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59
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20789
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3641
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2044

Katherine Nelson 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 Katherine Nelson sits on this spectrum.

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31 publications 705+

This scientist: 160 publications — 54th percentile

54% of scientists in this discipline score the same or lower.

The last bar groups every scientist with 705 publications or more.

Katherine Nelson 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 Katherine Nelson sits on this spectrum.

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30 D-Index 144+

This scientist: 59 D-Index — 68th percentile

68% 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

  • 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

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

    Katherine Nelson;Robyn Fivush

  • Language in Cognitive Development: The Emergence of the Mediated Mind

    Katherine Nelson

  • The Psychological and Social Origins of Autobiographical Memory

    Katherine Nelson

  • Event knowledge : structure and function in development

    Katherine Nelson;Janice Gruendel

  • Concept, word, and sentence: Interrelations in acquisition and development.

    Katherine Nelson

  • Technology, institutions, and innovation systems

    Richard R. Nelson;Katherine Nelson

  • Narratives from the crib

    Katherine Nelson

  • Culture and Language in the Emergence of Autobiographical Memory

    Robyn Fivush;Katherine Nelson

  • Making sense : the acquisition of shared meaning

    Katherine Nelson

  • Language in cognitive development

    Katherine Nelson

  • Young Minds in Social Worlds: Experience, Meaning, and Memory

    Katherine Nelson

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

    David Furrow;Katherine Nelson;Helen Benedict

  • Individual differences in language development: Implications for development and language.

    Katherine Nelson

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

    Katherine Nelson

  • Self and social functions: individual autobiographical memory and collective narrative.

    Katherine Nelson

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

    Minda Tessler;Katherine Nelson

  • Parent-Child Reminiscing Locates the Self in the Past.

    Robyn Fivush;Katherine Nelson

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

    Judith Hudson;Katherine Nelson

  • Emergence of autobiographical memory at age 4.

    Katherine Nelson

Frequent Co-Authors

Robyn Fivush
Robyn Fivush Emory University
Richard R. Nelson
Richard R. Nelson Columbia University
Susan A. Gelman
Susan A. Gelman University of Michigan–Ann Arbor
Bruce D. Homer
Bruce D. Homer City University of New York
Patricia H. Miller
Patricia H. Miller San Francisco State University
Deborah Stipek
Deborah Stipek Stanford University
Kathleen McCartney
Kathleen McCartney Harvard University
Michael Tomasello
Michael Tomasello Duke University
Michael J. Chandler
Michael J. Chandler University of British Columbia
Jeremy I. M. Carpendale
Jeremy I. M. Carpendale Simon Fraser University

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