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D-Index
44
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9102
World Ranking
4118
National Ranking
1961

Carol Padden publication distribution in Social Sciences and Humanities in 2026

The chart shows the distribution of publications by all Research.com ranked scientists in the field of Social Sciences and Humanities in 2026. The highlighted bar marks where Carol Padden sits on this spectrum.

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44 publications 570+

This scientist: 102 publications — 14th percentile

14% of scientists in this discipline score the same or lower.

The last bar groups every scientist with 570 publications or more.

Carol Padden D-index placement in Social Sciences and Humanities in 2026

The chart shows the D-index (discipline H-index) distribution of Social Sciences and Humanities scientists ranked by Research.com in 2026. The highlighted bar marks where Carol Padden sits on this spectrum.

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This scientist: 44 D-Index — 49th percentile

49% of scientists in this discipline score the same or lower.

The last bar groups every scientist with 100 D-Index or more.

Research.com Recognitions

  • 2011 - Fellow of the American Association for the Advancement of Science (AAAS)
  • 2010 - Fellow of the MacArthur Foundation
  • 1992 - Fellow of John Simon Guggenheim Memorial Foundation

Overview

Carol Padden is affiliated with the University of California, San Diego in the United States. Their research centers on topics related to hearing impairment, communication strategies, and linguistics, with a focus on developmental and educational psychology.

The scientist's work spans multiple fields, including:

  • Psychology
  • Developmental and Educational Psychology
  • Language and Linguistics
  • Human-Computer Interaction
  • Occupational Therapy
  • Clinical Psychology

Their research topics include:

  • Hearing Impairment and Communication
  • Hand Gesture Recognition Systems
  • Language, Discourse, Communication Strategies
  • Linguistics and Terminology Studies
  • Assistive Technology in Communication and Mobility
  • Family and Disability Support Research
  • CRISPR and Genetic Engineering

Carol Padden's recent papers cover a range of subjects related to deafness, communication, and bioethics. Notable papers include:

  • "Deaf Children Need Rich Language Input from the Start: Support in Advising Parents" (2022), published in Children
  • "Who Goes First? Deaf People and CRISPR Germline Editing" (2020), published in Perspectives in biology and medicine
  • "Emerging Sign Languages" (2022), published in Languages
  • "Attitudes and experiences regarding preventive strategies for the deaf population in Western New York" (2023), published in PLOS Global Public Health
  • "A Conversation among Four Deaf Linguists" (2024), published in Sign language studies

Frequent co-authors of Carol Padden include:

  • Tom Humphries
  • Howard Burton
  • Gaurav Mathur
  • Donna Jo Napoli
  • Christian Rathmann

Their works have appeared regularly in venues such as:

  • Sign language studies
  • Children
  • Perspectives in biology and medicine
  • Languages
  • PLOS Global Public Health

Carol Padden has also contributed to book publications. These include:

  • Sign Language Linguistics (2020), published by Open Agenda Publishing eBooks
  • Être Sourd aux États-Unis (2020), published by Éditions de l'École des hautes études en sciences sociales eBooks

The scientist has been recognized with several fellowships, including:

  • Fellow of the American Association for the Advancement of Science (AAAS), 2011
  • Fellow of the MacArthur Foundation, 2010
  • Fellow of John Simon Guggenheim Memorial Foundation, 1992

Best Publications

  • Deaf in America: Voices from a Culture

    Carol Padden;Tom Humphries

  • The emergence of grammar: Systematic structure in a new language

    Wendy Sandler;Irit Meir;Carol Padden;Mark Aronoff

  • Inside Deaf Culture

    Carol Padden;Tom L. Humphries

  • Interaction of Morphology and Syntax in American Sign Language

    Carol A. Padden

  • Language acquisition for deaf children: Reducing the harms of zero tolerance to the use of alternative approaches

    Tom Humphries;Poorna Kushalnagar;Gaurav Mathur;Donna Jo Napoli

  • Emerging Sign Languages

    Irit Meir;Wendy Sandler;Carol Padden;Mark Aronoff

  • American Sign Language and reading ability in deaf children.

    Carol Padden;Claire Ramsey

  • The gradual emergence of phonological form in a new language

    Wendy Sandler;Mark Aronoff;Irit Meir;Carol Padden

  • Reading Ability in Signing Deaf Children.

    Carol Padden;Claire Ramsey

  • American Sign Language and the architecture of phonological theory

    Carol A. Padden;David M. Perlmutter

  • Body as subject().

    Irit Meir;Carol A. Padden;Mark Aronoff;Wendy Sandler

  • The roots of linguistic organization in a new language

    Mark Aronoff;Irit Meir;Carol A. Padden;Wendy Sandler

  • Patterned iconicity in sign language lexicons

    Carol A. Padden;Irit Meir;So-One Hwang;Ryan Lepic

  • Ensuring language acquisition for deaf children:What linguists can do

    Tom Humphries;Poorna Kushalnagar;Gaurav Mathur;Carol Padden

  • Infants and children with hearing loss need early language access.

    Poorna Kushalnagar;Gaurav Mathur;Christopher J. Moreland;Donna Jo Napoli

  • How the Alphabet Came to Be Used in a Sign Language

    Carol A. Padden;Darline Clark Gunsauls

  • Competing iconicities in the structure of languages

    Irit Meir;Carol Padden;Mark Aronoff;Wendy Sandler

  • Avoiding Linguistic Neglect of Deaf Children

    Tom Humphries;Poorna Kushalnagar;Gaurav Mathur;Donna Jo Napoli

  • Morphological universals and the sign language type

    Mark Aronoff;Irit Meir;Carol Padden;Wendy Sandler

  • The emergence of complexity in prosody and syntax.

    Wendy Sandler;Irit Meir;Svetlana Dachkovsky;Carol Padden

  • A Basic Course in American Sign Language

    Tom Humphries;Carol Padden;Terrence J. O'Rourke

Frequent Co-Authors

Irit Meir
Irit Meir University of Haifa
Wendy Sandler
Wendy Sandler University of Haifa
Simon Kirby
Simon Kirby University of Edinburgh
Ray Jackendoff
Ray Jackendoff Tufts University
Vicki L. Hanson
Vicki L. Hanson Association for Computing Machinery
Marianne Gullberg
Marianne Gullberg Lund University
Douglas Carnine
Douglas Carnine University of Oregon
Edith Kaplan
Edith Kaplan Boston University
Heidi M. Feldman
Heidi M. Feldman Stanford University
Susan Goldin-Meadow
Susan Goldin-Meadow University of Chicago

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