I. Mackay

6.5k total citations · 2 hit papers
37 papers, 3.4k citations indexed

About

I. Mackay is a scholar working on Experimental and Cognitive Psychology, Linguistics and Language and Artificial Intelligence. According to data from OpenAlex, I. Mackay has authored 37 papers receiving a total of 3.4k indexed citations (citations by other indexed papers that have themselves been cited), including 23 papers in Experimental and Cognitive Psychology, 13 papers in Linguistics and Language and 9 papers in Artificial Intelligence. Recurrent topics in I. Mackay's work include Phonetics and Phonology Research (22 papers), Linguistic Variation and Morphology (13 papers) and Speech Recognition and Synthesis (4 papers). I. Mackay is often cited by papers focused on Phonetics and Phonology Research (22 papers), Linguistic Variation and Morphology (13 papers) and Speech Recognition and Synthesis (4 papers). I. Mackay collaborates with scholars based in Canada, United States and Germany. I. Mackay's co-authors include James Emil Flege, Thorsten Piske, Murray J. Munro, Diane Meador, Carlo Schirru, Satomi Imai, Noel R. Rose, G. Ferguson, J. M. Robertson and Allan D. Kirk and has published in prestigious journals such as The Journal of the Acoustical Society of America, Inorganic Chemistry and Brain and Cognition.

In The Last Decade

I. Mackay

34 papers receiving 2.9k citations

Hit Papers

Factors affecting degree of foreign accent in an L2: a re... 1995 2026 2005 2015 2001 1995 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. Factors affecting degree of foreign accent in an L2: a review
    2001 612 citations Thorsten Piske, I. Mackay et al. Journal of Phonetics profile →
  2. Factors affecting strength of perceived foreign accent in a second language
    1995 530 citations James Emil Flege, I. Mackay et al. The Journal of the Acoustical Society of America profile →

Peers — A (Enhanced Table)

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

Name h Career Trend Papers Cites
I. Mackay Canada 20 2.6k 1.7k 1.1k 993 895 37 3.4k
Elisabeth Selkirk United States 16 2.9k 1.1× 1.6k 0.9× 656 0.6× 1.5k 1.5× 2.5k 2.8× 25 4.0k
Roy C. Major United States 21 1.4k 0.5× 1.2k 0.7× 670 0.6× 671 0.7× 1.5k 1.7× 40 2.8k
Paul Foulkes United Kingdom 21 1.6k 0.6× 1.4k 0.8× 198 0.2× 699 0.7× 789 0.9× 76 2.3k
David Pesetsky United States 19 727 0.3× 517 0.3× 783 0.7× 735 0.7× 1.4k 1.6× 28 2.5k
Geoffrey S. Nathan United States 11 1.3k 0.5× 953 0.6× 193 0.2× 578 0.6× 642 0.7× 32 1.7k
John M. Lipski United States 28 1.2k 0.5× 1.8k 1.1× 544 0.5× 536 0.5× 2.1k 2.3× 220 3.2k
Stephen Matthews Hong Kong 17 484 0.2× 667 0.4× 733 0.7× 221 0.2× 828 0.9× 104 1.7k
Laurie Bauer New Zealand 22 838 0.3× 858 0.5× 468 0.4× 748 0.8× 1.8k 2.0× 115 2.6k
Jason Rothman Norway 30 928 0.4× 1.4k 0.8× 2.4k 2.2× 490 0.5× 2.1k 2.3× 161 4.2k
Kenneth Wexler United States 24 724 0.3× 363 0.2× 3.3k 2.9× 407 0.4× 1.2k 1.3× 51 4.0k

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All Works

20 of 20 papers shown
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Mackay, I.. (2023). Phonetics and Speech Science. Cambridge University Press eBooks.
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Flege, James Emil & I. Mackay. (2004). PERCEIVING VOWELS IN A SECOND LANGUAGE. Studies in Second Language Acquisition. 26(1). 190 indexed citations
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Flege, James Emil & I. Mackay. (2004). PERCEIVING VOWELS IN A SECOND LANGUAGE. Studies in Second Language Acquisition. 26(1). 1–34. 180 indexed citations
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Flege, James Emil, Carlo Schirru, & I. Mackay. (2003). Interaction between the native and second language phonetic subsystems. Speech Communication. 40(4). 467–491. 284 indexed citations
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Irwin, George M., et al.. (2002). Photochemistry and Photophysics of Cr(III) Macrocyclic Complexes. Inorganic Chemistry. 41(4). 874–883. 6 indexed citations
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Flege, James Emil, I. Mackay, & Thorsten Piske. (2002). Assessing bilingual dominance. Applied Psycholinguistics. 23(4). 567–598. 157 indexed citations
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Piske, Thorsten, James Emil Flege, I. Mackay, & Diane Meador. (2002). The Production of English Vowels by Fluent Early and Late Italian-English Bilinguals. Phonetica. 59(1). 49–71. 92 indexed citations
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Mackay, I., James Emil Flege, & Thorsten Piske. (2000). Persistent errors in the perception and production of word-initial English stop consonants by native speakers of Italian. The Journal of the Acoustical Society of America. 107(5_Supplement). 2802–2802. 8 indexed citations
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Meador, Diane, James Emil Flege, & I. Mackay. (2000). Factors affecting the recognition of words in a second language. Bilingualism Language and Cognition. 3(1). 55–67. 114 indexed citations
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Mackay, I. & Noel R. Rose. (1998). Autoimmunity Yesterday, Today, and Tomorrow. 849–872. 11 indexed citations
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Mackay, I., et al.. (1994). Normal disfluency in stutterers. Journal of Fluency Disorders. 19(3). 194–194. 1 indexed citations
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Mackay, I. & Ann W. Kummer. (1993). Nasometric evaluation of velopharyngeal function in nonliterate subjects. The Journal of the Acoustical Society of America. 93(4_Supplement). 2337–2338. 2 indexed citations
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Mackay, I., et al.. (1992). Characteristics of nasalance in canadian speakers of English and French. 49–52. 38 indexed citations
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Mackay, I., et al.. (1990). Phonological primitives: Electromyographic speech error evidence. The Journal of the Acoustical Society of America. 88(3). 1299–1312. 104 indexed citations
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Mackay, I., et al.. (1988). Phonological constructs: Electromyographically obtained speech error evidence. The Journal of the Acoustical Society of America. 83(S1). S114–S114. 1 indexed citations
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Mackay, I.. (1987). Phonetics: The Science of Speech Production. Medical Entomology and Zoology. 35 indexed citations
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Mackay, I.. (1980). Lieberman, A.M. Speech Physiology and Acoustic Phonetics. Macmillan. 1977. Journal of Phonetics. 8(4). 501–506.
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Mackay, I.. (1977). Ultrasonic investigation of anterior pharyngeal wall (tongue root) position in syllables containing tense and lax vowels. Xerox University Microfilms eBooks. 2 indexed citations
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Mackay, I., et al.. (1969). The crystal structure of hexahelicene. Journal of the Chemical Society D Chemical Communications. 1470–1470. 11 indexed citations

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