2026 Charles Hulme: Psychology Researcher – H-Index, Publications & Awards

Discipline name	D-Index	World Ranking	Current World Ranking	National Ranking	Current National Ranking	Publications	Citations
Psychology	114	339	297	54	47	388	47363

Research.com Recognitions

2026 - Research.com Psychology in United Kingdom Leader Award
2014 - Member of Academia Europaea
Fellow of the Academy of Social Sciences, United Kingdom
Fellow of the Academy of Social Sciences, United Kingdom
Fellow of the Academy of Social Sciences, United Kingdom

Overview

Charles Hulme is affiliated with the University of Oxford in the United Kingdom. Their research primarily focuses on psychology, with a particular emphasis on developmental and educational psychology. Other subfields include genetics, education, statistics and probability, and cognitive neuroscience.

Their scholarly output covers key topics such as:

Reading and literacy development
Language development and disorders
Educational and psychological assessments
Genetics and neurodevelopmental disorders
Cognitive and developmental aspects of mathematical skills
Child development and digital technology
Genetic associations and epidemiology

Hulme has been a contributor to major publication venues including:

ISRCTN Registry
Journal of Child Psychology and Psychiatry
bioRxiv (Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory)
Developmental Science
Reading and Writing

Frequent coauthors include Maggie Snowling, Gillian West, Margaret J. Snowling, Cameron Downing, and Manon Jones.

Their recent papers include:

"Discovery of 42 genome-wide significant loci associated with dyslexia," 2022, Nature Genetics
"Genome-wide analyses of individual differences in quantitatively assessed reading- and language-related skills in up to 34,000 people," 2022, Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences
"Children's Language Skills Can Be Improved: Lessons From Psychological Science for Educational Policy," 2020, Current Directions in Psychological Science
"Is a procedural learning deficit a causal risk factor for developmental language disorder or dyslexia? A meta-analytic review," 2021, Developmental Psychology
"Early language screening and intervention can be delivered successfully at scale: evidence from a cluster randomized controlled trial," 2021, Journal of Child Psychology and Psychiatry

Among distinctions, Hulme is a Member of Academia Europaea since 2014 and a Fellow of the Academy of Social Sciences in the United Kingdom.

Best Publications

Is working memory training effective? A meta-analytic review

Monica Melby-Lervåg;Charles Hulme

2383
Citations
Phonemes, rimes, vocabulary, and grammatical skills as foundations of early reading development: evidence from a longitudinal study.

Valerie Muter;Charles Hulme;Margaret J. Snowling;Jim Stevenson

1666
Citations
Phonological skills and their role in learning to read: A meta-analytic review.

Monica Melby-Lervåg;Solveig-Alma Halaas Lyster;Charles Hulme

1616
Citations
Ameliorating Early Reading Failure by Integrating the Teaching of Reading and Phonological Skills: The Phonological Linkage Hypothesis

Peter J. Hatcher;Charles Hulme;Andrew W. Ellis

1281
Citations
Memory for familiar and unfamiliar words: Evidence for a long-term memory contribution to short-term memory span

Charles Hulme;Sarah Maughan;Gordon D.A Brown

1157
Citations
Working Memory Training Does Not Improve Performance on Measures of Intelligence or Other Measures of "Far Transfer": Evidence From a Meta-Analytic Review.

Monica Melby-Lervåg;Thomas S. Redick;Charles Hulme

1089
Citations
Oscillator-based memory for serial order

Gordon D. A. Brown;Tim Preece;Charles Hulme

972
Citations
The science of reading: A handbook.

Margaret J. Snowling;Charles Hulme

900
Citations
Developmental Disorders of Language Learning and Cognition

Charles Hulme;Margaret J. Snowling

782
Citations
The Foundations of Spelling Ability: Evidence from a 3-Year Longitudinal Study

Markéta Caravolas;Charles Hulme;Margaret J. Snowling

764
Citations
Phoneme awareness is a better predictor of early reading skill than onset-rime awareness.

Charles Hulme;Peter J. Hatcher;Kate Nation;Angela Brown

714
Citations
The development of phonological awareness in preschool children.

Julia M. Carroll;Margaret J. Snowling;Charles Hulme;Jim Stevenson

712
Citations
Common Patterns of Prediction of Literacy Development in Different Alphabetic Orthographies

Markéta Caravolas;Arne Lervåg;Petroula Mousikou;Corina Efrim

656
Citations
Speech Rate and the Development of Short-Term Memory Span.

Charles Hulme;Neil Thomson;Clare Muir;Amanda Lawrence

635
Citations
Word-frequency effects on short-term memory tasks: Evidence for a redintegration process in immediate serial recall

Charles Hulme;Steven Roodenrys;Steven Roodenrys;Richard Schweickert;Gordon D. A. Brown

615
Citations
Neural systems predicting long-term outcome in dyslexia

Fumiko Hoeft;Bruce D. McCandliss;Jessica M. Black;Alexander Gantman

578
Citations
Ameliorating Children’s Reading-Comprehension Difficulties A Randomized Controlled Trial

Paula J. Clarke;Margaret J. Snowling;Emma Truelove;Charles Hulme

545
Citations
Concrete words are easier to recall than abstract words: Evidence for a semantic contribution to short-term serial recall.

Ian Walker;Charles Hulme

525
Citations
Explicit phoneme training combined with phonic reading instruction helps young children at risk of reading failure.

Peter J. Hatcher;Charles Hulme;Margaret J. Snowling

515
Citations
Working Memory and Severe Learning Difficulties

Charles Hulme;Susie Mackenzie

514
Citations

Frequent Co-Authors

Margaret J. Snowling University of Oxford

Arne Lervåg University of Oslo

Gordon D. A. Brown University of Warwick

Monica Melby-Lervåg University of Oslo

Fumiko Hoeft University of Connecticut

Kate Nation University of Oxford

Steven Roodenrys University of Wollongong

David R. Shanks University College London

Jan-Eric Gustafsson University of Gothenburg

Dorothy V. M. Bishop University of Oxford

External Links

Personal website of Charles Hulme

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