Jan Simson

1.0k total citations · 1 hit paper
7 papers, 348 citations indexed

About

Jan Simson is a scholar working on Cognitive Neuroscience, Developmental Biology and Signal Processing. According to data from OpenAlex, Jan Simson has authored 7 papers receiving a total of 348 indexed citations (citations by other indexed papers that have themselves been cited), including 4 papers in Cognitive Neuroscience, 2 papers in Developmental Biology and 2 papers in Signal Processing. Recurrent topics in Jan Simson's work include Neuroscience and Music Perception (3 papers), Music and Audio Processing (2 papers) and Ethics and Social Impacts of AI (2 papers). Jan Simson is often cited by papers focused on Neuroscience and Music Perception (3 papers), Music and Audio Processing (2 papers) and Ethics and Social Impacts of AI (2 papers). Jan Simson collaborates with scholars based in United States, Germany and New Zealand. Jan Simson's co-authors include Samuel A. Mehr, Constance M. Bainbridge, S. Atwood, Nori Jacoby, Rhea M. Howard, Manvir Singh, Erin J. Hopkins, Max M. Krasnow, Dean Knox and Steven Pinker and has published in prestigious journals such as Nature, Science and Nature Human Behaviour.

In The Last Decade

Jan Simson

6 papers receiving 342 citations

Hit Papers

align trajectories

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.

Universality and diversity in human song

2019 266 citations Samuel A. Mehr, Manvir Singh et al. Science profile →

Peers — A (Enhanced Table)

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

Name	h						Papers	Cites
Jan Simson United States	5	203	90	83	82	74	7	348
Rhea M. Howard United States	5	181 0.9×	85 0.9×	80 1.0×	101 1.2×	64 0.9×	5	334
Timothy J. O’Donnell Canada	9	243 1.2×	110 1.2×	84 1.0×	127 1.5×	66 0.9×	20	472
Gaye Soley Türkiye	9	221 1.1×	84 0.9×	92 1.1×	80 1.0×	32 0.4×	18	360
Melanie Wald‐Fuhrmann Germany	12	299 1.5×	65 0.7×	157 1.9×	118 1.4×	16 0.2×	41	401
Beau Sievers United States	5	177 0.9×	42 0.5×	91 1.1×	117 1.4×	22 0.3×	8	284
Nutankumar S. Thingujam India	8	183 0.9×	70 0.8×	125 1.5×	152 1.9×	14 0.2×	14	334
Rebecca D. Sager	2	188 0.9×	47 0.5×	96 1.2×	56 0.7×	13 0.2×	2	275
Christine D. Tsang Canada	9	337 1.7×	76 0.8×	71 0.9×	113 1.4×	51 0.7×	14	417
Olivia Ladinig Netherlands	9	598 2.9×	190 2.1×	133 1.6×	184 2.2×	76 1.0×	15	695
Trevor Henthorn United States	11	538 2.7×	189 2.1×	47 0.6×	315 3.8×	25 0.3×	21	671

Countries citing papers authored by Jan Simson

Since Specialization

Citations

This map shows the geographic impact of Jan Simson's research. It shows the number of citations coming from papers published by authors working in each country. You can also color the map by specialization and compare the number of citations received by Jan Simson with the expected number of citations based on a country's size and research output (numbers larger than one mean the country cites Jan Simson more than expected).

Fields of papers citing papers by Jan Simson

Since Specialization

Physical SciencesHealth SciencesLife SciencesSocial Sciences

This network shows the impact of papers produced by Jan Simson. Nodes represent research fields, and links connect fields that are likely to share authors. Colored nodes show fields that tend to cite the papers produced by Jan Simson. The network helps show where Jan Simson may publish in the future.

Co-authorship network of co-authors of Jan Simson

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

All Works

Sort: Min cites: Since: Top N: Style:

7 of 7 papers shown

1.

Simson, Jan, et al.. (2025). Preventing Harmful Data Practices by using Participatory Input to Navigate the Machine Learning Multiverse. MADOC (University of Mannheim). 1–30.

2.

Simson, Jan, Florian Pfisterer, & Christoph Kern. (2024). One Model Many Scores: Using Multiverse Analysis to Prevent Fairness Hacking and Evaluate the Influence of Model Design Decisions. MADOC (University of Mannheim). 1305–1320. 4 indexed citations

3.

Long, Bria, et al.. (2023). How games can make behavioural science better. Nature. 613(7944). 433–436. 22 indexed citations

4.

Bainbridge, Constance M., et al.. (2020). Infants relax in response to unfamiliar foreign lullabies. Nature Human Behaviour. 5(2). 256–264. 47 indexed citations

5.

Bainbridge, Constance M., et al.. (2020). Infants relax in response to unfamiliar foreign lullabies. PsyArXiv (OSF Preprints). 4 indexed citations

6.

Mehr, Samuel A., Manvir Singh, Dean Knox, et al.. (2019). Universality and diversity in human song. Science. 366(6468). 266 indexed citations breakdown →

7.

Simson, Jan, et al.. (2019). Bright: an augmented reality assistive platform for visual impairment. 1–4. 5 indexed citations

Rankless uses publication and citation data sourced from OpenAlex, an open and comprehensive bibliographic database. While OpenAlex provides broad and valuable coverage of the global research landscape, it—like all bibliographic datasets—has inherent limitations. These include incomplete records, variations in author disambiguation, differences in journal indexing, and delays in data updates. As a result, some metrics and network relationships displayed in Rankless may not fully capture the entirety of a scholar's output or impact.

Explore authors with similar magnitude of impact