Thomas O. Nelson

12.4k total citations · 2 hit papers
113 papers, 7.1k citations indexed

About

Thomas O. Nelson is a scholar working on Cognitive Neuroscience, Experimental and Cognitive Psychology and Artificial Intelligence. According to data from OpenAlex, Thomas O. Nelson has authored 113 papers receiving a total of 7.1k indexed citations (citations by other indexed papers that have themselves been cited), including 58 papers in Cognitive Neuroscience, 31 papers in Experimental and Cognitive Psychology and 28 papers in Artificial Intelligence. Recurrent topics in Thomas O. Nelson's work include Memory Processes and Influences (49 papers), Visual and Cognitive Learning Processes (19 papers) and Intelligent Tutoring Systems and Adaptive Learning (13 papers). Thomas O. Nelson is often cited by papers focused on Memory Processes and Influences (49 papers), Visual and Cognitive Learning Processes (19 papers) and Intelligent Tutoring Systems and Adaptive Learning (13 papers). Thomas O. Nelson collaborates with scholars based in United States, Australia and Netherlands. Thomas O. Nelson's co-authors include John Dunlosky, Louis Narens, R. Jacob Leonesio, Giuliana Mazzoni, Seth Chaiklin, John T. Jost, Arie W. Kruglanski, Richard Gonzalez, Kenneth J. Malmberg and Colin M. MacLeod and has published in prestigious journals such as Psychological Bulletin, American Psychologist and Psychological Science.

In The Last Decade

Thomas O. Nelson

109 papers receiving 6.6k 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.

A comparison of current measures of the accuracy of feeling-of-knowing predictions.

1984 805 citations Thomas O. Nelson Psychological Bulletin profile →
Consciousness and metacognition.

1996 556 citations Thomas O. Nelson profile →

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

Name	h						Papers	Cites
Thomas O. Nelson United States	43	4.6k	2.8k	2.1k	1.5k	988	113	7.1k
Lyle E. Bourne United States	39	3.5k 0.8×	3.0k 1.1×	2.0k 1.0×	1.5k 1.0×	1.3k 1.3×	168	7.6k
Robert S. Lockhart Canada	16	4.1k 0.9×	2.9k 1.0×	2.3k 1.1×	1.1k 0.8×	1.1k 1.1×	29	7.7k
Michael E. J. Masson Canada	41	5.9k 1.3×	3.0k 1.1×	2.2k 1.1×	843 0.6×	1.7k 1.8×	147	8.2k
Geoffrey R. Loftus United States	40	6.0k 1.3×	1.7k 0.6×	2.1k 1.0×	753 0.5×	1.6k 1.6×	118	8.8k
Kevin Dunbar United States	33	2.8k 0.6×	1.8k 0.7×	1.9k 0.9×	690 0.5×	830 0.8×	52	5.5k
James H. Neely United States	31	5.6k 1.2×	3.4k 1.2×	2.1k 1.0×	994 0.7×	1.2k 1.2×	71	7.3k
Lynne M. Reder United States	45	3.6k 0.8×	2.6k 0.9×	1.5k 0.7×	1.3k 0.9×	1.2k 1.2×	126	7.2k
Benton J. Underwood United States	47	4.9k 1.1×	3.5k 1.2×	2.4k 1.2×	1.8k 1.2×	1.5k 1.5×	179	9.5k
Gail McKoon United States	61	8.7k 1.9×	4.2k 1.5×	3.3k 1.6×	1.9k 1.3×	1.2k 1.2×	146	12.4k
Robert L. Solso United States	18	3.0k 0.6×	1.9k 0.7×	1.8k 0.9×	761 0.5×	867 0.9×	69	5.3k

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Dougherty, Michael R., et al.. (2005). Using the past to predict the future. Memory & Cognition. 33(6). 1096–1115. 58 indexed citations

Nelson, Thomas O.. (2003). Relevance of unjustified strong assumptions when utilizing signal detection theory. Behavioral and Brain Sciences. 26(3). 351–351. 2 indexed citations

Meeter, Martijn & Thomas O. Nelson. (2003). Multiple study trials and judgments of learning. Acta Psychologica. 113(2). 123–132. 31 indexed citations

Malmberg, Kenneth J. & Thomas O. Nelson. (2003). The word frequency effect for recognition memory and the elevated-attention hypothesis. Memory & Cognition. 31(1). 35–43. 70 indexed citations

Dunlosky, John, et al.. (1998). Inhalation of 30% nitrous oxide impairs people's learning without impairing people's judgments of what will be remembered.. Experimental and Clinical Psychopharmacology. 6(1). 77–86. 16 indexed citations

Gonzalez, Richard & Thomas O. Nelson. (1996). Measuring ordinal association in situations that contain tied scores.. Psychological Bulletin. 119(1). 159–165. 66 indexed citations

Mazzoni, Giuliana & Thomas O. Nelson. (1995). Judgments of learning are affected by the kind of encoding in ways that cannot be attributed to the level of recall.. Journal of Experimental Psychology Learning Memory and Cognition. 21(5). 1263–1274. 103 indexed citations

Nelson, Thomas O.. (1993). Judgments of learning and the allocation of study time.. Journal of Experimental Psychology General. 122(2). 269–273. 37 indexed citations

Nelson, Thomas O., et al.. (1993). Failure to obtain a generation effect during naturalistic learning. Memory & Cognition. 21(3). 361–366. 11 indexed citations

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Dunlosky, John & Thomas O. Nelson. (1992). Importance of the kind of cue for judgments of learning (JOL) and the delayed-JOL effect. Memory & Cognition. 20(4). 374–380. 243 indexed citations

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Nelson, Thomas O.. (1992). Metacognition : core readings. Allyn and Bacon eBooks. 210 indexed citations

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Jameson, Kimberly A., et al.. (1990). The influence of near-threshold priming on metamemory and recall. Acta Psychologica. 73(1). 55–68. 32 indexed citations

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Nelson, Thomas O., et al.. (1990). Cognition and metacognition at extreme altitudes on Mount Everest.. Journal of Experimental Psychology General. 119(4). 367–374. 58 indexed citations

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Leonesio, R. Jacob & Thomas O. Nelson. (1990). Do different metamemory judgments tap the same underlying aspects of memory?. Journal of Experimental Psychology Learning Memory and Cognition. 16(3). 464–470. 165 indexed citations

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Nelson, Thomas O. & R. Jacob Leonesio. (1988). Allocation of self-paced study time and the "labor-in-vain effect.". Journal of Experimental Psychology Learning Memory and Cognition. 14(4). 676–686. 228 indexed citations

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Nelson, Thomas O.. (1986). BASIC programs for computation of the Goodman-Kruskal gamma coefficient. Bulletin of the Psychonomic Society. 24(4). 281–283. 15 indexed citations

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Nelson, Thomas O.. (1985). Ebbinghaus's contribution to the measurement of retention: Savings during relearning.. Journal of Experimental Psychology Learning Memory and Cognition. 11(3). 472–479. 24 indexed citations

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Nelson, Thomas O., et al.. (1984). Accuracy of feeling-of-knowing judgments for predicting perceptual identification and relearning.. Journal of Experimental Psychology General. 113(2). 282–300. 28 indexed citations

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Nelson, Thomas O. & Seth Chaiklin. (1980). Immediate memory for spatial location.. Journal of Experimental Psychology Human Learning & Memory. 6(5). 529–545. 29 indexed citations

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Nelson, Thomas O. & Colin M. MacLeod. (1974). Fluctuations in recall across successive test trials. Memory & Cognition. 2(4). 687–690. 11 indexed citations

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