Daniel Shanahan

2.5k total citations · 1 hit paper
42 papers, 1.2k citations indexed

About

Daniel Shanahan is a scholar working on Cognitive Neuroscience, Signal Processing and Experimental and Cognitive Psychology. According to data from OpenAlex, Daniel Shanahan has authored 42 papers receiving a total of 1.2k indexed citations (citations by other indexed papers that have themselves been cited), including 15 papers in Cognitive Neuroscience, 14 papers in Signal Processing and 9 papers in Experimental and Cognitive Psychology. Recurrent topics in Daniel Shanahan's work include Music and Audio Processing (14 papers), Neuroscience and Music Perception (14 papers) and Music Technology and Sound Studies (8 papers). Daniel Shanahan is often cited by papers focused on Music and Audio Processing (14 papers), Neuroscience and Music Perception (14 papers) and Music Technology and Sound Studies (8 papers). Daniel Shanahan collaborates with scholars based in United States, United Kingdom and France. Daniel Shanahan's co-authors include David Huron, N. E. Anderson, Darrell Conklin, Peter Sedlmeier, Thomas Schäfer, Emily M. Elliott, Matthew Calamia, Daniel Müllensiefen, Timo Fischinger and David Baker and has published in prestigious journals such as SHILAP Revista de lepidopterología, The Journal of the Acoustical Society of America and Modern Language Journal.

In The Last Decade

Daniel Shanahan

33 papers receiving 1.0k citations

Hit Papers

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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.

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Peers — A (Enhanced Table)

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

Name h Career Trend Papers Cites
Daniel Shanahan United States 12 370 300 177 171 117 42 1.2k
Jonathan Sterne Canada 15 356 1.0× 299 1.0× 188 1.1× 94 0.5× 44 0.4× 57 1.6k
Kristin Thompson Canada 9 375 1.0× 98 0.3× 397 2.2× 95 0.6× 53 0.5× 30 1.4k
Andrew Hardie United Kingdom 20 174 0.5× 167 0.6× 427 2.4× 37 0.2× 31 0.3× 71 1.9k
David Bordwell United States 19 791 2.1× 178 0.6× 982 5.5× 256 1.5× 69 0.6× 70 3.0k
Benjamin H. Detenber Singapore 22 939 2.5× 640 2.1× 410 2.3× 224 1.3× 28 0.2× 47 1.9k
John R. Rickford United States 23 268 0.7× 105 0.3× 490 2.8× 50 0.3× 45 0.4× 56 2.8k
Carol Myers‐Scotton United States 26 303 0.8× 191 0.6× 740 4.2× 278 1.6× 19 0.2× 53 3.9k
Christian von Scheve Germany 18 757 2.0× 103 0.3× 88 0.5× 244 1.4× 26 0.2× 66 1.6k
Daniel Chandler United Kingdom 14 294 0.8× 177 0.6× 280 1.6× 61 0.4× 10 0.1× 27 1.2k
Philip Auslander United States 17 496 1.3× 84 0.3× 329 1.9× 67 0.4× 14 0.1× 68 2.0k

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Co-authorship network of co-authors of Daniel Shanahan

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All Works

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Shanahan, Daniel, et al.. (2025). Modes in Klezmer Music. Music Theory Online. 31(3).
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Shanahan, Daniel, et al.. (2022). Community Based Music Information Retrieval: A Case Study of Digitizing Historical Klezmer Manuscripts from Kyiv. SHILAP Revista de lepidopterología. 5(1). 208–208.
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Chen, Emily, et al.. (2021). Dropping the bass: The relationship between heart rate and expectation in electronic dance music (A preliminary report). The Knowledge Bank (The Ohio State University). 1 indexed citations
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Shanahan, Daniel, et al.. (2020). The Expression of Self and Grief in the Nineteenth Century: An Analysis through Distant Readings. Nineteenth-Century Music Review. 18(1). 83–107.
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Shanahan, Daniel, et al.. (2019). Examining the Effect of Oral Transmission on Folksongs. Music Perception An Interdisciplinary Journal. 36(3). 273–288. 5 indexed citations
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Müllensiefen, Daniel, Kelly Jakubowski, Daniel Shanahan, et al.. (2018). Decoding emotions in expressive music performances: A multi-lab replication and extension study. Cognition & Emotion. 33(6). 1099–1118. 23 indexed citations
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Shanahan, Daniel. (2017). Editor's Note. SHILAP Revista de lepidopterología. 11(2). 108–108. 1 indexed citations
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Shanahan, Daniel, et al.. (2017). Supervised descriptive pattern discovery in Native American music. Journal of New Music Research. 47(1). 1–16. 7 indexed citations
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Shanahan, Daniel, et al.. (2016). Phrase Rhythm in Standard Jazz Repertoire: A Taxonomy and Corpus Study. 11(1). 1–39. 5 indexed citations
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Shanahan, Daniel, et al.. (2016). Mining Musical Traits Of Social Functions In Native American Music.. Zenodo (CERN European Organization for Nuclear Research). 681–687. 7 indexed citations
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Schäfer, Thomas, David Huron, Daniel Shanahan, & Peter Sedlmeier. (2015). The sounds of safety: stress and danger in music perception. Frontiers in Psychology. 6. 1140–1140. 15 indexed citations
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Huron, David, N. E. Anderson, & Daniel Shanahan. (2014). “You Can’t Play a Sad Song on the Banjo:” Acoustic Factors in the Judgment of Instrument Capacity to Convey Sadness. SHILAP Revista de lepidopterología. 9(1). 29–41. 21 indexed citations
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Shanahan, Daniel, et al.. (2013). The Use of Large Corpora to Train a New Type of Key-Finding Algorithm. Music Perception An Interdisciplinary Journal. 31(1). 59–67. 28 indexed citations
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Shanahan, Daniel, et al.. (2013). Diachronic Changes in Jazz Harmony. Music Perception An Interdisciplinary Journal. 31(1). 32–45. 32 indexed citations
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Shanahan, Daniel. (2008). A New View of Language, Emotion and the Brain. Integrative Psychological and Behavioral Science. 42(1). 6–19. 13 indexed citations
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Shanahan, Daniel. (1996). The Army Motif in 'The Red Badge of Courage' as a Response to Industrial Capitalism. 32(4). 399.
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Shanahan, Daniel, et al.. (1994). Toward a Genealogy of Individualism.. The American Historical Review. 99(1). 184–184. 6 indexed citations
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Shanahan, Daniel. (1993). English Department Reforms at the Hautes Etudes Commerciales: Entering the Nineties. ADFL Bulletin. 22–28. 4 indexed citations
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Shanahan, Daniel. (1987). Habits of the heart: Individualism and commitment in American life. The Social Science Journal. 24(2). 229–231. 74 indexed citations
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Shanahan, Daniel. (1979). Toward a Redefinition of Relevance.. Educational leadership. 36(7).

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