Peter de Villiers

1.1k total citations
11 papers, 566 citations indexed

About

Peter de Villiers is a scholar working on Developmental and Educational Psychology, Education and Language and Linguistics. According to data from OpenAlex, Peter de Villiers has authored 11 papers receiving a total of 566 indexed citations (citations by other indexed papers that have themselves been cited), including 6 papers in Developmental and Educational Psychology, 4 papers in Education and 3 papers in Language and Linguistics. Recurrent topics in Peter de Villiers's work include Child and Animal Learning Development (3 papers), Reading and Literacy Development (3 papers) and Early Childhood Education and Development (3 papers). Peter de Villiers is often cited by papers focused on Child and Animal Learning Development (3 papers), Reading and Literacy Development (3 papers) and Early Childhood Education and Development (3 papers). Peter de Villiers collaborates with scholars based in United States, Uganda and Canada. Peter de Villiers's co-authors include Jill de Villiers, Brenda Schick, Robert Hoffmeister, Michael Assel, Marcia A. Barnes, Susan H. Landry, Nancy Eisenberg, Heather B. Taylor, Christopher J. Lonigan and Beth M. Phillips and has published in prestigious journals such as Child Development, Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society B Biological Sciences and Developmental Psychology.

In The Last Decade

Peter de Villiers

10 papers receiving 529 citations

Peers — A (Enhanced Table)

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

Name h Career Trend Papers Cites
Peter de Villiers United States 7 423 152 139 94 89 11 566
Frédérique Gayraud France 8 310 0.7× 133 0.9× 106 0.8× 86 0.9× 50 0.6× 28 540
Makeba Parramore Wilbourn United States 12 312 0.7× 153 1.0× 100 0.7× 35 0.4× 38 0.4× 19 487
Naja Ferjan Ramírez United States 14 511 1.2× 208 1.4× 152 1.1× 63 0.7× 90 1.0× 28 663
Lorraine McCune United States 10 638 1.5× 176 1.2× 110 0.8× 101 1.1× 67 0.8× 28 786
Lynne Sanford Koester United States 13 308 0.7× 88 0.6× 66 0.5× 110 1.2× 70 0.8× 28 421
Ronit Kahana‐Kalman United States 11 306 0.7× 108 0.7× 177 1.3× 140 1.5× 30 0.3× 14 533
Virginia C. Salo United States 12 203 0.5× 150 1.0× 112 0.8× 120 1.3× 27 0.3× 18 453
Katharine Suma United States 8 456 1.1× 188 1.2× 279 2.0× 216 2.3× 37 0.4× 13 686
Cecilia Shore United States 10 380 0.9× 116 0.8× 175 1.3× 181 1.9× 35 0.4× 22 604
Lizet Ketelaar Netherlands 12 346 0.8× 275 1.8× 160 1.2× 178 1.9× 24 0.3× 16 608

Countries citing papers authored by Peter de Villiers

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Fields of papers citing papers by Peter de Villiers

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Physical SciencesHealth SciencesLife SciencesSocial Sciences

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Co-authorship network of co-authors of Peter de Villiers

This figure shows the co-authorship network connecting the top 25 collaborators of Peter de Villiers. A scholar is included among the top collaborators of Peter de Villiers 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 Peter de Villiers. Peter de Villiers is excluded from the visualization to improve readability, since they are connected to all nodes in the network.

All Works

11 of 11 papers shown
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Villiers, Jill G. de & Peter de Villiers. (2025). The contributions of language and inhibitory control to false belief reasoning over time. Frontiers in Psychology. 15. 1455941–1455941. 1 indexed citations
2.
Spelke, Elizabeth S., et al.. (2021). Across demographics and recent history, most parents sing to their infants and toddlers daily. Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society B Biological Sciences. 376(1840). 20210089–20210089. 25 indexed citations
3.
Montroy, Janelle J., Emily C. Merz, Jeffrey J. Williams, et al.. (2019). Hot and cool dimensionality of executive function: Model invariance across age and maternal education in preschool children. Early Childhood Research Quarterly. 49. 188–201. 30 indexed citations
4.
Villiers, Jill de, Peter de Villiers, Christopher J. Lonigan, et al.. (2017). Children’s quantification with <i>every</i> over time. Glossa a journal of general linguistics. 2(1). 5 indexed citations
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Lonigan, Christopher J., Beth M. Phillips, Susan H. Landry, et al.. (2015). Impacts of a Comprehensive School Readiness Curriculum for Preschool Children at Risk for Educational Difficulties. Child Development. 86(6). 1773–1793. 38 indexed citations
6.
Villiers, Peter de, et al.. (2015). Language, Inhibitory Control, and Explicit False Belief Understanding: A Longitudinal Structural Equation Model. 1 indexed citations
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Landry, Susan H., Tricia A. Zucker, Heather B. Taylor, et al.. (2013). Enhancing early child care quality and learning for toddlers at risk: The responsive early childhood program.. Developmental Psychology. 50(2). 526–541. 73 indexed citations
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Schick, Brenda, Peter de Villiers, Jill de Villiers, & Robert Hoffmeister. (2007). Language and Theory of Mind: A Study of Deaf Children. Child Development. 78(2). 376–396. 348 indexed citations
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Villiers, Peter de. (2004). Assessing Pragmatic Skills in Elicited Production. Seminars in Speech and Language. 25(1). 57–71. 34 indexed citations
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Schick, Brenda, et al.. (2002). Theory of Mind: Language and Cognition in Deaf Children. ASHA Leader. 7(22). 6–14. 11 indexed citations
11.
Villiers, Peter de, Jill G. de Villiers, Thomas Roeper, & Harry N. Seymour. (2001). Assessing What Every 5-Year-Old Should Know. ScholarWorks@UMassAmherst (University of Massachusetts Amherst).

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