2026 Lucia Regolin: Psychology Researcher – H-Index, Publications & Awards

Discipline name	D-Index	World Ranking	Current World Ranking	National Ranking	Current National Ranking	Publications	Citations
Psychology	49	5725	5320	100	98	144	8518

Lucia Regolin 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 Lucia Regolin sits on this spectrum.

31 publications 705+

This scientist: 144 publications — 46th percentile

46% of scientists in this discipline score the same or lower.

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

Lucia Regolin 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 Lucia Regolin sits on this spectrum.

30 D-Index 144+

This scientist: 49 D-Index — 52nd percentile

52% of scientists in this discipline score the same or lower.

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

Overview

Lucia Regolin is affiliated with the University of Padua in Italy. Their research primarily encompasses the fields of psychology and neuroscience, with significant contributions in subfields such as statistics and probability, cognitive neuroscience, developmental and educational psychology, social psychology, and ecology, evolution, behavior, and systematics.

The scholar's work covers a variety of topics related to cognitive and developmental aspects of mathematical skills, child and animal learning development, hemispheric asymmetry in neuroscience, animal vocal communication and behavior, primate behavior and ecology, animal behavior and reproduction, and animal nutrition and physiology.

Among the recent papers authored or coauthored by Regolin are:

A sense of number in invertebrates (2020, Biochemical and Biophysical Research Communications)
Numerical magnitude, rather than individual bias, explains spatial numerical association in newborn chicks (2020, eLife)
Statistical learning in domestic chicks is modulated by strain and sex (2020, Scientific Reports)
Hemispheric specialization in spatial versus ordinal processing in the day-old domestic chick (Gallus gallus) (2020, Annals of the New York Academy of Sciences)
Infants' preferences for approachers over repulsers shift between 4 and 8 months of age (2022, Aggressive Behavior)

Regolin frequently collaborates with several coauthors, including Maria Loconsole, Rosa Rugani, Giorgio Vallortígara, Massimo De Agrò, and Yujia Zhang. Collaboration counts indicate a strong ongoing research partnership.

The most common publication venues for Regolin's work include bioRxiv (Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory), eLife, Scientific Reports, Animals, and Biochemical and Biophysical Research Communications.

Best Publications

A predisposition for biological motion in the newborn baby

Francesca Simion;Lucia Regolin;Hermann Bulf

987
Citations
Number-space mapping in the newborn chick resembles humans’ mental number line

Rosa Rugani;Rosa Rugani;Giorgio Vallortigara;Konstantinos Priftis;Lucia Regolin

482
Citations
Visually Inexperienced Chicks Exhibit Spontaneous Preference for Biological Motion Patterns

Giorgio Vallortigara;Lucia Regolin;Fabio Marconato

451
Citations
Arithmetic in newborn chicks.

Rosa Rugani;Laura Fontanari;Eleonora Simoni;Lucia Regolin

281
Citations
Perception of partly occluded objects by young chicks

Lucia Regolin;Giorgio Vallortigara

275
Citations
Biological motion preference in humans at birth: role of dynamic and configural properties

Lara Bardi;Lucia Regolin;Francesca Simion

264
Citations
Gravity bias in the interpretation of biological motion by inexperienced chicks.

Giorgio Vallortigara;Lucia Regolin

223
Citations
Innate sensitivity for self-propelled causal agency in newly hatched chicks

Elena Mascalzoni;Lucia Regolin;Giorgio Vallortigara

212
Citations
Discrimination of small numerosities in young chicks.

Rosa Rugani;Lucia Regolin;Giorgio Vallortigara

181
Citations
The evolution of social orienting: evidence from chicks (Gallus gallus) and human newborns.

Orsola Rosa Salva;Teresa Farroni;Teresa Farroni;Lucia Regolin;Giorgio Vallortigara

171
Citations
Faces are special for newly hatched chicks: evidence for inborn domain-specific mechanisms underlying spontaneous preferences for face-like stimuli.

Orsola Rosa-Salva;Lucia Regolin;Giorgio Vallortigara

164
Citations
Object and spatial representations in detour problems by chicks

Lucia Regolin;Giorgio Vallortigara;Mario Zanforlin

160
Citations
Numerical discrimination by frogs (Bombina orientalis).

G. Stancher;R. Rugani;L. Regolin;G. Vallortigara

158
Citations
Lateral asymmetries due to preferences in eye use during visual discrimination learning in chicks

G. Vallortigara;L. Regolin;G. Bortolomiol;L. Tommasi

156
Citations
Imprinted Numbers: Newborn Chicks' Sensitivity to Number vs. Continuous Extent of Objects They Have Been Reared with.

Rosa Rugani;Lucia Regolin;Giorgio Vallortigara

156
Citations
Visual perception of biological motion in newly hatched chicks as revealed by an imprinting procedure.

Lucia Regolin;Luca Tommasi;Giorgio Vallortigara

145
Citations
Cerebral and behavioural assymetries in animal social recognition

Orsola Rosa Salva;Lucia Regolin;Elena Mascalzoni;Giorgio Vallortigara

142
Citations
Rudimental numerical competence in 5-day-old domestic chicks (Gallus gallus): identification of ordinal position.

Rosa Rugani;Lucia Regolin;Giorgio Vallortigara

135
Citations
A mental number line in human newborns

Elisa Di Giorgio;Marco Lunghi;Rosa Rugani;Rosa Rugani;Lucia Regolin

134
Citations
Detour behaviour, imprinting and visual lateralization in the domestic chick

Giorgio Vallortigara;Lucia Regolin;Piero Pagni

129
Citations
The cradle of causal reasoning: newborns' preference for physical causality.

Elena Mascalzoni;Lucia Regolin;Giorgio Vallortigara;Francesca Simion

109
Citations
Perceptual and motivational aspects of detour behaviour in young chicks

Lucia Regolin;Giorgio Vallortigara;Mario Zanforlin

103
Citations
Numerical abstraction in young domestic chicks (Gallus gallus).

Rosa Rugani;Giorgio Vallortigara;Lucia Regolin

95
Citations

Frequent Co-Authors

Giorgio Vallortigara University of Trento

Francesca Simion University of Padua

Lesley J. Rogers University of New England

Luca Tommasi University of Chieti-Pescara

Teresa Farroni University of Padua

Steven P. R. Rose The Open University

Onur Güntürkün Ruhr University Bochum

Paolo Carnier University of Padua

Marco Bertamini University of Padua

Daniel Osorio University of Sussex

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