The "Amateur" is a PhD student now and has lot of citations on his google scholar. I am happy for him to have such a good impact on the field even though he started late.
https://scholar.google.com/citations?user=feMcJ4UAAAAJ&hl=en
https://scholar.google.com/citations?user=feMcJ4UAAAAJ&hl=en
* No Evidence That Twitter Language Reliably Predicts Heart Disease: A Reanalysis of Eichstaedt et al.(2015a)
* Through a womb, darkly: Methodological problems in a recent study of fetal visual perception
* Emodiversity: Robust predictor of outcomes or statistical artifact?