Raluca Barac

2.8k total citations · 1 hit paper
17 papers, 1.7k citations indexed

About

Raluca Barac is a scholar working on General Health Professions, Cognitive Neuroscience and Developmental and Educational Psychology. According to data from OpenAlex, Raluca Barac has authored 17 papers receiving a total of 1.7k indexed citations (citations by other indexed papers that have themselves been cited), including 7 papers in General Health Professions, 7 papers in Cognitive Neuroscience and 6 papers in Developmental and Educational Psychology. Recurrent topics in Raluca Barac's work include Reading and Literacy Development (6 papers), Neurobiology of Language and Bilingualism (6 papers) and Health Policy Implementation Science (5 papers). Raluca Barac is often cited by papers focused on Reading and Literacy Development (6 papers), Neurobiology of Language and Bilingualism (6 papers) and Health Policy Implementation Science (5 papers). Raluca Barac collaborates with scholars based in Canada, United States and United Kingdom. Raluca Barac's co-authors include Ellen Bialystok, Sylvain Moreno, E. Glenn Schellenberg, Nicholas J. Cepeda, Tom Chau, Dina C. Castro, Marta Sánchez, Melanie Barwick, Agnès Blaye and Diane Poulin‐Dubois and has published in prestigious journals such as Child Development, The FASEB Journal and Psychological Science.

In The Last Decade

Raluca Barac

17 papers receiving 1.6k citations

Hit Papers

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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.

Short-Term Music Training Enhances Verbal Intelligence and Executive Function

2011 493 citations Sylvain Moreno, Ellen Bialystok et al. Psychological Science profile →

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Name	h						Papers	Cites
Raluca Barac Canada	11	889	871	292	186	175	17	1.7k
Marijn van Dijk Netherlands	21	242 0.3×	617 0.7×	267 0.9×	98 0.5×	217 1.2×	66	1.4k
Alexander Leslie Anwyl-Irvine United Kingdom	6	728 0.8×	333 0.4×	65 0.2×	11 0.1×	85 0.5×	10	1.5k
Anke W. Blöte Netherlands	23	225 0.3×	518 0.6×	823 2.8×	7 0.0×	69 0.4×	37	1.9k
Gail Gillon New Zealand	29	699 0.8×	2.3k 2.6×	851 2.9×	3 0.0×	117 0.7×	106	2.7k
Dale Walker United States	21	318 0.4×	1.3k 1.5×	1.2k 4.2×	4 0.0×	46 0.3×	53	2.3k
Tanis Bryan United States	30	405 0.5×	1.4k 1.6×	1.4k 4.9×	6 0.0×	186 1.1×	91	2.8k
Barbara Alexander Pan United States	20	207 0.2×	1.5k 1.7×	1.3k 4.3×	3 0.0×	224 1.3×	29	2.5k
Margalit Ziv Israel	17	166 0.2×	659 0.8×	465 1.6×	4 0.0×	40 0.2×	34	1.2k
Merv Hyde Australia	21	431 0.5×	886 1.0×	187 0.6×	5 0.0×	229 1.3×	56	1.3k
Aron Wolfe Siegman United States	24	245 0.3×	173 0.2×	67 0.2×	13 0.1×	166 0.9×	59	1.6k

Countries citing papers authored by Raluca Barac

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Co-authorship network of co-authors of Raluca Barac

This figure shows the co-authorship network connecting the top 25 collaborators of Raluca Barac. A scholar is included among the top collaborators of Raluca Barac 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 Raluca Barac. Raluca Barac is excluded from the visualization to improve readability, since they are connected to all nodes in the network.

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17 of 17 papers shown

Barwick, Melanie, Raluca Barac, Melissa Kimber, et al.. (2019). Advancing implementation frameworks with a mixed methods case study in child behavioral health. Translational Behavioral Medicine. 10(3). 685–704. 25 indexed citations

Barac, Raluca, Melissa Kimber, Sabine Johnson, & Melanie Barwick. (2018). The effectiveness of consultation for clinicians learning to deliver motivational interviewing with fidelity. PubMed. 15(5). 510–533. 12 indexed citations

Barac, Raluca, Daina Als, Amruta Radhakrishnan, et al.. (2018). Implementation of Interventions for the Control of Typhoid Fever in Low- and Middle-Income Countries. American Journal of Tropical Medicine and Hygiene. 99(3_Suppl). 79–88. 10 indexed citations

Wigle, Jannah, Nadia Akseer, Sarah Carbone, et al.. (2018). Developing a tool to measure the reciprocal benefits that accrue to health professionals involved in global health. BMJ Global Health. 3(4). e000792–e000792. 4 indexed citations

Carbone, Sarah, Jannah Wigle, Nadia Akseer, et al.. (2017). Perceived reciprocal value of health professionals’ participation in global child health-related work. Globalization and Health. 13(1). 27–27. 5 indexed citations

Cunningham, Charles E., et al.. (2017). Modeling the Decision of Mental Health Providers to Implement Evidence-Based Children’s Mental Health Services: A Discrete Choice Conjoint Experiment. Administration and Policy in Mental Health and Mental Health Services Research. 45(2). 302–317. 10 indexed citations

Kimber, Melissa, Raluca Barac, & Melanie Barwick. (2017). Monitoring Fidelity to an Evidence-Based Treatment: Practitioner Perspectives. Clinical Social Work Journal. 47(2). 207–221. 13 indexed citations

Barac, Raluca, Sylvain Moreno, & Ellen Bialystok. (2016). Behavioral and Electrophysiological Differences in Executive Control Between Monolingual and Bilingual Children. Child Development. 87(4). 1277–1290. 69 indexed citations

Baxter, Jo‐Anna B, et al.. (2016). Evaluating Programmatic Effectiveness and Implementation: An Assessment of Factors Affecting Change in the Practice of Exclusive Breastfeeding in Ethiopia and Mali. The FASEB Journal. 30(S1). 2 indexed citations

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Barac, Raluca, Ellen Bialystok, Dina C. Castro, & Marta Sánchez. (2014). The cognitive development of young dual language learners: A critical review. Early Childhood Research Quarterly. 29(4). 699–714. 259 indexed citations

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Barwick, Melanie, et al.. (2014). Bringing Evidence to the Classroom: Exploring Educator Notions of Evidence and Preferences for Practice Change. 2(4). 1–15. 9 indexed citations

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Barac, Raluca, et al.. (2014). Scoping review of toolkits as a knowledge translation strategy in health. BMC Medical Informatics and Decision Making. 14(1). 121–121. 82 indexed citations

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Barac, Raluca & Ellen Bialystok. (2012). Bilingual Effects on Cognitive and Linguistic Development: Role of Language, Cultural Background, and Education. Child Development. 83(2). 413–422. 263 indexed citations

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Moreno, Sylvain, Ellen Bialystok, Raluca Barac, et al.. (2011). Short-Term Music Training Enhances Verbal Intelligence and Executive Function. Psychological Science. 22(11). 1425–1433. 493 indexed citations breakdown →

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Bialystok, Ellen & Raluca Barac. (2011). Emerging bilingualism: Dissociating advantages for metalinguistic awareness and executive control. Cognition. 122(1). 67–73. 210 indexed citations

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Bialystok, Ellen, Raluca Barac, Agnès Blaye, & Diane Poulin‐Dubois. (2010). Word Mapping and Executive Functioning in Young Monolingual and Bilingual Children. Journal of Cognition and Development. 11(4). 485–508. 124 indexed citations

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Barac, Raluca & Ellen Bialystok. (2010). Cognitive development of bilingual children. Language Teaching. 44(1). 36–54. 87 indexed citations

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