The term Pseudo-Psellos is also used in modern scholarship to describe the authorship of several later works that are believed to have been falsely ascribed to Psellos in Byzantine times.
Takšno mišljenje je temeljilo na zapisu v srednjeveški kroniki Σύνοψις Κεδρηνοῦ-Σκυλίτση, v kateri je omenjeno njegovo ime.