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Language Development and Disorders

Language Development and Disorders is a research topic within Developmental and Educational Psychology. Science Explorer counts 28k research works in it since 1950. 9.9% of them reached the world's top 10% most cited for their field and year.

This cluster of papers focuses on the development and acquisition of language in children, encompassing topics such as early vocabulary development, speech and language disorders, bilingualism, statistical learning, child-directed speech, specific language impairment, syntax processing, social interaction, and neural plasticity.

  • Language Development
  • Speech and Language Disorder
  • Bilingualism
  • Statistical Learning
  • Child-Directed Speech
  • Specific Language Impairment
  • Early Vocabulary Development
  • Social Interaction
  • Syntax Processing
  • Neural Plasticity
Research works
28k
fractional, since 1950
In the world top 10%
2.7k
per year above
Top-10% rate
9.9%
share of its works in the world top 10%
Growth, 2018-21 → 2022-25
+1%
the tick is no change
Largest producer
United States
46% of the 10 largest, 2022-now
Language Development and Disorders

Which countries lead Language Development and Disorders research?

By volume, the United States and the United Kingdom publish the most (1.5k and 314 works in 2022-now).

By volume, 2022-now

  1. 1 United States 1.5k works
  2. 2 United Kingdom 314 works
  3. 3 China 301 works
  4. 4 Germany 209 works
  5. 5 Canada 196 works
  6. 6 Spain 158 works
  7. 7 France 147 works
  8. 8 Australia 147 works
  9. 9 Brazil 128 works
  10. 10 Italy 125 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 States: 45.7%United Kingdom: 9.9%China: 9.5%Germany: 6.6%6 others listed: 28.4%46%largest
United States1,452 · 45.7%United Kingdom314 · 9.9%China301 · 9.5%Germany209 · 6.6%6 others listed901 · 28.4%

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

Which institutions lead Language Development and Disorders research?

By volume in 2022-now, Alphabet (United States) publishes the most Language Development and Disorders research, followed by Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique and University of Toronto.

By volume, 2022-now

  1. 1 Alphabet (United States)United States 59 works
  2. 2 Centre National de la Recherche ScientifiqueFrance 58 works
  3. 3 University of TorontoCanada 32 works
  4. 4 University of Wisconsin–MadisonUnited States 30 works
  5. 5 University College LondonUnited Kingdom 27 works
  6. 6 University of Maryland, College ParkUnited States 25 works
  7. 7 The Ohio State UniversityUnited States 25 works
  8. 8 Radboud University NijmegenNetherlands 24 works
  9. 9 Bar-Ilan UniversityIsrael 24 works
  10. 10 New York UniversityUnited States 23 works

Who are the leading researchers in Language Development and Disorders?

The most-cited researchers publishing on Language Development and Disorders include George Davey Smith, Karl John Friston and Dennis W. Dickson.

  1. 1 George Davey Smith United Kingdom 435k citations
  2. 2 Karl John Friston United Kingdom 310k citations
  3. 3 Dennis W. Dickson United States 237k citations
  4. 4 Nicholas G. Martin Australia 228k citations
  5. 5 Kai You Wang China 224k citations
  6. 6 Clifford R. Jack United States 218k citations
  7. 7 Ronald Carl Petersen United States 207k 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 Language Development and Disorders?

The most cited paper in Language Development and Disorders is "Autism Diagnostic Interview-Revised: A revised version of a diagnostic interview for caregivers of individuals with possible pervasive developmental disorders" (Catherine Lord, Michael L. Rutter, Ann Le Couteur, 1994), with 9,189 citations. Next come "Mixed-effects modeling with crossed random effects for subjects and items" (8,736) and "Statistical Learning by 8-Month-Old Infants" (5,779).

Most cited papers
#PaperReleasedCitations
1 Autism Diagnostic Interview-Revised: A revised version of a diagnostic interview for caregivers of individuals with possible pervasive developmental disorders Catherine Lord, Michael L. Rutter, Ann Le Couteur · Journal of Autism and Developmental Disorders Oct 1994 9,189
2 Mixed-effects modeling with crossed random effects for subjects and items R. Harald Baayen, Douglas J. Davidson, Douglas M. Bates · Journal of Memory and Language Open access 4 Mar 2008 8,736
3 Statistical Learning by 8-Month-Old Infants Jenny R. Saffran, Richard Ν. Aslin, Elissa L. Newport · Science 13 Dec 1996 5,779
4 Working Memory Alan Baddeley · Science 31 Jan 1992 5,275
5 A theory of lexical access in speech production [target paper] Willem J. M. Levelt, Ardi Roelofs, Antje S. Meyer · Radboud Repository (Radboud University) 1999 5,193
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Where is Language Development and Disorders research done?

The largest centres of Language Development and Disorders research in 2022-now are London (United Kingdom), New York (United States), Paris (France) and Mountain View (United States). Among places with at least 20 works in it, it is an unusually large share of all research in Mountain View, Ramat Gan and Nijmegen.

Largest cities, 2022-now

  1. 1 LondonUnited Kingdom 68 works
  2. 2 New YorkUnited States 63 works
  3. 3 ParisFrance 63 works
  4. 4 Mountain ViewUnited States 59 works
  5. 5 BeijingChina 53 works
  6. 6 MontrealCanada 46 works
  7. 7 TorontoCanada 44 works
  8. 8 BostonUnited States 43 works
  9. 9 São PauloBrazil 38 works
  10. 10 Hong KongChina 37 works

Where it is the local speciality

  1. Mountain ViewUS · 59.5 works24×
  2. Ramat GanIL · 25.2 works14×
  3. NijmegenNL · 35.0 works11×
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Location quotient: how much more of its research is in Language Development and Disorders than the world average.

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Where is the best place to study Language Development and Disorders?

Among universities, judged by research, Bar-Ilan University, University of Toronto and University of Wisconsin–Madison 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.

0%10%20%30%mean 16.61%fractional works in this field (log) →share of work in the world top 10% →New York UniversityBar-Ilan UniversityUniversity of TorontoUniversity of Wiscon…
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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.
#UniversityScoreTop 10%SpecialisationWorksGrowth
1Bar-Ilan UniversityIsrael 80.917.6%21.1×24 +61.9%
2University of TorontoCanada 73.513.1%3.8×32 +17.2%
3University of Wisconsin–MadisonUnited States 70.111.1%7.9×30 +4.4%
4New York UniversityUnited States 70.120.7%4.8×23 -2.9%
5University of CambridgeUnited Kingdom 69.513.1%4.2×21 -12.3%
6University of Maryland, College ParkUnited States 69.213.3%10.2×25 +4.7%
7University of YorkUnited Kingdom 69.010.6%11.7×16 +37.5%
8Harvard UniversityUnited States 68.324.2%1.5×20 -2.4%
9Northwestern UniversityUnited States 67.428.2%4.5×16 -1.0%
10Radboud University NijmegenNetherlands 66.014.2%9.5×24 -13.1%

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 Language Development and Disorders, country by country

Is Language Development and Disorders research growing?

Output in 2022-2025 was 1% higher than in 2018-2021, peaking in 2025. The fastest-growing topics are Language Development and Disorders.

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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 Language Development and Disorders as a percentage of every work published that year, 0.017% in 2024.

still counting0.020%0.040%0.060%Language Development and Disorders0.021% in 202519801990200020102020

Fractional works of Language Development and Disorders 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.

still counting5%10%15%Language Development and Disorders10.1% in 2025200020102020

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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