Joel Michell

4.6k total citations · 1 hit paper
53 papers, 2.2k citations indexed

About

Joel Michell is a scholar working on General Psychology, History and Philosophy of Science and Theoretical Computer Science. According to data from OpenAlex, Joel Michell has authored 53 papers receiving a total of 2.2k indexed citations (citations by other indexed papers that have themselves been cited), including 23 papers in General Psychology, 22 papers in History and Philosophy of Science and 7 papers in Theoretical Computer Science. Recurrent topics in Joel Michell's work include Academic and Historical Perspectives in Psychology (23 papers), Philosophy and History of Science (22 papers) and History and Theory of Mathematics (7 papers). Joel Michell is often cited by papers focused on Academic and Historical Perspectives in Psychology (23 papers), Philosophy and History of Science (22 papers) and History and Theory of Mathematics (7 papers). Joel Michell collaborates with scholars based in Australia. Joel Michell's co-authors include Philip Bell, Philip Bell, Brian K. Kennedy and Henning Cammann and has published in prestigious journals such as Psychological Bulletin, Frontiers in Psychology and International Journal of Psychophysiology.

In The Last Decade

Joel Michell

51 papers receiving 1.9k citations

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Name	h						Papers	Cites
Joel Michell Australia	24	601	522	504	428	279	53	2.2k
Richard A. Griggs United States	24	303 0.5×	323 0.6×	315 0.6×	141 0.3×	131 0.5×	121	2.2k
Jan Smedslund Norway	23	584 1.0×	404 0.8×	239 0.5×	165 0.4×	70 0.3×	81	2.2k
Donald Laming United Kingdom	27	309 0.5×	552 1.1×	64 0.1×	73 0.2×	216 0.8×	67	3.0k
Brian D. Haig New Zealand	17	186 0.3×	265 0.5×	65 0.1×	110 0.3×	125 0.4×	63	1.3k
Jaap van Heerden Netherlands	9	464 0.8×	682 1.3×	57 0.1×	51 0.1×	345 1.2×	19	2.3k
Eugène United States	6	310 0.5×	483 0.9×	64 0.1×	70 0.2×	141 0.5×	22	2.2k
Gary Hatfield United States	21	253 0.4×	652 1.2×	139 0.3×	641 1.5×	29 0.1×	78	2.3k
Michael E. Doherty United States	19	235 0.4×	210 0.4×	50 0.1×	224 0.5×	360 1.3×	62	2.1k
Willis F. Overton United States	30	628 1.0×	565 1.1×	50 0.1×	73 0.2×	81 0.3×	94	2.8k
Stephen E. Newstead United Kingdom	27	411 0.7×	379 0.7×	38 0.1×	102 0.2×	132 0.5×	83	3.1k

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Michell, Joel. (2025). To psychometrics, from thermometry. Theory & Psychology. 35(5). 537–554.

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Michell, Joel. (2021). “The art of imposing measurement upon the mind”: Sir Francis Galton and the genesis of the psychometric paradigm. Theory & Psychology. 32(3). 375–400. 12 indexed citations

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Michell, Joel. (2021). Denying Descartes and wary of Wittgenstein: Response to Franz. Theory & Psychology. 32(1). 151–157. 4 indexed citations

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Michell, Joel. (2017). On substandard substantive theory and axing axioms of measurement: A response to Humphry. Theory & Psychology. 27(3). 419–425. 7 indexed citations

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Michell, Joel. (2012). “The constantly recurring argument”: Inferring quantity from order. Theory & Psychology. 22(3). 255–271. 30 indexed citations

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Michell, Joel. (2012). Alfred Binet and the concept of heterogeneous orders. Frontiers in Psychology. 3. 261–261. 32 indexed citations

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Michell, Joel. (2008). The psychometricians' fallacy: Too clever by half?. British Journal of Mathematical and Statistical Psychology. 62(1). 41–55. 47 indexed citations

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Michell, Joel. (2006). Psychophysics, intensive magnitudes, and the psychometricians’ fallacy. Studies in History and Philosophy of Science Part C Studies in History and Philosophy of Biological and Biomedical Sciences. 37(3). 414–432. 19 indexed citations

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Michell, Joel. (2005). The Meaning of the Quantitative Imperative. Theory & Psychology. 15(2). 257–263. 14 indexed citations

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Michell, Joel. (2005). The logic of measurement: A realist overview. Measurement. 38(4). 285–294. 78 indexed citations

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Michell, Joel. (2003). Pragmatism, Positivism and the Quantitative Imperative. Theory & Psychology. 13(1). 45–52. 22 indexed citations

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Michell, Joel. (2003). Epistemology of Measurement: The Relevance of its History for Quantification in the Social Sciences. Social Science Information. 42(4). 515–534. 11 indexed citations

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Michell, Joel. (2001). Teaching and misteaching measurement in psychology. Australian Psychologist. 36(3). 211–218. 27 indexed citations

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Bell, Philip, et al.. (2001). Evaluating, Doing and Writing Research in Psychology. 7 indexed citations

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Michell, Joel. (2000). Normal Science, Pathological Science and Psychometrics. Theory & Psychology. 10(5). 639–667. 176 indexed citations

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Michell, Joel, et al.. (1998). 299 Dynamic electrocardiorespirography with standardised psychic load: New possibilities for prevention and rehabilitation. International Journal of Psychophysiology. 30(1-2). 117–117. 1 indexed citations

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Michell, Joel. (1997). Quantitative science and the definition of measurement in psychology. British Journal of Psychology. 88(3). 355–383. 272 indexed citations

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Michell, Joel. (1994). Measuring Dimensions of Belief by Unidimensional Unfolding. Journal of Mathematical Psychology. 38(2). 244–273. 31 indexed citations

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Michell, Joel. (1993). Numbers, ratios, and structural relations. Australasian Journal of Philosophy. 71(3). 325–332. 8 indexed citations

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Michell, Joel. (1986). Measurement scales and statistics: A clash of paradigms.. Psychological Bulletin. 100(3). 398–407. 8 indexed citations

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