Hannah Cornish

1.9k total citations · 2 hit papers
16 papers, 996 citations indexed

About

Hannah Cornish is a scholar working on Cultural Studies, Sociology and Political Science and Cognitive Neuroscience. According to data from OpenAlex, Hannah Cornish has authored 16 papers receiving a total of 996 indexed citations (citations by other indexed papers that have themselves been cited), including 11 papers in Cultural Studies, 4 papers in Sociology and Political Science and 3 papers in Cognitive Neuroscience. Recurrent topics in Hannah Cornish's work include Language and cultural evolution (11 papers), Evolutionary Game Theory and Cooperation (4 papers) and Syntax, Semantics, Linguistic Variation (3 papers). Hannah Cornish is often cited by papers focused on Language and cultural evolution (11 papers), Evolutionary Game Theory and Cooperation (4 papers) and Syntax, Semantics, Linguistic Variation (3 papers). Hannah Cornish collaborates with scholars based in United Kingdom, United States and Australia. Hannah Cornish's co-authors include Simon Kirby, Kenny Smith, Mónica Tamariz, Morten H. Christiansen, Rick Dale, Christine A. Caldwell, Anne Kandler, Madeleine Pritchard, Naomi Cocks and Madeline Cruice and has published in prestigious journals such as Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, PLoS ONE and Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society B Biological Sciences.

In The Last Decade

Hannah Cornish

16 papers receiving 954 citations

Hit Papers

Cumulative cultural evolution in the laboratory: An exper... 2008 2026 2014 2020 2008 2015 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. Cumulative cultural evolution in the laboratory: An experimental approach to the origins of structure in human language
    2008 522 citations Simon Kirby, Hannah Cornish et al. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences profile →
  2. Compression and communication in the cultural evolution of linguistic structure
    2015 258 citations Simon Kirby, Mónica Tamariz et al. Cognition profile →

Peers — A (Enhanced Table)

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

Name h Career Trend Papers Cites
Hannah Cornish United Kingdom 10 685 262 251 244 200 16 996
Mónica Tamariz United Kingdom 14 564 0.8× 380 1.5× 191 0.8× 308 1.3× 195 1.0× 52 1.2k
James R. Hurford United Kingdom 16 595 0.9× 443 1.7× 509 2.0× 258 1.1× 156 0.8× 46 1.3k
Damián E. Blasí United States 17 495 0.7× 705 2.7× 257 1.0× 243 1.0× 137 0.7× 43 1.6k
Florencia Reali United States 16 395 0.6× 228 0.9× 270 1.1× 254 1.0× 104 0.5× 44 1.0k
Ljiljana Progovac United States 16 249 0.4× 167 0.6× 423 1.7× 194 0.8× 39 0.2× 47 675
Harald Hammarström Sweden 13 334 0.5× 294 1.1× 235 0.9× 343 1.4× 41 0.2× 60 945
Balthasar Bickel Switzerland 21 450 0.7× 545 2.1× 840 3.3× 350 1.4× 58 0.3× 93 1.6k
Clay Beckner New Zealand 8 219 0.3× 207 0.8× 350 1.4× 211 0.9× 54 0.3× 15 771
Denise Brandão de Oliveira e Britto Brazil 7 235 0.3× 163 0.6× 168 0.7× 78 0.3× 33 0.2× 22 630
Marieke Schouwstra United Kingdom 8 165 0.2× 340 1.3× 152 0.6× 178 0.7× 120 0.6× 33 949

Countries citing papers authored by Hannah Cornish

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Fields of papers citing papers by Hannah Cornish

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Co-authorship network of co-authors of Hannah Cornish

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

All Works

16 of 16 papers shown
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Cornish, Hannah, Rick Dale, Simon Kirby, & Morten H. Christiansen. (2017). Sequence Memory Constraints Give Rise to Language-Like Structure through Iterated Learning. PLoS ONE. 12(1). e0168532–e0168532. 31 indexed citations
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Smith, Kenny, et al.. (2016). The Cultural Evolution of Structured Languages in an Open‐Ended, Continuous World. Cognitive Science. 41(4). 892–923. 34 indexed citations
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Caldwell, Christine A., Hannah Cornish, & Anne Kandler. (2016). Identifying innovation in laboratory studies of cultural evolution: rates of retention and measures of adaptation. Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society B Biological Sciences. 371(1690). 20150193–20150193. 19 indexed citations
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Kirby, Simon, Mónica Tamariz, Hannah Cornish, & Kenny Smith. (2015). Compression and communication in the cultural evolution of linguistic structure. Cognition. 141. 87–102. 258 indexed citations breakdown →
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Kirby, Simon, Hannah Cornish, & Kenny Smith. (2014). SYSTEMS EMERGE: THE CULTURAL EVOLUTION OF INTERDEPENDENT SEQUENTIAL BEHAVIOURS IN THE LAB. The Evolution of Language. 463–464. 1 indexed citations
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Cartmill, Erica A., Seán G. Roberts, Heidi Lyn, & Hannah Cornish. (2014). The Evolution of Language: Proceedings of the 10th International Conference. 2 indexed citations
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Cornish, Hannah, Kenny Smith, & Simon Kirby. (2013). Systems from Sequences: an Iterated Learning Account of the Emergence of Systematic Structure in a Non-Linguistic Task. Cognitive Science. 35(35). 13 indexed citations
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Cocks, Naomi, et al.. (2013). A “novel” reading therapy programme for reading difficulties after a subarachnoid haemorrhage. Aphasiology. 27(5). 509–531. 22 indexed citations
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Tamariz, Mónica, Hannah Cornish, Kenny Smith, Seán G. Roberts, & Simon Kirby. (2012). THE EFFECTS OF GENERATION TURNOVER AND INTERLOCUTOR NEGOTIATION ON LINGUISTIC STRUCTURE. The Evolution of Language. 555–556. 4 indexed citations
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Kirby, Simon, et al.. (2010). THE CULTURAL EVOLUTION OF LANGUAGE IN A WORLD OF CONTINUOUS MEANINGS. The Evolution of Language. 451–452. 1 indexed citations
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Cornish, Hannah, Simon Kirby, & Morten H. Christiansen. (2010). THE EMERGENCE OF STRUCTURE FROM SEQUENCE MEMORY CONSTRAINTS IN CULTURAL TRANSMISSION. The Evolution of Language. 387–388. 3 indexed citations
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Cornish, Hannah. (2010). Investigating how cultural transmission leads to the appearance of design without a designer in human communication systems. Interaction Studies Social Behaviour and Communication in Biological and Artificial Systems. 11(1). 112–137. 19 indexed citations
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Cornish, Hannah, Mónica Tamariz, & Simon Kirby. (2009). Complex Adaptive Systems and the Origins of Adaptive Structure: What Experiments Can Tell Us. Language Learning. 59(s1). 187–205. 20 indexed citations
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Kirby, Simon, Hannah Cornish, & Kenny Smith. (2008). Cumulative cultural evolution in the laboratory: An experimental approach to the origins of structure in human language. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences. 105(31). 10681–10686. 522 indexed citations breakdown →
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Kirby, Simon, Kenny Smith, & Hannah Cornish. (2008). Language in Flux: Dialogue Coordination, Language Variation, Change and Evolution. 43 indexed citations
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Kirby, Simon, Kenny Smith, & Hannah Cornish. (2008). Language, learning and cultural evolution: How Linguistic transmission leads to cumulative adaptation. 4 indexed citations

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