Michelle de Haan

10.5k total citations · 1 hit paper
125 papers, 7.2k citations indexed

About

Michelle de Haan is a scholar working on Cognitive Neuroscience, Pediatrics, Perinatology and Child Health and Developmental and Educational Psychology. According to data from OpenAlex, Michelle de Haan has authored 125 papers receiving a total of 7.2k indexed citations (citations by other indexed papers that have themselves been cited), including 59 papers in Cognitive Neuroscience, 38 papers in Pediatrics, Perinatology and Child Health and 18 papers in Developmental and Educational Psychology. Recurrent topics in Michelle de Haan's work include Face Recognition and Perception (25 papers), Neonatal and fetal brain pathology (22 papers) and Infant Development and Preterm Care (19 papers). Michelle de Haan is often cited by papers focused on Face Recognition and Perception (25 papers), Neonatal and fetal brain pathology (22 papers) and Infant Development and Preterm Care (19 papers). Michelle de Haan collaborates with scholars based in United Kingdom, United States and Ireland. Michelle de Haan's co-authors include Charles A. Nelson, Mark H. Johnson, Olivier Pascalis, Hanife Halit, Jay Belsky, Megan R. Gunnar, Kathryn Tout, Faraneh Vargha‐Khadem, Gergely Csibra and Mortimer Mishkin and has published in prestigious journals such as Science, PLoS ONE and NeuroImage.

In The Last Decade

Michelle de Haan

119 papers receiving 7.0k 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.

Is Face Processing Species-Specific During the First Year of Life?

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Name	h						Papers	Cites
Michelle de Haan United Kingdom	44	4.4k	1.7k	1.6k	1.1k	1.1k	125	7.2k
Beatríz Luna United States	63	9.5k 2.1×	2.2k 1.3×	1.6k 1.0×	1.0k 0.9×	2.2k 2.0×	186	14.3k
Kelly N. Botteron United States	41	3.8k 0.9×	683 0.4×	513 0.3×	526 0.5×	1.7k 1.5×	108	7.1k
Kathleen M. Thomas United States	40	4.0k 0.9×	1.4k 0.8×	953 0.6×	819 0.7×	2.3k 2.1×	118	9.2k
Ingrid R. Olson United States	51	8.0k 1.8×	2.0k 1.2×	923 0.6×	1.4k 1.2×	430 0.4×	131	10.0k
A. Catherine Vaituzis United States	22	4.7k 1.1×	945 0.6×	896 0.6×	775 0.7×	1.2k 1.1×	25	8.7k
Alissa Westerlund United States	22	2.8k 0.6×	1.6k 1.0×	374 0.2×	722 0.6×	967 0.9×	30	4.5k
Martha Ann Bell United States	46	2.1k 0.5×	965 0.6×	1.2k 0.8×	953 0.8×	2.1k 1.9×	184	6.2k
Daniel S. Messinger United States	43	4.6k 1.0×	695 0.4×	1.8k 1.2×	1.2k 1.0×	3.1k 2.7×	161	7.5k
Stéphan Eliez Switzerland	54	3.8k 0.9×	589 0.4×	622 0.4×	291 0.3×	1.2k 1.0×	182	8.2k
François Lalonde United States	30	3.3k 0.7×	810 0.5×	516 0.3×	682 0.6×	401 0.4×	56	5.2k

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Co-authorship network of co-authors of Michelle de Haan

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20 of 20 papers shown

Nijjar, Simrit, et al.. (2025). The impact of gestational age on executive function in infancy and early-to-middle childhood following preterm birth: a systematic review. Child Neuropsychology. 31(7). 1138–1178.

Geva, Sharon, Aparna Hoskote, Chris A. Clark, et al.. (2024). Cognitive outcome and its neural correlates after cardiorespiratory arrest in childhood. Developmental Science. 27(4). e13501–e13501. 1 indexed citations

Katus, Laura, Anna Blasi, Luke Mason, et al.. (2023). Longitudinal fNIRS and EEG metrics of habituation and novelty detection are correlated in 1–18-month-old infants. NeuroImage. 274. 120153–120153. 10 indexed citations

Proulx, Michael J., et al.. (2020). Late‐ but not early‐onset blindness impairs the development of audio‐haptic multisensory integration. Developmental Science. 24(1). e13001–e13001. 23 indexed citations

Katus, Laura, Luke Mason, Bosiljka Milosavljevic, et al.. (2020). ERP markers are associated with neurodevelopmental outcomes in 1–5 month old infants in rural Africa and the UK. NeuroImage. 210. 116591–116591. 23 indexed citations

Bathelt, Joe, Naomi Dale, Michelle de Haan, & Chris A. Clark. (2019). Brain structure in children with congenital visual disorders and visual impairment. Developmental Medicine & Child Neurology. 62(1). 125–131. 7 indexed citations

O’Reilly, Helen, Christin Eltze, Kate Bennett, et al.. (2018). Cognitive outcomes following epilepsy in infancy: A longitudinal community‐based study. Epilepsia. 59(12). 2240–2248. 21 indexed citations

Bathelt, Joe, Michelle de Haan, & Naomi Dale. (2018). Adaptive behaviour and quality of life in school-age children with congenital visual disorders and different levels of visual impairment. Research in Developmental Disabilities. 85. 154–162. 34 indexed citations

Twomey, Deirdre M., Caroline Ahearne, Raegan Murphy, et al.. (2018). Feasibility of using touch screen technology for early cognitive assessment in children. Archives of Disease in Childhood. 103(9). 853–858. 17 indexed citations

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Bathelt, Joe, Michelle de Haan, Alison Salt, & Naomi Dale. (2016). Executive abilities in children with congenital visual impairment in mid-childhood. Child Neuropsychology. 24(2). 184–202. 17 indexed citations

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Bathelt, Joe, Helen O’Reilly, & Michelle de Haan. (2014). Cortical Source Analysis of High-Density EEG Recordings in Children. Journal of Visualized Experiments. e51705–e51705. 5 indexed citations

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Belsky, Jay & Michelle de Haan. (2011). Parenting and children's brain development: the end of the beginning. BIROn (Birkbeck, University of London). 18 indexed citations

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Kihara, Michael, et al.. (2010). Auditory and visual novelty processing in normally-developing Kenyan children. Clinical Neurophysiology. 121(4). 564–576. 20 indexed citations

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Haan, Michelle de, et al.. (2009). THE NEURAL BASIS OF FACE PROCESSING IN INFANCY AND ITS RELATIONSHIP TO THE DEVELOPMENT OF EMPATHY. Advances in Medical Education and Practice. 13(4). 429–342. 1 indexed citations

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Haan, Michelle de, et al.. (2006). Neuroscience and Cognitive Development: Experience and the developing brain. Wiley eBooks. 1 indexed citations

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Halit, Hanife, Michelle de Haan, Philippe G. Schyns, & Mark H. Johnson. (2006). Is high-spatial frequency information used in the early stages of face detection?. Brain Research. 1117(1). 154–161. 69 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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Haan, Michelle de & Charles A. Nelson. (1997). Recognition of the Mother's Face by Six-Month-Old Infants: A Neurobehavioral Study. Child Development. 68(2). 187–187. 196 indexed citations

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Nelson, Charles A. & Michelle de Haan. (1996). Neural correlates of infants' visual responsiveness to facial expressions of emotion. Developmental Psychobiology. 29(7). 577–595. 173 indexed citations

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