Josef Affourtit

849 total citations · 1 hit paper
6 papers, 323 citations indexed

About

Josef Affourtit is a scholar working on Cognitive Neuroscience, Cultural Studies and Developmental and Educational Psychology. According to data from OpenAlex, Josef Affourtit has authored 6 papers receiving a total of 323 indexed citations (citations by other indexed papers that have themselves been cited), including 6 papers in Cognitive Neuroscience, 2 papers in Cultural Studies and 2 papers in Developmental and Educational Psychology. Recurrent topics in Josef Affourtit's work include Neurobiology of Language and Bilingualism (6 papers), Functional Brain Connectivity Studies (2 papers) and Language and cultural evolution (2 papers). Josef Affourtit is often cited by papers focused on Neurobiology of Language and Bilingualism (6 papers), Functional Brain Connectivity Studies (2 papers) and Language and cultural evolution (2 papers). Josef Affourtit collaborates with scholars based in United States, Canada and United Kingdom. Josef Affourtit's co-authors include Evelina Fedorenko, Matthew Siegelman, Idan Blank, Olessia Jouravlev, Evgeniia Diachek, Malte Hoffmann, Zachary Mineroff, Saima Malik-Moraleda, Jeanne Gallée and Hope Kean and has published in prestigious journals such as Journal of Neuroscience, Nature Neuroscience and Cerebral Cortex.

In The Last Decade

Josef Affourtit

6 papers receiving 321 citations

Hit Papers

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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.

An investigation across 45 languages and 12 language families reveals a universal language network

2022 113 citations Saima Malik-Moraleda, Jeanne Gallée et al. Nature Neuroscience profile →

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Name	h						Papers	Cites
Josef Affourtit United States	6	268	117	57	39	30	6	323
Hope Kean United States	7	206 0.8×	106 0.9×	50 0.9×	33 0.8×	40 1.3×	12	275
Samuel Planton France	10	322 1.2×	201 1.7×	43 0.8×	62 1.6×	37 1.2×	14	460
Matthew Siegelman United States	7	303 1.1×	164 1.4×	66 1.2×	38 1.0×	67 2.2×	10	373
Terri L. Scott United States	7	301 1.1×	136 1.2×	50 0.9×	65 1.7×	31 1.0×	13	363
Tomás Goucha Germany	8	226 0.8×	136 1.2×	47 0.8×	39 1.0×	10 0.3×	13	274
Malte R. Henningsen‐Schomers Germany	8	293 1.1×	74 0.6×	139 2.4×	114 2.9×	34 1.1×	10	393
Alexander Paunov United States	6	310 1.2×	66 0.6×	46 0.8×	53 1.4×	16 0.5×	7	358
Korinna Eckstein Germany	5	346 1.3×	227 1.9×	22 0.4×	83 2.1×	15 0.5×	6	396
Svetlana Malyutina Russia	10	266 1.0×	141 1.2×	48 0.8×	59 1.5×	22 0.7×	26	313
Sylvia Vitello United Kingdom	6	186 0.7×	91 0.8×	31 0.5×	51 1.3×	19 0.6×	12	275

Countries citing papers authored by Josef Affourtit

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Co-authorship network of co-authors of Josef Affourtit

This figure shows the co-authorship network connecting the top 25 collaborators of Josef Affourtit. A scholar is included among the top collaborators of Josef Affourtit based on the total number of citations received by their joint publications. Widths of edges represent the number of papers authors have co-authored together. Node borders signify the number of papers an author published with Josef Affourtit. Josef Affourtit is excluded from the visualization to improve readability, since they are connected to all nodes in the network.

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6 of 6 papers shown

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Regev, Tamar I., et al.. (2024). High-level language brain regions process sublexical regularities. Cerebral Cortex. 34(3). 8 indexed citations

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Shain, Cory, Hope Kean, Colton Casto, et al.. (2024). Distributed Sensitivity to Syntax and Semantics throughout the Language Network. Journal of Cognitive Neuroscience. 36(7). 1427–1471. 13 indexed citations

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Affourtit, Josef, Rachel Ryskin, Tamar I. Regev, et al.. (2023). The human language system, including its inferior frontal component in “Broca’s area,” does not support music perception. Cerebral Cortex. 33(12). 7904–7929. 25 indexed citations

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Lipkin, Benjamin, Greta Tuckute, Josef Affourtit, et al.. (2022). Probabilistic atlas for the language network based on precision fMRI data from >800 individuals. Scientific Data. 9(1). 529–529. 67 indexed citations

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Malik-Moraleda, Saima, Jeanne Gallée, Josef Affourtit, et al.. (2022). An investigation across 45 languages and 12 language families reveals a universal language network. Nature Neuroscience. 25(8). 1014–1019. 113 indexed citations breakdown →

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Diachek, Evgeniia, Idan Blank, Matthew Siegelman, Josef Affourtit, & Evelina Fedorenko. (2020). The Domain-General Multiple Demand (MD) Network Does Not Support Core Aspects of Language Comprehension: A Large-Scale fMRI Investigation. Journal of Neuroscience. 40(23). 4536–4550. 97 indexed citations

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