Paula Smith

6.8k total citations · 5 hit papers
56 papers, 4.2k citations indexed

About

Paula Smith is a scholar working on Cognitive Neuroscience, Clinical Psychology and Genetics. According to data from OpenAlex, Paula Smith has authored 56 papers receiving a total of 4.2k indexed citations (citations by other indexed papers that have themselves been cited), including 30 papers in Cognitive Neuroscience, 22 papers in Clinical Psychology and 21 papers in Genetics. Recurrent topics in Paula Smith's work include Autism Spectrum Disorder Research (30 papers), Child Development and Digital Technology (12 papers) and Genetics and Neurodevelopmental Disorders (11 papers). Paula Smith is often cited by papers focused on Autism Spectrum Disorder Research (30 papers), Child Development and Digital Technology (12 papers) and Genetics and Neurodevelopmental Disorders (11 papers). Paula Smith collaborates with scholars based in United Kingdom, United States and Canada. Paula Smith's co-authors include Simon Baron‐Cohen, Carrie Allison, Meng‐Chuan Lai, William Mandy, Laura Hull, K. V. Petrides, Bonnie Auyeung, Emily Ruzich, Howard Ring and Peter Watson and has published in prestigious journals such as Nature Communications, The Journal of Experimental Medicine and PLoS ONE.

In The Last Decade

Paula Smith

56 papers receiving 4.1k citations

Hit Papers

5 papers align trajectories

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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.

“Putting on My Best Normal”: Social Camouflaging in Adults with Autism Spectrum Conditions

2017 731 citations Laura Hull, K. V. Petrides et al. Journal of Autism and Developmental Disorders profile →
Measuring autistic traits in the general population: a systematic review of the Autism-Spectrum Quotient (AQ) in a nonclinical population sample of 6,900 typical adult males and females

2015 435 citations Emily Ruzich, Carrie Allison et al. Molecular Autism profile →
Development and Validation of the Camouflaging Autistic Traits Questionnaire (CAT-Q)

2018 297 citations Laura Hull, William Mandy et al. Journal of Autism and Developmental Disorders profile →
Elevated rates of autism, other neurodevelopmental and psychiatric diagnoses, and autistic traits in transgender and gender-diverse individuals

2020 293 citations Varun Warrier, Paula Smith et al. profile →
Is social camouflaging associated with anxiety and depression in autistic adults?

2021 191 citations Laura Hull, Meng‐Chuan Lai et al. Molecular Autism profile →

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Name	h						Papers	Cites
Paula Smith United Kingdom	32	2.7k	1.9k	837	704	644	56	4.2k
Cristiane Silvestre Paula Brazil	26	2.2k 0.8×	1.8k 1.0×	771 0.9×	531 0.8×	949 1.5×	117	3.9k
Sigan L. Hartley United States	34	2.1k 0.8×	2.2k 1.2×	441 0.5×	612 0.9×	1.4k 2.1×	117	4.2k
Marc Woodbury‐Smith United Kingdom	23	2.1k 0.8×	1.2k 0.6×	458 0.5×	752 1.1×	645 1.0×	59	2.8k
Jeremy Parr United Kingdom	40	3.5k 1.3×	2.5k 1.3×	580 0.7×	894 1.3×	1.7k 2.6×	136	5.5k
Scott M. Myers United States	26	2.5k 0.9×	1.4k 0.8×	746 0.9×	1.1k 1.5×	1.1k 1.7×	87	4.5k
Ted Hutman United States	29	4.4k 1.6×	2.4k 1.3×	1.5k 1.8×	1.0k 1.5×	1.1k 1.7×	39	4.9k
Ailsa Russell United Kingdom	39	2.2k 0.8×	1.9k 1.0×	378 0.5×	505 0.7×	2.1k 3.3×	129	4.6k
Ann Le Couteur United Kingdom	35	3.0k 1.1×	2.4k 1.3×	723 0.9×	693 1.0×	1.3k 2.1×	100	4.0k
Julie Lounds Taylor United States	43	5.2k 1.9×	4.4k 2.3×	1.0k 1.2×	827 1.2×	1.9k 2.9×	119	7.4k
Marisela Huerta United States	21	1.9k 0.7×	1.2k 0.6×	622 0.7×	587 0.8×	661 1.0×	23	2.9k

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Warrier, Varun, Héléna Brunel, Paula Smith, et al.. (2023). Identifying rare genetic variants in 21 highly multiplex autism families: the role of diagnosis and autistic traits. Molecular Psychiatry. 28(5). 2148–2157. 6 indexed citations

Golan, Ofer, et al.. (2023). Does Having a Sibling Affect Autistic People's Empathy?. Journal of Autism and Developmental Disorders. 54(12). 4650–4660. 1 indexed citations

Moseley, Rachel, Nicola Gregory, Paula Smith, et al.. (2023). Potential Mechanisms Underlying Suicidality in Autistic People with Attention Deficit/Hyperactivity Disorder: Testing Hypotheses from the Interpersonal Theory of Suicide. Autism in Adulthood. 6(1). 9–24. 6 indexed citations

Moseley, Rachel, et al.. (2022). The relevance of the interpersonal theory of suicide for predicting past-year and lifetime suicidality in autistic adults. Molecular Autism. 13(1). 14–14. 18 indexed citations

Moseley, Rachel, Nicola Gregory, Paula Smith, et al.. (2022). Non-suicidal self-injury and its relation to suicide through acquired capability: investigating this causal mechanism in a mainly late-diagnosed autistic sample. Molecular Autism. 13(1). 45–45. 16 indexed citations

Moseley, Rachel, Nicola Gregory, Paula Smith, Carrie Allison, & Simon Baron‐Cohen. (2020). Links between self-injury and suicidality in autism. Molecular Autism. 11(1). 14–14. 47 indexed citations

Moseley, Rachel, Nicola Gregory, Paula Smith, Carrie Allison, & Simon Baron‐Cohen. (2019). A ‘choice’, an ‘addiction’, a way ‘out of the lost’: exploring self-injury in autistic people without intellectual disability. Molecular Autism. 10(1). 18–18. 68 indexed citations

Hull, Laura, William Mandy, Meng‐Chuan Lai, et al.. (2018). Development and Validation of the Camouflaging Autistic Traits Questionnaire (CAT-Q). Journal of Autism and Developmental Disorders. 49(3). 819–833. 297 indexed citations breakdown →

Warrier, Varun, Katrina L. Grasby, Florina Uzefovsky, et al.. (2017). Genome-wide meta-analysis of cognitive empathy: heritability, and correlates with sex, neuropsychiatric conditions and cognition. Molecular Psychiatry. 23(6). 1402–1409. 100 indexed citations

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Dudas, Robert B., Christopher A. Lovejoy, Sarah Cassidy, et al.. (2017). The overlap between autistic spectrum conditions and borderline personality disorder. PLoS ONE. 12(9). e0184447–e0184447. 65 indexed citations

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Ward, Jamie, et al.. (2017). Atypical sensory sensitivity as a shared feature between synaesthesia and autism. Scientific Reports. 7(1). 41155–41155. 73 indexed citations

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Murray, Aja Louise, Carrie Allison, Paula Smith, et al.. (2016). Investigating diagnostic bias in autism spectrum conditions: An item response theory analysis of sex bias in the AQ‐10. Autism Research. 10(5). 790–800. 32 indexed citations

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Cassidy, Sarah, et al.. (2016). Dyspraxia and autistic traits in adults with and without autism spectrum conditions. Molecular Autism. 7(1). 48–48. 29 indexed citations

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Ruzich, Emily, Carrie Allison, Paula Smith, et al.. (2015). Measuring autistic traits in the general population: a systematic review of the Autism-Spectrum Quotient (AQ) in a nonclinical population sample of 6,900 typical adult males and females. Molecular Autism. 6(1). 2–2. 435 indexed citations breakdown →

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Ruzich, Emily, Carrie Allison, Paula Smith, et al.. (2015). Erratum: Measuring autistic traits in the general population: a systematic review of the Autism-Spectrum Quotient (AQ) in a nonclinical population sample of 6,900 typical adult males and females. Molecular Autism. 6(1). 18 indexed citations

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Fishel, Simon, Paula Smith, Craig E. Cameron, et al.. (2014). Multicentre study of the clinical relevance of screening IVF patients for carrier status of the annexin A5 M2 haplotype. Reproductive BioMedicine Online. 29(1). 80–87. 7 indexed citations

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Cebrián, Arancha, Paul D.P. Pharoah, Shahana Ahmed, et al.. (2006). Tagging Single-Nucleotide Polymorphisms in Antioxidant Defense Enzymes and Susceptibility to Breast Cancer. Cancer Research. 66(2). 1225–1233. 68 indexed citations

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Cebrián, Arancha, Paul D.P. Pharoah, Shahana Ahmed, et al.. (2006). Genetic variants in epigenetic genes and breast cancer risk. Carcinogenesis. 27(8). 1661–1669. 75 indexed citations

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Antoniou, Antonis C., et al.. (2005). BRCA1 and BRCA2 mutation predictions using the BOADICEA and BRCAPRO models and penetrance estimation in high-risk French-Canadian families. Breast Cancer Research. 8(1). R3–R3. 66 indexed citations

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Shaw, Stephen, Robert DeMars, S F Schlossman, et al.. (1982). Serologic identification of the human secondary B cell antigens. Correlations between function, genetics, and structure.. The Journal of Experimental Medicine. 156(3). 731–743. 75 indexed citations

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