Skye McDonald

13.5k total citations · 1 hit paper
239 papers, 9.4k citations indexed

About

Skye McDonald is a scholar working on Epidemiology, Cognitive Neuroscience and Psychiatry and Mental health. According to data from OpenAlex, Skye McDonald has authored 239 papers receiving a total of 9.4k indexed citations (citations by other indexed papers that have themselves been cited), including 127 papers in Epidemiology, 93 papers in Cognitive Neuroscience and 66 papers in Psychiatry and Mental health. Recurrent topics in Skye McDonald's work include Traumatic Brain Injury Research (125 papers), Psychosomatic Disorders and Their Treatments (44 papers) and Neurobiology of Language and Bilingualism (40 papers). Skye McDonald is often cited by papers focused on Traumatic Brain Injury Research (125 papers), Psychosomatic Disorders and Their Treatments (44 papers) and Neurobiology of Language and Bilingualism (40 papers). Skye McDonald collaborates with scholars based in Australia, United States and Netherlands. Skye McDonald's co-authors include Robyn Tate, Leanne Togher, Sharon Flanagan, Jacqueline A. Rushby, Cristina Bornhofen, Julianne Kinch, J. ROLLINS, Michael Perdices, Michelle Kelly and Helen Bibby and has published in prestigious journals such as Journal of the American Chemical Society, SHILAP Revista de lepidopterología and PLoS ONE.

In The Last Decade

Skye McDonald

229 papers receiving 9.0k 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.

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Peers — A (Enhanced Table)

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

Name h Career Trend Papers Cites
Skye McDonald Australia 51 3.9k 3.5k 2.7k 1.9k 1.8k 239 9.4k
Dean C. Delis United States 64 6.1k 1.6× 1.7k 0.5× 5.3k 1.9× 446 0.2× 1.1k 0.6× 189 14.1k
Kyle B. Boone United States 50 2.8k 0.7× 3.1k 0.9× 3.2k 1.2× 408 0.2× 1.3k 0.7× 123 8.6k
Paul Satz United States 57 4.3k 1.1× 1.7k 0.5× 2.7k 1.0× 519 0.3× 732 0.4× 241 10.3k
Danny G. Kaloupek United States 41 1.9k 0.5× 3.3k 0.9× 1.5k 0.6× 1.2k 0.6× 11.4k 6.2× 78 15.4k
Elizabeth W. Twamley United States 51 1.8k 0.5× 1.0k 0.3× 5.1k 1.9× 1.1k 0.6× 2.8k 1.5× 199 8.7k
Kim L. Felmingham Australia 46 2.5k 0.6× 1.5k 0.4× 952 0.4× 808 0.4× 3.4k 1.8× 194 8.3k
Ruth A. Lanius Canada 62 5.1k 1.3× 2.9k 0.8× 3.9k 1.5× 1.2k 0.6× 7.0k 3.8× 253 14.0k
Lyn S. Turkstra United States 40 1.6k 0.4× 2.6k 0.7× 1.1k 0.4× 411 0.2× 747 0.4× 170 5.0k
Glenn J. Larrabee United States 41 1.9k 0.5× 3.8k 1.1× 2.4k 0.9× 376 0.2× 1.0k 0.6× 135 7.1k
Russell M. Bauer United States 41 2.4k 0.6× 1.3k 0.4× 1.1k 0.4× 613 0.3× 641 0.3× 122 5.7k

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Fields of papers citing papers by Skye McDonald

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Co-authorship network of co-authors of Skye McDonald

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All Works

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McDonald, Skye, Dana Wong, Paul Gertler, et al.. (2025). Treatments for social cognitive difficulties following moderate-to-severe traumatic brain injury: A systematic review and meta-analysis. Neuropsychological Rehabilitation. 1–43.
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McDonald, Skye, et al.. (2023). Examining the Vietnamese Montreal cognitive assessment in healthy and moderate-to-severe traumatic brain injury populations. The Clinical Neuropsychologist. 37(5). 1062–1077. 7 indexed citations
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Kumfor, Fiona, et al.. (2022). Contributions of intrinsic and extrinsic reward sensitivity to apathy: Evidence from traumatic brain injury.. Neuropsychology. 36(8). 791–802. 5 indexed citations
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McDonald, Skye, Travis Wearne, & Michelle Kelly. (2022). Calling on clinicians to get social and emotional. The Clinical Neuropsychologist. 37(3). 506–544. 9 indexed citations
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Kelly, Michelle, et al.. (2021). Empathy across the ages: “I may be older but I’m still feeling it”.. Neuropsychology. 36(2). 116–127. 7 indexed citations
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Kelly, Michelle, et al.. (2021). Domains and measures of social cognition in acquired brain injury: A scoping review. Neuropsychological Rehabilitation. 32(9). 2429–2463. 12 indexed citations
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McDonald, Skye, et al.. (2021). Apathy in a high prevalence population of moderate to severe traumatic brain injury: An investigation in Vietnam.. Neuropsychology. 36(1). 94–102. 7 indexed citations
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McDonald, Skye, et al.. (2020). Comparing static and dynamic emotion recognition tests: Performance of healthy participants. PLoS ONE. 15(10). e0241297–e0241297. 13 indexed citations
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Tate, Robyn, Michael Perdices, Ulrike Rosenkoetter, et al.. (2019). Reprint of “The Single-Case Reporting Guideline In BEhavioural Interventions (SCRIBE) 2016: Explanation and Elaboration”. Pratiques Psychologiques. 25(2). 119–151. 2 indexed citations
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Wearne, Travis, Vicki Anderson, Cathy Catroppa, et al.. (2018). Psychosocial functioning following moderate-to-severe pediatric traumatic brain injury: recommended outcome instruments for research and remediation studies. Neuropsychological Rehabilitation. 30(5). 973–987. 11 indexed citations
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Honan, Cynthia A., Skye McDonald, Robyn Tate, et al.. (2017). Outcome instruments in moderate-to-severe adult traumatic brain injury: recommendations for use in psychosocial research. Neuropsychological Rehabilitation. 29(6). 896–916. 54 indexed citations
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Togher, Leanne, Skye McDonald, Lyn S. Turkstra, et al.. (2016). Factors that predict two year post-trauma communication outcomes for adults with severe traumatic brain injury. eCite Digital Repository (University of Tasmania). 1 indexed citations
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McDonald, Skye, et al.. (2014). Cognitive factors underpinning poor expressive communication skills after traumatic brain injury: Theory of mind or executive function?. Neuropsychology. 28(5). 801–811. 59 indexed citations
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McDonald, Skye, Cynthia A. Honan, Michelle E. Kelly, Lindsey Byom, & Jacqueline A. Rushby. (2013). Disorders of social cognition and social behaviour in adults with TBI. eCite Digital Repository (University of Tasmania). 3 indexed citations
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McDonald, Skye, Cristina Bornhofen, & Christopher John Hunt. (2009). Addressing deficits in emotion recognition after severe traumatic brain injury: The role of focused attention and mimicry. Neuropsychological Rehabilitation. 19(3). 321–339. 19 indexed citations
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Croker, Vanessa & Skye McDonald. (2005). Recognition of emotion from facial expression following traumatic brain injury. Brain Injury. 19(10). 787–799. 138 indexed citations
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McDonald, Skye, et al.. (2004). The Effects of Reminders on Autobiographical Memory Following Traumatic Brain Injury. Brain Impairment. 5(1). 99. 1 indexed citations

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