2026 Linda Baker: Psychology Researcher – H-Index, Publications & Awards

Discipline name	D-Index	World Ranking	Current World Ranking	National Ranking	Current National Ranking	Publications	Citations
Psychology	32	10720	10038	5600	5114	94	10047

Overview

Linda Baker is affiliated with the University of Maryland, Baltimore County in the United States. Their scholarly work spans multiple fields, including education, developmental and educational psychology, health, clinical psychology, and finance. Their research primarily focuses on topics related to education systems and policy, parental involvement in education, school choice and performance, diverse education studies and reforms, intimate partner and family violence, child abuse and trauma, and community development and social impact.

Their research contributions are published in a range of academic venues. Frequent publication outlets include:

Journal of materials research/Pratt's guide to venture capital sources
Maryland Shared Open Access Repository (USMAI Consortium)
Early Education and Development
Journal of Family Violence
Translational Issues in Psychological Science

Among their recent papers are:

"Strands of Emergent Literacy and Their Antecedents in the Home: Urban Preschoolers' Early Literacy Development," 2020, Maryland Shared Open Access Repository (USMAI Consortium)
"Poverty, Parent Involvement, and Children's Reading Skills: Testing the Compensatory Effect of the Amount of Classroom Reading Instruction," 2020, Early Education and Development
"Contexts of Emergent Literacy: Everyday Home Experiences of Urban Pre-Kindergarten Children," 2020, Maryland Shared Open Access Repository (USMAI Consortium)
"Parental Ideas about Development and Socialization of Children on the Threshold of Schooling," 2020, Maryland Shared Open Access Repository (USMAI Consortium)
"Voices of Experience: Development of the Flourishing Practice Model of Capabilities of Intimate Partner Violence Specialists," 2023, Journal of Family Violence

Linda Baker frequently collaborates with other researchers. Their most common co-authors include:

Griselda Bonilla
L. J. Brillson
Kristen Brosnan
Coray M. Colina
Catherine Dubourdieu

Their work covers several important subfields, notably education, developmental and educational psychology, and clinical psychology, indicating a multidisciplinary approach that intersects social and behavioral sciences with applied research in educational contexts.

Best Publications

Dimensions of Children's Motivation for Reading and Their Relations to Reading Activity and Reading Achievement.

Linda Baker;Allan Wigfield

1767
Citations
Metacognitive skills and reading

L. Baker

1589
Citations
Home and family influences on motivations for reading

Linda Baker;Deborah Scher;Kirsten Mackler

727
Citations
Metacognition, comprehension monitoring, and the adult reader

Linda Baker

638
Citations
Beginning Readers' Motivation for Reading in Relation to Parental Beliefs and Home Reading Experiences.

Linda Baker;Deborah Scher

551
Citations
Comprehension Monitoring: Identifying and Coping with Text Confusions

Linda Baker

462
Citations
The Role of Parents in Motivating Struggling Readers.

Linda Baker

371
Citations
Parents' Interactions with Their First-Grade Children During Storybook Reading and Relations with Subsequent Home Reading Activity and Reading Achievement

Linda Baker;Kirsten Mackler;Susan Sonnenschein;Robert Serpell

362
Citations
Effects of inconsistent information on text processing : evidence for comprehension monitoring

Linda Baker;Richard Ivan Anderson

349
Citations
Engaging young readers : promoting achievement and motivation

Linda Baker;Mariam Jean Dreher;John T. Guthrie

261
Citations
Differences in the Standards Used by College Students to Evaluate Their Comprehension of Expository Prose.

Linda Baker

245
Citations
Children's Effective Use of Multiple Standards for Evaluating Their Comprehension.

Linda Baker

234
Citations
Spontaneous versus instructed use of multiple standards for evaluating comprehension: Effects of age, reading proficiency, and type of standard☆

Linda Baker

226
Citations
Students' Lecture Notes and Their Relation to Test Performance:

Linda Baker;Bruce R. Lombardi

194
Citations
THEORY-DERIVED EXPLANATIONS OF MALE VIOLENCE AGAINST FEMALE PARTNERS: LITERATURE UPDATE AND RELATED IMPLICATIONS FOR TREATMENT AND EVALUATION

Alison Cunningham;Peter G. Jaffe;Linda Baker;Sue Malla

182
Citations
Development of the Metacognitive Skills of Prediction and Evaluation in Children With or Without Math Disability

Adia J. Garrett;Michèle M. M. Mazzocco;Linda Baker

175
Citations
Becoming Literate in the City: The Baltimore Early Childhood Project

Robert Serpell;Linda Baker;Susan Sonnenschein

171
Citations
Parental Beliefs about Ways to Help Children Learn to Read: The Impact of an Entertainment or a Skills Perspective

Susan Sonnenschein;Linda Baker;Robert Serpell;Deborah Scher

164
Citations
Intimate culture of families in the early socialization of literacy.

Robert Serpell;Susan Sonnenschein;Linda Baker;Hemalatha Ganapathy

150
Citations
Developing Engaged Readers in School and Home Communities

Linda Baker;Peter Afflerbach;David Reinking

139
Citations
The development of prose comprehension skills

Linda Baker;Nancy L. Stein

119
Citations
Managing as carers of stroke survivors: Strategies from the field

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97
Citations

Frequent Co-Authors

Maureen M. Black University of Maryland, Baltimore

Michèle M.M. Mazzocco University of Minnesota

Douglas M. Teti Pennsylvania State University

Allan Wigfield University of Maryland, College Park

External Links

Personal website of Linda Baker

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