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Researcher · Smith College · United States

Peter A. de Villiers

Peter A. de Villiers publishes mostly in Developmental and Educational Psychology, Cognitive Neuroscience and Language and Linguistics, on topics such as Language Development and Disorders, Behavioral and Psychological Studies and Child and Animal Learning Development.

OpenAlex
World rank
#668,679
of 7,710,434 ranked researchers
Rank in United States
#227,166
of 1,627,098
Works
41
Citations
3.2k
Citations per work
77.3
h-index
26
i10-index 30Top 12% in Developmental and Educational Psychology
Peter A. de Villiers

What does Peter A. de Villiers research?

Peter A. de Villiers's work is mostly in Psychology (45%), Neuroscience (12%), Arts and Humanities (11%).

Social Sciences: 25 works · 60.0% of their workPsychology: 18 works · 45.0% of their workDevelopmental and Educational Psychology: 14 works · 35.0% of their workExperimental and Cognitive Psychology: 4 works · 10.0% of their workArts and Humanities: 5 works · 11.0% of their workLanguage and Linguistics: 5 works · 11.0% of their workSocial Sciences: 2 works · 4.0% of their workLinguistics and Language: 2 works · 4.0% of their workEverything else: 9 works · 23.0% of their workLife Sciences: 5 works · 12.0% of their workNeuroscience: 5 works · 12.0% of their workCognitive Neuroscience: 5 works · 12.0% of their workPhysical Sciences: 2 works · 5.0% of their workComputer Science: 2 works · 5.0% of their workArtificial Intelligence: 2 works · 5.0% of their workTHEIR WORKPeter A. deVilliers41works
Life Sciences12%Physical Sciences5%Social Sciences60%

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. Psychology1845.0%
    2. Arts and Humanities511.0%
    3. Social Sciences24.0%
  2. Everything else923.0%
    1. Neuroscience512.0%
    1. Computer Science25.0%
  1. 1Developmental and Educational Psychology35% of their works
  2. 2Cognitive Neuroscience12% of their works
  3. 3Language and Linguistics11% of their works
  4. 4Experimental and Cognitive Psychology10% of their works
  5. 5Artificial Intelligence5% of their works
  6. 6Linguistics and Language4% of their works

Research topics

Which keywords describe Peter A. de Villiers's research?

The keywords of their largest research topics: Language Development, Social Interaction, Bilingualism, Early Intervention, Speech and Language Disorder, Statistical Learning, Behavioral Interventions and Child Development.

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 20 words, with their numbers
  1. Language Development213 topics
  2. Social Interaction213 topics
  3. Bilingualism203 topics
  4. Early Intervention112 topics
  5. Speech and Language Disorder91 topic
  6. Statistical Learning91 topic
  7. Behavioral Interventions81 topic
  8. Child Development81 topic
  9. Special Education81 topic
  10. Theory of Mind81 topic
  11. Gesture61 topic
  12. Sign Language61 topic
  13. Autism Spectrum Disorders51 topic
  14. Genetics51 topic
  15. Language Processing51 topic
  16. Semantic Memory51 topic
  17. Conversation Analysis41 topic
  18. Dyslexia41 topic
  19. Interactional Linguistics41 topic
  20. Reading Acquisition41 topic

Where does Peter A. de Villiers work?

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

How many publications and citations does Peter A. de Villiers have?

OpenAlex counts 41 works and 3,169 citations for Peter A. de Villiers, an h-index of 26, ranking #668,679 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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