Daniel Smilek

15.3k total citations · 2 hit papers
194 papers, 10.3k citations indexed

About

Daniel Smilek is a scholar working on Cognitive Neuroscience, Experimental and Cognitive Psychology and Social Psychology. According to data from OpenAlex, Daniel Smilek has authored 194 papers receiving a total of 10.3k indexed citations (citations by other indexed papers that have themselves been cited), including 167 papers in Cognitive Neuroscience, 89 papers in Experimental and Cognitive Psychology and 23 papers in Social Psychology. Recurrent topics in Daniel Smilek's work include Mind wandering and attention (101 papers), Neural and Behavioral Psychology Studies (88 papers) and Visual perception and processing mechanisms (40 papers). Daniel Smilek is often cited by papers focused on Mind wandering and attention (101 papers), Neural and Behavioral Psychology Studies (88 papers) and Visual perception and processing mechanisms (40 papers). Daniel Smilek collaborates with scholars based in Canada, United States and United Kingdom. Daniel Smilek's co-authors include Paul Seli, John D. Eastwood, Jonathan S. A. Carriere, Philip M. Merikle, James Allan Cheyne, J. Allan Cheyne, Mike J. Dixon, Evan F. Risko, Alexandra Frischen and David R. Thomson and has published in prestigious journals such as Nature, Neuron and Psychological Bulletin.

In The Last Decade

Daniel Smilek

185 papers receiving 10.0k citations

Hit Papers

The Unengaged Mind 2012 2026 2016 2021 2012 2018 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. The Unengaged Mind
    2012 572 citations Daniel Smilek et al. profile →
  2. Mind-Wandering as a Natural Kind: A Family-Resemblances View
    2018 248 citations Paul Seli, Daniel Smilek et al. profile →

Author Peers

Peers are selected by citation overlap in the author's most active subfields. citations · hero ref

Author Last Decade Papers Cites
Daniel Smilek 8.0k 4.7k 1.6k 1.1k 878 194 10.3k
Elaine Fox 5.7k 0.7× 4.7k 1.0× 1.4k 0.9× 2.1k 2.0× 783 0.9× 152 9.8k
Harald T. Schupp 7.6k 0.9× 3.6k 0.8× 1.9k 1.2× 1.6k 1.5× 412 0.5× 139 11.0k
Manuel G. Calvo 5.7k 0.7× 5.0k 1.1× 2.3k 1.4× 2.1k 2.0× 1.5k 1.7× 143 10.7k
David Sander 4.7k 0.6× 3.2k 0.7× 2.5k 1.5× 1.1k 1.1× 375 0.4× 187 8.9k
Francisco Esteves 4.7k 0.6× 2.4k 0.5× 1.9k 1.2× 673 0.6× 404 0.5× 94 6.8k
Nilli Lavie 13.1k 1.6× 4.2k 0.9× 2.2k 1.4× 445 0.4× 904 1.0× 130 15.4k
Mathias Benedek 8.0k 1.0× 8.7k 1.9× 2.3k 1.4× 832 0.8× 1.2k 1.4× 160 12.6k
Lauri Nummenmaa 5.5k 0.7× 2.6k 0.6× 2.6k 1.6× 1.2k 1.2× 421 0.5× 196 9.6k
Andréas Fink 6.4k 0.8× 5.5k 1.2× 1.8k 1.1× 951 0.9× 951 1.1× 255 10.5k
Kalina Christoff 8.8k 1.1× 4.0k 0.9× 1.4k 0.9× 1.8k 1.7× 760 0.9× 69 11.4k

Countries citing papers authored by Daniel Smilek

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Fields of papers citing papers by Daniel Smilek

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Physical SciencesHealth SciencesLife SciencesSocial Sciences

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Co-authorship network of co-authors of Daniel Smilek

This figure shows the co-authorship network connecting the top 25 collaborators of Daniel Smilek. A scholar is included among the top collaborators of Daniel Smilek based on the total number of citations received by their joint publications. Widths of edges represent the number of papers authors have co-authored together. Node borders signify the number of papers an author published with Daniel Smilek. Daniel Smilek is excluded from the visualization to improve readability, since they are connected to all nodes in the network.

All Works

20 of 20 papers shown
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Safati, Adrian B., Thomas H. Carr, Cassandra J. Lowe, & Daniel Smilek. (2024). Mind wandering on command. Frontiers in Psychology. 15. 1448226–1448226.
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Carriere, Jonathan S. A., et al.. (2024). The impact of a global pandemic on undergraduate learning experiences: lifting the restrictions. European Journal of Psychology of Education. 39(3). 2435–2459. 1 indexed citations
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Marty-Dugas, Jeremy, et al.. (2023). Examining the relation between oral contraceptive use and attentional engagement in everyday life. Frontiers in Human Neuroscience. 17. 1147515–1147515. 3 indexed citations
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Carriere, Jonathan S. A., et al.. (2023). Examining the relation between perfectionism and mind-wandering. Journal of Research in Personality. 104. 104379–104379. 1 indexed citations
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Ralph, Brandon C. W., et al.. (2023). Do Rising Opportunity Costs Lead to Increases in Media Multitasking Over Time?. Media Psychology. 27(1). 135–160. 2 indexed citations
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Smilek, Daniel, et al.. (2023). Comparing attentional disengagement between Prolific and MTurk samples. Scientific Reports. 13(1). 20574–20574. 48 indexed citations
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Ralph, Brandon C. W., et al.. (2023). The relation between trait flow and engagement, understanding, and grades in undergraduate lectures. British Journal of Educational Psychology. 93(3). 742–757. 7 indexed citations
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Smilek, Daniel, et al.. (2023). The relations between hyperfocus and similar attentional states, adult ADHD symptoms, and affective dysfunction. Current Psychology. 43(12). 11254–11266. 2 indexed citations
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Ralph, Brandon C. W., et al.. (2014). Running the figure to the ground: Figure-ground segmentation during visual search. Vision Research. 97. 65–73. 3 indexed citations
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Risko, Evan F., et al.. (2013). Measuring the separate effects of practice and fatigue on eye movements during visual search. Cognitive Science. 35(35). 2 indexed citations
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Birmingham, Elina, et al.. (2012). The Moving Window Technique: A Window Into Developmental Changes in Attention During Facial Emotion Recognition. Child Development. 84(4). 1407–1424. 13 indexed citations
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Seli, Paul, Tanya R. Jonker, Grayden J. F. Solman, James Allan Cheyne, & Daniel Smilek. (2012). A methodological note on evaluating performance in a sustained-attention-to-response task. Behavior Research Methods. 45(2). 355–363. 36 indexed citations
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Solman, Grayden J. F., J. Allan Cheyne, & Daniel Smilek. (2011). Memory load affects visual search processes without influencing search efficiency. Vision Research. 51(10). 1185–1191. 27 indexed citations
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Solman, Grayden J. F. & Daniel Smilek. (2010). Item-specific location memory in visual search. Vision Research. 50(23). 2430–2438. 15 indexed citations
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Barton, Kevin R., Jonathan A. Fugelsang, & Daniel Smilek. (2009). Inhibiting beliefs demands attention. Thinking & Reasoning. 15(3). 250–267. 3 indexed citations
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Jarick, Michelle, et al.. (2009). A different outlook on time: Visual and auditory month names elicit different mental vantage points for a time-space synaesthete. Cortex. 45(10). 1217–1228. 31 indexed citations
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Dixon, Mike J. & Daniel Smilek. (2005). The Importance of Individual Differences in Grapheme-Color Synesthesia. Neuron. 45(6). 821–823. 36 indexed citations
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Doel, Kees van den, et al.. (2004). Geometric shape detection with soundview. SMARTech Repository (Georgia Institute of Technology). 12 indexed citations
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Dixon, Mike J., et al.. (2003). Seeing double: The role of meaning in alphanumeric-colour synaesthesia. Brain and Cognition. 53(2). 342–345. 46 indexed citations
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Dixon, Michael J., Daniel Smilek, Cera Cudahy, & Philip M. Merikle. (2000). Five plus two equals yellow: Mental arithmetic in people with synaesthesia is not coloured by visual experience. Journal of Wildlife Diseases. 28(3). 476–80. 22 indexed citations

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