Daniel Yurovsky

3.3k total citations · 3 hit papers
47 papers, 1.6k citations indexed

About

Daniel Yurovsky is a scholar working on Developmental and Educational Psychology, Artificial Intelligence and Cultural Studies. According to data from OpenAlex, Daniel Yurovsky has authored 47 papers receiving a total of 1.6k indexed citations (citations by other indexed papers that have themselves been cited), including 36 papers in Developmental and Educational Psychology, 14 papers in Artificial Intelligence and 12 papers in Cultural Studies. Recurrent topics in Daniel Yurovsky's work include Language Development and Disorders (26 papers), Child and Animal Learning Development (23 papers) and Reading and Literacy Development (13 papers). Daniel Yurovsky is often cited by papers focused on Language Development and Disorders (26 papers), Child and Animal Learning Development (23 papers) and Reading and Literacy Development (13 papers). Daniel Yurovsky collaborates with scholars based in United States, Netherlands and Canada. Daniel Yurovsky's co-authors include Michael C. Frank, Mika Braginsky, Virginia A. Marchman, Chen Yu, Linda B. Smith, Kyle MacDonald, Molly Lewis, Alexandra Horowitz, Clara C. Levelt and Jessica Sullivan and has published in prestigious journals such as PLoS ONE, Child Development and Psychological Science.

In The Last Decade

Daniel Yurovsky

42 papers receiving 1.5k 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.

Wordbank: an open repository for developmental vocabulary data

2016 390 citations Michael C. Frank, Mika Braginsky et al. profile →
A Collaborative Approach to Infant Research: Promoting Reproducibility, Best Practices, and Theory‐Building

2017 175 citations Michael C. Frank, Daniel Yurovsky et al. profile →
Variability and Consistency in Early Language Learning

2021 121 citations Michael C. Frank, Mika Braginsky et al. The MIT Press eBooks profile →

Peers — A (Enhanced Table)

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

Name	h						Papers	Cites
Daniel Yurovsky United States	21	1.2k	373	267	257	130	47	1.6k
Jessica S. Horst United Kingdom	25	1.6k 1.3×	601 1.6×	325 1.2×	190 0.7×	307 2.4×	47	2.1k
Elika Bergelson United States	20	1.6k 1.3×	400 1.1×	504 1.9×	200 0.8×	228 1.8×	63	2.0k
D. Geoffrey Hall Canada	23	1.4k 1.1×	327 0.9×	356 1.3×	147 0.6×	94 0.7×	58	1.6k
Hugh Rabagliati United Kingdom	19	815 0.7×	745 2.0×	347 1.3×	164 0.6×	54 0.4×	53	1.3k
Amanda Seidl United States	19	988 0.8×	254 0.7×	576 2.2×	194 0.8×	171 1.3×	43	1.3k
Kathryn Hirsh‐Pasek United States	16	1.3k 1.0×	352 0.9×	263 1.0×	86 0.3×	444 3.4×	22	1.7k
Ayli̇n C. Küntay Türkiye	20	743 0.6×	358 1.0×	245 0.9×	196 0.8×	200 1.5×	94	1.3k
Julian Jara‐Ettinger United States	17	747 0.6×	458 1.2×	310 1.2×	253 1.0×	186 1.4×	84	1.5k
Hans Stadthagen-González United States	17	907 0.7×	866 2.3×	525 2.0×	391 1.5×	100 0.8×	26	1.7k
Arnaud Rey France	22	898 0.7×	718 1.9×	313 1.2×	181 0.7×	107 0.8×	61	1.4k

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Tarr, Michael J., et al.. (2025). Quantifying the roles of visual, linguistic, and visual-linguistic complexity in noun and verb acquisition. PLoS ONE. 20(5). e0321973–e0321973.

Yurovsky, Daniel, et al.. (2024). Of Mouses and Mans: A Test of Errorless Versus Error‐Based Learning in Children. Cognitive Science. 48(11). e70006–e70006.

Zettersten, Martin, Mika Braginsky, George Kachergis, et al.. (2021). Peekbank: Exploring children's word recognition through an open, large-scale repository for developmental eye-tracking data. eScholarship (California Digital Library). 6 indexed citations

Frank, Michael C., Mika Braginsky, Daniel Yurovsky, & Virginia A. Marchman. (2021). Variability and Consistency in Early Language Learning. The MIT Press eBooks. 121 indexed citations breakdown →

Meylan, Stephan C., et al.. (2019). childes-db: A flexible and reproducible interface to the child language data exchange system. Behavior Research Methods. 51(4). 1928–1941. 52 indexed citations

Yurovsky, Daniel, et al.. (2018). Children gesture when speech is slow to come.. Cognitive Science.

MacDonald, Kyle, Daniel Yurovsky, & Michael C. Frank. (2017). Social cues modulate the representations underlying cross-situational learning. Cognitive Psychology. 94. 67–84. 16 indexed citations

Braginsky, Mika, et al.. (2016). From uh-oh to tomorrow: Predicting age of acquisition for early words across languages.. Cognitive Science. 24 indexed citations

Benitez, Viridiana L., Daniel Yurovsky, & Linda B. Smith. (2016). Competition between multiple words for a referent in cross-situational word learning. Journal of Memory and Language. 90. 31–48. 25 indexed citations

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Yurovsky, Daniel, Gabriel Doyle, & Michael C. Frank. (2016). Linguistic input is tuned to children's developmental level.. Cognitive Science. 16 indexed citations

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Schneider, Rose M., et al.. (2015). Large-scale investigations of variability in children's first words.. Cognitive Science. 15 indexed citations

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Braginsky, Mika, Daniel Yurovsky, Virginia A. Marchman, & Michael C. Frank. (2015). Developmental Changes in the Relationship Between Grammar and the Lexicon.. Cognitive Science. 14 indexed citations

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Yurovsky, Daniel, Anna Wade, & Michael C. Frank. (2013). Online Processing of Speech and Social Information in Early Word Learning. Cognitive Science. 35(35). 5 indexed citations

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Frank, Michael C., et al.. (2013). Developmental and postural changes in children's visual access to faces.. Cognitive Science. 35(35). 21 indexed citations

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Yurovsky, Daniel, et al.. (2013). The role of partial knowledge in statistical word learning. Psychonomic Bulletin & Review. 21(1). 1–22. 63 indexed citations

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Yurovsky, Daniel, Ricardo A. H. Bion, Linda B. Smith, & Anne Fernald. (2012). Mutual Exclusivity and Vocabulary Development. Cognitive Science. 34(34). 2 indexed citations

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Yurovsky, Daniel, Linda B. Smith, & Chen Yu. (2012). Does Statistical Word Learning Scale? It’s a Matter of Perspective. Cognitive Science. 34(34). 3 indexed citations

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Yurovsky, Daniel, et al.. (2012). Quantitative Linking Hypotheses for Infant Eye Movements. PLoS ONE. 7(10). e47419–e47419. 6 indexed citations

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Yurovsky, Daniel, Chen Yu, & Linda B. Smith. (2012). Statistical Speech Segmentation and Word Learning in Parallel: Scaffolding from Child-Directed Speech. Frontiers in Psychology. 3. 374–374. 33 indexed citations

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Yurovsky, Daniel & Chen Yu. (2008). Mutual Exclusivity in Cross-Situational Statistical Learning. eScholarship (California Digital Library). 23 indexed citations

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