Robert Davies

2.1k total citations · 1 hit paper
56 papers, 1.4k citations indexed

About

Robert Davies is a scholar working on Cognitive Neuroscience, Developmental and Educational Psychology and Experimental and Cognitive Psychology. According to data from OpenAlex, Robert Davies has authored 56 papers receiving a total of 1.4k indexed citations (citations by other indexed papers that have themselves been cited), including 23 papers in Cognitive Neuroscience, 22 papers in Developmental and Educational Psychology and 8 papers in Experimental and Cognitive Psychology. Recurrent topics in Robert Davies's work include Reading and Literacy Development (19 papers), Neurobiology of Language and Bilingualism (18 papers) and Language Development and Disorders (8 papers). Robert Davies is often cited by papers focused on Reading and Literacy Development (19 papers), Neurobiology of Language and Bilingualism (18 papers) and Language Development and Disorders (8 papers). Robert Davies collaborates with scholars based in United Kingdom, Spain and United States. Robert Davies's co-authors include Lotte Meteyard, Fernando Cuetos, Javier Rodríguez‐Ferreiro, Brendan Weekes, Rex W. Cowdry, David Pickar, James J. Bradac, Analía Barbón, Thomas C. Piechota and Ajay Kalra and has published in prestigious journals such as SHILAP Revista de lepidopterología, PLoS ONE and Child Development.

In The Last Decade

Robert Davies

51 papers receiving 1.3k citations

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Name	h						Papers	Cites
Robert Davies United Kingdom	21	635	581	264	178	157	56	1.4k
Xiaolin Zhou China	21	531 0.8×	648 1.1×	344 1.3×	68 0.4×	112 0.7×	62	1.4k
Lara L. Jones United States	13	437 0.7×	411 0.7×	440 1.7×	205 1.2×	212 1.4×	24	1.2k
Rumjahn Hoosain Hong Kong	20	639 1.0×	615 1.1×	377 1.4×	179 1.0×	155 1.0×	45	1.3k
Juan Hernández Spain	19	553 0.9×	797 1.4×	236 0.9×	98 0.6×	169 1.1×	75	1.4k
Valantis Fyndanis Norway	12	315 0.5×	564 1.0×	244 0.9×	86 0.5×	218 1.4×	28	1.1k
Simonetta D’Amico Italy	21	668 1.1×	796 1.4×	481 1.8×	68 0.4×	260 1.7×	62	1.5k
Brett K. Hayes Australia	25	739 1.2×	683 1.2×	290 1.1×	121 0.7×	406 2.6×	111	2.1k
Alfredo Campos Spain	22	433 0.7×	406 0.7×	608 2.3×	79 0.4×	288 1.8×	169	1.4k
Robert E. Warren United States	10	1.0k 1.6×	746 1.3×	502 1.9×	220 1.2×	153 1.0×	29	1.9k
Sarah R. Beck United Kingdom	27	998 1.6×	605 1.0×	248 0.9×	218 1.2×	525 3.3×	81	1.9k

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Davies, Robert, et al.. (2025). Individual differences in associative/semantic priming: Spreading of activation in semantic memory and epistemically unwarranted beliefs. PLoS ONE. 20(2). e0313239–e0313239.

Cain, Kate, Robert Davies, Shelley Gray, et al.. (2024). The influence of reader and text characteristics on sixth graders' inference making. Journal of Research in Reading. 48(1). 24–45.

Slade, Kate, Robert Davies, Charlotte R. Pennington, Christopher J. Plack, & Helen E. Nuttall. (2023). The Impact of Age and Psychosocial Factors on Cognitive and Auditory Outcomes During the COVID-19 Pandemic. Journal of Speech Language and Hearing Research. 66(9). 3689–3695. 3 indexed citations

Nash, Hannah, Robert Davies, & Jessie Ricketts. (2023). The contributions of decoding skill and lexical knowledge to the development of irregular word reading.. Journal of Experimental Psychology Learning Memory and Cognition. 49(1). 78–97.

Lobban, Fiona, et al.. (2023). Posting patterns in peer online support forums and their associations with emotions and mood in bipolar disorder: Exploratory analysis. PLoS ONE. 18(9). e0291369–e0291369. 2 indexed citations

Davies, Robert, Shelley Gray, Mindy Sittner Bridges, et al.. (2020). The Process and Product of Coherence Monitoring in Young Readers: Effects of Reader and Text Characteristics. Scientific Studies of Reading. 25(2). 141–158. 11 indexed citations

Rodríguez‐Ferreiro, Javier, Mari Aguilera, & Robert Davies. (2020). Positive Schizotypy Increases the Acceptance of Unpresented Materials in False Memory Tasks in Non-clinical Individuals. Frontiers in Psychology. 11. 262–262. 9 indexed citations

Rodríguez‐Ferreiro, Javier & Robert Davies. (2018). The graded effect of valence on word recognition in Spanish.. Journal of Experimental Psychology Learning Memory and Cognition. 45(5). 851–868. 22 indexed citations

Davies, Robert, et al.. (2017). Reading through the life span: Individual differences in psycholinguistic effects.. Journal of Experimental Psychology Learning Memory and Cognition. 43(8). 1298–1338. 40 indexed citations

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Davies, Robert, et al.. (2016). Rated age-of-acquisition norms for over 3,200 German words. Behavior Research Methods. 49(2). 484–501. 20 indexed citations

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Donovan, Tim, et al.. (2016). Saccadic Eye Movement Abnormalities in Children with Epilepsy. PLoS ONE. 11(8). e0160508–e0160508. 18 indexed citations

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Davies, Robert, et al.. (2015). Bilingual lexical selection as a dynamic process: Evidence from Arabic-French bilinguals.. Canadian Journal of Experimental Psychology/Revue canadienne de psychologie expérimentale. 69(4). 297–313. 12 indexed citations

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Davies, Robert, et al.. (2015). Young Children's Comprehension of Temporal Relations in Complex Sentences: The Influence of Memory on Performance. Child Development. 86(6). 1922–1934. 46 indexed citations

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Wilson, Maximiliano A., Fernando Cuetos, Robert Davies, & Cristina Burani. (2013). Revisiting age-of-acquisition effects in Spanish visual word recognition: The role of item imageability.. Journal of Experimental Psychology Learning Memory and Cognition. 39(6). 1842–1859. 26 indexed citations

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Davies, Robert, Analía Barbón, & Fernando Cuetos. (2012). Lexical and semantic age-of-acquisition effects on word naming in Spanish. Memory & Cognition. 41(2). 297–311. 47 indexed citations

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Davies, Robert. (2008). Europeana: An Infrastructure for Adding Local Content. Ariadne. 1. 3 indexed citations

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Kalra, Ajay, Thomas C. Piechota, Robert Davies, & Glenn Tootle. (2006). Is Climate Change Evident in U. S. Streamflow?. 54. 1–9. 2 indexed citations

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Davies, Robert & Fernando Cuetos. (2005). Acquired Dyslexia in Spanish: A Review and Some Observations on a New Case of Deep Dyslexia. Behavioural Neurology. 16(2-3). 85–101. 17 indexed citations

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Barrell, Graham K., et al.. (2000). Immunocytochemical localization of oestrogen receptors in perichondrium of antlers in red deer ( Cervus elaphus ). Reproduction Fertility and Development. 11(3). 189–192. 10 indexed citations

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Shahtahmasebi, Said, Robert Davies, & G. Clare Wenger. (1992). A Longitudinal Analysis of Factors Related to Survival in Old Age. The Gerontologist. 32(3). 404–413. 42 indexed citations

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