Nick C. Ellis

26.8k total citations · 4 hit papers
192 papers, 13.7k citations indexed

About

Nick C. Ellis is a scholar working on Developmental and Educational Psychology, Language and Linguistics and Artificial Intelligence. According to data from OpenAlex, Nick C. Ellis has authored 192 papers receiving a total of 13.7k indexed citations (citations by other indexed papers that have themselves been cited), including 81 papers in Developmental and Educational Psychology, 53 papers in Language and Linguistics and 38 papers in Artificial Intelligence. Recurrent topics in Nick C. Ellis's work include Second Language Acquisition and Learning (44 papers), Reading and Literacy Development (43 papers) and EFL/ESL Teaching and Learning (32 papers). Nick C. Ellis is often cited by papers focused on Second Language Acquisition and Learning (44 papers), Reading and Literacy Development (43 papers) and EFL/ESL Teaching and Learning (32 papers). Nick C. Ellis collaborates with scholars based in United Kingdom, United States and Canada. Nick C. Ellis's co-authors include Rita Simpson‐Vlach, Diane Larsen‐Freeman, Alan Beaton, Richard Schmidt, Sierk Ybema, Ute Römer, Matthew Brook O’Donnell, Nuria Sagarra, Gordon D. A. Brown and James Williams and has published in prestigious journals such as SHILAP Revista de lepidopterología, The British Journal of Psychiatry and Journal of Business Ethics.

In The Last Decade

Nick C. Ellis

187 papers receiving 11.9k citations

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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.

Cognition and Second Language Instruction

2001 1.2k citations Peter Robinson, Richard Schmidt et al. Cambridge University Press eBooks profile →
FREQUENCY EFFECTS IN LANGUAGE PROCESSING

2002 1.2k citations Nick C. Ellis Studies in Second Language Acquisition profile →
Language Is a Complex Adaptive System: Position Paper

2009 497 citations Nick C. Ellis et al. Language Learning profile →
An Academic Formulas List: New Methods in Phraseology Research

2010 427 citations Nick C. Ellis et al. profile →

Peers — A (Enhanced Table)

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

Name	h						Papers	Cites
Nick C. Ellis United Kingdom	58	8.5k	6.7k	2.8k	2.7k	2.5k	192	13.7k
Jean‐Marc Dewaele United Kingdom	65	3.0k 0.4×	7.5k 1.1×	584 0.2×	3.0k 1.1×	1.2k 0.5×	264	14.2k
Douglas Biber United States	59	6.6k 0.8×	11.2k 1.7×	6.2k 2.2×	9.6k 3.6×	567 0.2×	179	21.0k
Susan M. Gass United States	53	6.2k 0.7×	10.3k 1.6×	1.3k 0.5×	5.9k 2.2×	711 0.3×	142	13.5k
Harvey Sacks United States	15	2.3k 0.3×	15.5k 2.3×	2.7k 1.0×	6.4k 2.4×	979 0.4×	20	22.1k
Raymond W. Gibbs United States	55	2.1k 0.3×	4.5k 0.7×	1.7k 0.6×	1.7k 0.6×	1.5k 0.6×	188	12.9k
Penelope Brown Netherlands	25	1.5k 0.2×	10.6k 1.6×	1.5k 0.5×	5.0k 1.9×	605 0.2×	70	16.6k
James V. Wertsch United States	45	6.6k 0.8×	2.9k 0.4×	494 0.2×	2.2k 0.8×	1.3k 0.5×	132	18.5k
Danielle S. McNamara United States	63	9.0k 1.1×	1.7k 0.3×	6.8k 2.4×	2.0k 0.7×	1.3k 0.5×	397	15.8k
Μ. Α. Κ. Halliday Australia	34	2.6k 0.3×	8.4k 1.3×	2.2k 0.8×	7.4k 2.8×	514 0.2×	90	17.0k
Emanuel A. Schegloff United States	46	2.9k 0.3×	22.8k 3.4×	3.6k 1.3×	9.7k 3.6×	1.3k 0.5×	70	30.3k

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Ellis, Nick C., et al.. (2021). Language Usage and Second Language Morphosyntax: Effects of Availability, Reliability, and Formulaicity. Frontiers in Psychology. 12. 582259–582259. 8 indexed citations

Marsden, Emma, Kara Morgan‐Short, Pavel Trofimovich, & Nick C. Ellis. (2018). Introducing Registered Reports at Language Learning: Promoting Transparency, Replication, and a Synthetic Ethic in the Language Sciences. Language Learning. 68(2). 309–320. 39 indexed citations

Ellis, Nick C., et al.. (2016). Salience in Second Language Acquisition: Physical Form, Learner Attention, and Instructional Focus. Frontiers in Psychology. 7. 1284–1284. 51 indexed citations

Granger, Sylviane, Gaëtanelle Gilquin, Marcus Callies, et al.. (2015). The Cambridge Handbook of Learner Corpus Research. Cambridge University Press eBooks. 113 indexed citations

Ortega, Lourdes, Alister Cumming, & Nick C. Ellis. (2013). Agendas for language learning research. Wiley-Blackwell eBooks. 2 indexed citations

Ellis, Nick C. & Matthew Brook O’Donnell. (2011). Robust Language Acquisition – an Emergent Consequence of Language as a Complex Adaptive System. Cognitive Science. 33(33). 9 indexed citations

O’Donnell, Matthew Brook & Nick C. Ellis. (2010). Towards an Inventory of English Verb Argument Constructions. North American Chapter of the Association for Computational Linguistics. 9–16. 7 indexed citations

Oswick, Cliff, Tom Keenoy, Armin Beverungen, et al.. (2007). Discourse, practice, policy and organizing. International Journal of Sociology and Social Policy. 2 indexed citations

Ellis, Nick C.. (2007). Blocking and Learned Attention in Language Acquisition. Deep Blue (University of Michigan). 29(29). 6 indexed citations

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Ellis, Nick C., Sid Lowe, & Sharon Purchase. (2006). Towards a re-interpretation of industrial networks: A discursive view of culture. UWA Profiles and Research Repository (University of Western Australia). 1(2). 29–59. 13 indexed citations

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Robinson, Peter, Richard Schmidt, Nick C. Ellis, et al.. (2001). Cognition and Second Language Instruction. Cambridge University Press eBooks. 1201 indexed citations breakdown →

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Ellis, Nick C.. (1996). Analyzing Language Sequence in the Sequence of Language Acquisition.. Studies in Second Language Acquisition. 18(3). 3 indexed citations

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Ellis, Nick C.. (1996). Sequencing in SLA. Studies in Second Language Acquisition. 18(1). 91–126. 369 indexed citations

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Williams, James, et al.. (1996). The specificity of autobiographical memory and imageability of the future. Memory & Cognition. 24(1). 116–125. 417 indexed citations

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Brown, Gordon D. A. & Nick C. Ellis. (1994). Handbook of spelling : theory, process, and intervention. J. Wiley eBooks. 241 indexed citations

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Appleton, Peter, et al.. (1994). THE SELF‐CONCEPT OF YOUNG PEOPLE ‘ WITH SPINA BIFIDA: A POPULATION‐BASED STUDY. Developmental Medicine & Child Neurology. 36(3). 198–215. 91 indexed citations

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Ellis, Nick C., et al.. (1990). The design of a stress‐management programme for nursing personnel. Journal of Advanced Nursing. 15(8). 946–961. 73 indexed citations

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Ellis, Nick C., et al.. (1990). Community health staff's prejudice and knowledge about AIDS. Medical Teacher. 12(1). 77–82. 1 indexed citations

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Ellis, Nick C., et al.. (1990). Charity advertising: For or against people with a mental handicap?. British Journal of Social Psychology. 29(4). 349–366. 52 indexed citations

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Nolan, Mike, G. Grant, & Nick C. Ellis. (1990). Stress is in the eye of the beholder:reconceptualizing the measurement of carer burden. Journal of Advanced Nursing. 15(5). 544–555. 81 indexed citations

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