2026 Karen E. Adolph: Psychology Researcher – H-Index, Publications & Awards

Discipline name	D-Index	World Ranking	Current World Ranking	National Ranking	Current National Ranking	Publications	Citations
Psychology	69	2401	2193	1392	1243	208	14908

Overview

Karen E. Adolph is affiliated with New York University in the United States. Their research primarily focuses on developmental and educational psychology, with significant contributions to social psychology, cognitive neuroscience, education, and pediatrics, perinatology, and child health.

Their work extensively covers topics related to child and animal learning development, action observation and synchronization, infant development and preterm care, child development and digital technology, neuroendocrine regulation and behavior, children's physical and motor development, and motor control and adaptation.

Frequent coauthors collaborating with Karen E. Adolph include Melody Xu, Brianna E. Kaplan, Catherine S. Tamis-LeMonda, Mark S. Blumberg, and Justine E. Hoch.

They have published in several scientific venues, with notable frequency in Trends in Cognitive Sciences and Current Biology, and additional publications in Science, Nestlé Nutrition Institute Workshop series, and the Journal of eScience Librarianship.

Recent papers authored or coauthored by Karen E. Adolph include:

Online Developmental Science to Foster Innovation, Access, and Impact (2020, Trends in Cognitive Sciences)
Protracted development of motor cortex constrains rich interpretations of infant cognition (2023, Trends in Cognitive Sciences)
The Importance of Motor Skills for Development (2020, Nestlé Nutrition Institute Workshop series)
Learning to move in the real world (2021, Science)
Real-time processes in the development of action planning (2021, Current Biology)

Best Publications

Learning in the development of infant locomotion

Karen E. Adolph

671
Citations
Development of Visually Guided Locomotion

Karen E. Adolph;Marion A. Eppler

595
Citations
Motor Development: Embodied, Embedded, Enculturated, and Enabling

Karen E. Adolph;Justine E. Hoch

471
Citations
Systems in development: motor skill acquisition facilitates three-dimensional object completion.

Kasey C. Soska;Karen E. Adolph;Scott P. Johnson

461
Citations
What changes in infant walking and why.

Karen E. Adolph;Beatrix Vereijken;Patrick E. Shrout

437
Citations
How Do You Learn to Walk? Thousands of Steps and Dozens of Falls per Day

Karen E. Adolph;Whitney G. Cole;Meghana Komati;Jessie S. Garciaguirre

413
Citations
Transition From Crawling to Walking and Infants’ Actions With Objects and People

Lana B. Karasik;Catherine S. Tamis-LeMonda;Karen E. Adolph

391
Citations
The development of motor behavior.

Karen E. Adolph;John M. Franchak

341
Citations
Crawling versus walking infants' perception of affordances for locomotion over sloping surfaces.

Karen E. Adolph;Marion A. Eppler;Eleanor J. Gibson

333
Citations
Learning to crawl.

Karen E. Adolph;Beatrix Vereijken;Mark A. Denny

328
Citations
Head-Mounted Eye Tracking: A New Method to Describe Infant Looking

John M. Franchak;Kari S. Kretch;Kasey C. Soska;Karen E. Adolph

327
Citations
Specificity of Learning: Why Infants Fall Over a Veritable Cliff

Karen E. Adolph

324
Citations
Crawling and walking infants see the world differently.

Kari S. Kretch;John M. Franchak;Karen E. Adolph

307
Citations
What Is the Shape of Developmental Change

Karen E. Adolph;Scott R. Robinson;Jesse W. Young;Felix Gill-Alvarez

298
Citations
Crawling and walking infants elicit different verbal responses from mothers.

Lana B. Karasik;Catherine S. Tamis-LeMonda;Karen E. Adolph

288
Citations
Gender Bias in Mothers' Expectations about Infant Crawling

Emily R. Mondschein;Karen E. Adolph;Catherine S. Tamis-LeMonda

256
Citations
Psychophysical assessment of toddlers' ability to cope with slopes.

Karen E. Adolph

228
Citations
Development of perception of affordances.

Karen E. Adolph;Marion A. Eppler;Marion A. Eppler;Eleanor J. Gibson

224
Citations
Learning to Move

Karen E. Adolph

224
Citations
Walking infants adapt locomotion to changing body dimensions.

Karen E. Adolph;Anthony M. Avolio

222
Citations

Frequent Co-Authors

Catherine S. Tamis-LeMonda New York University

Eleanor J. Gibson Cornell University

Esther Thelen Indiana University

Claes von Hofsten Uppsala University

Patrick E. Shrout New York University

Daphne Bavelier University of Geneva

Marc H. Bornstein National Institutes of Health

Vanessa LoBue Rutgers, The State University of New Jersey

Elizabeth S. Spelke Harvard University

Li Fei-Fei Stanford University

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