Topic · Developmental and Educational Psychology

Hearing Impairment and Communication

Hearing Impairment and Communication is a research topic within Developmental and Educational Psychology. Science Explorer counts 27k research works in it since 1950. 10.1% of them reached the world's top 10% most cited for their field and year.

This cluster of papers focuses on the acquisition and development of sign language, including topics such as the role of gesture in language acquisition, cognitive development in deaf children, bilingualism, neural correlates of sign language processing, and strategies for early intervention and literacy development. The research encompasses various aspects of sign language acquisition and its impact on cognitive and linguistic development in deaf individuals.

Sign Language
Gesture
Language Acquisition
Deaf Children
Bilingualism
Cognitive Development
Neural Correlates
Early Intervention
Literacy Development
Phonological Processing

Research works: 27k
In the world top 10%: 2.7k
Top-10% rate: 10.1%
Growth, 2018-21 → 2022-25: +20%
Largest producer: United States

Hearing Impairment and Communication

Which countries lead Hearing Impairment and Communication research?

By volume, the United States and Brazil publish the most (1.2k and 862 works in 2022-now).

By volume, 2022-now

1 United States 1.2k works
2 Brazil 862 works
3 India 599 works
4 China 316 works
5 United Kingdom 276 works
6 Germany 193 works
7 France 182 works
8 Indonesia 179 works
9 Australia 169 works
10 Spain 138 works

How concentrated that is

The same countries as shares of everything the list above accounts for. A node where two countries do two thirds of the work and one spread evenly across twelve read alike as a ranking and not at all alike here.

United States1,214 · 29.4%Brazil862 · 20.9%India599 · 14.5%China316 · 7.7%6 others listed1,136 · 27.5%

Shares of the rows listed above, not of the whole node.

Which institutions lead Hearing Impairment and Communication research?

By volume in 2022-now, Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique publishes the most Hearing Impairment and Communication research, followed by Gallaudet University and Universidade Federal de Santa Catarina.

By volume, 2022-now

1 Centre National de la Recherche ScientifiqueFrance 67 works
2 Gallaudet UniversityUnited States 37 works
3 Universidade Federal de Santa CatarinaBrazil 27 works
4 Universidade de São PauloBrazil 25 works
5 SRM Institute of Science and TechnologyIndia 25 works
6 Rochester Institute of TechnologyUnited States 24 works
7 Macquarie UniversityAustralia 23 works
8 Alphabet (United States)United States 21 works
9 Universidade Federal de São CarlosBrazil 20 works
10 Radboud University NijmegenNetherlands 20 works

Who are the leading researchers in Hearing Impairment and Communication?

The most-cited researchers publishing on Hearing Impairment and Communication include Dan J. Stein, Cynthia D. Mulrow and Josef Coresh.

1 Dan J. Stein South Africa 306k citations
2 Cynthia D. Mulrow United States 278k citations
3 Josef Coresh United States 272k citations
4 Marcello A. Tonelli Canada 268k citations
5 Andrew Zisserman United Kingdom 255k citations

Ranked by citations received across their whole record, among researchers with at least three works on this topic.

What are the most cited papers in Hearing Impairment and Communication?

The most cited paper in Hearing Impairment and Communication is "Premotor cortex and the recognition of motor actions" (Giacomo Rizzolatti, Luciano Fadiga, Vittorio Gallese et al., 1996), with 4,883 citations. Next come "Decoding, Reading, and Reading Disability" (3,924) and "Imitation of Facial and Manual Gestures by Human Neonates" (3,262).

Most cited papers
#	Paper	Released	Citations
1	Premotor cortex and the recognition of motor actions Giacomo Rizzolatti, Luciano Fadiga, Vittorio Gallese et al. · Cognitive Brain Research	Mar 1996	4,883
2	Decoding, Reading, and Reading Disability Philip B. Gough, William E. Tunmer · Remedial and Special Education	1986	3,924
3	Imitation of Facial and Manual Gestures by Human Neonates Andrew N. Meltzoff, Maggie Moore · Science	7 Oct 1977	3,262
4	Social Cognition, Joint Attention, and Communicative Competence from 9 to 15 Months of Age Malinda Carpenter, Katherine Nagell, Michael Tomasello et al. · Monographs of the Society for Research in Child Development	1998	2,751
5	Looking at upside-down faces. Robert K. Yin · Journal of Experimental Psychology	Jul 1969	2,661

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Where is Hearing Impairment and Communication research done?

The largest centres of Hearing Impairment and Communication research in 2022-now are São Paulo (Brazil), Washington D.C. (United States), Rio de Janeiro (Brazil) and Chennai (India).

Largest cities, 2022-now

1 São PauloBrazil 112 works
2 Washington D.C.United States 62 works
3 Rio de JaneiroBrazil 61 works
4 ChennaiIndia 60 works
5 ParisFrance 60 works
6 LondonUnited Kingdom 58 works
7 BengaluruIndia 57 works
8 BeijingChina 53 works
9 SydneyAustralia 48 works
10 PuneIndia 44 works

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Where is the best place to study Hearing Impairment and Communication?

Among universities, judged by research, Johns Hopkins University, Macquarie University and Radboud University Nijmegen score highest, combining excellence, specialisation, size, growth and international reach. Research strength is one signal when choosing where to study; it does not measure teaching.

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One dot per university in the first ten of the table below, at the default weights. The upper left is the interesting corner: small places doing unusually strong work.

Excellenceshare of its work in the world top 10%, 2022-now and all time averaged

40%

Specialisationhow much of its work is in this field, counted up to 10× the world share

10%

Sizeits output in this field, on a log scale

30%

Growthoutput growth, counted from -20% to +20%

10%

Internationalshare of its work with a co-author abroad

10%

Each slider sets a weight; the share it gets of the score is beside it.

#	University	Score	Top 10%	Specialisation	Works	Growth
1	Johns Hopkins UniversityUnited States	72.4	25.9%	2.0×	17	+48.2%
2	Macquarie UniversityAustralia	71.6	18.2%	11.2×	23	+9.0%
3	Radboud University NijmegenNetherlands	70.3	26.7%	6.0×	20	-13.5%
4	Amrita Vishwa VidyapeethamIndia	66.3	20.2%	6.1×	18	+382.9%
5	Vanderbilt UniversityUnited States	65.0	26.8%	4.3×	17	+3.7%
6	The University of QueenslandAustralia	63.6	26.4%	2.6×	14	+17.4%
7	University of the WitwatersrandSouth Africa	62.8	25.1%	6.5×	16	+58.7%
8	Linköping UniversitySweden	61.8	25.9%	6.7×	10	+26.4%
9	Gallaudet UniversityUnited States	61.4	13.6%	831.9×	37	-7.2%
10	University of MichiganUnited States	60.3	25.3%	1.6×	14	+39.9%
11	University of ConnecticutUnited States	57.8	21.9%	4.3×	11	+73.0%
12	University of RochesterUnited States	56.0	16.9%	5.2×	13	+83.5%
13	King Saud UniversitySaudi Arabia	55.9	17.0%	2.4×	13	+98.6%
14	Harvard UniversityUnited States	55.4	20.9%	0.8×	14	+6.8%
15	Vellore Institute of Technology UniversityIndia	54.6	19.5%	2.5×	14	+377.2%
16	San Diego State UniversityUnited States	53.9	29.9%	10.5×	10	-23.6%
17	The University of Texas at AustinUnited States	53.6	13.2%	3.8×	18	+57.2%
18	Georgia State UniversityUnited States	53.2	12.6%	7.8×	12	+34.4%
19	University of PretoriaSouth Africa	53.0	19.6%	4.8×	12	+61.4%
20	University of Wisconsin–MadisonUnited States	52.5	17.8%	2.6×	13	+10.5%
21	University of TorontoCanada	52.4	15.3%	1.3×	15	+11.2%
22	Rochester Institute of TechnologyUnited States	52.2	15.0%	34.8×	24	-37.1%
23	University of Tennessee at KnoxvilleUnited States	51.5	25.9%	4.3×	9	+17.3%
24	University of BirminghamUnited Kingdom	51.1	19.8%	3.1×	11	+48.9%
25	SRM Institute of Science and TechnologyIndia	51.0	7.0%	4.4×	25	+953.8%
26	University College LondonUnited Kingdom	50.5	18.2%	1.8×	16	-43.9%
27	University of WashingtonUnited States	50.4	21.6%	1.8×	11	+6.3%
28	Stockholm UniversitySweden	48.1	4.6%	8.6×	16	+49.8%
29	University of ChicagoUnited States	48.0	8.5%	3.2×	15	-30.7%
30	University of ManchesterUnited Kingdom	47.8	12.3%	3.4×	16	+2.5%
31	The Ohio State UniversityUnited States	47.5	19.1%	2.5×	17	-9.1%
32	The University of MelbourneAustralia	45.4	22.1%	1.8×	11	-8.8%
33	Manipal Academy of Higher EducationIndia	44.9	15.1%	3.2×	13	+68.7%
34	Savitribai Phule Pune UniversityIndia	44.4	11.3%	6.2×	14	+660.8%
35	Stanford UniversityUnited States	44.1	11.0%	1.2×	10	+74.4%
36	The University of SydneyAustralia	43.9	15.5%	1.5×	10	+53.3%
37	University of Illinois Urbana-ChampaignUnited States	43.9	19.2%	1.8×	8	+87.4%
38	University of California San DiegoUnited States	43.8	17.8%	1.8×	10	-24.0%
39	Vrije Universiteit AmsterdamNetherlands	43.7	11.9%	3.8×	8	+99.4%
40	Indiana UniversityUnited States	42.6	12.5%	2.5×	14	-24.1%
41	University of AmsterdamNetherlands	41.7	5.5%	4.0×	13	+1.9%
42	Universidade de São PauloBrazil	40.3	0.6%	2.2×	25	+13.9%
43	Ghent UniversityBelgium	38.7	14.0%	2.0×	8	+4.3%
44	Universidade Federal de Santa CatarinaBrazil	35.1	0.2%	7.5×	27	-26.6%
45	Lamar UniversityUnited States	33.6	7.7%	39.5×	10	-7.1%
46	Universidade Federal de São CarlosBrazil	31.3	0.8%	9.4×	20	-49.1%
47	University of AucklandNew Zealand	31.1	1.4%	2.8×	8	+43.8%
48	Universidade Federal de Minas GeraisBrazil	29.0	2.8%	4.3×	18	-13.3%
49	Pontifícia Universidade Católica de São PauloBrazil	28.9	0.1%	10.8×	12	+28.6%
50	Université Paris 8France	24.4	0.5%	12.2×	8	+101.3%
51	Anadolu UniversityTürkiye	24.0	3.1%	11.5×	8	+268.2%
52	Universidade Federal do TocantinsBrazil	15.1	0.6%	11.2×	9	-8.8%
53	Universidade Federal de RondôniaBrazil	14.8	0.1%	18.6×	10	-20.6%

Universities only. The score blends excellence (40%), size (30%), specialisation (10%), growth (10%), international reach (10%), 2022-now; growth compares 2018-21 with 2022-25 and counts up to +20%, since a jump from a small base is mostly noise.

Every institution in Hearing Impairment and Communication, country by country

Is Hearing Impairment and Communication research growing?

Output in 2022-2025 was 20% higher than in 2018-2021, peaking in 2025. The fastest-growing topics are Hearing Impairment and Communication.

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The same series as a ribbon: one cell per year, darker for more. The line above answers how much; this answers when.

Its share of all research

Growing output can still be a shrinking share: all of science grows. This is Hearing Impairment and Communication as a percentage of every work published that year, 0.025% in 2024.

Fractional works of Hearing Impairment and Communication over all fractional works that year. How the balance of science has shifted.

How much of it reaches the world top 10%

Year by year.

Of each year's works in it, the share that reached the world's 10% most cited for their field and year. A field is the world for its own topics, so there is no other line to hold it against.

Which topics inside it are moving

Growth and decline on one axis around a shared zero. Two lists side by side hide the thing that matters: whether the growth dwarfs the decline, or the other way round.

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Which countries lead Hearing Impairment and Communication research?

By volume, 2022-now

How concentrated that is

Which institutions lead Hearing Impairment and Communication research?

By volume, 2022-now

Who are the leading researchers in Hearing Impairment and Communication?

What are the most cited papers in Hearing Impairment and Communication?

Where is Hearing Impairment and Communication research done?

Largest cities, 2022-now

Where is the best place to study Hearing Impairment and Communication?

Is Hearing Impairment and Communication research growing?

Its share of all research

How much of it reaches the world top 10%

Which topics inside it are moving

Related research

Discussion