W. R. Garner

12.0k total citations · 5 hit papers
89 papers, 8.2k citations indexed

About

W. R. Garner is a scholar working on Cognitive Neuroscience, Experimental and Cognitive Psychology and Social Psychology. According to data from OpenAlex, W. R. Garner has authored 89 papers receiving a total of 8.2k indexed citations (citations by other indexed papers that have themselves been cited), including 35 papers in Cognitive Neuroscience, 19 papers in Experimental and Cognitive Psychology and 15 papers in Social Psychology. Recurrent topics in W. R. Garner's work include Visual perception and processing mechanisms (22 papers), Color perception and design (14 papers) and Neural and Behavioral Psychology Studies (14 papers). W. R. Garner is often cited by papers focused on Visual perception and processing mechanisms (22 papers), Color perception and design (14 papers) and Neural and Behavioral Psychology Studies (14 papers). W. R. Garner collaborates with scholars based in United States, Germany and Japan. W. R. Garner's co-authors include Fred L. Royer, D. Ε. Broadbent, Harold W. Hake, Charles W. Eriksen, David E. Clement, W. J. McGill, James R. Pomerantz, John Morton, Peter Podgorny and Alexandra K. Wigdor and has published in prestigious journals such as Science, Psychological Bulletin and Contemporary Sociology A Journal of Reviews.

In The Last Decade

W. R. Garner

86 papers receiving 7.0k citations

Hit Papers

The Processing of Information and Structure 1956 2026 1979 2002 1974 1964 1959 1970 1956 500 1000 1.5k
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. The Processing of Information and Structure
    1974 1.7k citations W. R. Garner et al. profile →
  2. Uncertainty and Structure as Psychological Concepts
    1964 1.1k citations W. R. Garner et al. profile →
  3. Applications of Information Theory to Psychology
    1959 593 citations W. R. Garner profile →
  4. Integrality of stimulus dimensions in various types of information processing
    1970 519 citations W. R. Garner et al. Cognitive Psychology profile →
  5. Operationism and the concept of perception.
    1956 502 citations W. R. Garner et al. Psychological Review profile →

Peers — A (Enhanced Table)

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

Name h Career Trend Papers Cites
W. R. Garner United States 36 4.4k 2.9k 1.7k 1.4k 954 89 8.2k
Eugene Galanter United States 25 3.0k 0.7× 2.0k 0.7× 1.7k 1.0× 1.7k 1.2× 1.2k 1.3× 54 9.0k
C. Douglas Creelman United States 18 6.4k 1.4× 2.3k 0.8× 1.4k 0.8× 1.0k 0.7× 629 0.7× 40 9.0k
D. Ε. Broadbent United Kingdom 33 5.0k 1.1× 3.3k 1.2× 1.5k 0.9× 1.4k 1.0× 895 0.9× 83 10.2k
Neil A. Macmillan United States 28 6.5k 1.5× 2.4k 0.8× 1.7k 1.1× 1.2k 0.8× 800 0.8× 48 9.1k
James T. Townsend United States 48 5.9k 1.3× 2.7k 1.0× 1.4k 0.8× 1.3k 0.9× 1.5k 1.6× 166 10.3k
Eleanor J. Gibson United States 45 4.8k 1.1× 2.4k 0.8× 2.2k 1.3× 4.4k 3.1× 682 0.7× 89 11.0k
Geoffrey R. Loftus United States 40 6.0k 1.4× 2.1k 0.7× 1.6k 1.0× 1.7k 1.2× 753 0.8× 118 8.8k
Jo Ingleby United Kingdom 7 4.1k 0.9× 1.2k 0.4× 1.0k 0.6× 576 0.4× 535 0.6× 15 7.1k
D. E. Berlyne Canada 36 3.8k 0.9× 4.8k 1.7× 3.7k 2.2× 1.9k 1.3× 412 0.4× 96 11.6k
Charles W. Eriksen United States 51 14.9k 3.4× 5.1k 1.8× 3.1k 1.9× 2.6k 1.8× 478 0.5× 148 19.0k

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Physical SciencesHealth SciencesLife SciencesSocial Sciences

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All Works

20 of 20 papers shown
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Garner, W. R.. (1999). Reductionism Reduced. Contemporary Psychology. 44(1). 20–21. 2 indexed citations
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Kramer, Arthur F., Michael Coles, Barbara A. Eriksen, et al.. (1994). Charles Eriksen Past, present, and future. Perception & Psychophysics. 55(1). 1–8. 5 indexed citations
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Natriello, Gary, Alexandra K. Wigdor, & W. R. Garner. (1983). Ability Testing: Uses, Consequences, and Controversies. Part 1: Report of the Committee.. Contemporary Sociology A Journal of Reviews. 12(2). 176–176. 8 indexed citations
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Garner, W. R. & Forrest Haun. (1978). Letter identification as a function of type of perceptual limitation and type of attribute.. Journal of Experimental Psychology Human Perception & Performance. 4(2). 199–209. 16 indexed citations
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Garner, W. R.. (1977). The effect of absolute size on the separability of the dimensions of size and brightness. Bulletin of the Psychonomic Society. 9(5). 380–382. 24 indexed citations
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Garner, W. R.. (1976). Adequate and inadequate stimulus information: Comments on "Some Considerations of Two Alleged Kinds of Selective Attention" by Keren.. Journal of Experimental Psychology General. 105(4). 375–377. 1 indexed citations
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Garner, W. R., et al.. (1974). The effect of goodness onencoding time in visual pattern discrimination. Perception & Psychophysics. 16(3). 426–430. 51 indexed citations
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Pomerantz, James R. & W. R. Garner. (1973). The role of configuration and target discriminability in a visual search task. Memory & Cognition. 1(1). 64–68. 6 indexed citations
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Garner, W. R., et al.. (1970). Integrality of stimulus dimensions in various types of information processing. Cognitive Psychology. 1(3). 225–241. 519 indexed citations breakdown →
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Garner, W. R.. (1969). Speed of discrimination with redundant stimulus attributes. Perception & Psychophysics. 6(4). 221–224. 20 indexed citations
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Garner, W. R., et al.. (1968). The Perception and Learning of Temporal Patterns. Quarterly Journal of Experimental Psychology. 20(2). 97–109. 95 indexed citations
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Garner, W. R., et al.. (1966). Response uncertainty and perceptual difficulty of auditory temporal patterns. Perception & Psychophysics. 1(1). 41–47. 77 indexed citations
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Garner, W. R. & C. Douglas Creelman. (1964). Effect of redundancy and duration on absolute judgments of visual stimuli.. Journal of Experimental Psychology. 67(2). 168–172. 18 indexed citations
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Garner, W. R. & David E. Clement. (1963). Goodness of pattern and pattern uncertainty. Journal of Verbal Learning and Verbal Behavior. 2(5-6). 446–452. 202 indexed citations
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Garner, W. R., et al.. (1960). A Multivariate Solution of the Redundancy of Printed English. Psychological Reports. 6(1). 123–141. 8 indexed citations
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Garner, W. R.. (1959). The development of context effects in half-loudness judgments.. Journal of Experimental Psychology. 58(3). 212–219. 6 indexed citations
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Garner, W. R.. (1958). Symmetric uncertainty analysis and its implications for psychology.. Psychological Review. 65(4). 183–196. 12 indexed citations
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Garner, W. R.. (1958). Advantages of the Discriminability Criterion for a Loudness Scale. The Journal of the Acoustical Society of America. 30(11). 1005–1012. 91 indexed citations
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Lanier, Lyle H., David A. Grant, John L. Kennedy, et al.. (1952). Handbook of Experimental Psychology: A Special Review by Nine Psychologists.. Psychological Bulletin. 49(2). 156–182. 1 indexed citations
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Morgan, C. T., W. R. Garner, & Róbert Galambos. (1951). Pitch and Intensity. The Journal of the Acoustical Society of America. 23(6). 658–663. 15 indexed citations

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