Rachael Bedford

5.2k total citations · 2 hit papers
72 papers, 3.3k citations indexed

About

Rachael Bedford is a scholar working on Cognitive Neuroscience, Clinical Psychology and Education. According to data from OpenAlex, Rachael Bedford has authored 72 papers receiving a total of 3.3k indexed citations (citations by other indexed papers that have themselves been cited), including 50 papers in Cognitive Neuroscience, 30 papers in Clinical Psychology and 29 papers in Education. Recurrent topics in Rachael Bedford's work include Autism Spectrum Disorder Research (45 papers), Child Development and Digital Technology (26 papers) and Family and Disability Support Research (16 papers). Rachael Bedford is often cited by papers focused on Autism Spectrum Disorder Research (45 papers), Child Development and Digital Technology (26 papers) and Family and Disability Support Research (16 papers). Rachael Bedford collaborates with scholars based in United Kingdom, Canada and United States. Rachael Bedford's co-authors include Tony Charman, Mark H. Johnson, Teodora Gliga, Andrew Pickles, Emily J. H. Jones, Marko Nardini, Mayada Elsabbagh, Celeste H. M. Cheung, Pete R. Jones and Oliver Braddick and has published in prestigious journals such as Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, SHILAP Revista de lepidopterología and Current Biology.

In The Last Decade

Rachael Bedford

69 papers receiving 3.2k citations

Hit Papers

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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.

Developmental pathways to autism: A review of prospective studies of infants at risk

2013 389 citations Emily J. H. Jones, Teodora Gliga et al. profile →
Daily touchscreen use in infants and toddlers is associated with reduced sleep and delayed sleep onset

2017 175 citations Celeste H. M. Cheung, Rachael Bedford et al. profile →

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Name	h						Papers	Cites
Rachael Bedford United Kingdom	26	2.4k	1.1k	996	709	608	72	3.3k
Jacob A. Burack Canada	34	2.9k 1.2×	1.3k 1.2×	745 0.7×	1.6k 2.2×	690 1.1×	115	4.6k
Sander Begeer Netherlands	33	2.9k 1.2×	2.0k 1.8×	853 0.9×	985 1.4×	870 1.4×	137	3.9k
Grace Iarocci Canada	29	2.2k 0.9×	1.2k 1.1×	395 0.4×	747 1.1×	688 1.1×	93	3.0k
Matthew D. Lerner United States	37	2.7k 1.1×	2.3k 2.1×	1.2k 1.2×	1.2k 1.7×	980 1.6×	125	4.6k
Paola Venuti Italy	37	1.6k 0.7×	1.6k 1.4×	772 0.8×	869 1.2×	448 0.7×	153	3.8k
Rosa A. Hoekstra United Kingdom	33	3.5k 1.5×	2.2k 2.0×	967 1.0×	564 0.8×	1.1k 1.8×	86	4.6k
Ofer Golan Israel	29	2.4k 1.0×	1.2k 1.1×	766 0.8×	878 1.2×	420 0.7×	68	3.2k
Elizabeth Kelley Canada	29	2.3k 1.0×	1.1k 1.0×	528 0.5×	1.1k 1.5×	616 1.0×	83	3.1k
Teodora Gliga United Kingdom	38	2.8k 1.2×	951 0.9×	890 0.9×	1.3k 1.8×	637 1.0×	89	3.9k
Inge Kamp‐Becker Germany	32	2.3k 1.0×	1.2k 1.1×	552 0.6×	474 0.7×	859 1.4×	107	3.0k

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Co-authorship network of co-authors of Rachael Bedford

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Rakesh, Divyangana, et al.. (2025). Developmental Pathways From Childhood Neurodevelopmental Traits to Early Adolescent Psychiatric Dimensions: The Role of Environmental and Lifestyle Factors. Research Portal (King's College London). 4(2). 298–309.

Bedford, Rachael, et al.. (2025). Toddlers Viewing Fantastical Cartoons: Evidence of an Immediate Reduction in Endogenous Control Without an Increase in Stimulus‐Driven Exogenous Control. Developmental Science. 28(3). e70008–e70008. 1 indexed citations

Bennett, Teresa, Péter Szatmári, Tracy Vaillancourt, et al.. (2025). Trajectories of attention problems in autistic children and relations to social skills outcomes. Development and Psychopathology. 37(5). 2402–2415.

Bennett, Teresa, Marc Jambon, Anat Zaidman‐Zait, et al.. (2024). Early-Onset Trajectories of Emotional Dysregulation in Autistic Children. Journal of the American Academy of Child & Adolescent Psychiatry. 64(6). 710–723. 1 indexed citations

Bedford, Rachael, Jonathan Green, Teodora Gliga, et al.. (2024). Parent‐mediated intervention in infants with an elevated likelihood for autism reduces dwell time during a gaze‐following task. Autism Research. 17(11). 2346–2354. 1 indexed citations

Gueron‐Sela, Noa, et al.. (2024). An Examination of the Relations Between Effortful Control in Early Childhood and Risk for Later Externalizing Psychopathology: A Bi-factor Structural Equation Modeling Approach. Child Psychiatry & Human Development. 56(5). 1190–1205. 1 indexed citations

Plate, Rista C., et al.. (2023). Social threat processing in adults and children: Faster orienting to, but shorter dwell time on, angry faces during visual search. Developmental Science. 27(3). e13461–e13461. 2 indexed citations

Elsabbagh, Mayada, et al.. (2023). The subcortical correlates of autistic traits in school-age children: a population-based neuroimaging study. Molecular Autism. 14(1). 6–6. 9 indexed citations

Smith, Tim J., et al.. (2023). Testing the social motivation theory of autism: the role of co‐occurring anxiety. Journal of Child Psychology and Psychiatry. 65(7). 899–909. 7 indexed citations

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Pickles, Andrew, Nicola Wright, Rachael Bedford, et al.. (2022). Predictors of language regression and its association with subsequent communication development in children with autism. Journal of Child Psychology and Psychiatry. 63(11). 1243–1251. 15 indexed citations

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Leno, Virginia Carter, Tim J. Smith, Marcus R. Munafò, et al.. (2022). Associations between emotion recognition and autistic and callous‐unemotional traits: differential effects of cueing to the eyes. Journal of Child Psychology and Psychiatry. 64(5). 787–796. 12 indexed citations

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Bedford, Rachael, et al.. (2021). Examining Links Between Infant Parasympathetic Regulation during the Still-Face Paradigm and Later Callous-Unemotional Traits. Research on Child and Adolescent Psychopathology. 50(4). 489–503. 2 indexed citations

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Huberty, Scott, Virginia Carter Leno, Stefon van Noordt, et al.. (2021). Association between spectral electroencephalography power and autism risk and diagnosis in early development. Autism Research. 14(7). 1390–1403. 27 indexed citations

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Shephard, Elizabeth, Bosiljka Milosavljevic, Luke Mason, et al.. (2020). Neural and behavioural indices of face processing in siblings of children with autism spectrum disorder (ASD): A longitudinal study from infancy to mid-childhood. Cortex. 127. 162–179. 23 indexed citations

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Bedford, Rachael, Teodora Gliga, Alexandra Hendry, et al.. (2019). Infant regulatory function acts as a protective factor for later traits of autism spectrum disorder and attention deficit/hyperactivity disorder but not callous unemotional traits. Journal of Neurodevelopmental Disorders. 11(1). 14–14. 20 indexed citations

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Cheung, Celeste H. M., Rachael Bedford, Mark H. Johnson, Tony Charman, & Teodora Gliga. (2016). Visual search performance in infants associates with later ASD diagnosis. Developmental Cognitive Neuroscience. 29. 4–10. 41 indexed citations

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Bedford, Rachael, Irati R. Saez de Urabain, Celeste H. M. Cheung, Annette Karmiloff‐Smith, & Tim J. Smith. (2016). Toddlers’ Fine Motor Milestone Achievement Is Associated with Early Touchscreen Scrolling. Frontiers in Psychology. 7. 1108–1108. 119 indexed citations

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Green, Jonathan, Tony Charman, Andrew Pickles, et al.. (2015). Parent-mediated intervention versus no intervention for infants at high risk of autism: a parallel, single-blind, randomised trial. The Lancet Psychiatry. 2(2). 133–140. 190 indexed citations

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Smith, Timothy J., et al.. (2014). Implicit detection of asynchronous audiovisual speech by eye movements. Journal of Vision. 14(10). 440–440. 3 indexed citations

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Nardini, Marko, et al.. (2010). Fusion of disparity and texture cues to slant is not mandatory in children. Journal of Vision. 10(7). 494–494. 4 indexed citations

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