William H. Batchelder

7.0k total citations · 1 hit paper
81 papers, 4.9k citations indexed

About

William H. Batchelder is a scholar working on Artificial Intelligence, Experimental and Cognitive Psychology and Cognitive Neuroscience. According to data from OpenAlex, William H. Batchelder has authored 81 papers receiving a total of 4.9k indexed citations (citations by other indexed papers that have themselves been cited), including 35 papers in Artificial Intelligence, 24 papers in Experimental and Cognitive Psychology and 16 papers in Cognitive Neuroscience. Recurrent topics in William H. Batchelder's work include Categorization, perception, and language (19 papers), Bayesian Modeling and Causal Inference (16 papers) and Sensory Analysis and Statistical Methods (14 papers). William H. Batchelder is often cited by papers focused on Categorization, perception, and language (19 papers), Bayesian Modeling and Causal Inference (16 papers) and Sensory Analysis and Statistical Methods (14 papers). William H. Batchelder collaborates with scholars based in United States, Netherlands and France. William H. Batchelder's co-authors include David M. Riefer, A. Kimball Romney, Susan C. Weller, Xiangen Hu, Royce Anders, Jared B. Smith, Zita Oravecz, John P. Boyd, Carmella C. Moore and Devon D. Brewer and has published in prestigious journals such as Science, Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences and Psychological Review.

In The Last Decade

William H. Batchelder

79 papers receiving 4.5k citations

Hit Papers

Culture as Consensus: A Theory of Culture and Informant A... 1986 2026 1999 2012 1986 250 500 750 1000
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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.

  1. Culture as Consensus: A Theory of Culture and Informant Accuracy
    1986 1.2k citations A. Kimball Romney, William H. Batchelder et al. profile →

Peers

William H. Batchelder
Jelte M. Wicherts Netherlands
Michael S. Humphreys Australia
Raoul P. P. P. Grasman Netherlands
Paul De Boeck Belgium
Barbara A. Mellers United States
Alexander A. Aarts
Earl Hunt United States
George J. Suci United States
Peter Sedlmeier Germany
Tracy Kwang United States
Jelte M. Wicherts Netherlands
William H. Batchelder
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Physical SciencesHealth SciencesLife SciencesSocial Sciences

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All Works

20 of 20 papers shown
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Alexander, Gregory E., et al.. (2015). A cognitive psychometric model for the psychodiagnostic assessment of memory-related deficits.. Psychological Assessment. 28(3). 279–293. 13 indexed citations
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Oravecz, Zita, Katherine Faust, William H. Batchelder, & Daniel Levitis. (2015). Studying the Existence and Attributes of Consensus on Psychological Concepts by a Cognitive Psychometric Model. The American Journal of Psychology. 128(1). 61–75. 9 indexed citations
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Shankle, William R., et al.. (2014). P3‐400: MARKOV MODELS DETECT VITAMIN E AND DONEPEZIL TREATMENT EFFECTS IN ADCS MCI TRIAL. Alzheimer s & Dementia. 10(4S_Part_21). 3 indexed citations
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Matzke, Dóra, Conor V. Dolan, William H. Batchelder, & Eric‐Jan Wagenmakers. (2013). Bayesian Estimation of Multinomial Processing Tree Models with Heterogeneity in Participants and Items. Psychometrika. 80(1). 205–235. 84 indexed citations
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Anders, Royce & William H. Batchelder. (2013). Cultural Consensus Theory for the Ordinal Data Case. Psychometrika. 80(1). 151–181. 28 indexed citations
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Wu, Hao, Jay I. Myung, & William H. Batchelder. (2010). Minimum description length model selection of multinomial processing tree models. Psychonomic Bulletin & Review. 17(3). 275–286. 30 indexed citations
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Schmittmann, Verena D., Conor V. Dolan, Maartje E. J. Raijmakers, & William H. Batchelder. (2010). Parameter identification in multinomial processing tree models. Behavior Research Methods. 42(3). 836–846. 13 indexed citations
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Wu, Hao, Jay I. Myung, & William H. Batchelder. (2010). On the minimum description length complexity of multinomial processing tree models. Journal of Mathematical Psychology. 54(3). 291–303. 38 indexed citations
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Batchelder, William H.. (2010). Mathematical psychology. Wiley Interdisciplinary Reviews Cognitive Science. 1(5). 759–765. 2 indexed citations
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Smith, Jared B. & William H. Batchelder. (2008). Assessing individual differences in categorical data. Psychonomic Bulletin & Review. 15(4). 713–731. 52 indexed citations
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Riefer, David M., et al.. (2002). Cognitive psychometrics: Assessing storage and retrieval deficits in special populations with multinomial processing tree models.. Psychological Assessment. 14(2). 184–201. 72 indexed citations
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Romney, A. Kimball, et al.. (2000). Statistical methods for characterizing similarities and differences between semantic structures. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences. 97(1). 518–523. 48 indexed citations
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Batchelder, William H. & David M. Riefer. (1999). Theoretical and empirical review of multinomial process tree modeling. Psychonomic Bulletin & Review. 6(1). 57–86. 484 indexed citations
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Batchelder, William H., et al.. (1997). A Multinomial Modeling Analysis of Memory Deficits in Alzheimer's Disease and Vascular Dementia. The Journals of Gerontology Series B. 52B(5). P206–P215. 22 indexed citations
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Riefer, David M. & William H. Batchelder. (1995). A multinomial modeling analysis of the recognition-failure paradigm. Memory & Cognition. 23(5). 611–630. 28 indexed citations
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Batchelder, William H., et al.. (1995). A measurement-theoretic analysis of the fuzzy logic model of perception.. Psychological Review. 102(2). 396–408. 43 indexed citations
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Brewer, Devon D., A. Kimball Romney, & William H. Batchelder. (1991). Consistency and Consensus: A Replication. 9 indexed citations
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Batchelder, William H. & Vladimir A. Lefebvre. (1982). A mathematical analysis of a natural class of partitions of a graph. Journal of Mathematical Psychology. 26(2). 124–148. 4 indexed citations
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Batchelder, William H. & N.J. Bershad. (1979). The statistical analysis of a thurstonian model for rating chess players. Journal of Mathematical Psychology. 19(1). 39–60. 41 indexed citations
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Batchelder, William H., Robert A. Bjork, & John I. Yellott. (1966). Problems in mathematical learning theory with solutions. J. Wiley eBooks. 2 indexed citations

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