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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 Cognitive Neuroscience, on topics such as Language Development and Disorders, Neurobiology of Language and Bilingualism and Syntax, Semantics, Linguistic Variation.

ORCID 0000-0002-2906-3537 OpenAlex
World rank
#1,505,267
of 1,633,909 ranked researchers
Rank in United States
#340,463
of 358,040
Works
20
Citations
35
Citations per work
1.8

What does Jill de Villiers research?

Developmental and Educational Psychology: 35.1%Language and Linguistics: 18.9%Cognitive Neuroscience: 10.8%Sociology and Political Science: 10.8%other fields: 24.4%35%top field
Developmental and Educational Psychology35.1%Language and Linguistics18.9%Cognitive Neuroscience10.8%Sociology and Political Science10.8%other fields24.4%

Shares of their own output, by the field each of their topics belongs to. The grey slice is everything not listed.

  1. 1Developmental and Educational Psychology35% of their works
  2. 2Language and Linguistics19% of their works
  3. 3Cognitive Neuroscience11% of their works
  4. 4Sociology and Political Science11% of their works
  5. 5Cultural Studies5% of their works
  6. 6Archeology3% of their works

Research topics

Which keywords describe Jill de Villiers's research?

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

All 21 words, with their numbers
  1. Bilingualism123 topics
  2. Language Development92 topics
  3. Social Interaction82 topics
  4. Syntax82 topics
  5. Pragmatics62 topics
  6. Speech and Language Disorder61 topic
  7. Statistical Learning61 topic
  8. Grammar41 topic
  9. Language Processing41 topic
  10. Semantic Memory41 topic
  11. Semantics41 topic
  12. Dyslexia31 topic
  13. Reading Acquisition31 topic
  14. Conversation Analysis21 topic
  15. Cultural Evolution21 topic
  16. Gesture21 topic
  17. Interactional Linguistics21 topic
  18. Language21 topic
  19. Sign Language21 topic
  20. Markov Decision Processes11 topic
  21. Spoken Dialogue Systems11 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?

Science Explorer counts 20 works and 35 citations for Jill de Villiers, ranking #1,505,267 of 1,633,909 researchers worldwide on the composite score.

Ranked on field-normalised 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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