William F. Bacon

1.5k total citations · 1 hit paper
9 papers, 1.2k citations indexed

About

William F. Bacon is a scholar working on Cognitive Neuroscience, Social Psychology and General Health Professions. According to data from OpenAlex, William F. Bacon has authored 9 papers receiving a total of 1.2k indexed citations (citations by other indexed papers that have themselves been cited), including 4 papers in Cognitive Neuroscience, 1 paper in Social Psychology and 1 paper in General Health Professions. Recurrent topics in William F. Bacon's work include Visual perception and processing mechanisms (4 papers), Neural and Behavioral Psychology Studies (2 papers) and Early Childhood Education and Development (1 paper). William F. Bacon is often cited by papers focused on Visual perception and processing mechanisms (4 papers), Neural and Behavioral Psychology Studies (2 papers) and Early Childhood Education and Development (1 paper). William F. Bacon collaborates with scholars based in United States. William F. Bacon's co-authors include Howard E. Egeth, Leslie M. Kantor, Ronald J. Tusa, Erica D. Palmer, Steven Yantis, Barry Gordon, Gislin Dagnelie, Michael McCloskey, Brenda Rapp and William Badecker and has published in prestigious journals such as Psychological Science, Journal of Experimental Psychology Human Perception & Performance and Human Development.

In The Last Decade

William F. Bacon

8 papers receiving 1.1k citations

Hit Papers

Overriding stimulus-driven attentional capture 1994 2026 2004 2015 1994 250 500 750
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. Overriding stimulus-driven attentional capture
    1994 912 citations William F. Bacon, Howard E. Egeth Perception & Psychophysics profile →

Peers — A (Enhanced Table)

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

Name h Career Trend Papers Cites
William F. Bacon United States 7 1.1k 286 181 119 76 9 1.2k
Timothy J. Vickery United States 12 540 0.5× 163 0.6× 88 0.5× 93 0.8× 25 0.3× 30 647
Anna Grubert United Kingdom 17 919 0.9× 207 0.7× 112 0.6× 86 0.7× 44 0.6× 47 963
Andrey Chetverikov Iceland 18 624 0.6× 200 0.7× 90 0.5× 148 1.2× 40 0.5× 43 737
Jeffrey R. W. Mounts United States 16 764 0.7× 302 1.1× 57 0.3× 146 1.2× 29 0.4× 27 948
Manuel Blanco Spain 9 589 0.6× 162 0.6× 49 0.3× 96 0.8× 30 0.4× 24 669
Patrick Wilken United States 8 740 0.7× 162 0.6× 71 0.4× 106 0.9× 29 0.4× 16 865
Jeff Moher United States 14 697 0.7× 147 0.5× 37 0.2× 143 1.2× 34 0.4× 29 794
Simona Buetti United States 15 458 0.4× 144 0.5× 106 0.6× 102 0.9× 51 0.7× 48 539
Daryl E. Wilson Canada 14 600 0.6× 167 0.6× 26 0.1× 67 0.6× 40 0.5× 24 687
Michel Failing Netherlands 13 883 0.8× 224 0.8× 47 0.3× 74 0.6× 119 1.6× 18 943

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Fields of papers citing papers by William F. Bacon

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Physical SciencesHealth SciencesLife SciencesSocial Sciences

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Co-authorship network of co-authors of William F. Bacon

This figure shows the co-authorship network connecting the top 25 collaborators of William F. Bacon. A scholar is included among the top collaborators of William F. Bacon 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 William F. Bacon. William F. Bacon is excluded from the visualization to improve readability, since they are connected to all nodes in the network.

All Works

9 of 9 papers shown
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Kantor, Leslie M. & William F. Bacon. (2002). Abstinence-only programs implemented under welfare reform are incompatible with research on effective sexuality education.. PubMed. 57(1). 38–40. 7 indexed citations
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Bacon, William F. & Howard E. Egeth. (1997). Goal-directed guidance of attention: Evidence from conjunctive visual search.. Journal of Experimental Psychology Human Perception & Performance. 23(4). 948–961. 18 indexed citations
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McCloskey, Michael, Brenda Rapp, Steven Yantis, et al.. (1995). A Developmental Deficit in Localizing Objects from Vision. Psychological Science. 6(2). 112–117. 36 indexed citations
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Bacon, William F.. (1995). What Everyone Knows about Attention.
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Bacon, William F. & Howard E. Egeth. (1994). Overriding stimulus-driven attentional capture. Perception & Psychophysics. 55(5). 485–496. 912 indexed citations breakdown →
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Bacon, William F. & Howard E. Egeth. (1991). Local processes in preattentive feature detection.. Journal of Experimental Psychology Human Perception & Performance. 17(1). 77–90. 87 indexed citations
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Bacon, William F. & Howard E. Egeth. (1991). Local processes in preattentive feature detection.. Journal of Experimental Psychology Human Perception & Performance. 17(1). 77–90. 70 indexed citations
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Bidell, Thomas R., Bonnie L. Barber, William F. Bacon, et al.. (1988). Acknowledgement. Human Development. 31(6). 394–394. 1 indexed citations
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Bacon, William F., et al.. (1988). Maternal Expectations, Classroom Experiences, and Achievement among Kindergartners in the United States and Japan. Human Development. 31(6). 378–390. 20 indexed citations

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