Thomas Parr

11.4k total citations · 2 hit papers
163 papers, 6.7k citations indexed

About

Thomas Parr is a scholar working on Cognitive Neuroscience, Pharmacology and Molecular Biology. According to data from OpenAlex, Thomas Parr has authored 163 papers receiving a total of 6.7k indexed citations (citations by other indexed papers that have themselves been cited), including 84 papers in Cognitive Neuroscience, 30 papers in Pharmacology and 28 papers in Molecular Biology. Recurrent topics in Thomas Parr's work include Neural dynamics and brain function (53 papers), Embodied and Extended Cognition (45 papers) and Antibiotics Pharmacokinetics and Efficacy (30 papers). Thomas Parr is often cited by papers focused on Neural dynamics and brain function (53 papers), Embodied and Extended Cognition (45 papers) and Antibiotics Pharmacokinetics and Efficacy (30 papers). Thomas Parr collaborates with scholars based in United Kingdom, United States and Canada. Thomas Parr's co-authors include Karl Friston, Giovanni Pezzulo, Greg Moeck, Francis F. Arhin, Lancelot Da Costa, Geoffrey A. McKay, Ryan Smith, L E Bryan, Adam Belley and Robert E. W. Hancock and has published in prestigious journals such as Nature Communications, SHILAP Revista de lepidopterología and PLoS ONE.

In The Last Decade

Thomas Parr

157 papers receiving 6.5k 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.

The Markov blankets of life: autonomy, active inference and the free energy principle

2018 225 citations Thomas Parr, Karl Friston et al. profile →
Active Inference

2022 223 citations Thomas Parr, Giovanni Pezzulo et al. profile →

Peers — A (Enhanced Table)

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

Name	h						Papers	Cites
Thomas Parr United Kingdom	49	2.9k	1.3k	861	814	690	163	6.7k
Apostolos P. Georgopoulos United States	57	9.4k 3.3×	576 0.5×	372 0.4×	190 0.2×	1.8k 2.6×	311	14.3k
Donald A. Wilson United States	67	3.6k 1.3×	1.9k 1.5×	668 0.8×	164 0.2×	2.1k 3.1×	325	16.8k
Robert C. Wilson United States	57	3.2k 1.1×	3.2k 2.6×	278 0.3×	115 0.1×	714 1.0×	253	11.3k
D. Branch Moody United States	60	1.1k 0.4×	2.6k 2.1×	2.2k 2.5×	289 0.4×	311 0.5×	285	12.3k
Kyoko Suzuki Japan	46	1.8k 0.6×	1.4k 1.1×	266 0.3×	216 0.3×	296 0.4×	384	8.1k
Christian Sander Germany	43	990 0.3×	14.9k 12.0×	462 0.5×	104 0.1×	241 0.3×	162	20.9k
Sha Liu China	51	787 0.3×	3.3k 2.7×	191 0.2×	185 0.2×	97 0.1×	515	9.6k
Michio Nomura United States	86	1.1k 0.4×	17.8k 14.2×	368 0.4×	420 0.5×	471 0.7×	407	22.5k
James G. Martin Canada	68	478 0.2×	2.2k 1.8×	296 0.3×	46 0.1×	162 0.2×	438	16.7k
J. Helen Cross United Kingdom	71	5.0k 1.8×	4.2k 3.3×	1.4k 1.7×	43 0.1×	119 0.2×	539	31.4k

Countries citing papers authored by Thomas Parr

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Co-authorship network of co-authors of Thomas Parr

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Trapp, Sabrina, Karl Friston, Erich Schröger, & Thomas Parr. (2025). Towards a theory of biological intelligence. New Ideas in Psychology. 78. 101156–101156.

Parr, Thomas, et al.. (2025). Active inference and cognitive control: Balancing deliberation and habits through precision optimization. Physics of Life Reviews. 54. 27–51.

Parr, Thomas, Giovanni Pezzulo, & Karl Friston. (2025). Beyond Markov: Transformers, memory, and attention. Cognitive Neuroscience. 16(1-4). 5–23. 8 indexed citations

Parr, Thomas, Giovanni Pezzulo, & Karl Friston. (2025). Closing the box. Cognitive Neuroscience. 16(1-4). 43–48.

Friston, Karl, Lancelot Da Costa, Alexander Tschantz, et al.. (2024). Supervised structure learning. Biological Psychology. 193. 108891–108891. 12 indexed citations

Limanowski, Jakub, Rick A. Adams, James M. Kilner, & Thomas Parr. (2024). The Many Roles of Precision in Action. Entropy. 26(9). 790–790. 3 indexed citations

Parr, Thomas, Ashwini Oswal, & Sanjay Manohar. (2024). Inferring when to move. Neuroscience & Biobehavioral Reviews. 169. 105984–105984. 3 indexed citations

Parr, Thomas, Karl Friston, & Peter Zeidman. (2024). Active Data Selection and Information Seeking. Algorithms. 17(3). 118–118. 1 indexed citations

Parr, Thomas & Jakub Limanowski. (2023). Synchronising our internal clocks. Physics of Life Reviews. 46. 258–260. 2 indexed citations

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Parr, Thomas, Karl Friston, & Giovanni Pezzulo. (2023). Generative models for sequential dynamics in active inference. Cognitive Neurodynamics. 18(6). 3259–3272. 5 indexed citations

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Parr, Thomas, James M. Kilner, & Karl Friston. (2023). Functional asymmetry and the consequences of action. Physics of Life Reviews. 44. 145–147. 2 indexed citations

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Fradkin, Isaac, Rick A. Adams, Thomas Parr, Jonathan P. Roiser, & Jonathan D. Huppert. (2020). Searching for an anchor in an unpredictable world: A computational model of obsessive compulsive disorder.. Psychological Review. 127(5). 672–699. 51 indexed citations

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Costa, Lancelot Da, Thomas Parr, Biswa Sengupta, & Karl Friston. (2020). Natural selection finds natural gradient. arXiv (Cornell University). 4 indexed citations

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McEntee, Laura, Adam Johnson, Nicola Farrington, et al.. (2019). Pharmacodynamics of Tebipenem: New Options for Oral Treatment of Multidrug-Resistant Gram-Negative Infections. Antimicrobial Agents and Chemotherapy. 63(8). 39 indexed citations

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Brouillette, Éric, et al.. (2019). In Vitro Activity of Tebipenem (SPR859) against Penicillin-Binding Proteins of Gram-Negative and Gram-Positive Bacteria. Antimicrobial Agents and Chemotherapy. 63(4). 18 indexed citations

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Benrimoh, David, Thomas Parr, Rick A. Adams, & Karl Friston. (2019). Hallucinations both in and out of context: An active inference account. PLoS ONE. 14(8). e0212379–e0212379. 29 indexed citations

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McKay, Geoffrey A., Sylvain Beaulieu, Francis F. Arhin, et al.. (2009). Time-kill kinetics of oritavancin and comparator agents against Staphylococcus aureus, Enterococcus faecalis and Enterococcus faecium. Journal of Antimicrobial Chemotherapy. 63(6). 1191–1199. 114 indexed citations

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Patti, Gary J., Sung Joon Kim, Tsyr‐Yan Yu, et al.. (2009). Vancomycin and Oritavancin Have Different Modes of Action in Enterococcus faecium. Journal of Molecular Biology. 392(5). 1178–1191. 68 indexed citations

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Dietrich, Evelyne, Tom J. Houghton, Francis F. Arhin, et al.. (2008). Bisphosphonated Benzoxazinorifamycin Prodrugs for the Prevention and Treatment of Osteomyelitis. ChemMedChem. 3(12). 1863–1868. 21 indexed citations

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Chamberland, Suzanne, François Malouin, Harvey Rabin, et al.. (1990). Persistence of Pseudomonas aeruginosa during ciprofloxacin therapy of a cystic fibrosis patient: transient resistance to quinolones and protein F-deficiency. Journal of Antimicrobial Chemotherapy. 25(6). 995–1010. 27 indexed citations

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