2026 Catherine E. Snow: Psychology Researcher – H-Index, Publications & Awards

Discipline name	D-Index	World Ranking	Current World Ranking	National Ranking	Current National Ranking	Publications	Citations
Psychology	95	753	659	473	402	316	57349

Research.com Recognitions

2011 - Distinguished Contributions to Research in Education Award, American Educational Research Association
2010 - Fellow of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences
2008 - Fellow of the American Educational Research Association

Overview

Catherine E. Snow is affiliated with Harvard University in the United States. Their research portfolio prominently spans the fields of Social Sciences and Psychology, with substantial contributions in Education and Developmental and Educational Psychology as key subfields. Additional focus areas include Statistics and Probability, Literature and Literary Theory, and Language and Linguistics.

The scientist's work concentrates on several main topics, including:

Reading and Literacy Development
Early Childhood Education and Development
Cognitive and developmental aspects of mathematical skills
Language Development and Disorders
Parental Involvement in Education
Educational and Psychological Assessments
Child Development and Digital Technology

Recent papers authored or co-authored by Catherine E. Snow include the following:

Null relations between CLASS scores and gains in children's language, math, and executive function skills: A replication and extension study (2020), published in Early Childhood Research Quarterly
Are screen devices soothing children or soothing parents? Investigating the relationships among children's exposure to different types of screen media, parental efficacy and home literacy practices (2020), published in Computers in Human Behavior
Shared Book Reading in Preschool Supports Bilingual Children's Second-Language Learning: A Cluster-Randomized Trial (2020), published in Child Development
Time well spent: Home learning activities and gains in children's academic skills in the prekindergarten year (2020), published in Developmental Psychology
Is Skill Type the Key to the PreK Fadeout Puzzle? Differential Associations Between Enrollment in PreK and Constrained and Unconstrained Skills Across Kindergarten (2021), published in Child Development

Frequent publication venues of this researcher include:

Early Childhood Research Quarterly
Child Development
Human Behavior and Emerging Technologies
Developmental Psychology
Journal of Educational Psychology

Catherine E. Snow has co-authored extensively with several researchers, notably:

Christina Weiland
Meghan P. McCormick
JoAnn Hsueh
Jason Sachs
Amanda Ketner Weissman

Their book publications are associated with notable publishers such as Psychology Press eBooks, Ankara Pegem Akademi Yayıncılık eBooks, and Cambridge University Press. Titles include Children's Language (2021), Değerlendirmeden Uygulamaya Tüm Yönleriyle Erken Okuryazarlık (2021), and Publishing Journal Articles (2020).

Catherine E. Snow has received distinctions including the Distinguished Contributions to Research in Education Award from the American Educational Research Association in 2011, election as a Fellow of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences in 2010, and fellowship with the American Educational Research Association since 2008.

Best Publications

Preventing reading difficulties in young children

Catherine E. Snow;M. Susan Burns;Peg Griffin

8953
Citations
Reading for Understanding: Toward an R&D Program in Reading Comprehension

Catherine E. Snow

3547
Citations
An integrated encyclopedia of DNA elements in the human genome

Ian Dunham;Anshul Kundaje;Shelley F. Aldred;Patrick J. Collins

2824
Citations
Mothers' Speech to Children Learning Language.

Catherine E. Snow

1947
Citations
Talking to Children

Catherine E. Snow;Charles A. Ferguson

1833
Citations
Literacy and Language: Relationships during the Preschool Years

Catherine E. Snow

1660
Citations
The child language data exchange system.

Brian MacWhinney;Catherine Snow

1502
Citations
Talking to Children: Language Input and Acquisition

Carol B. Farwell;Catherine E. Snow;Charles A. Ferguson

1462
Citations
A Systematic Survey of Loss-of-Function Variants in Human Protein-Coding Genes

Daniel G. MacArthur;Daniel G. MacArthur;Suganthi Balasubramanian;Adam Frankish;Ni Huang

1455
Citations
Closing the Gap: Addressing the Vocabulary Needs of English-Language Learners in Bilingual and Mainstream Classrooms:

María S. Carlo;Diane August;Barry McLaughlin;Catherine Snow

1393
Citations
The Critical Period for Language Acquisition: Evidence from Second Language Learning.

Catherine E. Snow;Marian Hoefnagel-Hohle

1323
Citations
The development of conversation between mothers and babies

Catherine E. Snow

1321
Citations
The Critical Role of Vocabulary Development for English Language Learners

Diane August;Maria S. Carlo;Cheryl Dressler;Catherine E. Snow

1308
Citations
Lexical output as related to children's vocabulary acquisition: Effects of sophisticated exposure and support for meaning.

Zehava Oz Weizman;Catherine E. Snow

1236
Citations
Unfulfilled Expectations: Home and School Influences on Literacy

Catherine E. Snow;Wendy S. Barnes;Jean Chandler;Irene F. Goodman

1071
Citations
What Teachers Need To Know about Language.

Lily Wong Fillmore;Catherine E. Snow

981
Citations
Maternal correlates of growth in toddler vocabulary production in low-income families.

Barbara Alexander Pan;Meredith Lee Rowe;Judith D. Singer;Catherine Elizabeth Snow

977
Citations
Knowledge to Support the Teaching of Reading: Preparing Teachers for a Changing World

Catherine E. Snow;Peg Griffin;M. Susan Burns

887
Citations
The Child Language Data Exchange System: an update.

Brian MacWhinney;Catherine Snow

878
Citations
Children's language

Keith E. Nelson;Anne Van Kleeck;Gina Conti-Ramsden;Catherine E. Snow

777
Citations
Native Spanish-speaking children reading in English : Toward a model of comprehension

C. Patrick Proctor;María Carlo;Diane August;Catherine Snow

763
Citations
Academic Language and the Challenge of Reading for Learning About Science

Catherine E. Snow

633
Citations
Project EASE: The Effect of a Family Literacy Project on Kindergarten Students' Early Literacy Skills

Gail E. Jordan;Catherine E. Snow;Michelle V. Porche

611
Citations

Frequent Co-Authors

Hirokazu Yoshikawa New York University

Robert L. Selman Harvard University

Brian MacWhinney Carnegie Mellon University

Adam Frankish European Bioinformatics Institute

Gina Conti-Ramsden University of Manchester

Jennifer Harrow AstraZeneca (United Kingdom)

Mark Diekhans University of California, Santa Cruz

Stephanie M. Jones Harvard University

Tim Hubbard King's College London

Manolis Kellis MIT

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