Beth A. O’Brien

1.8k total citations
59 papers, 1.2k citations indexed

About

Beth A. O’Brien is a scholar working on Developmental and Educational Psychology, Cognitive Neuroscience and Education. According to data from OpenAlex, Beth A. O’Brien has authored 59 papers receiving a total of 1.2k indexed citations (citations by other indexed papers that have themselves been cited), including 38 papers in Developmental and Educational Psychology, 18 papers in Cognitive Neuroscience and 18 papers in Education. Recurrent topics in Beth A. O’Brien's work include Reading and Literacy Development (31 papers), Language Development and Disorders (14 papers) and Cognitive and developmental aspects of mathematical skills (10 papers). Beth A. O’Brien is often cited by papers focused on Reading and Literacy Development (31 papers), Language Development and Disorders (14 papers) and Cognitive and developmental aspects of mathematical skills (10 papers). Beth A. O’Brien collaborates with scholars based in Singapore, United States and Canada. Beth A. O’Brien's co-authors include R. C. Schmidt, Maureen W. Lovett, Maryanne Wolf, J. Stephen Mansfield, Gordon E. Legge, He Sun, Robin D. Morris, Sebastian Wallot, Youngsuk Kim and Tami Katzir and has published in prestigious journals such as Biological Psychiatry, Vision Research and Journal of Experimental Psychology Learning Memory and Cognition.

In The Last Decade

Beth A. O’Brien

55 papers receiving 1.2k citations

Peers — A (Enhanced Table)

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

Name h Career Trend Papers Cites
Beth A. O’Brien Singapore 19 636 526 283 221 173 59 1.2k
Rumjahn Hoosain Hong Kong 20 639 1.0× 615 1.2× 179 0.6× 155 0.7× 123 0.7× 45 1.3k
Arnaud Szmalec Belgium 23 895 1.4× 1.3k 2.4× 96 0.3× 129 0.6× 243 1.4× 71 1.8k
Daniel J. Acheson Netherlands 19 880 1.4× 1.4k 2.6× 81 0.3× 170 0.8× 56 0.3× 30 1.8k
Donald J. Bolger United States 17 1.1k 1.7× 1.2k 2.2× 180 0.6× 81 0.4× 234 1.4× 33 1.7k
John A. Spinks Hong Kong 14 1.1k 1.8× 1.2k 2.3× 225 0.8× 147 0.7× 238 1.4× 22 1.7k
Paola Palladino Italy 23 972 1.5× 917 1.7× 264 0.9× 169 0.8× 314 1.8× 72 1.8k
Luís Faísca Portugal 22 1.5k 2.4× 940 1.8× 550 1.9× 167 0.8× 564 3.3× 78 2.2k
Jackie Masterson United Kingdom 28 1.7k 2.7× 1.2k 2.3× 475 1.7× 119 0.5× 389 2.2× 81 2.2k
Josje Verhagen Netherlands 16 709 1.1× 328 0.6× 477 1.7× 231 1.0× 62 0.4× 56 1.4k
Alexandra Reis Portugal 24 2.0k 3.1× 1.4k 2.7× 575 2.0× 155 0.7× 714 4.1× 63 2.8k

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Co-authorship network of co-authors of Beth A. O’Brien

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All Works

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Sun, He, et al.. (2023). The Children’s Picture Books Lexicon (CPB-Lex): A large-scale lexical database from children’s picture books. Behavior Research Methods. 56(5). 4504–4521. 8 indexed citations
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O’Brien, Beth A., et al.. (2023). Orthography-phonology consistency in English: Theory- and data-driven measures and their impact on auditory vs. visual word recognition. Behavior Research Methods. 56(3). 1283–1313. 1 indexed citations
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Sun, Baoqi, et al.. (2023). The contribution of intrinsic motivation and home literacy environment to Singaporean bilingual children’s receptive vocabulary. Reading and Writing. 37(7). 1849–1877. 6 indexed citations
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Bhattacharjee, Sagarika, Rajan Kashyap, Alicia M. Goodwill, et al.. (2021). Sex difference in tDCS current mediated by changes in cortical anatomy: A study across young, middle and older adults. Brain stimulation. 15(1). 125–140. 51 indexed citations
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Sun, Baoqi, Chin Ee Loh, Beth A. O’Brien, & Rita Elaine Silver. (2021). The Effect of the COVID-19 Lockdown on Bilingual Singaporean Children’s Leisure Reading. AERA Open. 7. 8 indexed citations
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Sun, He, et al.. (2020). Child, family, and school factors in bilingual preschoolers’ vocabulary development in heritage languages. Journal of Child Language. 47(4). 817–843. 37 indexed citations
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O’Brien, Beth A., et al.. (2020). The Impact of Different Writing Systems on Children’s Spelling Error Profiles: Alphabetic, Akshara, and Hanzi Cases. Frontiers in Psychology. 11. 870–870. 6 indexed citations
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Bhattacharjee, Sagarika, Bing Liang Alvin Chew, Rajan Kashyap, et al.. (2019). Could tDCS Modulate Bilingual Reading?. Brain stimulation. 12(2). 569–569. 9 indexed citations
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Pae, Hye K. & Beth A. O’Brien. (2018). Overlap and Uniqueness: Linguistic Componential Traits Contributing to Expressive Skills in English as a Foreign Language. Reading Psychology. 39(4). 384–412. 8 indexed citations
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O’Brien, Beth A., et al.. (2017). Aspectual interpretation and mass/count knowledge in Chinese-English bilinguals. Linguistic Approaches to Bilingualism. 9(3). 468–503. 2 indexed citations
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Bos, Johannes M., et al.. (2016). Starting Strong: A Randomized Controlled Trial of the Building Assets Reducing Risks (BARR) Model in 9th Grade.. Society for Research on Educational Effectiveness. 1 indexed citations
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Wallot, Sebastian, Beth A. O’Brien, Charles A. Coey, & Damian G. Kelty‐Stephen. (2015). Power-law fluctuations in eye movements predict text comprehen- sion during connected text reading.. Cognitive Science. 2583–2588. 20 indexed citations
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Wallot, Sebastian, et al.. (2014). The role of reading time complexity and reading speed in text comprehension.. Journal of Experimental Psychology Learning Memory and Cognition. 40(6). 1745–1765. 45 indexed citations
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O’Brien, Beth A. & Sebastian Wallot. (2014). Dynamical structure of silent reading fluency in bilingual students. 1 indexed citations
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O’Brien, Beth A., Maryanne Wolf, & Maureen W. Lovett. (2012). A Taxometric Investigation of Developmental Dyslexia Subtypes. Dyslexia. 18(1). 16–39. 41 indexed citations
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O’Brien, Beth A., J. Stephen Mansfield, & Gordon E. Legge. (2005). The effect of print size on reading speed in dyslexia. Journal of Research in Reading. 28(3). 332–349. 86 indexed citations
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O’Brien, Beth A., J. Stephen Mansfield, & Gordon E. Legge. (2001). Comment on letter to the editor: is dyslexia caused by a visual deficit? (Skottun, B. C., 2001). Vision Research. 41(23). 3071–3071. 1 indexed citations
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O’Brien, Beth A., J. Stephen Mansfield, & Gordon E. Legge. (2000). The effect of contrast on reading speed in dyslexia. Vision Research. 40(14). 1921–1935. 25 indexed citations
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Schmidt, R. C., Beth A. O’Brien, & Robyn Sysko. (1999). Self-organization of between-persons cooperative tasks and possible application to sport.. International journal of sport psychology. 7 indexed citations
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Schwartz, Barry, Beth A. O’Brien, William J. Evans, et al.. (1995). Abnormal saccadic eye movements associated with positive family history schizophrenics. Biological Psychiatry. 38(7). 487–491. 11 indexed citations

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