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Discipline name D-Index World Ranking Current World Ranking National Ranking Current National Ranking Publications Citations
Social Sciences and Humanities 41 5015 4649 850 789 237 7787

Padraic Monaghan publications per year

The chart shows the history of publications by Padraic Monaghan between 1996 and 2026, highlighting the no. of papers published in each year and offering an overview of the publication velocity of this scholar. Padraic Monaghan published across 31 years, from 1996 to 2026, averaging 8.5 papers a year. Output peaked at 24 publications in 2016. 15 of the 262 publications appeared in the last two years.

No. of publications
5 10 15 20
Bar chart. Horizontal axis: year, 1996 to 2026. Vertical axis: number of publications, 0 to 24. Peak 24 publications in 2016. 1996: 2 publications 1997: 0 publications 1998: 4 publications 1999: 5 publications 2000: 3 publications 2001: 5 publications 2002: 0 publications 2003: 8 publications 2004: 5 publications 2005: 9 publications 2006: 5 publications 2007: 2 publications 2008: 8 publications 2009: 9 publications 2010: 13 publications 2011: 5 publications 2012: 8 publications 2013: 9 publications 2014: 12 publications 2015: 11 publications 2016: 24 publications 2017: 22 publications 2018: 11 publications 2019: 20 publications 2020: 12 publications 2021: 8 publications 2022: 8 publications 2023: 2 publications 2024: 17 publications 2025: 14 publications 2026: 1 publication
1996 2026

262 publications in total across all disciplines

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Padraic Monaghan: publications per year, 1996 to 2026
Year Publications
1996 2
1997 0
1998 4
1999 5
2000 3
2001 5
2002 0
2003 8
2004 5
2005 9
2006 5
2007 2
2008 8
2009 9
2010 13
2011 5
2012 8
2013 9
2014 12
2015 11
2016 24
2017 22
2018 11
2019 20
2020 12
2021 8
2022 8
2023 2
2024 17
2025 14
2026 1
Total 262
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Padraic Monaghan 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 Padraic Monaghan sits on this spectrum.

No. of scientists
100 200 300 400
Bar chart with 54 bars. Horizontal axis: publications, 44–53 to 570+. Vertical axis: number of scientists, 0 to 474. Most scientists, 474, have 114–123 publications. The last bar groups every scientist with 570 publications or more. The highlighted bar, 234–243 publications, is where this scientist sits. 44–53 publications: 28 scientists 54–63 publications: 61 scientists 64–73 publications: 161 scientists 74–83 publications: 225 scientists 84–93 publications: 301 scientists 94–103 publications: 390 scientists 104–113 publications: 406 scientists 114–123 publications: 474 scientists 124–133 publications: 453 scientists 134–143 publications: 434 scientists 144–153 publications: 407 scientists 154–163 publications: 411 scientists 164–173 publications: 391 scientists 174–183 publications: 313 scientists 184–193 publications: 319 scientists 194–203 publications: 304 scientists 204–213 publications: 285 scientists 214–223 publications: 246 scientists 224–233 publications: 213 scientists 234–243 publications: 170 scientists 244–253 publications: 167 scientists 254–263 publications: 162 scientists 264–273 publications: 138 scientists 274–283 publications: 138 scientists 284–293 publications: 113 scientists 294–303 publications: 106 scientists 304–313 publications: 95 scientists 314–323 publications: 101 scientists 324–333 publications: 81 scientists 334–343 publications: 69 scientists 344–353 publications: 56 scientists 354–363 publications: 36 scientists 364–373 publications: 42 scientists 374–383 publications: 41 scientists 384–393 publications: 44 scientists 394–403 publications: 27 scientists 404–413 publications: 30 scientists 414–423 publications: 20 scientists 424–433 publications: 29 scientists 434–443 publications: 29 scientists 444–453 publications: 25 scientists 454–463 publications: 19 scientists 464–473 publications: 21 scientists 474–483 publications: 11 scientists 484–493 publications: 17 scientists 494–503 publications: 7 scientists 504–513 publications: 6 scientists 514–523 publications: 12 scientists 524–533 publications: 10 scientists 534–543 publications: 7 scientists 544–553 publications: 6 scientists 554–563 publications: 12 scientists 564–569 publications: 8 scientists 570+ publications: 100 scientists
44–53 publications 570+

This scientist: 237 publications — 76th percentile

76% of scientists in this discipline score the same or lower.

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

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Number of Social Sciences and Humanities scientists by publication count, Research.com 2026 ranking edition. Based on 7,777 ranked scientists.
Publications Scientists This scientist
44–53 28
54–63 61
64–73 161
74–83 225
84–93 301
94–103 390
104–113 406
114–123 474
124–133 453
134–143 434
144–153 407
154–163 411
164–173 391
174–183 313
184–193 319
194–203 304
204–213 285
214–223 246
224–233 213
234–243 170 237
244–253 167
254–263 162
264–273 138
274–283 138
284–293 113
294–303 106
304–313 95
314–323 101
324–333 81
334–343 69
344–353 56
354–363 36
364–373 42
374–383 41
384–393 44
394–403 27
404–413 30
414–423 20
424–433 29
434–443 29
444–453 25
454–463 19
464–473 21
474–483 11
484–493 17
494–503 7
504–513 6
514–523 12
524–533 10
534–543 7
544–553 6
554–563 12
564–569 8
570+ 100
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Padraic Monaghan 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 Padraic Monaghan sits on this spectrum.

No. of scientists
100 200 300
Bar chart with 71 bars. Horizontal axis: D-Index, 30 to 100+. Vertical axis: number of scientists, 0 to 313. Most scientists, 313, have 42 D-Index. The last bar groups every scientist with 100 D-Index or more. The highlighted bar, 41 D-Index, is where this scientist sits. 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: 41 D-Index — 38th percentile

38% of scientists in this discipline score the same or lower.

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

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Number of Social Sciences and Humanities scientists by D-index, Research.com 2026 ranking edition. Based on 7,777 ranked scientists.
D-Index Scientists This scientist
30 177
31 210
32 222
33 188
34 181
35 243
36 261
37 272
38 278
39 300
40 297
41 308 41
42 313
43 300
44 269
45 260
46 228
47 251
48 203
49 186
50 187
51 166
52 138
53 141
54 131
55 137
56 109
57 129
58 95
59 105
60 106
61 86
62 94
63 77
64 79
65 59
66 68
67 51
68 49
69 40
70 43
71 40
72 50
73 46
74 43
75 45
76 45
77 30
78 25
79 31
80 29
81 18
82 21
83 26
84 15
85 15
86 19
87 19
88 12
89 7
90 19
91 20
92 13
93 9
94 13
95 8
96 7
97 6
98 6
99 6
100+ 97
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Overview

Padraic Monaghan is affiliated with Lancaster University in the United Kingdom. Their research primarily focuses on various domains of psychology, with a strong emphasis on developmental and educational psychology. This specialization accounts for the majority of their scholarly output, complemented by contributions in cognitive neuroscience, experimental and cognitive psychology, artificial intelligence, and education.

The main topics explored in their work cover a range of areas related to language and learning. These include:

  • Language Development and Disorders
  • Reading and Literacy Development
  • Child and Animal Learning Development
  • Neurobiology of Language and Bilingualism
  • Speech and dialogue systems
  • Child Development and Digital Technology
  • ICT in Developing Communities

Monaghan has published frequently in several academic journals, with significant contributions to:

  • Journal of Child Language
  • Cognitive Psychology
  • Journal of Experimental Child Psychology
  • Cognition
  • Language Learning

Their recent research papers include:

  • Comparing cross-situational word learning, retention, and generalisation in children with autism and typical development (2020, Cognition)
  • Non-adjacent dependency learning in infancy, and its link to language development (2020, Cognitive Psychology)
  • Learning vocabulary and grammar from cross-situational statistics (2020, Cognition)
  • Developing evaluation tools for assessing the educational potential of apps for preschool children in the UK (2020, Journal of Children and Media)
  • Distinctions in the Acquisition of Vocabulary and Grammar: An Individual Differences Approach (2020, Language Learning)

Monaghan frequently collaborates with a number of scholars, including:

  • Patrick Rebuschat
  • Calum Hartley
  • Rebecca Louise Ann Frost
  • Gemma Taylor
  • Caroline F. Rowland

Their work integrates interdisciplinary approaches spanning psychology, language development, and digital technology. This diverse engagement highlights intersections between cognitive mechanisms and practical applications in education and digital media use among children.

Best Publications

  • Arbitrariness, Iconicity, and Systematicity in Language

    Mark Dingemanse;Damián E. Blasi;Gary Lupyan;Morten H. Christiansen

  • Exploring the relations between word frequency, language exposure, and bilingualism in a computational model of reading

    Padraic John Monaghan;Padraic John Monaghan;Ya-Ning Chang;Stephen Welbourne;Marc Brysbaert

  • How arbitrary is language

    Padraic Monaghan;Richard C. Shillcock;Morten H. Christiansen;Simon Kirby

  • The differential role of phonological and distributional cues in grammatical categorisation

    Padraic Monaghan;Nick Chater;Morten H. Christiansen

  • Phonological typicality influences on-line sentence comprehension

    Thomas A. Farmer;Morten H. Christiansen;Padraic Monaghan

  • The phonological-distributional coherence hypothesis: cross-linguistic evidence in language acquisition.

    Padraic Monaghan;Morten H. Christiansen;Nick Chater

  • Proceedings of the twentieth annual conference of the Cognitive Science Society

    Richard Shillcock;Padraic Monaghan

  • Eye-fixation behavior, lexical storage, and visual word recognition in a split processing model.

    Richard Shillcock;T. Mark Ellison;Padraic Monaghan

  • The arbitrariness of the sign:learning advantages from the structure of the vocabulary

    Padraic Monaghan;Morten H. Christiansen;Stanka A. Fitneva

  • Phonology impacts segmentation in online speech processing

    Luca Onnis;Padraic Monaghan;Korin Richmond;Nick Chater

  • Learning to Assign Lexical Stress during Reading Aloud: Corpus, Behavioral, and Computational Investigations.

    Joanne Arciuli;Padraic Monaghan;Nada Seva

  • Words in Puddles of Sound: Modelling Psycholinguistic Effects in Speech Segmentation.

    Padraic Monaghan;Morten H. Christiansen

  • From sound to syntax: phonological constraints on children's lexical categorization of new words.

    Stanka A. Fitneva;Morten H. Christiansen;Padraic Monaghan

  • Syntactic structure and artificial grammar learning: the learnability of embedded hierarchical structures.

    Meinou H. de Vries;Padraic Monaghan;Stefan Knecht;Pienie Zwitserlood

  • The role of sound symbolism in language learning.

    Padraic Monaghan;Karen Mattock;Peter Walker

  • Sleep on it, but only if it is difficult: Effects of sleep on problem solving

    Ut Na Sio;Padraic Monaghan;Thomas C. Ormerod

  • Relationships Between Language Structure and Language Learning: The Suffixing Preference and Grammatical Categorization

    Michelle C. St. Clair;Padraic Monaghan;Michael Ramscar

  • Learning grammatical categories from distributional cues:Flexible frames for language acquisition

    Michelle C. St. Clair;Padraic Monaghan;Morten H. Christiansen

  • Phonological typicality influences sentence processing in predictive contexts: reply to Staub, Grant, Clifton, and Rayner (2009).

    Thomas A. Farmer;Padraic Monaghan;Jennifer B. Misyak;Morten H. Christiansen

  • Proceedings of the 18th Annual Conference of the Cognitive Science Society

    Jon Oberlander;Richard Cox;Padraic Monaghan;Keith Stenning

  • Variability is the spice of learning, and a crucial ingredient for detecting and generalizing in nonadjacent dependencies

    L Onnis;P Monaghan;MH Christiansen;N Chater

Frequent Co-Authors

Morten H. Christiansen
Morten H. Christiansen Cornell University
Richard Shillcock
Richard Shillcock University of Edinburgh
Falk Huettig
Falk Huettig Max Planck Society
Nick Chater
Nick Chater University of Warwick
Caroline F. Rowland
Caroline F. Rowland Radboud University
Joanne Arciuli
Joanne Arciuli Flinders University
Jon Oberlander
Jon Oberlander University of Edinburgh
Rebecca L. Gómez
Rebecca L. Gómez University of Arizona
Gary Lupyan
Gary Lupyan University of Wisconsin–Madison
Andrew W. Ellis
Andrew W. Ellis University of York

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