Michelle O’Riordan

4.3k total citations · 1 hit paper
16 papers, 3.3k citations indexed

About

Michelle O’Riordan is a scholar working on Cognitive Neuroscience, Developmental and Educational Psychology and Clinical Psychology. According to data from OpenAlex, Michelle O’Riordan has authored 16 papers receiving a total of 3.3k indexed citations (citations by other indexed papers that have themselves been cited), including 13 papers in Cognitive Neuroscience, 12 papers in Developmental and Educational Psychology and 3 papers in Clinical Psychology. Recurrent topics in Michelle O’Riordan's work include Autism Spectrum Disorder Research (13 papers), Behavioral and Psychological Studies (11 papers) and Obsessive-Compulsive Spectrum Disorders (3 papers). Michelle O’Riordan is often cited by papers focused on Autism Spectrum Disorder Research (13 papers), Behavioral and Psychological Studies (11 papers) and Obsessive-Compulsive Spectrum Disorders (3 papers). Michelle O’Riordan collaborates with scholars based in United Kingdom. Michelle O’Riordan's co-authors include Kate Plaisted, Simon Baron‐Cohen, Jon Driver, Valerie E. Stone, Filippo Passetti, Chris Ashwin, Sally Wheelwright and Edward T. Bullmore and has published in prestigious journals such as Journal of Child Psychology and Psychiatry, Cognition and Neuropsychologia.

In The Last Decade

Michelle O’Riordan

15 papers receiving 3.2k citations

Hit Papers

Recognition of Faux Pas by Normally Developing Children a... 1999 2026 2008 2017 1999 250 500 750
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. Recognition of Faux Pas by Normally Developing Children and Children with Asperger Syndrome or High-Functioning Autism
    1999 840 citations Simon Baron‐Cohen, Michelle O’Riordan et al. Journal of Autism and Developmental Disorders profile →

Peers — A (Enhanced Table)

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

Name h Career Trend Papers Cites
Michelle O’Riordan United Kingdom 13 2.8k 1.4k 690 600 417 16 3.3k
Kate Plaisted United Kingdom 20 3.6k 1.3× 1.8k 1.3× 730 1.1× 736 1.2× 489 1.2× 27 4.3k
Loisa Bennetto United States 27 2.8k 1.0× 1.6k 1.1× 555 0.8× 667 1.1× 741 1.8× 44 3.4k
Therese Jolliffe United Kingdom 6 1.9k 0.7× 1.1k 0.8× 560 0.8× 445 0.7× 303 0.7× 8 2.5k
Elizabeth Milne United Kingdom 30 2.5k 0.9× 849 0.6× 532 0.8× 422 0.7× 416 1.0× 82 3.0k
Pamela Heaton United Kingdom 29 2.2k 0.8× 940 0.7× 323 0.5× 320 0.5× 231 0.6× 57 2.5k
Linda Pring United Kingdom 28 2.0k 0.7× 968 0.7× 323 0.5× 318 0.5× 320 0.8× 86 2.5k
Isabelle Soulières Canada 24 3.3k 1.2× 1.2k 0.9× 702 1.0× 591 1.0× 820 2.0× 61 3.6k
Christine Deruelle France 31 2.7k 0.9× 922 0.7× 602 0.9× 350 0.6× 299 0.7× 94 3.5k
Jill Boucher United Kingdom 41 4.4k 1.5× 2.4k 1.8× 1.1k 1.6× 732 1.2× 1.0k 2.5× 76 5.1k
Dermot Bowler United Kingdom 41 3.9k 1.4× 2.5k 1.9× 714 1.0× 787 1.3× 1.2k 3.0× 116 4.7k

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Fields of papers citing papers by Michelle O’Riordan

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Physical SciencesHealth SciencesLife SciencesSocial Sciences

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Co-authorship network of co-authors of Michelle O’Riordan

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All Works

16 of 16 papers shown
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Ashwin, Chris, Simon Baron‐Cohen, Sally Wheelwright, Michelle O’Riordan, & Edward T. Bullmore. (2006). Differential activation of the amygdala and the ‘social brain’ during fearful face-processing in Asperger Syndrome. Neuropsychologia. 45(1). 2–14. 290 indexed citations
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O’Riordan, Michelle & Filippo Passetti. (2006). Discrimination in Autism Within Different Sensory Modalities. Journal of Autism and Developmental Disorders. 36(5). 665–675. 148 indexed citations
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O’Riordan, Michelle. (2004). Superior Visual Search in Adults with Autism. Autism. 8(3). 229–248. 171 indexed citations
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O’Riordan, Michelle & Filippo Passetti. (2004). Enhanced discrimination in autism. 2. 1539–1542.
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O’Riordan, Michelle, Kate Plaisted, Jon Driver, & Simon Baron‐Cohen. (2001). Superior visual search in autism.. Journal of Experimental Psychology Human Perception & Performance. 27(3). 719–730. 398 indexed citations
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O’Riordan, Michelle & Kate Plaisted. (2001). Enhanced discrimination in autism. The Quarterly Journal of Experimental Psychology Section A. 54(4). 961–979. 179 indexed citations
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O’Riordan, Michelle & Kate Plaisted. (2001). Enhanced discrimination in autism. The Quarterly Journal of Experimental Psychology Section A. 54(4). 961–979. 32 indexed citations
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O’Riordan, Michelle, Kate Plaisted, Jon Driver, & Simon Baron‐Cohen. (2001). Superior visual search in autism.. Journal of Experimental Psychology Human Perception & Performance. 27(3). 719–730. 312 indexed citations
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O’Riordan, Michelle. (2000). Superior modulation of activation levels of stimulus representations does not underlie superior discrimination in autism. Cognition. 77(2). 81–96. 28 indexed citations
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Baron‐Cohen, Simon, et al.. (1999). Recognition of Faux Pas by Normally Developing Children and Children with Asperger Syndrome or High-Functioning Autism. Journal of Autism and Developmental Disorders. 29(5). 407–418. 840 indexed citations breakdown →
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Plaisted, Kate, Michelle O’Riordan, & Simon Baron‐Cohen. (1998). Enhanced Discrimination of Novel, Highly Similar Stimuli by Adults with Autism During a Perceptual Learning Task. Journal of Child Psychology and Psychiatry. 39(5). 765–775. 171 indexed citations
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Plaisted, Kate, Michelle O’Riordan, & Simon Baron‐Cohen. (1998). Enhanced Visual Search for a Conjunctive Target in Autism: A Research Note. Journal of Child Psychology and Psychiatry. 39(5). 777–783. 297 indexed citations
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Plaisted, Kate, Michelle O’Riordan, & Simon Baron‐Cohen. (1998). Enhanced Visual Search for a Conjunctive Target in Autism: A Research Note. Journal of Child Psychology and Psychiatry. 39(5). 777–783. 182 indexed citations
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Plaisted, Kate, Michelle O’Riordan, & Simon Baron‐Cohen. (1998). Enhanced Discrimination of Novel, Highly Similar Stimuli by Adults with Autism During a Perceptual Learning Task. Journal of Child Psychology and Psychiatry. 39(5). 765–775. 267 indexed citations
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O’Riordan, Michelle, et al.. (1992). The Gaelic Mind and the Collapse of the Gaelic World. 14(2). 137–137. 7 indexed citations
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O’Riordan, Michelle, et al.. (1991). The Gaelic Mind and the Collapse of the Gaelic World. Comhar. 50(10). 36–36. 6 indexed citations

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