2026 Brian MacWhinney: Psychology Researcher – H-Index, Publications & Awards

Discipline name	D-Index	World Ranking	Current World Ranking	National Ranking	Current National Ranking	Publications	Citations
Psychology	85	1159	1018	716	613	331	53439

Overview

Brian MacWhinney is affiliated with Carnegie Mellon University in the United States. Their research spans diverse areas primarily within psychology and neuroscience, with a strong emphasis on developmental and educational psychology, cognitive neuroscience, and artificial intelligence.

Their work covers a range of topics related to language and cognition, including:

Neurobiology of Language and Bilingualism
Language Development and Disorders
Reading and Literacy Development
Text Readability and Simplification
Natural Language Processing Techniques
Dementia and Cognitive Impairment Research
Interpreting and Communication in Healthcare

Brian MacWhinney has contributed frequently to the following publication venues:

Journal of Speech Language and Hearing Research
arXiv (Cornell University)
American Journal of Speech-Language Pathology
Brain and Language
Frontiers in Psychology

Among their recent papers are:

"DementiaBank: Theoretical Rationale, Protocol, and Illustrative Analyses" (2023) published in American Journal of Speech-Language Pathology
"Standardizing Assessment of Spoken Discourse in Aphasia: A Working Group With Deliverables" (2020) published in American Journal of Speech-Language Pathology
"Automation of Language Sample Analysis" (2023) published in Journal of Speech Language and Hearing Research
"Age effects in second language acquisition: Expanding the emergentist account" (2023) published in Brain and Language
"Precision rehabilitation for aphasia by patient age, sex, aphasia severity, and time since stroke? A prespecified, systematic review-based, individual participant data, network, subgroup meta-analysis" (2022) published in International Journal of Stroke

Frequent collaborators include:

Davida Fromm
Alyssa M. Lanzi
Saturnino Luz
Fasih Haider
Joel B. Greenhouse

Best Publications

The Childes Project: Tools for Analyzing Talk, Volume II: the Database

Brian MacWhinney

9156
Citations
PsyScope: An interactive graphic system for designing and controlling experiments in the psychology laboratory using Macintosh computers

Jonathan D. Cohen;Brian MacWhinney;Matthew Flatt;Jefferson Provost

4518
Citations
The Childes Project: Tools for Analyzing Talk

Brian MacWhinney

4471
Citations
The child language data exchange system.

Brian MacWhinney;Catherine Snow

1502
Citations
Functionalism and the competition model

Elizabeth Bates;Brian MacWhinney

1424
Citations
Competition, variation, and language learning.

Elizabeth Bates;Brian MacWhinney

1381
Citations
The Crosslinguistic Study of Sentence Processing.

Brian MacWhinney;Elizabeth Bates

1124
Citations
The Child Language Data Exchange System: an update.

Brian MacWhinney;Catherine Snow

878
Citations
A bilingual advantage in task switching

Anat Prior;Brian MacWhinney

843
Citations
The CHILDES Project: Tools for Analyzing Talk

Clifton Pye;Brian MacWhinney

836
Citations
The Emergence of Language From Embodiment

Brian MacWhinney

834
Citations
The acquisition of morphophonology

Brian MacWhinney

802
Citations
The emergence of language.

Brian MacWhinney

787
Citations
Cue validity and sentence interpretation in English, German, and Italian

Brian MacWhinney;Elizabeth Bates;Reinhold Kliegl

781
Citations
A Unified Model of Language Acquisition

Brian MacWhinney

746
Citations
New directions in discourse processing

Brian MacWhinney;Roy O. Freedle

646
Citations
IMPLICIT AND EXPLICIT MEASURES OF SENSITIVITY TO VIOLATIONS IN SECOND LANGUAGE GRAMMAR: An Event-Related Potential Investigation

Natasha Tokowicz;Brian MacWhinney

629
Citations
Implementations are not conceptualizations: revising the verb learning model.

Brian MacWhinney;Jared Leinbach

623
Citations
The Handbook of Child Language

Paul J. Fletcher;Brian MacWhinney

587
Citations
Functional constraints on sentence processing: a cross-linguistic study.

Elizabeth Bates;Sandra McNew;Brian MacWhinney;Antonella Devescovi

486
Citations
Vocabulary acquisition and verbal short-term memory: Computational and neural bases.

Prahlad Gupta;Brian MacWhinney

460
Citations
The Crosslinguistic Study of Sentence Processing

Michael Harrington;Brian MacWhinney;Elizabeth Bates

10
Citations

Frequent Co-Authors

Elizabeth Bates University of California, San Diego

Audrey Holland University of Arizona

Leanne Togher University of Sydney

Catherine E. Snow Harvard University

Nan Bernstein Ratner University of Maryland, College Park

Robyn L. Tate University of Sydney

Skye McDonald University of New South Wales

Heidi M. Feldman Stanford University

Katerina Hilari City, University of London

Cathy J. Price University College London

External Links

Wikipedia of Brian MacWhinney Personal website of Brian MacWhinney Google Scholar page

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