Roger Ratcliff

44.8k total citations · 11 hit papers
275 papers, 30.8k citations indexed

About

Roger Ratcliff is a scholar working on Cognitive Neuroscience, Developmental and Educational Psychology and Artificial Intelligence. According to data from OpenAlex, Roger Ratcliff has authored 275 papers receiving a total of 30.8k indexed citations (citations by other indexed papers that have themselves been cited), including 172 papers in Cognitive Neuroscience, 83 papers in Developmental and Educational Psychology and 52 papers in Artificial Intelligence. Recurrent topics in Roger Ratcliff's work include Neural and Behavioral Psychology Studies (84 papers), Memory Processes and Influences (66 papers) and Reading and Literacy Development (42 papers). Roger Ratcliff is often cited by papers focused on Neural and Behavioral Psychology Studies (84 papers), Memory Processes and Influences (66 papers) and Reading and Literacy Development (42 papers). Roger Ratcliff collaborates with scholars based in United States, Australia and Netherlands. Roger Ratcliff's co-authors include Gail McKoon, Philip L. Smith, Jeffrey N. Rouder, Pablo Gómez, Jeffrey J. Starns, Anjali Thapar, Eric‐Jan Wagenmakers, Francis Tuerlinckx, Scott Brown and Scott D. Gronlund and has published in prestigious journals such as Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, Journal of Neuroscience and Psychological Bulletin.

In The Last Decade

Roger Ratcliff

271 papers receiving 29.4k citations

Hit Papers

A theory of memory retrieval. 1978 2026 1994 2010 1978 2007 1998 2016 2004 1000 2.0k 3.0k
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.

  1. A theory of memory retrieval.
    1978 3.1k citations Roger Ratcliff Psychological Review profile →
  2. The Diffusion Decision Model: Theory and Data for Two-Choice Decision Tasks
    2007 1.9k citations Roger Ratcliff, Gail McKoon profile →
  3. Modeling Response Times for Two-Choice Decisions
    1998 1.1k citations Roger Ratcliff et al. profile →
  4. Diffusion Decision Model: Current Issues and History
    2016 936 citations Roger Ratcliff, Philip L. Smith et al. Trends in Cognitive Sciences profile →
  5. A Comparison of Sequential Sampling Models for Two-Choice Reaction Time.
    2004 872 citations Roger Ratcliff, Philip L. Smith Psychological Review profile →
  6. Group reaction time distributions and an analysis of distribution statistics.
    1979 859 citations Roger Ratcliff profile →
  7. Psychology and neurobiology of simple decisions
    2004 780 citations Philip L. Smith, Roger Ratcliff profile →
  8. Inference during reading.
    1992 713 citations Roger Ratcliff et al. Psychological Review profile →
  9. Estimating parameters of the diffusion model: Approaches to dealing with contaminant reaction times and parameter variability
    2002 628 citations Roger Ratcliff et al. profile →
  10. A retrieval theory of priming in memory.
    1988 576 citations Roger Ratcliff, Gail McKoon Psychological Review profile →
  11. Sequential Sampling Models in Cognitive Neuroscience: Advantages, Applications, and Extensions
    2015 371 citations Roger Ratcliff et al. profile →

Peers — A (Enhanced Table)

Peers by citation overlap · career bar shows stage (early→late) cites · hero ref

Name h Career Trend Papers Cites
Roger Ratcliff United States 86 22.9k 7.3k 6.6k 4.4k 3.6k 275 30.8k
Richard M. Shiffrin United States 52 14.2k 0.6× 5.6k 0.8× 5.5k 0.8× 3.9k 0.9× 1.0k 0.3× 210 22.9k
Harold Pashler United States 72 14.6k 0.6× 4.9k 0.7× 5.5k 0.8× 2.5k 0.6× 1.0k 0.3× 185 23.2k
Keith J. Holyoak United States 71 6.3k 0.3× 10.6k 1.4× 6.5k 1.0× 6.4k 1.5× 1.9k 0.5× 260 25.6k
Matthew Botvinick United States 64 26.0k 1.1× 3.2k 0.4× 6.2k 0.9× 3.6k 0.8× 2.8k 0.8× 136 34.8k
Russell A. Poldrack United States 109 37.1k 1.6× 5.6k 0.8× 8.1k 1.2× 1.5k 0.4× 1.6k 0.4× 319 49.2k
Edward E. Smith United States 72 18.0k 0.8× 7.1k 1.0× 7.0k 1.1× 3.3k 0.8× 972 0.3× 193 31.0k
Randall W. Engle United States 73 18.7k 0.8× 9.1k 1.2× 14.9k 2.3× 2.9k 0.7× 1.1k 0.3× 159 31.2k
Peter Dayan United Kingdom 93 32.1k 1.4× 2.5k 0.3× 7.0k 1.1× 8.5k 2.0× 3.3k 0.9× 442 54.8k
Gordon D. Logan United States 87 25.1k 1.1× 7.2k 1.0× 7.0k 1.1× 1.3k 0.3× 2.0k 0.6× 292 34.7k
Lynn Hasher Canada 71 14.1k 0.6× 5.0k 0.7× 6.8k 1.0× 1.3k 0.3× 1.1k 0.3× 218 20.7k

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All Works

20 of 20 papers shown
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Evans, Nathan J., Laura Fontanesi, Catherine Manning, et al.. (2024). Beyond discrete-choice options. Trends in Cognitive Sciences. 28(9). 857–870. 1 indexed citations
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Ratcliff, Roger, et al.. (2021). Do data from mechanical Turk subjects replicate accuracy, response time, and diffusion modeling results?. Behavior Research Methods. 53(6). 2302–2325. 16 indexed citations
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Ratcliff, Roger & Gail McKoon. (2020). Examining aging and numerosity using an integrated diffusion model.. Journal of Experimental Psychology Learning Memory and Cognition. 46(11). 2128–2152. 2 indexed citations
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Heathcote, Andrew, et al.. (2019). Commentary on Bastin et al., BBS Vol. 42, 2019: Two processes are not necessary to understand memory deficits. Behavioral and Brain Sciences. 1 indexed citations
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Thompson, Clarissa A., Roger Ratcliff, & Gail McKoon. (2016). Individual differences in the components of children’s and adults’ information processing for simple symbolic and non-symbolic numeric decisions. Journal of Experimental Child Psychology. 150. 48–71. 13 indexed citations
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Ratcliff, Roger, et al.. (2016). Comparing fixed and collapsing boundary versions of the diffusion model. Journal of Mathematical Psychology. 73. 59–79. 51 indexed citations
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Yap, Melvin J., David A. Balota, Daragh E. Sibley, & Roger Ratcliff. (2011). Individual differences in visual word recognition: Insights from the English Lexicon Project.. Journal of Experimental Psychology Human Perception & Performance. 38(1). 53–79. 152 indexed citations
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Gómez, Pablo, Roger Ratcliff, & Manuel Perea. (2007). A model of the go/no-go task.. Journal of Experimental Psychology General. 136(3). 389–413. 287 indexed citations
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Smith, Philip L., Roger Ratcliff, & Bradley J. Wolfgang. (2004). Attention orienting and the time course of perceptual decisions: response time distributions with masked and unmasked displays. Vision Research. 44(12). 1297–1320. 121 indexed citations
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Ratcliff, Roger, Pablo Gómez, & Gail McKoon. (2004). A Diffusion Model Account of the Lexical Decision Task.. Psychological Review. 111(1). 159–182. 416 indexed citations
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Ratcliff, Roger, et al.. (2004). A diffusion model account of normal and impaired readers. Brain and Cognition. 55(2). 374–382. 40 indexed citations
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Balakrishnan, Janaki & Roger Ratcliff. (1996). Testing models of decision making using confidence ratings in classification.. Journal of Experimental Psychology Human Perception & Performance. 22(3). 615–633. 40 indexed citations
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Greene, Steven B., Gail McKoon, & Roger Ratcliff. (1992). Pronoun resolution and discourse models.. Journal of Experimental Psychology Learning Memory and Cognition. 18(2). 266–283. 73 indexed citations
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Ratcliff, Roger. (1990). Connectionist models of recognition memory: Constraints imposed by learning and forgetting functions.. Psychological Review. 97(2). 285–308. 483 indexed citations
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Gronlund, Scott D. & Roger Ratcliff. (1989). Time course of item and associative information: Implications for global memory models.. Journal of Experimental Psychology Learning Memory and Cognition. 15(5). 846–858. 176 indexed citations
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Seifert, Colleen M., Gail McKoon, Robert P. Abelson, & Roger Ratcliff. (1986). Memory connections between thematically similar episodes.. Journal of Experimental Psychology Learning Memory and Cognition. 12(2). 220–231. 13 indexed citations
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McKoon, Gail & Roger Ratcliff. (1979). Priming in episodic and semantic memory. Journal of Verbal Learning and Verbal Behavior. 18(4). 463–480. 215 indexed citations
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Hacker, Michael J. & Roger Ratcliff. (1979). A revised table of d’ for M-alternative forced choice. Perception & Psychophysics. 26(2). 168–170. 212 indexed citations
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Ratcliff, Roger & Bennet B. Murdock. (1976). Retrieval processes in recognition memory.. Psychological Review. 83(3). 190–214. 26 indexed citations

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