Ping Li

17.3k total citations · 3 hit papers
392 papers, 10.4k citations indexed

About

Ping Li is a scholar working on Cognitive Neuroscience, Developmental and Educational Psychology and Experimental and Cognitive Psychology. According to data from OpenAlex, Ping Li has authored 392 papers receiving a total of 10.4k indexed citations (citations by other indexed papers that have themselves been cited), including 144 papers in Cognitive Neuroscience, 112 papers in Developmental and Educational Psychology and 85 papers in Experimental and Cognitive Psychology. Recurrent topics in Ping Li's work include Neurobiology of Language and Bilingualism (88 papers), Reading and Literacy Development (61 papers) and Language Development and Disorders (50 papers). Ping Li is often cited by papers focused on Neurobiology of Language and Bilingualism (88 papers), Reading and Literacy Development (61 papers) and Language Development and Disorders (50 papers). Ping Li collaborates with scholars based in China, United States and Hong Kong. Ping Li's co-authors include Xiaowei Zhao, Arturo E. Hernández, Hua Shu, Jinde Cao, Jennifer Legault, Joseph Aoun, Brian MacWhinney, Jing Yang, Youyi Liu and Kaitlyn A. Litcofsky and has published in prestigious journals such as Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, Psychological Bulletin and SHILAP Revista de lepidopterología.

In The Last Decade

Ping Li

360 papers receiving 9.7k citations

Hit Papers

Neuroplasticity as a function of second language learning... 2014 2026 2018 2022 2014 2020 2019 100 200 300
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. Neuroplasticity as a function of second language learning: Anatomical changes in the human brain
    2014 335 citations Ping Li et al. profile →
  2. Challenges and Future Directions of Big Data and Artificial Intelligence in Education
    2020 301 citations Ping Li et al. profile →
  3. Language History Questionnaire (LHQ3): An enhanced tool for assessing multilingual experience
    2019 169 citations Ping Li, Xiaowei Zhao et al. Bilingualism Language and Cognition profile →

Peers — A (Enhanced Table)

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

Name h Career Trend Papers Cites
Ping Li China 53 4.4k 4.0k 2.2k 2.0k 1.7k 392 10.4k
Nick Chater United Kingdom 67 5.4k 1.2× 4.4k 1.1× 2.7k 1.2× 947 0.5× 4.7k 2.9× 321 16.4k
Reinhold Kliegl Germany 67 11.0k 2.5× 6.5k 1.6× 4.2k 1.9× 617 0.3× 2.1k 1.3× 259 16.9k
Simon Garrod United Kingdom 39 3.8k 0.9× 2.8k 0.7× 3.8k 1.7× 2.3k 1.2× 2.6k 1.6× 87 9.4k
Rick Dale United States 39 2.6k 0.6× 1.7k 0.4× 2.0k 0.9× 707 0.4× 1.1k 0.7× 153 6.8k
P. N. Johnson‐Laird United States 62 4.3k 1.0× 6.1k 1.5× 5.6k 2.5× 1.5k 0.8× 6.8k 4.1× 272 21.4k
Gail McKoon United States 61 8.7k 2.0× 4.2k 1.0× 3.3k 1.5× 772 0.4× 1.9k 1.1× 146 12.4k
Michael C. Frank United States 44 2.2k 0.5× 3.7k 0.9× 1.9k 0.8× 811 0.4× 1.6k 1.0× 243 7.8k
Noah D. Goodman United States 46 1.8k 0.4× 2.6k 0.7× 1.1k 0.5× 760 0.4× 3.4k 2.1× 203 8.2k
Frank Keller United Kingdom 36 1.9k 0.4× 1.4k 0.4× 1.1k 0.5× 1.1k 0.5× 3.0k 1.8× 148 6.1k
W. Nelson Francis United States 19 5.0k 1.1× 3.9k 1.0× 2.5k 1.1× 1.8k 0.9× 2.2k 1.3× 56 9.9k

Countries citing papers authored by Ping Li

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Fields of papers citing papers by Ping Li

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Physical SciencesHealth SciencesLife SciencesSocial Sciences

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Co-authorship network of co-authors of Ping Li

This figure shows the co-authorship network connecting the top 25 collaborators of Ping Li. A scholar is included among the top collaborators of Ping Li based on the total number of citations received by their joint publications. Widths of edges represent the number of papers authors have co-authored together. Node borders signify the number of papers an author published with Ping Li. Ping Li is excluded from the visualization to improve readability, since they are connected to all nodes in the network.

All Works

20 of 20 papers shown
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Li, Ping, et al.. (2025). High-Resolution Mapping of Cropland Soil Organic Carbon in Northern China. Agronomy. 15(2). 359–359.
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Nastase, Samuel A., et al.. (2025). Large language models without grounding recover non-sensorimotor but not sensorimotor features of human concepts. Nature Human Behaviour. 9(9). 1871–1886. 4 indexed citations
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Li, Chen, et al.. (2024). Collaborative Learning in the Edu-Metaverse Era: An Empirical Study on the Enabling Technologies. IEEE Transactions on Learning Technologies. 17. 1107–1119. 24 indexed citations
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Huang, Kexin, et al.. (2024). Predicting the next sentence (not word) in large language models: What model-brain alignment tells us about discourse comprehension. Science Advances. 10(21). eadn7744–eadn7744. 10 indexed citations
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Li, Ping, et al.. (2023). Teaching Quality of Ideological and Political Education in Colleges Based on Deep Learning. International Journal of e-Collaboration. 19(4). 1–15. 7 indexed citations
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Li, Ping, Shuang Zhou, Zheng Liu, et al.. (2023). Association of Peer Network with Childhood Obesity in DECIDE-Children Program. Nutrients. 15(19). 4154–4154. 1 indexed citations
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Huang, Yangjie, Mengting Zhang, Jing Wang, Ping Li, & Kexin Li. (2022). Psychological cognition and women's entrepreneurship: A country-based comparison using fsQCA. Journal of Innovation & Knowledge. 7(3). 100223–100223. 24 indexed citations
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Li, Ping, et al.. (2022). Computational Modeling of Bilingual Language Learning: Current Models and Future Directions. Language Learning. 73(S2). 17–64. 11 indexed citations
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Huang, Yangjie, Ping Li, Jing Wang, & Kexin Li. (2022). Innovativeness and entrepreneurial performance of female entrepreneurs. Journal of Innovation & Knowledge. 7(4). 100257–100257. 51 indexed citations
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Follmer, D. Jake, Ping Li, & Roy B. Clariana. (2021). Predicting Expository Text Processing: Causal Content Density as a Critical Expository Text Metric. Reading Psychology. 42(6). 625–662. 3 indexed citations
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Li, Ping & Yu‐Ju Lan. (2021). Understanding the Interaction between Technology and the Learner: The Case of DLL. Bilingualism Language and Cognition. 25(3). 402–405. 4 indexed citations
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Wang, Anyi, et al.. (2021). Q-learning algorithm based mine adaptive OFDM modulation. SHILAP Revista de lepidopterología.
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Hu, Jinlong, et al.. (2020). Interpretable Learning Approaches in Resting-State Functional Connectivity Analysis: The Case of Autism Spectrum Disorder. Computational and Mathematical Methods in Medicine. 2020. 1–12. 22 indexed citations
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Fei, Hongliang, Li Xu, Dingcheng Li, & Ping Li. (2019). End-to-end Deep Reinforcement Learning Based Coreference Resolution. 660–665. 24 indexed citations
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Li, Ping, et al.. (2017). Sluicing, Sprouting and Missing Objects. SHILAP Revista de lepidopterología. 38(2). 63–92. 2 indexed citations
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Li, Ping, et al.. (2010). Epidemic Spreading in Weighted Scale-Free Networks. Shuxue de shijian yu renshi. 1 indexed citations
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Zhao, Xiaowei & Ping Li. (2007). Bilingual Lexical Representation in a Self-Organizing Neural Network Model. Conference Cognitive Science. 29(29). 285–91. 14 indexed citations
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Li, Ping & Yasuhiro Shirai. (2000). The Acquisition of Lexical and Grammatical Aspect. 179 indexed citations
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Aoun, Joseph & Ping Li. (2000). Scope, structure, and expert systems: A reply to Kuno et al.. Language. 76(1). 133–155. 1 indexed citations

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