Rachel Romeo

2.1k total citations · 1 hit paper
37 papers, 1.1k citations indexed

About

Rachel Romeo is a scholar working on Developmental and Educational Psychology, Cognitive Neuroscience and Experimental and Cognitive Psychology. According to data from OpenAlex, Rachel Romeo has authored 37 papers receiving a total of 1.1k indexed citations (citations by other indexed papers that have themselves been cited), including 23 papers in Developmental and Educational Psychology, 17 papers in Cognitive Neuroscience and 11 papers in Experimental and Cognitive Psychology. Recurrent topics in Rachel Romeo's work include Language Development and Disorders (15 papers), Reading and Literacy Development (12 papers) and Early Childhood Education and Development (6 papers). Rachel Romeo is often cited by papers focused on Language Development and Disorders (15 papers), Reading and Literacy Development (12 papers) and Early Childhood Education and Development (6 papers). Rachel Romeo collaborates with scholars based in United States, United Kingdom and Canada. Rachel Romeo's co-authors include John D. E. Gabrieli, Julia Leonard, Sydney T. Robinson, Allyson P. Mackey, Meredith L. Rowe, Martin R. West, Joanna A. Christodoulou, Valérie Hazan, Anastasia Yendiki and Kelly Halverson and has published in prestigious journals such as Nature Communications, Journal of Neuroscience and SHILAP Revista de lepidopterología.

In The Last Decade

Rachel Romeo

35 papers receiving 1.1k 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.

Beyond the 30-Million-Word Gap: Children’s Conversational Exposure Is Associated With Language-Related Brain Function

2018 446 citations Rachel Romeo, Julia Leonard et al. Psychological Science profile →

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Name	h						Papers	Cites
Rachel Romeo United States	14	648	354	346	199	174	37	1.1k
Laura S. DeThorne United States	21	658 1.0×	368 1.0×	333 1.0×	289 1.5×	157 0.9×	64	1.1k
Julia Leonard United States	20	706 1.1×	579 1.6×	570 1.6×	379 1.9×	355 2.0×	43	1.8k
Sammy Perone United States	19	384 0.6×	108 0.3×	551 1.6×	96 0.5×	178 1.0×	39	948
Sabina Pauen Germany	22	821 1.3×	173 0.5×	446 1.3×	150 0.8×	241 1.4×	98	1.3k
Julia Irwin United States	15	447 0.7×	106 0.3×	415 1.2×	203 1.0×	439 2.5×	34	982
Linda Cupples Australia	24	1.4k 2.2×	115 0.3×	1.2k 3.6×	235 1.2×	176 1.0×	62	2.0k
Dagmara Annaz United Kingdom	15	512 0.8×	132 0.4×	688 2.0×	227 1.1×	263 1.5×	19	1.5k
Jodene Goldenring Fine United States	19	358 0.6×	196 0.6×	338 1.0×	140 0.7×	310 1.8×	30	1.0k
Thomas Klee United States	23	1.6k 2.5×	171 0.5×	629 1.8×	481 2.4×	259 1.5×	52	1.9k
Karla Holmboe United Kingdom	17	271 0.4×	298 0.8×	725 2.1×	291 1.5×	117 0.7×	33	1.1k

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Rosen, Maya L., Divyangana Rakesh, & Rachel Romeo. (2025). The role of socioeconomic status in shaping associations between sensory association cortex and prefrontal structure and implications for executive function. Developmental Cognitive Neuroscience. 73. 101550–101550. 3 indexed citations

Kral, Andrej, Liat Kishon‐Rabin, Gerard M. O’Donoghue, & Rachel Romeo. (2025). Sensorimotor contingencies in congenital hearing loss: The critical first nine months. Hearing Research. 467. 109401–109401. 1 indexed citations

Zhang, Xianglin, et al.. (2025). Statistical learning as a buffer: Investigating its impact on the link between home environment and reading achievement. Journal of Experimental Child Psychology. 253. 106201–106201.

Leonard, Julia, Rachel Romeo, Nicholas A. Hubbard, et al.. (2025). Exploration is associated with socioeconomic disparities in learning and academic achievement in adolescence. Nature Communications. 16(1). 6342–6342. 2 indexed citations

Edwards, Jan, et al.. (2024). The everyday speech environments of preschoolers with and without cochlear implants. Journal of Child Language. 52(2). 377–398. 1 indexed citations

Terry, Victoria R., et al.. (2024). Parenting relationships as a moderator of how socioeconomic status and household chaos relate to children’s cognitive and socioemotional skills. Journal of Experimental Child Psychology. 250. 106123–106123. 2 indexed citations

Romeo, Rachel, et al.. (2024). Risk and resilience models in child development. Advances in child development and behavior. 67. 132–163.

Romeo, Rachel, et al.. (2024). Bursty, Irregular Speech Input to Children Predicts Vocabulary Size. Developmental Science. 28(1). e13590–e13590. 3 indexed citations

Marks, Rebecca A., Courtney Pollack, Anila M. D’Mello, et al.. (2023). Neurocognitive mechanisms of co‐occurring math difficulties in dyslexia: Differences in executive function and visuospatial processing. Developmental Science. 27(2). e13443–e13443. 8 indexed citations

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Romeo, Rachel, et al.. (2023). Socioeconomic Status and Reading Development: Moving from “Deficit” to “Adaptation” in Neurobiological Models of Experience‐Dependent Learning. Mind Brain and Education. 17(4). 324–333. 6 indexed citations

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McLaughlin, Katie A., Meredith L. Rowe, Margaret A. Sheridan, et al.. (2023). Conversation disruptions in early childhood predict executive functioning development: A longitudinal study. Developmental Science. 27(1). e13414–e13414. 1 indexed citations

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Halverson, Kelly, Anila M. D’Mello, Rachel Romeo, et al.. (2022). Dissociating executive function and ADHD influences on reading ability in children with dyslexia. Cortex. 153. 126–142. 16 indexed citations

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Romeo, Rachel, et al.. (2022). Socioeconomic dissociations in the neural and cognitive bases of reading disorders. Developmental Cognitive Neuroscience. 58. 101175–101175. 17 indexed citations

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Pollack, Courtney, Tracy M. Centanni, Kelly Halverson, et al.. (2021). Anxiety, Motivation, and Competence in Mathematics and Reading for Children With and Without Learning Difficulties. Frontiers in Psychology. 12. 704821–704821. 15 indexed citations

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Romeo, Rachel, Julia Leonard, Hannah Grotzinger, et al.. (2021). Neuroplasticity associated with changes in conversational turn-taking following a family-based intervention. Developmental Cognitive Neuroscience. 49. 100967–100967. 53 indexed citations

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Romeo, Rachel, Mélanie Söderström, Camila Scaff, et al.. (2020). Longform recordings of everyday life: Ethics for best practices. Behavior Research Methods. 52(5). 1951–1969. 45 indexed citations

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Hubbard, Nicholas A., et al.. (2020). Reward-Sensitive Basal Ganglia Stabilize the Maintenance of Goal-Relevant Neural Patterns in Adolescents. Journal of Cognitive Neuroscience. 32(8). 1508–1524. 7 indexed citations

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Guell, Xavier, Anila M. D’Mello, Nicholas A. Hubbard, et al.. (2019). Functional Territories of Human Dentate Nucleus. Cerebral Cortex. 30(4). 2401–2417. 43 indexed citations

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Leonard, Julia, Rachel Romeo, Anne T. Park, et al.. (2019). Associations between cortical thickness and reasoning differ by socioeconomic status in development. Developmental Cognitive Neuroscience. 36. 100641–100641. 35 indexed citations

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Romeo, Rachel, Julia Leonard, Sydney T. Robinson, et al.. (2018). Beyond the 30-Million-Word Gap: Children’s Conversational Exposure Is Associated With Language-Related Brain Function. Psychological Science. 29(5). 700–710. 446 indexed citations breakdown →

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