2026 James L. Morgan: 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	5541	5142	2623	2387	87	9816

Overview

James L. Morgan is affiliated with Brown University in the United States. Their research spans multiple areas within biochemistry, genetics, molecular biology, and medicine, with significant contributions to subfields such as molecular biology, cell biology, neurology, cellular and molecular neuroscience, and pathology and forensic medicine.

The scientist's research topics include:

Parkinson's Disease Mechanisms and Treatments
Cellular transport and secretion
Zebrafish Biomedical Research Applications
Nerve injury and regeneration
Spinal Cord Injury Research
Neurological disorders and treatments
RNA Research and Splicing

James L. Morgan has published extensively in various scientific journals. Frequent publication venues include:

Frontiers in Cell and Developmental Biology
bioRxiv (Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory)
The Journal of Physiology
Molecular Biology of the Cell
PubMed

Recent papers authored or co-authored by James L. Morgan are:

Activating Transcription Factor 3 (ATF3) is a Highly Conserved Pro-regenerative Transcription Factor in the Vertebrate Nervous System, 2022, Frontiers in Cell and Developmental Biology
Synuclein Regulates Synaptic Vesicle Clustering and Docking at a Vertebrate Synapse, 2021, Frontiers in Cell and Developmental Biology
Hsc70 Ameliorates the Vesicle Recycling Defects Caused by Excess α-Synuclein at Synapses, 2020, eNeuro
Resilience of neural networks for locomotion, 2021, The Journal of Physiology
α-Synuclein-112 Impairs Synaptic Vesicle Recycling Consistent With Its Enhanced Membrane Binding Properties, 2020, Frontiers in Cell and Developmental Biology

Frequent co-authors with whom James L. Morgan has collaborated include:

Cristina Román-Vendrell
Jaqulin N. Wallace
Audrey T. Medeiros
Dragomir Milovanović
Kaitlyn E. Fouke

Best Publications

Signal to syntax : bootstrapping from speech to grammar in early acquisition

James L Morgan;Katherine Demuth

714
Citations
Phonotactic and Prosodic Effects on Word Segmentation in Infants

Sven L. Mattys;Peter W. Jusczyk;Paul A. Luce;James L. Morgan

654
Citations
Mommy and Me: Familiar Names Help Launch Babies Into Speech-Stream Segmentation

Heather Bortfeld;James L. Morgan;Roberta Michnick Golinkoff;Karen Rathbun

598
Citations
Newborn infants' sensitivity to perceptual cues to lexical and grammatical words.

Rushen Shi;Janet F Werker;James L Morgan

480
Citations
From Simple Input to Complex Grammar

James L. Morgan

479
Citations
Structural packaging in the input to language learning: contributions of prosodic and morphological marking of phrases to the acquisition of language.

James L Morgan;Richard P Meier;Elissa L Newport

441
Citations
The influence of categories on perception: explaining the perceptual magnet effect as optimal statistical inference.

Naomi H. Feldman;Thomas L. Griffiths;James L. Morgan

406
Citations
Infants' listening preferences: Baby talk or happy talk?

Leher Singh;James L. Morgan;Catherine T. Best

384
Citations
Emerging Integration of Sequential and Suprasegmental Information in Preverbal Speech Segmentation

James L. Morgan;Jenny R. Saffran

337
Citations
Phonological and Acoustic Bases for Earliest Grammatical Category Assignment: A Cross-Linguistic Perspective.

Rushen Shi;James L. Morgan;Paul Allopenna

322
Citations
The role of constituent structure in the induction of an artificial language

James L. Morgan;Elissa L. Newport

295
Citations
Sub-Segmental Detail in Early Lexical Representations.

Katherine S. White;James L. Morgan

269
Citations
Limits on negative information in language input

James L. Morgan;Lisa L. Travis

247
Citations
A Role for the Developing Lexicon in Phonetic Category Acquisition

Naomi H. Feldman;Thomas L. Griffiths;Sharon Goldwater;James L. Morgan

246
Citations
Preference and processing: The role of speech affect in early spoken word recognition

Leher Singh;James L Morgan;Katherine S White

245
Citations
Perceptual strategies in prelingual speech segmentation.

Jan V. Goodsitt;James L. Morgan;Patricia K. Kuhl

235
Citations
A statistical basis for speech sound discrimination.

Jennifer L. Anderson;James L. Morgan;Katherine S. White

231
Citations
Effects of the acoustic properties of infant-directed speech on infant word recognition

Jae Yung Song;Katherine Demuth;James Morgan

223
Citations
Signal to Syntax: An Overview

James L. Morgan;Katherine Demuth

200
Citations
A Rhythmic Bias in Preverbal Speech Segmentation

James L. Morgan

198
Citations

Frequent Co-Authors

David M. Sobel Brown University

Linda Polka McGill University

Sharon Peperkamp École Normale Supérieure

Katherine Demuth Macquarie University

Leher Singh University of Maryland, Baltimore County

Sheila E. Blumstein Brown University

Janet F. Werker University of British Columbia

Bertram F. Malle Brown University

Elissa L. Newport Georgetown University

Anne Christophe École Normale Supérieure

External Links

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