgment knowledge

Zoltán Dienes;Ryan Scott

445
Citations
How Bayes factors change scientific practice

Zoltan Dienes

445
Citations
Four reasons to prefer Bayesian analyses over significance testing

Zoltan Dienes;Neil Marvin McLatchie

394
Citations
Building Up Mathematics

Zoltan Paul Dienes

382
Citations
Improving Inferences about Null Effects with Bayes Factors and Equivalence Tests

Daniël Lakens;Neil Marvin McLatchie;Peder M. Isager;Anne M. Scheel

308
Citations
On the modality independence of implicitly learned grammatical knowledge

Gerry T M Altmann;Zoltán Dienes;Alastair Goode

290
Citations
Connectionist and memory-array models of artificial grammar learning

Zoltan Dienes

284
Citations
Subjective measures of unconscious knowledge.

Zoltán Dienes

271
Citations
Gambling on the unconscious: a comparison of wagering and confidence ratings as measures of awareness in an artificial grammar task

Zoltán Dienes;Anil Seth

240
Citations
Registered Reports: Realigning incentives in scientific publishing

Christopher D. Chambers;Zoltan Dienes;Robert D. McIntosh;Pia Rotshtein

222
Citations
Transfer of implicit knowledge across domains? How implicit and how abstract?

Zoltán Dienes;Gerry Altmann

221
Citations

Frequent Co-Authors

Josef Perner University of Salzburg

Xiaolan Fu Chinese Academy of Sciences

Gerry T. M. Altmann University of Connecticut

Dianne C. Berry University of Reading

Axel Cleeremans Université Libre de Bruxelles

Gustav Kuhn Plymouth University

Timothy L. Hodgson University of Lincoln

Eric-Jan Wagenmakers University of Amsterdam

Jeffrey N. Rouder University of California, Irvine

Theodora Duka University of Sussex

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