Virginia A. Marchman

13.6k total citations · 3 hit papers
106 papers, 7.8k citations indexed

About

Virginia A. Marchman is a scholar working on Developmental and Educational Psychology, Cognitive Neuroscience and Pediatrics, Perinatology and Child Health. According to data from OpenAlex, Virginia A. Marchman has authored 106 papers receiving a total of 7.8k indexed citations (citations by other indexed papers that have themselves been cited), including 81 papers in Developmental and Educational Psychology, 29 papers in Cognitive Neuroscience and 28 papers in Pediatrics, Perinatology and Child Health. Recurrent topics in Virginia A. Marchman's work include Language Development and Disorders (68 papers), Reading and Literacy Development (47 papers) and Infant Development and Preterm Care (27 papers). Virginia A. Marchman is often cited by papers focused on Language Development and Disorders (68 papers), Reading and Literacy Development (47 papers) and Infant Development and Preterm Care (27 papers). Virginia A. Marchman collaborates with scholars based in United States, Israel and United Kingdom. Virginia A. Marchman's co-authors include Anne Fernald, Elizabeth Bates, Kim Plunkett, Adriana Weisleder, Donna Thal, Nereyda Hurtado, Larry Fenson, Michael C. Frank, Mika Braginsky and Daniel Yurovsky and has published in prestigious journals such as SHILAP Revista de lepidopterología, Neurology and Child Development.

In The Last Decade

Virginia A. Marchman

99 papers receiving 7.3k citations

Hit Papers

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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.

SES differences in language processing skill and vocabulary are evident at 18 months

2012 804 citations Anne Fernald, Virginia A. Marchman et al. Developmental Science profile →
Wordbank: an open repository for developmental vocabulary data

2016 390 citations Michael C. Frank, Mika Braginsky et al. profile →
Variability and Consistency in Early Language Learning

2021 121 citations Michael C. Frank, Mika Braginsky et al. profile →

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Name	h						Papers	Cites
Virginia A. Marchman United States	36	6.3k	2.6k	1.0k	998	788	106	7.8k
Larry Fenson United States	23	5.1k 0.8×	1.6k 0.6×	1.2k 1.1×	776 0.8×	381 0.5×	34	6.2k
Michael T. Ullman United States	45	6.4k 1.0×	6.2k 2.4×	263 0.3×	1.3k 1.3×	1.3k 1.6×	121	9.5k
Kate Nation United Kingdom	54	8.2k 1.3×	4.4k 1.7×	3.0k 2.9×	681 0.7×	344 0.4×	137	9.8k
Linda S. Siegel Canada	61	11.1k 1.8×	3.6k 1.4×	4.6k 4.5×	1.1k 1.1×	648 0.8×	247	14.5k
Julián M. Pine United Kingdom	38	3.5k 0.6×	1.6k 0.6×	388 0.4×	803 0.8×	1.1k 1.4×	130	4.7k
Gina Conti‐Ramsden United Kingdom	55	7.8k 1.2×	3.8k 1.5×	1.4k 1.4×	425 0.4×	328 0.4×	181	9.4k
Susan Ellis Weismer United States	45	5.6k 0.9×	3.9k 1.5×	982 1.0×	406 0.4×	182 0.2×	113	6.8k
Keith E. Nelson United States	28	2.6k 0.4×	1.1k 0.4×	1.3k 1.3×	400 0.4×	403 0.5×	76	3.9k
Courtenay Norbury United Kingdom	40	4.8k 0.8×	3.8k 1.5×	963 0.9×	532 0.5×	203 0.3×	101	6.3k
Lois Bloom United States	26	4.4k 0.7×	1.3k 0.5×	549 0.5×	1.0k 1.0×	1.9k 2.4×	59	5.9k

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Long, Bria, et al.. (2025). The BabyView dataset: High-resolution egocentric videos of infants’ and young children’s everyday experiences.

Marchman, Virginia A., et al.. (2025). The Power of Early Experience: Neonatal Skin‐To‐Skin Care Mitigates SES‐Related Disparities in Developmental Outcomes. Infancy. 30(3). e70024–e70024.

Travis, Katherine E., Melissa Scala, Virginia A. Marchman, et al.. (2025). Skin-to-Skin Holding in Relation to White Matter Microstructure in Infants Born Preterm. Neurology. 105(8). e214138–e214138.

Marchman, Virginia A., et al.. (2024). The role of translation equivalents in bilingual word learning. Developmental Science. 27(4). e13476–e13476. 3 indexed citations

Bruckert, Lisa, et al.. (2024). Neonatal inflammation and near-term white matter microstructure in infants born very preterm. SHILAP Revista de lepidopterología. 4(4). 100226–100226. 1 indexed citations

Marchman, Virginia A. & Philip S. Dale. (2023). The MacArthur-Bates Communicative Development Inventories: updates from the CDI Advisory Board. Frontiers in Psychology. 14. 1170303–1170303. 18 indexed citations

Dubner, Sarah E., et al.. (2023). Maternal mental health and engagement in developmental care activities with preterm infants in the NICU. Journal of Perinatology. 43(7). 871–876. 4 indexed citations

Kumar, Komal, et al.. (2023). Investigating Relations between the NICU Speech Environment and Weight Gain in Infants Born Very Preterm. American Journal of Perinatology. 41(S 01). e1390–e1396. 1 indexed citations

Bohn, Manuel, et al.. (2022). Spanish‐speaking caregivers’ use of referential labels with toddlers is a better predictor of later vocabulary than their use of referential gestures. Developmental Science. 26(4). e13354–e13354. 3 indexed citations

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Weisleder, Adriana, Margaret Friend, Angeline Tsui, & Virginia A. Marchman. (2022). Using Parent Report to Measure Vocabulary in Young Bilingual Children: A Scoping Review. PsyArXiv (OSF Preprints). 1 indexed citations

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Brignoni‐Pérez, Edith, Melissa Scala, Heidi M. Feldman, Virginia A. Marchman, & Katherine E. Travis. (2021). Disparities in Kangaroo Care for Premature Infants in the Neonatal Intensive Care Unit. Journal of Developmental & Behavioral Pediatrics. 43(5). e304–e311. 17 indexed citations

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Scala, Melissa, et al.. (2021). Impact of the COVID-19 pandemic on developmental care practices for infants born preterm. Early Human Development. 163. 105483–105483. 15 indexed citations

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Borchers, Lauren R., Lisa Bruckert, Katherine E. Travis, et al.. (2019). Predicting text reading skills at age 8 years in children born preterm and at term. Early Human Development. 130. 80–86. 24 indexed citations

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Dubner, Sarah E., et al.. (2019). White matter microstructure and cognitive outcomes in relation to neonatal inflammation in 6-year-old children born preterm. NeuroImage Clinical. 23. 101832–101832. 31 indexed citations

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Travis, Katherine E., et al.. (2018). White matter properties associated with pre‐reading skills in 6‐year‐old children born preterm and at term. Developmental Medicine & Child Neurology. 60(7). 695–702. 23 indexed citations

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MacDonald, Kyle, Virginia A. Marchman, Anne Fernald, & Michael C. Frank. (2018). Adults and preschoolers seek visual information to support language comprehension in noisy environments.. Cognitive Science. 1 indexed citations

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MacDonald, Kyle, et al.. (2017). An information-seeking account of eye movements during spoken and signed language comprehension.. Cognitive Science. 2 indexed citations

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Braginsky, Mika, et al.. (2016). From uh-oh to tomorrow: Predicting age of acquisition for early words across languages.. Cognitive Science. 24 indexed citations

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Marchman, Virginia A., et al.. (2015). Early language processing efficiency predicts later receptive vocabulary outcomes in children born preterm. Child Neuropsychology. 22(6). 649–665. 38 indexed citations

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Braginsky, Mika, Daniel Yurovsky, Virginia A. Marchman, & Michael C. Frank. (2015). Developmental Changes in the Relationship Between Grammar and the Lexicon.. Cognitive Science. 14 indexed citations

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