Joel Walters

2.3k total citations · 1 hit paper
56 papers, 1.2k citations indexed

About

Joel Walters is a scholar working on Developmental and Educational Psychology, Cognitive Neuroscience and Linguistics and Language. According to data from OpenAlex, Joel Walters has authored 56 papers receiving a total of 1.2k indexed citations (citations by other indexed papers that have themselves been cited), including 37 papers in Developmental and Educational Psychology, 20 papers in Cognitive Neuroscience and 18 papers in Linguistics and Language. Recurrent topics in Joel Walters's work include Language Development and Disorders (30 papers), Reading and Literacy Development (28 papers) and Neurobiology of Language and Bilingualism (18 papers). Joel Walters is often cited by papers focused on Language Development and Disorders (30 papers), Reading and Literacy Development (28 papers) and Neurobiology of Language and Bilingualism (18 papers). Joel Walters collaborates with scholars based in Israel, United States and Germany. Joel Walters's co-authors include Sharon Armon-Lotem, Carmit Altman, Natalia Gagarina, Daleen Klop, Natalia Meir, Ute Bohnacker, Taina Välimaa, Sari Kunnari, Yuval Wolf and Ingrida Balčiūnienė and has published in prestigious journals such as Neuropsychologia, Frontiers in Psychology and Frontiers in Human Neuroscience.

In The Last Decade

Joel Walters

52 papers receiving 1.1k citations

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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.

MAIN: multilingual assessment instrument for narratives

2019 159 citations Daleen Klop, Sari Kunnari et al. ZAS Papers in Linguistics profile →

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Name	h						Papers	Cites
Joel Walters Israel	18	863	382	323	278	108	56	1.2k
Stefka H. Marinova-Todd Canada	11	479 0.6×	271 0.7×	187 0.6×	192 0.7×	91 0.8×	23	705
Elma Blom Netherlands	24	1.5k 1.7×	825 2.2×	391 1.2×	343 1.2×	217 2.0×	101	1.9k
Martha Crago Canada	21	1.8k 2.1×	825 2.2×	468 1.4×	435 1.6×	274 2.5×	44	2.3k
Vera F. Gutiérrez‐Clellen United States	24	1.8k 2.1×	705 1.8×	440 1.4×	235 0.8×	201 1.9×	31	2.0k
Aquiles Iglesias United States	23	1.3k 1.5×	316 0.8×	292 0.9×	149 0.5×	377 3.5×	52	1.7k
Tracy Lavin Canada	4	582 0.7×	329 0.9×	141 0.4×	142 0.5×	170 1.6×	4	903
Annick De Houwer Belgium	18	1.4k 1.6×	398 1.0×	1.0k 3.1×	694 2.5×	214 2.0×	51	2.1k
Barbara Zurer Pearson United States	17	2.3k 2.6×	787 2.1×	699 2.2×	309 1.1×	287 2.7×	35	2.6k
Laura Wagner United States	20	625 0.7×	249 0.7×	159 0.5×	302 1.1×	81 0.8×	63	1.0k
Mercer Mayer	10	902 1.0×	269 0.7×	248 0.8×	313 1.1×	261 2.4×	32	1.4k

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Armon-Lotem, Sharon, et al.. (2024). The Impact of Ethnic Identity on Language Attitudes. Journal of Language Identity & Education. 1–21. 1 indexed citations

Armon-Lotem, Sharon, et al.. (2024). Culture-specific heritage language vocabulary and collective identity among three generations of Mountain Jews. Journal of Multilingual and Multicultural Development. 47(1). 417–434. 1 indexed citations

Altman, Carmit, et al.. (2024). Internal State Terms in the Narratives of Bilingual Children With Developmental Language Disorder: The Role of Microstructure and Macrostructure. Language Speech and Hearing Services in Schools. 55(4). 1039–1053.

Walters, Joel, et al.. (2024). The effect of language attitudes on proficiency in two heritage languages of Mountain Jews in Israel and the US. International Journal of the Sociology of Language. 2024(288). 149–176. 4 indexed citations

Walters, Joel, et al.. (2024). Immigrant student identities and classroom engagement. Journal of Multilingual and Multicultural Development. 1–17. 1 indexed citations

Walters, Joel, et al.. (2023). Evaluation devices in the narratives of deaf/hard of hearing and hearing Arabic‐speaking adolescents. International Journal of Language & Communication Disorders. 59(1). 180–194. 1 indexed citations

Walters, Joel, et al.. (2022). Language Control and Intra-Sentential Codeswitching among Bilingual Children with and without Developmental Language Disorder. Languages. 7(4). 249–249. 3 indexed citations

Walters, Joel, et al.. (2022). Heritage language maintenance and shift of three languages across three generations of Mountain Jews in Israel. Journal of Multilingual and Multicultural Development. 45(9). 3875–3891. 6 indexed citations

Altman, Carmit, et al.. (2021). Perceptions of identity, language abilities and language preferences among Russian-Hebrew and English-Hebrew bilingual children and their parents. Journal of Multilingual and Multicultural Development. 45(5). 1392–1407. 9 indexed citations

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Altman, Carmit, et al.. (2021). Using a monolingual screening test for assessing bilingual children. Clinical Linguistics & Phonetics. 36(12). 1132–1152. 19 indexed citations

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Armon-Lotem, Sharon, et al.. (2021). Crosslinguistic Influence (CLI) of Lexical Breadth and Depth in the Vocabulary of Bilingual Kindergarten Children – A Bilingual Intervention Study. Frontiers in Psychology. 12. 671928–671928. 6 indexed citations

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Klop, Daleen, Sari Kunnari, Taina Välimaa, et al.. (2019). MAIN: multilingual assessment instrument for narratives. ZAS Papers in Linguistics. 56. 155–155. 159 indexed citations breakdown →

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Altman, Carmit, et al.. (2017). Story grammar elements and causal relations in the narratives of Russian-Hebrew bilingual children with SLI and typical language development. Journal of Communication Disorders. 69. 72–93. 37 indexed citations

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Walters, Joel, et al.. (2017). Target accessibility contributes to asymmetric priming in translation and cross-language semantic priming in unbalanced bilinguals. Bilingualism Language and Cognition. 22(1). 157–176. 15 indexed citations

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Smirnova, Daria, Joel Walters, Yulia Muchnik-Rozanov, et al.. (2015). Second language as a compensatory resource for maintaining verbal fluency in bilingual immigrants with schizophrenia. Neuropsychologia. 75. 597–606. 7 indexed citations

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Gagarina, Natalia, Daleen Klop, Sari Kunnari, et al.. (2012). Multilingual Assessment Instrument for Narratives (MAIN). ZAS Papers in Linguistics. 56. 1–140. 17 indexed citations

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Bersudsky, Yuly, et al.. (2005). Schizophrenia and second language acquisition. Progress in Neuro-Psychopharmacology and Biological Psychiatry. 29(4). 535–542. 10 indexed citations

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Walters, Joel & Yuval Wolf. (1986). LANGUAGE PROFICIENCY, TEXT CONTENT AND ORDER EFFECTS IN NARRATIVE RECALL. Language Learning. 36(1). 47–64. 13 indexed citations

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Walters, Joel. (1980). Grammar, meaning, and sociocultural appropriateness in second language acquisition.. Canadian Journal of Psychology/Revue Canadienne de Psychologie. 34(4). 337–345. 23 indexed citations

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Walters, Joel. (1979). STRATEGIES FOR REQUESTING IN SPANISH AND ENGLISH Structural Similarities and Pragmatic Differences. Language Learning. 29(2). 277–293. 32 indexed citations

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