Rani Jacobs

3.2k total citations · 1 hit paper
30 papers, 2.3k citations indexed

About

Rani Jacobs is a scholar working on Pediatrics, Perinatology and Child Health, Psychiatry and Mental health and Cognitive Neuroscience. According to data from OpenAlex, Rani Jacobs has authored 30 papers receiving a total of 2.3k indexed citations (citations by other indexed papers that have themselves been cited), including 13 papers in Pediatrics, Perinatology and Child Health, 11 papers in Psychiatry and Mental health and 8 papers in Cognitive Neuroscience. Recurrent topics in Rani Jacobs's work include Attention Deficit Hyperactivity Disorder (6 papers), Neonatal and fetal brain pathology (5 papers) and Traumatic Brain Injury Research (5 papers). Rani Jacobs is often cited by papers focused on Attention Deficit Hyperactivity Disorder (6 papers), Neonatal and fetal brain pathology (5 papers) and Traumatic Brain Injury Research (5 papers). Rani Jacobs collaborates with scholars based in Australia, United States and Netherlands. Rani Jacobs's co-authors include Vicki Anderson, Peter J. Anderson, Elisabeth Northam, Cathy Catroppa, Megan Spencer‐Smith, Lee Coleman, Elisabeth Northam, Mardee Greenham, Jacqueline Williams and George A. Werther and has published in prestigious journals such as Brain, Neurology and Diabetes Care.

In The Last Decade

Rani Jacobs

30 papers receiving 2.2k 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.

Development of Executive Functions Through Late Childhood and Adolescence in an Australian Sample

2001 598 citations Vicki Anderson, Peter J. Anderson et al. Developmental Neuropsychology profile →

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Name	h						Papers	Cites
Rani Jacobs Australia	18	649	600	567	478	426	30	2.3k
Mathilde Chevignard France	27	755 1.2×	358 0.6×	699 1.2×	180 0.4×	906 2.1×	135	2.5k
Lennart von Wendt Finland	27	869 1.3×	969 1.6×	528 0.9×	220 0.5×	381 0.9×	77	2.5k
Megan Spencer‐Smith Australia	27	569 0.9×	498 0.8×	1.5k 2.7×	378 0.8×	483 1.1×	82	2.7k
Elisabeth Northam Australia	28	399 0.6×	373 0.6×	848 1.5×	257 0.5×	188 0.4×	50	3.1k
Aniko Bartfai Sweden	23	630 1.0×	412 0.7×	110 0.2×	98 0.2×	557 1.3×	60	1.7k
Emanuel Tirosh Israel	27	895 1.4×	690 1.1×	526 0.9×	455 1.0×	109 0.3×	133	2.5k
Leonard Diller United States	29	648 1.0×	1.3k 2.2×	198 0.3×	204 0.4×	904 2.1×	106	3.2k
Elizabeth Isaacs United Kingdom	33	875 1.3×	782 1.3×	1.5k 2.7×	509 1.1×	604 1.4×	44	3.7k
Gregory P. Lee United States	29	1.4k 2.1×	2.1k 3.5×	384 0.7×	238 0.5×	368 0.9×	82	4.5k
Arthur MacNeill Horton United States	20	514 0.8×	671 1.1×	96 0.2×	191 0.4×	440 1.0×	118	1.7k

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20 of 20 papers shown

Anderson, Vicki, et al.. (2011). Executive Function Following Child Stroke: The Impact of Lesion Size. Developmental Neuropsychology. 36(8). 971–987. 42 indexed citations

Gomes, Alison, Megan Spencer‐Smith, Rani Jacobs, Lee Coleman, & Vicki Anderson. (2011). Attention and social functioning in children with malformations of cortical development and stroke. Child Neuropsychology. 18(4). 1–12. 8 indexed citations

Spencer‐Smith, Megan, et al.. (2011). Does Timing of Brain Lesion Have an Impact on Children's Attention?. Developmental Neuropsychology. 36(3). 353–366. 16 indexed citations

Anderson, Vicki, et al.. (2010). Development and assessment of executive function: From preschool to adolescence. 157–188. 29 indexed citations

Anderson, Vicki, et al.. (2010). Childhood MS and ADEM: Investigation and Comparison of Neurocognitive Features in Children. Developmental Neuropsychology. 35(5). 506–521. 22 indexed citations

Jacobs, Rani, A. Simon Harvey, & Vicki Anderson. (2010). Are executive skills primarily mediated by the prefrontal cortex in childhood? Examination of focal brain lesions in childhood. Cortex. 47(7). 808–824. 26 indexed citations

Spencer‐Smith, Megan, Richard J. Leventer, Rani Jacobs, Cinzia De Luca, & Vicki Anderson. (2009). Neuropsychological profile of children with subcortical band heterotopia. Developmental Medicine & Child Neurology. 51(11). 909–916. 6 indexed citations

Anderson, Vicki, Rani Jacobs, Megan Spencer‐Smith, et al.. (2009). Does Early Age at Brain Insult Predict Worse Outcome? Neuropsychological Implications. Journal of Pediatric Psychology. 35(7). 716–727. 71 indexed citations

Collins, Kevin, John Fisher, E. H. Keir, et al.. (2009). Electroencephalographic abnormalities during sleep in children with developmental speech‐language disorders: a case–control study. Developmental Medicine & Child Neurology. 51(3). 228–234. 17 indexed citations

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Anderson, Vicki, Megan Spencer‐Smith, Lee Coleman, et al.. (2009). Childhood brain insult: can age at insult help us predict outcome?. Brain. 132(1). 45–56. 196 indexed citations

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Anderson, Vicki, Rani Jacobs, & Peter J. Anderson. (2008). Executive functions and the frontal lobes: A lifespan perspective.. Taylor & Francis eBooks. 275 indexed citations

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Anderson, Vicki, Rani Jacobs, & A. Simon Harvey. (2008). Executive functions after frontal lobe insult in childhood. 269–298. 3 indexed citations

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Anderson, Vicki, Rani Jacobs, & A. Simon Harvey. (2005). Prefrontal lesions and attentional skills in childhood. Journal of the International Neuropsychological Society. 11(7). 817–31. 34 indexed citations

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Jacobs, Rani, et al.. (2004). Neuropsychological outcome after acute disseminated encephalomyelitis: Impact of age at illness onset. Pediatric Neurology. 31(3). 191–197. 55 indexed citations

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Smidts, D.P., Rani Jacobs, & Vicki Anderson. (2004). The Object Classification Task for Children (OCTC): A Measure of Concept Generation and Mental Flexibility in Early Childhood. Developmental Neuropsychology. 26(1). 385–401. 80 indexed citations

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Harvey, A. Simon, Michael M. Saling, Vicki Anderson, et al.. (2002). Differential Functional Magnetic Resonance Imaging Language Activation in Twins Discordant for a Left Frontal Tumor. Journal of Child Neurology. 17(10). 766–769. 10 indexed citations

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Anderson, Vicki, et al.. (2002). Relationships Between Cognitive and Behavioral Measures of Executive Function in Children With Brain Disease. Child Neuropsychology. 8(4). 231–240. 262 indexed citations

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Jacobs, Rani, Vicki Anderson, & A. Simon Harvey. (2001). Neuropsychological profile of a 9‐year‐old child with subcortical band heterotopia or‘double cortex’. Developmental Medicine & Child Neurology. 43(9). 628–633. 4 indexed citations

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Jacobs, Rani, Victoria Anderson, & A. Simon Harvey. (2001). Neuropsychological profile of a 9-year-old child with subcortical band heterotopia or. Developmental Medicine & Child Neurology. 43(9). 628–628. 11 indexed citations

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Jacobs, Rani, Elisabeth Northam, & Vicki Anderson. (2001). Cognitive Outcome in Children with Myelomeningocele and Perinatal Hydrocephalus: A Longitudinal Perspective. Journal of Developmental and Physical Disabilities. 13(4). 389–405. 26 indexed citations

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