Adriana conducted over the years one of the richest lines of research in early literacy. She has published over 75 chapters and professional articles, many of them in top tier journals (Child Development, Journal of Educational Psychology, Applied Psycholinguistics, and Reading Research Quarterly) and important volumes (Handbook of Early Literacy, APA Handbook of Education Psychology). She has served on the editorial boards of Journal of Literacy Research, Reading Research Quarterly, Journal of Educational Psychology, and a number of other Journals. Her work has been enormously influential in both Europe and the U.S. She has conducted some of the most widely cited meta-analyses of early literacy and authored methodologies chapters in meta-analysis.