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Gail S. Goodman publication distribution in Psychology in 2026

The chart shows the distribution of publications by all Research.com ranked scientists in the field of Psychology in 2026. The highlighted bar marks where Gail S. Goodman sits on this spectrum.

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31 publications 706+

This scientist: 248 publications — 80th percentile

80% of scientists in this discipline score the same or lower.

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Gail S. Goodman D-index placement in Psychology in 2026

The chart shows the D-index (discipline H-index) distribution of Psychology scientists ranked by Research.com in 2026. The highlighted bar marks where Gail S. Goodman sits on this spectrum.

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30 D-Index 144+

This scientist: 82 D-Index — 89th percentile

89% of scientists in this discipline score the same or lower.

The last bar groups every scientist with 144 D-Index or more.

Research.com Recognitions

  • 2012 - James McKeen Cattell Fellow Award, Association for Psychological Science
  • 2005 - APA Award for Distinguished Professional Contributions to Applied Research
  • 1993 - Fellow of the American Psychological Association (APA)

Overview

Gail S. Goodman is affiliated with the University of California, Davis in the United States. Their research primarily spans the fields of psychology, social sciences, and neuroscience, with a significant focus on clinical psychology and cognitive neuroscience. Other subfields of study include sociology and political science, social psychology, and safety research.

The main topics of Goodman's scholarly work encompass memory processes and influences, child abuse and trauma, deception detection and forensic psychology, migration, health and trauma, psychopathy, forensic psychiatry, sexual offending, child welfare and adoption, and family support in illness.

Goodman has contributed to a range of research papers, including the following recent publications:

  • Childhood Sexual Abuse: A Longitudinal Study of Disclosures and Denials (2023), published in Child Maltreatment
  • Disclosures of Sexual and Physical Abuse across Repeated Interviews (2021), published in Journal of Child Sexual Abuse
  • Foster youth and at-risk non-foster youth: A propensity score and structural equation modeling analysis (2021), published in Children and Youth Services Review
  • Memory Accuracy After 20 Years for Interviews About Child Maltreatment (2021), published in Child Maltreatment
  • Adults' Memory for a Maltreatment-Related Childhood Experience: Interview Protocols (2022), published in Clinical Psychological Science

Frequent co-authors include Dana T. Hartman, Yuerui Wu, Deborah Goldfarb, Yan Wang, and Daisy Vidales. These collaborations reflect consistent partnerships within their research community.

The scholar's work has appeared frequently in several publication venues, including Applied Cognitive Psychology, UNC Libraries, Child Maltreatment, Children and Youth Services Review, and Journal of Child Sexual Abuse.

Goodman has been recognized with notable awards such as the James McKeen Cattell Fellow Award from the Association for Psychological Science in 2012, the APA Award for Distinguished Professional Contributions to Applied Research in 2005, and was named a Fellow of the American Psychological Association in 1993.

Best Publications

  • Why children tell: a model of children’s disclosure of sexual abuse

    Tina B Goodman-Brown;Robin S Edelstein;Gail S Goodman;David P.H Jones

  • Children's memories of a physical examination involving genital touch: Implications for reports of child sexual abuse.

    Karen J. Saywitz;Gail S. Goodman;Elisa Nicholas;Susan F. Moan

  • Age differences in eyewitness testimony

    Gail S. Goodman;Rebecca S. Reed

  • Expectation and Anticipation of Dynamic Visual Events by 3.5-Month-Old Babies.

    Marshall M. Haith;Cindy Hazan;Gail S. Goodman

  • Testifying in criminal court: emotional effects on child sexual assault victims.

    Gail S. Goodman;E. P. Taub;D. P. Jones;P. England

  • Children’s Testimony About a Stressful Event: Improving Children’s Reports

    Gail S. Goodman;Bette L. Bottoms;Beth M. Schwartz-Kenney;Leslie Rudy

  • Children's memory for stressful events.

    Gail S. Goodman

  • Effects of Participation on Children's Reports: Implications for Children's Testimony.

    Leslie Rudy;Gail S. Goodman

  • Taking responsibility for an act not committed: the influence of age and suggestibility.

    Allison D. Redlich;Gail S. Goodman

  • Children's Use of Anatomically Detailed Dolls to Recount an Event

    Gail S. Goodman;Christine Aman

  • A Prospective Study of Memory for Child Sexual Abuse New Findings Relevant to the Repressed-Memory Controversy

    Gail S. Goodman;Simona Ghetti;Jodi A. Quas;Robin S. Edelstein

  • Emotion and Memory: Children's Long-Term Remembering, Forgetting, and Suggestibility ☆ ☆☆ ★

    Jodi A. Quas;Gail S. Goodman;Sue Bidrose;Margaret-Ellen Pipe

  • Perceptions of Children's Credibility in Sexual Assault Cases1

    Bette L. Bottoms;Gail S. Goodman

  • Predictors of Accurate and Inaccurate Memories of Traumatic Events Experienced in Childhood

    Gail S. Goodman;Jodi A. Quas;Jennifer M. Batterman-Faunce;M.M. Riddlesberger

  • Children's Reactions to and Memory for a Stressful Event: Influences of Age, Anatomical Dolls, Knowledge, and Parental Attachment

    Gail S. Goodman;Jodi A. Quas;Jennifer M. Batterman-Faunce;M.M. Riddlesberger

  • Children's concerns and memory: Issues of ecological validity in the study of children's eyewitness testimony.

    Gail S. Goodman;Leslie Rudy;Bette L. Bottoms;Christine Aman

  • Child Sexual and Physical Abuse: Children’s Testimony

    Gail S. Goodman;Christine Aman;Jodi Hirschman

  • Children's Testimony in Historical Perspective

    Gail S. Goodman

  • Face-to-face confrontation: Effects of closed-circuit technology on children's eyewitness testimony and jurors' decisions.

    Gail S. Goodman;Ann E. Tobey;Jennifer M. Batterman-Faunce;Holly Orcutt

  • Children's eyewitness memory: effects of participation and forensic context.

    Ann E. Tobey;Gail S. Goodman

  • Dynamics of romantic love : attachment, caregiving, and sex

    Mario Mikulincer;Gail S. Goodman

Frequent Co-Authors

Jodi A. Quas
Jodi A. Quas University of California, Irvine
Robin S. Edelstein
Robin S. Edelstein University of Michigan–Ann Arbor
Bette L. Bottoms
Bette L. Bottoms University of Illinois at Chicago
Simona Ghetti
Simona Ghetti University of California, Davis
Allison D. Redlich
Allison D. Redlich George Mason University
Karen J. Saywitz
Karen J. Saywitz University of California, Los Angeles
Phillip R. Shaver
Phillip R. Shaver University of California, Davis
Marshall M. Haith
Marshall M. Haith University of Denver
Annika Melinder
Annika Melinder University of Oslo
Margaret-Ellen Pipe
Margaret-Ellen Pipe City University of New York

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