2026 Douglas L. Nelson: Psychology Researcher – H-Index, Publications & Awards

Discipline name	D-Index	World Ranking	National Ranking	Publications	Citations
Psychology	40	8063	4316	119	12335

Discipline name

D-Index

World Ranking

National Ranking

Publications

Citations

Psychology

8063

4316

119

12335

Overview

Douglas L. Nelson is affiliated with the University of South Florida in the United States. Their research primarily focuses on Medicine, with specific work in the subfields of Pulmonary and Respiratory Medicine and Cardiology and Cardiovascular Medicine.

The scientist's recent publication record includes a study titled "Implantable Loop Recorders as a Diagnostic Tool at an Australian Tertiary Centre," published in 2024 in the journal Heart Lung and Circulation.

Frequent co-authors collaborating with Douglas L. Nelson include:

L. Soden
Andrew McLellan

The main publication venue for the scientist's work is Heart Lung and Circulation, where they have contributed at least one research article.

The primary topics covered in Douglas L. Nelson's research include:

Phonocardiography and Auscultation Techniques
Cardiac Valve Diseases and Treatments

Best Publications

The English Lexicon Project.

David A Balota;Melvin J Yap;Michael J Cortese;Keith A Hutchison

3525
Citations
The University of South Florida free association, rhyme, and word fragment norms.

Douglas L. Nelson;Cathy L. McEvoy;Thomas A. Schreiber

2643
Citations
Pictorial superiority effect.

Douglas L. Nelson;Valerie S. Reed;John R. Walling

679
Citations
LEARNING TO ORDER PICTURES AND WORDS: A MODEL OF SENSORY AND SEMANTIC ENCODING.

Douglas L. Nelson;Valerie S. Reed;Cathy L. McEvoy

356
Citations
What is free association and what does it measure

Douglas L. Nelson;Cathy L. Mcevoy;Simon Dennis

343
Citations
Processing implicit and explicit representations.

Douglas L. Nelson;Thomas A. Schreiber;Cathy L. McEvoy

283
Citations
Interpreting the influence of implicitly activated memories on recall and recognition.

Douglas L. Nelson;Vanesa M. McKinney;Nancy R. Gee;Gerson A. Janczura

283
Citations
Is there something quantum-like about the human mental lexicon?

Peter Bruza;Kirsty Kitto;Douglas Nelson;Cathy McEvoy

267
Citations
Word Association Spaces for Predicting Semantic Similarity Effects in Episodic Memory.

Mark Steyvers;Richard M. Shiffrin;Douglas L. Nelson

266
Citations
The University of South Florida homograph norms

Douglas L. Nelson;Cathy L. McEvoy;John R. Walling;Joseph W. Wheeler

224
Citations
Word concreteness and word structure as independent determinants of recall

Douglas L Nelson;Thomas A Schreiber

189
Citations
What is the connection between true and false memories? The differential roles of interitem associations in recall and recognition.

Cathy L. McEvoy;Douglas L. Nelson;Takako Komatsu

182
Citations
Category Name and Instance Norms for 106 Categories of Various Sizes

Cathy L. McEvoy;Douglas L. Nelson

179
Citations
Implicit memory: Effects of network size and interconnectivity on cued recall.

Douglas L. Nelson;David J. Bennett;Nancy R. Gee;Thomas A. Schreiber

160
Citations
Encoding context and set size.

Douglas L. Nelson;Cathy L. McEvoy

142
Citations
Spreading activation or spooky action at a distance

Douglas L Nelson;Cathy L McEvoy;Lisa Pointer

103
Citations
How activation, entanglement, and searching a semantic network contribute to event memory

Douglas L. Nelson;Kirsty Kitto;David Galea;Cathy L. McEvoy

83
Citations
The ties that bind what is known to the recall of what is new.

Douglas L. Nelson;Nan Zhang

80
Citations
Comparing the mental lexicons of deaf and hearing individuals.

Cathy McEvoy;Marc Marschark;Douglas L. Nelson

79
Citations
Comparing word fragment completion and cued recall with letter cues.

Douglas L. Nelson;Jose J. Canas;Maria Teresa Bajo;Patricia D. Keelean

78
Citations
The Challenge in mathematics and science education : psychology's response

Louis A. Penner;George M. Batsche;Howard M. Knoff;Douglas L. Nelson

69
Citations

Frequent Co-Authors

Louis A. Penner Wayne State University

Maryanne Martin University of Oxford

James H. Neely University at Albany, State University of New York

Marc Marschark Rochester Institute of Technology

Rebecca Treiman Washington University in St. Louis

Daniel C. Krawczyk The University of Texas at Dallas

Richard M. Shiffrin Indiana University

David A. Balota Washington University in St. Louis

External Links

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