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Dennis L. Molfese 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 Dennis L. Molfese sits on this spectrum.

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31 publications 705+

This scientist: 151 publications — 50th percentile

50% of scientists in this discipline score the same or lower.

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

Dennis L. Molfese 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 Dennis L. Molfese sits on this spectrum.

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30 D-Index 144+

This scientist: 46 D-Index — 45th percentile

45% of scientists in this discipline score the same or lower.

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

Overview

Dennis L. Molfese is affiliated with the University of Nebraska-Lincoln in the United States. Their research spans multiple fields within medicine and psychology, focusing on areas such as epidemiology, clinical psychology, cardiology and cardiovascular medicine, education, and experimental and cognitive psychology.

Their work covers a range of topics including:

  • Traumatic Brain Injury Research
  • Resilience and Mental Health
  • Heart Rate Variability and Autonomic Control
  • Child and Adolescent Psychosocial and Emotional Development
  • Early Childhood Education and Development
  • Cognitive Abilities and Testing
  • Cardiac Arrest and Resuscitation

Recent publications by Dennis L. Molfese include the following papers:

  • Sleep and stress in the acute phase of concussion in youth, 2020, published in Sports Medicine and Health Science
  • Heterotypic continuity of inhibitory control in early childhood: Evidence from four widely used measures., 2021, published in Developmental Psychology
  • Retracted: A Routine Electroencephalography Monitoring System for Automated Sports-Related Concussion Detection, 2021, published in Neurotrauma Reports

Their frequent coauthors are:

  • Victoria J. Molfese
  • Arthur Maerlender
  • Caitlin J. Masterson
  • Jessica L. Calvi
  • Todd Caze

Dennis L. Molfese's research has been published repeatedly in the following venues:

  • Sports Medicine and Health Science
  • Developmental Psychology
  • Neurotrauma Reports

This body of work integrates clinical and experimental approaches across several psychology and medical subfields, with a particular emphasis on the developmental and neurological effects of trauma and stress in youth, as well as cardiovascular and cognitive health aspects. The research outputs reflect active engagement in interdisciplinary studies involving both psychological development and physiological mechanisms.

Best Publications

  • Predicting Dyslexia at 8 Years of Age Using Neonatal Brain Responses

    Dennis L. Molfese

  • The ontogeny of brain lateralization for speech and nonspeech stimuli

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  • Sleep Duration, Sleep Regularity, Body Weight, and Metabolic Homeostasis in School-aged Children

    Karen Spruyt;Dennis L. Molfese;David Gozal

  • Hemisphere and Stimulus Differences as Reflected in the Cortical Responses of Newborn Infants to Speech Stimuli.

    Dennis L. Molfese;Victoria J. Molfese

  • Electrophysiological indices of auditory discrimination in newborn infants: The bases for predicting later language development?*

    Dennis L. Molfese;Victoria J. Molfese

  • Nonlinear alignment and averaging for estimating the evoked potential

    L. Gupta;D.L. Molfese;R. Tammana;P.G. Simos

  • The Role of Environment in the Development of Reading Skills A Longitudinal Study of Preschool and School-Age Measures

    Victoria J. Molfese;Arlene Modglin;Dennis L. Molfese

  • Discrimination of Language Skills at Five Years of Age Using Event-Related Potentials Recorded at Birth

    Dennis L. Molfese;Victoria J. Molfese

  • Neuroelectrical correlates of categorical speech perception in adults.

    Dennis L. Molfese

  • Temperament and Personality Development Across the Life Span

    Victoria J. Molfese;Dennis L. Molfese;Robert R. McCrae

  • Sleep estimates in children: parental versus actigraphic assessments

    Ehab A Dayyat;Karen Spruyt;Dennis L Molfese;David Gozal

  • Left and right hemisphere involvement in speech perception: electrophysiological correlates.

    Dennis L. Molfese

  • Cortical response of preterm infants to phonetic and nonphonetic speech stimuli

    Dennis L. Molfese;Victoria J. Molfese

  • Hemispheric specialization for VOT perception in the preschool child.

    Dennis L Molfese;Thomas M Hess

  • Smoking during pregnancy affects speech-processing ability in newborn infants.

    Alexandra P.F. Key;Melissa Ferguson;Dennis L. Molfese;Kelley Peach

  • Sleep assessments in healthy school-aged children using actigraphy: concordance with polysomnography

    Karen Spruyt;David Gozal;Ehab Dayyat;Adrienne Roman

  • Development of auditory event-related potentials in young children and relations to word-level reading abilities at age 8 years

    Kimberly Andrews Espy;Dennis L. Molfese;Victoria J. Molfese;Arlene Modglin

  • Evidence of alphabetic knowledge in writing: connections to letter and word identification skills in preschool and kindergarten

    Victoria J. Molfese;Jennifer L. Beswick;Jill L. Jacobi-Vessels;Natalie E. Armstrong

  • Newborn and Preschool Predictors of Second-Grade Reading Scores An Evaluation of Categorical and Continuous Scores

    Victoria J. Molfese;Dennis L. Molfese;Arlene A. Modgline

  • Auditory evoked responses recorded from 16-month-old human infants to words they did and did not know.

    Dennis L. Molfese

  • Stability of Temperament in Childhood: Laboratory Infant Assessment to Parent Report at Seven Years

    Victoria J. Molfese;Dennis L. Molfese;Robert R. McCrae

Frequent Co-Authors

Victoria J. Molfese
Victoria J. Molfese University of Nebraska–Lincoln
David Gozal
David Gozal Marshall University
Panagiotis G. Simos
Panagiotis G. Simos University of Crete
Robert R. McCrae
Robert R. McCrae Independent Scientist / Consultant, US
John E. Bates
John E. Bates Indiana University
Robin G. Morris
Robin G. Morris King's College London
Aina Puce
Aina Puce Indiana University
Kimberly Andrews Espy
Kimberly Andrews Espy Wayne State University
Charles A. Perfetti
Charles A. Perfetti University of Pittsburgh
Linda C. Mayes
Linda C. Mayes Yale University

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