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55
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2018
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970

Richard Wright 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 Richard Wright sits on this spectrum.

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44 publications 570+

This scientist: 299 publications — 87th percentile

87% of scientists in this discipline score the same or lower.

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

Richard Wright 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 Richard Wright sits on this spectrum.

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This scientist: 55 D-Index — 75th percentile

75% of scientists in this discipline score the same or lower.

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Overview

Richard Wright is affiliated with Georgia State University in the United States. Their research primarily spans the intersection of computer science and cognitive neuroscience, with a significant emphasis on speech and audio processing.

The scientist's main fields of study include Computer Science with an emphasis on subfields such as Signal Processing, Cognitive Neuroscience, Sociology and Political Science, Experimental and Cognitive Psychology, and Artificial Intelligence.

Their research topics cover a variety of areas, notably:

  • Speech and Audio Processing
  • Hearing Loss and Rehabilitation
  • Phonetics and Phonology Research
  • Noise Effects and Management
  • Speech Recognition and Synthesis
  • Crime Patterns and Interventions
  • Crime, Deviance, and Social Control

Richard Wright has contributed numerous papers to prominent publication venues. The most frequent venues include:

  • The Journal of the Acoustical Society of America
  • Journal of Speech Language and Hearing Research
  • Proceedings of meetings on acoustics
  • Psychiatry Psychology and Law
  • British Journal of Sociology

Some of the recent papers authored or coauthored include:

  • Attachment and the (mis)apprehension of Aboriginal children: epistemic violence in child welfare interventions, 2024, Psychiatry Psychology and Law
  • Contributions to Speech-Cue Weighting in Older Adults With Impaired Hearing, 2020, Journal of Speech Language and Hearing Research
  • Does the Speech Cue Profile Affect Response to Amplitude Envelope Distortion?, 2021, Journal of Speech Language and Hearing Research
  • Introduction to the special issue on the phonetics of under-documented languages, 2020, The Journal of the Acoustical Society of America
  • Reconsidering commonly used stimuli in speech perception experiments, 2022, The Journal of the Acoustical Society of America

Frequent collaborators in their research include Benjamin V. Tucker, Marina Oganyan, Pamela E. Souza, Frederick J. Gallun, and Volkan Topalli. These coauthors have appeared repeatedly in Wright's work across various projects and publications.

Best Publications

  • Burglars On The Job: Streetlife and Residential Break-ins

    Richard T. Wright;Scott H. Decker;Gilbert Geis

  • Armed Robbers in Action: Stickups and Street Culture

    Richard T. Wright;Scott H. Decker;Neal Shover

  • Burglars on Burglary: Prevention and the Offender

    Trevor Bennett;Richard Wright

  • The Hyperspace Effect: Phonetic Targets Are Hyperarticulated.

    Keith Johnson;Edward Flemming;Richard Wright

  • Street Justice: Retaliation in the Criminal Underworld

    Bruce A. Jacobs;Richard Wright

  • DRUG DEALERS, ROBBERY AND RETALIATION Vulnerability, Deterrence and the Contagion of Violence

    Volkan Topalli;Richard Wright;Robert Fornango

  • Perceptual deterrence among active residential burglars: A research note.

    S Decker;R Wright;R Logie

  • The color curtain : a report on the Bandung Conference

    Richard Wright

  • A Snowball's Chance in Hell: Doing Fieldwork with Active Residential Burglars

    Richard Wright;Scott H. Decker;Allison K. Redfern;Dietrich L. Smith

  • The phonetics of phonological speech errors: An acoustic analysis of slips of the tongue

    Stefan A. Frisch;Richard Wright

  • The God that Failed

    Richard Crossman;Andre Gide;Richard Wright;Ignazio Silone

  • Test-Retest Reliability of Cortical Evoked Potentials Using Naturally Produced Speech Sounds

    K. L. Tremblay;L. Friesen;B. A. Martin;R. Wright

  • Is Structured Observation a Valid Technique to Measure Handwashing Behavior? Use of Acceleration Sensors Embedded in Soap to Assess Reactivity to Structured Observation

    Pavani K. Ram;Amal K. Halder;Stewart P. Granger;Therese Jones

  • GENDER, SOCIAL NETWORKS, AND RESIDENTIAL BURGLARY*

    Christopher W. Mullins;Richard Wright

  • THE RELEVANCE OF PEACE TO STUDIES OF DRUG MARKET VIOLENCE

    Scott Jacques;Roosevelt Wright

  • The effect of a soap promotion and hygiene education campaign on handwashing behaviour in rural India: a cluster randomised trial

    Adam Biran;Wolf Peter Schmidt;Richard Wright;Therese Jones

  • Black Boy: A Record of Childhood and Youth

    Richard Nathaniel Wright

  • LESS CASH, LESS CRIME: EVIDENCE FROM THE ELECTRONIC BENEFIT TRANSFER PROGRAM

    Richard Wright;Erdal Tekin;Volkan Topalli;Chandler McClellan

  • Revisiting population size vs. phoneme inventory size

    Steven Moran;Daniel Robert McCloy;Richard A. Wright

  • Blueprint for Negro writing

    Richard Wright;Marcosarruda

  • The Vocal Joystick: A Voice-Based Human-Computer Interface for Individuals with Motor Impairments

    Jeff A. Bilmes;Xiao Li;Jonathan Malkin;Kelley Kilanski

  • Black Power: A Record of Reactions in a Land of Pathos

    Richard Wright

Frequent Co-Authors

David B. Pisoni
David B. Pisoni Indiana University
Mari Ostendorf
Mari Ostendorf University of Washington
Scott H. Decker
Scott H. Decker Arizona State University
Alison Mountz
Alison Mountz University of Toronto
Richard Rosenfeld
Richard Rosenfeld University of Missouri–St. Louis
Jeff A. Bilmes
Jeff A. Bilmes University of Washington
Keith A. Johnson
Keith A. Johnson Harvard University
James A. Landay
James A. Landay Stanford University
Robert H. Logie
Robert H. Logie University of Edinburgh
Howard Jay Chizeck
Howard Jay Chizeck University of Washington

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