Kenny Smith

12.4k total citations · 4 hit papers
243 papers, 6.4k citations indexed

About

Kenny Smith is a scholar working on Cultural Studies, Artificial Intelligence and Language and Linguistics. According to data from OpenAlex, Kenny Smith has authored 243 papers receiving a total of 6.4k indexed citations (citations by other indexed papers that have themselves been cited), including 86 papers in Cultural Studies, 52 papers in Artificial Intelligence and 37 papers in Language and Linguistics. Recurrent topics in Kenny Smith's work include Language and cultural evolution (86 papers), Syntax, Semantics, Linguistic Variation (30 papers) and Speech and dialogue systems (22 papers). Kenny Smith is often cited by papers focused on Language and cultural evolution (86 papers), Syntax, Semantics, Linguistic Variation (30 papers) and Speech and dialogue systems (22 papers). Kenny Smith collaborates with scholars based in United Kingdom, United States and Netherlands. Kenny Smith's co-authors include Simon Kirby, Hannah Cornish, James E. Kirby, Jennifer Culbertson, Marieke Schouwstra, Henry Brighton, Elizabeth Wonnacott, Mónica Tamariz, Richard A. Blythe and Andrew Smith and has published in prestigious journals such as Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, Physical Review Letters and Nature Communications.

In The Last Decade

Kenny Smith

223 papers receiving 6.1k citations

Hit Papers

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Peers — A (Enhanced Table)

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

Name h Career Trend Papers Cites
Kenny Smith United Kingdom 41 2.3k 1.3k 1.2k 1.1k 927 243 6.4k
James A. Hampton United Kingdom 31 246 0.1× 717 0.5× 1.2k 1.0× 998 0.9× 188 0.2× 117 3.6k
Domenico Parisi United States 31 841 0.4× 1.6k 1.2× 1.4k 1.1× 680 0.6× 396 0.4× 132 6.9k
Simon Kirby United Kingdom 36 3.2k 1.4× 1.3k 1.0× 1.2k 1.0× 1.7k 1.6× 1.2k 1.3× 225 6.0k
Jean-Baptiste Michel United States 20 497 0.2× 714 0.5× 73 0.1× 216 0.2× 188 0.2× 44 3.7k
Steven T. Piantadosi United States 30 714 0.3× 1.2k 0.9× 1.3k 1.1× 874 0.8× 558 0.6× 103 4.5k
Noah D. Goodman United States 46 807 0.4× 3.4k 2.6× 2.6k 2.2× 1.1k 1.1× 760 0.8× 203 8.2k
Michael C. Frank United States 44 649 0.3× 1.6k 1.2× 3.7k 3.0× 1.9k 1.8× 811 0.9× 243 7.8k
William Croft United States 33 1.4k 0.6× 1.9k 1.5× 1.1k 0.9× 3.3k 3.1× 5.4k 5.8× 120 8.2k
Michael L. Kalish United States 29 472 0.2× 1.2k 0.9× 494 0.4× 394 0.4× 69 0.1× 71 4.4k
Edward Gibson United States 47 707 0.3× 3.0k 2.3× 4.4k 3.6× 2.6k 2.5× 3.0k 3.3× 183 10.3k

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Fields of papers citing papers by Kenny Smith

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Co-authorship network of co-authors of Kenny Smith

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All Works

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Smith, Kenny, et al.. (2024). Identification of distinct genotypes in circulating RSV A strains based on variants in the virus replication-associated genes. Journal of Virology. 98(8). e0099024–e0099024. 1 indexed citations
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Comar, Courtney E., Kenny Smith, Rebecca M. Harris, et al.. (2023). Genotypic investigation of a rotavirus cluster at a quaternary-care pediatric hospital. Infection Control and Hospital Epidemiology. 44(10). 1680–1682.
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Smith, Kenny, et al.. (2023). Reliable detection and quantification of selective forces in language change. Corpus Linguistics and Linguistic Theory. 21(1). 31–73.
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Smith, Kenny, et al.. (2023). The learnability and emergence of dependency structures in an artificial language. Edinburgh Research Explorer. 8(1). 64–89. 1 indexed citations
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Smith, Kenny, et al.. (2020). Simple kinship systems are more learnable.. Cognitive Science.
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Hawkins, Robert D., Michael Franke, Kenny Smith, & Noah D. Goodman. (2018). Emerging abstractions: Lexical conventions are shaped by communicative context.. Cognitive Science. 5 indexed citations
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Smith, Kenny, et al.. (2017). Is the strength of regularisation behaviour uniform across linguistic levels. Cognitive Science. 1023–1028. 2 indexed citations
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Schouwstra, Marieke, et al.. (2017). The cultural evolution of complex linguistic constructions in artificial sign languages. Cognitive Science. 7 indexed citations
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Smith, Kenny & James E. Kirby. (2016). Validation of a High-Throughput Screening Assay for Identification of Adjunctive and Directly Acting Antimicrobials Targeting Carbapenem-Resistant Enterobacteriaceae. Assay and Drug Development Technologies. 14(3). 194–206. 16 indexed citations
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Hawkins, Robert D., Noah D. Goodman, Olga Fehér, et al.. (2016). The Emergence of Conventions.. Cognitive Science.
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Blythe, Richard A., et al.. (2014). Stochastic Dynamics of Lexicon Learning in an Uncertain and Nonuniform World. APS. 2014. 1 indexed citations
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Fehér, Olga, Simon Kirby, & Kenny Smith. (2014). Social influences on the regularization of unpredictable variation. Cognitive Science. 2187–2191. 4 indexed citations
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Smith, Kenny, Mónica Tamariz, & Simon Kirby. (2013). Linguistic structure is an evolutionary trade-off between simplicity and expressivity. eScholarship (California Digital Library). 35(35). 1348–1353. 18 indexed citations
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Kirby, Simon, et al.. (2013). Communication Leads to the Emergence of Sub-optimal Category Structures. Cognitive Science. 35(35). 1312–1317. 4 indexed citations
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Thompson, Bill, et al.. (2013). Regularization behavior in a non-linguistic domain. Cognitive Science. 35(35). 436–441. 10 indexed citations
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Smith, Andrew & Kenny Smith. (2008). The Evolution of Language: Proceedings of the 7th International Conference (EVOLANG7), Barcelona, Spain 12-15 March 2008. 513–513. 1 indexed citations
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Cangelosi, Angelo, Andrew Smith, & Kenny Smith. (2006). The evolution of language : proceedings of the 6th international conference (EVOLANG6) , Rome, Italy, 12-15 April 2006. WORLD SCIENTIFIC eBooks. 8 indexed citations
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Smith, Kenny & Marianne Winslett. (1992). Multilevel Secure Rules: Integrating the Multilevel Secure and Active Data Models.. 35–53. 1 indexed citations
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Smith, Kenny, et al.. (1976). The place of Bahnar within Bahnaric. Americanae (AECID Library).

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