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Richard K. Olson 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 Richard K. Olson sits on this spectrum.

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31 publications 705+

This scientist: 236 publications — 78th percentile

78% of scientists in this discipline score the same or lower.

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

Richard K. Olson 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 Richard K. Olson sits on this spectrum.

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30 D-Index 144+

This scientist: 91 D-Index — 92nd percentile

92% of scientists in this discipline score the same or lower.

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

Overview

Richard K. Olson is affiliated with the University of Colorado Boulder in the United States. Their research primarily spans the fields of psychology and social sciences, with a focus on developmental and educational psychology, genetics, education, statistics and probability, and cognitive neuroscience.

Their main topics of study include:

  • Reading and Literacy Development
  • Genetics and Neurodevelopmental Disorders
  • Writing and Handwriting Education
  • Parental Involvement in Education
  • Cognitive and developmental aspects of mathematical skills
  • Genetic Associations and Epidemiology
  • Language Development and Disorders

Richard K. Olson has contributed extensively to academic literature with several recent papers, including:

  • Genome-wide association study reveals new insights into the heritability and genetic correlates of developmental dyslexia (2020), published in Molecular Psychiatry
  • Genome-wide analyses of individual differences in quantitatively assessed reading- and language-related skills in up to 34,000 people (2022), published in Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences
  • How Specific Are Learning Disabilities? (2021), published in Journal of Learning Disabilities
  • Discovery of 42 Genome-Wide Significant Loci Associated with Dyslexia (2021), published in bioRxiv (Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory)
  • Genome-wide association analyses of individual differences in quantitatively assessed reading- and language-related skills in up to 34,000 people (2021), published in bioRxiv (Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory)

The frequent co-authors collaborating with Richard K. Olson include:

  • Erik G. Willcutt
  • Bruce F. Pennington
  • John C. DeFries
  • Beaté St Pourcain
  • Shelley D. Smith

Their work is regularly published in several journals and venues, notably:

  • Reading and Writing
  • Journal of Learning Disabilities
  • bioRxiv (Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory)
  • Scientific Studies of Reading
  • Molecular Psychiatry

Best Publications

  • The Nonword Reading Deficit in Developmental Dyslexia: A Review.

    John P. Rack;Margaret J. Snowling;Richard K. Olson

  • Reading Comprehension Tests Vary in the Skills They Assess: Differential Dependence on Decoding and Oral Comprehension.

    Janice M. Keenan;Rebecca S. Betjemann;Richard K. Olson

  • Neuropsychological Analyses of Comorbidity Between Reading Disability and Attention Deficit Hyperactivity Disorder: In Search of the Common Deficit

    Erik G Willcutt;Bruce F Pennington;Richard K Olson;Nomita Chhabildas

  • Specific Deficits in Component Reading and Language Skills: Genetic and Environmental Influences

    Richard Olson;Barbara Wise;Frances Conners;John Rack

  • The heritability of general cognitive ability increases linearly from childhood to young adulthood

    Claire M. A. Haworth;M. J. Wright;M. Luciano;N. G. Martin

  • A comparison of the cognitive deficits in reading disability and attention-deficit/hyperactivity disorder.

    Erik G. Willcutt;Bruce F. Pennington;Richard Boada;Jamie S. Ogline

  • Processing speed deficits in attention deficit/hyperactivity disorder and reading disability.

    Michelle A. Shanahan;Bruce F. Pennington;Benjamin E. Yerys;Ashley Scott

  • DCDC2 is associated with reading disability and modulates neuronal development in the brain

    Haiying Meng;Shelley D. Smith;Karl Hager;Matthew Held

  • Pitch as a medium: a new approach to psychophysical scaling.

    Fred Attneave;Richard K. Olson

  • Measurement of word recognition, orthographic, and phonological skills.

    Richard Olson;Helen Forsberg;Barbara Wise;John Rack

  • Individual and developmental differences in reading disability

    Richard K. Olson;Reinhold Kliegl;Brian J. Davidson;Gregory Foltz

  • Comorbidity Between Reading Disability and Math Disability Concurrent Psychopathology, Functional Impairment, and Neuropsychological Functioning

    Erik G. Willcutt;Stephen A. Petrill;Sarah Wu;Richard Boada

  • Etiology and neuropsychology of comorbidity between RD and ADHD: the case for multiple-deficit models.

    Erik G. Willcutt;Rebecca S. Betjemann;Lauren M. McGrath;Nomita A. Chhabildas

  • Predicting Word Reading and Comprehension with Executive Function and Speed Measures Across Development: A Latent Variable Analysis

    Micaela E. Christopher;Akira Miyake;Janice M. Keenan;Bruce Pennington

  • A multiple deficit model of reading disability and attention-deficit/hyperactivity disorder: searching for shared cognitive deficits

    Lauren M. McGrath;Bruce F. Pennington;Michelle A. Shanahan;Laura E. Santerre-Lemmon

  • Eye fixation patterns among dyslexic and normal readers: Effects of word length and word frequency.

    Jukka Hyönä;Richard K. Olson

  • Quantitative-Trait Locus for Specific Language and Reading Deficits on Chromosome 6p

    Javier Gayán;Shelley D. Smith;Stacey S. Cherny;Stacey S. Cherny;Lon R. Cardon

  • Individual prediction of dyslexia by single versus multiple deficit models.

    Bruce F. Pennington;Laura Santerre-Lemmon;Jennifer Rosenberg;Beatriz MacDonald

  • Independent genome-wide scans identify a chromosome 18 quantitative-trait locus influencing dyslexia.

    Simon E. Fisher;Clyde Francks;Angela J. Marlow;I. Laurence MacPhie

  • Training phonological awareness with and without explicit attention to articulation.

    Barbara W. Wise;Jerry Ring;Richard K. Olson

  • Classification of learning disabilities: An evidence-based evaluation.

    Jack M. Fletcher;G. Reid Lyonm;Marcia Barnes;Karla K. Stuebing

Frequent Co-Authors

John C. DeFries
John C. DeFries University of Colorado Boulder
Bruce F. Pennington
Bruce F. Pennington University of Denver
Erik G. Willcutt
Erik G. Willcutt University of Colorado Boulder
Brian Byrne
Brian Byrne University of New England
Stefan Samuelsson
Stefan Samuelsson Linköping University
Sally J. Wadsworth
Sally J. Wadsworth University of Colorado Boulder
Janice M. Keenan
Janice M. Keenan University of Denver
Robin P. Corley
Robin P. Corley University of Colorado Boulder
Simon E. Fisher
Simon E. Fisher Max Planck Society
Anthony P. Monaco
Anthony P. Monaco Tufts University

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