Michael Smithson

9.2k total citations · 2 hit papers
120 papers, 5.7k citations indexed

About

Michael Smithson is a scholar working on General Decision Sciences, Sociology and Political Science and Statistics and Probability. According to data from OpenAlex, Michael Smithson has authored 120 papers receiving a total of 5.7k indexed citations (citations by other indexed papers that have themselves been cited), including 25 papers in General Decision Sciences, 23 papers in Sociology and Political Science and 21 papers in Statistics and Probability. Recurrent topics in Michael Smithson's work include Decision-Making and Behavioral Economics (25 papers), Bayesian Modeling and Causal Inference (11 papers) and Social and Intergroup Psychology (10 papers). Michael Smithson is often cited by papers focused on Decision-Making and Behavioral Economics (25 papers), Bayesian Modeling and Causal Inference (11 papers) and Social and Intergroup Psychology (10 papers). Michael Smithson collaborates with scholars based in Australia, United States and United Kingdom. Michael Smithson's co-authors include Jay Verkuilen, Yiyun Shou, Stephen B. Broomell, David V. Budescu, Han‐Hui Por, Ben R. Newell, Edgar C. Merkle, Stephan Lewandowsky, James S. Risbey and Margaret Foddy and has published in prestigious journals such as PLoS ONE, Nature Climate Change and Personality and Individual Differences.

In The Last Decade

Michael Smithson

115 papers receiving 5.4k citations

Hit Papers

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What are hit papers?

Hit papers significantly outperform the citation benchmark for their cohort. A paper qualifies if it has ≥500 total citations, achieves ≥1.5× the top-1% citation threshold for papers in the same subfield and year (this is the minimum needed to enter the top 1%, not the average within it), or reaches the top citation threshold in at least one of its specific research topics.

Statistics with Confidence

2000 1.2k citations Michael Smithson profile →
A better lemon squeezer? Maximum-likelihood regression with beta-distributed dependent variables.

2006 1.1k citations Michael Smithson, Jay Verkuilen profile →

Peers — A (Enhanced Table)

Peers by citation overlap · career bar shows stage (early→late) cites · hero ref

Name	h						Papers	Cites
Michael Smithson Australia	30	1.1k	553	534	438	434	120	5.7k
Robert A. Stine United States	28	702 0.6×	623 1.1×	575 1.1×	415 0.9×	504 1.2×	69	5.5k
Joseph M. Hilbe United States	27	1.1k 1.0×	756 1.4×	422 0.8×	207 0.5×	532 1.2×	95	8.6k
John H. Schuenemeyer United States	18	1.2k 1.0×	436 0.8×	496 0.9×	238 0.5×	296 0.7×	78	7.4k
Esteban Walker United States	30	523 0.5×	804 1.5×	331 0.6×	466 1.1×	484 1.1×	67	11.2k
William R. Dillon United States	33	975 0.9×	440 0.8×	528 1.0×	439 1.0×	294 0.7×	98	5.8k
Friedrich Leisch Austria	42	1.2k 1.1×	656 1.2×	356 0.7×	249 0.6×	293 0.7×	176	7.6k
Brian Francis United Kingdom	44	1.5k 1.3×	1.6k 2.9×	340 0.6×	373 0.9×	764 1.8×	233	10.5k
Jay Verkuilen United States	28	1.4k 1.3×	300 0.5×	405 0.8×	161 0.4×	422 1.0×	67	4.7k
Michael Greenacre Spain	39	1000 0.9×	706 1.3×	572 1.1×	248 0.6×	177 0.4×	132	10.3k
Bruce Levin United States	4	551 0.5×	511 0.9×	604 1.1×	209 0.5×	844 1.9×	5	9.6k

Countries citing papers authored by Michael Smithson

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Co-authorship network of co-authors of Michael Smithson

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All Works

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Chen, Junwen, et al.. (2024). School Refusal Behaviors: The Roles of Adolescent and Parental Factors. Behavior Modification. 48(5-6). 561–580. 1 indexed citations

Kidd, Evan, Joanne Arciuli, Morten H. Christiansen, & Michael Smithson. (2023). The sources and consequences of individual differences in statistical learning for language development. Cognitive Development. 66. 101335–101335. 5 indexed citations

Shou, Yiyun, Michael Smithson, Amelia Gulliver, et al.. (2022). Risk tolerance and changes in coronavirus disease (COVID) related health behaviors: A longitudinal study.. Health Psychology. 41(8). 507–518. 6 indexed citations

Dawel, Amy, Yiyun Shou, Amelia Gulliver, et al.. (2021). Cause or symptom? A longitudinal test of bidirectional relationships between emotion regulation strategies and mental health symptoms.. Emotion. 21(7). 1511–1521. 42 indexed citations

Alzaatreh, Ayman, Mohammad Al‐Jarrah, Michael Smithson, et al.. (2020). Truncated Family of Distributions with Applications to Time and Cost to Start a Business. Methodology And Computing In Applied Probability. 23(1). 5–27. 11 indexed citations

Brown, Rhonda, et al.. (2017). Can body temperature dysregulation explain the co-occurrence between overweight/obesity, sleep impairment, late-night eating, and a sedentary lifestyle?. Eating and Weight Disorders - Studies on Anorexia Bulimia and Obesity. 22(4). 599–608. 10 indexed citations

Bell, Jason, et al.. (2016). Perceived time slows during fleeting fun or fear. Quarterly Journal of Experimental Psychology. 71(2). 562–567. 5 indexed citations

Smithson, Michael & Yiyun Shou. (2016). Moderator effects differ on alternative effect-size measures. Behavior Research Methods. 49(2). 747–757. 9 indexed citations

Pushkarskaya, Helen, Michael Smithson, Jane E. Joseph, Christine R. Corbly, & Ifat Levy. (2015). Neural Correlates of Decision-Making Under Ambiguity and Conflict. UKnowledge (University of Kentucky). 2(4). 5 indexed citations

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Pushkarskaya, Helen, Michael Smithson, Jane E. Joseph, Christine R. Corbly, & Ifat Levy. (2015). Neural Correlates of Decision-Making Under Ambiguity and Conflict. Frontiers in Behavioral Neuroscience. 9. 325–325. 19 indexed citations

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Butcher, Phillipa R., Anke Bouma, Elisabeth Stremmelaar, et al.. (2012). Visuospatial perception in children born preterm with no major neurological disorders.. Neuropsychology. 26(6). 723–734. 13 indexed citations

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Smithson, Michael, David V. Budescu, Stephen B. Broomell, & Han‐Hui Por. (2012). Never say “not”: Impact of negative wording in probability phrases on imprecise probability judgments. International Journal of Approximate Reasoning. 53(8). 1262–1270. 34 indexed citations

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Smithson, Michael. (2012). A Simple Statistic for Comparing Moderation of Slopes and Correlations. Frontiers in Psychology. 3. 231–231. 8 indexed citations

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Smithson, Michael & Jay Verkuilen. (2006). Fuzzy Set Theory: Applications in the Social Sciences. Series: Quantitative Applications in the Social Sciences. 6 indexed citations

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Smithson, Michael & Jay Verkuilen. (2006). Fuzzy set theory : applications in the social sciences. SAGE Publications eBooks. 113 indexed citations

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Smithson, Michael, et al.. (2005). Impact of Federal drug law enforcement on the supply of heroin in Australia. Addiction. 100(8). 1110–1120. 17 indexed citations

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Smithson, Michael. (2003). Confidence Intervals. 128 indexed citations

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Attewell, Robyn, et al.. (2002). A comparison of an electronic version of the SF-36 General Health Questionnaire to the standard paper version. Quality of Life Research. 11(1). 19–26. 92 indexed citations

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Smithson, Michael, et al.. (1999). Human Judgment under Sample Space Ignorance.. RePEc: Research Papers in Economics. 324–332. 1 indexed citations

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Smithson, Michael. (1989). Measures of freedom based on possibility. Mathematical Social Sciences. 18(1). 81–98. 1 indexed citations

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