Leonard Katz

8.3k total citations · 1 hit paper
77 papers, 5.7k citations indexed

About

Leonard Katz is a scholar working on Developmental and Educational Psychology, Cognitive Neuroscience and Experimental and Cognitive Psychology. According to data from OpenAlex, Leonard Katz has authored 77 papers receiving a total of 5.7k indexed citations (citations by other indexed papers that have themselves been cited), including 46 papers in Developmental and Educational Psychology, 37 papers in Cognitive Neuroscience and 16 papers in Experimental and Cognitive Psychology. Recurrent topics in Leonard Katz's work include Reading and Literacy Development (42 papers), Neurobiology of Language and Bilingualism (23 papers) and Cognitive and developmental aspects of mathematical skills (14 papers). Leonard Katz is often cited by papers focused on Reading and Literacy Development (42 papers), Neurobiology of Language and Bilingualism (23 papers) and Cognitive and developmental aspects of mathematical skills (14 papers). Leonard Katz collaborates with scholars based in United States, South Korea and Israel. Leonard Katz's co-authors include Sally E. Shaywitz, Bennett A. Shaywitz, Ram Frost, Donald Shankweiler, Shlomo Bentin, Kenneth R. Pugh, W. Einar Mencl, Jack Μ. Fletcher, Stephen J. Frost and Annette R. Jenner and has published in prestigious journals such as Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, NeuroImage and Psychological Science.

In The Last Decade

Leonard Katz

74 papers receiving 5.2k 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.

Functional disruption in the organization of the brain for reading in dyslexia

1998 657 citations Sally E. Shaywitz, Bennett A. Shaywitz et al. profile →

Peers — A (Enhanced Table)

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

Name	h						Papers	Cites
Leonard Katz United States	31	4.5k	3.2k	1.7k	1.0k	687	77	5.7k
G. Reid Lyon United States	30	5.7k 1.3×	2.7k 0.9×	2.5k 1.5×	2.0k 2.0×	561 0.8×	60	7.3k
Lynette Bradley United Kingdom	19	5.1k 1.1×	1.7k 0.5×	2.0k 1.2×	2.0k 2.0×	538 0.8×	27	5.8k
James R. Booth United States	50	4.4k 1.0×	5.6k 1.8×	1.5k 0.9×	701 0.7×	1.1k 1.6×	182	8.2k
Karen E. Marchione United States	29	3.4k 0.8×	2.8k 0.9×	1.5k 0.9×	703 0.7×	785 1.1×	49	5.3k
Maryanne Wolf United States	38	7.1k 1.6×	2.7k 0.9×	3.1k 1.8×	2.9k 2.9×	338 0.5×	86	8.4k
Conrad Perry Australia	26	5.1k 1.1×	3.8k 1.2×	1.2k 0.7×	1.1k 1.1×	925 1.3×	56	5.8k
Sylviane Valdois France	38	3.7k 0.8×	2.7k 0.8×	1.9k 1.1×	952 0.9×	309 0.4×	89	4.3k
Angela J. Fawcett United Kingdom	35	3.8k 0.8×	2.1k 0.7×	1.6k 1.0×	787 0.8×	205 0.3×	83	4.6k
Monica Melby‐Lervåg Norway	27	3.6k 0.8×	1.8k 0.6×	1.1k 0.6×	1.3k 1.3×	1.3k 1.9×	66	5.3k
Frank R. Vellutino United States	35	6.4k 1.4×	2.1k 0.6×	2.7k 1.6×	2.5k 2.4×	452 0.7×	72	7.0k

Countries citing papers authored by Leonard Katz

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Co-authorship network of co-authors of Leonard Katz

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All Works

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Katz, Leonard, et al.. (2018). The two-dimensional orthography of phonology and morphology in differentiating Korean and Chinese. 10(2). 73–81. 1 indexed citations

Braze, David, Leonard Katz, James S. Magnuson, et al.. (2015). Vocabulary does not complicate the simple view of reading. Reading and Writing. 29(3). 435–451. 91 indexed citations

Katz, Leonard, et al.. (2011). What lexical decision and naming tell us about reading. Reading and Writing. 25(6). 1259–1282. 48 indexed citations

Naples, Adam, Joseph T. Chang, Leonard Katz, & Elena L. Grigorenko. (2008). Same or different? Insights into the etiology of phonological awareness and rapid naming. Biological Psychology. 80(2). 226–239. 28 indexed citations

Katz, Leonard. (2005). Review of Timothy Schroeder, Three Faces of Desire. 2005(9). 2 indexed citations

Katz, Leonard, Chang H. Lee, Whitney Tabor, et al.. (2005). Behavioral and neurobiological effects of printed word repetition in lexical decision and naming. Neuropsychologia. 43(14). 2068–2083. 30 indexed citations

Frost, Stephen J., Rebecca Sandak, Jay G. Rueckl, et al.. (2005). A functional magnetic resonance imaging study of the tradeoff between semantics and phonology in reading aloud. Neuroreport. 16(6). 621–624. 48 indexed citations

Sandak, Rebecca, W. Einar Mencl, Stephen J. Frost, et al.. (2004). The neurobiology of adaptive learning in reading: A contrast of different training conditions. Cognitive Affective & Behavioral Neuroscience. 4(1). 67–88. 107 indexed citations

Pugh, Kenneth R., W. Einar Mencl, Annette R. Jenner, et al.. (2001). Neurobiological studies of reading and reading disability. Journal of Communication Disorders. 34(6). 479–492. 395 indexed citations

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Katz, Leonard & Stephen J. Frost. (2001). Phonology constrains the internal orthographic representation. Reading and Writing. 14(3-4). 297–332. 35 indexed citations

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Katz, Leonard. (2000). Toward good and evil. Evolutionary approaches to aspects of human morality. Journal of Consciousness Studies. 7. 1 indexed citations

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Katz, Leonard. (2000). Evolutionary origins of morality : cross-disciplinary perspectives. DigitalGeorgetown (Georgetown University Library). 78 indexed citations

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Pugh, Kenneth R., W. Einar Mencl, Annette R. Jenner, et al.. (2000). Functional neuroimaging studies of reading and reading disability (developmental dyslexia). Mental Retardation and Developmental Disabilities Research Reviews. 6(3). 207–213. 458 indexed citations

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Katz, Leonard. (1999). Dopamine and serotonin: Integrating current affective engagement with longer-term goals. Behavioral and Brain Sciences. 22(3). 527–527. 11 indexed citations

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Pugh, Kenneth R., Bennett A. Shaywitz, Sally E. Shaywitz, et al.. (1996). Auditory Selective Attention: An fMRI Investigation. NeuroImage. 4(3). 159–173. 221 indexed citations

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Frost, Ram & Leonard Katz. (1989). Orthographic depth and the interaction of visual and auditory processing in word recognition. Memory & Cognition. 17(3). 302–310. 59 indexed citations

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Bentin, Shlomo, et al.. (1984). Orthographic and phonemic coding for lexical access: Evidence from Hebrew.. Journal of Experimental Psychology Learning Memory and Cognition. 10(3). 353–368. 43 indexed citations

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Katz, Leonard. (1968). The limited-capacity hypothesis: Effects of sequence length and instructions in free recall. Journal of Verbal Learning and Verbal Behavior. 7(5). 942–944. 9 indexed citations

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Katz, Leonard. (1963). The effects of differential gain and loss on sequential two-choice behavior.. Scholarworks (University of Massachusetts Amherst). 2 indexed citations

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Katz, Leonard. (1962). Monetary incentive and range of payoffs as determiners of risk taking.. Journal of Experimental Psychology. 64(5). 541–544. 15 indexed citations

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