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Researcher · McGill University · Canada

Gigi Luk

Gigi Luk publishes mostly in Developmental and Educational Psychology, Cognitive Neuroscience and Education, on topics such as Neurobiology of Language and Bilingualism, Reading and Literacy Development and Language Development and Disorders.

ORCID 0000-0003-2639-061X OpenAlex
World rank
#70,060
of 7,710,434 ranked researchers
Rank in Canada
#2,049
of 183,316
Works
102
Citations
9.7k
Citations per work
94.9
h-index
30
i10-index 52Top 8.2% in Developmental and Educational Psychology
Gigi Luk

What does Gigi Luk research?

Gigi Luk's work is mostly in Psychology (41%), Neuroscience (30%), Social Sciences (10%).

Social Sciences: 56 works · 55.2% of their workPsychology: 42 works · 40.8% of their workDevelopmental and Educational Psychology: 37 works · 36.4% of their workExperimental and Cognitive Psychology: 4 works · 4.4% of their workSocial Sciences: 10 works · 10.0% of their workEducation: 5 works · 5.2% of their workLinguistics and Language: 5 works · 4.8% of their workArts and Humanities: 4 works · 4.4% of their workLanguage and Linguistics: 4 works · 4.4% of their workLife Sciences: 30 works · 29.6% of their workNeuroscience: 30 works · 29.6% of their workCognitive Neuroscience: 30 works · 29.6% of their workEverything else: 16 works · 15.2% of their workTHEIR WORKGigi Luk102works
Life Sciences30%Social Sciences55%

Their six largest subfields, inside their fields and domains; the grey slice is everything else they publish. The interactive view splits every one of their works down to single topics.

The fields and subfields, with their numbers
    1. Psychology4240.8%
    2. Social Sciences1010.0%
    3. Arts and Humanities44.4%
    1. Neuroscience3029.6%
  3. Everything else1615.2%
  1. 1Developmental and Educational Psychology36% of their works
  2. 2Cognitive Neuroscience30% of their works
  3. 3Education5% of their works
  4. 4Linguistics and Language5% of their works
  5. 5Language and Linguistics4% of their works
  6. 6Experimental and Cognitive Psychology4% of their works

Research topics

Which keywords describe Gigi Luk's research?

The keywords of their largest research topics: Bilingualism, Language Development, Cognitive Control, Language Processing, Semantic Memory, Dyslexia, Reading Acquisition and Speech and Language Disorder.

Size is their works in the topics tagged with each word, from their 8 largest topics. Each links to the topic it comes from most. The words come from the keyword list OpenAlex gives each topic, not from the text of the papers, so a word can appear that none of the papers uses.

All 19 words, with their numbers
  1. Bilingualism842 topics
  2. Language Development782 topics
  3. Cognitive Control572 topics
  4. Language Processing491 topic
  5. Semantic Memory491 topic
  6. Dyslexia431 topic
  7. Reading Acquisition431 topic
  8. Speech and Language Disorder351 topic
  9. Statistical Learning351 topic
  10. Multilingualism91 topic
  11. Translanguaging91 topic
  12. Decision Making81 topic
  13. Neural Mechanisms81 topic
  14. Mathematical Achievement61 topic
  15. Numerical Cognition61 topic
  16. School Engagement61 topic
  17. Student-Teacher Relationships61 topic
  18. Functional Connectivity51 topic
  19. Resting-State fMRI51 topic

Where does Gigi Luk work?

Gigi Luk's main affiliation in the publication record is McGill University, Canada.

How many publications and citations does Gigi Luk have?

OpenAlex counts 102 works and 9,683 citations for Gigi Luk, an h-index of 30, ranking #70,060 of 7,710,434 researchers worldwide on the quality score.

Ranked on field-normalised citation excellence (50%), output (30%) and citations (20%). Counts come from OpenAlex author records, which occasionally merge different people who share a name or split one person into several.

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