William Payre

1.5k total citations · 1 hit paper
26 papers, 1.1k citations indexed

About

William Payre is a scholar working on Social Psychology, Safety, Risk, Reliability and Quality and Automotive Engineering. According to data from OpenAlex, William Payre has authored 26 papers receiving a total of 1.1k indexed citations (citations by other indexed papers that have themselves been cited), including 26 papers in Social Psychology, 15 papers in Safety, Risk, Reliability and Quality and 7 papers in Automotive Engineering. Recurrent topics in William Payre's work include Human-Automation Interaction and Safety (23 papers), Traffic and Road Safety (15 papers) and Safety Warnings and Signage (9 papers). William Payre is often cited by papers focused on Human-Automation Interaction and Safety (23 papers), Traffic and Road Safety (15 papers) and Safety Warnings and Signage (9 papers). William Payre collaborates with scholars based in United Kingdom, Australia and Malaysia. William Payre's co-authors include Julien Cestac, Patricia Delhomme, Patricia Delhomme, Joost de Winter, Riender Happee, Sina Nordhoff, Cyriel Diels, Bart van Arem, Nguyen‐Thong Dang and Stewart Birrell and has published in prestigious journals such as SHILAP Revista de lepidopterología, Sensors and Frontiers in Psychology.

In The Last Decade

William Payre

25 papers receiving 1.1k citations

Hit Papers

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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.

Intention to use a fully automated car: Attitudes and a priori acceptability

2014 509 citations William Payre, Julien Cestac et al. Transportation Research Part F Traffic Psychology and Behaviour profile →

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Name	h						Papers	Cites
William Payre United Kingdom	12	799	592	379	186	111	26	1.1k
Julien Cestac France	7	675 0.8×	458 0.8×	510 1.3×	271 1.5×	104 0.9×	11	1.1k
Alexander Meschtscherjakov Austria	18	762 1.0×	422 0.7×	207 0.5×	98 0.5×	61 0.5×	130	1.3k
Esko Lehtonen Finland	19	521 0.7×	276 0.5×	362 1.0×	158 0.8×	66 0.6×	47	972
Patricia Delhomme France	5	503 0.6×	414 0.7×	257 0.7×	130 0.7×	85 0.8×	9	705
Shuchisnigdha Deb United States	14	678 0.8×	387 0.7×	530 1.4×	160 0.9×	107 1.0×	29	1.2k
Marc Wilbrink Germany	10	624 0.8×	465 0.8×	381 1.0×	147 0.8×	40 0.4×	22	932
Anna-Katharina Frison Germany	20	735 0.9×	313 0.5×	279 0.7×	38 0.2×	62 0.6×	43	960
Andreas Keinath Germany	20	790 1.0×	453 0.8×	510 1.3×	93 0.5×	96 0.9×	62	1.2k
Matthias Beggiato Germany	18	1.2k 1.4×	615 1.0×	767 2.0×	83 0.4×	103 0.9×	30	1.4k
Tibor Petzoldt Germany	19	586 0.7×	337 0.6×	659 1.7×	381 2.0×	75 0.7×	77	1.2k

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Co-authorship network of co-authors of William Payre

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Debnath, Ashim Kumar, et al.. (2025). Pedestrian Profiling Based on Road Crossing Decisions in the Presence of Automated Vehicles: The Sorting Hat for Pedestrian Behaviours and Psychological Facets. Applied Sciences. 15(18). 10105–10105.

Logan, David, et al.. (2025). Exploring the effect of driver drowsiness on takeover performance during automated driving: An updated literature review. Accident Analysis & Prevention. 216. 108023–108023. 2 indexed citations

Debnath, Ashim Kumar, et al.. (2024). Factors influencing the perception of safety for pedestrians and cyclists through interactions with automated vehicles in shared spaces. Transportation Research Part F Traffic Psychology and Behaviour. 107. 181–195. 1 indexed citations

Payre, William, et al.. (2024). Age-related differences in takeover performance: A comparative analysis of older and younger drivers in prolonged partially automated driving. Traffic Injury Prevention. 25(7). 968–975. 2 indexed citations

Payre, William, et al.. (2024). Exploring driving anger-caused impairment of takeover performance among professional taxi drivers during partially automated driving. Accident Analysis & Prevention. 205. 107686–107686. 4 indexed citations

Payre, William, et al.. (2024). How do visual and cognitive non-driving related tasks affect drivers’ visual attention and takeover performance in conditionally automated driving?. Journal of Transportation Safety & Security. 17(1). 97–123. 6 indexed citations

Payre, William, et al.. (2023). External Human–Machine Interfaces for Automated Vehicles in Shared Spaces: A Review of the Human–Computer Interaction Literature. Sensors. 23(9). 4454–4454. 22 indexed citations

Birrell, Stewart, et al.. (2023). Would you cross the road? Modelling interactions between the factors influencing pedestrians’ decisions when exposed to automated vehicles. Pure (Coventry University). 1–6. 2 indexed citations

Walker, Francesco, Yannick Forster, Sebastian Hergeth, et al.. (2023). Trust in automated vehicles: constructs, psychological processes, and assessment. Frontiers in Psychology. 14. 1279271–1279271. 19 indexed citations

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Payre, William, et al.. (2023). Under pressure: Effect of a ransomware and a screen failure on trust and driving performance in an automated car simulation. Frontiers in Psychology. 14. 1078723–1078723. 8 indexed citations

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Birrell, Stewart, et al.. (2022). Urban air mobility infrastructure design: Using virtual reality to capture user experience within the world's first urban airport. Applied Ergonomics. 105. 103843–103843. 13 indexed citations

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Payre, William, et al.. (2022). How system failures and ransomwares affect drivers' trust and attitudes in an automated car? A simulator study. AHFE international. 2 indexed citations

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Karageorghis, Costas I., Elias Mouchlianitis, William Payre, et al.. (2021). Psychological, psychophysiological and behavioural effects of participant-selected vs. researcher-selected music in simulated urban driving. Applied Ergonomics. 96. 103436–103436. 15 indexed citations

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Karageorghis, Costas I., Garry Kuan, Elias Mouchlianitis, et al.. (2021). Interactive effects of task load and music tempo on psychological, psychophysiological, and behavioural outcomes during simulated driving. Ergonomics. 65(7). 915–932. 20 indexed citations

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Karageorghis, Costas I., William Payre, Garry Kuan, et al.. (2021). Influence of music on driver psychology and safety-relevant behaviours: a multi-study inductive content analysis. Theoretical Issues in Ergonomics Science. 23(6). 643–662. 6 indexed citations

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Payre, William, Stewart Birrell, & Andrew Parkes. (2020). Although autonomous cars are not yet manufactured, their acceptance already is. Theoretical Issues in Ergonomics Science. 22(5). 567–580. 11 indexed citations

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Payre, William & Cyriel Diels. (2019). I want to brake free: The effect of connected vehicle features on driver behaviour, usability and acceptance. Applied Ergonomics. 82. 102932–102932. 27 indexed citations

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Payre, William & Cyriel Diels. (2019). Designing in-vehicle signs for connected vehicle features: Does appropriateness guarantee comprehension?. Applied Ergonomics. 80. 102–110. 9 indexed citations

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Nordhoff, Sina, Joost de Winter, William Payre, Bart van Arem, & Riender Happee. (2019). What impressions do users have after a ride in an automated shuttle? An interview study. Transportation Research Part F Traffic Psychology and Behaviour. 63. 252–269. 116 indexed citations

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Payre, William, Julien Cestac, & Patricia Delhomme. (2015). Fully Automated Driving. Human Factors The Journal of the Human Factors and Ergonomics Society. 58(2). 229–241. 167 indexed citations

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