Bruce D. Homer

6.4k total citations · 3 hit papers
58 papers, 3.7k citations indexed

About

Bruce D. Homer is a scholar working on Developmental and Educational Psychology, Experimental and Cognitive Psychology and Education. According to data from OpenAlex, Bruce D. Homer has authored 58 papers receiving a total of 3.7k indexed citations (citations by other indexed papers that have themselves been cited), including 33 papers in Developmental and Educational Psychology, 24 papers in Experimental and Cognitive Psychology and 24 papers in Education. Recurrent topics in Bruce D. Homer's work include Visual and Cognitive Learning Processes (11 papers), Cognitive Abilities and Testing (11 papers) and Child and Animal Learning Development (10 papers). Bruce D. Homer is often cited by papers focused on Visual and Cognitive Learning Processes (11 papers), Cognitive Abilities and Testing (11 papers) and Child and Animal Learning Development (10 papers). Bruce D. Homer collaborates with scholars based in United States, Canada and Australia. Bruce D. Homer's co-authors include Jan L. Plass, Elizabeth O. Hayward, Charles K. Kinzer, Steffi Heidig, Patricia J. Brooks, Janet Wilde Astington, Janette Pelletier, Teresa Ober, Perry N. Halkitis and Todd M. Solomon and has published in prestigious journals such as Psychological Bulletin, Child Development and Journal of Educational Psychology.

In The Last Decade

Bruce D. Homer

56 papers receiving 3.5k 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.

Foundations of Game-Based Learning

2015 809 citations Jan L. Plass, Bruce D. Homer et al. profile →
Emotional design in multimedia learning.

2011 384 citations Jan L. Plass, Elizabeth O. Hayward et al. profile →
Emotional design in multimedia learning: Effects of shape and color on affect and learning

2013 357 citations Jan L. Plass, Elizabeth O. Hayward et al. Learning and Instruction profile →

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Name	h						Papers	Cites
Bruce D. Homer United States	25	2.0k	1.2k	1.1k	565	479	58	3.7k
Friedrich W. Hesse Germany	31	1.3k 0.7×	955 0.8×	970 0.9×	786 1.4×	616 1.3×	107	4.0k
David J. Shernoff United States	17	1.6k 0.8×	1.5k 1.2×	441 0.4×	595 1.1×	209 0.4×	31	3.5k
Olusola Adesope United States	28	2.2k 1.1×	2.0k 1.6×	1.0k 0.9×	392 0.7×	580 1.2×	136	4.8k
Logan Fiorella United States	27	1.3k 0.7×	1.2k 1.0×	1.3k 1.2×	386 0.7×	310 0.6×	58	2.9k
Lucia Masón Italy	40	2.9k 1.4×	2.8k 2.3×	1.1k 1.1×	416 0.7×	218 0.5×	124	4.7k
Charles Crook United Kingdom	27	1.3k 0.6×	1.3k 1.0×	388 0.4×	471 0.8×	515 1.1×	97	3.4k
Fengfeng Ke United States	34	2.3k 1.2×	2.0k 1.6×	302 0.3×	282 0.5×	428 0.9×	119	4.4k
Tina Seufert Germany	26	1.1k 0.5×	816 0.7×	1.3k 1.2×	392 0.7×	270 0.6×	58	2.7k
David Messer United Kingdom	35	2.1k 1.0×	1.3k 1.1×	564 0.5×	257 0.5×	1.1k 2.3×	144	4.0k
Richard Riding United Kingdom	31	2.6k 1.3×	1.6k 1.3×	1.2k 1.1×	1.1k 2.0×	395 0.8×	105	4.4k

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Callaghan, Tara C., Tyler Colasante, Muhammad Saifullah, et al.. (2024). Fostering Prosociality in Refugee Children: An Intervention With Rohingya Children. Monographs of the Society for Research in Child Development. 89(1-2). 7–109.

Chen, Ming, et al.. (2022). Language, ambiguity, and executive functions in adolescents' theory of mind. Child Development. 94(1). 202–218. 3 indexed citations

Ober, Teresa, et al.. (2021). Detecting patterns of engagement in a digital cognitive skills training game. Computers & Education. 165. 104144–104144. 6 indexed citations

Białecka‐Pikul, Marta, et al.. (2021). Measuring advanced theory of mind: Do story‐based tasks work?. Journal of Adolescence. 93(1). 28–39. 5 indexed citations

Plass, Jan L., et al.. (2019). Emotional Design for Digital Games for Learning: The Affective Quality of Expression, Color, Shape, and Dimensionality of Game Characters.. Grantee Submission. 1 indexed citations

Donnelly, Seamus, Patricia J. Brooks, & Bruce D. Homer. (2019). Is there a bilingual advantage on interference-control tasks? A multiverse meta-analysis of global reaction time and interference cost. Psychonomic Bulletin & Review. 26(4). 1122–1147. 104 indexed citations

Ali, Alisha, et al.. (2019). In the Service of Science: Veteran-Led Research in the Investigation of a Theatre-Based Posttraumatic Stress Disorder Treatment. Journal of Humanistic Psychology. 63(6). 782–800. 4 indexed citations

Plass, Jan L., et al.. (2019). Emotional design for digital games for learning: The effect of expression, color, shape, and dimensionality on the affective quality of game characters. Learning and Instruction. 70. 101194–101194. 80 indexed citations

Şirin, Selçuk, et al.. (2018). Digital game-based education for Syrian refugee children: Project Hope. Vulnerable Children and Youth Studies. 13(1). 7–18. 41 indexed citations

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Plass, Jan L., et al.. (2018). The effect of adaptive difficulty adjustment on the effectiveness of a game to develop executive function skills for learners of different ages. Cognitive Development. 49. 56–67. 35 indexed citations

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Homer, Bruce D., et al.. (2017). Improving high school students' executive functions through digital game play. Computers & Education. 117. 50–58. 68 indexed citations

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Hayward, Elizabeth O., Bruce D. Homer, & Manuel Sprung. (2016). Developmental Trends in Flexibility and Automaticity of Social Cognition. Child Development. 89(3). 914–928. 8 indexed citations

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Donnelly, Seamus, Patricia J. Brooks, & Bruce D. Homer. (2015). Examining the Bilingual Advantage on Conflict Resolution Tasks: A Meta-Analysis.. Cognitive Science. 23 indexed citations

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Homer, Bruce D. & Jan L. Plass. (2015). Innovating Randomized Effectiveness Trials: The Case of an Adaptive Learning Engine for E-Learning in High Schools. E-Learn: World Conference on E-Learning in Corporate, Government, Healthcare, and Higher Education. 2015(1). 1105–1114. 2 indexed citations

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Sprung, Manuel, et al.. (2014). Designing games for emotional health. 123–140. 1 indexed citations

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Homer, Bruce D., Perry N. Halkitis, Robert W. Moeller, & Todd M. Solomon. (2012). Methamphetamine use and HIV in relation to social cognition. Journal of Health Psychology. 18(7). 900–910. 18 indexed citations

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Halkitis, Perry N., et al.. (2009). Methamphetamine Use among Gay, Bisexual and Non-identified Men-Who-Have-Sex-with-Men. Journal of Health Psychology. 14(2). 222–231. 22 indexed citations

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Homer, Bruce D., et al.. (2008). Methamphetamine abuse and impairment of social functioning: A review of the underlying neurophysiological causes and behavioral implications.. Psychological Bulletin. 134(2). 301–310. 212 indexed citations

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Homer, Bruce D., et al.. (2007). The effects of video on cognitive load and social presence in multimedia-learning. Computers in Human Behavior. 24(3). 786–797. 181 indexed citations

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Homer, Bruce D., et al.. (1999). Making implicit explicit: The role of learning. Behavioral and Brain Sciences. 22(5). 770–770. 3 indexed citations

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