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Jill de Villiers

Jill de Villiers

D-Index & Metrics

Social Sciences and Humanities

D-Index
46
Citations
10495
World Ranking
3574
National Ranking
1714

Jill de Villiers 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 Jill de Villiers sits on this spectrum.

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44 publications 570+

This scientist: 130 publications — 31st percentile

31% of scientists in this discipline score the same or lower.

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

Jill de Villiers 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 Jill de Villiers sits on this spectrum.

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This scientist: 46 D-Index — 55th percentile

55% 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

  • 2018 - Fellow of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences

Overview

Jill de Villiers is affiliated with Smith College in the United States and has contributed extensively to research in the field of psychology, with a particular focus on developmental and educational psychology.

The main topics addressed in their work include:

  • Language Development and Disorders
  • Reading and Literacy Development
  • Child and Animal Learning Development
  • Syntax, Semantics, Linguistic Variation
  • Family and Disability Support Research
  • Language and Cultural Evolution
  • Infant Development and Preterm Care

De Villiers has published across several prominent venues. Most frequent publication platforms include:

  • International Journal of Language & Communication Disorders
  • PsycTESTS Dataset
  • Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society B Biological Sciences
  • Early Childhood Research Quarterly
  • The Lancet Regional Health - Western Pacific

The researcher has collaborated frequently with several coauthors, including Aquiles Iglesias, Roberta Michnick Golinkoff, Kathy Hirsh-Pasek, Dani Levine, and Mary Sweig Wilson.

Among recent published papers are:

  • "Across demographics and recent history, most parents sing to their infants and toddlers daily," 2021, Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society B Biological Sciences
  • "Home literacy environment and existing knowledge mediate the link between socioeconomic status and language learning skills in dual language learners," 2020, Early Childhood Research Quarterly
  • "Prevalence, co-occurring difficulties, and risk factors of developmental language disorder: first evidence for Mandarin-speaking children in a population-based study," 2023, The Lancet Regional Health - Western Pacific
  • "Narratives reflecting Theory of Mind among bilingual Lyuli children of Uzbekistan," 2023, Journal of language and cultural education
  • "With Language in Mind," 2020, Language Learning and Development

The primary fields of study for this researcher are psychology and its subfields, particularly:

  • Developmental and Educational Psychology
  • Language and Linguistics
  • Education
  • Clinical Psychology
  • Cognitive Neuroscience

Jill de Villiers was recognized as a Fellow of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences in 2018.

Best Publications

  • A cross-sectional study of the acquisition of grammatical morphemes in child speech

    Jill G. de Villiers;Peter A. de Villiers

  • Complements to cognition: a longitudinal study of the relationship between complex syntax and false-belief-understanding

    Jill G. de Villiers;Jennie E. Pyers

  • Language and Theory of Mind: A Study of Deaf Children

    Brenda Schick;Peter de Villiers;Jill de Villiers;Robert Hoffmeister

  • Linguistic determinism and the understanding of false beliefs.

    Jill G. de Villiers;Peter A. de Villiers

  • The Interface of Language and Theory of Mind

    Jill de Villiers

  • Language and Theory of Mind: What are the Developmental relationships?

    Jill de Villiers

  • Children's comprehension of relative clauses.

    Jill G. de Villiers;Helen B. Tager Flusberg;Kenji Hakuta;Michael Cohen

  • The Acquisition of English

    Jill G. de Villiers;Peter A. de Villiers

  • Early judgments of semantic and syntactic acceptability by children.

    Peter A. de Villiers;Jill G. de Villiers

  • The Acquisition of Long-Distance Rules

    Jill De Villiers;Thomas Roeper;Anne Vainikka

  • The Role of Language in Theory of Mind Development.

    Jill G. de Villiers;Peter A. de Villiers

  • Competence and performance in child language: are children really competent to judge?

    Jill G. De Villiers;Peter A. De Villiers

  • Agreement without understanding? The case of third person singular /s/

    Valerie E. Johnson;Jill G. de Villiers;Harry N. Seymour

  • Language Processing and Language Acquisition

    Lyn Frazier;Jill G. De Villiers

  • Enhancing early child care quality and learning for toddlers at risk: The responsive early childhood program.

    Susan H. Landry;Tricia A. Zucker;Heather B. Taylor;Paul R. Swank

  • Thinking While Talking Adults Fail Nonverbal False-Belief Reasoning

    Ashley M. Newton;Jill G. de Villiers

  • Complementing Cognition: The Relationship between Language and Theory of Mind

    Jill G. de Villiers;Jennie Pyers

  • Language for thought: Coming to understand false beliefs

    Jill G. de Villiers;Peter A. de Villiers

  • Some facts one simply cannot deny

    Jill G. De Villiers;Helen B. Tager Flusberg

  • Deception dissociates from false belief reasoning in deaf children: Implications for the implicit versus explicit theory of mind distinction

    Peter A. de Villiers;Jill G. de Villiers

  • Intelligence in ape and man: by David Premack. Hillsdale, New Jersey: Lawrence Erlbaum Associates, 1976. xiv + 370 pp. $16.50☆

    Jill G. de Villiers

Frequent Co-Authors

Nancy Eisenberg
Nancy Eisenberg Arizona State University
Christopher J. Lonigan
Christopher J. Lonigan Florida State University
Susan H. Landry
Susan H. Landry The University of Texas Health Science Center at Houston
Beth M. Phillips
Beth M. Phillips Florida State University
Kathy Hirsh-Pasek
Kathy Hirsh-Pasek Temple University
Marcia A. Barnes
Marcia A. Barnes Vanderbilt University
Tracy L. Spinrad
Tracy L. Spinrad Arizona State University
Roberta Michnick Golinkoff
Roberta Michnick Golinkoff University of Delaware
Paul R. Swank
Paul R. Swank The University of Texas Health Science Center at Houston
Carlos Valiente
Carlos Valiente Arizona State University

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