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Researcher · Smith College · United States

Peter de Villiers

Peter de Villiers publishes mostly in Developmental and Educational Psychology, Education and Cognitive Neuroscience, on topics such as Reading and Literacy Development, Language Development and Disorders and Child and Animal Learning Development.

OpenAlex
World rank
#1,340,228
of 7,710,434 ranked researchers
Rank in United States
#425,077
of 1,627,098
Works
18
Citations
1.1k
Citations per work
62.6
h-index
10
i10-index 11Top 53% in Developmental and Educational Psychology
Peter de Villiers

What does Peter de Villiers research?

Peter de Villiers's work is mostly in Psychology (39%), Social Sciences (15%), Neuroscience (11%).

Social Sciences: 12 works · 65.2% of their workPsychology: 7 works · 39.1% of their workDevelopmental and Educational Psychology: 6 works · 34.8% of their workExperimental and Cognitive Psychology: 1 works · 4.3% of their workSocial Sciences: 3 works · 15.2% of their workEducation: 3 works · 15.2% of their workArts and Humanities: 2 works · 10.9% of their workLanguage and Linguistics: 2 works · 10.9% of their workEverything else: 4 works · 19.6% of their workLife Sciences: 2 works · 10.9% of their workNeuroscience: 2 works · 10.9% of their workCognitive Neuroscience: 2 works · 10.9% of their workPhysical Sciences: 1 works · 4.3% of their workMathematics: 1 works · 4.3% of their workStatistics and Probability: 1 works · 4.3% of their workTHEIR WORKPeter de Villiers18works
Life Sciences11%Physical Sciences4%Social Sciences65%

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. Psychology739.1%
    2. Social Sciences315.2%
    3. Arts and Humanities210.9%
  2. Everything else419.6%
    1. Neuroscience210.9%
    1. Mathematics14.3%
  1. 1Developmental and Educational Psychology35% of their works
  2. 2Education15% of their works
  3. 3Cognitive Neuroscience11% of their works
  4. 4Language and Linguistics11% of their works
  5. 5Experimental and Cognitive Psychology4% of their works
  6. 6Statistics and Probability4% of their works

Research topics

Which keywords describe Peter de Villiers's research?

The keywords of their largest research topics: Language Development, Social Interaction, Child Development, Dyslexia, Reading Acquisition, Bilingualism, School Engagement and Social Cognition.

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 19 words, with their numbers
  1. Language Development133 topics
  2. Social Interaction103 topics
  3. Child Development82 topics
  4. Dyslexia51 topic
  5. Reading Acquisition51 topic
  6. Bilingualism41 topic
  7. School Engagement41 topic
  8. Social Cognition41 topic
  9. Speech and Language Disorder41 topic
  10. Student-Teacher Relationships41 topic
  11. Theory of Mind41 topic
  12. Auditory Cortex21 topic
  13. Conversation Analysis21 topic
  14. Interactional Linguistics21 topic
  15. Language Teaching21 topic
  16. Mathematical Achievement21 topic
  17. Numerical Cognition21 topic
  18. Second Language Acquisition21 topic
  19. Temporal Processing21 topic

Where does Peter de Villiers work?

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

How many publications and citations does Peter de Villiers have?

OpenAlex counts 18 works and 1,127 citations for Peter de Villiers, an h-index of 10, ranking #1,340,228 of 7,710,434 researchers worldwide on the quality 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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