Daniel Ansari

15.8k total citations · 4 hit papers
174 papers, 10.0k citations indexed

About

Daniel Ansari is a scholar working on Statistics and Probability, Education and Developmental and Educational Psychology. According to data from OpenAlex, Daniel Ansari has authored 174 papers receiving a total of 10.0k indexed citations (citations by other indexed papers that have themselves been cited), including 139 papers in Statistics and Probability, 85 papers in Education and 73 papers in Developmental and Educational Psychology. Recurrent topics in Daniel Ansari's work include Cognitive and developmental aspects of mathematical skills (139 papers), Mathematics Education and Teaching Techniques (78 papers) and Reading and Literacy Development (64 papers). Daniel Ansari is often cited by papers focused on Cognitive and developmental aspects of mathematical skills (139 papers), Mathematics Education and Teaching Techniques (78 papers) and Reading and Literacy Development (64 papers). Daniel Ansari collaborates with scholars based in Canada, United States and Belgium. Daniel Ansari's co-authors include Ian D. Holloway, Ian M. Lyons, Bert De Smedt, Gavin R. Price, Bibek Dhital, Stephanie Bugden, Donna Coch, Roland H. Grabner, Jonathan A. Fugelsang and Camilla Gilmore and has published in prestigious journals such as Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, Neuron and Journal of Neuroscience.

In The Last Decade

Daniel Ansari

171 papers receiving 9.6k citations

Hit Papers

Effects of development and enculturation on number repres... 2008 2026 2014 2020 2008 2008 2013 2014 100 200 300 400 500
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.

  1. Effects of development and enculturation on number representation in the brain
    2008 529 citations Daniel Ansari profile →
  2. Mapping numerical magnitudes onto symbols: The numerical distance effect and individual differences in children’s mathematics achievement
    2008 517 citations Daniel Ansari et al. profile →
  3. How do symbolic and non-symbolic numerical magnitude processing skills relate to individual differences in children's mathematical skills? A review of evidence from brain and behavior
    2013 467 citations Bert De Smedt, Daniel Ansari et al. profile →
  4. Numerical predictors of arithmetic success in grades 1–6
    2014 296 citations Ian M. Lyons, Gavin R. Price 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
Daniel Ansari Canada 58 7.5k 4.9k 4.7k 4.1k 1.1k 174 10.0k
Michèle M. M. Mazzocco United States 44 4.1k 0.6× 3.3k 0.7× 2.9k 0.6× 1.9k 0.5× 688 0.6× 119 7.1k
Pol Ghesquière Belgium 46 2.8k 0.4× 2.1k 0.4× 3.9k 0.8× 2.8k 0.7× 695 0.6× 243 7.1k
Dénes Szűcs United Kingdom 45 2.9k 0.4× 2.1k 0.4× 2.1k 0.4× 2.1k 0.5× 1.8k 1.7× 115 6.1k
Rebecca Bull United Kingdom 32 2.8k 0.4× 2.6k 0.5× 3.2k 0.7× 1.8k 0.5× 1.7k 1.5× 104 6.7k
Margaret J. Snowling United Kingdom 80 7.3k 1.0× 7.6k 1.6× 21.4k 4.6× 7.9k 1.9× 1.3k 1.2× 236 23.9k
Cesare Cornoldi Italy 50 1.8k 0.2× 1.4k 0.3× 3.8k 0.8× 3.8k 0.9× 2.3k 2.1× 289 8.4k
Hans‐Christoph Nuerk Germany 46 5.4k 0.7× 3.1k 0.6× 3.5k 0.8× 2.4k 0.6× 1.2k 1.1× 224 6.9k
Irene C. Mammarella Italy 40 1.4k 0.2× 1.1k 0.2× 1.5k 0.3× 1.4k 0.4× 1.4k 1.3× 144 4.4k
Martin H. Fischer Germany 47 4.7k 0.6× 2.3k 0.5× 3.6k 0.8× 4.5k 1.1× 2.2k 2.0× 226 9.0k
Kate Nation United Kingdom 54 2.0k 0.3× 3.0k 0.6× 8.2k 1.7× 4.4k 1.1× 681 0.6× 137 9.8k

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All Works

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McNeil, Nicole M., et al.. (2025). What the Science of Learning Teaches Us About Arithmetic Fluency. PubMed. 26(1). 10–57.
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Joanisse, Marc F., et al.. (2024). Early cognitive predictors of language, literacy, and mathematics outcomes in the primary grades. Early Childhood Research Quarterly. 70. 187–198. 1 indexed citations
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Odgers, Candice L., et al.. (2023). Elementary school teachers’ perspectives about learning during the COVID-19 pandemic. npj Science of Learning. 8(1). 40–40. 7 indexed citations
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Wilkey, Eric D., et al.. (2023). The mathematical brain at rest. Current Opinion in Behavioral Sciences. 49. 101246–101246. 4 indexed citations
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Sokolowski, H. Moriah, Zachary Hawes, & Daniel Ansari. (2022). The neural correlates of retrieval and procedural strategies in mental arithmetic: A functional neuroimaging meta‐analysis. Human Brain Mapping. 44(1). 229–244. 15 indexed citations
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Hawes, Zachary, et al.. (2022). Disentangling the individual and contextual effects of math anxiety: A global perspective. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences. 119(7). 40 indexed citations
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Wilkey, Eric D., Mojtaba Soltanlou, L. Peters, et al.. (2022). Numeracy and COVID-19: examining interrelationships between numeracy, health numeracy and behaviour. Royal Society Open Science. 9(3). 201303–201303. 8 indexed citations
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Cachia, Arnaud, et al.. (2021). Sulcation of the intraparietal sulcus is related to symbolic but not non-symbolic number skills. Developmental Cognitive Neuroscience. 51. 100998–100998. 8 indexed citations
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Merkley, Rebecca, et al.. (2021). Kindergarteners’ symbolic number abilities predict nonsymbolic number abilities and math achievement in grade 1.. Developmental Psychology. 57(4). 471–488. 16 indexed citations
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Peters, L., et al.. (2021). Rich-club structure contributes to individual variance of reading skills via feeder connections in children with reading disabilities. Developmental Cognitive Neuroscience. 49. 100957–100957. 11 indexed citations
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Bellon, Elien, Wim Fias, Daniel Ansari, & Bert De Smedt. (2020). The neural basis of metacognitive monitoring during arithmetic in the developing brain. Human Brain Mapping. 41(16). 4562–4573. 15 indexed citations
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Ansari, Daniel, et al.. (2019). Small Numerosity Discrimination (Cross-Modal). OSF Preprints (OSF Preprints). 1 indexed citations
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Wilkey, Eric D. & Daniel Ansari. (2019). Challenging the neurobiological link between number sense and symbolic numerical abilities. Annals of the New York Academy of Sciences. 1464(1). 76–98. 42 indexed citations
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Merkley, Rebecca, Benjamin Conrad, Gavin R. Price, & Daniel Ansari. (2019). Investigating the visual number form area: a replication study. Royal Society Open Science. 6(10). 182067–182067. 4 indexed citations
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Lyons, Ian M., et al.. (2018). More Similar Than Different: Gender Differences in Children's Basic Numerical Skills Are the Exception Not the Rule. Child Development. 90(1). e66–e79. 63 indexed citations
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Leibovich, Tali & Daniel Ansari. (2017). Accumulation of non‐numerical evidence during nonsymbolic number processing in the brain: An fMRI study. Human Brain Mapping. 38(10). 4908–4921. 10 indexed citations
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Ansari, Daniel, et al.. (2016). Individual Subitizing Range (ISR). OSF Preprints (OSF Preprints). 1 indexed citations

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