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Papers

(The median citation count of Trends in Hearing is 2. The table below lists those papers that are above that threshold based on CrossRef citation counts [max. 250 papers]. The publications cover those that have been published in the past four years, i.e., from 2020-11-01 to 2024-11-01.)

Article	Citations
Listening Effort Is Not the Same as Speech Intelligibility Score	58
A MultiCenter Analysis of Factors Associated with Hearing Outcome for 2,735 Adults with Cochlear Implants	23
Hearing Aids Reduce Daily-Life Fatigue and Increase Social Activity: A Longitudinal Study	22
Factors Influencing Hearing Help-Seeking and Hearing Aid Uptake in Adults: A Systematic Review of the Past Decade	21
Cochlear Implantation in Infants: Why and How	16
No Evidence That Music Training Benefits Speech Perception in Hearing-Impaired Listeners: A Systematic Review	16
Robust and Efficient Online Auditory Psychophysics	16
Reward Enhances Online Participants’ Engagement With a Demanding Auditory Task	15
Perceptual Matching of Room Acoustics for Auditory Augmented Reality in Small Rooms - Literature Review and Theoretical Framework	15
Sixty Years of Frequency-Domain Monaural Speech Enhancement: From Traditional to Deep Learning Methods	14
Conceptual Model of Hearing Health Inequalities (HHI Model): A Critical Interpretive Synthesis	14
Differences in Auditory Perception Between Young and Older Adults When Controlling for Differences in Hearing Loss and Cognition	13
Unilateral Acoustic Degradation Delays Attentional Separation of Competing Speech	12
Does Probe-Tube Verification of Real-Ear Hearing Aid Amplification Characteristics Improve Outcomes in Adults? A Systematic Review and Meta-Analysis	12
Functional Consequences of Poor Binaural Hearing in Development: Evidence From Children With Unilateral Hearing Loss and Children Receiving Bilateral Cochlear Implants	12
U.S. Population Data on Hearing Loss, Trouble Hearing, and Hearing-Device Use in Adults: National Health and Nutrition Examination Survey, 2011–12, 2015–16, and 2017–20	11
Personal Music Players and Hearing Loss: The HUNT Cohort Study	11
Hearing Thresholds for Unscreened U.S. Adults: Data From the National Health and Nutrition Examination Survey, 2011–2012, 2015–2016, and 2017–2020	11
Cochlear Implantation in Infants: Evidence of Safety	11
Speech recognition with a hearing-aid processing scheme combining beamforming with mask-informed speech enhancement	10
Quantifying the Effects of Motivation on Listening Effort: A Systematic Review and Meta-Analysis	10
Sound Localization Bias and Error in Bimodal Listeners Improve Instantaneously When the Device Delay Mismatch Is Reduced	9
Hearing aid Experiences of Adult Hearing aid Owners During and After Fitting: A Systematic Review of Qualitative Studies	9
Transmission of Binaural Cues by Bilateral Cochlear Implants: Examining the Impacts of Bilaterally Independent Spectral Peak-Picking, Pulse Timing, and Compression	9
Towards Personalized Auditory Models: Predicting Individual Sensorineural Hearing-Loss Profiles From Recorded Human Auditory Physiology	9

Effect of Speech-to-Noise Ratio and Luminance on a Range of Current and Potential Pupil Response Measures to Assess Listening Effort	9
Characteristics of Speech-Evoked Envelope Following Responses in Infancy	9
Guidelines for Diagnosing and Quantifying Noise-Induced Hearing Loss	9
Single-Channel Focused Thresholds Relate to Vowel Identification in Pediatric and Adult Cochlear Implant Listeners	8
A Comparison of Environment Classification Among Premium Hearing Instruments	8
The Association between Hearing Impairment and Postural Stability in Older Adults: A Systematic Review and Meta-analysis	8
Perceived Sound Quality Dimensions Influencing Frequency-Gain Shaping Preferences for Hearing Aid-Amplified Speech and Music	8
The Relative Contribution of Cochlear Synaptopathy and Reduced Inhibition to Age-Related Hearing Impairment for People With Normal Audiograms	8
Predictive models for cochlear implant outcomes: Performance, generalizability, and the impact of cohort size	8
Individual Hearing Aid Benefit in Real Life Evaluated Using Ecological Momentary Assessment	8
Harmonic Cancellation—A Fundamental of Auditory Scene Analysis	8
Effectiveness of Computer-Based Auditory Training for Adult Cochlear Implant Users: A Randomized Crossover Study	8
Review of Whole Head Experimental Cochlear Promontory Vibration with Bone Conduction Stimulation and Investigation of Experimental Setup Effects	8
The Relationship Between Impedance, Programming and Word Recognition in a Large Clinical Dataset of Cochlear Implant Recipients	7
Effect of Chronological Age on Pulse Rate Discrimination in Adult Cochlear-Implant Users	7
Spatial Resolution of Late Reverberation in Virtual Acoustic Environments	7
Considerations for Fitting Cochlear Implants Bimodally and to the Single-Sided Deaf	7
Exploring the Correlations Between Measures of Listening Effort in Adults and Children: A Systematic Review with Narrative Synthesis	7
Sound Source Selection Based on Head Movements in Natural Group Conversation	7
Effects of Increasing the Overall Level or Fitting Hearing Aids on Emotional Responses to Sounds	6
Self-motion with Hearing Impairment and (Directional) Hearing Aids	6
Synchronized Automatic Gain Control in Bilateral Cochlear Implant Recipients Yields Significant Benefit in Static and Dynamic Listening Conditions	6
Can Dual Compression Offer Better Mandarin Speech Intelligibility and Sound Quality Than Fast-Acting Compression?	6
Differences Between Older Adults Who Do and Do Not Try Hearing Aids and Between Those Who Keep and Return the Devices	6
Effects of Noise and Second Language on Conversational Dynamics in Task Dialogue	6
Dual-Task Accuracy and Response Time Index Effects of Spoken Sentence Predictability and Cognitive Load on Listening Effort	6
The Listener Effect in Multitalker Speech Segregation and Talker Identification	5
A Systematic Review of the Effect of Hearing Aids on Static and Dynamic Balance in Adults with Hearing Impairment	5
Head Shadow, Summation, and Squelch in Bilateral Cochlear-Implant Users With Linked Automatic Gain Controls	5
Perceived Listening Difficulties of Adult Cochlear-Implant Users Under Measures Introduced to Combat the Spread of COVID-19	5
Measuring and Modeling Cue Dependent Spatial Release from Masking in the Presence of Typical Delays in the Treatment of Hearing Loss	5
Effect of Channel Interaction on Vocal Cue Perception in Cochlear Implant Users	5
Amplitude Growth Functions of Auditory Nerve Responses to Electric Pulse Stimulation With Varied Interphase Gaps in Cochlear Implant Users With Ipsilateral Residual Hearing	5
Speech Recognition and Listening Effort of Meaningful Sentences Using Synthetic Speech	5
Hearing Through Bone Conduction Headsets	5
Detection, Speech Recognition, Loudness, and Preference Outcomes With a Direct Drive Hearing Aid: Effects of Bandwidth	5
Analysis of a Cochlear Implant Database: Changes in Tinnitus Prevalence and Distress After Cochlear Implantation	5
Simultaneous Intra- and Extracochlear Electrocochleography During Cochlear Implantation to Enhance Response Interpretation	5
A Glimpse of Memory Through the Eyes: Pupillary Responses Measured During Encoding Reflect the Likelihood of Subsequent Memory Recall in an Auditory Free Recall Test	5
Transient Noise Reduction Using a Deep Recurrent Neural Network: Effects on Subjective Speech Intelligibility and Listening Comfort	5
Electrically Evoked Auditory Brainstem Responses in Children Fitted with Hearing Aids Prior to Cochlear Implantation	4
Investigating the Reliability of Pupillometry as a Measure of Individualized Listening Effort	4
Baseline pupil size encodes task-related information and modulates the task-evoked response in a speech-in-noise task	4
Functional Polymorphism of MMP9 and BDNF as Potential Biomarker of Auditory Neuroplasticity in Prelingual Deafness Treatment With Cochlear Implantation—A Retrospective Cohort Analysis	4
Musical Emotion Categorization with Vocoders of Varying Temporal and Spectral Content	4
Listening Effort in School-Aged Children With Limited Useable Hearing Unilaterally: Examining the Effects of a Personal, Digital Remote Microphone System and a Contralateral Routing of Signal System	4
Emotional Responses to Non-Speech Sounds for Hearing-aid and Bimodal Cochlear-Implant Listeners	4
A Comparison of Place-Pitch-Based Interaural Electrode Matching Methods for Bilateral Cochlear-Implant Users	4
Speech-In-Noise Comprehension is Improved When Viewing a Deep-Neural-Network-Generated Talking Face	4
Instrumental Quality Predictions and Analysis of Auditory Cues for Algorithms in Modern Headphone Technology	4

Interleaved Acoustic Environments: Impact of an Auditory Scene Classification Procedure on Speech Perception in Cochlear Implant Users	4
Predicting Hearing aid Benefit Using Speech-Evoked Envelope Following Responses in Children With Hearing Loss	4
The Effects of Uncertainty in Level on Speech-on-Speech Masking	4
Systematic Comparison of Trial Exclusion Criteria for Pupillometry Data Analysis in Individuals With Single-Sided Deafness and Normal Hearing	4
Listening to Music Through Hearing Aids: Potential Lessons for Cochlear Implants	4
Enhanced Place Specificity of the Parallel Auditory Brainstem Response: A Modeling Study	4
Mechanisms of Spectrotemporal Modulation Detection for Normal- and Hearing-Impaired Listeners	3
Plasticity After Hearing Rehabilitation in the Aging Brain	3
A Phenomenological Model Reproducing Temporal Response Characteristics of an Electrically Stimulated Auditory Nerve Fiber	3
Objective Assessment System for Hearing Prediction Based on Stimulus-Frequency Otoacoustic Emissions	3
Extending Subcortical EEG Responses to Continuous Speech to the Sound-Field	3
Do Room Acoustics Affect the Amplitude of Sound-Field Auditory Steady-State Responses?	3
Hearing Asymmetry Biases Spatial Hearing in Bimodal Cochlear-Implant Users Despite Bilateral Low-Frequency Hearing Preservation	3
Measuring the Influence of Noise Reduction on Listening Effort in Hearing-Impaired Listeners Using Response Times to an Arithmetic Task in Noise	3
Optimization of Sound Coding Strategies to Make Singing Music More Accessible for Cochlear Implant Users	3
Associations Between Hearing and Cognitive Abilities From Childhood to Middle Age: The National Child Development Study 1958	3
The Effect of Stimulation Position and Ear Canal Occlusion on Perception of Bone Conducted Sound	3
The Effects of Hearing-Aid Amplification and Noise on Conversational Dynamics Between Normal-Hearing and Hearing-Impaired Talkers	3
The Development of Sound Localization Latency in Infants and Young Children with Normal Hearing	3
Utilizing True Wireless Stereo Earbuds in Automated Pure-Tone Audiometry	3
Does Exposure to Noise During Military Service Affect the Progression of Hearing Loss with Increasing Age?	3
Effects of Stimulation Position and Frequency Band on Auditory Spatial Perception with Bilateral Bone Conduction	2
Beamforming and Single-Microphone Noise Reduction: Effects on Signal-to-Noise Ratio and Speech Recognition of Bimodal Cochlear Implant Users	2
New Avenues in Audio Intelligence: Towards Holistic Real-life Audio Understanding	2
Identification and Discrimination of Sound Textures in Hearing-Impaired and Older Listeners	2
No Link Between Speech-in-Noise Perception and Auditory Sensory Memory – Evidence From a Large Cohort of Older and Younger Listeners	2
Toward Sound Localization Testing in Virtual Reality to Aid in the Screening of Auditory Processing Disorders	2
Comparing Clinically Applicable Behavioral and Electrophysiological Measures of Speech Detection, Discrimination, and Comprehension	2
Effect of Vibrotactile Stimulation on Auditory Timbre Perception for Normal-Hearing Listeners and Cochlear-Implant Users	2
Clinical Feasibility and Familiarization Effects of Device Delay Mismatch Compensation in Bimodal CI/HA Users	2
Classification of Acoustic Hearing Preservation After Cochlear Implantation Using Electrocochleography	2
The Relationship Between Interaural Insertion-Depth Differences, Scalar Location, and Interaural Time-Difference Processing in Adult Bilateral Cochlear-Implant Listeners	2
Linking Affective and Hearing Sciences—Affective Audiology	2
Binaural-cue Weighting and Training-Induced Reweighting Across Frequencies	2
Strategic Pauses Relieve Listeners from the Effort of Listening to Fast Speech: Data Limited and Resource Limited Processes in Narrative Recall by Adult Users of Cochlear Implants	2
A Data-driven Distance Metric for Evaluating the effects of Dynamic Range Compression in Adverse Conditions	2
Speech Intelligibility and Spatial Release From Masking Improvements Using Spatial Noise Reduction Algorithms in Bimodal Cochlear Implant Users	2
Development and Validation of a Mandarin Chinese Adaptation of AzBio Sentence Test (CMnBio)	2
Development of the Musi-CI Training, A Musical Listening Training for Cochlear Implant Users: A Participatory Action Research Approach	2
Diagnosing Noise-Induced Hearing Loss Sustained During Military Service Using Deep Neural Networks	2
Adapting to the Sound of Music — Development of Music Discrimination Skills in Recently Implanted CI Users	2
Grouping by Time and Pitch Facilitates Free but Not Cued Recall for Word Lists in Normally-Hearing Listeners	2
Revealing Perceptional and Cognitive Mechanisms in Static and Dynamic Cocktail Party Listening by Means of Error Analyses	2
The Role of Interaural Differences, Head Shadow, and Binaural Redundancy in Binaural Intelligibility Benefits Among School-Aged Children	2
Alpha-Band Dynamics of Hearing Aid Wearers Performing the Repeat-Recall Test (RRT)	2
The Effect of Sound Localization on Auditory-Only and Audiovisual Speech Recognition in a Simulated Multitalker Environment	2
An Effect of Gaze Direction in Cocktail Party Listening	2
Listening Effort in Quiet and Noisy Environments in the Daily Life of Adults With Hearing Aids: An Extended Version of the Effort Assessment Scale (EEAS)	2
The Concurrent OLSA Test: A Method for Speech Recognition in Multi-talker Situations at Fixed SNR	2
Reaction Time Sensitivity to Spectrotemporal Modulations of Sound	2
Fitting a Hearing Aid on the Better Ear, Worse Ear, or Both: Associations of Hearing-aid Fitting Laterality with Outcomes in a Large Sample of US Veterans	2
Susceptibility to Residual Inhibition Is Associated With Hearing Loss and Tinnitus Chronicity	2
Rapid Assessment of Subjective Hearing Complaints With a Modified Version of the Tinnitus and Hearing Survey	2
Effectiveness of Auditory Training in Experienced Hearing-Aid Users, and an Exploration of Their Health-Related Quality of Life and Coping Strategies	2
Effect of Frequency Response Manipulations on Musical Sound Quality for Cochlear Implant Users	2
Influence of Three Auditory Profiles on Aided Speech Perception in Different Noise Scenarios	2
Auditory and Visual Integration for Emotion Recognition and Compensation for Degraded Signals are Preserved With Age	2