George Vamvakas

2.4k total citations · 1 hit paper
17 papers, 1.2k citations indexed

About

George Vamvakas is a scholar working on Developmental and Educational Psychology, Clinical Psychology and Pediatrics, Perinatology and Child Health. According to data from OpenAlex, George Vamvakas has authored 17 papers receiving a total of 1.2k indexed citations (citations by other indexed papers that have themselves been cited), including 7 papers in Developmental and Educational Psychology, 6 papers in Clinical Psychology and 3 papers in Pediatrics, Perinatology and Child Health. Recurrent topics in George Vamvakas's work include Language Development and Disorders (6 papers), Reading and Literacy Development (4 papers) and Stuttering Research and Treatment (3 papers). George Vamvakas is often cited by papers focused on Language Development and Disorders (6 papers), Reading and Literacy Development (4 papers) and Stuttering Research and Treatment (3 papers). George Vamvakas collaborates with scholars based in United Kingdom, United States and Gambia. George Vamvakas's co-authors include Courtenay Norbury, Andrew Pickles, Debbie Gooch, Emily Simonoff, Tony Charman, Gillian Baird, Charlotte Wray, R. Taylor, Heather Fortnum and Peter Watkin and has published in prestigious journals such as PLoS ONE, Child Development and Journal of Child Psychology and Psychiatry.

In The Last Decade

George Vamvakas

16 papers receiving 1.2k citations

Hit Papers

The impact of nonverbal ability on prevalence and clinica... 2016 2026 2019 2022 2016 200 400 600
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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.

  1. The impact of nonverbal ability on prevalence and clinical presentation of language disorder: evidence from a population study
    2016 634 citations Courtenay Norbury, Debbie Gooch et al. Journal of Child Psychology and Psychiatry profile →

Peers — A (Enhanced Table)

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

Name h Career Trend Papers Cites
George Vamvakas United Kingdom 8 671 393 244 125 123 17 1.2k
Alison Purcell Australia 15 333 0.5× 265 0.7× 112 0.5× 92 0.7× 82 0.7× 67 894
Jenifer Tregay United Kingdom 17 398 0.6× 809 2.1× 252 1.0× 18 0.1× 112 0.9× 23 1.2k
Brenda Louw South Africa 13 160 0.2× 189 0.5× 77 0.3× 168 1.3× 69 0.6× 69 575
Bárbara Niegia Garcia de Goulart Brazil 15 148 0.2× 74 0.2× 132 0.5× 20 0.2× 42 0.3× 78 683
Zoe Garrett United Kingdom 11 631 0.9× 167 0.4× 404 1.7× 5 0.0× 171 1.4× 19 984
Leonardo Emberti Gialloreti Italy 18 59 0.1× 436 1.1× 191 0.8× 19 0.2× 87 0.7× 73 1.1k
Ashley Darcy Mahoney United States 14 180 0.3× 71 0.2× 113 0.5× 7 0.1× 333 2.7× 37 778
Daniela Regina Molini-Avejonas Brazil 9 90 0.1× 119 0.3× 94 0.4× 11 0.1× 39 0.3× 36 405
Nicholas S. Thaler United States 19 143 0.2× 238 0.6× 141 0.6× 8 0.1× 80 0.7× 56 947
Jacqueline J. Hill United Kingdom 8 149 0.2× 285 0.7× 135 0.6× 6 0.0× 41 0.3× 13 567

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Physical SciencesHealth SciencesLife SciencesSocial Sciences

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Co-authorship network of co-authors of George Vamvakas

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All Works

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Vamvakas, George, Manuela Jarrett, Barbara Barrett, et al.. (2024). The effectiveness of the offender personality disorder pathway: a propensity score-matched analysis. Psychology Crime and Law. 31(6). 716–736. 2 indexed citations
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Jauhar, Sameer, Robert A. McCutcheon, Mattia Veronese, et al.. (2023). The relationship between striatal dopamine and anterior cingulate glutamate in first episode psychosis changes with antipsychotic treatment. Translational Psychiatry. 13(1). 184–184. 5 indexed citations
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Dickson, Hannah, George Vamvakas, Roxanna Short, & Nigel Blackwood. (2023). Education and social care predictors of offending trajectories: A UK administrative data linkage study. International Journal for Population Data Science. 8(2).
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Hsu, Che-Wei, Daniel Ståhl, Elias Mouchlianitis, et al.. (2023). User-Centered Development of STOP (Successful Treatment for Paranoia): Material Development and Usability Testing for a Digital Therapeutic for Paranoia. JMIR Human Factors. 10. e45453–e45453. 4 indexed citations
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Vamvakas, George, Alexandra Lautarescu, Shona Falconer, et al.. (2022). Postnatal maternal depressive symptoms and behavioural outcomes in term-born and preterm-born toddlers: a longitudinal UK community cohort study. BMJ Open. 12(9). e058540–e058540. 7 indexed citations
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Goodwin, Amy, Emily J. H. Jones, Luke Mason, et al.. (2021). INTERSTAARS: Attention training for infants with elevated likelihood of developing ADHD: A proof-of-concept randomised controlled trial. Translational Psychiatry. 11(1). 644–644. 10 indexed citations
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Vamvakas, George, Courtenay Norbury, & Andrew Pickles. (2021). Two-stage sampling in the estimation of growth parameters and percentile norms: sample weights versus auxiliary variable estimation. BMC Medical Research Methodology. 21(1). 173–173. 1 indexed citations
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Rice, Thomas F., George Vamvakas, Sara Barnett, et al.. (2020). Update on Transplacental Transfer of IgG Subclasses: Impact of Maternal and Fetal Factors. Frontiers in Immunology. 11. 1920–1920. 97 indexed citations
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Vamvakas, George, Courtenay Norbury, Silia Vitoratou, Debbie Gooch, & Andrew Pickles. (2019). Standardizing test scores for a target population: The LMS method illustrated using language measures from the SCALES project. PLoS ONE. 14(3). e0213492–e0213492. 14 indexed citations
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Gooch, Debbie, et al.. (2019). Does Inattention and Hyperactivity Moderate the Relation Between Speed of Processing and Language Skills?. Child Development. 90(5). e565–e583. 11 indexed citations
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Rice, Thomas F., Dimitri A. Diavatopoulos, Gaby Smits, et al.. (2019). Antibody responses to Bordetella pertussis and other childhood vaccines in infants born to mothers who received pertussis vaccine in pregnancy – a prospective, observational cohort study from the United Kingdom. Clinical & Experimental Immunology. 197(1). 1–10. 21 indexed citations
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Norbury, Courtenay, George Vamvakas, Debbie Gooch, et al.. (2017). Language growth in children with heterogeneous language disorders: a population study. Journal of Child Psychology and Psychiatry. 58(10). 1092–1105. 77 indexed citations
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Norbury, Courtenay, Debbie Gooch, Charlotte Wray, et al.. (2016). The impact of nonverbal ability on prevalence and clinical presentation of language disorder: evidence from a population study. Journal of Child Psychology and Psychiatry. 57(11). 1247–1257. 634 indexed citations breakdown →
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Bamford, John, Heather Fortnum, Justin Smith, et al.. (2007). Current practice, accuracy, effectiveness and cost-effectiveness of the school entry hearing screen. Health Technology Assessment. 11(32). 1–168, iii. 329 indexed citations

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