Natasha Merat

10.2k total citations · 3 hit papers
185 papers, 7.1k citations indexed

About

Natasha Merat is a scholar working on Social Psychology, Safety, Risk, Reliability and Quality and Automotive Engineering. According to data from OpenAlex, Natasha Merat has authored 185 papers receiving a total of 7.1k indexed citations (citations by other indexed papers that have themselves been cited), including 139 papers in Social Psychology, 100 papers in Safety, Risk, Reliability and Quality and 77 papers in Automotive Engineering. Recurrent topics in Natasha Merat's work include Human-Automation Interaction and Safety (137 papers), Traffic and Road Safety (99 papers) and Autonomous Vehicle Technology and Safety (48 papers). Natasha Merat is often cited by papers focused on Human-Automation Interaction and Safety (137 papers), Traffic and Road Safety (99 papers) and Autonomous Vehicle Technology and Safety (48 papers). Natasha Merat collaborates with scholars based in United Kingdom, Netherlands and Germany. Natasha Merat's co-authors include A. Hamish Jamson, Tyron Louw, Ruth Madigan, Oliver Carsten, Frank Lai, Gustav Markkula, Anna Schieben, Marc Wilbrink, Yee Mun Lee and Georgios K. Kountouriotis and has published in prestigious journals such as SHILAP Revista de lepidopterología, PLoS ONE and American Journal of Clinical Nutrition.

In The Last Decade

Natasha Merat

166 papers receiving 6.7k 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.

  1. Transition to manual: Driver behaviour when resuming control from a highly automated vehicle
    2014 441 citations Natasha Merat et al. Transportation Research Part F Traffic Psychology and Behaviour profile →
  2. What influences the decision to use automated public transport? Using UTAUT to understand public acceptance of automated road transport systems
    2017 385 citations Ruth Madigan, Tyron Louw et al. Transportation Research Part F Traffic Psychology and Behaviour profile →
  3. Highly Automated Driving, Secondary Task Performance, and Driver State
    2012 291 citations Natasha Merat et al. profile →

Peers

Natasha Merat
Riender Happee Netherlands
Klaus Bengler Germany
Dick de Waard Netherlands
Josef F. Krems Germany
Karel Brookhuis Netherlands
Thomas A. Dingus United States
Bryan Reimer United States
William J. Horrey United States
Michael Regan Australia
David Shinar Israel
Riender Happee Netherlands
Natasha Merat
Citations per year, relative to Natasha Merat Natasha Merat (= 1×) peers Riender Happee

Countries citing papers authored by Natasha Merat

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Fields of papers citing papers by Natasha Merat

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Physical SciencesHealth SciencesLife SciencesSocial Sciences

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Co-authorship network of co-authors of Natasha Merat

This figure shows the co-authorship network connecting the top 25 collaborators of Natasha Merat. A scholar is included among the top collaborators of Natasha Merat based on the total number of citations received by their joint publications. Widths of edges represent the number of papers authors have co-authored together. Node borders signify the number of papers an author published with Natasha Merat. Natasha Merat is excluded from the visualization to improve readability, since they are connected to all nodes in the network.

All Works

20 of 20 papers shown
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Yan, Xuedong, et al.. (2025). Improving models of pedestrian crossing behavior using neural signatures of decision-making. Transportation Research Part F Traffic Psychology and Behaviour. 109. 1491–1506. 1 indexed citations
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Madigan, Ruth, et al.. (2025). Using a traffic climate scale to understand drivers’ perceptions of their traffic system: An examination of measurement invariance across eight countries. Transportation Research Part F Traffic Psychology and Behaviour. 109. 1150–1169. 1 indexed citations
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Lehtonen, Esko, et al.. (2025). Decoding acceptance of driver monitoring systems: Evaluating alternative measurement models, cross-country variations, and behavioural intention. Transportation Research Part F Traffic Psychology and Behaviour. 116. 103384–103384.
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Wei, Chongfeng, et al.. (2025). Interacting With Yielding Vehicles: A Perceptually Plausible Model for Pedestrian Road Crossing Decisions. IEEE Transactions on Intelligent Transportation Systems. 26(7). 9654–9668.
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Li, Yang, Yee Mun Lee, Ruth Madigan, et al.. (2025). Investigating driver responses to automated vehicles in a bottleneck scenario: The impact of lateral offset and eHMI. Transportation Research Part F Traffic Psychology and Behaviour. 114. 621–632.
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Shi, Jinlei, et al.. (2024). Effects of various in-vehicle human–machine interfaces on drivers’ takeover performance and gaze pattern in conditionally automated vehicles. International Journal of Human-Computer Studies. 192. 103362–103362. 5 indexed citations
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Yang, Yue, Yee Mun Lee, Michael J. Daly, et al.. (2024). Using distributed simulations to investigate driver-pedestrian interactions and kinematic cues: Implications for automated vehicle behaviour and communication. Transportation Research Part F Traffic Psychology and Behaviour. 107. 84–97. 2 indexed citations
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Shah, Yatrik M., Yongjae Lee, Ruth Madigan, et al.. (2024). Table of Contents. IEEE Transactions on Intelligent Transportation Systems. 25(3). C1–C4.
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Markkula, Gustav, Yi-Shin Lin, Jac Billington, et al.. (2023). Explaining human interactions on the road by large-scale integration of computational psychological theory. PNAS Nexus. 2(6). pgad163–pgad163. 23 indexed citations
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Madigan, Ruth, et al.. (2023). Pedestrian interactions with automated vehicles: Does the presence of a zebra crossing affect how eHMIs and movement patterns are interpreted?. Transportation Research Part F Traffic Psychology and Behaviour. 98. 170–185. 21 indexed citations
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Markkula, Gustav, Chongfeng Wei, Yee Mun Lee, et al.. (2023). Deconstructing Pedestrian Crossing Decisions in Interactions With Continuous Traffic: An Anthropomorphic Model. IEEE Transactions on Intelligent Transportation Systems. 25(3). 2466–2478. 7 indexed citations
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Markkula, Gustav, et al.. (2022). Impacts of visual and cognitive distractions and time pressure on pedestrian crossing behaviour: A simulator study. Accident Analysis & Prevention. 174. 106770–106770. 36 indexed citations
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Louw, Tyron, et al.. (2022). Drivers’ gaze patterns when resuming control with a head-up-display: Effects of automation level and time budget. Accident Analysis & Prevention. 180. 106905–106905. 7 indexed citations
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Lehtonen, Esko, Fanny Malin, Satu Innamaa, et al.. (2021). Are multimodal travellers going to abandon sustainable travel for L3 automated vehicles?. Transportation Research Interdisciplinary Perspectives. 10. 100380–100380. 11 indexed citations
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Wei, Chongfeng, et al.. (2021). Human-Like Decision Making and Motion Control for Smooth and Natural Car Following. IEEE Transactions on Intelligent Vehicles. 8(1). 263–274. 44 indexed citations
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Camara, Fanta, Nicola Bellotto, Serhan Coşar, et al.. (2020). Pedestrian Models for Autonomous Driving Part II: High-Level Models of Human Behavior. IEEE Transactions on Intelligent Transportation Systems. 22(9). 5453–5472. 94 indexed citations
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Markkula, Gustav, Ruth Madigan, Dimitris Nathanael, et al.. (2020). Defining interactions: a conceptual framework for understanding interactive behaviour in human and automated road traffic. Theoretical Issues in Ergonomics Science. 21(6). 728–752. 149 indexed citations
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Camara, Fanta, Richard Romano, Gustav Markkula, et al.. (2018). Empirical game theory of pedestrian interaction for autonomous vehicles. Lincoln Repository (University of Lincoln). 26 indexed citations

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