Ann Dowker

5.4k total citations · 2 hit papers
80 papers, 3.4k citations indexed

About

Ann Dowker is a scholar working on Statistics and Probability, Education and Developmental and Educational Psychology. According to data from OpenAlex, Ann Dowker has authored 80 papers receiving a total of 3.4k indexed citations (citations by other indexed papers that have themselves been cited), including 57 papers in Statistics and Probability, 47 papers in Education and 37 papers in Developmental and Educational Psychology. Recurrent topics in Ann Dowker's work include Cognitive and developmental aspects of mathematical skills (55 papers), Mathematics Education and Teaching Techniques (31 papers) and Reading and Literacy Development (30 papers). Ann Dowker is often cited by papers focused on Cognitive and developmental aspects of mathematical skills (55 papers), Mathematics Education and Teaching Techniques (31 papers) and Reading and Literacy Development (30 papers). Ann Dowker collaborates with scholars based in United Kingdom, Germany and United States. Ann Dowker's co-authors include Amar Sarkar, Chung Yen Looi, Dénes Szűcs, Amy Devine, Roi Cohen Kadosh, Arthur J. Baroody, Liane Kaufmann, Winifred Mark, Karina Bennett and Karin Kucian and has published in prestigious journals such as Journal of Neuroscience, SHILAP Revista de lepidopterología and Annals of the New York Academy of Sciences.

In The Last Decade

Ann Dowker

77 papers receiving 3.1k 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.

Mathematics Anxiety: What Have We Learned in 60 Years?

2016 513 citations Ann Dowker, Amar Sarkar et al. Frontiers in Psychology profile →
Gender differences in mathematics anxiety and the relation to mathematics performance while controlling for test anxiety

2012 384 citations Amy Devine, Dénes Szűcs et al. Behavioral and Brain Functions profile →

Peers — A (Enhanced Table)

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Name	h						Papers	Cites
Ann Dowker United Kingdom	27	2.0k	1.9k	1.2k	1.2k	532	80	3.4k
Evelyn H. Kroesbergen Netherlands	35	2.4k 1.2×	2.1k 1.1×	2.0k 1.7×	1.1k 1.0×	193 0.4×	105	4.1k
Ian M. Lyons United States	28	1.9k 0.9×	1.5k 0.8×	1.1k 0.9×	892 0.8×	511 1.0×	58	2.9k
Amy Devine United Kingdom	18	1.1k 0.6×	1.0k 0.6×	641 0.5×	1.1k 0.9×	557 1.0×	29	2.2k
Marcus Hasselhorn Germany	33	799 0.4×	1.6k 0.8×	2.0k 1.7×	948 0.8×	513 1.0×	243	4.3k
Melissa E. Libertus United States	30	2.7k 1.4×	2.2k 1.2×	1.5k 1.2×	289 0.2×	71 0.1×	100	3.5k
Mary K. Hoard United States	27	3.5k 1.7×	2.6k 1.4×	2.5k 2.1×	694 0.6×	109 0.2×	40	4.3k
Daniela Lucangeli Italy	27	1.7k 0.9×	1.5k 0.8×	1.4k 1.2×	229 0.2×	73 0.1×	77	2.4k
Johannes E. H. Van Luit Netherlands	34	2.1k 1.1×	1.9k 1.0×	1.7k 1.5×	611 0.5×	99 0.2×	76	3.3k
Kevin F. Miller United States	27	791 0.4×	906 0.5×	960 0.8×	412 0.4×	140 0.3×	58	2.2k
Kenneth Eklund Finland	40	1.2k 0.6×	1.6k 0.8×	3.3k 2.8×	413 0.4×	170 0.3×	95	4.5k

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Dowker, Ann. (2023). The componential nature of arithmetical cognition: some important questions. Frontiers in Psychology. 14. 1188271–1188271. 3 indexed citations

Demeyere, Nele, et al.. (2023). Numerical Cognition after Brain Injury: Is There a Relationship between Subitizing and Arithmetical Abilities?. Brain Sciences. 13(3). 381–381. 2 indexed citations

Dowker, Ann. (2021). Home Numeracy and Preschool Children's Mathematical Development: Is Parental Mathematics Anxiety an Understudied Factor?. Oxford University Research Archive (ORA) (University of Oxford). 1 indexed citations

Dowker, Ann, et al.. (2020). Linguistic Effects on the Processing of Two-Digit Numbers. Open Journal of Modern Linguistics. 10(1). 49–69. 9 indexed citations

Dowker, Ann, Κathy Sylva, Daniel Ansari, et al.. (2019). Let's Talk About Maths: The Role of Observed “Maths‐Talk” and Maths Provisions in Preschoolers' Numeracy. Mind Brain and Education. 13(4). 326–340. 17 indexed citations

Dowker, Ann, et al.. (2019). English and Chinese Children’s Performance on Numerical Tasks. Frontiers in Psychology. 9. 2731–2731. 3 indexed citations

Koponen, Tuire, Ann Dowker, Eija Räikkönen, et al.. (2018). Does Multi-Component Strategy Training Improve Calculation Fluency Among Poor Performing Elementary School Children?. Frontiers in Psychology. 9. 1187–1187. 15 indexed citations

Dowker, Ann. (2017). Interventions for Primary School Children With Difficulties in Mathematics. Advances in child development and behavior. 53. 255–287. 18 indexed citations

Kadosh, Roi Cohen & Ann Dowker. (2015). Oxford Handbook of Numerical Cognition. Oxford University Press eBooks. 54 indexed citations

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Dowker, Ann, et al.. (2015). Compensating arithmetic ability with derived fact strategies in Broca’s aphasia: a case report. Neurocase. 22(2). 205–214. 6 indexed citations

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Mark, Winifred & Ann Dowker. (2015). Linguistic influence on mathematical development is specific rather than pervasive: revisiting the Chinese Number Advantage in Chinese and English children. Frontiers in Psychology. 6. 203–203. 26 indexed citations

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Sarkar, Amar, Ann Dowker, & Roi Cohen Kadosh. (2014). Cognitive Enhancement or Cognitive Cost: Trait-Specific Outcomes of Brain Stimulation in the Case of Mathematics Anxiety. Journal of Neuroscience. 34(50). 16605–16610. 145 indexed citations

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Devine, Amy, et al.. (2012). Gender differences in mathematics anxiety and the relation to mathematics performance while controlling for test anxiety. Behavioral and Brain Functions. 8(1). 33–33. 384 indexed citations breakdown →

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Dowker, Ann. (2008). Mathematical difficulties : psychology and intervention. Academic Press eBooks. 21 indexed citations

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Dowker, Ann. (2007). What can intervention tell us about the development of arithmetic. Educational and Child Psychology. 24. 64–82. 3 indexed citations

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Dowker, Ann. (2006). What can functional brain imaging studies tell us about typical and atypical cognitive development in children?. Journal of Physiology-Paris. 99(4-6). 333–341. 9 indexed citations

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Dowker, Ann, et al.. (2002). The Role of Cues to Differential Absolute Size in Children's Transitive Inferences. Journal of Experimental Child Psychology. 81(3). 249–275. 13 indexed citations

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Dowker, Ann. (1998). Phonological and semantic devices in very young children's poems : a cross-cultural study. 17(2). 389–416. 3 indexed citations

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Roazzi, Antônio, et al.. (1994). AS HABILIDADES LINGUÍSTICAS DOS REPENTISTAS E SUA RELAÇÃO COM O NÍVEL DE CONSCIÊNCIA FONOLÓGICA. SHILAP Revista de lepidopterología. 26(26). 135–158. 2 indexed citations

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Dowker, Ann & Giuliana Pinto. (1993). Phonological devices in poems by English and Italian children. Journal of Child Language. 20(3). 697–706. 10 indexed citations

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