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Maureen A. Callanan publication distribution in Social Sciences and Humanities in 2026

The chart shows the distribution of publications by all Research.com ranked scientists in the field of Social Sciences and Humanities in 2026. The highlighted bar marks where Maureen A. Callanan sits on this spectrum.

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44 publications 570+

This scientist: 76 publications — 4th percentile

4% of scientists in this discipline score the same or lower.

The last bar groups every scientist with 570 publications or more.

Maureen A. Callanan D-index placement in Social Sciences and Humanities in 2026

The chart shows the D-index (discipline H-index) distribution of Social Sciences and Humanities scientists ranked by Research.com in 2026. The highlighted bar marks where Maureen A. Callanan sits on this spectrum.

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This scientist: 34 D-Index — 13th percentile

13% of scientists in this discipline score the same or lower.

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Overview

Maureen A. Callanan is affiliated with the University of California, Santa Cruz in the United States. Their research primarily focuses on social sciences and psychology, with a significant concentration in education and developmental and educational psychology. Key subfields of study include social psychology, management, monitoring, policy and law, and linguistics and language.

The scientist's work covers multiple topics, notably child and animal learning development, early childhood education and development, child development and digital technology, educational strategies and epistemologies, science education and pedagogy, animal and plant science education, and reading and literacy development.

Frequent publication venues where Maureen A. Callanan's work appears include:

  • Journal of Cognition and Development
  • Frontiers in Psychology
  • Frontiers in Education
  • Monographs of the Society for Research in Child Development
  • Developmental Science

Their recent papers include:

  • Exploration, Explanation, and Parent-Child Interaction in Museums, 2020, Monographs of the Society for Research in Child Development
  • Relations between parent-child interaction and children's engagement and learning at a museum exhibit about electric circuits, 2020, Developmental Science
  • Dismantling Persistent Deficit Narratives About the Language and Literacy of Culturally and Linguistically Minoritized Children and Youth: Counter-Possibilities, 2021, Frontiers in Education
  • Science Conversations during Family Book Reading with Girls and Boys in Two Cultural Communities, 2020, Journal of Cognition and Development
  • Early strengths in science: Young children's conversations about nature in Latine families, 2022, Journal of Applied Developmental Psychology

They have collaborated frequently with several coauthors, including:

  • Sam R. McHugh
  • Claudia Castañeda
  • Jennifer L. Jipson
  • Cristine H. Legare
  • David M. Sobel

Best Publications

  • Parents Explain More Often to Boys Than to Girls During Shared Scientific Thinking

    Kevin Crowley;Maureen A. Callanan;Harriet R. Tenenbaum;Elizabeth Allen

  • Shared scientific thinking in everyday parent‐child activity

    Kevin Crowley;Maureen A. Callanan;Jennifer L. Jipson;Jodi Galco

  • Preschoolers' questions and parents' explanations: Causal thinking in everyday activity.

    Maureen A. Callanan;Lisa M. Oakes

  • Learning words through overhearing.

    Nameera Akhtar;Jennifer Jipson;Maureen A. Callanan

  • The Organization of Informal Learning

    Barbara Rogoff;Maureen Callanan;Kris D. Gutiérrez;Frederick Erickson

  • Labels and Explanations in Mother--Child Emotion Talk: Age and Gender Differentiation.

    Christi A. Cervantes;Maureen A. Callanan

  • How Parents Label Objects for Young Children: The Role of Input in the Acquisition of Category Hierarchies.

    Maureen A. Callanan

  • The importance of understanding children’s lived experience

    Barbara Rogoff;Audun Dahl;Maureen Callanan

  • Describing and Supporting Collaborative Scientific Thinking in Parent-Child Interactions

    Kevin Crowley;Maureen Callanan

  • Metarepresentation in action : 3-, 4-, and 5-year-olds' developing theories of mind in parent-child conversations

    Mark A. Sabbagh;Maureen A. Callanan

  • Explain This, Explore That: A Study of Parent–Child Interaction in a Children's Museum

    Aiyana K. Willard;Justin T.A. Busch;Katherine A. Cullum;Susan M. Letourneau

  • Exploration, Explanation, and Parent-Child Interaction in Museums.

    Maureen A. Callanan;Cristine H. Legare;David M. Sobel;Garrett J. Jaeger

  • Why things happen: teleological explanation in parent-child conversations.

    Deborah Kelemen;Maureen A. Callanan;Krista Casler;Deanne R. Pérez-Granados

  • Development of object categories and inclusion relations: Preschoolers' hypotheses about word meanings.

    Maureen A. Callanan

  • Principles of Organization in Young Children's Natural Language Hierarchies.

    Maureen A. Callanan;Ellen M. Markman

  • Generic language in scientific communication

    Jasmine M. DeJesus;Maureen A. Callanan;Graciela Solis;Susan A. Gelman

  • Conducting Cognitive Developmental Research in Museums: Theoretical Issues and Practical Considerations

    Maureen A. Callanan

  • Family Science Talk in Museums: Predicting Children's Engagement From Variations in Talk and Activity.

    Maureen A. Callanan;Claudia L. Castañeda;Megan R. Luce;Jennifer L. Martin

  • Parents' science talk to their children in Mexican-descent families residing in the USA

    Harriet R. Tenenbaum;Maureen A. Callanan

  • Informal learning: Informal learning

    Maureen Callanan;Christi Cervantes;Molly Loomis

Frequent Co-Authors

Mark A. Sabbagh
Mark A. Sabbagh Queen's University
Nameera Akhtar
Nameera Akhtar University of California, Santa Cruz
David M. Sobel
David M. Sobel Brown University
Cristine H. Legare
Cristine H. Legare The University of Texas at Austin
Susan A. Gelman
Susan A. Gelman University of Michigan–Ann Arbor
Annette Karmiloff-Smith
Annette Karmiloff-Smith Birkbeck, University of London
Jeremy I. M. Carpendale
Jeremy I. M. Carpendale Simon Fraser University
Barbara Rogoff
Barbara Rogoff University of California, Santa Cruz
Mary Gauvain
Mary Gauvain University of California, Riverside
Eric Schwitzgebel
Eric Schwitzgebel University of California, Riverside

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