Karen Wynn

15.0k total citations · 4 hit papers
78 papers, 7.9k citations indexed

About

Karen Wynn is a scholar working on Developmental and Educational Psychology, Statistics and Probability and Cognitive Neuroscience. According to data from OpenAlex, Karen Wynn has authored 78 papers receiving a total of 7.9k indexed citations (citations by other indexed papers that have themselves been cited), including 50 papers in Developmental and Educational Psychology, 24 papers in Statistics and Probability and 23 papers in Cognitive Neuroscience. Recurrent topics in Karen Wynn's work include Child and Animal Learning Development (48 papers), Cognitive and developmental aspects of mathematical skills (24 papers) and Mathematics Education and Teaching Techniques (14 papers). Karen Wynn is often cited by papers focused on Child and Animal Learning Development (48 papers), Cognitive and developmental aspects of mathematical skills (24 papers) and Mathematics Education and Teaching Techniques (14 papers). Karen Wynn collaborates with scholars based in United States, Canada and Germany. Karen Wynn's co-authors include J. Kiley Hamlin, Paul Bloom, Koleen McCrink, Neha Mahajan, Valerie A. Kuhlmeier, Wen-Chi Chiang, Kristy vanMarle, Paul Alexander Bloom, Brian J. Scholl and Annie E. Wertz and has published in prestigious journals such as Nature, Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences and Child Development.

In The Last Decade

Karen Wynn

77 papers receiving 7.4k citations

Hit Papers

Addition and subtraction ... 1990 2026 2002 2014 1992 2007 1990 1992 250 500 750
What are hit papers?

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.

  1. Addition and subtraction by human infants
    1992 986 citations Karen Wynn profile →
  2. Social evaluation by preverbal infants
    2007 870 citations J. Kiley Hamlin, Karen Wynn et al. profile →
  3. Children's understanding of counting
    1990 711 citations Karen Wynn Cognition profile →
  4. Children's acquisition of the number words and the counting system
    1992 628 citations Karen Wynn Cognitive Psychology profile →

Peers — A (Enhanced Table)

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

Name h Career Trend Papers Cites
Karen Wynn United States 41 4.6k 3.1k 2.4k 2.2k 2.0k 78 7.9k
Philip S. Dale United States 60 9.6k 2.1× 722 0.2× 3.6k 1.5× 2.8k 1.3× 738 0.4× 226 14.5k
Linda S. Siegel Canada 61 11.1k 2.4× 5.0k 1.6× 4.6k 2.0× 3.6k 1.6× 309 0.2× 247 14.5k
Douglas Frye United States 28 3.3k 0.7× 765 0.2× 1.6k 0.7× 1.9k 0.9× 705 0.4× 74 5.2k
Heinz Wimmer Austria 52 12.9k 2.8× 3.1k 1.0× 3.6k 1.5× 7.1k 3.3× 2.5k 1.3× 102 15.6k
Rebecca Bull United Kingdom 32 3.2k 0.7× 2.8k 0.9× 2.6k 1.1× 1.8k 0.8× 567 0.3× 104 6.7k
Louis J. Moses United States 31 4.2k 0.9× 281 0.1× 1.4k 0.6× 2.5k 1.2× 2.1k 1.1× 41 6.9k
Michael S. C. Thomas United Kingdom 39 2.0k 0.4× 463 0.1× 713 0.3× 2.3k 1.1× 376 0.2× 175 5.3k
Philippe Rochat United States 47 3.3k 0.7× 286 0.1× 560 0.2× 2.4k 1.1× 2.7k 1.4× 124 6.0k
Jacques Mehler France 68 9.6k 2.1× 1.6k 0.5× 1.0k 0.4× 7.3k 3.3× 671 0.3× 159 16.6k
Donald Shankweiler United States 55 9.7k 2.1× 2.9k 0.9× 2.2k 0.9× 8.0k 3.7× 662 0.3× 128 15.2k

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All Works

20 of 20 papers shown
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Marshall, Julia, Karen Wynn, & Paul Bloom. (2020). Do Children and Adults Take Social Relationship Into Account When Evaluating People’s Actions?. Child Development. 91(5). e1082–e1100. 28 indexed citations
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Marshall, Julia, Anton Gollwitzer, Karen Wynn, & Paul Bloom. (2019). The development of corporal third-party punishment. Cognition. 190. 221–229. 10 indexed citations
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Wertz, Annie E. & Karen Wynn. (2019). Can I eat that too? 18-month-olds generalize social information about edibility to similar looking plants. Appetite. 138. 127–135. 13 indexed citations
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Mathew, Bobby, Satyan Lakshminrusimha, Peter A. Nickerson, et al.. (2017). Natriuretic peptide C receptor in the developing sheep lung: role in perinatal transition. Pediatric Research. 82(2). 349–355. 4 indexed citations
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Kominsky, Jonathan F., Brent Strickland, Annie E. Wertz, et al.. (2017). Categories and Constraints in Causal Perception. Psychological Science. 28(11). 1649–1662. 43 indexed citations
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Wynn, Karen, et al.. (2016). Costly rejection of wrongdoers by infants and children. Cognition. 151. 76–79. 39 indexed citations
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Tasimi, Arber, et al.. (2015). Do-gooder derogation in children: the social costs of generosity. Frontiers in Psychology. 6. 1036–1036. 17 indexed citations
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Hamlin, J. Kiley & Karen Wynn. (2010). Young infants prefer prosocial to antisocial others. Cognitive Development. 26(1). 30–39. 311 indexed citations
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Hamlin, J. Kiley, George E. Newman, & Karen Wynn. (2009). Eight‐Month‐Old Infants Infer Unfulfilled Goals, Despite Ambiguous Physical Evidence. Infancy. 14(5). 579–590. 29 indexed citations
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Lakshminrusimha, Satyan, Daniel D. Swartz, Sylvia F. Gugino, et al.. (2009). Oxygen Concentration and Pulmonary Hemodynamics in Newborn Lambs With Pulmonary Hypertension. Pediatric Research. 66(5). 539–544. 112 indexed citations
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vanMarle, Kristy & Karen Wynn. (2009). Infants’ auditory enumeration: Evidence for analog magnitudes in the small number range. Cognition. 111(3). 302–316. 45 indexed citations
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Newman, George E., Hoon Choi, Karen Wynn, & Brian J. Scholl. (2008). The origins of causal perception: Evidence from postdictive processing in infancy. Cognitive Psychology. 57(3). 262–291. 45 indexed citations
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vanMarle, Kristy & Karen Wynn. (2006). Six‐month‐old infants use analog magnitudes to represent duration. Developmental Science. 9(5). F41–9. 96 indexed citations
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Mitroff, Stephen R., Brian J. Scholl, & Karen Wynn. (2005). The relationship between object files and conscious perception. Cognition. 96(1). 67–92. 66 indexed citations
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McCrink, Koleen & Karen Wynn. (2004). Large-Number Addition and Subtraction by 9-Month-Old Infants. Psychological Science. 15(11). 776–781. 253 indexed citations
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Thomas, S., et al.. (2001). The current status of maggot therapy in wound healing. British Journal of Nursing. 10(Sup5). S5–S12. 18 indexed citations
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Chiang, Wen-Chi & Karen Wynn. (2000). Infants' representation and tracking of multiple objects. 12 indexed citations
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Jackendoff, Ray, Paul Bloom, & Karen Wynn. (1999). Language, Logic, and Concepts Essays in Memory of John Macnamara. MIT Press eBooks. 31 indexed citations
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Bloom, Paul & Karen Wynn. (1997). Linguistic cues in the acquisition of number words. Journal of Child Language. 24(3). 511–533. 113 indexed citations
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Wynn, Karen. (1990). Children's understanding of counting. Cognition. 36(2). 155–193. 711 indexed citations breakdown →

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