Lien Van Eylen

1.7k total citations · 1 hit paper
17 papers, 1.1k citations indexed

About

Lien Van Eylen is a scholar working on Cognitive Neuroscience, Genetics and Psychiatry and Mental health. According to data from OpenAlex, Lien Van Eylen has authored 17 papers receiving a total of 1.1k indexed citations (citations by other indexed papers that have themselves been cited), including 11 papers in Cognitive Neuroscience, 6 papers in Genetics and 5 papers in Psychiatry and Mental health. Recurrent topics in Lien Van Eylen's work include Autism Spectrum Disorder Research (10 papers), Genetics and Neurodevelopmental Disorders (6 papers) and Neurofibromatosis and Schwannoma Cases (4 papers). Lien Van Eylen is often cited by papers focused on Autism Spectrum Disorder Research (10 papers), Genetics and Neurodevelopmental Disorders (6 papers) and Neurofibromatosis and Schwannoma Cases (4 papers). Lien Van Eylen collaborates with scholars based in Belgium, United States and Netherlands. Lien Van Eylen's co-authors include Johan Wagemans, Bart Boets, Kris Evers, Lee de‐Wit, Sander Van de Cruys, Ruth Van der Hallen, Ilse Noens, Jean Steyaert, Eric Legius and Ellen Plasschaert and has published in prestigious journals such as Psychological Review, Journal of Abnormal Psychology and Journal of Child Psychology and Psychiatry.

In The Last Decade

Lien Van Eylen

16 papers receiving 1.1k 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.

Precise minds in uncertain worlds: Predictive coding in autism.

2014 567 citations Sander Van de Cruys, Kris Evers et al. Psychological Review profile →

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Name	h						Papers	Cites
Lien Van Eylen Belgium	10	877	327	309	202	161	17	1.1k
Dorit Kliemann United States	14	899 1.0×	186 0.6×	227 0.7×	252 1.2×	132 0.8×	23	1.1k
Anne B. Arnett United States	19	695 0.8×	249 0.8×	512 1.7×	235 1.2×	137 0.9×	45	1.3k
Marc P. H. Hendriks Netherlands	17	558 0.6×	332 1.0×	334 1.1×	82 0.4×	122 0.8×	55	1.1k
Haruhisa Ohta Japan	19	815 0.9×	182 0.6×	202 0.7×	196 1.0×	160 1.0×	44	1.0k
Alyson Froehlich United States	19	1.5k 1.7×	219 0.7×	395 1.3×	127 0.6×	473 2.9×	28	1.7k
Anila M. D’Mello United States	17	955 1.1×	181 0.6×	196 0.6×	104 0.5×	236 1.5×	27	1.5k
Evelyne Mercure United Kingdom	17	1.0k 1.1×	293 0.9×	150 0.5×	147 0.7×	164 1.0×	27	1.4k
Penelope Kostopoulos Canada	16	1.2k 1.4×	116 0.4×	222 0.7×	180 0.9×	306 1.9×	18	1.5k
Robert D. Rothermel United States	16	786 0.9×	271 0.8×	241 0.8×	91 0.5×	223 1.4×	23	1.1k
Terje Nærland Norway	16	489 0.6×	188 0.6×	164 0.5×	222 1.1×	157 1.0×	48	887

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17 of 17 papers shown

Eylen, Lien Van, et al.. (2025). Heterogeneity of Strengths and Challenges in Executive Functions of Autistic Children and Adolescents. Advances in Neurodevelopmental Disorders. 9(4). 607–622.

Sapey‐Triomphe, Laurie‐Anne, Bart Boets, Lien Van Eylen, et al.. (2020). Ventral stream hierarchy underlying perceptual organization in adolescents with autism. NeuroImage Clinical. 25. 102197–102197. 9 indexed citations

Boets, Bart, Lien Van Eylen, Pieter Moors, et al.. (2018). Alterations in the inferior longitudinal fasciculus in autism and associations with visual processing: a diffusion-weighted MRI study. Molecular Autism. 9(1). 10–10. 28 indexed citations

Eylen, Lien Van, Ellen Plasschaert, Johan Wagemans, et al.. (2017). Visuoperceptual processing in children with neurofibromatosis type 1: True deficit or artefact?. American Journal of Medical Genetics Part B Neuropsychiatric Genetics. 174(4). 342–358. 9 indexed citations

Plasschaert, Ellen, Lien Van Eylen, Mie‐Jef Descheemaeker, et al.. (2016). Executive functioning deficits in children with neurofibromatosis type 1: The influence of intellectual and social functioning. American Journal of Medical Genetics Part B Neuropsychiatric Genetics. 171(3). 348–362. 41 indexed citations

Eylen, Lien Van, et al.. (2016). Does the cognitive heterogeneity within autism spectrum disorder reflect the underlying genetic heterogeneity. Lirias (KU Leuven). 1 indexed citations

Eylen, Lien Van, Bart Boets, Nele Cosemans, et al.. (2016). Executive functioning and local‐global visual processing: candidate endophenotypes for autism spectrum disorder?. Journal of Child Psychology and Psychiatry. 58(3). 258–269. 28 indexed citations

Eylen, Lien Van, Bart Boets, Jean Steyaert, Johan Wagemans, & Ilse Noens. (2015). Executive functioning in autism spectrum disorders: influence of task and sample characteristics and relation to symptom severity. European Child & Adolescent Psychiatry. 24(11). 1399–1417. 92 indexed citations

Eylen, Lien Van, Bart Boets, Jean Steyaert, Johan Wagemans, & Ilse Noens. (2015). Local and Global Visual Processing in Autism Spectrum Disorders: Influence of Task and Sample Characteristics and Relation to Symptom Severity. Journal of Autism and Developmental Disorders. 48(4). 1359–1381. 39 indexed citations

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Cruys, Sander Van de, Kris Evers, Ruth Van der Hallen, et al.. (2014). Precise minds in uncertain worlds: Predictive coding in autism.. Psychological Review. 121(4). 649–675. 567 indexed citations breakdown →

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Plasschaert, Ellen, Mie‐Jef Descheemaeker, Lien Van Eylen, et al.. (2014). Prevalence of Autism Spectrum Disorder symptoms in children with neurofibromatosis type 1. American Journal of Medical Genetics Part B Neuropsychiatric Genetics. 168(1). 72–80. 83 indexed citations

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Eylen, Lien Van, Peter De Graef, Jean Steyaert, Johan Wagemans, & Ilse Noens. (2013). Children with autism spectrum disorder spontaneously use scene knowledge to modulate visual object processing. Research in autism spectrum disorders. 7(7). 913–922. 3 indexed citations

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Eylen, Lien Van, et al.. (2012). Investigating neurocognitive endophenotypes of autism spectrum disorders (ASD) by including an ASD sample with co-occuring neurofibromatosis type 1. Journal of Intellectual Disability Research. 56(10). 927–927. 1 indexed citations

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Gantois, Ilse, Pieter Stijnen, Annelies Laeremans, et al.. (2012). Haploinsufficiency of the autism candidate gene Neurobeachin induces autism-like behaviors and affects cellular and molecular processes of synaptic plasticity in mice. Neurobiology of Disease. 51. 144–151. 47 indexed citations

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Eylen, Lien Van, Bart Boets, Jean Steyaert, et al.. (2011). Cognitive flexibility in autism spectrum disorder: Explaining the inconsistencies?. Research in autism spectrum disorders. 5(4). 1390–1401. 126 indexed citations

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Bogaerts, Katleen, Lien Van Eylen, Li Wan, et al.. (2010). Distorted symptom perception in patients with medically unexplained symptoms.. Journal of Abnormal Psychology. 119(1). 226–234. 75 indexed citations

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Bogaerts, Katleen, Lien Van Eylen, Li Wan, et al.. (2007). Interoceptive accuracy in patients with Medically Unexplained Symptoms (MUS). 1 indexed citations

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