Ruth Lesser

2.8k total citations · 1 hit paper
42 papers, 1.9k citations indexed

About

Ruth Lesser is a scholar working on Cognitive Neuroscience, Developmental and Educational Psychology and Clinical Psychology. According to data from OpenAlex, Ruth Lesser has authored 42 papers receiving a total of 1.9k indexed citations (citations by other indexed papers that have themselves been cited), including 27 papers in Cognitive Neuroscience, 16 papers in Developmental and Educational Psychology and 7 papers in Clinical Psychology. Recurrent topics in Ruth Lesser's work include Neurobiology of Language and Bilingualism (26 papers), Language Development and Disorders (11 papers) and Reading and Literacy Development (5 papers). Ruth Lesser is often cited by papers focused on Neurobiology of Language and Bilingualism (26 papers), Language Development and Disorders (11 papers) and Reading and Literacy Development (5 papers). Ruth Lesser collaborates with scholars based in United Kingdom, United States and Australia. Ruth Lesser's co-authors include Janice Kay, Max Coltheart, Lisa Perkins, Lesley Milroy, Anne Whitworth, Catherine Crockford, Makayla Watt, Julia Anderson, Karen Bryan and Bob Woods and has published in prestigious journals such as American Psychologist, Trends in Neurosciences and Neuropsychologia.

In The Last Decade

Ruth Lesser

40 papers receiving 1.7k citations

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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.

Psycholinguistic assessments of language processing in aphasia (PALPA)

1992 740 citations Janice Kay, Ruth Lesser et al. Medical Entomology and Zoology profile →

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Name	h						Papers	Cites
Ruth Lesser United Kingdom	20	1.6k	1.1k	277	254	207	42	1.9k
Robert H. Brookshire United States	19	1.7k 1.1×	994 0.9×	243 0.9×	124 0.5×	262 1.3×	74	2.1k
Linda E. Nicholas United States	16	1.2k 0.7×	709 0.7×	156 0.6×	86 0.3×	162 0.8×	32	1.4k
Wendy Best United Kingdom	26	1.6k 1.0×	1.1k 1.0×	244 0.9×	218 0.9×	192 0.9×	75	1.8k
Tim Pring United Kingdom	32	1.3k 0.9×	1.2k 1.1×	386 1.4×	106 0.4×	235 1.1×	84	2.4k
Hanna K. Ulatowska United States	18	855 0.5×	554 0.5×	265 1.0×	183 0.7×	154 0.7×	59	1.1k
Mira Goral United States	24	1.2k 0.7×	760 0.7×	209 0.8×	96 0.4×	236 1.1×	79	1.4k
Judit Druks United Kingdom	16	1.3k 0.9×	887 0.8×	341 1.2×	137 0.5×	138 0.7×	34	1.6k
Shula Chiat United Kingdom	28	1.6k 1.0×	2.1k 2.0×	446 1.6×	173 0.7×	71 0.3×	80	2.6k
Julie L. Wambaugh United States	26	1.7k 1.1×	1.1k 1.0×	181 0.7×	41 0.2×	180 0.9×	105	2.0k
M. Jeanne Wilcox United States	25	508 0.3×	817 0.8×	157 0.6×	123 0.5×	154 0.7×	45	1.5k

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Lesser, Ruth & Lesley Milroy. (2014). Linguistics and Aphasia. 7 indexed citations

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Lesser, Ruth & Lisa Perkins. (1999). Cognitive neuropsychology and conversation analysis in aphasia : an introductory casebook. 12 indexed citations

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Perkins, Lisa, Anne Whitworth, & Ruth Lesser. (1998). Conversing in dementia: A conversation analytic approach. Journal of Neurolinguistics. 11(1-2). 33–53. 67 indexed citations

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Perkins, Lisa, Anne Whitworth, & Ruth Lesser. (1997). Conversation Analysis Profile for People with Cognitive Impairment. Medical Entomology and Zoology. 21 indexed citations

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Lesser, Ruth, et al.. (1995). Towards combining the cognitive neuropsychological and the pragmatic in aphasia therapy. Neuropsychological Rehabilitation. 5(1-2). 67–92. 50 indexed citations

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Kay, Janice, Ruth Lesser, & Max Coltheart. (1995). EPLA : evaluación del procesamiento lingüístico en la afasia. Consultation of the Doctoral Thesis Database (TESEO) (Ministerio de Educación, Cultura y Deporte). 39 indexed citations

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Crockford, Catherine & Ruth Lesser. (1994). Assessing functional communication in aphasia: Clinical utility and time demands of three methods. International Journal of Language & Communication Disorders. 29(2). 165–182. 48 indexed citations

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Lesser, Ruth & Lesley Milroy. (1993). Linguistics and Aphasia: Psycholinguistic and Pragmatic Aspects of Intervention. Medical Entomology and Zoology. 89 indexed citations

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Lesser, Ruth. (1992). The Making of Logopedists: An International Survey. Folia Phoniatrica et Logopaedica. 44(3-4). 105–125. 4 indexed citations

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Lesser, Ruth. (1992). Frommian Therapeutic Practice. Contemporary Psychoanalysis. 28(3). 483–494. 13 indexed citations

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Lesser, Ruth. (1991). Three developments in aphasiology: Cognitive neuropsychology, computers in therapy, the pragmatic-ethnological approach. Journal of Neurolinguistics. 6(1). 71–77. 2 indexed citations

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Lesser, Ruth, et al.. (1991). Therapy for naming difficulties in aphasia: Application of a cognitive neuropsychological model. Journal of Neurolinguistics. 6(2). 139–157. 72 indexed citations

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Lesser, Ruth. (1990). Missing the Meaning? A Cognitive Neuropsychological Study of Processing of Words by an Aphasic Patient. Trends in Neurosciences. 13(6). 234–234. 2 indexed citations

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Lesser, Ruth. (1989). Selective Preservation of Oral Spelling without Semantics in a Case of Multi-Infarct Dementia. Cortex. 25(2). 239–250. 9 indexed citations

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Lesser, Ruth, et al.. (1983). Intonation as a cue to speech act identification in aphasic and other brain-damaged patients. International Journal of Rehabilitation Research. 6(4). 512–512. 5 indexed citations

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Lesser, Ruth, et al.. (1981). The lexicon and sentence generation in aphasia. Brain and Language. 13(1). 185–190. 3 indexed citations

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Lesser, Ruth, et al.. (1979). Behavioural Treatment of Social Difficulties with an Aphasic Woman and a Dysarthric Man*. International Journal of Language & Communication Disorders. 14(1). 31–38. 4 indexed citations

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Lesser, Ruth & Makayla Watt. (1978). Untrained community help in the rehabilitation of stroke sufferers with language disorder.. BMJ. 2(6144). 1045–1048. 19 indexed citations

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Lesser, Ruth. (1976). Verbal and non-verbal memory components in the Token Test. Neuropsychologia. 14(1). 79–85. 50 indexed citations

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Lesser, Ruth. (1974). Verbal Comprehension in Aphasia: An English Version of Three Italian Tests. Cortex. 10(3). 247–263. 75 indexed citations

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