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D-Index
55
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37485
World Ranking
4278
National Ranking
2379

Jeffrey L. Elman publication distribution in Psychology in 2026

The chart shows the distribution of publications by all Research.com ranked scientists in the field of Psychology in 2026. The highlighted bar marks where Jeffrey L. Elman sits on this spectrum.

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31 publications 705+

This scientist: 118 publications — 31st percentile

31% of scientists in this discipline score the same or lower.

The last bar groups every scientist with 705 publications or more.

Jeffrey L. Elman D-index placement in Psychology in 2026

The chart shows the D-index (discipline H-index) distribution of Psychology scientists ranked by Research.com in 2026. The highlighted bar marks where Jeffrey L. Elman sits on this spectrum.

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30 D-Index 144+

This scientist: 55 D-Index — 63rd percentile

63% of scientists in this discipline score the same or lower.

The last bar groups every scientist with 144 D-Index or more.

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

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

    Jeffrey L. Elman

  • Distributed Representations, Simple Recurrent Networks, And Grammatical Structure

    Jeffrey L. Elman

  • An alternative view of the mental lexicon

    Jeffrey L Elman

  • Coherence and Coreference Revisited.

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

  • Frequency of Basic English Grammatical Structures: A Corpus Analysis

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

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

    Jeffrey L. Elman

  • Learning and evolution in neural networks

    Stefano Nolfi;Domenico Parisi;Jeffrey L. Elman

  • 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

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

    Jeffrey L Elman;James L McClelland

  • Proceedings of the 29th Annual Conference of the Cognitive Science Society

    Hannah Rohde;Andrew Kehler;Jeffrey Elman

  • Interactive processes in speech perception: the TRACE model

    J. L. McClelland;J. L. Elman

  • Learning and morphological change

    Mary Hare;Jeffrey L. Elman

  • A basis for generating expectancies for verbs from nouns

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

  • Language as a dynamical system

    Jeffrey L. Elman

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

    Jeffrey L. Elman

  • Generalized event knowledge activation during online sentence comprehension

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

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

    Mary Hare;Ken McRae;Jeffrey L. Elman

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

    John D. Lewis;Jeffrey L. Elman

  • Do infants learn grammar with algebra or statistics

    Mark S. Seidenberg;Jeff L. Elman

Frequent Co-Authors

Ken McRae
Ken McRae University of Western Ontario
Marta Kutas
Marta Kutas University of California, San Diego
James L. McClelland
James L. McClelland Stanford University
Anders M. Dale
Anders M. Dale J. Craig Venter Institute
Eric Halgren
Eric Halgren University of California, San Diego
Julia L. Evans
Julia L. Evans The University of Texas at Dallas
Timothy T. Brown
Timothy T. Brown University of California, Berkeley
Kim Plunkett
Kim Plunkett University of Oxford
Donald J. Hagler
Donald J. Hagler Mayo Clinic
Elizabeth Bates
Elizabeth Bates University of California, San Diego

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