Robert T. Schultz

34.0k total citations · 8 hit papers
230 papers, 18.0k citations indexed

About

Robert T. Schultz is a scholar working on Cognitive Neuroscience, Clinical Psychology and Developmental and Educational Psychology. According to data from OpenAlex, Robert T. Schultz has authored 230 papers receiving a total of 18.0k indexed citations (citations by other indexed papers that have themselves been cited), including 177 papers in Cognitive Neuroscience, 65 papers in Clinical Psychology and 42 papers in Developmental and Educational Psychology. Recurrent topics in Robert T. Schultz's work include Autism Spectrum Disorder Research (140 papers), Child Development and Digital Technology (33 papers) and Genetics and Neurodevelopmental Disorders (33 papers). Robert T. Schultz is often cited by papers focused on Autism Spectrum Disorder Research (140 papers), Child Development and Digital Technology (33 papers) and Genetics and Neurodevelopmental Disorders (33 papers). Robert T. Schultz collaborates with scholars based in United States, Canada and Germany. Robert T. Schultz's co-authors include Ami Klin, Donald J. Cohen, Fred R. Volkmar, Gregor Kohls, Vanessa Troiani, Warren Jones, Coralie Chevallier, Edward S. Brodkin, James F. Leckman and L. Gauthier and has published in prestigious journals such as The Lancet, Neuron and Psychological Bulletin.

In The Last Decade

Robert T. Schultz

220 papers receiving 17.5k citations

Hit Papers

5 papers align trajectories

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.

Visual Fixation Patterns During Viewing of Naturalistic Social Situations as Predictors of Social Competence in Individuals With Autism

2002 1.5k citations Robert T. Schultz et al. profile →
The social motivation theory of autism

2012 1.4k citations Gregor Kohls, Vanessa Troiani et al. profile →
Developmental deficits in social perception in autism: the role of the amygdala and fusiform face area

2005 763 citations Robert T. Schultz profile →
Abnormal Ventral Temporal Cortical Activity During Face Discrimination Among Individuals With Autism and Asperger Syndrome

2000 721 citations Robert T. Schultz et al. profile →
Harmonization of multi-site diffusion tensor imaging data

2017 653 citations Birkan Tunç, Robert T. Schultz et al. NeuroImage profile →
Abnormal functional connectivity of default mode sub-networks in autism spectrum disorder patients

2010 522 citations Robert T. Schultz et al. NeuroImage profile →
Autism

2009 491 citations Robert T. Schultz et al. profile →
Differences in White Matter Fiber Tract Development Present From 6 to 24 Months in Infants With Autism

2012 474 citations Jason J. Wolff, Guido Gerig et al. profile →

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Name	h						Papers	Cites
Robert T. Schultz United States	62	13.8k	5.2k	3.3k	3.0k	2.9k	230	18.0k
Nancy J. Minshew United States	84	17.4k 1.3×	4.2k 0.8×	5.2k 1.6×	5.9k 2.0×	4.0k 1.4×	213	20.2k
Michael Lombardo United Kingdom	53	8.7k 0.6×	3.1k 0.6×	2.3k 0.7×	2.9k 1.0×	1.2k 0.4×	122	12.2k
Gregory L. Wallace United States	57	8.8k 0.6×	3.2k 0.6×	3.2k 1.0×	2.2k 0.7×	1.6k 0.6×	150	11.7k
Meng‐Chuan Lai Canada	53	10.6k 0.8×	5.0k 1.0×	3.3k 1.0×	2.9k 1.0×	1.1k 0.4×	178	13.2k
Helen Tager‐Flusberg United States	83	17.7k 1.3×	5.6k 1.1×	3.6k 1.1×	4.4k 1.5×	9.6k 3.3×	271	22.8k
Kevin A. Pelphrey United States	60	9.8k 0.7×	2.6k 0.5×	1.9k 0.6×	1.6k 0.5×	2.1k 0.7×	185	13.6k
Eric Courchesne United States	96	24.5k 1.8×	2.5k 0.5×	4.8k 1.4×	9.2k 3.1×	3.0k 1.0×	200	31.3k
Susan Y. Bookheimer United States	82	16.4k 1.2×	3.0k 0.6×	6.2k 1.9×	1.5k 0.5×	3.3k 1.1×	335	26.2k
Karen Pierce United States	49	9.0k 0.7×	2.7k 0.5×	2.9k 0.9×	3.3k 1.1×	2.1k 0.7×	98	12.3k
Fred R. Volkmar United States	82	18.4k 1.3×	8.9k 1.7×	5.6k 1.7×	5.0k 1.7×	4.9k 1.7×	281	22.5k

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Nishino, Tomoyuki, Jessica B. Girault, Heather C. Hazlett, et al.. (2025). Statistical properties of functional connectivity MRI enrichment analysis in school-age autism research. Developmental Cognitive Neuroscience. 72. 101534–101534.

Gökmen, Muhittin, Evangelos Sarıyanidi, Lisa Yankowitz, et al.. (2024). Detecting Autism from Head Movements using Kinesics. PubMed. 2024. 350–354. 3 indexed citations

McHugh, Sean, et al.. (2024). Social impairment in survivors of pediatric brain tumors via reduced social attention and emotion‐specific facial expression recognition. Pediatric Blood & Cancer. 71(6). e30943–e30943. 2 indexed citations

Marchena, Ashley de, et al.. (2023). Measuring dyspraxia in autism using a five-minute praxis exam. Research in autism spectrum disorders. 106. 102200–102200. 2 indexed citations

Haisley, Lauren D, Kelly N. Botteron, Stephen R. Dager, et al.. (2023). 4 Language Development in Infants and Toddlers (12 to 24 months) with Agenesis of the Corpus Callosum. Journal of the International Neuropsychological Society. 29(s1). 404–405.

Cho, Sunghye, Meredith Cola, Alison Russell, et al.. (2023). Sex differences in the temporal dynamics of autistic children’s natural conversations. Molecular Autism. 14(1). 13–13. 7 indexed citations

Garic, Dea, Robert C. McKinstry, Leigh MacIntyre, et al.. (2023). 0765 Enlarged perivascular spaces in infancy: associations with autism diagnosis, cerebrospinal fluid volume, and later sleep problems. SLEEP. 46(Supplement_1). A337–A338. 1 indexed citations

Zampella, Casey, et al.. (2022). Gross Motor Impairment and Its Relation to Social Skills in Autism Spectrum Disorder: A Systematic Review and Two Meta-analyses. PsyArXiv (OSF Preprints). 4 indexed citations

Wolff, Jason J., Lonnie Zwaigenbaum, Jed T. Elison, et al.. (2020). Towards a Data-Driven Approach to Screen for Autism Risk at 12 Months of Age. Journal of the American Academy of Child & Adolescent Psychiatry. 60(8). 968–977. 10 indexed citations

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Cho, Sunghye, Mark Liberman, Neville Ryant, et al.. (2019). Automatic Detection of Autism Spectrum Disorder in Children Using Acoustic and Text Features from Brief Natural Conversations. 2513–2517. 30 indexed citations

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Kohls, Gregor, et al.. (2018). Altered reward system reactivity for personalized circumscribed interests in autism. Molecular Autism. 9(1). 9–9. 72 indexed citations

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John, Tanya St., Annette Estes, Stephen R. Dager, et al.. (2016). Emerging Executive Functioning and Motor Development in Infants at High and Low Risk for Autism Spectrum Disorder. Frontiers in Psychology. 7. 1016–1016. 38 indexed citations

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Tunç, Birkan, et al.. (2014). PUNCH: Population Characterization of Heterogeneity. NeuroImage. 98. 50–60. 3 indexed citations

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Varol, Erdem, Bilwaj Gaonkar, Güray Erus, Robert T. Schultz, & Christos Davatzikos. (2012). Feature ranking based nested support vector machine ensemble for medical image classification. PubMed. 146–149. 25 indexed citations

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Bloy, Luke, Madhura Ingalhalikar, Kayhan Batmanghelich, et al.. (2012). An Integrated Framework for High Angular Resolution Diffusion Imaging–Based Investigation of Structural Connectivity. Brain Connectivity. 2(2). 69–79. 9 indexed citations

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Kohls, Gregor, Martin Schulte‐Rüther, K.-M. Müller, et al.. (2012). Reward system dysfunction in autism spectrum disorders. Social Cognitive and Affective Neuroscience. 8(5). 565–572. 203 indexed citations

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Bloy, Luke, Madhura Ingalhalikar, Harini Eavani, et al.. (2011). White matter atlas generation using HARDI based automated parcellation. NeuroImage. 59(4). 4055–4063. 12 indexed citations

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Troiani, Vanessa, et al.. (2010). Cortical and Subcortical Correlates of Nonconscious Face Processing. Journal of Vision. 10(7). 608–608. 2 indexed citations

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Carpenter, Thomas O., Cheryl Klaiman, Joel D. Bregman, et al.. (2004). Multisystem study of 20 older adults with Williams syndrome. American Journal of Medical Genetics Part A. 131A(3). 255–264. 181 indexed citations

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Schultz, Robert T.. (1990). Celluloid History: Postwar Society in Postwar Popular Culture. American studies. 31(1). 41–63.

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