2026 Kathy Hirsh-Pasek: Psychology Researcher – H-Index, Publications & Awards

Discipline name	D-Index	World Ranking	Current World Ranking	National Ranking	Current National Ranking	Publications	Citations
Psychology	97	711	621	448	380	330	34223

Research.com Recognitions

2020 - Fellow of the American Educational Research Association
2018 - Outstanding Public Communication of Education Research Award, American Educational Research Association
2015 - James McKeen Cattell Fellow Award, Association for Psychological Science

Overview

Kathy Hirsh-Pasek is affiliated with Temple University in the United States. Their research spans multiple fields within psychology and social sciences, focusing primarily on education and developmental aspects of psychology.

Their main fields of study include:

Psychology
Social Sciences

Key subfields explored in their work are:

Education
Developmental and Educational Psychology
Experimental and Cognitive Psychology
Clinical Psychology
Sociology and Political Science

Major research topics covered by Kathy Hirsh-Pasek are:

Child Development and Digital Technology
Language Development and Disorders
Child and Animal Learning Development
Early Childhood Education and Development
Reading and Literacy Development
Spatial Cognition and Navigation
Education and Technology Integration

They have published extensively in the following venues:

Developmental Psychology
Journal of Children and Media
Faculty Opinions - Post-Publication Peer Review of the Biomedical Literature
Frontiers in Psychology
Early Childhood Research Quarterly

Some recent significant publications include:

"How educational are "educational" apps for young children? App store content analysis using the Four Pillars of Learning framework" (2021, Journal of Children and Media)
"Where language meets attention: How contingent interactions promote learning" (2021, Developmental Review)
"Active learning: "Hands-on" meets "minds-on"" (2021, Science)
"Preschoolers Benefit Equally From Video Chat, Pseudo-Contingent Video, and Live Book Reading: Implications for Storytime During the Coronavirus Pandemic and Beyond" (2020, Frontiers in Psychology)
"Piecing together the role of a spatial assembly intervention in preschoolers' spatial and mathematics learning: Influences of gesture, spatial language, and socioeconomic status." (2020, Developmental Psychology)

Frequent co-authors collaborating with Kathy Hirsh-Pasek include:

Roberta Michnick Golinkoff
Lillian R. Masek
Rufan Luo
Dani Levine
Corinne A. Bower

Throughout their career, Kathy Hirsh-Pasek has received awards reflecting their contributions to the field:

Fellow of the American Educational Research Association (2020)
Outstanding Public Communication of Education Research Award, American Educational Research Association (2018)
James McKeen Cattell Fellow Award, Association for Psychological Science (2015)

Best Publications

Putting Education in “Educational” Apps Lessons From the Science of Learning

Kathy Hirsh-Pasek;Jennifer M. Zosh;Roberta Michnick Golinkoff;James H. Gray

1178
Citations
Clauses are perceptual units for young infants

Kathy Hirsh-Pasek;Deborah G. Kemler Nelson;Peter W. Jusczyk;Kimberly Wright Cassidy

892
Citations
The eyes have it: lexical and syntactic comprehension in a new paradigm.

Roberta Michnick Golinkoff;Kathryn Hirsh-Pasek;Kathleen M. Cauley;Laura Gordon

889
Citations
Early object labels: the case for a developmental lexical principles framework.

Roberta Michnick Golinkoff;Carolyn B. Mervis;Kathryn Hirsh-Pasek

833
Citations
The Contribution of Early Communication Quality to Low-Income Children’s Language Success

Kathy Hirsh-Pasek;Lauren B. Adamson;Roger Bakeman;Margaret Tresch Owen

811
Citations
Play = Learning: How Play Motivates and Enhances Children's Cognitive and Social-Emotional Growth

Dorothy G. Singer;Roberta Michnick Golinkoff;Kathy Hirsh-Pasek

808
Citations
Breaking the language barrier: an emergentist coalition model for the origins of word learning.

George J. Hollich;Kathy Hirsh-Pasek;Roberta Michnick Golinkoff;Rebecca J. Brand

769
Citations
The Origins of Grammar: Evidence from Early Language Comprehension

Kathy Hirsh-Pasek;Roberta Michnick Golinkoff

751
Citations
The Power of Play: A Pediatric Role in Enhancing Development in Young Children

Michael Yogman;Andrew Garner;Jeffrey Hutchinson;Kathy Hirsh-Pasek

729
Citations
The relation of child care to cognitive and language development

A Clarke-Stewart;S Friedman;Dane Phillips;CL Booth

663
Citations
Perception of acoustic correlates of major phrasal units by young infants.

Peter W Jusczyk;Peter W Jusczyk;Kathy Hirsh-Pasek;Deborah G Kemler Nelson;Lori J Kennedy

635
Citations
How the prosodic cues in motherese might assist language learning.

Deborah G. Kemler Nelson;Kathy Hirsh-Pasek;Peter W. Jusczyk;Kimberly Wright Cassidy

625
Citations
Skype Me! Socially Contingent Interactions Help Toddlers Learn Language

Sarah Roseberry;Kathy Hirsh-Pasek;Roberta Michnick Golinkoff

619
Citations
Guided Play: Where Curricular Goals Meet a Playful Pedagogy

Deena Skolnick Weisberg;Kathy Hirsh-Pasek;Roberta Michnick Golinkoff

547
Citations
Nonmaternal Care and Family Factors in Early Development: An Overview of the NICHD Study of Early Child Care

Virginia Allhusen;Mark Appelbaum;Jay Belsky;Cathryn L. Booth

509
Citations
Young children and adults use lexical principles to learn New Nouns

Roberta Michnick Golinkoff;Kathy Hirsh-Pasek;Leslie M. Bailey;Neill R. Wenger

498
Citations
Speaking Out for Language Why Language Is Central to Reading Development

David K. Dickinson;Roberta M. Golinkoff;Kathy Hirsh-Pasek

494
Citations
Brown & Hanlon revisited: mothers' sensitivity to ungrammatical forms*

Kathy Hirsh-Pasek;Rebecca Treiman;Maita Schneiderman

484
Citations
Deconstructing Building Blocks: Preschoolers' Spatial Assembly Performance Relates to Early Mathematical Skills

Brian N. Verdine;Roberta Michnick Golinkoff;Kathryn Hirsh-Pasek;Nora S. Newcombe

461
Citations
Duration and Developmental Timing of Poverty and Children's Cognitive and Social Development from Birth Through Third Grade.

Virginia Allhusen;Jay Belsky;Cathryn Booth-LaForce;Robert Bradley

460
Citations

Frequent Co-Authors

Roberta Michnick Golinkoff University of Delaware

Nora S. Newcombe Temple University

Jay Belsky University of California, Davis

Marsha Weinraub Temple University

Robert H. Bradley Arizona State University

Sarah L. Friedman George Washington University

Susan J. Spieker University of Washington

Deborah Lowe Vandell University of California, Irvine

Kathleen McCartney Harvard University

Celia A. Brownell University of Pittsburgh

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