Charles A. Perfetti

32.9k total citations · 7 hit papers
273 papers, 20.7k citations indexed

About

Charles A. Perfetti is a scholar working on Developmental and Educational Psychology, Cognitive Neuroscience and Artificial Intelligence. According to data from OpenAlex, Charles A. Perfetti has authored 273 papers receiving a total of 20.7k indexed citations (citations by other indexed papers that have themselves been cited), including 189 papers in Developmental and Educational Psychology, 128 papers in Cognitive Neuroscience and 51 papers in Artificial Intelligence. Recurrent topics in Charles A. Perfetti's work include Reading and Literacy Development (172 papers), Neurobiology of Language and Bilingualism (116 papers) and Second Language Acquisition and Learning (42 papers). Charles A. Perfetti is often cited by papers focused on Reading and Literacy Development (172 papers), Neurobiology of Language and Bilingualism (116 papers) and Second Language Acquisition and Learning (42 papers). Charles A. Perfetti collaborates with scholars based in United States, China and Hong Kong. Charles A. Perfetti's co-authors include Laura C. Bell, Li Tan, Thomas W. Hogaboam, Joseph Z. Stafura, Isabel L. Beck, Lesley Hart, Alan M. Lesgold, Sulan Zhang, Walter Schneider and Margaret G. McKeown and has published in prestigious journals such as Nature, Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences and Journal of Neuroscience.

In The Last Decade

Charles A. Perfetti

265 papers receiving 18.5k citations

Hit Papers

Reading Ability: Lexical Qualit... 1975 2026 1992 2009 2007 2013 2001 1987 1982 400 800 1.2k
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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.

  1. Reading Ability: Lexical Quality to Comprehension
    2007 1.4k citations Charles A. Perfetti profile →
  2. Word Knowledge in a Theory of Reading Comprehension
    2013 776 citations Charles A. Perfetti, Joseph Z. Stafura profile →
  3. How Psychological Science Informs the Teaching of Reading
    2001 638 citations Charles A. Perfetti et al. profile →
  4. Phonemic knowledge and learning to read are reciprocal: A longitudinal study of first grade children.
    1987 595 citations Charles A. Perfetti et al. profile →
  5. Effects of long-term vocabulary instruction on lexical access and reading comprehension.
    1982 508 citations Charles A. Perfetti et al. profile →
  6. Relationship between single word decoding and reading comprehension skill.
    1975 418 citations Charles A. Perfetti et al. profile →
  7. The Knowledge‐Learning‐Instruction Framework: Bridging the Science‐Practice Chasm to Enhance Robust Student Learning
    2012 417 citations Charles A. Perfetti et al. profile →

Peers — A (Enhanced Table)

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

Name h Career Trend Papers Cites
Charles A. Perfetti United States 75 16.8k 9.2k 5.0k 3.6k 3.5k 273 20.7k
Charles Hulme United Kingdom 85 18.6k 1.1× 8.9k 1.0× 6.5k 1.3× 5.8k 1.6× 3.2k 0.9× 248 23.5k
Mark S. Seidenberg United States 71 17.9k 1.1× 15.3k 1.7× 2.5k 0.5× 3.2k 0.9× 5.2k 1.5× 183 24.4k
Max Coltheart Australia 76 15.3k 0.9× 17.9k 2.0× 3.1k 0.6× 3.4k 0.9× 5.5k 1.6× 358 27.7k
Rebecca Treiman United States 61 10.4k 0.6× 4.1k 0.4× 4.7k 0.9× 1.9k 0.5× 2.8k 0.8× 225 12.8k
Usha Goswami United Kingdom 72 14.3k 0.9× 9.5k 1.0× 4.2k 0.8× 4.7k 1.3× 2.5k 0.7× 228 18.0k
Ellen Bialystok Canada 90 19.3k 1.1× 16.7k 1.8× 3.3k 0.7× 1.2k 0.3× 5.0k 1.4× 273 30.5k
Margaret J. Snowling United Kingdom 80 21.4k 1.3× 7.9k 0.9× 7.6k 1.5× 7.3k 2.0× 1.3k 0.4× 236 23.9k
Annette Karmiloff‐Smith United Kingdom 65 7.6k 0.5× 5.6k 0.6× 2.1k 0.4× 1.6k 0.4× 2.4k 0.7× 254 17.4k
Marc Brysbaert Belgium 75 11.9k 0.7× 13.9k 1.5× 1.2k 0.2× 1.7k 0.5× 6.8k 2.0× 267 23.5k
Jane Oakhill United Kingdom 51 7.4k 0.4× 2.8k 0.3× 2.7k 0.5× 1.8k 0.5× 1.4k 0.4× 161 9.9k

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All Works

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Chen, Lin, et al.. (2025). Surprisal in reading: language models predict the N400 for L2 readers. Language Cognition and Neuroscience. 41(1). 136–155. 1 indexed citations
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Chen, Lin, Yi Xu, & Charles A. Perfetti. (2024). Acquiring the structure of a writing system is important in learning to read: a test of the character-word dual-focus approach in learning Chinese as a second language. Bilingualism Language and Cognition. 28(4). 1056–1067. 2 indexed citations
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Chen, Lin, Charles A. Perfetti, & Yi Xu. (2024). Orthographic and Meaning Processes in Reading Chinese Compounds: Comparisons Between L1 and L2 Reading. Journal of Psycholinguistic Research. 54(1). 1–1.
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Chen, Lin, Yi Xu, & Charles A. Perfetti. (2023). A character-word dual function model of reading Chinese: evidence from reading Chinese compounds. Reading and Writing. 37(9). 2429–2455. 3 indexed citations
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Siok, Wai Ting, et al.. (2020). A Lifespan fMRI Study of Neurodevelopment Associated with Reading Chinese. Cerebral Cortex. 30(7). 4140–4157. 23 indexed citations
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Helder, Anne, Charles A. Perfetti, & Paul van den Broek. (2020). Thematic influences on word-to-text integration across a sentence boundary. Language Cognition and Neuroscience. 35(10). 1239–1256. 2 indexed citations
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Ortega-Llebaría, Marta, et al.. (2020). The contribution of orthographic input, phonological skills, and rise time discrimination to the learning of non-native phonemic contrasts. Applied Psycholinguistics. 41(3). 481–516. 3 indexed citations
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Perfetti, Charles A., et al.. (2019). The Effect of Key-image Mnemonics to Support Character Learning of Chinese-as-Foreign-Language Learners. 16(2). 31–74. 2 indexed citations
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Helder, Anne, et al.. (2018). ERP Indicators of local and global text influences on word-to-text integration. Language Cognition and Neuroscience. 34(1). 13–28. 6 indexed citations
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Xu, Yi, et al.. (2013). Reading, Writing, and Animation in Character Learning in Chinese as a Foreign Language. Foreign Language Annals. 46(3). 423–444. 58 indexed citations
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Frishkoff, Gwen A., Kevyn Collins‐Thompson, Charles A. Perfetti, & Jamie Callan. (2008). Measuring incremental changes in word knowledge: Experimental validation and implications for learning and assessment. Behavior Research Methods. 40(4). 907–925. 33 indexed citations
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Schmalhofer, Franz & Charles A. Perfetti. (2007). Higher Level Language Processes in the Brain : Inference and Comprehension Processes. Psychology Press eBooks. 168 indexed citations
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Goldberg, Robert F., Charles A. Perfetti, & Walter Schneider. (2006). Perceptual Knowledge Retrieval Activates Sensory Brain Regions. Journal of Neuroscience. 26(18). 4917–4921. 199 indexed citations
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Tan, Li, John A. Spinks, Ching‐Mei Feng, et al.. (2003). Neural systems of second language reading are shaped by native language. Human Brain Mapping. 18(3). 158–166. 285 indexed citations
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Tan, Li, Ho‐Ling Liu, Charles A. Perfetti, et al.. (2001). The Neural System Underlying Chinese Logograph Reading. NeuroImage. 13(5). 836–846. 366 indexed citations
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Small, Steven L., Martha W. Burton, Charles A. Perfetti, & Douglas C. Noll. (1999). Sentence listening with and without responding. Brain and Language. 69(3). 325–328. 1 indexed citations
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Foltz, Peter W., M. Anne Britt, & Charles A. Perfetti. (1996). Reasoning from multiple texts: An automatic analysis of readers' situation models. eScholarship (California Digital Library). 19 indexed citations
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