Kirsten Abbot‐Smith

2.1k total citations
39 papers, 1.1k citations indexed

About

Kirsten Abbot‐Smith is a scholar working on Developmental and Educational Psychology, Cognitive Neuroscience and Language and Linguistics. According to data from OpenAlex, Kirsten Abbot‐Smith has authored 39 papers receiving a total of 1.1k indexed citations (citations by other indexed papers that have themselves been cited), including 36 papers in Developmental and Educational Psychology, 16 papers in Cognitive Neuroscience and 5 papers in Language and Linguistics. Recurrent topics in Kirsten Abbot‐Smith's work include Language Development and Disorders (33 papers), Reading and Literacy Development (21 papers) and Child and Animal Learning Development (12 papers). Kirsten Abbot‐Smith is often cited by papers focused on Language Development and Disorders (33 papers), Reading and Literacy Development (21 papers) and Child and Animal Learning Development (12 papers). Kirsten Abbot‐Smith collaborates with scholars based in United Kingdom, Germany and Switzerland. Kirsten Abbot‐Smith's co-authors include Michael Tomasello, Elena Lieven, Danielle Matthews, Heike Behrens, Andrea Krott, Caroline Floccia, Allegra Cattani, David M. Williams, Sabine Stoll and Ian Dennis and has published in prestigious journals such as SHILAP Revista de lepidopterología, PLoS ONE and Child Development.

In The Last Decade

Kirsten Abbot‐Smith

38 papers receiving 1.1k citations

Peers — A (Enhanced Table)

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

Name h Career Trend Papers Cites
Kirsten Abbot‐Smith United Kingdom 17 904 526 269 189 117 39 1.1k
Antonella Devescovi Italy 19 1.1k 1.3× 929 1.8× 321 1.2× 338 1.8× 133 1.1× 30 1.6k
Martina Penke Germany 15 660 0.7× 579 1.1× 225 0.8× 152 0.8× 98 0.8× 56 870
Esther Dromi Israel 16 962 1.1× 342 0.7× 154 0.6× 139 0.7× 53 0.5× 41 1.1k
Ken Wexler United States 16 887 1.0× 610 1.2× 432 1.6× 277 1.5× 130 1.1× 30 1.2k
Marisa Casillas Netherlands 16 625 0.7× 133 0.3× 202 0.8× 243 1.3× 126 1.1× 48 829
Virginia C. Mueller Gathercole United States 19 1.2k 1.4× 611 1.2× 368 1.4× 325 1.7× 68 0.6× 69 1.6k
Hanne Gram Simonsen Norway 18 614 0.7× 447 0.8× 90 0.3× 172 0.9× 78 0.7× 59 839
Richard P. Meier United States 18 1.1k 1.3× 290 0.6× 547 2.0× 418 2.2× 129 1.1× 45 1.4k
Barbara Lust United States 19 895 1.0× 387 0.7× 530 2.0× 232 1.2× 198 1.7× 65 1.3k
Barbara Höhle Germany 20 1.1k 1.2× 613 1.2× 180 0.7× 684 3.6× 128 1.1× 93 1.5k

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All Works

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Abbot‐Smith, Kirsten, et al.. (2024). Conversational topic maintenance and related cognitive abilities in autistic versus neurotypical children. Autism. 29(3). 684–697. 3 indexed citations
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Abbot‐Smith, Kirsten, et al.. (2023). Topic maintenance in social conversation: What children need to learn and evidence this can be taught. First Language. 43(6). 614–642. 7 indexed citations
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Goldberg, Adele Ε. & Kirsten Abbot‐Smith. (2021). The Constructionist Approach Offers a Useful Lens on Language Learning in Autistic Individuals: Response to Kissine. Language. 97(3). e169–e183. 5 indexed citations
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Abbot‐Smith, Kirsten, et al.. (2020). Using shared knowledge to determine ironic intent; a conversational response paradigm. Journal of Child Language. 47(6). 1170–1188. 4 indexed citations
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Abbot‐Smith, Kirsten, et al.. (2020). “Sure I’ll help—I’ve just been sitting around doing nothing at school all day”: Cognitive flexibility and child irony interpretation. Journal of Experimental Child Psychology. 199. 104942–104942. 18 indexed citations
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Floccia, Caroline, Thomas D. Sambrook, Claire Delle Luche, et al.. (2018). I: INTRODUCTION. Monographs of the Society for Research in Child Development. 83(1). 7–29. 26 indexed citations
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Matthews, Danielle, et al.. (2018). Individual Differences in Children’s Pragmatic Ability: A Review of Associations with Formal Language, Social Cognition, and Executive Functions. Language Learning and Development. 14(3). 186–223. 142 indexed citations
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Abbot‐Smith, Kirsten, et al.. (2018). When do Children with Autism Spectrum Disorder Take Common Ground into Account During Communication?. Autism Research. 11(10). 1366–1375. 6 indexed citations
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Floccia, Caroline, Thomas D. Sambrook, Claire Delle Luche, et al.. (2018). III: ANALYSES AND RESULTS FOR STUDY 1: ESTIMATING THE EFFECT OF LINGUISTIC DISTANCE ON VOCABULARY DEVELOPMENT. Monographs of the Society for Research in Child Development. 83(1). 43–60. 16 indexed citations
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Floccia, Caroline, Thomas D. Sambrook, Claire Delle Luche, et al.. (2018). V: GENERAL DISCUSSION. Monographs of the Society for Research in Child Development. 83(1). 68–80. 4 indexed citations
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Williams, David M., et al.. (2017). A Meta-Analysis and Critical Review of Prospective Memory in Autism Spectrum Disorder. Journal of Autism and Developmental Disorders. 47(3). 646–666. 30 indexed citations
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Abbot‐Smith, Kirsten, et al.. (2017). Relevance Inferencing in 3-year-olds: Real World Knowledge Matters. Kent Academic Repository (University of Kent). 1 indexed citations
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Abbot‐Smith, Kirsten, Franklin Chang, Caroline F. Rowland, Heather J. Ferguson, & Julián M. Pine. (2017). Do two and three year old children use an incremental first-NP-as-agent bias to process active transitive and passive sentences?: A permutation analysis. PLoS ONE. 12(10). e0186129–e0186129. 32 indexed citations
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Abbot‐Smith, Kirsten & Ludovica Serratrice. (2013). Word order, referential expression, and case cues to the acquisition of transitive sentences in Italian. Journal of Child Language. 42(1). 1–31. 17 indexed citations
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Abbot‐Smith, Kirsten, et al.. (2008). German Children’s Comprehension of Word Order and Case Marking in Causative Sentences. Child Development. 79(4). 1152–1167. 141 indexed citations
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Abbot‐Smith, Kirsten, et al.. (2008). Young German children's early syntactic competence: a preferential looking study. Developmental Science. 11(4). 575–582. 49 indexed citations
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Abbot‐Smith, Kirsten, Elena Lieven, & Michael Tomasello. (2004). Training 2;6‐year‐olds to produce the transitive construction: the role of frequency, semantic similarity and shared syntactic distribution. Developmental Science. 7(1). 48–55. 29 indexed citations

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