Melissa Kline

1.3k total citations · 1 hit paper
10 papers, 275 citations indexed

About

Melissa Kline is a scholar working on Developmental and Educational Psychology, Experimental and Cognitive Psychology and Language and Linguistics. According to data from OpenAlex, Melissa Kline has authored 10 papers receiving a total of 275 indexed citations (citations by other indexed papers that have themselves been cited), including 9 papers in Developmental and Educational Psychology, 3 papers in Experimental and Cognitive Psychology and 3 papers in Language and Linguistics. Recurrent topics in Melissa Kline's work include Language Development and Disorders (8 papers), Child and Animal Learning Development (6 papers) and Reading and Literacy Development (2 papers). Melissa Kline is often cited by papers focused on Language Development and Disorders (8 papers), Child and Animal Learning Development (6 papers) and Reading and Literacy Development (2 papers). Melissa Kline collaborates with scholars based in United States, Australia and United Kingdom. Melissa Kline's co-authors include Katherine Demuth, Mélanie Söderström, Casey Lew‐Williams, Michael C. Frank, Christina Bergmann, J. Kiley Hamlin, Jessica Sullivan, Thierry Nazzi, Sandra R. Waxman and Daniel Yurovsky and has published in prestigious journals such as Cognitive Science, Journal of Child Language and Infancy.

In The Last Decade

Melissa Kline

10 papers receiving 264 citations

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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.

A Collaborative Approach to Infant Research: Promoting Reproducibility, Best Practices, and Theory‐Building

2017 175 citations Michael C. Frank, Elika Bergelson et al. Infancy profile →

Peers — A (Enhanced Table)

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

Name	h						Papers	Cites
Melissa Kline United States	7	157	79	54	51	25	10	275
Martin Zettersten United States	9	157 1.0×	70 0.9×	59 1.1×	58 1.1×	18 0.7×	23	246
Brock Ferguson United States	11	330 2.1×	97 1.2×	41 0.8×	74 1.5×	22 0.9×	20	394
Erica H. Wojcik United States	11	262 1.7×	116 1.5×	25 0.5×	43 0.8×	17 0.7×	19	385
Mahmoud Medhat Elsherif United Kingdom	11	114 0.7×	127 1.6×	31 0.6×	75 1.5×	16 0.6×	32	297
Denis Tatone United Kingdom	7	255 1.6×	100 1.3×	154 2.9×	65 1.3×	12 0.5×	15	314
Julien Mayor Norway	11	311 2.0×	122 1.5×	26 0.5×	87 1.7×	101 4.0×	44	478
Yuko Okumura Japan	9	211 1.3×	114 1.4×	156 2.9×	48 0.9×	33 1.3×	30	319
Susanne Grassmann Germany	11	230 1.5×	78 1.0×	43 0.8×	85 1.7×	29 1.2×	11	338
Andrea N. Welder Canada	8	285 1.8×	56 0.7×	56 1.0×	77 1.5×	41 1.6×	11	345
Birgit Knudsen Netherlands	10	242 1.5×	130 1.6×	111 2.1×	58 1.1×	51 2.0×	14	358

Countries citing papers authored by Melissa Kline

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Fields of papers citing papers by Melissa Kline

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Co-authorship network of co-authors of Melissa Kline

This figure shows the co-authorship network connecting the top 25 collaborators of Melissa Kline. A scholar is included among the top collaborators of Melissa Kline based on the total number of citations received by their joint publications. Widths of edges represent the number of papers authors have co-authored together. Node borders signify the number of papers an author published with Melissa Kline. Melissa Kline is excluded from the visualization to improve readability, since they are connected to all nodes in the network.

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10 of 10 papers shown

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Byers‐Heinlein, Krista, Christina Bergmann, Catherine Davies, et al.. (2020). Building a collaborative psychological science: Lessons learned from ManyBabies 1.. Canadian Psychology/Psychologie canadienne. 61(4). 349–363. 42 indexed citations

2.

Scott, Kimberly & Melissa Kline. (2019). Enabling Confirmatory Secondary Data Analysis by Logging Data Checkout. Advances in Methods and Practices in Psychological Science. 2(1). 45–54. 9 indexed citations

3.

Frank, Michael C., Elika Bergelson, Christina Bergmann, et al.. (2017). A Collaborative Approach to Infant Research: Promoting Reproducibility, Best Practices, and Theory‐Building. Infancy. 22(4). 421–435. 175 indexed citations breakdown →

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Kline, Melissa, Jesse Snedeker, & Laura Schulz. (2016). Linking Language and Events: Spatiotemporal Cues Drive Children’s Expectations About the Meanings of Novel Transitive Verbs. Language Learning and Development. 13(1). 1–23. 8 indexed citations

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Kline, Melissa & Jesse Snedeker. (2015). 2-year-olds use syntax to infer actor intentions in a rational-action paradigm.. eScholarship (California Digital Library). 1 indexed citations

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Kline, Melissa & Katherine Demuth. (2013). Syntactic generalization with novel intransitive verbs. Journal of Child Language. 41(3). 543–574. 8 indexed citations

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Kline, Melissa, Paul Muentener, & Laura Schulz. (2013). Transitive and periphrastic sentences affect memory for simple causal scenes. Cognitive Science. 35(35). 1 indexed citations

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Kline, Melissa, Jesse Snedeker, & Laura Schulz. (2011). Children's comprehension and production of transitive sentences is sensitive to the causal structure of events. eScholarship (California Digital Library). 33(33). 1 indexed citations

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Kline, Melissa & Katherine Demuth. (2010). Factors Facilitating Implicit Learning: The Case of the Sesotho Passive. Language Acquisition. 17(4). 220–234. 20 indexed citations

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Demuth, Katherine & Melissa Kline. (2006). The distribution of passives in spoken Sesotho. Southern African Linguistics and Applied Language Studies. 24(3). 377–388. 10 indexed citations

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