John Swettenham

11.3k total citations · 1 hit paper
66 papers, 7.7k citations indexed

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John Swettenham is a scholar working on Cognitive Neuroscience, Developmental and Educational Psychology and Clinical Psychology. According to data from OpenAlex, John Swettenham has authored 66 papers receiving a total of 7.7k indexed citations (citations by other indexed papers that have themselves been cited), including 44 papers in Cognitive Neuroscience, 31 papers in Developmental and Educational Psychology and 21 papers in Clinical Psychology. Recurrent topics in John Swettenham's work include Autism Spectrum Disorder Research (42 papers), Behavioral and Psychological Studies (15 papers) and Family and Disability Support Research (15 papers). John Swettenham is often cited by papers focused on Autism Spectrum Disorder Research (42 papers), Behavioral and Psychological Studies (15 papers) and Family and Disability Support Research (15 papers). John Swettenham collaborates with scholars based in United Kingdom, United States and South Korea. John Swettenham's co-authors include Simon Baron‐Cohen, Gillian Baird, Tony Charman, Auriol Drew, Antony Cox, Peter K. Smith, Kate Plaisted, Sally Wheelwright, Elizabeth Milne and Ruth Campbell and has published in prestigious journals such as Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society B Biological Sciences, Journal of Abnormal Psychology and Developmental Psychology.

In The Last Decade

John Swettenham

60 papers receiving 7.2k 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.

A Screening Instrument for Autism at 18 Months of Age: A 6-Year Follow-up Study

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Name	h						Papers	Cites
John Swettenham United Kingdom	36	5.6k	2.9k	2.8k	1.9k	1.6k	66	7.7k
Nurit Yirmiya Israel	47	6.1k 1.1×	2.7k 0.9×	4.0k 1.4×	1.7k 0.9×	1.6k 1.0×	109	8.8k
Susan Leekam United Kingdom	40	6.2k 1.1×	3.8k 1.3×	2.8k 1.0×	1.5k 0.8×	1.3k 0.8×	94	8.5k
Daniel S. Messinger United States	43	4.6k 0.8×	1.8k 0.6×	3.1k 1.1×	1.7k 0.9×	1.2k 0.8×	161	7.5k
Peter Mundy United States	49	6.5k 1.2×	4.6k 1.6×	3.2k 1.1×	1.8k 0.9×	1.0k 0.7×	131	9.1k
Ami Klin United States	37	6.1k 1.1×	2.1k 0.7×	2.4k 0.8×	1.5k 0.8×	464 0.3×	63	7.0k
Jana M. Iverson United States	42	4.0k 0.7×	4.3k 1.5×	1.7k 0.6×	1.4k 0.7×	679 0.4×	116	7.5k
Nicole Rinehart Australia	47	5.1k 0.9×	1.8k 0.6×	2.1k 0.7×	946 0.5×	1.2k 0.8×	187	7.9k
Ami Klin United States	46	9.6k 1.7×	2.6k 0.9×	3.8k 1.4×	2.6k 1.3×	795 0.5×	90	10.8k
Sara Jane Webb United States	42	6.8k 1.2×	1.5k 0.5×	2.0k 0.7×	1.1k 0.5×	591 0.4×	129	7.9k
Elisabeth L. Hill United Kingdom	43	5.0k 0.9×	3.5k 1.2×	2.2k 0.8×	907 0.5×	563 0.4×	100	7.4k

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Pennington, Lindsay, Janice Murray, Johanna Geytenbeek, et al.. (2025). The UK C‐BiLLT: Validity and reliability of an online assessment of spoken language comprehension for children with severe motor disorders. International Journal of Language & Communication Disorders. 60(2). e70025–e70025. 1 indexed citations

Sargent, Jenefer, et al.. (2024). The Functional Vision for Communication Questionnaire (FVC-Q): Exploring Parental Report of Non-Speaking Children's Fixation Skills Using a Structured History-Taking Approach. Developmental Neurorehabilitation. 27(1-2). 27–33.

Griffiths, Tom, Michael Clarke, & John Swettenham. (2023). The ability of typically developing 2–3 year olds to infer the control mechanism for eye-gaze technology and the impact of causal language instruction. Disability and Rehabilitation Assistive Technology. 19(7). 2557–2564.

Tillmann, Julian, Jyrki Tuomainen, & John Swettenham. (2020). The Effect of Visual Perceptual Load on Auditory Awareness of Social vs. Non-social Stimuli in Individuals with Autism. Journal of Autism and Developmental Disorders. 51(4). 1028–1038. 4 indexed citations

Denmark, Tanya, Joanna Atkinson, Ruth Campbell, & John Swettenham. (2014). How do Typically Developing Deaf Children and Deaf Children with Autism Spectrum Disorder Use the Face When Comprehending Emotional Facial Expressions in British Sign Language?. Journal of Autism and Developmental Disorders. 44(10). 2584–2592. 18 indexed citations

Swettenham, John, et al.. (2014). Seeing the unseen: Autism involves reduced susceptibility to inattentional blindness.. Neuropsychology. 28(4). 563–570. 27 indexed citations

Remington, Anna, John Swettenham, & Nilli Lavie. (2012). Lightening the load: Perceptual load impairs visual detection in typical adults but not in autism.. Journal of Abnormal Psychology. 121(2). 544–551. 88 indexed citations

Clarke, Michael, et al.. (2012). Assessing true and false belief in young children with cerebral palsy through anticipatory gaze behaviours: A pilot study. Research in Developmental Disabilities. 33(6). 2058–2066. 8 indexed citations

Jones, Catherine R. G., John Swettenham, Tony Charman, et al.. (2011). No evidence for a fundamental visual motion processing deficit in adolescents with autism spectrum disorders. Autism Research. 4(5). 347–357. 70 indexed citations

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Annaz, Dagmara, Ruth Campbell, Mike Coleman, Elizabeth Milne, & John Swettenham. (2011). Young Children with Autism Spectrum Disorder Do Not Preferentially Attend to Biological Motion. Journal of Autism and Developmental Disorders. 42(3). 401–408. 98 indexed citations

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Milne, Elizabeth, Sarah White, Ruth Campbell, et al.. (2006). Motion and Form Coherence Detection in Autistic Spectrum Disorder: Relationship to Motor Control and 2:4 Digit Ratio. Journal of Autism and Developmental Disorders. 36(2). 225–237. 111 indexed citations

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White, Sarah, Uta Frith, Elizabeth Milne, et al.. (2006). A double dissociation between sensorimotor impairments and reading disability: A comparison of autistic and dyslexic children. Cognitive Neuropsychology. 23(5). 748–761. 63 indexed citations

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Milne, Elizabeth, John Swettenham, & Ruth Campbell. (2005). Motion perception and autistic spectrum disorder: A reply to the commentaries. UCL Discovery (University College London). 2 indexed citations

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Milne, Elizabeth, John Swettenham, & Ruth Campbell. (2005). Motion perception and autistic spectrum disorder: A review. UCL Discovery (University College London). 52 indexed citations

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Lawrence, Kate, Ruth Campbell, John Swettenham, et al.. (2003). Interpreting gaze in Turner syndrome: impaired sensitivity to intention and emotion, but preservation of social cueing. Neuropsychologia. 41(8). 894–905. 65 indexed citations

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Charman, Tony, Simon Baron‐Cohen, John Swettenham, et al.. (2003). Predicting language outcome in infants with autism and pervasive developmental disorder. International Journal of Language & Communication Disorders. 38(3). 265–285. 297 indexed citations

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Drew, Auriol, Gillian Baird, Simon Baron‐Cohen, et al.. (2002). A pilot randomised control trial of a parent training intervention for pre-school children with autism. European Child & Adolescent Psychiatry. 11(6). 266–272. 231 indexed citations

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Swettenham, John. (1996). The early diagnosis of autism: screening at 18 months of age. UCL Discovery (University College London). 1 indexed citations

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Swettenham, John. (1996). Can Children with Autism be Taught to Understand False Belief Using Computers?. Journal of Child Psychology and Psychiatry. 37(2). 157–165. 159 indexed citations

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Baron‐Cohen, Simon, Antony Cox, Gillian Baird, et al.. (1996). Psychological Markers in the Detection of Autism in Infancy in a Large Population. The British Journal of Psychiatry. 168(2). 158–163. 418 indexed citations

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