2026 Katherine Nelson: Psychology Researcher – H-Index, Publications & Awards

Discipline name	D-Index	World Ranking	Current World Ranking	National Ranking	Current National Ranking	Publications	Citations
Psychology	59	3643	3359	2044	1842	160	20789

Research.com Recognitions

1976 - Fellow of the American Psychological Association (APA)

Overview

Katherine Nelson is affiliated with the City University of New York in the United States. Their research primarily focuses on Health Professions, with a notable emphasis on General Health Professions and Clinical Psychology. They have also contributed to areas including Economics and Econometrics, Management Science and Operations Research, and Health.

Their work spans multiple topics within health research, highlighting their involvement in:

Health Policy Implementation Science
Community Health and Development
Child Abuse and Trauma
Evaluation and Performance Assessment
Primary Care and Health Outcomes
Health Systems, Economic Evaluations, Quality of Life
Food Security and Health in Diverse Populations

Nelson has published a number of scientific papers in various venues. Some of the recent publications include:

Population-Based Approaches to Mental Health: History, Strategies, and Evidence (2020) in Annual Review of Public Health
Dissemination Strategies to Accelerate the Policy Impact of Children's Mental Health Services Research (2020) in Psychiatric Services
Review: Structural Racism, Children's Mental Health Service Systems, and Recommendations for Policy and Practice Change (2021) in Journal of the American Academy of Child & Adolescent Psychiatry
Determinants of using children's mental health research in policymaking: variation by type of research use and phase of policy process (2021) in Implementation Science
Trends Over a Decade in NIH Funding for Autism Spectrum Disorder Services Research (2020) in Journal of Autism and Developmental Disorders

The venues where Nelson frequently publishes include Psychiatric Services, Open Forum Infectious Diseases, Journal of the American Academy of Child & Adolescent Psychiatry, Implementation Science, and Health Services Research.

Collaborations form a significant part of Nelson's research output. Frequent coauthors include:

Jonathan Purtle
Kimberly Hoagwood
Sarah E. Gollust
Paige E. Cervantes
Dana E. M. Seag

Nelson received the designation of Fellow of the American Psychological Association (APA) in 1976, indicating recognition within the professional community.

Best Publications

Structure and strategy in learning to talk.

Katherine Nelson

2497
Citations
The emergence of autobiographical memory: a social cultural developmental theory.

Katherine Nelson;Robyn Fivush

2395
Citations
Language in Cognitive Development: The Emergence of the Mediated Mind

Katherine Nelson

1157
Citations
The Psychological and Social Origins of Autobiographical Memory

Katherine Nelson

1026
Citations
Event knowledge : structure and function in development

Katherine Nelson;Janice Gruendel

1005
Citations
Concept, word, and sentence: Interrelations in acquisition and development.

Katherine Nelson

878
Citations
Technology, institutions, and innovation systems

Richard R. Nelson;Katherine Nelson

545
Citations
Narratives from the crib

Katherine Nelson

535
Citations
Culture and Language in the Emergence of Autobiographical Memory

Robyn Fivush;Katherine Nelson

534
Citations
Making sense : the acquisition of shared meaning

Katherine Nelson

449
Citations
Language in cognitive development

Katherine Nelson

402
Citations
Young Minds in Social Worlds: Experience, Meaning, and Memory

Katherine Nelson

392
Citations
Mothers' speech to children and syntactic development: some simple relationships.

David Furrow;Katherine Nelson;Helen Benedict

389
Citations
Individual differences in language development: Implications for development and language.

Katherine Nelson

387
Citations
The syntagmatic-paradigmatic shift revisited: a review of research and theory.

Katherine Nelson

301
Citations
Self and social functions: individual autobiographical memory and collective narrative.

Katherine Nelson

298
Citations
Making Memories: The Influence of Joint Encoding on Later Recall by Young Children

Minda Tessler;Katherine Nelson

296
Citations
Parent-Child Reminiscing Locates the Self in the Past.

Robyn Fivush;Katherine Nelson

263
Citations
Repeated encounters of a similar kind: Effects of familiarity on children's autobiographic memory

Judith Hudson;Katherine Nelson

254
Citations
Emergence of autobiographical memory at age 4.

Katherine Nelson

241
Citations

Frequent Co-Authors

Robyn Fivush Emory University

Patricia H. Miller San Francisco State University

Susan A. Gelman University of Michigan–Ann Arbor

Deborah Stipek Stanford University

Bruce D. Homer City University of New York

Jeremy I. M. Carpendale Simon Fraser University

Kathleen McCartney Harvard University

Michael Tomasello Duke University

Michael J. Chandler University of British Columbia

Leslie Rescorla Bryn Mawr College

External Links

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