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D. Kimbrough Oller publication distribution in Psychology in 2026

The chart shows the distribution of publications by all Research.com ranked scientists in the field of Psychology in 2026. The highlighted bar marks where D. Kimbrough Oller sits on this spectrum.

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31 publications 705+

This scientist: 198 publications — 68th percentile

68% of scientists in this discipline score the same or lower.

The last bar groups every scientist with 705 publications or more.

D. Kimbrough Oller D-index placement in Psychology in 2026

The chart shows the D-index (discipline H-index) distribution of Psychology scientists ranked by Research.com in 2026. The highlighted bar marks where D. Kimbrough Oller sits on this spectrum.

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30 D-Index 144+

This scientist: 58 D-Index — 67th percentile

67% of scientists in this discipline score the same or lower.

The last bar groups every scientist with 144 D-Index or more.

Overview

D. Kimbrough Oller is affiliated with the University of Memphis in the United States and specializes in research primarily within the field of Psychology. Their scholarly work emphasizes Developmental and Educational Psychology, accompanied by contributions to Pharmacy, Education, Developmental Biology, and Cultural Studies.

The scientist's research focuses mainly on topics related to Infant Health and Development, Language Development and Disorders, Child and Animal Learning Development, and Child Development and Digital Technology. Additional themes in their work include Animal Vocal Communication and Behavior, Language and Cultural Evolution, and Autism Spectrum Disorder Research.

Frequent publication venues for their work include bioRxiv (Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory), PLoS ONE, the Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society B Biological Sciences, Frontiers in Psychology, and Research in Developmental Disabilities.

Recent papers authored or co-authored by D. Kimbrough Oller include:

  • Protophones, the precursors to speech, dominate the human infant vocal landscape, 2021, Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society B Biological Sciences
  • Social and endogenous infant vocalizations, 2020, PLoS ONE
  • Infant boys are more vocal than infant girls, 2020, Current Biology
  • Cross-species parallels in babbling: animals and algorithms, 2021, Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society B Biological Sciences
  • Perspectives on the origin of language: Infants vocalize most during independent vocal play but produce their most speech-like vocalizations during turn taking, 2022, PLoS ONE

Among frequent collaborators are Helen L. Long, Edina R. Bene, Gordon Ramsay, Hyunjoo Yoo, and Pumpki Lei Su.

Best Publications

  • Lexical Development in Bilingual Infants and Toddlers: Comparison to Monolingual Norms

    Barbara Zurer Pearson;Sylvia C. Fernández;D. Kimbrough Oller

  • The relation of input factors to lexical learning by bilingual infants

    Barbara Z. Pearson;Sylvia C. Fernandez;Vanessa Lewedeg;D.Kimbrough Oller

  • The emergence of the speech capacity

    D. Kimbrough Oller

  • The role of audition in infant babbling.

    D. Kimbrough Oller;Rebecca E. Eilers

  • The effect of position in utterance on speech segment duration in English

    D. Kimbrough Oller

  • Profile effects in early bilingual language and literacy

    D. Kimbrough Oller;Barbara Z. Pearson;Alan B. Cobo-Lewis

  • THE EMERGENCE OF THE SOUNDS OF SPEECH IN INFANCY

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  • Mapping the Early Language Environment Using All-Day Recordings and Automated Analysis

    Jill Gilkerson;Jeffrey A. Richards;Steven F. Warren;Judith K. Montgomery

  • Automated vocal analysis of naturalistic recordings from children with autism, language delay, and typical development.

    D. K. Oller;P. Niyogi;S. Gray;J. A. Richards

  • Precursors to speech in infancy: the prediction of speech and language disorders.

    D.Kimbrough Oller;Rebecca E Eilers;A.Rebecca Neal;Heidi K Schwartz

  • Infant babbling and speech

    D. Kimbrough Oller;Leslie A. Wieman;William J. Doyle;Carol Ross

  • A Social Feedback Loop for Speech Development and Its Reduction in Autism

    Anne S. Warlaumont;Jeffrey A. Richards;Jill Gilkerson;D. Kimbrough Oller;D. Kimbrough Oller

  • Measuring bilingual children's receptive vocabularies.

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  • Language Experience in the Second Year of Life and Language Outcomes in Late Childhood

    Jill Gilkerson;Jeffrey A. Richards;Steven F. Warren;D. Kimbrough Oller;D. Kimbrough Oller

  • Innateness, Experience, and Music Perception:

    Michael P. Lynch;Rebecca E. Eilers;D. Kimbrough Oller;Richard C. Urbano

  • Cross-language synonyms in the lexicons of bilingual infants: one language or two?

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  • Vocal atypicalities of preverbal autistic children.

    Stephen J. Sheinkopf;Peter Clive Mundy;D. Kimbrough Oller;Michele Steffens

  • Vocal Patterns in Infants with Autism Spectrum Disorder: Canonical Babbling Status and Vocalization Frequency

    Elena Patten;Katie Belardi;Grace T. Baranek;Linda R. Watson

  • What automated vocal analysis reveals about the vocal production and language learning environment of young children with autism.

    Steven F. Warren;Jill Gilkerson;Jeffrey A. Richards;D. Kimbrough Oller

  • Development of precursors to speech in infants exposed to two languages

    D. Kimbrough Oller;Rebecca E. Eilers;Richard Urbano;Alan B. Cobo-Lewis

  • Infant vocalizations and the early diagnosis of severe hearing impairment

    Rebecca E. Eilers;D.Kimbrough Oller

  • Functional flexibility of infant vocalization and the emergence of language

    D. Kimbrough Oller;D. Kimbrough Oller;Eugene H. Buder;Heather L. Ramsdell;Anne S. Warlaumont

  • The Role of Prematurity and Socioeconomic Status in the Onset of Canonical Babbling in Infants

    Rebecca E. Eilers;D. Kimbrough Oller;Sharyse Levine;Devorah Basinger

Frequent Co-Authors

Rick Dale
Rick Dale University of California, Los Angeles
Daniel S. Messinger
Daniel S. Messinger University of Miami
Josep Call
Josep Call University of St Andrews
Steven F. Warren
Steven F. Warren University of Kansas
Peter Clive Mundy
Peter Clive Mundy University of California, Davis
Linda R. Watson
Linda R. Watson University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill
Grace T. Baranek
Grace T. Baranek University of Southern California
Betty R. Vohr
Betty R. Vohr Brown University
Gavin M. Bidelman
Gavin M. Bidelman Indiana University
Charles R. Greenwood
Charles R. Greenwood University of Kansas

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