Rob Ellis

3.9k total citations · 1 hit paper
39 papers, 2.7k citations indexed

About

Rob Ellis is a scholar working on Cognitive Neuroscience, Social Psychology and Developmental and Educational Psychology. According to data from OpenAlex, Rob Ellis has authored 39 papers receiving a total of 2.7k indexed citations (citations by other indexed papers that have themselves been cited), including 26 papers in Cognitive Neuroscience, 23 papers in Social Psychology and 8 papers in Developmental and Educational Psychology. Recurrent topics in Rob Ellis's work include Action Observation and Synchronization (23 papers), Motor Control and Adaptation (17 papers) and Visual perception and processing mechanisms (9 papers). Rob Ellis is often cited by papers focused on Action Observation and Synchronization (23 papers), Motor Control and Adaptation (17 papers) and Visual perception and processing mechanisms (9 papers). Rob Ellis collaborates with scholars based in United Kingdom, Germany and Australia. Rob Ellis's co-authors include Mike Tucker, Ed Symes, Lari Vainio, Angelo Cangelosi, Martin H. Fischer, Giovanni Ottoboni, Patric Bach, Toby Nicholson, Matthew Hudson and Andriy Myachykov and has published in prestigious journals such as Psychological Science, Journal of Business Research and Cognition.

In The Last Decade

Rob Ellis

37 papers receiving 2.5k citations

Hit Papers

On the relations between seen objects and components of p... 1998 2026 2007 2016 1998 200 400 600
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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. On the relations between seen objects and components of potential actions.
    1998 632 citations Mike Tucker, Rob Ellis Journal of Experimental Psychology Human Perception & Performance profile →

Peers — A (Enhanced Table)

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

Name h Career Trend Papers Cites
Rob Ellis United Kingdom 22 2.0k 1.9k 795 551 82 39 2.7k
Mike Tucker United Kingdom 17 2.5k 1.3× 2.5k 1.3× 982 1.2× 679 1.2× 106 1.3× 22 3.3k
François Osiurak France 27 1.6k 0.8× 1.8k 0.9× 738 0.9× 270 0.5× 101 1.2× 156 2.7k
Jochen Müsseler Germany 28 3.6k 1.9× 2.8k 1.4× 972 1.2× 1.1k 2.0× 176 2.1× 100 4.6k
Joachim Hoffmann Germany 31 2.1k 1.1× 1000 0.5× 754 0.9× 446 0.8× 30 0.4× 93 2.6k
Merideth Gattis United Kingdom 19 694 0.4× 993 0.5× 908 1.1× 308 0.6× 39 0.5× 49 1.6k
Peter Dixon Canada 29 1.8k 0.9× 684 0.4× 944 1.2× 869 1.6× 146 1.8× 89 3.0k
Khena M. Swallow United States 24 2.1k 1.1× 568 0.3× 549 0.7× 729 1.3× 78 1.0× 54 2.8k
Diane Pecher Netherlands 29 1.4k 0.7× 1.3k 0.7× 906 1.1× 1.4k 2.6× 48 0.6× 78 2.7k
David J. M. Kraemer United States 21 1.1k 0.6× 706 0.4× 483 0.6× 668 1.2× 55 0.7× 39 1.8k
Hubert D. Zimmer Germany 32 2.3k 1.2× 933 0.5× 847 1.1× 725 1.3× 131 1.6× 114 3.1k

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Fields of papers citing papers by Rob Ellis

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Co-authorship network of co-authors of Rob Ellis

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All Works

20 of 20 papers shown
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Ellis, Rob & Glyn W. Humphreys. (2020). Connectionist psychology: A text with readings. Psychology Press eBooks. 2 indexed citations
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Myachykov, Andriy, Rob Ellis, Angelo Cangelosi, & Martin H. Fischer. (2016). Ocular drift along the mental number line. Psychological Research. 80(3). 379–388. 34 indexed citations
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Hudson, Matthew, Toby Nicholson, William A. Simpson, Rob Ellis, & Patric Bach. (2015). One step ahead: The perceived kinematics of others’ actions are biased toward expected goals.. Journal of Experimental Psychology General. 145(1). 1–7. 47 indexed citations
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Hudson, Matthew, Toby Nicholson, Rob Ellis, & Patric Bach. (2015). I see what you say: Prior knowledge of other’s goals automatically biases the perception of their actions. Cognition. 146. 245–250. 49 indexed citations
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Ellis, Rob, et al.. (2015). I don't get you. Action observation effects inverted by kinematic variation. Acta Psychologica. 157. 114–121. 7 indexed citations
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Myachykov, Andriy, Angelo Cangelosi, Rob Ellis, & Martin H. Fischer. (2015). The oculomotor resonance effect in spatial–numerical mapping. Acta Psychologica. 161. 162–169. 21 indexed citations
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Myachykov, Andriy, Rob Ellis, Angelo Cangelosi, & Martin H. Fischer. (2013). Visual and linguistic cues to graspable objects. Experimental Brain Research. 229(4). 545–559. 28 indexed citations
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Caligiore, Daniele, Anna M. Borghi, Domenico Parisi, et al.. (2012). How affordances associated with a distractor object affect compatibility effects: A study with the computational model TRoPICALS. Psychological Research. 77(1). 7–19. 35 indexed citations
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Ellis, Rob, et al.. (2011). Bodies and other visual objects: the dialectics of reaching toward objects. Psychological Research. 77(1). 31–39. 26 indexed citations
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Cangelosi, Angelo, et al.. (2011). Attention deployment during memorizing and executing complex instructions. Experimental Brain Research. 214(2). 249–259. 4 indexed citations
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Symes, Ed, Mike Tucker, Rob Ellis, Lari Vainio, & Giovanni Ottoboni. (2008). Grasp preparation improves change detection for congruent objects.. Journal of Experimental Psychology Human Perception & Performance. 34(4). 854–871. 68 indexed citations
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Vainio, Lari, Ed Symes, Rob Ellis, Mike Tucker, & Giovanni Ottoboni. (2008). On the relations between action planning, object identification, and motor representations of observed actions and objects. Cognition. 108(2). 444–465. 75 indexed citations
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Ellis, Rob, Mike Tucker, Ed Symes, & Lari Vainio. (2007). Does selecting one visual object from several require inhibition of the actions associated with nonselected objects?. Journal of Experimental Psychology Human Perception & Performance. 33(3). 670–691. 49 indexed citations
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Vainio, Lari, Rob Ellis, Mike Tucker, & Ed Symes. (2006). Manual asymmetries in visually primed grasping. Experimental Brain Research. 173(3). 395–406. 17 indexed citations
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Vainio, Lari, Rob Ellis, Mike Tucker, & Ed Symes. (2006). Local and global affordances and manual planning. Experimental Brain Research. 179(4). 583–594. 4 indexed citations
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Ellis, Rob, et al.. (2005). The potentiation of two components of the reach-to-grasp action during object categorisation in visual memory. Acta Psychologica. 122(1). 74–98. 65 indexed citations
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Ellis, Rob, Siegfried P. Gudergan, & Lester W. Johnson. (2001). Through the Looking Glass: An Agency Theoretic Foundation for the Satisfaction Mirror. The Journal of Consumer Satisfaction, Dissatisfaction & Complaining Behavior. 14. 120. 4 indexed citations
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Ellis, Rob & Mike Tucker. (2000). Micro‐affordance: The potentiation of components of action by seen objects. British Journal of Psychology. 91(4). 451–471. 338 indexed citations
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Johnson, Lester W. & Rob Ellis. (1993). Agency theory as a framework for advertising agency compensation decisions. Journal of Advertising Research. 33(5). 76–80. 28 indexed citations
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Ellis, Rob & Lester W. Johnson. (1993). Observations: Agency Theory as a Framework for Advertising Agency Compensation Decisions. Journal of Advertising Research. 33(5). 76–80. 1 indexed citations

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