John Willats

745 total citations
13 papers, 436 citations indexed

About

John Willats is a scholar working on Visual Arts and Performing Arts, Automotive Engineering and Experimental and Cognitive Psychology. According to data from OpenAlex, John Willats has authored 13 papers receiving a total of 436 indexed citations (citations by other indexed papers that have themselves been cited), including 4 papers in Visual Arts and Performing Arts, 3 papers in Automotive Engineering and 2 papers in Experimental and Cognitive Psychology. Recurrent topics in John Willats's work include Art Education and Development (4 papers), Spatial Cognition and Navigation (3 papers) and Creativity in Education and Neuroscience (1 paper). John Willats is often cited by papers focused on Art Education and Development (4 papers), Spatial Cognition and Navigation (3 papers) and Creativity in Education and Neuroscience (1 paper). John Willats collaborates with scholars based in United Kingdom. John Willats's co-authors include Frédo Durand and R. L. Greene and has published in prestigious journals such as Child Development, Journal of Aesthetics and Art Criticism and Leonardo.

In The Last Decade

John Willats

12 papers receiving 360 citations

Peers — A (Enhanced Table)

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

Name	h						Papers	Cites
John Willats United Kingdom	9	102	95	92	91	88	13	436
Rhoda Kellogg	6	179 1.8×	119 1.3×	77 0.8×	56 0.6×	113 1.3×	9	472
M. V. Cox United Kingdom	13	92 0.9×	80 0.8×	258 2.8×	86 0.9×	138 1.6×	27	524
Lorraine Jensen Ireland	3	39 0.4×	117 1.2×	306 3.3×	144 1.6×	189 2.1×	14	725
H. James Marshall	4	73 0.7×	21 0.2×	19 0.2×	78 0.9×	62 0.7×	8	245
Stuart Reifel United States	10	30 0.3×	194 2.0×	70 0.8×	21 0.2×	31 0.4×	30	350
Sophia L. Pierroutsakos United States	9	10 0.1×	203 2.1×	63 0.7×	144 1.6×	83 0.9×	12	485
Howard Riley United Kingdom	8	55 0.5×	14 0.1×	27 0.3×	125 1.4×	113 1.3×	33	251
Virginia Brooks United States	4	15 0.1×	23 0.2×	94 1.0×	189 2.1×	162 1.8×	10	408
Valerie Monthland Preston-Dunlop United Kingdom	9	59 0.6×	39 0.4×	5 0.1×	31 0.3×	106 1.2×	19	282
Rudolf von Laban	9	37 0.4×	25 0.3×	7 0.1×	49 0.5×	89 1.0×	16	319

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All Works

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13 of 13 papers shown

1.

Willats, John. (2006). Making Sense of Children's Drawings. Psychology Press eBooks. 153 indexed citations

2.

Willats, John & Frédo Durand. (2005). Defining Pictorial Style: Lessons from Linguistics and Computer Graphics. Axiomathes. 15(3). 319–351. 21 indexed citations

3.

Willats, John & Frédo Durand. (2005). Defining pictorial style. 5 indexed citations

4.

Willats, John. (2002). The Third Domain: the Role of Pictorial Images in Picture Perception and Production. Axiomathes. 13(1). 1–15. 2 indexed citations

5.

Willats, John. (1999). Art and Representation: New Principles in the Analysis of Pictures. Journal of Aesthetics and Art Criticism. 57(1). 99–99. 72 indexed citations

6.

Willats, John. (1997). Art and representation. 44 indexed citations

7.

Willats, John. (1994). The Child's Creation of a Pictorial World. Journal of Aesthetic Education. 28(2). 51–51. 19 indexed citations

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Willats, John. (1992). The Representation of Extendedness in Children's Drawings of Sticks and Discs. Child Development. 63(3). 692–692. 10 indexed citations

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Willats, John. (1992). The Representation of Extendedness in Children's Drawings of Sticks and Discs. Child Development. 63(3). 692–710. 8 indexed citations

10.

Greene, R. L., et al.. (1984). Perspective and Other Drawing Systems. Leonardo. 17(1). 61–61. 37 indexed citations

11.

Willats, John. (1983). The Role of Conscious Knowledge in the Development of Drawing Ability. Art Education. 36(2). 78–78. 4 indexed citations

12.

Willats, John. (1980). On the Depiction of Smooth Forms in a Group of Paintings by Paul Klee. Leonardo. 13(4). 276–276. 1 indexed citations

13.

Willats, John. (1977). How Children Learn to Draw Realistic Pictures. Quarterly Journal of Experimental Psychology. 29(3). 367–382. 60 indexed citations

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