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Maria Cristina Caselli 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 Maria Cristina Caselli sits on this spectrum.

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44 publications 570+

This scientist: 105 publications — 16th percentile

16% of scientists in this discipline score the same or lower.

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Maria Cristina Caselli 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 Maria Cristina Caselli sits on this spectrum.

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This scientist: 39 D-Index — 30th percentile

30% of scientists in this discipline score the same or lower.

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Overview

Maria Cristina Caselli is affiliated with the National Academies of Sciences, Engineering, and Medicine in the United States. Their research primarily spans the field of Psychology, with a strong focus on Developmental and Educational Psychology. Additional subfields of interest include Pediatrics, Perinatology and Child Health, Language and Linguistics, Cognitive Neuroscience, and Clinical Psychology.

The core topics of Caselli's work address Language Development and Disorders, Infant Development and Preterm Care, Reading and Literacy Development, Hearing Impairment and Communication, Family and Disability Support Research, Assistive Technology in Communication and Mobility, as well as linguistics and terminology studies.

Recent publications reveal active engagement with developmental language issues and early childhood communication. Representative papers include:

  • Efficacy of the Treatment of Developmental Language Disorder: A Systematic Review (2021, Brain Sciences)
  • Gender differences in early stages of language development. Some evidence and possible explanations (2021, Journal of Neuroscience Research)
  • Language Profiles and Their Relation to Cognitive and Motor Skills at 30 Months of Age: An Online Investigation of Low-Risk Preterm and Full-Term Children (2021, Journal of Speech Language and Hearing Research)
  • Non-word repetition in bilingual children: the role of language exposure, vocabulary scores and environmental factors (2021, Speech Language and Hearing)
  • A Parent-Implemented Language Intervention for Late Talkers: An Exploratory Study on Low-Risk Preterm and Full-Term Children (2020, International Journal of Environmental Research and Public Health)

Frequent coauthors throughout Caselli's career include Arianna Bello, Alessandra Sansavini, Mariagrazia Zuccarini, Luigi Corvaglia, and Annalisa Guarini, indicating collaborative research efforts in related fields.

Caselli has published multiple works in several journals with particular concentration on:

  • International Journal of Environmental Research and Public Health
  • Brain Sciences
  • Journal of Neuroscience Research
  • Journal of Speech Language and Hearing Research
  • Journal of Communication Disorders

Best Publications

  • A cross-linguistic study of early lexical development

    Maria Cristina Caselli;Elizabeth Bates;Paola Casadio;Judi Fenson

  • From communication to language in two modalities

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

  • Morphological Deficits in Children With Specific Language Impairment: The Status of Features in the Underlying Grammar

    Laurence B. Leonard;M. Cristina Caselli;Umberta Bortolini;Karla K. McGregor

  • Gesturing in mother-child interactions *

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

  • The Acquisition of Italian Morphology: Implications for Models of Language Development.

    Elena Pizzuto;Maria Cristina Caselli

  • Gestures and Words in Early Development of Children with Down Syndrome.

    M. Cristina Caselli;Stefano Vicari;Emiddia Longobardi;Laura Lami

  • Gesture and the emergence and development of language

    Virginia Volterra;Maria Cristina Caselli;Olga Capirci;Elena Pizzuto

  • A crosslinguistic study of the relationship between grammar and lexical development

    Antonella Devescovi;Maria Cristina Caselli;Daniela Marchione;Patrizio Pasqualetti

  • 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

  • From action to language through gesture: A longitudinal perspective

    Olga Capirci;Annarita Contaldo;Maria Cristina Caselli;Virginia Volterra

  • Asynchrony of lexical and morphosyntactic development in children with Down Syndrome

    Stefano Vicari;Maria Cristina Caselli;Francesca Tonucci

  • Cochlear Implant in the Second Year of Life: Lexical and Grammatical Outcomes

    Maria Cristina Caselli;Pasquale Rinaldi;Cristiana Varuzza;Anna Giuliani

  • Grammatical deficits in Italian-speaking children with specific language impairment.

    Umberta Bortolini;Maria Cristina Caselli;Laurence B. Leonard

  • Communicative Gestures and First Words

    M. C. Caselli

  • Language acquisition in special populations: a comparison between Down and Williams syndromes.

    S Vicari;M C Caselli;C Gagliardi;F Tonucci

  • Spoken and gestural production in a naming task by young children with Down syndrome

    Silvia Stefanini;Maria Cristina Caselli;Virginia Volterra

  • Neuropsychological profile of Italians with Williams syndrome: an example of a dissociation between language and cognition?

    Stefano Vicari;Elisabeth Bates;Maria Cristina Caselli;Patrizio Pasqualetti

  • Early action and gesture "vocabulary" and its relation with word comprehension and production.

    Maria Cristina Caselli;Pasquale Rinaldi;Silvia Stefanini;Virginia Volterra

  • Preterm birth: neuropsychological profiles and atypical developmental pathways.

    Alessandra Sansavini;Annalisa Guarini;Maria Cristina Caselli

  • Sentence repetition as a measure of early grammatical development in Italian.

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  • Linguistic and pragmatic skills in toddlers with cochlear implant.

    Pasquale Rinaldi;Francesca Baruffaldi;Sandro Burdo;Maria Cristina Caselli

  • Early development of gestures, object-related-actions, word comprehension and word production, and their relationships in Italian infants: A longitudinal study

    Alessandra Sansavini;Arianna Bello;Annalisa Guarini;Silvia Savini

  • Sign Vocabulary in Deaf Toddlers Exposed to Sign Language Since Birth

    Pasquale Rinaldi;Maria Cristina Caselli;Alessio Di Renzo;Tiziana Gulli

  • Toward mastery of Italian morphology: a cross-sectional study.

    M. Cristina Caselli;Laurence B. Leonard;Virginia Volterra;M. Grazia Campagnoli

  • Assessing lexicon: validation and developmental data of the Picture Naming Game (PiNG), a new picture naming task for toddlers.

    A. Bello;P. Giannantoni;P. Pettenati;S. Stefanini

  • Language development in a bimodal bilingual child with cochlear implant: A longitudinal study

    Pasquale Rinaldi;Maria Cristina Caselli

  • Specific Language Impairment in Italian and English: Evaluating Alternative Accounts of Grammatical Deficits.

    Umberta Bortolini;Laurence B. Leonard;Maria Cristina Caselli

Frequent Co-Authors

Virginia Volterra
Virginia Volterra National Research Council (CNR)
Patrizio Pasqualetti
Patrizio Pasqualetti Sapienza University of Rome
Stefano Vicari
Stefano Vicari Boston Children's Hospital
Francesco Pavani
Francesco Pavani University of Trento
Laurence B. Leonard
Laurence B. Leonard Purdue University West Lafayette
Jana M. Iverson
Jana M. Iverson University of Pittsburgh
Elizabeth Bates
Elizabeth Bates University of California, San Diego
Judy Reilly
Judy Reilly San Diego State University
Pierluigi Zoccolotti
Pierluigi Zoccolotti Sapienza University of Rome
Michael Tomasello
Michael Tomasello Duke University

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