2026 Jeffrey L. Elman: Psychology Researcher – H-Index, Publications & Awards

Discipline name	D-Index	World Ranking	National Ranking	Publications	Citations
Psychology	55	4280	2379	118	37485

Discipline name

D-Index

World Ranking

National Ranking

Publications

Citations

Psychology

4280

2379

118

37485

Overview

Jeffrey L. Elman was affiliated with the University of California, San Diego in the United States. Their research spanned multiple areas within psychology, particularly focusing on developmental and educational psychology, with additional contributions in management science and operations research, statistical and nonlinear physics, artificial intelligence, and molecular biology.

The scientist's work concentrated on several main topics, including language development and disorders, child and animal learning development, reading and literacy development, data quality and management, complex network analysis techniques, advanced graph neural networks, and bioinformatics and genomic networks.

Jeffrey L. Elman had a body of recent papers published between 2021 and 2025. These included:

"Toddlers' Ability to Leverage Statistical Information to Support Word Learning," 2021, Frontiers in Psychology
"Using Network Science to Provide Insights into the Structure of Event Knowledge," 2023, SSRN Electronic Journal
"Using network science to provide insights into the structure of event knowledge," 2024, Cognition
"Apple Intelligence Foundation Language Models: Tech Report 2025," 2025, arXiv (Cornell University)

Their publications appeared in journals and platforms such as Frontiers in Psychology, SSRN Electronic Journal, Cognition, and arXiv (Cornell University).

Throughout their career, Jeffrey L. Elman frequently collaborated with a consistent group of co-authors. These included Kevin Brown, Kara E. Hannah, Nickolas Christidis, Mikayla Hall-Bruce, and Ryan A. Stevenson.

Best Publications

The TRACE model of speech perception.

James L McClelland;Jeffrey L Elman

4233
Citations
Learning and development in neural networks: the importance of starting small

Jeffrey L. Elman

2755
Citations
Distributed Representations, Simple Recurrent Networks, And Grammatical Structure

Jeffrey L. Elman

2050
Citations
An alternative view of the mental lexicon

Jeffrey L Elman

630
Citations
Coherence and Coreference Revisited.

Andrew Kehler;Laura Kertz;Hannah Rohde;Jeffrey L. Elman

550
Citations
Frequency of Basic English Grammatical Structures: A Corpus Analysis

Douglas Roland;Frederic Dick;Frederic Dick;Jeffrey L. Elman

519
Citations
On the meaning of words and dinosaur bones: Lexical knowledge without a lexicon.

Jeffrey L. Elman

513
Citations
Learning and evolution in neural networks

Stefano Nolfi;Domenico Parisi;Jeffrey L. Elman

478
Citations
Knowing a lot for one's age: Vocabulary skill and not age is associated with anticipatory incremental sentence interpretation in children and adults

Arielle Borovsky;Jeffrey L. Elman;Anne Fernald

459
Citations
Cognitive penetration of the mechanisms of perception: Compensation for coarticulation of lexically restored phonemes

Jeffrey L Elman;James L McClelland

400
Citations
Proceedings of the 29th Annual Conference of the Cognitive Science Society

Hannah Rohde;Andrew Kehler;Jeffrey Elman

349
Citations
Interactive processes in speech perception: the TRACE model

J. L. McClelland;J. L. Elman

334
Citations
Learning and morphological change

Mary Hare;Jeffrey L. Elman

317
Citations
A basis for generating expectancies for verbs from nouns

Ken Mcrae;Mary Hare;Jeffrey L. Elman;Todd Ferretti

313
Citations
Language as a dynamical system

Jeffrey L. Elman

290
Citations
Effects of frequency-shifted feedback on the pitch of vocal productions.

Jeffrey L. Elman

266
Citations
Generalized event knowledge activation during online sentence comprehension

Ross Metusalem;Marta Kutas;Thomas P. Urbach;Mary Hare

219
Citations
Sense and structure: Meaning as a determinant of verb subcategorization preferences

Mary Hare;Ken McRae;Jeffrey L. Elman

206
Citations
Learnability and the Statistical Structure of Language: Poverty of Stimulus Arguments Revisited

John D. Lewis;Jeffrey L. Elman

204
Citations
Do infants learn grammar with algebra or statistics

Mark S. Seidenberg;Jeff L. Elman

203
Citations

Frequent Co-Authors

Ken McRae University of Western Ontario

Marta Kutas University of California, San Diego

James L. McClelland Stanford University

Julia L. Evans The University of Texas at Dallas

Kim Plunkett University of Oxford

Elizabeth Bates University of California, San Diego

Anne Fernald Stanford University

Annette Karmiloff-Smith Birkbeck, University of London

David C. Plaut Carnegie Mellon University

Frederic Dick Birkbeck, University of London

External Links

Personal website of Jeffrey L. Elman

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