2026 Barbara C. Malt: Psychology Researcher – H-Index, Publications & Awards

Discipline name	D-Index	World Ranking	Current World Ranking	National Ranking	Current National Ranking	Publications	Citations
Psychology	38	8827	8244	4694	4273	113	6658

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Psychology

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6658

Research.com Recognitions

2007 - Fellow of the American Psychological Association (APA)

Overview

Barbara C. Malt is affiliated with Lehigh University in the United States and has contributed extensively to research in psychology and social sciences. Their work spans multiple subfields including experimental and cognitive psychology, developmental and educational psychology, language and linguistics, sociology and political science, and cognitive neuroscience.

The main topics of their research include:

Categorization, perception, and language
Syntax, semantics, linguistic variation
Language, metaphor, and cognition
Neurobiology of language and bilingualism
Language and cultural evolution
Environmental education and sustainability
Climate change communication and perception

Barbara C. Malt has published in several academic venues with notable concentration in the following journals:

Topics in Cognitive Science
International Journal of Bilingualism
Cognition
Experiments in Linguistic Meaning
The American Journal of Psychology

Recent papers authored by Barbara C. Malt include:

Conceptual Foundations of Sustainability (2023), Topics in Cognitive Science
Representing the World in Language and Thought (2024), Topics in Cognitive Science
What Does it Take to Love a Bug? Knowledge, Emotional Valence, and Politics in Attitudes Toward Insect Conservation (2023), Topics in Cognitive Science

Other relevant papers linked to their research network include:

Conceptual relations predict colexification across languages (2020), Cognition, authored by Yang Xu
Second-Language Influence on First-Language Animacy Constraints and Word Order in Korean-English Bilinguals (2021), The American Journal of Psychology, authored by Amy L. Lebkuecher

Frequent collaborators in Barbara C. Malt's research have been:

Amy L. Lebkuecher (2 joint works)
Yang Xu
Khang Duong
Serena Jiang
Mahesh Srinivasan

Barbara C. Malt was recognized as a Fellow of the American Psychological Association (APA) in 2007.

Best Publications

Motion events in language and cognition.

Silvia P. Gennari;Steven A. Sloman;Barbara C. Malt;W. Tecumseh Fitch

566
Citations
Knowing versus Naming: Similarity and the Linguistic Categorization of Artifacts

Barbara C. Malt;Steven A. Sloman;Silvia Gennari;Meiyi Shi

551
Citations
How bilinguals solve the naming problem

Eef Ameel;Gert Storms;Barbara C. Malt;Steven A. Sloman

312
Citations
Correlated properties in natural categories

Barbara C. Malt;Edward E. Smith

307
Citations
Category Coherence in Cross-Cultural Perspective

Barbara C. Malt

267
Citations
On the dominance of unidimensional rules in unsupervised categorization.

F. Gregory Ashby;Sarah Queller;Patricia M. Berretty

253
Citations
Water Is Not H2O.

Barbara C. Malt

246
Citations
How thought is mapped into words

Barbara C. Malt;Asifa Majid;Asifa Majid

237
Citations
Semantic Convergence in the Bilingual Lexicon.

Eef Ameel;Barbara C. Malt;Gert Storms;Fons Van Assche

226
Citations
Do artifact concepts have cores

Barbara C Malt;Eric C Johnson

217
Citations
Universality and language specificity in object naming

Barbara C. Malt;Steven A. Sloman;Silvia P. Gennari

191
Citations
Linguistic Diversity and Object Naming by Non-native Speakers of English.

Barbara C. Malt;Steven A. Sloman

170
Citations
The role of familiarity in determining typicality

Barbara C. Malt;Edward E. Smith

169
Citations
An on-line investigation of prototype and exemplar strategies in classification.

Barbara C. Malt

154
Citations
Kitchen Russian: Cross-linguistic differences and first-language object naming by Russian-English bilinguals ∗

Aneta Pavlenko;Barbara C. Malt

153
Citations
Words and the mind : how words capture human experience

Barbara C. Malt;Phillip M. Wolff

148
Citations
Talking About Walking Biomechanics and the Language of Locomotion

Barbara C. Malt;Silvia Gennari;Mutsumi Imai;Eef Ameel

139
Citations
Object Naming and Later Lexical Development: From Baby Bottle to Beer Bottle.

Eef Ameel;Barbara Malt;Gert Storms

135
Citations
Artifacts are not ascribed essences, nor are they treated as belonging to kinds

Steven A. Sloman;Barbara C. Malt

125
Citations
Features and beliefs in the mental representation of categories

Barbara C Malt

119
Citations
Predicting features for members of natural categories when categorization is uncertain.

Barbara C. Malt;Brian H. Ross;Gregory L. Murphy

117
Citations

Frequent Co-Authors

Steven A. Sloman Brown University

Asifa Majid University of York

Mutsumi Imai Keio University

Brian H. Ross University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign

Edward E. Smith Columbia University

Gregory L. Murphy New York University

Paul Bloom Columbia University

External Links

Personal website of Barbara C. Malt

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