D. Kimbrough Oller

13.5k total citations · 3 hit papers
166 papers, 8.3k citations indexed

About

D. Kimbrough Oller is a scholar working on Developmental and Educational Psychology, Experimental and Cognitive Psychology and Pharmacy. According to data from OpenAlex, D. Kimbrough Oller has authored 166 papers receiving a total of 8.3k indexed citations (citations by other indexed papers that have themselves been cited), including 119 papers in Developmental and Educational Psychology, 56 papers in Experimental and Cognitive Psychology and 52 papers in Pharmacy. Recurrent topics in D. Kimbrough Oller's work include Language Development and Disorders (101 papers), Infant Health and Development (52 papers) and Phonetics and Phonology Research (52 papers). D. Kimbrough Oller is often cited by papers focused on Language Development and Disorders (101 papers), Infant Health and Development (52 papers) and Phonetics and Phonology Research (52 papers). D. Kimbrough Oller collaborates with scholars based in United States, Austria and Taiwan. D. Kimbrough Oller's co-authors include Rebecca E. Eilers, Barbara Zurer Pearson, Jill Gilkerson, Jeffrey A. Richards, Alan B. Cobo-Lewis, Michael P. Lynch, Anne S. Warlaumont, Steven F. Warren, Michele L. Steffens and Ulrike Griebel and has published in prestigious journals such as Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, PLoS ONE and PEDIATRICS.

In The Last Decade

D. Kimbrough Oller

160 papers receiving 7.7k citations

Hit Papers

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What are hit papers?

Hit papers significantly outperform the citation benchmark for their cohort. A paper qualifies if it has ≥500 total citations, achieves ≥1.5× the top-1% citation threshold for papers in the same subfield and year (this is the minimum needed to enter the top 1%, not the average within it), or reaches the top citation threshold in at least one of its specific research topics.

Lexical Development in Bilingual Infants and Toddlers: Comparison to Monolingual Norms

1993 535 citations Barbara Zurer Pearson, D. Kimbrough Oller et al. profile →
Mapping the Early Language Environment Using All-Day Recordings and Automated Analysis

2017 275 citations Jill Gilkerson, Jeffrey A. Richards et al. profile →
Language Experience in the Second Year of Life and Language Outcomes in Late Childhood

2018 235 citations Jill Gilkerson, Jeffrey A. Richards et al. profile →

Peers — A (Enhanced Table)

Peers by citation overlap · career bar shows stage (early→late) cites · hero ref

Name	h						Papers	Cites
D. Kimbrough Oller United States	43	6.2k	2.5k	2.1k	1.5k	906	166	8.3k
Anne Fernald United States	45	9.6k 1.6×	3.7k 1.5×	3.5k 1.6×	1.4k 1.0×	1.9k 2.1×	97	13.6k
Peter W. Jusczyk United States	53	9.4k 1.5×	3.6k 1.4×	6.3k 2.9×	898 0.6×	275 0.3×	117	12.1k
Jacques Mehler France	68	9.6k 1.6×	7.3k 2.9×	7.2k 3.4×	792 0.5×	1.0k 1.1×	159	16.6k
Jenny R. Saffran United States	48	9.6k 1.5×	5.6k 2.3×	3.9k 1.8×	337 0.2×	390 0.4×	121	13.4k
Sandra E. Trehub Canada	57	2.9k 0.5×	7.4k 3.0×	2.8k 1.3×	1.1k 0.8×	661 0.7×	199	9.9k
Franck Ramus France	46	5.7k 0.9×	4.5k 1.8×	1.9k 0.9×	134 0.1×	919 1.0×	124	8.7k
Lorraine E. Bahrick United States	41	2.9k 0.5×	2.4k 1.0×	2.4k 1.1×	427 0.3×	381 0.4×	98	5.6k
Colwyn Trevarthen United Kingdom	42	2.8k 0.4×	4.0k 1.6×	1.3k 0.6×	559 0.4×	1.0k 1.1×	125	8.5k
Denis Burnham Australia	35	2.2k 0.4×	1.9k 0.7×	2.6k 1.2×	433 0.3×	123 0.1×	184	4.3k
Lauren B. Adamson United States	43	3.9k 0.6×	2.6k 1.1×	531 0.2×	862 0.6×	1.6k 1.7×	105	7.6k

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Ramsay, Gordon, et al.. (2025). Parentese Elicits Infant Speech‐Like Vocalizations in Typically Developing and Autistic Infants. Infancy. 30(3). e70022–e70022. 1 indexed citations

Bene, Edina R., et al.. (2025). Frequencies and functions of vocalizations and gestures in the second year of life. PLoS ONE. 20(1). e0308760–e0308760.

Oller, D. Kimbrough, et al.. (2024). Acoustic features of vocalizations in typically developing and autistic infants in the first year. Research in Developmental Disabilities. 154. 104849–104849. 2 indexed citations

Griebel, Ulrike & D. Kimbrough Oller. (2024). From emotional signals to symbols. Frontiers in Psychology. 15. 1135288–1135288. 2 indexed citations

Long, Helen L., et al.. (2024). Canonical babbling trajectories across the first year of life in autism and typical development. Autism. 28(12). 3078–3091. 4 indexed citations

Ramsay, Gordon, et al.. (2024). Infant vocal category exploration as a foundation for speech development. PLoS ONE. 19(5). e0299140–e0299140. 6 indexed citations

Oller, D. Kimbrough, et al.. (2023). Sex differences in infant vocalization and the origin of language. iScience. 26(6). 106884–106884. 4 indexed citations

Gipson, Tanjala, et al.. (2021). Early Vocal Development in Tuberous Sclerosis Complex. Pediatric Neurology. 125. 48–52. 3 indexed citations

Jarmulowicz, Linda, et al.. (2020). Rapid shift in naming efficiency on a rapid automatic naming task by young Spanish-speaking English language learners. Applied Psycholinguistics. 41(4). 847–872. 2 indexed citations

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Buder, Eugene H., et al.. (2019). Acoustic Correlates and Adult Perceptions of Distress in Infant Speech-Like Vocalizations and Cries. Frontiers in Psychology. 10. 1154–1154. 11 indexed citations

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Buder, Eugene H., et al.. (2018). Registers in Infant Phonation. Journal of Voice. 33(3). 382.e21–382.e32. 7 indexed citations

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Chen, Limei, et al.. (2018). LENA computerized automatic analysis of speech development from birth to three. International Conference on Computational Linguistics. 158–168. 1 indexed citations

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Oller, D. Kimbrough, et al.. (2015). Curricula Objectives for Educators of Children with Cochlear Implants. Advances in oto-rhino-laryngology. 48. 216–221.

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Patten, Elena, et al.. (2014). Vocal Patterns in Infants with Autism Spectrum Disorder: Canonical Babbling Status and Vocalization Frequency. Journal of Autism and Developmental Disorders. 44(10). 2413–2428. 129 indexed citations

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Warlaumont, Anne S., D. Kimbrough Oller, Rick Dale, et al.. (2010). Vocal interaction dynamics of children with and without autism. eScholarship (California Digital Library). 32(32). 28 indexed citations

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Oller, D. Kimbrough & Ulrike Griebel. (2004). Evolution of communication systems : a comparative approach. MIT Press eBooks. 95 indexed citations

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Oller, D. Kimbrough, Rebecca E. Eilers, Adrian Neal, & Alan B. Cobo-Lewis. (1998). Late Onset Canonical Babbling: A Possible Early Marker of Abnormal Development. American Journal on Mental Retardation. 103(3). 249–249. 95 indexed citations

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Pearson, Barbara Zurer, et al.. (1995). Cross-language synonyms in the lexicons of bilingual infants: one language or two?. Journal of Child Language. 22(2). 345–368. 168 indexed citations

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Pearson, Barbara Zurer, et al.. (1992). Measuring Bilingual Children's Receptive Vocabularies. Child Development. 63(4). 1012–1012. 175 indexed citations

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Oller, D. Kimbrough. (1986). Tactual Vocoders in a Multisensory Program Training Speech Production and Reception.. The Volta Review. 88(1). 21–36. 9 indexed citations

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