Helen Smith Cairns

94 total papers · 3.9k total citations
53 papers, 2.8k citations indexed

About

Helen Smith Cairns is a scholar working on Developmental and Educational Psychology, Cognitive Neuroscience and Language and Linguistics. According to data from OpenAlex, Helen Smith Cairns has authored 53 papers receiving a total of 2.8k indexed citations (citations by other indexed papers that have themselves been cited), including 32 papers in Developmental and Educational Psychology, 16 papers in Cognitive Neuroscience and 12 papers in Language and Linguistics. Recurrent topics in Helen Smith Cairns's work include Reading and Literacy Development (24 papers), Language Development and Disorders (19 papers) and Neurobiology of Language and Bilingualism (16 papers). Helen Smith Cairns is often cited by papers focused on Reading and Literacy Development (24 papers), Language Development and Disorders (19 papers) and Neurobiology of Language and Bilingualism (16 papers). Helen Smith Cairns collaborates with scholars based in United States, Jamaica and United Kingdom. Helen Smith Cairns's co-authors include Morton Ann Gernsbacher, Dana McDaniel, Jennifer Ryan Hsu, Eva M. Fernández, Evelyn P. Altenberg, Mari Broman Olsen, Cecile McKee, Wayne Cowart, Naomi Shin and C. Woodruff Starkweather and has published in prestigious journals such as The Lancet, Annals of the New York Academy of Sciences and Cognition.

In The Last Decade

Helen Smith Cairns

52 papers receiving 2.4k citations

Hit Papers

Handbook of Psycholinguis... 1996 2026 2006 2016 1996 500 1000 1.5k
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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 benchmark for papers published in the same subfield and year, or reaches the top citation threshold in at least one of its specific research topics.

  1. Handbook of Psycholinguistics
    1996 1.5k citations Helen Smith Cairns, Morton Ann Gernsbacher Language profile →

Author Peers

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Author Last Decade Papers Cites
Helen Smith Cairns 1.8k 1.5k 803 622 377 53 2.8k
Ben Ambridge 2.1k 1.2× 1.5k 1.0× 696 0.9× 773 1.2× 479 1.3× 65 3.1k
Henry Gleitman 2.1k 1.2× 1.1k 0.7× 963 1.2× 599 1.0× 514 1.4× 62 3.7k
Evan Kidd 2.3k 1.3× 1.6k 1.0× 509 0.6× 573 0.9× 269 0.7× 121 3.1k
Michael P Maratsos 2.0k 1.1× 675 0.4× 565 0.7× 875 1.4× 369 1.0× 59 2.7k
Margarita Kaushanskaya 2.2k 1.2× 2.0k 1.3× 778 1.0× 519 0.8× 212 0.6× 91 3.3k
Jesse Snedeker 2.1k 1.2× 1.8k 1.1× 942 1.2× 862 1.4× 512 1.4× 109 3.2k
Jill G. de Villiers 2.1k 1.2× 848 0.6× 487 0.6× 569 0.9× 139 0.4× 43 2.5k
Napoleon Katsos 1.1k 0.6× 1.1k 0.7× 503 0.6× 649 1.0× 272 0.7× 70 2.0k
Laurie A. Stowe 1.8k 1.0× 2.5k 1.6× 906 1.1× 628 1.0× 425 1.1× 57 3.7k
J. A. Fodor 1.2k 0.7× 1.2k 0.8× 912 1.1× 588 0.9× 512 1.4× 37 2.9k

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Co-authorship network of co-authors of Helen Smith Cairns

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