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Researcher · Smith College · United States

Jill de Villiers

Jill de Villiers publishes mostly in Developmental and Educational Psychology, Language and Linguistics and Artificial Intelligence, on topics such as Language Development and Disorders, Syntax, Semantics, Linguistic Variation and Child and Animal Learning Development.

ORCID 0000-0002-2906-3537 OpenAlex
World rank
#402,898
of 7,710,434 ranked researchers
Rank in United States
#142,866
of 1,627,098
Works
116
Citations
3.8k
Citations per work
32.5
h-index
31
i10-index 51Top 7.6% in Developmental and Educational Psychology
Jill de Villiers

What does Jill de Villiers research?

Jill de Villiers's work is mostly in Psychology (41%), Arts and Humanities (15%), Computer Science (8%).

Social Sciences: 71 works · 60.8% of their workPsychology: 47 works · 40.6% of their workDevelopmental and Educational Psychology: 41 works · 35.6% of their workExperimental and Cognitive Psychology: 6 works · 5.0% of their workArts and Humanities: 17 works · 14.8% of their workLanguage and Linguistics: 17 works · 14.8% of their workSocial Sciences: 6 works · 5.4% of their workEducation: 6 works · 5.4% of their workEverything else: 31 works · 26.5% of their workPhysical Sciences: 9 works · 7.7% of their workComputer Science: 9 works · 7.7% of their workArtificial Intelligence: 9 works · 7.7% of their workLife Sciences: 6 works · 5.0% of their workNeuroscience: 6 works · 5.0% of their workCognitive Neuroscience: 6 works · 5.0% of their workTHEIR WORKJill de Villiers116works
Life Sciences5%Physical Sciences8%Social Sciences61%

Their six largest subfields, inside their fields and domains; the grey slice is everything else they publish. The interactive view splits every one of their works down to single topics.

The fields and subfields, with their numbers
    1. Psychology4740.6%
    2. Arts and Humanities1714.8%
    3. Social Sciences65.4%
  2. Everything else3126.5%
    1. Computer Science97.7%
    1. Neuroscience65.0%
  1. 1Developmental and Educational Psychology36% of their works
  2. 2Language and Linguistics15% of their works
  3. 3Artificial Intelligence8% of their works
  4. 4Education5% of their works
  5. 5Cognitive Neuroscience5% of their works
  6. 6Experimental and Cognitive Psychology5% of their works

Research topics

Which keywords describe Jill de Villiers's research?

The keywords of their largest research topics: Language Development, Social Interaction, Bilingualism, Speech and Language Disorder, Statistical Learning, Pragmatics, Syntax and Grammar.

Size is their works in the topics tagged with each word, from their 8 largest topics. Each links to the topic it comes from most. The words come from the keyword list OpenAlex gives each topic, not from the text of the papers, so a word can appear that none of the papers uses.

All 21 words, with their numbers
  1. Language Development913 topics
  2. Social Interaction813 topics
  3. Bilingualism562 topics
  4. Speech and Language Disorder471 topic
  5. Statistical Learning471 topic
  6. Pragmatics372 topics
  7. Syntax352 topics
  8. Grammar261 topic
  9. Semantics261 topic
  10. Child Development231 topic
  11. Theory of Mind231 topic
  12. Dyslexia211 topic
  13. Reading Acquisition211 topic
  14. Conversation Analysis111 topic
  15. Interactional Linguistics111 topic
  16. Language Processing91 topic
  17. Semantic Memory91 topic
  18. Cultural Evolution81 topic
  19. Language81 topic
  20. Neural Machine Translation81 topic
  21. Statistical Machine Translation81 topic

Where does Jill de Villiers work?

Jill de Villiers's main affiliation in the publication record is Smith College, United States.

How many publications and citations does Jill de Villiers have?

OpenAlex counts 116 works and 3,765 citations for Jill de Villiers, an h-index of 31, ranking #402,898 of 7,710,434 researchers worldwide on the quality score.

Ranked on field-normalised citation excellence (50%), output (30%) and citations (20%). Counts come from OpenAlex author records, which occasionally merge different people who share a name or split one person into several.

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