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Swathi Kiran 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 Swathi Kiran sits on this spectrum.

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This scientist: 250 publications — 79th percentile

79% of scientists in this discipline score the same or lower.

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

Swathi Kiran 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 Swathi Kiran sits on this spectrum.

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This scientist: 47 D-Index — 59th percentile

59% of scientists in this discipline score the same or lower.

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Overview

Swathi Kiran is affiliated with Boston University in the United States and has a significant body of research in the fields of neuroscience and medicine. Their work prominently intersects with cognitive neuroscience, developmental and educational psychology, rehabilitation, radiology, nuclear medicine, imaging, and epidemiology.

The scientist's research focuses on areas including neurobiology of language and bilingualism, stroke rehabilitation and recovery, reading and literacy development, EEG and brain-computer interfaces, language development and disorders, text readability and simplification, and acute ischemic stroke management.

Frequent publication venues for their work include:

  • American Journal of Speech-Language Pathology
  • Archives of Physical Medicine and Rehabilitation
  • Aphasiology
  • Cortex
  • Brain and Language

Swathi Kiran has collaborated repeatedly with a group of co-authors, most notably Claudia Peñaloza, Maria Varkanitsa, Erin Carpenter, Michael Scimeca, and Anne Billot.

Among their recent papers are the following:

  • Videoconference Administration of the Western Aphasia Battery-Revised: Feasibility and Validity (2020), published in American Journal of Speech-Language Pathology
  • A Virtual, Randomized, Control Trial of a Digital Therapeutic for Speech, Language, and Cognitive Intervention in Post-stroke Persons With Aphasia (2021), published in Frontiers in Neurology
  • Toward Neuroscience of the Everyday World (NEW) using functional near-infrared spectroscopy (2021), published in Current Opinion in Biomedical Engineering
  • Functional Near-Infrared Spectroscopy in the Study of Speech and Language Impairment Across the Life Span: A Systematic Review (2020), published in American Journal of Speech-Language Pathology
  • Common and distinct neural substrates of sentence production and comprehension (2020), published in NeuroImage

Best Publications

  • The role of syntactic complexity in treatment of sentence deficits in agrammatic aphasia: the complexity account of treatment efficacy (CATE).

    Cynthia K. Thompson;Lewis P. Shapiro;Swathi Kiran;Jana Sobecks

  • The Role of Semantic Complexity in Treatment of Naming Deficits: Training Semantic Categories in Fluent Aphasia by Controlling Exemplar Typicality.

    Swathi Kiran;Cynthia K. Thompson

  • Effect of Verb Network Strengthening Treatment (VNeST) on lexical retrieval of content words in sentences in persons with aphasia

    Lisa A Edmonds;Stephen E Nadeau;Swathi Kiran

  • Neuroplasticity of Language Networks in Aphasia: Advances, Updates, and Future Challenges.

    Swathi Kiran;Cynthia K. Thompson

  • Instructing subjects to make a voluntary response reveals the presence of two components to the audio-vocal reflex

    Timothy C. Hain;Theresa A. Burnett;Swathi Kiran;Charles R. Larson

  • Effect of semantic naming treatment on crosslinguistic generalization in bilingual aphasia.

    Lisa A. Edmonds;Swathi Kiran

  • A core outcome set for aphasia treatment research: The ROMA consensus statement:

    Sarah J. Wallace;Linda Worrall;Tanya Rose;Guylaine Le Dorze

  • Effects of pitch-shift velocity on voice F0 responses

    Charles R. Larson;Theresa A. Burnett;Swathi Kiran;Timothy C. Hain;Timothy C. Hain

  • Erratum: The role of semantic complexity in treatment of naming deficits: Training semantic categories in fluent aphasia by controlling exemplar typicality (Journal of Speech, Language, and Hearing Research (June 2003) 46: (608-622))

    Swathi Kiran;Cynthia K. Thompson

  • What Is the Nature of Poststroke Language Recovery and Reorganization

    Swathi Kiran

  • Effectiveness of an impairment-based individualized rehabilitation program using an iPad-based software platform

    Carrie A. Des Roches;Isabel Balachandran;Elsa M. Ascenso;Yorghos Tripodis

  • Complexity in the Treatment of Naming Deficits

    Swathi Kiran

  • Comparison of voice F0 responses to pitch-shift onset and offset conditions.

    Charles R. Larson;Theresa A. Burnett;Jay J. Bauer;Swathi Kiran

  • Meta-analysis of the neural representation of first language and second language

    Rajani Sebastian;Angela R. Laird;Swathi Kiran

  • Semantic feature analysis treatment in Spanish–English and French–English bilingual aphasia

    Swathi Kiran;Patricia M. Roberts

  • Effect of typicality on online category verification of animate category exemplars in aphasia.

    Swathi Kiran;Cynthia K Thompson

  • To what extent does attention underlie language in aphasia

    Sarah Villard;Swathi Kiran

  • Typicality of Inanimate Category Exemplars in Aphasia Treatment: Further Evidence for Semantic Complexity

    Swathi Kiran

  • Changes in task-based effective connectivity in language networks following rehabilitation in post-stroke patients with aphasia

    Swathi Kiran;Erin L. Meier;Kushal J. Kapse;Peter A. Glynn

  • Videoconference Administration of the Western Aphasia Battery–Revised: Feasibility and Validity

    Maria Dekhtyar;Emily J Braun;Anne Billot;Lindsey Foo

  • Effect of semantic naming treatment on crosslinguistic generalization in bilingual aphasia

    Swathi Kiran;Lisa A. Edmonds

Frequent Co-Authors

Cynthia K. Thompson
Cynthia K. Thompson Northwestern University
David Caplan
David Caplan Harvard University
Brenda Rapp
Brenda Rapp Johns Hopkins University
Todd B. Parrish
Todd B. Parrish Northwestern University
Risto Miikkulainen
Risto Miikkulainen The University of Texas at Austin
Richard E. Zinbarg
Richard E. Zinbarg Northwestern University
Marcus Meinzer
Marcus Meinzer Charité - University Medicine Berlin
Leora R. Cherney
Leora R. Cherney Northwestern University
Gloria Waters
Gloria Waters Boston University

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