Topic · Reading and Literacy Development
Most cited papers in Reading and Literacy Development
What are the most cited papers in Reading and Literacy Development?
The most cited paper in Reading and Literacy Development is "Eye movements in reading and information processing: 20 years of research." (Keith Rayner, 1998), with 7,711 citations. Next come "The magical number 4 in short-term memory: A reconsideration of mental storage capacity" (6,947) and "Individual differences in working memory and reading" (6,400).
Showing 50 of 100 papers. Every paper with more than 1,425 citations is listed.
| # | Paper | ||
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Eye movements in reading and information processing: 20 years of research. Keith Rayner · Psychological Bulletin | Nov 1998 | 7,711 |
| 2 | The magical number 4 in short-term memory: A reconsideration of mental storage capacity Nelson Cowan · Behavioral and Brain Sciences | Feb 2001 | 6,947 |
| 3 | Individual differences in working memory and reading Meredyth Daneman, Patricia A. Carpenter · Journal of Verbal Learning and Verbal Behavior | Aug 1980 | 6,400 |
| 4 | Working Memory Alan Baddeley · Science | 31 Jan 1992 | 5,275 |
| 5 | Matthew Effects in Reading: Some Consequences of Individual Differences in the Acquisition of Literacy Keith E. Stanovich · Reading Research Quarterly | 1986 | 5,229 |
| 6 | A theory of lexical access in speech production [target paper] Willem J. M. Levelt, Ardi Roelofs, Antje S. Meyer · Radboud Repository (Radboud University) | 1999 | 5,193 |
| 7 | Reciprocal Teaching of Comprehension-Fostering and Comprehension-Monitoring Activities Aannemarie Sullivan Palinscar, Ann L. Brown · Cognition and Instruction | Mar 1984 | 5,193 |
| 8 | Toward a model of text comprehension and production. Walter Kintsch, Teun A. van Dijk · Psychological Review | Sep 1978 | 5,088 |
| 9 | Reading Senseless Sentences: Brain Potentials Reflect Semantic Incongruity Marta Kutas, Steven A. Hillyard · Science | 11 Jan 1980 | 4,982 |
| 10 | An interactive activation model of context effects in letter perception: I. An account of basic findings. James L. McClelland, David E. Rumelhart · Psychological Review | Sep 1981 | 4,847 |
| 11 | The role of knowledge in discourse comprehension: A construction-integration model. Walter Kintsch · Psychological Review | 1988 | 4,375 |
| 12 | A capacity theory of comprehension: Individual differences in working memory. Marcel Adam Just, Patricia A. Carpenter · Psychological Review | 1992 | 4,155 |
| 13 | DRC: A dual route cascaded model of visual word recognition and reading aloud. Max Coltheart, Kathleen Rastle, Conrad Perry et al. · Psychological Review | 2001 | 4,097 |
| 14 | Decoding, Reading, and Reading Disability Philip B. Gough, William E. Tunmer · Remedial and Special Education | 1986 | 3,924 |
| 15 | Toward a theory of automatic information processing in reading David LaBerge, S. Jay Samuels · Cognitive Psychology | Apr 1974 | 3,852 |
| 16 | A distributed, developmental model of word recognition and naming. Mark S. Seidenberg, James L. McClelland · Psychological Review | 1989 | 3,838 |
| 17 | Working Memory, Comprehension, and Aging: A Review and a New View Lynn Hasher, Rose T. Zacks · The Psychology of learning and motivation/The psychology of learning and motivation | 1988 | 3,478 |
| 18 | Automated Talairach Atlas labels for functional brain mapping Jack L. Lancaster, Marty G. Woldorff, Lawrence M. Parsons et al. · Human Brain Mapping | 2000 | 3,449 |
| 19 | The nature of phonological processing and its causal role in the acquisition of reading skills. Richard K. Wagner, Joseph K. Torgesen · Psychological Bulletin | Mar 1987 | 3,210 |
| 20 | Linguistic Interdependence and the Educational Development of Bilingual Children James Cummins · Review of Educational Research | Jun 1979 | 3,166 |
| 21 | Categorizing sounds and learning to read—a causal connection Lynette Bradley, Peter Bryant · Nature | Feb 1983 | 3,033 |
| 22 | The TRACE model of speech perception James L. McClelland, Jeffrey L. Elman · Cognitive Psychology | 1986 | 3,012 |
| 23 | Moving beyond Kučera and Francis: A critical evaluation of current word frequency norms and the introduction of a new and improved word frequency measure for American English Marc Brysbaert, Boris New · Behavior Research Methods | Nov 2009 | 2,896 |
| 24 | Reading Acquisition, Developmental Dyslexia, and Skilled Reading Across Languages: A Psycholinguistic Grain Size Theory. Johannes Christoph Ziegler, Usha Goswami · Psychological Bulletin | 2005 | 2,851 |
| 25 | The simple view of reading Wesley A. Hoover, Philip B. Gough · Reading and Writing | Jun 1990 | 2,810 |
| 26 | Automatic and effortful processes in memory. Lynn Hasher, Rose T. Zacks · Journal of Experimental Psychology General | Sep 1979 | 2,750 |
| 27 | Understanding normal and impaired word reading: Computational principles in quasi-regular domains. David C. Plaut, James L. McClelland, Mark S. Seidenberg et al. · Psychological Review | 1996 | 2,737 |
| 28 | Positron emission tomographic studies of the cortical anatomy of single-word processing Steven E. Petersen, Peter T. Fox, Michael I. Posner et al. · Nature | Feb 1988 | 2,632 |
| 29 | Category norms of verbal items in 56 categories A replication and extension of the Connecticut category norms. William F. Battig, William E. Montague · Journal of Experimental Psychology | Jun 1969 | 2,602 |
| 30 | Foundation literacy acquisition in European orthographies Philip H. K. Seymour, Mikko T. Aro, Jane M. Erskine · British Journal of Psychology | May 2003 | 2,597 |
| 31 | Specific reading disability (dyslexia): what have we learned in the past four decades? Frank R. Vellutino, Jack McKay Fletcher, Margaret J. Snowling et al. · Journal of Child Psychology and Psychiatry | 2004 | 2,570 |
| 32 | Linguistic complexity: locality of syntactic dependencies Edward A. F. Gibson · Cognition | Aug 1998 | 2,562 |
| 33 | The Common Core State Standards for Mathematics Murat Akkuş · International Journal of Research in Education and Science | 3 Oct 2015 | 2,533 |
| 34 | Child Development and Emergent Literacy Graver J. Whitehurst, Christopher J. Lonigan · Child Development | Jun 1998 | 2,523 |
| 35 | THREE PARIETAL CIRCUITS FOR NUMBER PROCESSING Stanislas Dehaene, Manuela Piazza, Philippe Pinel et al. · Cognitive Neuropsychology | May 2003 | 2,522 |
| 36 | Constructing inferences during narrative text comprehension. Arthur C. Graesser, Murray Singer, Tom Trabasso · Psychological Review | 1994 | 2,486 |
| 37 | Phonological recoding and self-teaching: sine qua non of reading acquisition David L. Share · Cognition | May 1995 | 2,354 |
| 38 | Is working memory capacity task dependent? Marilyn L. Turner, Randall W Engle · Journal of Memory and Language | Apr 1989 | 2,330 |
| 39 | Levels of processing versus transfer appropriate processing Catherine Morris, John D. Bransford, Jeffery J. Franks · Journal of Verbal Learning and Verbal Behavior | Oct 1977 | 2,327 |
| 40 | Working memory and language: an overview Alan Baddeley · Journal of Communication Disorders | May 2003 | 2,313 |
| 41 | Prevalence of Specific Language Impairment in Kindergarten Children J. Bruce Tomblin, Nancy L. Records, Paula R. Buckwalter et al. · Journal of Speech Language and Hearing Research | Dec 1997 | 2,300 |
| 42 | Towards a neural basis of auditory sentence processing Angela Dorkas Friederici · Trends in Cognitive Sciences | Feb 2002 | 2,282 |
| 43 | Brain potentials during reading reflect word expectancy and semantic association Marta Kutas, Steven A. Hillyard · Nature | 1984 | 2,262 |
| 44 | The neural correlates of the verbal component of working memory Eraldo Paulesu, Chris Frith, Richard S. J. Frackowiak · Nature | 25 Mar 1993 | 2,252 |
| 45 | FREQUENCY EFFECTS IN LANGUAGE PROCESSING Nick C. Ellis · Studies in Second Language Acquisition | Jun 2002 | 2,229 |
| 46 | The phonological loop as a language learning device. AD Baddeley, Susan Elizabeth Gathercole, Costanza Papagno · Psychological Review | 1998 | 2,222 |
| 47 | The Brain Basis of Language Processing: From Structure to Function Angela Dorkas Friederici · Physiological Reviews | Oct 2011 | 2,215 |
| 48 | Contextual prerequisites for understanding: Some investigations of comprehension and recall John D. Bransford, Marcia K. Johnson · Journal of Verbal Learning and Verbal Behavior | Dec 1972 | 2,173 |
| 49 | The spatial and temporal signatures of word production components Peter Indefrey, Willem J. M. Levelt · Cognition | 4 Feb 2004 | 2,173 |
| 50 | Electrophysiology reveals semantic memory use in language comprehension Marta Kutas, Kara D. Federmeier · Trends in Cognitive Sciences | Dec 2000 | 2,148 |
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