Keith Rayner

66.7k total citations · 11 hit papers
373 papers, 43.7k citations indexed

About

Keith Rayner is a scholar working on Developmental and Educational Psychology, Cognitive Neuroscience and Experimental and Cognitive Psychology. According to data from OpenAlex, Keith Rayner has authored 373 papers receiving a total of 43.7k indexed citations (citations by other indexed papers that have themselves been cited), including 241 papers in Developmental and Educational Psychology, 226 papers in Cognitive Neuroscience and 105 papers in Experimental and Cognitive Psychology. Recurrent topics in Keith Rayner's work include Reading and Literacy Development (227 papers), Neurobiology of Language and Bilingualism (117 papers) and Gaze Tracking and Assistive Technology (102 papers). Keith Rayner is often cited by papers focused on Reading and Literacy Development (227 papers), Neurobiology of Language and Bilingualism (117 papers) and Gaze Tracking and Assistive Technology (102 papers). Keith Rayner collaborates with scholars based in United States, United Kingdom and Canada. Keith Rayner's co-authors include Alexander Pollatsek, Erik D. Reichle, Lyn Frazier, George W. McConkie, Susan A. Duffy, Simon P. Liversedge, Sara C. Sereno, Arnold D. Well, Timothy J. Slattery and Barbara J. Juhasz and has published in prestigious journals such as Science, Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences and Psychological Bulletin.

In The Last Decade

Keith Rayner

370 papers receiving 40.5k citations

Hit Papers

Eye movements in reading and information proces... 1975 2026 1992 2009 1998 2009 1982 1975 1998 1000 2.0k 3.0k 4.0k 5.0k
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. Eye movements in reading and information processing: 20 years of research.
    1998 5.2k citations Keith Rayner profile →
  2. The 35th Sir Frederick Bartlett Lecture: Eye movements and attention in reading, scene perception, and visual search
    2009 1.8k citations Keith Rayner profile →
  3. Making and correcting errors during sentence comprehension: Eye movements in the analysis of structurally ambiguous sentences
    1982 1.0k citations Keith Rayner et al. profile →
  4. The span of the effective stimulus during a fixation in reading
    1975 889 citations Keith Rayner et al. profile →
  5. Toward a model of eye movement control in reading.
    1998 884 citations Erik D. Reichle, Alexander Pollatsek et al. Psychological Review profile →
  6. Lexical complexity and fixation times in reading: Effects of word frequency, verb complexity, and lexical ambiguity
    1986 836 citations Keith Rayner et al. profile →
  7. The perceptual span and peripheral cues in reading
    1975 801 citations Keith Rayner profile →
  8. The E-Z Reader model of eye-movement control in reading: Comparisons to other models
    2003 745 citations Erik D. Reichle, Keith Rayner et al. profile →
  9. Eye movements in reading and information processing.
    1978 744 citations Keith Rayner profile →
  10. How Psychological Science Informs the Teaching of Reading
    2001 638 citations Keith Rayner et al. profile →
  11. Contextual effects on word perception and eye movements during reading
    1981 516 citations Keith Rayner et al. profile →

Peers — A (Enhanced Table)

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

Name h Career Trend Papers Cites
Keith Rayner United States 103 28.4k 25.6k 11.5k 8.8k 8.1k 373 43.7k
Alan Baddeley United Kingdom 113 36.7k 1.3× 21.0k 0.8× 15.9k 1.4× 1.3k 0.1× 4.1k 0.5× 390 60.7k
Marcel Adam Just United States 76 19.0k 0.7× 11.1k 0.4× 6.7k 0.6× 1.4k 0.2× 3.7k 0.5× 178 29.3k
Patricia A. Carpenter United States 50 13.6k 0.5× 11.0k 0.4× 6.8k 0.6× 1.4k 0.2× 3.4k 0.4× 101 23.7k
Walter Kintsch United States 60 9.2k 0.3× 17.2k 0.7× 9.0k 0.8× 692 0.1× 7.5k 0.9× 163 32.2k
Donald A. Norman United States 67 7.0k 0.2× 4.5k 0.2× 4.3k 0.4× 6.0k 0.7× 4.3k 0.5× 203 28.7k
Fred Paas Netherlands 78 3.0k 0.1× 14.3k 0.6× 15.0k 1.3× 2.8k 0.3× 5.3k 0.7× 327 30.5k
Fergus I. M. Craik Canada 97 30.6k 1.1× 13.0k 0.5× 11.4k 1.0× 536 0.1× 3.3k 0.4× 279 43.4k
Alexander Pollatsek United States 69 8.4k 0.3× 7.4k 0.3× 3.2k 0.3× 2.3k 0.3× 1.9k 0.2× 204 13.9k
Marc Brysbaert Belgium 75 13.9k 0.5× 11.9k 0.5× 6.8k 0.6× 586 0.1× 5.0k 0.6× 267 23.5k
Mark H. Johnson United Kingdom 98 21.1k 0.7× 9.5k 0.4× 8.5k 0.7× 817 0.1× 946 0.1× 492 37.2k

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All Works

20 of 20 papers shown
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Dambacher, Michael, Timothy J. Slattery, Jinmian Yang, Reinhold Kliegl, & Keith Rayner. (2013). Evidence for direct control of eye movements during reading.. Journal of Experimental Psychology Human Perception & Performance. 39(5). 1468–1484. 13 indexed citations
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Reichle, Erik D., Alexander Pollatsek, & Keith Rayner. (2012). Using E-Z Reader to simulate eye movements in nonreading tasks: A unified framework for understanding the eye–mind link.. Psychological Review. 119(1). 155–185. 111 indexed citations
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Liversedge, Simon P., et al.. (2012). Eye movements of second language learners when reading spaced and unspaced Chinese text.. Journal of Experimental Psychology Applied. 18(2). 192–202. 52 indexed citations
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Slattery, Timothy J., Adrian Staub, & Keith Rayner. (2011). Saccade launch site as a predictor of fixation durations in reading: Comments on Hand, Miellet, O'Donnell, and Sereno (2010).. Journal of Experimental Psychology Human Perception & Performance. 38(1). 251–261. 22 indexed citations
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Rayner, Keith, Timothy J. Slattery, Denis Drieghe, & Simon P. Liversedge. (2011). Eye movements and word skipping during reading: Effects of word length and predictability.. Journal of Experimental Psychology Human Perception & Performance. 37(2). 514–528. 196 indexed citations
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Gao, Yan, Xuejun Bai, Linyan Cui, et al.. (2011). Using stroke deletion to investigate Chinese character encoding during reading. ePrints Soton (University of Southampton). 2 indexed citations
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Gollan, Tamar H., Timothy J. Slattery, Diane Goldenberg, et al.. (2011). Frequency drives lexical access in reading but not in speaking: The frequency-lag hypothesis.. Journal of Experimental Psychology General. 140(2). 186–209. 216 indexed citations
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Slattery, Timothy J., et al.. (2011). Parafoveal and foveal processing of abbreviations during eye fixations in reading: Making a case for case.. Journal of Experimental Psychology Learning Memory and Cognition. 37(4). 1022–1031. 10 indexed citations
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Slattery, Timothy J., Bernhard Angele, & Keith Rayner. (2011). Eye movements and display change detection during reading.. Journal of Experimental Psychology Human Perception & Performance. 37(6). 1924–1938. 70 indexed citations
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Rayner, Keith, Jinmian Yang, Monica S. Castelhano, & Simon P. Liversedge. (2010). Eye movements of older and younger readers when reading disappearing text.. Psychology and Aging. 26(1). 214–223. 40 indexed citations
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Blythe, Hazel I., Simon P. Liversedge, Holly Joseph, Sarah J. White, & Keith Rayner. (2009). Visual information capture during fixations in reading for children and adults. Vision Research. 49(12). 1583–1591. 94 indexed citations
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Blythe, Hazel I., Simon P. Liversedge, Holly Joseph, et al.. (2006). The binocular coordination of eye movements during reading in children and adults. Vision Research. 46(22). 3898–3908. 89 indexed citations
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Radach, Ralph, Alan Kennedy, & Keith Rayner. (2004). Eye movements and information processing during reading. Psychology Press eBooks. 28 indexed citations
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Rayner, Keith. (2003). Using Eye Movements to Study Cognitive Processes. eScholarship (California Digital Library). 25(25). 1 indexed citations
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Rayner, Keith, et al.. (2001). Eye movements and familiarity effects in visual search. Vision Research. 41(27). 3763–3773. 66 indexed citations
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Rayner, Keith & Gary E. Raney. (1996). Eye movement control in reading and visual search: Effects of word frequency. Psychonomic Bulletin & Review. 3(2). 245–248. 125 indexed citations
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Rayner, Keith, et al.. (1995). Can a temporal processing deficit account for dyslexia?. Psychonomic Bulletin & Review. 2(4). 501–507. 24 indexed citations
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Morris, Robin K., Keith Rayner, & Alexander Pollatsek. (1990). Eye movement guidance in reading: The role of parafoveal letter and space information.. Journal of Experimental Psychology Human Perception & Performance. 16(2). 268–281. 132 indexed citations
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Boyce, Susan J., Alexander Pollatsek, & Keith Rayner. (1989). Effect of background information on object identification.. Journal of Experimental Psychology Human Perception & Performance. 15(3). 556–566. 10 indexed citations
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Rayner, Keith, et al.. (1989). Parafoveal preview effects and lexical access during eye fixations in reading. MIT Press eBooks. 261–290. 6 indexed citations

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