Heather Shovelton

1.0k total citations
18 papers, 738 citations indexed

About

Heather Shovelton is a scholar working on Experimental and Cognitive Psychology, Developmental and Educational Psychology and Language and Linguistics. According to data from OpenAlex, Heather Shovelton has authored 18 papers receiving a total of 738 indexed citations (citations by other indexed papers that have themselves been cited), including 15 papers in Experimental and Cognitive Psychology, 14 papers in Developmental and Educational Psychology and 7 papers in Language and Linguistics. Recurrent topics in Heather Shovelton's work include Language, Metaphor, and Cognition (14 papers), Hearing Impairment and Communication (14 papers) and Language, Discourse, Communication Strategies (7 papers). Heather Shovelton is often cited by papers focused on Language, Metaphor, and Cognition (14 papers), Hearing Impairment and Communication (14 papers) and Language, Discourse, Communication Strategies (7 papers). Heather Shovelton collaborates with scholars based in United Kingdom, Australia and United States. Heather Shovelton's co-authors include Geoffrey Beattie, Judith Holler, Kerry O’Brien, Janet D. Latner and Doron Cohen and has published in prestigious journals such as British Journal of Psychology, British Journal of Social Psychology and International Journal of Psychology.

In The Last Decade

Heather Shovelton

18 papers receiving 672 citations

Peers — A (Enhanced Table)

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

Name h Career Trend Papers Cites
Heather Shovelton United Kingdom 12 553 429 240 204 188 18 738
Ceil Lucas United States 18 967 1.7× 301 0.7× 794 3.3× 401 2.0× 30 0.2× 38 1.3k
Leelo Keevallik Sweden 17 164 0.3× 595 1.4× 848 3.5× 137 0.7× 157 0.8× 78 1.1k
Brent Strickland France 14 311 0.6× 221 0.5× 84 0.3× 31 0.2× 154 0.8× 38 632
Geert Brône Belgium 18 120 0.2× 511 1.2× 366 1.5× 128 0.6× 238 1.3× 67 800
Shelly Dews United States 8 201 0.4× 658 1.5× 213 0.9× 48 0.2× 258 1.4× 15 870
RL Sutton-Spence United States 8 386 0.7× 171 0.4× 288 1.2× 136 0.7× 26 0.1× 21 588
Amy M. Lieberman United States 14 691 1.2× 109 0.3× 207 0.9× 212 1.0× 69 0.4× 32 819
Sabine Kowal United States 15 205 0.4× 341 0.8× 376 1.6× 78 0.4× 64 0.3× 49 774
Carolyn Mylander United States 14 976 1.8× 470 1.1× 600 2.5× 293 1.4× 135 0.7× 14 1.3k
Richard P. Meier United States 18 1.1k 2.1× 418 1.0× 547 2.3× 361 1.8× 57 0.3× 45 1.4k

Countries citing papers authored by Heather Shovelton

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Fields of papers citing papers by Heather Shovelton

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Physical SciencesHealth SciencesLife SciencesSocial Sciences

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Co-authorship network of co-authors of Heather Shovelton

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

All Works

18 of 18 papers shown
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O’Brien, Kerry, Heather Shovelton, & Janet D. Latner. (2012). Homophobia in physical education and sport: The role of physical/sporting identity and attributes, authoritarian aggression, and social dominance orientation. International Journal of Psychology. 48(5). 891–899. 53 indexed citations
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Cohen, Doron, Geoffrey Beattie, & Heather Shovelton. (2011). Tracking the distribution of individual semantic features in gesture across spoken discourse: New perspectives in multi-modal interaction. Semiotica. 2011(185). 3 indexed citations
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Cohen, Doron, Geoffrey Beattie, & Heather Shovelton. (2010). Nonverbal indicators of deception: How iconic gestures reveal thoughts that cannot be suppressed. Semiotica. 2010(182). 18 indexed citations
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Holler, Judith, Heather Shovelton, & Geoffrey Beattie. (2009). Do Iconic Hand Gestures Really Contribute to the Communication of Semantic Information in a Face-to-Face Context?. Journal of Nonverbal Behavior. 33(2). 73–88. 60 indexed citations
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Beattie, Geoffrey & Heather Shovelton. (2006). When size really matters. Gesture. 6(1). 63–84. 24 indexed citations
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Beattie, Geoffrey & Heather Shovelton. (2006). A critical appraisal of the relationship between speech and gesture and its implications for the treatment of aphasia. Advances in Speech Language Pathology. 8(2). 134–139. 8 indexed citations
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Beattie, Geoffrey & Heather Shovelton. (2005). Why the spontaneous images created by the hands during talk can help make TV advertisements more effective. British Journal of Psychology. 96(1). 21–37. 28 indexed citations
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Beattie, Geoffrey & Heather Shovelton. (2003). An experimental investigation of the role of different types of iconic gesture in communication: A semantic feature approach. Research Explorer (The University of Manchester). 2 indexed citations
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Beattie, Geoffrey & Heather Shovelton. (2002). An experimental investigation of some properties of individual iconic gestures that mediate their communicative power. British Journal of Psychology. 93(2). 179–192. 73 indexed citations
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Beattie, Geoffrey & Heather Shovelton. (2002). What properties of talk are associated with the generation of spontaneous iconic hand gestures?. British Journal of Social Psychology. 41(3). 403–417. 40 indexed citations
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Beattie, Geoffrey & Heather Shovelton. (2002). Blue-eyed boys? A winning smile? An experimental investigation of some core facial stimuli that may affect interpersonal perception. Semiotica. 2002(139). 1–21. 1 indexed citations
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Beattie, Geoffrey & Heather Shovelton. (2002). An experimental investigation of the role of different types of iconic gesture in communication. Gesture. 1(2). 129–149. 41 indexed citations
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Shovelton, Heather, et al.. (2001). How gesture viewpoint influences what information decoders receive from iconic gestures. 2 indexed citations
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Beattie, Geoffrey & Heather Shovelton. (2000). Iconic hand gestures and the predictability of words in context in spontaneous speech. British Journal of Psychology. 91(4). 473–491. 51 indexed citations
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Beattie, Geoffrey & Heather Shovelton. (1999). Mapping the Range of Information Contained in the Iconic Hand Gestures that Accompany Spontaneous Speech. Journal of Language and Social Psychology. 18(4). 438–462. 147 indexed citations
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Beattie, Geoffrey & Heather Shovelton. (1999). Do iconic hand gestures really contribute anything to the semantic information conveyed by speech? An experimental investigation. Semiotica. 123(1-2). 1–30. 167 indexed citations

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