2026 Neil Cohn: 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	36	6519	6062	256	242	110	4938

Neil Cohn 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 Neil Cohn sits on this spectrum.

44 publications 570+

This scientist: 110 publications — 18th percentile

18% of scientists in this discipline score the same or lower.

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

Neil Cohn 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 Neil Cohn sits on this spectrum.

30 D-Index 100+

This scientist: 36 D-Index — 19th percentile

19% of scientists in this discipline score the same or lower.

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

Overview

Neil Cohn is a researcher affiliated with Tilburg University in the Netherlands. Their work spans multiple disciplines, primarily focusing on psychology, arts and humanities, and neuroscience. Within these fields, their research often delves into areas such as experimental and cognitive psychology, cognitive neuroscience, developmental and educational psychology, language and linguistics, as well as visual arts and performing arts.

The main topics that feature prominently in Neil Cohn's research include language, metaphor, and cognition; neurobiology of language and bilingualism; reading and literacy development; comics and graphic narratives; multisensory perception and integration; subtitles and audiovisual media; and digital storytelling and education.

Frequent collaborators in their scientific work include Joost Schilperoord, Irmak Hacımusaoğlu, Bien Klomberg, Tom Foulsham, and Emily L. Coderre.

Neil Cohn has published extensively in several academic venues. The most common publication outlets for their work are Cognitive Science, Memory & Cognition, Scientific Reports, Brain and Cognition, and Neuropsychologia.

Their recent papers demonstrate a focus on cognitive and linguistic aspects of narrative comprehension and multimodality. Selected recent publications include:

"Visual and Verbal Narrative Comprehension in Children and Adolescents with Autism Spectrum Disorders: An ERP Study" (2020, Journal of Autism and Developmental Disorders)
"Remarks on Multimodality: Grammatical Interactions in the Parallel Architecture" (2022, Frontiers in Artificial Intelligence)
"Reimagining Language" (2022, Cognitive Science)
"Effects of picture-word integration on reading visual narratives in L1 and L2" (2020, Learning and Instruction)
"The Lexicon of Emoji? Conventionality Modulates Processing of Emoji" (2023, Cognitive Science)

In addition to journal articles, Neil Cohn has authored several books published primarily by Bloomsbury Publishing and Firenze University Press. Notable titles include:

A Multimodal Language Faculty (2024, Bloomsbury Publishing plc)
The Patterns of Comics (2023, Bloomsbury Publishing plc)
Who Understands Comics? (2020, Bloomsbury Academic eBooks)
Il graphic novel. Un crossover per la modernità (2020, Firenze University Press)

Best Publications

THE VISUAL LANGUAGE OF COMICS: INTRODUCTION TO THE STRUCTURE AND COGNITION OF SEQUENTIAL IMAGES

Neil Cohn

457
Citations
Visual narrative structure.

Neil Cohn

398
Citations
(Pea)nuts and bolts of visual narrative: structure and meaning in sequential image comprehension

Neil Cohn;Martin Paczynski;Ray Jackendoff;Phillip J. Holcomb

189
Citations
The limits of time and transitions: challenges to theories of sequential image comprehension

Neil Cohn

169
Citations
Navigating comics: an empirical and theoretical approach to strategies of reading comic page layouts.

Neil Cohn

153
Citations
Japanese Visual Language: The structure of manga

Neil Cohn

145
Citations
Beyond speech balloons and thought bubbles: The integration of text and image

Neil Cohn

133
Citations
Electrophysiological correlates of complement coercion

Gina R. Kuperberg;Arim Choi;Neil Cohn;Martin Paczynski

132
Citations
Explaining ‘I Can’t Draw’: Parallels between the Structure and Development of Language and Drawing

Neil Cohn

131
Citations
Prediction, events, and the advantage of agents: the processing of semantic roles in visual narrative.

Neil Cohn;Martin Paczynski

131
Citations
The grammar of visual narrative: Neural evidence for constituent structure in sequential image comprehension.

Neil Cohn;Neil Cohn;Ray Jackendoff;Phillip J. Holcomb;Gina R. Kuperberg

126
Citations
A multimodal parallel architecture: A cognitive framework for multimodal interactions.

Neil Cohn

124
Citations
A Visual Lexicon

Neil Cohn

113
Citations
Comics, Linguistics, and Visual Language: The Past and Future of a Field

Neil Cohn

108
Citations
Reading Without Words: Eye Movements in the Comprehension of Comic Strips

Tom Foulsham;Dean P Wybrow;Neil Cohn

106
Citations
The architecture of visual narrative comprehension: the interaction of narrative structure and page layout in understanding comics.

Neil Cohn

103
Citations
A User's Guide to Thought and Meaning

Ray S. Jackendoff;Neil Cohn;Bill Griffith

95
Citations
Early writings on visual language

Neil Cohn

95
Citations
You're a good structure, Charlie Brown: the distribution of narrative categories in comic strips.

Neil Cohn

87
Citations
Your Brain on Comics: A Cognitive Model of Visual Narrative Comprehension.

Neil Cohn

85
Citations
Action starring narratives and events: Structure and inference in visual narrative comprehension

Neil Cohn;Eva Wittenberg

81
Citations
Un-Defining "Comics": Separating the cultural from the structural in ‘comics’

Neil Cohn

76
Citations

Frequent Co-Authors

Ray Jackendoff Tufts University

Gina R. Kuperberg Tufts University

Tom Foulsham University of Essex

Phillip J. Holcomb San Diego State University

Marta Kutas University of California, San Diego

Paulo S. Boggio Universidade Presbiteriana Mackenzie

Joseph P. Magliano Georgia State University

Tim J. Smith Birkbeck, University of London

Jeffrey M. Zacks Washington University in St. Louis

Robert L. Goldstone Indiana University

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