Janet Nicol

5.7k total citations · 2 hit papers
49 papers, 3.5k citations indexed

About

Janet Nicol is a scholar working on Cognitive Neuroscience, Developmental and Educational Psychology and Artificial Intelligence. According to data from OpenAlex, Janet Nicol has authored 49 papers receiving a total of 3.5k indexed citations (citations by other indexed papers that have themselves been cited), including 33 papers in Cognitive Neuroscience, 33 papers in Developmental and Educational Psychology and 11 papers in Artificial Intelligence. Recurrent topics in Janet Nicol's work include Neurobiology of Language and Bilingualism (33 papers), Reading and Literacy Development (24 papers) and Second Language Acquisition and Learning (17 papers). Janet Nicol is often cited by papers focused on Neurobiology of Language and Bilingualism (33 papers), Reading and Literacy Development (24 papers) and Second Language Acquisition and Learning (17 papers). Janet Nicol collaborates with scholars based in United States, Switzerland and Canada. Janet Nicol's co-authors include David Swinney, Kenneth I. Forster, Merrill F. Garrett, Andrew Barss, Gabriella Vigliocco, Helen J. Neville, Matthew Finkbeiner, Lee Osterhout, Julie Franck and K. I. Forster and has published in prestigious journals such as Cognition, Journal of Cognitive Neuroscience and Language.

In The Last Decade

Janet Nicol

46 papers receiving 3.1k citations

Hit Papers

Syntactically Based Sentence Processing Classes: Evidence... 1991 2026 2002 2014 1991 2001 200 400 600
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. Syntactically Based Sentence Processing Classes: Evidence from Event-Related Brain Potentials
    1991 618 citations Janet Nicol, Andrew Barss et al. profile →
  2. One mind, two languages : bilingual language processing
    2001 517 citations Janet Nicol Blackwell eBooks profile →

Peers — A (Enhanced Table)

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

Name h Career Trend Papers Cites
Janet Nicol United States 24 2.7k 2.4k 965 843 467 49 3.5k
Walter J. B. van Heuven United Kingdom 28 3.5k 1.3× 3.4k 1.4× 785 0.8× 1.2k 1.4× 713 1.5× 50 4.8k
J. Kathryn Bock United States 16 1.9k 0.7× 1.8k 0.7× 1.1k 1.2× 1.0k 1.2× 601 1.3× 21 3.0k
Victor S. Ferreira United States 27 2.7k 1.0× 2.3k 1.0× 1.3k 1.3× 1.3k 1.5× 702 1.5× 91 3.9k
Helen Smith Cairns United States 21 1.5k 0.6× 1.7k 0.7× 572 0.6× 778 0.9× 359 0.8× 51 2.6k
Zenzi M. Griffin United States 18 1.8k 0.7× 1.6k 0.6× 707 0.7× 794 0.9× 448 1.0× 32 2.6k
Jesse Snedeker United States 32 1.8k 0.7× 2.1k 0.9× 865 0.9× 946 1.1× 515 1.1× 109 3.2k
Kenneth Wexler United States 24 1.8k 0.7× 3.3k 1.3× 1.2k 1.2× 724 0.9× 407 0.9× 51 4.0k
Janet Dean Fodor United States 21 1.6k 0.6× 1.4k 0.6× 1.4k 1.4× 796 0.9× 993 2.1× 49 3.0k
Karsten Steinhauer Canada 24 2.8k 1.0× 2.2k 0.9× 571 0.6× 965 1.1× 252 0.5× 68 3.3k
Matthew J. Traxler United States 36 3.1k 1.1× 2.4k 1.0× 903 0.9× 1.0k 1.2× 837 1.8× 81 3.8k

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Fields of papers citing papers by Janet Nicol

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Co-authorship network of co-authors of Janet Nicol

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All Works

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Zhang, Di & Janet Nicol. (2021). Lexical alignment in second language communication: evidence from a picture-naming task. Language Cognition and Neuroscience. 37(6). 732–749. 2 indexed citations
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Nicol, Janet, et al.. (2017). Reading in Spanish as a Second Language: An Eye-Tracking Study.. ˜The œreading matrix. 17(1). 1–15. 2 indexed citations
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Nicol, Janet, et al.. (2016). Minimal Interference from Possessor Phrases in the Production of Subject-Verb Agreement. Frontiers in Psychology. 7. 548–548. 4 indexed citations
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Tanner, Darren, Janet Nicol, & Laurel Brehm. (2014). The time-course of feature interference in agreement comprehension: Multiple mechanisms and asymmetrical attraction. Journal of Memory and Language. 76. 195–215. 96 indexed citations
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Liu, Rong & Janet Nicol. (2010). Online Processing of Anaphora byAdvanced English Learners. 150–165. 6 indexed citations
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Nicol, Janet, et al.. (2009). TRANSFER EFFECTS IN BILINGUAL SENTENCE PROCESSING. 16. 1–26. 2 indexed citations
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Nicol, Janet, David Swinney, Tracy Love, & Lea A. Hald. (2006). The On-line Study of Sentence Comprehension: An Examination of Dual Task Paradigms. Journal of Psycholinguistic Research. 35(3). 215–231. 25 indexed citations
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Love, Tracy, Frank Haist, Janet Nicol, & David Swinney. (2006). A Functional Neuroimaging Investigation of the Roles of Structural Complexity and Task-Demand During Auditory Sentence Processing. Cortex. 42(4). 577–590. 29 indexed citations
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Nicol, Janet. (2001). One mind, two languages : bilingual language processing. Blackwell eBooks. 517 indexed citations breakdown →
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Nicol, Janet, et al.. (2001). Semantic Factors in the Production of Number Agreement. Journal of Psycholinguistic Research. 30(1). 91–114. 22 indexed citations
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Nicol, Janet. (2001). One Mind, Two Languages. 11 indexed citations
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Nicol, Janet, et al.. (1999). Pronominal feture distinctions in english: 2669. The Italian Journal of Linguistics. 11(1). 133–162. 4 indexed citations
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Vigliocco, Gabriella & Janet Nicol. (1998). Separating hierarchical relations and word order in language production: is proximity concord syntactic or linear?. Cognition. 68(1). B13–B29. 140 indexed citations
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Nicol, Janet. (1996). What can prosody tell a parser?. Journal of Psycholinguistic Research. 25(2). 179–192. 11 indexed citations
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Nicol, Janet. (1995). Effects of clausal structure on subject-verb agreement errors. Journal of Psycholinguistic Research. 24(6). 507–516. 32 indexed citations
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Bloom, Paul, Andrew Barss, Janet Nicol, & Laura Conway. (1994). Children's Knowledge of Binding and Coreference: Evidence from Spontaneous Speech. Language. 70(1). 53–71. 42 indexed citations
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Nicol, Janet, Janet Dean Fodor, & David C. Swinney. (1994). Using cross-modal lexical decision tasks to investigate sentence processing.. Journal of Experimental Psychology Learning Memory and Cognition. 20(5). 1229–1238. 74 indexed citations
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Nicol, Janet & Martin J. Pickering. (1993). Processing syntactically ambiguous sentences: Evidence from semantic priming. Journal of Psycholinguistic Research. 22(2). 207–237. 38 indexed citations
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Nicol, Janet & David Swinney. (1989). The role of structure in coreference assignment during sentence comprehension. Journal of Psycholinguistic Research. 18(1). 5–19. 322 indexed citations

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