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D-Index
53
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17252
World Ranking
4715
National Ranking
505

Susan R. Leekam 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 Susan R. Leekam sits on this spectrum.

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31 publications 705+

This scientist: 122 publications — 34th percentile

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

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

Susan R. Leekam 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 Susan R. Leekam sits on this spectrum.

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30 D-Index 144+

This scientist: 53 D-Index — 59th percentile

59% of scientists in this discipline score the same or lower.

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

Overview

Susan R. Leekam is affiliated with Cardiff University in the United Kingdom. Their research primarily focuses on autism spectrum disorder and related neurodevelopmental areas. Their work spans topics such as autism spectrum disorder research, child development and digital technology, family and disability support research, child and adolescent psychosocial and emotional development, child nutrition and feeding issues, behavioral and psychological studies, and genetics and neurodevelopmental disorders.

The scientist's main fields of study include neuroscience and psychology with significant contributions to cognitive neuroscience, clinical psychology, education, psychiatry and mental health, and developmental and educational psychology.

Frequent coauthors in their publications include Mirko Uljarević, Sarah J. Carrington, Antonio Y. Hardan, Thomas Frazier, and Dale F. Hay.

They have published extensively in several venues, most often in Autism Research, as well as Molecular Autism, Journal of Autism and Developmental Disorders, JCPP Advances, and Clinical Psychology Review.

  • Predicting Mental Health and Psychological Wellbeing in Mothers of Children with Autism Spectrum Disorder: Roles of Intolerance of Uncertainty and Coping, 2020, Autism Research
  • Arriving at the empirically based conceptualization of restricted and repetitive behaviors: A systematic review and meta-analytic examination of factor analyses, 2023, Clinical Psychology Review
  • Deconstructing the repetitive behaviour phenotype in autism spectrum disorder through a large population-based analysis, 2020, Journal of Child Psychology and Psychiatry
  • How well are DSM-5 diagnostic criteria for ASD represented in standardized diagnostic instruments?, 2020, European Child & Adolescent Psychiatry
  • A cross-syndrome approach to the social phenotype of neurodevelopmental disorders: Focusing on social vulnerability and social interaction style, 2020, Research in Developmental Disabilities

Best Publications

  • Three-year-olds' difficulty with false belief: The case for a conceptual deficit

    Josef Perner;Susan R. Leekam;Heinz Wimmer

  • Describing the Sensory Abnormalities of Children and Adults with Autism.

    Susan R. Leekam;Carmen Nieto;Sarah J. Libby;Lorna Wing

  • Theory of mind is contagious - you catch it from your sibs

    Josef Perner;Ted Ruffman;Susan R. Leekam

  • The Diagnostic Interview for Social and Communication Disorders: background, inter-rater reliability and clinical use.

    Lorna Wing;Susan R. Leekam;Sarah J. Libby;Judith Gould

  • Making the future together: Shaping autism research through meaningful participation

    Sue Fletcher-Watson;Jon Adams;Kabie Brook;Tony Charman

  • What are the Links Between Theory of Mind and Social Relations? Review, Reflections and New Directions for Studies of Typical and Atypical Development

    Claire Hughes;Sue Leekam

  • Restricted and repetitive behaviors in autism spectrum disorders: a review of research in the last decade.

    Susan R. Leekam;Margot R. Prior;Mirko Uljarevic

  • Attention and joint attention in preschool children with autism

    Susan R. Leekam;Beatriz Lopez;Chris Moore

  • Does the autistic child have a metarepresentational deficit

    Susan R. Leekam;Josef Perner

  • Targets and Cues: Gaze-following in Children with Autism

    Sue R. Leekam;Emma Hunnisett;Christopher H. Moore

  • Eye-direction detection: A dissociation between geometric and joint attention skills in autism

    Susan R. Leekam;Simon Baron-Cohen;Dave Perrett;Maarten Milders

  • Distinguishing irony from deception: Understanding the speaker's second-order intention

    Ellen Winner;Sue Leekam

  • Eye-movements reveal attention to social information in autism spectrum disorder

    S. Fletcher-Watson;S.R. Leekam;Valerie Benson;M.C. Frank

  • Rapid detection of person information in a naturalistic scene.

    Sue Fletcher-Watson;John M Findlay;Susan R Leekam;Valerie Benson

  • Are there subgroups within the autistic spectrum? A cluster analysis of a group of children with autistic spectrum disorders.

    Margot Prior;Richard Eisenmajer;Susan Leekam;Lorna Wing

  • Comparison of clinical symptoms in autism and Asperger's disorder.

    Richard Eisenmajer;Margot Prior;Susan Leekam;Lorna Wing

  • Do children with autism fail to process information in context

    Beatriz López;Susan R. Leekam

  • Mind-Mindedness as a Multidimensional Construct: Appropriate and Nonattuned Mind-Related Comments Independently Predict Infant-Mother Attachment in a Socially Diverse Sample.

    Elizabeth Meins;Charles Fernyhough;Marc de Rosnay;Bronia Arnott

  • Relations among restricted and repetitive behaviors, anxiety and sensory features in children with autism spectrum disorders

    Jane Lidstone;Mirko Uljarević;Jillian Sullivan;Jacqui Rodgers

  • Repetitive behaviours in typically developing 2‐year‐olds

    Susan R. Leekam;Jonathan Tandos;Helen McConachie;Elizabeth Meins

  • The Diagnostic Interview for Social and Communication Disorders: Algorithms for ICD-10 childhood autism and Wing and Gould autistic spectrum disorder

    Susan R. Leekam;Sarah J. Libby;Lorna Wing;Judith Gould

Frequent Co-Authors

Mirko Uljarević
Mirko Uljarević University of Melbourne
Lorna Wing
Lorna Wing Medical Research Council
Ilse Noens
Ilse Noens KU Leuven
Sue Fletcher-Watson
Sue Fletcher-Watson University of Edinburgh
Helen McConachie
Helen McConachie Newcastle University
Elizabeth Meins
Elizabeth Meins University of York
Ann Le Couteur
Ann Le Couteur Newcastle University
John M. Findlay
John M. Findlay Durham University
Margot Prior
Margot Prior University of Melbourne
Charles Fernyhough
Charles Fernyhough Durham University

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