Elizabeth Bates

35.8k total citations · 8 hit papers
236 papers, 21.0k citations indexed

About

Elizabeth Bates is a scholar working on Developmental and Educational Psychology, Cognitive Neuroscience and Health. According to data from OpenAlex, Elizabeth Bates has authored 236 papers receiving a total of 21.0k indexed citations (citations by other indexed papers that have themselves been cited), including 116 papers in Developmental and Educational Psychology, 92 papers in Cognitive Neuroscience and 35 papers in Health. Recurrent topics in Elizabeth Bates's work include Neurobiology of Language and Bilingualism (87 papers), Language Development and Disorders (81 papers) and Reading and Literacy Development (72 papers). Elizabeth Bates is often cited by papers focused on Neurobiology of Language and Bilingualism (87 papers), Language Development and Disorders (81 papers) and Reading and Literacy Development (72 papers). Elizabeth Bates collaborates with scholars based in United States, United Kingdom and Italy. Elizabeth Bates's co-authors include Brian MacWhinney, Donna Thal, Philip S. Dale, J. Steven Reznick, Larry Fenson, Virginia A. Marchman, Frederic Dick, Beverly Wulfeck, Ayşe Pınar Saygın and Michael Tomasello and has published in prestigious journals such as Journal of Neuroscience, Nature Neuroscience and NeuroImage.

In The Last Decade

Elizabeth Bates

225 papers receiving 19.4k citations

Hit Papers

5 papers align trajectories

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.

Variability in Early Communicative Development

1994 2.0k citations Elizabeth Bates et al. profile →
Voxel-based lesion–symptom mapping

2003 1.1k citations Elizabeth Bates, Stephen M. Wilson et al. profile →
Language and context: The acquisition of pragmatics

1976 833 citations Elizabeth Bates profile →
The Acquisition of Performatives Prior to Speech.

1975 828 citations Elizabeth Bates Merrill-palmer Quarterly profile →
The Crosslinguistic Study of Sentence Processing.

1989 735 citations Brian MacWhinney, Elizabeth Bates profile →
Rethinking Innateness

1996 734 citations Elizabeth Bates et al. profile →
Variability in early communicative development.

1994 715 citations Elizabeth Bates et al. profile →
From First Words to Grammar: Individual Differences and Dissociable Mechanisms

1988 670 citations Elizabeth Bates et al. profile →

Peers — A (Enhanced Table)

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

Name	h						Papers	Cites
Elizabeth Bates United States	74	14.0k	9.1k	3.3k	3.2k	2.1k	236	21.0k
Annette Karmiloff‐Smith United Kingdom	65	7.6k 0.5×	5.6k 0.6×	2.4k 0.7×	1.2k 0.4×	1.3k 0.6×	254	17.4k
Ellen Bialystok Canada	90	19.3k 1.4×	16.7k 1.8×	5.0k 1.5×	5.8k 1.8×	1.1k 0.5×	273	30.5k
Susan Goldin‐Meadow United States	78	15.1k 1.1×	3.6k 0.4×	6.6k 2.0×	4.3k 1.3×	4.1k 2.0×	299	19.9k
Henry M. Wellman United States	74	16.8k 1.2×	7.2k 0.8×	3.3k 1.0×	1.1k 0.4×	8.0k 3.8×	215	23.1k
Paul L. Harris United States	74	12.4k 0.9×	5.0k 0.5×	2.5k 0.8×	1.1k 0.3×	6.5k 3.1×	355	19.2k
Josef Perner Austria	56	10.0k 0.7×	7.0k 0.8×	2.4k 0.7×	708 0.2×	4.7k 2.2×	172	15.0k
Brian MacWhinney United States	55	10.4k 0.7×	8.0k 0.9×	4.2k 1.3×	4.3k 1.3×	923 0.4×	239	17.3k
Malinda Carpenter Germany	54	10.0k 0.7×	4.8k 0.5×	2.1k 0.6×	1.4k 0.4×	6.7k 3.2×	118	14.6k
Dorothy Bishop United Kingdom	96	21.5k 1.5×	17.2k 1.9×	2.9k 0.9×	853 0.3×	1.2k 0.5×	383	33.3k
Heinz Wimmer Austria	52	12.9k 0.9×	7.1k 0.8×	1.6k 0.5×	621 0.2×	2.5k 1.2×	102	15.6k

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Hine, Benjamin A., et al.. (2025). Fathers’ Experiences of Relationship Breakdown Including Post-Separation Abuse and Parental Alienating Behaviours. Social Sciences. 14(1). 31–31. 2 indexed citations

Hine, Benjamin A., et al.. (2025). Impact of Relationship Breakdown, Including Abuse and Negotiation of Co-Parenting Arrangements, on Fathers’ Mental Health, Help-Seeking, and Coping. Social Sciences. 14(4). 232–232.

Hine, Benjamin A., et al.. (2025). Fathers’ Experiences of Negotiating Co-Parenting Arrangements and Family Court. Social Sciences. 14(1). 29–29. 1 indexed citations

Hine, Benjamin A., et al.. (2024). A Qualitative Exploration of the Impact of the COVID-19 Pandemic on Parents’ Experiences of Parental Alienation in the United Kingdom. Partner Abuse. 15(3). 337–361.

Taylor, Julie & Elizabeth Bates. (2023). Children and Adolescent’s Experiences of Violence and Abuse at Home. Insight (University of Cumbria). 2 indexed citations

Bates, Elizabeth, et al.. (2017). A snapshot of the student experience: exploring student satisfaction through the use of photographic elicitation. Journal of Further and Higher Education. 43(3). 291–304. 28 indexed citations

Bates, Elizabeth, et al.. (2016). Prevalence of intimate partner violence and the increased health risks in the LGBTQ+ community. Insight (University of Cumbria). 3 indexed citations

Bates, Elizabeth, John Archer, & Nicola Graham‐Kevan. (2016). Do the same risk and protective factors influence aggression toward partners and same‐sex others?. Aggressive Behavior. 43(2). 163–175. 17 indexed citations

Saygın, Ayşe Pınar, Stephen M. Wilson, Nina F. Dronkers, & Elizabeth Bates. (2004). Action comprehension in aphasia: linguistic and non-linguistic deficits and their lesion correlates. Neuropsychologia. 42(13). 1788–1804. 121 indexed citations

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Saygın, Ayşe Pınar, Stephen M. Wilson, Donald J. Hagler, Elizabeth Bates, & Martin I. Sereno. (2004). Point-Light Biological Motion Perception Activates Human Premotor Cortex. Journal of Neuroscience. 24(27). 6181–6188. 323 indexed citations

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Akhutina, Tatiana V., et al.. (2001). Processing of Grammatical Gender in Normal and Aphasic Speakers of Russian. Cortex. 37(3). 295–326. 28 indexed citations

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Vicari, Stefano, et al.. (2000). Plasticity and reorganization during early language learning in children with congenital brain injury. Cortex. 31–46. 2 indexed citations

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Iyer, Gowri K., et al.. (2000). A Study of Age-of-Acquisition Ratings in Adults. eScholarship (California Digital Library). 22(22).

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Dick, Frederic, et al.. (1999). Poster session 2: Language comprehension, phonological processing, production, and laterality: Interpretation of complex syntax in aphasic adults and children with focal lesions or specific language impairment. Brain and Language. 69(3). 335–337. 13 indexed citations

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Bates, Elizabeth. (1999). Language and the infant brain. Journal of Communication Disorders. 32(4). 195–205. 27 indexed citations

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Bates, Elizabeth, Neil Smith, & Ianthi-Maria Tsimpli. (1997). On Language Savants and the Structure of the Mind [and] Reply to Bates.. International Journal of Bilingualism. 1(2). 2 indexed citations

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Li, Ping, Elizabeth Bates, & Brian MacWhinney. (1993). Processing A Language without Inflections: A Reaction Time Study of Sentence Interpretation in Chinese. Journal of Memory and Language. 32(2). 169–192. 114 indexed citations

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Liu, Hua, Elizabeth Bates, & Ping Li. (1992). Sentence interpretation in bilingual speakers of English and Chinese. Applied Psycholinguistics. 13(4). 451–484. 87 indexed citations

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Bates, Elizabeth, et al.. (1988). On the preservation of word order in aphasia: Cross-linguistic evidence. Brain and Language. 33(2). 323–364. 63 indexed citations

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Bates, Elizabeth. (1975). The Acquisition of Performatives Prior to Speech.. Merrill-palmer Quarterly. 828 indexed citations breakdown →

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