Richard Cook

5.9k total citations · 3 hit papers
101 papers, 3.7k citations indexed

About

Richard Cook is a scholar working on Cognitive Neuroscience, Experimental and Cognitive Psychology and Social Psychology. According to data from OpenAlex, Richard Cook has authored 101 papers receiving a total of 3.7k indexed citations (citations by other indexed papers that have themselves been cited), including 90 papers in Cognitive Neuroscience, 41 papers in Experimental and Cognitive Psychology and 25 papers in Social Psychology. Recurrent topics in Richard Cook's work include Face Recognition and Perception (71 papers), Evolutionary Psychology and Human Behavior (28 papers) and Action Observation and Synchronization (19 papers). Richard Cook is often cited by papers focused on Face Recognition and Perception (71 papers), Evolutionary Psychology and Human Behavior (28 papers) and Action Observation and Synchronization (19 papers). Richard Cook collaborates with scholars based in United Kingdom, United States and Denmark. Richard Cook's co-authors include Geoffrey Bird, Rebecca Brewer, Katie L. H. Gray, Cecilia Heyes, Clare Press, Punit Shah, Federica Biotti, Caroline Catmur, Harriet Over and Jennifer Murphy and has published in prestigious journals such as Journal of Neuroscience, PLoS ONE and Psychological Review.

In The Last Decade

Richard Cook

96 papers receiving 3.6k citations

Hit Papers

align trajectories

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.

Mixed emotions: the contribution of alexithymia to the emotional symptoms of autism

2013 398 citations Geoffrey Bird, Richard Cook profile →
Mirror neurons: From origin to function

2014 336 citations Richard Cook, Geoffrey Bird et al. Behavioral and Brain Sciences profile →
Alexithymia: a general deficit of interoception

2016 262 citations Rebecca Brewer, Richard Cook et al. Royal Society Open Science profile →

Peers — A (Enhanced Table)

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

Name	h						Papers	Cites
Richard Cook United Kingdom	32	2.8k	1.1k	1.0k	875	822	101	3.7k
Alissa Westerlund United States	22	2.8k 1.0×	722 0.7×	1.6k 1.6×	967 1.1×	412 0.5×	30	4.5k
Cosimo Urgesi Italy	39	3.7k 1.3×	3.1k 3.0×	980 0.9×	608 0.7×	766 0.9×	133	5.4k
Dima Amso United States	32	2.4k 0.9×	595 0.6×	990 1.0×	724 0.8×	552 0.7×	85	5.0k
Boris Suchan Germany	32	2.0k 0.7×	462 0.4×	728 0.7×	573 0.7×	456 0.6×	119	3.2k
Jill Keane United Kingdom	14	2.3k 0.8×	735 0.7×	1.0k 1.0×	270 0.3×	458 0.6×	14	3.0k
Bruno Wicker France	27	4.0k 1.4×	2.4k 2.3×	983 1.0×	579 0.7×	912 1.1×	43	5.2k
Anthony P. Atkinson United Kingdom	23	2.3k 0.8×	990 0.9×	1.1k 1.1×	256 0.3×	175 0.2×	43	3.0k
Tamara Russell United Kingdom	23	2.0k 0.7×	514 0.5×	801 0.8×	924 1.1×	1.1k 1.3×	45	3.3k
Salvatore Campanella Belgium	39	3.3k 1.2×	521 0.5×	1.9k 1.9×	556 0.6×	538 0.7×	147	4.7k
Caroline Catmur United Kingdom	42	4.0k 1.4×	3.0k 2.8×	1.7k 1.6×	1.2k 1.4×	1.9k 2.4×	123	6.4k

Countries citing papers authored by Richard Cook

Since Specialization

Citations

This map shows the geographic impact of Richard Cook's research. It shows the number of citations coming from papers published by authors working in each country. You can also color the map by specialization and compare the number of citations received by Richard Cook with the expected number of citations based on a country's size and research output (numbers larger than one mean the country cites Richard Cook more than expected).

Fields of papers citing papers by Richard Cook

Since Specialization

Physical SciencesHealth SciencesLife SciencesSocial Sciences

This network shows the impact of papers produced by Richard Cook. Nodes represent research fields, and links connect fields that are likely to share authors. Colored nodes show fields that tend to cite the papers produced by Richard Cook. The network helps show where Richard Cook may publish in the future.

Co-authorship network of co-authors of Richard Cook

This figure shows the co-authorship network connecting the top 25 collaborators of Richard Cook. A scholar is included among the top collaborators of Richard Cook 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 Richard Cook. Richard Cook is excluded from the visualization to improve readability, since they are connected to all nodes in the network.

All Works

Sort: Min cites: Since: Top N: Style:

20 of 20 papers shown

Press, Clare, et al.. (2024). Autistic adults exhibit typical sensitivity to changes in interpersonal distance. Autism Research. 17(7). 1464–1474.

Press, Clare, et al.. (2024). Autistic adults have insight into their relative face recognition ability. Scientific Reports. 14(1). 17802–17802.

Cook, Richard, et al.. (2023). Are upside-down faces perceived as “less human”?. Journal of Experimental Psychology Human Perception & Performance. 49(12). 1503–1517.

Tsantani, Maria, Harriet Over, & Richard Cook. (2022). Does a lack of perceptual expertise prevent participants from forming reliable first impressions of “other-race” faces?. Journal of Experimental Psychology General. 152(4). 1134–1145. 3 indexed citations

Over, Harriet & Richard Cook. (2022). Perceptual dehumanization theory: A critique.. Psychological Review. 130(5). 1401–1419. 2 indexed citations

Cook, Richard, et al.. (2022). The cultural learning account of first impressions. Trends in Cognitive Sciences. 26(8). 656–668. 11 indexed citations

Cook, Richard, et al.. (2022). Recognition of pareidolic objects in developmental prosopagnosic and neurotypical individuals. Cortex. 153. 21–31. 9 indexed citations

Over, Harriet, et al.. (2022). Contextual modulation of appearance-trait learning. Cognition. 230. 105288–105288. 1 indexed citations

Cook, Richard & Harriet Over. (2021). Why is the literature on first impressions so focused on White faces?. Royal Society Open Science. 8(9). 211146–211146. 25 indexed citations

10.

Lee, Ruth, Jonathan C. Flavell, Steven P. Tipper, Richard Cook, & Harriet Over. (2021). Spontaneous first impressions emerge from brief training. Scientific Reports. 11(1). 15024–15024. 9 indexed citations

11.

Over, Harriet, et al.. (2020). Ritual and the origins of first impressions. Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society B Biological Sciences. 375(1805). 20190435–20190435. 19 indexed citations

12.

Gray, Katie L. H., et al.. (2020). Visual search for facing and non-facing people: The effect of actor inversion. Cognition. 208. 104550–104550. 20 indexed citations

13.

Over, Harriet & Richard Cook. (2017). Where do spontaneous first impressions of faces come from?. Cognition. 170. 190–200. 55 indexed citations

14.

Brewer, Rebecca, Abigail A. Marsh, Caroline Catmur, et al.. (2015). The impact of autism spectrum disorder and alexithymia on judgments of moral acceptability.. Journal of Abnormal Psychology. 124(3). 589–595. 37 indexed citations

15.

Ipser, Alberta & Richard Cook. (2015). Inducing a concurrent motor load reduces categorization precision for facial expressions.. Journal of Experimental Psychology Human Perception & Performance. 42(5). 706–718. 27 indexed citations

16.

Murphy, Jennifer, Alberta Ipser, Sebastian Gaigg, & Richard Cook. (2015). Exemplar variance supports robust learning of facial identity.. Journal of Experimental Psychology Human Perception & Performance. 41(3). 577–581. 71 indexed citations

17.

Cook, Richard, Geoffrey Bird, Caroline Catmur, Clare Press, & Cecilia Heyes. (2014). Mirror neurons: From origin to function. Behavioral and Brain Sciences. 37(2). 177–192. 336 indexed citations breakdown →

18.

Cook, Richard, et al.. (2011). Glance, glimpse or stare? The discrimination of gaze duration. Journal of Vision. 11(11). 1225–1225. 1 indexed citations

19.

Cook, Richard, Geoffrey Bird, Gabriele K. Lünser, Steffen Huck, & Cecilia Heyes. (2011). Automatic imitation in a strategic context: players of rock–paper–scissors imitate opponents' gestures . Proceedings of the Royal Society B Biological Sciences. 279(1729). 780–786. 68 indexed citations

20.

Cook, Richard, et al.. (2000). Complementary medicine: knowledge, use and attitudes of doctors. Complementary Therapies in Nursing and Midwifery. 6(1). 41–47. 40 indexed citations

Rankless uses publication and citation data sourced from OpenAlex, an open and comprehensive bibliographic database. While OpenAlex provides broad and valuable coverage of the global research landscape, it—like all bibliographic datasets—has inherent limitations. These include incomplete records, variations in author disambiguation, differences in journal indexing, and delays in data updates. As a result, some metrics and network relationships displayed in Rankless may not fully capture the entirety of a scholar's output or impact.

Explore authors with similar magnitude of impact