John W. Shepherd

2.8k total citations · 1 hit paper
40 papers, 2.0k citations indexed

About

John W. Shepherd is a scholar working on Cognitive Neuroscience, Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition and Social Psychology. According to data from OpenAlex, John W. Shepherd has authored 40 papers receiving a total of 2.0k indexed citations (citations by other indexed papers that have themselves been cited), including 16 papers in Cognitive Neuroscience, 10 papers in Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition and 8 papers in Social Psychology. Recurrent topics in John W. Shepherd's work include Face Recognition and Perception (13 papers), Face recognition and analysis (6 papers) and Social and Intergroup Psychology (5 papers). John W. Shepherd is often cited by papers focused on Face Recognition and Perception (13 papers), Face recognition and analysis (6 papers) and Social and Intergroup Psychology (5 papers). John W. Shepherd collaborates with scholars based in United Kingdom, United States and Singapore. John W. Shepherd's co-authors include Hadyn D. Ellis, Graham Davies, Jan B. Deręgowski, H. D. Ellis, C. Neil Macrae, David Rhind, David P. Carey, Jonathan Raper, Adam Rutland and Geoff Smith and has published in prestigious journals such as Nucleic Acids Research, SHILAP Revista de lepidopterología and Personality and Social Psychology Bulletin.

In The Last Decade

John W. Shepherd

40 papers receiving 1.9k 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.

Identification of Familiar and Unfamiliar Faces from Internal and External Features: Some Implications for Theories of Face Recognition

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Name	h						Papers	Cites
John W. Shepherd United Kingdom	24	1.5k	677	632	356	203	40	2.0k
Kenneth A. Deffenbacher United States	22	1.9k 1.3×	662 1.0×	543 0.9×	962 2.7×	206 1.0×	48	2.6k
Kerry L. Marsh United States	26	1.5k 1.0×	474 0.7×	97 0.2×	1.7k 4.8×	544 2.7×	58	3.3k
Rachel A. Robbins Australia	17	1.4k 0.9×	720 1.1×	412 0.7×	251 0.7×	55 0.3×	37	1.8k
Michael C. Hout United States	19	910 0.6×	405 0.6×	225 0.4×	374 1.1×	102 0.5×	65	1.8k
Alvin G. Goldstein United States	27	1.5k 1.0×	821 1.2×	472 0.7×	488 1.4×	232 1.1×	70	2.0k
Anne D. Pick United States	24	1.3k 0.9×	725 1.1×	156 0.2×	568 1.6×	104 0.5×	57	2.8k
Gernot Horstmann Germany	30	1.9k 1.3×	725 1.1×	292 0.5×	704 2.0×	118 0.6×	81	2.6k
Jessica K. Witt United States	31	2.4k 1.6×	808 1.2×	96 0.2×	1.9k 5.3×	229 1.1×	114	3.5k
June E. Chance United States	21	977 0.7×	629 0.9×	305 0.5×	487 1.4×	300 1.5×	44	1.8k
Karen L. Schmidt United States	22	614 0.4×	718 1.1×	472 0.7×	516 1.4×	202 1.0×	43	1.9k

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Shepherd, John W., et al.. (2022). ChanFAD: A Functional Annotation Database for Ion Channels. SHILAP Revista de lepidopterología. 2. 835805–835805. 1 indexed citations

Hamorsky, Krystal T., et al.. (2020). Stability of plasmid and viral banks supporting the cGMP manufacture of Q-Griffithsin from a TMV-based viral vector. Journal of Biotechnology. 320. 74–76. 4 indexed citations

Carey, David P., Daniel T. Smith, Douglas S. Martin, et al.. (2008). The bi-pedal ape: Plasticity and asymmetry in footedness. Cortex. 45(5). 650–661. 45 indexed citations

Carey, David P., et al.. (2001). Footedness in world soccer: an analysis of France '98. Journal of Sports Sciences. 19(11). 855–864. 125 indexed citations

Deręgowski, Jan B., et al.. (1997). Sex differences on Bartel's task: An investigation into perception of real and depicted distances. British Journal of Psychology. 88(4). 637–651. 8 indexed citations

Costen, Nicholas, John W. Shepherd, Hadyn D. Ellis, & Susan Craw. (1994). Masking of faces by facial and non-facial stimuli. Visual Cognition. 1(2-3). 227–251. 26 indexed citations

Macrae, C. Neil & John W. Shepherd. (1991). Categorical effects on attributional inferences: A response‐time analysis. British Journal of Social Psychology. 30(3). 235–245. 8 indexed citations

Shepherd, John W., et al.. (1991). The effects of distinctiveness, presentation time and delay on face recognition. The European Journal of Cognitive Psychology. 3(1). 137–145. 55 indexed citations

Moore, Robert E., John W. Shepherd, & JoAnn Hoskins. (1990). Design of PCR primers that detect only mRNA in the presence of DNA. Nucleic Acids Research. 18(7). 1921–1921. 14 indexed citations

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Bibby, Peter & John W. Shepherd. (1990). Rates of urbanization in England 1981-2001. OpenGrey (Institut de l'Information Scientifique et Technique). 5 indexed citations

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Gustafson, Gary, et al.. (1989). Nucleotide sequence of barley stripe mosaic virus RNAα: RNAα encodes a single polypeptide with homology to corresponding proteins from other viruses. Virology. 170(2). 370–377. 31 indexed citations

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Macrae, C. Neil & John W. Shepherd. (1989). Do criminal stereotypes mediate juridic judgements?. British Journal of Social Psychology. 28(2). 189–191. 34 indexed citations

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Macrae, C. Neil & John W. Shepherd. (1989). Stereotypes and social judgements. British Journal of Social Psychology. 28(4). 319–325. 26 indexed citations

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Ellis, Hadyn D., et al.. (1988). Stimulus factors in face learning.. 13 indexed citations

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Shepherd, John W., H. D. Ellis, Mary McMurran, & Graham Davies. (1978). Effect of character attribution on Photofit construction of a face. European Journal of Social Psychology. 8(2). 263–268. 21 indexed citations

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Ellis, Hadyn D. & John W. Shepherd. (1975). Recognition of Upright and Inverted Faces Presented in the Left and Right Visual Fields. Cortex. 11(1). 3–7. 91 indexed citations

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Ellis, Hadyn D. & John W. Shepherd. (1974). Recognition of abstract and concrete words presented in left and right visual fields.. Journal of Experimental Psychology. 103(5). 1035–1036. 143 indexed citations

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Shepherd, John W., Jan B. Deręgowski, & Hadyn D. Ellis. (1974). A Cross-Cultural Study of Recognition Memory For Faces. International Journal of Psychology. 9(3). 205–212. 77 indexed citations

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Deręgowski, Jan B., Hadyn D. Ellis, & John W. Shepherd. (1973). A Cross-Cultural Study of Recognition of Pictures of Faces and Cups. International Journal of Psychology. 8(4). 269–273. 5 indexed citations

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Shepherd, John W. & H. D. Ellis. (1972). Physical Attractiveness and Selection of Marriage Partners. Psychological Reports. 30(3). 1004–1004. 13 indexed citations

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