W. E. Hick

2.5k total citations · 1 hit paper
7 papers, 1.6k citations indexed

About

W. E. Hick is a scholar working on Cognitive Neuroscience, Artificial Intelligence and Statistics and Probability. According to data from OpenAlex, W. E. Hick has authored 7 papers receiving a total of 1.6k indexed citations (citations by other indexed papers that have themselves been cited), including 1 paper in Cognitive Neuroscience, 1 paper in Artificial Intelligence and 1 paper in Statistics and Probability. Recurrent topics in W. E. Hick's work include Statistical Methods and Inference (1 paper), Neural dynamics and brain function (1 paper) and Bayesian Methods and Mixture Models (1 paper). W. E. Hick is often cited by papers focused on Statistical Methods and Inference (1 paper), Neural dynamics and brain function (1 paper) and Bayesian Methods and Mixture Models (1 paper). W. E. Hick collaborates with scholars based in United Kingdom. W. E. Hick's co-authors include A. T. Welford and has published in prestigious journals such as The Lancet, Psychological Review and Quarterly Journal of Experimental Psychology.

In The Last Decade

W. E. Hick

7 papers receiving 1.4k 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.

On the Rate of Gain of Information

1952 1.6k citations W. E. Hick Quarterly Journal of Experimental Psychology profile →

Peers — A (Enhanced Table)

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

Name	h						Papers	Cites
W. E. Hick United Kingdom	5	850	313	282	262	194	7	1.6k
Ray Hyman United States	15	898 1.1×	362 1.2×	558 2.0×	289 1.1×	154 0.8×	44	2.3k
Edwin B. Newman United States	11	723 0.9×	371 1.2×	280 1.0×	406 1.5×	48 0.2×	29	1.9k
Stephen J. Boies United States	14	1.1k 1.3×	633 2.0×	286 1.0×	402 1.5×	422 2.2×	42	2.4k
Richard W. Pew United States	20	611 0.7×	272 0.9×	792 2.8×	345 1.3×	138 0.7×	61	2.0k
Gösta Ekman Sweden	26	653 0.8×	460 1.5×	369 1.3×	77 0.3×	25 0.1×	64	2.1k
David E. Meyer United States	7	1.2k 1.4×	319 1.0×	452 1.6×	241 0.9×	235 1.2×	8	2.0k
Arthur W. Melton United States	13	1.8k 2.1×	989 3.2×	454 1.6×	955 3.6×	58 0.3×	24	3.1k
Edward A. Bilodeau United States	17	545 0.6×	135 0.4×	281 1.0×	422 1.6×	36 0.2×	49	1.2k
Dennis H. Holding United States	19	710 0.8×	368 1.2×	283 1.0×	308 1.2×	23 0.1×	59	1.2k
E. R. F. W. Crossman United Kingdom	7	693 0.8×	79 0.3×	250 0.9×	181 0.7×	160 0.8×	10	1.0k

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Co-authorship network of co-authors of W. E. Hick

This figure shows the co-authorship network connecting the top 25 collaborators of W. E. Hick. A scholar is included among the top collaborators of W. E. Hick based on the total number of citations received by their joint publications. Widths of edges represent the number of papers authors have co-authored together. Node borders signify the number of papers an author published with W. E. Hick. W. E. Hick is excluded from the visualization to improve readability, since they are connected to all nodes in the network.

All Works

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7 of 7 papers shown

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Hick, W. E. & A. T. Welford. (1956). Central Inhibition: Some Refractory Observations: Two Comments on the Paper by Alick Elithorn and Catherine Lawrence. Quarterly Journal of Experimental Psychology. 8(1). 39–41. 9 indexed citations

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Hick, W. E.. (1953). Information theory in psychology. 1(1). 130–133. 8 indexed citations

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Hick, W. E.. (1952). A note on one-tailed and two-tailed tests.. Psychological Review. 59(4). 316–318. 33 indexed citations

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Hick, W. E.. (1952). On the Rate of Gain of Information. Quarterly Journal of Experimental Psychology. 4(1). 11–26. 1562 indexed citations breakdown →

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Hick, W. E.. (1951). INFORMATION THEORY AND INTELLIGENCE TESTS. 4(3). 157–164. 13 indexed citations

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Hick, W. E., et al.. (1951). SEASONAL INCIDENCE OF CONGENITAL MALFORMATIONS. The Lancet. 257(6650). 347–348. 1 indexed citations

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Hick, W. E.. (1951). A Simple Stimulus Generator. Quarterly Journal of Experimental Psychology. 3(2). 94–95. 3 indexed citations

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