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Krista Byers-Heinlein

Krista Byers-Heinlein

D-Index & Metrics

Psychology

D-Index
34
Citations
5214
World Ranking
10186
National Ranking
716

Krista Byers-Heinlein 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 Krista Byers-Heinlein sits on this spectrum.

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31 publications 706+

This scientist: 113 publications — 28th percentile

28% of scientists in this discipline score the same or lower.

The last bar groups every scientist with 706 publications or more.

Krista Byers-Heinlein 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 Krista Byers-Heinlein sits on this spectrum.

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30 D-Index 144+

This scientist: 34 D-Index — 13th percentile

13% of scientists in this discipline score the same or lower.

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

Overview

Krista Byers-Heinlein is affiliated with Concordia University in Canada and focuses their research primarily in the fields of Psychology and Social Sciences. Their work is concentrated in several subfields, including Developmental and Educational Psychology, Linguistics and Language, Education, Cognitive Neuroscience, and Experimental and Cognitive Psychology.

Their research topics span multiple areas such as Language Development and Disorders, Reading and Literacy Development, Child and Animal Learning Development, Multilingual Education and Policy, Neurobiology of Language and Bilingualism, Phonetics and Phonology Research, and Language, Discourse, Communication Strategies.

Recent papers authored by Byers-Heinlein include:

  • Six solutions for more reliable infant research, 2021, Infant and Child Development
  • Building a collaborative psychological science: Lessons learned from ManyBabies 1., 2020, Canadian Psychology/Psychologie canadienne

Other notable recent publications relevant to their field of study include:

  • Quantifying Sources of Variability in Infancy Research Using the Infant-Directed-Speech Preference, 2020, Advances in Methods and Practices in Psychological Science
  • Intersections of official and family language policy in Quebec, 2020, Journal of Multilingual and Multicultural Development
  • Why not both? Rethinking categorical and continuous approaches to bilingualism, 2021, International Journal of Bilingualism

Frequent coauthors of Byers-Heinlein are:

  • Casey Lew-Williams
  • Mélanie Söderström
  • Michael C. Frank
  • J. Kiley Hamlin
  • Melanie Brouillard

Byers-Heinlein's work has been published repeatedly in these venues:

  • Journal of Child Language
  • Bilingualism Language and Cognition
  • Infancy
  • Arabixiv (OSF Preprints)
  • Infant and Child Development

Best Publications

  • The roots of bilingualism in newborns

    Krista Byers-Heinlein;Tracey C. Burns;Janet F. Werker

  • Bilingualism in infancy: first steps in perception and comprehension

    Janet F. Werker;Krista Byers-Heinlein

  • Monolingual, bilingual, trilingual: infants' language experience influences the development of a word-learning heuristic.

    Krista Byers-Heinlein;Janet F. Werker

  • Quantifying sources of variability in infancy research using the infant-directed-speech preference

    Michael C. Frank;Katherine Jane Alcock;Natalia Arias-Trejo;Gisa Aschersleben

  • Bilingualism in the Early Years: What the Science Says

    Krista Byers-Heinlein;Casey Lew-Williams

  • Using Speech Sounds to Guide Word Learning: The Case of Bilingual Infants

    Christopher T. Fennell;Krista Byers-Heinlein;Janet F. Werker

  • Parental language mixing: Its measurement and the relation of mixed input to young bilingual children's vocabulary size

    Krista Byers-Heinlein

  • Language and the Newborn Brain: Does Prenatal Language Experience Shape the Neonate Neural Response to Speech?

    Lillian May;Krista Byers-Heinlein;Judit Gervain;Janet F. Werker

  • Bilingual beginnings as a lens for theory development: PRIMIR in focus

    Suzanne Curtin;Krista Byers-Heinlein;Janet F. Werker

  • Bilingual infants control their languages as they listen.

    Krista Byers-Heinlein;Elizabeth Morin-Lessard;Casey Lew-Williams

  • Lexicon structure and the disambiguation of novel words: evidence from bilingual infants.

    Krista Byers-Heinlein;Janet F. Werker

  • Perceptual narrowing in the context of increased variation: Insights from bilingual infants.

    Krista Byers-Heinlein;Christopher T. Fennell

  • The development of associative word learning in monolingual and bilingual infants.

    Krista Byers-Heinlein;Christopher T. Fennell;Janet F. Werker

  • Bilingual beginnings to learning words.

    Janet F. Werker;Krista Byers-Heinlein;Christopher T. Fennell

  • Bilingual and monolingual children prefer native-accented speakers.

    Andre L. Souza;Krista Byers-Heinlein;Diane Poulin-Dubois

  • Bilingualism affects 9-month-old infants’ expectations about how words refer to kinds

    Krista Byers-Heinlein

  • Why not both? Rethinking categorical and continuous approaches to bilingualism

    Lena V. Kremin;Krista Byers-Heinlein

  • Bilingual toddlers' comprehension of mixed sentences is asymmetrical across their two languages.

    Christine E. Potter;Eva Fourakis;Elizabeth Morin-Lessard;Krista Byers-Heinlein

  • You sound like Mommy Bilingual and monolingual infants learn words best from speakers typical of their language environments

    Christopher Fennell;Krista Byers-Heinlein

  • Building a Collaborative Psychological Science: Lessons Learned From ManyBabies 1

    Krista Byers-Heinlein;Christina Bergmann;Catherine Davies;Michael C. Frank

  • What do bilingual infants actually hear? Evaluating measures of language input to bilingual-learning 10-month-olds.

    Adriel John Orena;Krista Byers-Heinlein;Krista Byers-Heinlein;Linda Polka

  • A multilab study of bilingual infants: Exploring the preference for infant-directed speech

    Krista Byers-Heinlein;Angeline Sin Mei Tsui;Christina Bergmann;Alexis K. Black

Frequent Co-Authors

Michael C. Frank
Michael C. Frank Stanford University
Janet F. Werker
Janet F. Werker University of British Columbia
Leher Singh
Leher Singh University of Maryland, Baltimore County
Linda Polka
Linda Polka McGill University
J. Kiley Hamlin
J. Kiley Hamlin University of British Columbia
Diane Poulin-Dubois
Diane Poulin-Dubois Concordia University
Jenny R. Saffran
Jenny R. Saffran University of Wisconsin–Madison
Sandra R. Waxman
Sandra R. Waxman Northwestern University
Hannes Rakoczy
Hannes Rakoczy University of Göttingen
Jeremy C. Biesanz
Jeremy C. Biesanz University of British Columbia

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