Mark H. Johnson

62.3k total citations · 13 hit papers
492 papers, 37.2k citations indexed

About

Mark H. Johnson is a scholar working on Cognitive Neuroscience, Developmental and Educational Psychology and Experimental and Cognitive Psychology. According to data from OpenAlex, Mark H. Johnson has authored 492 papers receiving a total of 37.2k indexed citations (citations by other indexed papers that have themselves been cited), including 293 papers in Cognitive Neuroscience, 121 papers in Developmental and Educational Psychology and 88 papers in Experimental and Cognitive Psychology. Recurrent topics in Mark H. Johnson's work include Autism Spectrum Disorder Research (119 papers), Face Recognition and Perception (100 papers) and Child and Animal Learning Development (85 papers). Mark H. Johnson is often cited by papers focused on Autism Spectrum Disorder Research (119 papers), Face Recognition and Perception (100 papers) and Child and Animal Learning Development (85 papers). Mark H. Johnson collaborates with scholars based in United Kingdom, United States and Canada. Mark H. Johnson's co-authors include Gergely Csibra, Teresa Farroni, Tony Charman, Atsushi Senju, John Morton, George Lakoff, Michelle de Haan, Mayada Elsabbagh, Teodora Gliga and Annette Karmiloff‐Smith and has published in prestigious journals such as Nature, Science and New England Journal of Medicine.

In The Last Decade

Mark H. Johnson

473 papers receiving 34.5k citations

Hit Papers

The Body in the Mind 1980 2026 1995 2010 1987 2002 1991 1996 2007 1000 2.0k 3.0k
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. The Body in the Mind
    1987 3.1k citations Mark H. Johnson profile →
  2. Eye contact detection in humans from birth
    2002 982 citations Gergely Csibra, Mark H. Johnson et al. profile →
  3. Newborns' preferential tracking of face-like stimuli and its subsequent decline
    1991 969 citations Mark H. Johnson et al. profile →
  4. Rethinking Innateness
    1996 734 citations Mark H. Johnson et al. profile →
  5. The Meaning of the Body
    2007 716 citations Mark H. Johnson profile →
  6. CONSPEC and CONLERN: A two-process theory of infant face recognition.
    1991 714 citations Mark H. Johnson et al. profile →
  7. Subcortical face processing
    2005 708 citations Mark H. Johnson profile →
  8. Functional brain development in humans
    2001 682 citations Mark H. Johnson profile →
  9. The Metaphorical Structure of the Human Conceptual System
    1980 632 citations Mark H. Johnson et al. profile →
  10. The eye contact effect: mechanisms and development
    2009 601 citations Atsushi Senju, Mark H. Johnson profile →
  11. Interactive Specialization: A domain-general framework for human functional brain development?
    2010 471 citations Mark H. Johnson Developmental Cognitive Neuroscience profile →
  12. Developmental pathways to autism: A review of prospective studies of infants at risk
    2013 389 citations Emily J. H. Jones, Teodora Gliga et al. profile →
  13. Disengagement of Visual Attention in Infancy is Associated with Emerging Autism in Toddlerhood
    2013 309 citations Mayada Elsabbagh, Janice Fernandes 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
Mark H. Johnson United Kingdom 98 21.1k 9.5k 8.5k 6.8k 4.3k 492 37.2k
John D. E. Gabrieli United States 135 42.6k 2.0× 10.8k 1.1× 12.2k 1.4× 6.4k 0.9× 5.1k 1.2× 497 59.2k
Andrew N. Meltzoff United States 90 13.6k 0.6× 15.5k 1.6× 5.9k 0.7× 11.6k 1.7× 3.4k 0.8× 292 31.7k
Martha J. Farah United States 93 21.3k 1.0× 5.2k 0.5× 7.5k 0.9× 4.3k 0.6× 3.0k 0.7× 234 30.7k
Ralph Adolphs United States 100 28.9k 1.4× 3.4k 0.4× 9.5k 1.1× 10.5k 1.5× 4.7k 1.1× 283 40.4k
Alan Baddeley United Kingdom 113 36.7k 1.7× 21.0k 2.2× 15.9k 1.9× 6.1k 0.9× 2.9k 0.7× 390 60.7k
António R. Damásio United States 97 35.1k 1.7× 5.7k 0.6× 12.2k 1.4× 13.3k 2.0× 6.8k 1.6× 262 58.1k
Sally Wheelwright United Kingdom 71 22.4k 1.1× 5.9k 0.6× 4.6k 0.5× 6.0k 0.9× 10.6k 2.5× 131 32.4k
Marcel Adam Just United States 76 19.0k 0.9× 11.1k 1.2× 6.7k 0.8× 2.7k 0.4× 918 0.2× 178 29.3k
Michael I. Posner United States 114 51.9k 2.5× 11.1k 1.2× 18.6k 2.2× 9.2k 1.4× 11.2k 2.6× 339 76.1k
Jay N. Giedd United States 106 24.6k 1.2× 3.9k 0.4× 5.9k 0.7× 3.6k 0.5× 8.0k 1.9× 263 48.4k

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All Works

20 of 20 papers shown
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Bonthrone, Alexandra F., Vanessa Kyriakopoulou, Luke Mason, et al.. (2024). Attentional development is altered in toddlers with congenital heart disease. SHILAP Revista de lepidopterología. 4(3). e12232–e12232.
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Hendry, Alexandra, Manuela Stets, Pasco Fearon, Mark H. Johnson, & Karla Holmboe. (2024). Neural Markers of Attention at 6 Months Associate With Later Attentional Control Performance. Developmental Science. 28(1). e13582–e13582.
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Aydin, Ezra, et al.. (2024). Trajectories of brain and behaviour development in the womb, at birth and through infancy. Nature Human Behaviour. 8(7). 1251–1262. 2 indexed citations
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Johnson, Mark H., Tony Charman, Greg Pasco, et al.. (2024). Twenty‐four‐month effortful control predicts emerging autism characteristics. Developmental Science. 27(6). e13560–e13560. 1 indexed citations
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Ali, Jannath Begum, Luke Mason, Greg Pasco, et al.. (2023). Infant sleep predicts trajectories of social attention and later autism traits. Journal of Child Psychology and Psychiatry. 64(8). 1200–1211. 4 indexed citations
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Johnson, Mark H., et al.. (2020). Explaining individual differences in infant visual sensory seeking. Infancy. 25(5). 677–698. 7 indexed citations
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Shephard, Elizabeth, Bosiljka Milosavljevic, Luke Mason, et al.. (2020). Neural and behavioural indices of face processing in siblings of children with autism spectrum disorder (ASD): A longitudinal study from infancy to mid-childhood. Cortex. 127. 162–179. 23 indexed citations
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Bast, Nico, Luke Mason, Christine M. Freitag, et al.. (2020). Saccade dysmetria indicates attenuated visual exploration in autism spectrum disorder. Journal of Child Psychology and Psychiatry. 62(2). 149–159. 15 indexed citations
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Mercure, Evelyne, Samuel Evans, Laura Pirazzoli, et al.. (2019). Language Experience Impacts Brain Activation for Spoken and Signed Language in Infancy: Insights From Unimodal and Bimodal Bilinguals. SHILAP Revista de lepidopterología. 1(1). 9–32. 18 indexed citations
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Holmboe, Karla, Arielle Bonneville‐Roussy, Gergely Csibra, & Mark H. Johnson. (2018). Longitudinal development of attention and inhibitory control during the first year of life. Developmental Science. 21(6). e12690–e12690. 52 indexed citations
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Cheung, Celeste H. M., Rachael Bedford, Mark H. Johnson, Tony Charman, & Teodora Gliga. (2016). Visual search performance in infants associates with later ASD diagnosis. Developmental Cognitive Neuroscience. 29. 4–10. 41 indexed citations
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Green, Jonathan, Tony Charman, Andrew Pickles, et al.. (2015). Parent-mediated intervention versus no intervention for infants at high risk of autism: a parallel, single-blind, randomised trial. The Lancet Psychiatry. 2(2). 133–140. 190 indexed citations
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Sirois, Sylvain, Michael Spratling, Michael S. C. Thomas, et al.. (2014). Neuroconstructivism: How the brain constructs cognition. SHILAP Revista de lepidopterología. 3 indexed citations
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Senju, Atsushi, Yukiko Kikuchi, Hironori Akechi, et al.. (2011). Atypical modulation of face-elicited saccades in autism spectrum disorder in a double-step saccade paradigm. Research in autism spectrum disorders. 5(3). 1264–1269. 21 indexed citations
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Mareschal, Denis, Sylvain Sirois, Gert Westermann, & Mark H. Johnson. (2007). Neuroconstructivism Vol. 2 : Perspectives and Prospects. Lancaster EPrints (Lancaster University). 5 indexed citations
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Haan, Michelle de, Jay Belsky, Vincent M. Reid, Ágnes Volein, & Mark H. Johnson. (2004). Maternal personality and infants’ neural and visual responsivity to facial expressions of emotion. Journal of Child Psychology and Psychiatry. 45(7). 1209–1218. 152 indexed citations
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Johnson, Mark H., et al.. (2001). Recording and Analyzing High-Density Event-Related Potentials With Infants Using the Geodesic Sensor Net. Developmental Neuropsychology. 19(3). 295–323. 59 indexed citations
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Johnson, Mark H. & Denis Mareschal. (2001). Cognitive and perceptual development during infancy. Current Opinion in Neurobiology. 11(2). 213–218. 23 indexed citations
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Johnson, Mark H.. (1982). Career Development in Institutional Research. 2 indexed citations
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Johnson, Mark H.. (1975). The Search for Place in Walker Percy's Novels. ˜The œSouthern literary journal. 8(1). 55. 1 indexed citations

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