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D-Index
40
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5214
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17

Melvin J. Yap publication distribution in Social Sciences and Humanities in 2026

The chart shows the distribution of publications by all Research.com ranked scientists in the field of Social Sciences and Humanities in 2026. The highlighted bar marks where Melvin J. Yap sits on this spectrum.

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44 publications 570+

This scientist: 83 publications — 6th percentile

6% of scientists in this discipline score the same or lower.

The last bar groups every scientist with 570 publications or more.

Melvin J. Yap D-index placement in Social Sciences and Humanities in 2026

The chart shows the D-index (discipline H-index) distribution of Social Sciences and Humanities scientists ranked by Research.com in 2026. The highlighted bar marks where Melvin J. Yap sits on this spectrum.

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This scientist: 40 D-Index — 34th percentile

34% of scientists in this discipline score the same or lower.

The last bar groups every scientist with 100 D-Index or more.

Overview

Melvin J. Yap is affiliated with the National University of Singapore in Singapore. Their research spans multiple fields, primarily focusing on Psychology, Neuroscience, and Computer Science. The subfields they contribute to include Developmental and Educational Psychology, Cognitive Neuroscience, Experimental and Cognitive Psychology, Artificial Intelligence, and Information Systems.

The research topics covered by Melvin J. Yap include:

  • Neurobiology of Language and Bilingualism
  • Reading and Literacy Development
  • Phonetics and Phonology Research
  • Autism Spectrum Disorder Research
  • Behavioral and Psychological Studies
  • Natural Language Processing Techniques
  • Language, Metaphor, and Cognition

They have published frequently in several academic venues, such as:

  • Behavior Research Methods
  • Psychonomic Bulletin & Review
  • Journal of Autism and Developmental Disorders
  • Quarterly Journal of Experimental Psychology
  • PLoS ONE

Melvin J. Yap's recent papers include the following works:

  • The Auditory English Lexicon Project: A multi-talker, multi-region psycholinguistic database of 10,170 spoken words and nonwords, 2020, published in Behavior Research Methods
  • What we mean when we say semantic: Toward a multidisciplinary semantic glossary, 2024, published in Psychonomic Bulletin & Review
  • Consistency norms for 37,677 english words, 2020, published in Behavior Research Methods
  • Effects of Physical Exercise Interventions on Stereotyped Motor Behaviours in Children with ASD: A Meta-Analysis, 2021, published in Journal of Autism and Developmental Disorders
  • The Chinese Lexicon Project II: A megastudy of speeded naming performance for 25,000+ traditional Chinese two-character words, 2022, published in Behavior Research Methods

Frequent collaborators of Melvin J. Yap include:

  • Chi-Shing Tse
  • Qian Wen Chee
  • Marc Brysbaert
  • Winston D. Goh
  • Yuen-Lai Chan

Best Publications

  • The English Lexicon Project.

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

  • Visual word recognition of single-syllable words.

    David A. Balota;Michael J. Cortese;Susan D. Sergent-Marshall;Daniel H. Spieler

  • Moving beyond Coltheart’s N: A new measure of orthographic similarity

    Tal Yarkoni;David Balota;Melvin Yap

  • Moving Beyond the Mean in Studies of Mental Chronometry The Power of Response Time Distributional Analyses

    David A. Balota;Melvin J. Yap

  • Visual word recognition of multisyllabic words

    Melvin J. Yap;David A. Balota

  • Visual Word Recognition

    Melvin J. Yap;David A. Balota

  • Individual differences in visual word recognition: Insights from the English Lexicon Project.

    Melvin J. Yap;David A. Balota;Daragh E. Sibley;Roger Ratcliff

  • Visual Word Recognition: The Journey from Features to Meaning (A Travel Update)

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  • Smart phone, smart science: how the use of smartphones can revolutionize research in cognitive science.

    Stephane Dufau;Jon Andoni Duñabeitia;Carmen Moret-Tatay;Aileen McGonigal

  • Beyond mean response latency: Response time distributional analyses of semantic priming

    David A. Balota;Melvin J. Yap;Michael J. Cortese;Jason M. Watson

  • Effects of healthy aging and early stage dementia of the Alzheimer's type on components of response time distributions in three attention tasks.

    Chi-Shing Tse;David A. Balota;Melvin J. Yap;Janet M. Duchek

  • Is more always better? Effects of semantic richness on lexical decision, speeded pronunciation, and semantic classification.

    Melvin J. Yap;Sarah E. Tan;Penny M. Pexman;Ian S. Hargreaves

  • The semantic priming project

    Keith A. Hutchison;David A. Balota;James H. Neely;Michael J. Cortese

  • An abundance of riches: cross-task comparisons of semantic richness effects in visual word recognition

    Melvin J. Yap;Penny M. Pexman;Michele Wellsby;Ian S. Hargreaves

  • Spatial attention and response control in healthy younger and older adults and individuals with Alzheimer's disease: evidence for disproportionate selection impairments in the Simon task.

    Alan D. Castel;David A. Balota;Keith A. Hutchison;Jessica M. Logan

  • Additive effects of word frequency and stimulus quality: the influence of trial history and data transformations.

    David A. Balota;Andrew J. Aschenbrenner;Melvin J. Yap

  • Sensory experience ratings for over 5,000 mono- and disyllabic words

    Barbara J. Juhasz;Melvin J. Yap

  • Additive and interactive effects on response time distributions in visual word recognition.

    Melvin J. Yap;David A. Balota

  • Individual differences in the joint effects of semantic priming and word frequency revealed by RT distributional analyses: The role of lexical integrity

    Melvin J. Yap;Chi-Shing Tse;David A. Balota

  • On the additive effects of stimulus quality and word frequency in lexical decision: evidence for opposing interactive influences revealed by RT distributional analyses.

    Melvin J. Yap;David A. Balota;Chi-Shing Tse;Derek Besner

  • The Malay Lexicon Project: a database of lexical statistics for 9,592 words.

    Melvin J. Yap;Susan J. Rickard Liow;Sajlia Binte Jalil;Siti Syuhada Binte Faizal

Frequent Co-Authors

David A. Balota
David A. Balota Washington University in St. Louis
Penny M. Pexman
Penny M. Pexman University of Calgary
Roger Ratcliff
Roger Ratcliff The Ohio State University
Marc Brysbaert
Marc Brysbaert Ghent University
James H. Neely
James H. Neely University at Albany, State University of New York
Jeffrey S. Bowers
Jeffrey S. Bowers University of Bristol
Desirée A. White
Desirée A. White Washington University in St. Louis
Manuel Perea
Manuel Perea University of Valencia
Douglas L. Nelson
Douglas L. Nelson University of South Florida
Alan D. Castel
Alan D. Castel University of California, Los Angeles

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