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Melissa Bowerman

Melissa Bowerman

D-Index & Metrics

Social Sciences and Humanities

D-Index
43
Citations
10709
World Ranking
4319
National Ranking
115

Melissa Bowerman 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 Melissa Bowerman sits on this spectrum.

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44 publications 570+

This scientist: 122 publications — 26th percentile

26% of scientists in this discipline score the same or lower.

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

Melissa Bowerman 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 Melissa Bowerman sits on this spectrum.

30 D-Index: 177 scientists 31 D-Index: 210 scientists 32 D-Index: 222 scientists 33 D-Index: 188 scientists 34 D-Index: 181 scientists 35 D-Index: 243 scientists 36 D-Index: 261 scientists 37 D-Index: 272 scientists 38 D-Index: 278 scientists 39 D-Index: 300 scientists 40 D-Index: 297 scientists 41 D-Index: 308 scientists 42 D-Index: 313 scientists 43 D-Index: 300 scientists 44 D-Index: 269 scientists 45 D-Index: 260 scientists 46 D-Index: 228 scientists 47 D-Index: 251 scientists 48 D-Index: 203 scientists 49 D-Index: 186 scientists 50 D-Index: 187 scientists 51 D-Index: 166 scientists 52 D-Index: 138 scientists 53 D-Index: 141 scientists 54 D-Index: 131 scientists 55 D-Index: 137 scientists 56 D-Index: 109 scientists 57 D-Index: 129 scientists 58 D-Index: 95 scientists 59 D-Index: 105 scientists 60 D-Index: 106 scientists 61 D-Index: 86 scientists 62 D-Index: 94 scientists 63 D-Index: 77 scientists 64 D-Index: 79 scientists 65 D-Index: 59 scientists 66 D-Index: 68 scientists 67 D-Index: 51 scientists 68 D-Index: 49 scientists 69 D-Index: 40 scientists 70 D-Index: 43 scientists 71 D-Index: 40 scientists 72 D-Index: 50 scientists 73 D-Index: 46 scientists 74 D-Index: 43 scientists 75 D-Index: 45 scientists 76 D-Index: 45 scientists 77 D-Index: 30 scientists 78 D-Index: 25 scientists 79 D-Index: 31 scientists 80 D-Index: 29 scientists 81 D-Index: 18 scientists 82 D-Index: 21 scientists 83 D-Index: 26 scientists 84 D-Index: 15 scientists 85 D-Index: 15 scientists 86 D-Index: 19 scientists 87 D-Index: 19 scientists 88 D-Index: 12 scientists 89 D-Index: 7 scientists 90 D-Index: 19 scientists 91 D-Index: 20 scientists 92 D-Index: 13 scientists 93 D-Index: 9 scientists 94 D-Index: 13 scientists 95 D-Index: 8 scientists 96 D-Index: 7 scientists 97 D-Index: 6 scientists 98 D-Index: 6 scientists 99 D-Index: 6 scientists 100+ D-Index: 97 scientists
30 D-Index 100+

This scientist: 43 D-Index — 46th percentile

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

The last bar groups every scientist with 100 D-Index or more.

Overview

Melissa Bowerman was affiliated with the Max Planck Society in Germany during their academic career. They contributed to the scientific community through research work associated with this institution.

There are no recent papers, frequent co-authors, publication venues, book publications, fields of study, subfields, or main topics of work listed for Melissa Bowerman in the available data. Additionally, no awards or honors have been recorded in the source information.

The absence of these details limits a more detailed insight into their scientific contributions and specialization areas. However, the association with the Max Planck Society indicates involvement in a prominent European research environment.

Best Publications

  • Can language restructure cognition? The case for space

    Asifa Majid;Melissa Bowerman;Sotaro Kita;Daniel B. M. Haun

  • Learning to express motion events in English and Korean: the influence of language-specific lexicalization patterns.

    Soonja Choi;Melissa Bowerman

  • Language Acquisition and Conceptual Development

    Melissa Bowerman;Stephen C. Levinson

  • Structure and variation in child language.

    Lois Bloom;Patsy Lightbown;Lois Hood;Melissa Bowerman

  • Shaping meanings for language: Universal and language-specific in the acquisition of semantic categories

    Melissa Bowerman;Soonja Choi

  • Learning how to structure space for language: A crosslinguistic perspective

    Melissa Bowerman

  • Early Syntactic Development: A Cross-Linguistic Study with Special Reference to Finnish

    Melissa Bowerman

  • Reorganizational processes in lexical and syntactic development

    Melissa Bowerman

  • Early Sensitivity to Language-Specific Spatial Categories in English and Korean

    Soonja Choi;Laraine McDonough;Melissa Bowerman;Jean M Mandler

  • The 'no negative evidence' problem: How do children avoid constructing an overly general grammar?

    Melissa Bowerman

  • The cross-linguistic categorization of everyday events: A study of cutting and breaking

    Asifa Majid;James S. Boster;Melissa Bowerman

  • The origins of children's spatial semantic categories: Cognitive vs. linguistic determinants

    Melissa Bowerman

  • Mapping thematic roles onto syntactic functions: Are children helped by innate linking rules?

    Melissa Bowerman

  • Space under construction: Language-specific spatial categorization in first language acquisition

    Melissa Bowerman;Soonja Choi

  • The semantic categories of cutting and breaking events: A crosslinguistic perspective

    Asifa Majid;Melissa Bowerman;Miriam Van Staden;James S. Boster

  • Learning the structure of causative verbs: A study in the relationship of cognitive, semantic, and syntactic development

    Melissa Bowerman

  • Starting to talk worse: Clues to language acquisition from children's late speech errors

    Melissa Bowerman

  • Evaluating competing linguistic models with language acquisition data: Implications of developmental errors with causative verbs.

    Melissa Bowerman

  • Semantic factors in the acquisition of rules for word use and sentence construction

    Melissa Bowerman

  • The acquisition of word meaning: An investigation into some current conflicts

    Melissa Bowerman

Frequent Co-Authors

Asifa Majid
Asifa Majid University of York
Penelope Brown
Penelope Brown Max Planck Society
Marianne Gullberg
Marianne Gullberg Lund University
Dan I. Slobin
Dan I. Slobin University of California, Berkeley
Stephen C. Levinson
Stephen C. Levinson Radboud University
Jean M. Mandler
Jean M. Mandler University of California, San Diego
Falk Huettig
Falk Huettig Max Planck Society
Daniel B. M. Haun
Daniel B. M. Haun Max Planck Society
Sotaro Kita
Sotaro Kita University of Warwick
Dedre Gentner
Dedre Gentner Northwestern University

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