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Jana M. Iverson 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 Jana M. Iverson sits on this spectrum.

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31 publications 705+

This scientist: 122 publications — 34th percentile

34% of scientists in this discipline score the same or lower.

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

Jana M. Iverson 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 Jana M. Iverson sits on this spectrum.

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30 D-Index 144+

This scientist: 54 D-Index — 61st percentile

61% of scientists in this discipline score the same or lower.

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

Overview

Jana M. Iverson is affiliated with the University of Pittsburgh in the United States and specializes in psychology, with a primary focus on developmental and educational psychology. Their research spans several subfields, including cognitive neuroscience, clinical psychology, education, and artificial intelligence.

Their work frequently addresses topics related to autism spectrum disorder research, family and disability support research, language development and disorders, child development and digital technology, child and animal learning development, infant development and preterm care, and children's physical and motor development.

Iverson's research has been published in notable venues, including Infancy, arXiv (Cornell University), Journal of Autism and Developmental Disorders, Autism Research, and Developmental Psychobiology. These outlets reflect the interdisciplinary and developmental breadth of their work.

Several recent publications highlight key aspects of Iverson's research. These include:

  • "Developmental Variability and Developmental Cascades: Lessons From Motor and Language Development in Infancy" (2021, Current Directions in Psychological Science)
  • "Capturing the complexity of autism: Applying a developmental cascades framework" (2022, Child Development Perspectives)
  • "Communication changes when infants begin to walk" (2021, Developmental Science)
  • "Developing language in a developing body, revisited: The cascading effects of motor development on the acquisition of language" (2022, Wiley Interdisciplinary Reviews Cognitive Science)

Jana M. Iverson has collaborated frequently with a core group of co-authors, including Joshua L. Schneider, Kelsey L. West, Jessie B. Northrup, Emily Roemer Britsch, and Emily J. Roemer. These collaborations underline a sustained research network within developmental and cognitive psychology.

Best Publications

  • Recurrence risk for autism spectrum disorders: a Baby Siblings Research Consortium study.

    Sally J Ozonoff;Gregory S. Young;Alice Carter;Daniel Messinger

  • Gesture Paves the Way for Language Development

    Jana M. Iverson;Susan Goldin-Meadow

  • Developing language in a developing body: the relationship between motor development and language development.

    Jana M Iverson

  • Why people gesture when they speak

    Jana M. Iverson;Susan Goldin-Meadow

  • Hand, mouth and brain. The dynamic emergence of speech and gesture

    Jana M. Iverson;Esther Thelen

  • Clinical Assessment and Management of Toddlers With Suspected Autism Spectrum Disorder: Insights From Studies of High-Risk Infants

    Lonnie Zwaigenbaum;Susan Bryson;Catherine Lord;Sally J Rogers

  • From communication to language in two modalities

    Jana M. Iverson;Olga Capirci;M.Cristina Caselli

  • Gestures and words during the transition to two-word speech.

    Olga Capirci;Jana M. Iverson;Elena Pizzuto;Virginia Volterra

  • Gesturing in mother-child interactions *

    Jana M. Iverson;Olga Capirci;Emiddia Longobardi;M. Cristina Caselli

  • Young children use their hands to tell their mothers what to say.

    Susan Goldin-Meadow;Whitney Goodrich;Eve Sauer;Jana Iverson

  • Variation in Vocal-Motor Development in Infant Siblings of Children with Autism

    Jana M. Iverson;Robert H. Wozniak

  • Studying the emergence of autism spectrum disorders in high-risk infants : Methodological and practical issues

    Lonnie Zwaigenbaum;Audrey Thurm;Wendy Stone;Grace Baranek

  • Beyond Autism: A Baby Siblings Research Consortium Study of High-Risk Children at Three Years of Age

    Daniel Messinger;Gregory S. Young;Sally J Ozonoff;Karen Dobkins

  • What's Communication Got to Do With It? Gesture in Children Blind From Birth

    Jana M. Iverson;Susan Goldin-Meadow

  • Learning to talk in a gesture-rich world: Early communication in Italian vs. American children

    Jana M. Iverson;Olga Capirci;Virginia Volterra;Susan Goldin-Meadow

  • Early sex differences are not autism-specific: A Baby Siblings Research Consortium (BSRC) study

    Daniel S. Messinger;Gregory S. Young;Sara Jane Webb;Sally J Ozonoff

  • Gesture and Motor Skill in Relation to Language in Children with Language Impairment.

    Jana M. Iverson;Barbara A. Braddock

  • Relationship between gestures and words in children with Down's syndrome and typically developing children in the early stages of communicative development

    Jana M. Iverson;Emiddia Longobardi;M. Cristina Caselli

  • Infant vocal-motor coordination: precursor to the gesture-speech system?

    Jana M. Iverson;Jana M. Iverson;Mary K. Fagan

  • Atypical Cry Acoustics in 6-Month-Old Infants at Risk for Autism Spectrum Disorder

    Stephen J. Sheinkopf;Jana M. Iverson;Melissa L. Rinaldi;Barry M. Lester

Frequent Co-Authors

Rebecca Landa
Rebecca Landa Kennedy Krieger Institute
Wendy L. Stone
Wendy L. Stone University of Washington
Lonnie Zwaigenbaum
Lonnie Zwaigenbaum University of Alberta
Susan Goldin-Meadow
Susan Goldin-Meadow University of Chicago
Karen R. Dobkins
Karen R. Dobkins University of California, San Diego
Susan E. Bryson
Susan E. Bryson Dalhousie University
Daniel S. Messinger
Daniel S. Messinger University of Miami
Sally J Ozonoff
Sally J Ozonoff University of California, Davis
Leslie J. Carver
Leslie J. Carver University of California, San Diego
Maria Cristina Caselli
Maria Cristina Caselli National Academies of Sciences, Engineering, and Medicine

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