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D-Index
53
Citations
13659
World Ranking
4749
National Ranking
2635

Rachel Barr 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 Rachel Barr sits on this spectrum.

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31 publications 705+

This scientist: 134 publications — 40th percentile

40% of scientists in this discipline score the same or lower.

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

Rachel Barr 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 Rachel Barr sits on this spectrum.

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30 D-Index 144+

This scientist: 53 D-Index — 59th percentile

59% of scientists in this discipline score the same or lower.

The last bar groups every scientist with 144 D-Index or more.

Overview

Rachel Barr is affiliated with Georgetown University in the United States. Their scholarly work primarily focuses on the intersection of child development and digital technology, encompassing related themes such as the impact of technology on adolescents, child and animal learning development, social media and politics, ICT in developing communities, language development and disorders, and child and adolescent psychosocial and emotional development.

Their research has been published extensively within the fields of social sciences and psychology, particularly emphasizing education, sociology and political science, developmental and educational psychology, communication, and clinical psychology. Frequent publication venues for their work include Frontiers in Psychology, Infancy, Computers in Human Behavior, Developmental Psychobiology, and the Journal of Children and Media.

Among notable recent papers authored or coauthored by Rachel Barr are:

  • "Young Children's Use of Smartphones and Tablets" (2020, PEDIATRICS)
  • "Beyond Screen Time: A Synergistic Approach to a More Comprehensive Assessment of Family Media Exposure During Early Childhood" (2020, Frontiers in Psychology)
  • "Growing Up in a Digital World - Digital Media and the Association With the Child's Language Development at Two Years of Age" (2021, Frontiers in Psychology)
  • "Quality of Mother-Child Interaction Before, During, and After Smartphone Use" (2021, Frontiers in Psychology)
  • "Zooming through development: Using video chat to support family connections" (2021, Human Behavior and Emerging Technologies)

Rachel Barr frequently collaborates with several colleagues in their research endeavors. Prominent coauthors include Felix Koch, Annette Sundqvist, Sarah M. Coyne, Joscelin Rocha-Hidalgo, and Heather L. Kirkorian.

In addition to articles, they have contributed to book publications, with a recorded title being Early Childhood and Digital Media published by Cambridge University Press in 2024.

Best Publications

  • Learning from television in young children

    R. Barr;Natalie Brito

  • Fathers Are Parents, Too! Widening the Lens on Parenting for Children's Development

    Natasha J. Cabrera;Brenda L. Volling;Rachel Barr

  • Developmental changes in deferred imitation by 6- to 24-month-old infants

    Rachel Barr;Anne Dowden;Harlene Hayne

  • Developmental changes in imitation from television during infancy.

    Rachel Barr;Harlene Hayne

  • Transfer of learning between 2D and 3D sources during infancy: Informing theory and practice.

    Rachel Barr

  • The development of declarative memory in human infants: age-related changes in deferred imitation.

    Harlene Hayne;Joanne Boniface;Rachel Barr

  • Age, Ethnicity, and Socioeconomic Patterns in Early Computer Use A National Survey

    Sandra L. Calvert;Victoria J. Rideout;Jennifer L. Woolard;Rachel F. Barr

  • Infant and Early Childhood Exposure to Adult-Directed and Child-Directed Television Programming: Relations with Cognitive Skills at Age Four

    Rachel Barr;Alexis Lauricella;Elizabeth Zack;Sandra L. Calvert

  • Developmental changes in the specificity of memory over the second year of life

    Harlene Hayne;Shelley MacDonald;Rachel Barr

  • Memory Constraints on Infant Learning From Picture Books, Television, and Touchscreens

    Rachel Barr

  • Young Children’s Use of Smartphones and Tablets

    Jenny S. Radesky;Heidi M. Weeks;Rosa Ball;Alexandria Schaller

  • Associations between parenting, media use, cumulative risk, and children's executive functioning.

    Deborah L. Linebarger;Rachel Barr;Matthew A. Lapierre;Jessica T. Piotrowski

  • Infants' Attention and Responsiveness to Television Increases With Prior Exposure and Parental Interaction

    Rachel Barr;Elizabeth Zack;Amaya Garcia;Paul Muentener

  • Parent-child interactions during traditional and computer storybook reading for children's comprehension

    Alexis R. Lauricella;Rachel Barr;Sandra L. Calvert

  • Infant imitation from television using novel touch screen technology

    Elizabeth Zack;Rachel Barr;Peter Gerhardstein;Kelly Dickerson

  • The effect of repetition on imitation from television during infancy.

    Rachel Barr;Paul Muentener;Amaya Garcia;Melissa Fujimoto

  • Age-related changes in deferred imitation from television by 6- to 18-month-olds.

    Rachel Barr;Paul Muentener;Amaya Garcia

  • Socioeconomic Disparities in Neurocognitive Development in the First Two Years of Life

    Kimberly G. Noble;Laura E. Engelhardt;Natalie H. Brito;Luke J. Mack

  • It's Not What You Know, It's Who You Know: Older siblings facilitate imitation during infancy

    Rachel Barr;Harlene Hayne

  • Beyond Screen Time: A Synergistic Approach to a More Comprehensive Assessment of Family Media Exposure During Early Childhood.

    Rachel Barr;Heather Kirkorian;Jenny Radesky;Sarah Coyne

  • Influence of Bilingualism on Memory Generalization during Infancy.

    Natalie Brito;Rachel Barr

  • Age-Related Changes in Imitation: Implications for Memory Development

    Harlene Hayne

Frequent Co-Authors

Harlene Hayne
Harlene Hayne Curtin University
Sandra L. Calvert
Sandra L. Calvert Georgetown University
Carolyn Rovee-Collier
Carolyn Rovee-Collier Rutgers, The State University of New Jersey
Mikael Heimann
Mikael Heimann Linköping University
W. Gerrod Parrott
W. Gerrod Parrott Georgetown University
Mary Rudner
Mary Rudner Linköping University
Michael T. Ullman
Michael T. Ullman Georgetown University
Sarah M. Coyne
Sarah M. Coyne Brigham Young University
Núria Sebastián-Gallés
Núria Sebastián-Gallés Pompeu Fabra University
Andrew N. Meltzoff
Andrew N. Meltzoff University of Washington

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