David McNeill

4.2k total citations · 1 hit paper
39 papers, 1.6k citations indexed

About

David McNeill is a scholar working on Developmental and Educational Psychology, Experimental and Cognitive Psychology and Language and Linguistics. According to data from OpenAlex, David McNeill has authored 39 papers receiving a total of 1.6k indexed citations (citations by other indexed papers that have themselves been cited), including 12 papers in Developmental and Educational Psychology, 7 papers in Experimental and Cognitive Psychology and 6 papers in Language and Linguistics. Recurrent topics in David McNeill's work include Hearing Impairment and Communication (9 papers), Language, Metaphor, and Cognition (6 papers) and Hand Gesture Recognition Systems (6 papers). David McNeill is often cited by papers focused on Hearing Impairment and Communication (9 papers), Language, Metaphor, and Cognition (6 papers) and Hand Gesture Recognition Systems (6 papers). David McNeill collaborates with scholars based in United States, Australia and United Kingdom. David McNeill's co-authors include Norman Livson, Jonathan Cole, Shaun Gallagher, Francis Quek, Michael A. Evans, Emily L. Ryon, Eric Pederson, Eve Sweetser, E. A. Robinson and Jay David Atlas and has published in prestigious journals such as Nature, Science and Journal of Biological Chemistry.

In The Last Decade

David McNeill

35 papers receiving 1.3k citations

Hit Papers

Gesture and Thought 2005 2026 2012 2019 2005 250 500 750

Peers

David McNeill
Comparison fields: 5 of 119
  • Developmental and Educational Psychology 853
  • Experimental and Cognitive Psychology 656
  • Language and Linguistics 476
  • Social Psychology 293
  • Cognitive Neuroscience 236
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Countries citing papers authored by David McNeill

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Fields of papers citing papers by David McNeill

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Physical SciencesHealth SciencesLife SciencesSocial Sciences

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Co-authorship network of co-authors of David McNeill

This figure shows the co-authorship network connecting the top 25 collaborators of David McNeill. A scholar is included among the top collaborators of David McNeill 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 David McNeill. David McNeill is excluded from the visualization to improve readability, since they are connected to all nodes in the network.

All Works

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5 26
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7 105
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12 29
13 92
14 62
15 172
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COGNITION AND THE PROBLEM OF LANGUAGE ACQUISITION.
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