2026 Christoph Scheepers: Social Sciences and Humanities Researcher – H-Index, Publications & Awards

Discipline name	D-Index	World Ranking	Current World Ranking	National Ranking	Current National Ranking	Publications	Citations
Social Sciences and Humanities	39	5463	5068	915	849	111	18545

Overview

Christoph Scheepers is affiliated with the University of Glasgow in the United Kingdom. Their research primarily focuses on psychology, with significant contributions in cognitive neuroscience, experimental and cognitive psychology, and developmental and educational psychology. Additional subfields include sociology and political science as well as social psychology.

The scientist's work addresses a range of topics, including:

Neurobiology of Language and Bilingualism
Reading and Literacy Development
Second Language Acquisition and Learning
Social and Intergroup Psychology
Language, Metaphor, and Cognition
Spatial Cognition and Navigation
Categorization, Perception, and Language

Christoph Scheepers has published multiple papers in various journals. Some of the recent publications include:

"Rating norms should be calculated from cumulative link mixed effects models" (2022), Behavior Research Methods
"The Situated Assessment Method (SAM2): Establishing individual differences in habitual behavior" (2023), PLoS ONE
"RER-LX: A new scale to measure reduced emotional resonance in bilinguals' later learnt language" (2023), Bilingualism Language and Cognition
"More is Better: English Language Statistics are Biased Toward Addition" (2023), Cognitive Science
"Mapping of individual time units in horizontal space" (2022), Language and Cognition

Frequent coauthors collaborating with Scheepers include:

Andriy Myachykov
Wilhelmiina Toivo
Jean-Marc Dewaele
Leigh B. Fernandez
Shanley Allen

The scientist's work has appeared repeatedly in certain publication venues, including:

Bilingualism Language and Cognition
PLoS ONE
Discourse Processes
Behavior Research Methods
Cognitive Science

Best Publications

Random effects structure for confirmatory hypothesis testing: Keep it maximal

Dale J. Barr;Roger Levy;Christoph Scheepers;Harry J. Tily

11298
Citations
Culture shapes how we look at faces.

Caroline Blais;Caroline Blais;Rachael E. Jack;Christoph Scheepers;Daniel Fiset;Daniel Fiset

751
Citations
Cultural confusions show that facial expressions are not universal.

Rachael E. Jack;Caroline Blais;Christoph Scheepers;Philippe G. Schyns

726
Citations
Integration of syntactic and semantic information in predictive processing: cross-linguistic evidence from German and English

Yuki Kamide;Christoph Scheepers;Gerry T. M. Altmann

471
Citations
Syntactic priming of relative clause attachments: Persistence of structural configuration in sentence production

Christoph Scheepers

405
Citations
The influence of the immediate visual context on incremental thematic role-assignment: evidence from eye-movements in depicted events.

Pia Knoeferle;Matthew W. Crocker;Christoph Scheepers;Martin J. Pickering

395
Citations
Priming ditransitive structures in comprehension.

Manabu Arai;Roger P.G. van Gompel;Christoph Scheepers

392
Citations
Syntactic priming in English sentence production: Categorical and latency evidence from an Internet-based study

Martin Corley;Christoph Scheepers

244
Citations
Moving beyond the distinction between concrete and abstract concepts.

Lawrence W. Barsalou;Léo Dutriaux;Christoph Scheepers

200
Citations
Event-based plausibility immediately influences on-line language comprehension.

Kazunaga Matsuki;Tracy Chow;Mary Hare;Jeffrey L. Elman

187
Citations
Viewpoint and center of gravity affect eye movements to human faces.

Markus Bindemann;Christoph Scheepers;A. Mike Burton

185
Citations
Silent reading of direct versus indirect speech activates voice-selective areas in the auditory cortex

Bo Yao;Pascal Belin;Christoph Scheepers

172
Citations
Syntactic Attachment and Anaphor Resolution: The Two Sides of Relative Clause Attachment

Barbara Hemforth;Lars Konieczny;Christoph Scheepers

165
Citations
Qualitative Differences in the Representation of Abstract versus Concrete Words: Evidence from the Visual-World Paradigm.

Jon Andoni Duñabeitia;Alberto Avilés;Olivia Afonso;Christoph Scheepers

139
Citations
Structural Priming Across Cognitive Domains From Simple Arithmetic to Relative-Clause Attachment

Christoph Scheepers;Patrick Sturt;Catherine J. Martin;Andriy Myachykov

127
Citations
TEST: A Tropic, Embodied, and Situated Theory of Cognition

Andriy Myachykov;Christoph Scheepers;Martin H. Fischer;Klaus Kessler

106
Citations
Proceedings of the 22nd Annual Conference of the Cognitive Science Society

C Scheepers;Martin Corley

105
Citations
Expectations in Counterfactual and Theory of Mind Reasoning.

Heather J. Ferguson;Christoph Scheepers;Anthony J. Sanford

104
Citations
Constituent order priming from reading to listening: a visual-world study

C. Scheepers;M.W. Crocker

101
Citations
Syntactic priming in comprehension: the role of argument order and animacy.

Maria Nella Carminati;Roger P. G. van Gompel;Christoph Scheepers;Manabu Arai

97
Citations
Linking Syntactic Functions with Thematic Roles: Psych-Verbs and the Resolution of Subject-Object Ambiguity

Christoph Scheepers;Barbara Hemforth;Lars Konieczny

68
Citations
Visual Attention and Structural Choice in Sentence Production Across Languages

Andriy Myachykov;Dominic Thompson;Christoph Scheepers;Simon Garrod

60
Citations
Negation in context: Evidence from the visual world paradigm

Isabel Orenes;Linda Moxey;Christoph Scheepers;Carlos Santamaría

39
Citations

Frequent Co-Authors

Yury Shtyrov Aarhus University

Roberto Caldara University of Fribourg

Anthony J. Sanford University of Glasgow

Simon Garrod University of Glasgow

Martin J. Pickering University of Edinburgh

Patrick Sturt University of Edinburgh

Fernanda Ferreira University of California, Davis

Philippe G. Schyns University of Glasgow

Stephany M. Biello University of Glasgow

Martin H. Fischer University of Potsdam

External Links

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