Bethany Oakley

2.0k total citations · 1 hit paper
22 papers, 664 citations indexed

About

Bethany Oakley is a scholar working on Cognitive Neuroscience, Clinical Psychology and Genetics. According to data from OpenAlex, Bethany Oakley has authored 22 papers receiving a total of 664 indexed citations (citations by other indexed papers that have themselves been cited), including 18 papers in Cognitive Neuroscience, 7 papers in Clinical Psychology and 6 papers in Genetics. Recurrent topics in Bethany Oakley's work include Autism Spectrum Disorder Research (17 papers), Genetics and Neurodevelopmental Disorders (4 papers) and Family and Disability Support Research (4 papers). Bethany Oakley is often cited by papers focused on Autism Spectrum Disorder Research (17 papers), Genetics and Neurodevelopmental Disorders (4 papers) and Family and Disability Support Research (4 papers). Bethany Oakley collaborates with scholars based in United Kingdom, Netherlands and Spain. Bethany Oakley's co-authors include Rebecca Brewer, Caroline Catmur, Geoffrey Bird, Declan Murphy, Eva Loth, Jan K. Buitelaar, Tony Charman, Daisy Crawley, Julian Tillmann and Antonia San José Cáceres and has published in prestigious journals such as PLoS ONE, Nature Reviews Drug Discovery and PLoS Biology.

In The Last Decade

Bethany Oakley

19 papers receiving 650 citations

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Theory of mind is not theory of emotion: A cautionary note on the Reading the Mind in the Eyes Test.

2016 287 citations Bethany Oakley, Rebecca Brewer et al. Journal of Abnormal Psychology profile →

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Name	h						Papers	Cites
Bethany Oakley United Kingdom	9	468	300	231	101	79	22	664
Maria Pontillo Italy	18	237 0.5×	329 1.1×	321 1.4×	83 0.8×	114 1.4×	62	831
Melania Mariano Italy	10	309 0.7×	253 0.8×	180 0.8×	93 0.9×	112 1.4×	11	526
Bram Sizoo Netherlands	16	453 1.0×	367 1.2×	306 1.3×	41 0.4×	67 0.8×	34	666
Katherine K. M. Stavropoulos United States	15	414 0.9×	199 0.7×	143 0.6×	80 0.8×	137 1.7×	30	569
Marika C. Coffman United States	13	417 0.9×	260 0.9×	111 0.5×	62 0.6×	58 0.7×	30	551
Jean‐Marc Baleyte France	14	364 0.8×	212 0.7×	186 0.8×	44 0.4×	97 1.2×	45	674
Harma Meffert United States	18	509 1.1×	472 1.6×	240 1.0×	217 2.1×	56 0.7×	32	948
Markus Bahnemann Germany	6	536 1.1×	309 1.0×	207 0.9×	277 2.7×	110 1.4×	12	904
Alexia Rattazzi Chile	12	638 1.4×	323 1.1×	253 1.1×	54 0.5×	113 1.4×	22	741
Chieko Kanai Japan	18	586 1.3×	200 0.7×	179 0.8×	54 0.5×	112 1.4×	32	711

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20 of 20 papers shown

Oakley, Bethany, Alexandra Lautarescu, Tony Charman, et al.. (2025). Data sharing in child and adolescent psychiatry research: Key challenges (and some potential solutions). Open Research Europe. 5. 93–93. 1 indexed citations

Kroupi, Eleni, Emily J. H. Jones, Bethany Oakley, et al.. (2024). Age-related differences in delta-beta phase-amplitude coupling in autistic individuals. Clinical Neurophysiology. 167. 74–83.

Pretzsch, Charlotte M., Tim Schäfer, Christine M. Freitag, et al.. (2024). Decomposing the Brain in Autism: Linking Behavioral Domains to Neuroanatomical Variation and Genomic Underpinnings. Biological Psychiatry Cognitive Neuroscience and Neuroimaging. 10(10). 1067–1077.

Méndez, María Andreina, Roberto Canitano, Bethany Oakley, et al.. (2023). Autism with co-occurring epilepsy care pathway in Europe. European Psychiatry. 66(1). e61–e61. 3 indexed citations

Oakley, Bethany, Antonia Dittner, Ann Ozsivadjian, et al.. (2023). Molehill Mountain feasibility study: Protocol for a non-randomised pilot trial of a novel app-based anxiety intervention for autistic people. PLoS ONE. 18(7). e0286792–e0286792. 1 indexed citations

Méndez, María Andreina, Bethany Oakley, Roberto Canitano, et al.. (2023). Autism care pathway in Europe. European Psychiatry. 66(1). e81–e81. 6 indexed citations

Spain, Debbie, et al.. (2023). Alexithymia in Adult Autism Clinic Service-Users: Relationships with Sensory Processing Differences and Mental Health. Healthcare. 11(24). 3114–3114. 2 indexed citations

Tinelli, Michela, Martín Knapp, Celso Arango, et al.. (2023). Economic analysis of early intervention for autistic children: findings from four case studies in England, Ireland, Italy, and Spain. European Psychiatry. 66(1). e76–e76. 3 indexed citations

Haak, Koen V., Thomas Wolfers, Dorothea L. Floris, et al.. (2023). Fine-grained topographic organization within somatosensory cortex during resting-state and emotional face-matching task and its association with ASD traits. Translational Psychiatry. 13(1). 270–270. 5 indexed citations

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Llera, Alberto, Michael Brammer, Bethany Oakley, et al.. (2022). Evaluation of data imputation strategies in complex, deeply-phenotyped data sets: the case of the EU-AIMS Longitudinal European Autism Project. BMC Medical Research Methodology. 22(1). 229–229. 7 indexed citations

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Loth, Eva, Jumana Ahmad, Chris Chatham, et al.. (2021). The meaning of significant mean group differences for biomarker discovery. PLoS Computational Biology. 17(11). e1009477–e1009477. 26 indexed citations

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Oakley, Bethany, Julian Tillmann, Amber Ruigrok, et al.. (2021). COVID-19 health and social care access for autistic people: European policy review. BMJ Open. 11(6). e045341–e045341. 30 indexed citations

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Oakley, Bethany, Eva Loth, & Declan Murphy. (2021). Autism and mood disorders. International Review of Psychiatry. 33(3). 280–299. 23 indexed citations

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Oakley, Bethany, Julian Tillmann, Amber Ruigrok, et al.. (2021). COVID-19 health and social care access for autistic people: European policy review. Zenodo (CERN European Organization for Nuclear Research). 2 indexed citations

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Oakley, Bethany, Emily J. H. Jones, Daisy Crawley, et al.. (2020). Alexithymia in autism: cross-sectional and longitudinal associations with social-communication difficulties, anxiety and depression symptoms. Psychological Medicine. 52(8). 1458–1470. 52 indexed citations

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Crawley, Daisy, Lei Zhang, Emily J. H. Jones, et al.. (2020). Modeling flexible behavior in childhood to adulthood shows age-dependent learning mechanisms and less optimal learning in autism in each age group. PLoS Biology. 18(10). e3000908–e3000908. 37 indexed citations

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Oakley, Bethany, Julian Tillmann, Amber Ruigrok, et al.. (2020). COVID-19 health and social care access for autistic people and individuals with intellectual disability: A European policy review.. Research Portal (King's College London). 8 indexed citations

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Oakley, Bethany, Julian Tillmann, Jumana Ahmad, et al.. (2020). How do core autism traits and associated symptoms relate to quality of life? Findings from the Longitudinal European Autism Project. Autism. 25(2). 389–404. 74 indexed citations

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Tillmann, Julian, Antonia San José Cáceres, Chris Chatham, et al.. (2019). Investigating the factors underlying adaptive functioning in autism in the EU‐AIMS Longitudinal European Autism Project. Autism Research. 12(4). 645–657. 93 indexed citations

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Oakley, Bethany, Rebecca Brewer, Geoffrey Bird, & Caroline Catmur. (2016). Theory of mind is not theory of emotion: A cautionary note on the Reading the Mind in the Eyes Test.. Journal of Abnormal Psychology. 125(6). 818–823. 287 indexed citations breakdown →

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