2026 Roberta Michnick Golinkoff: Psychology Researcher – H-Index, Publications & Awards

Discipline name	D-Index	World Ranking	Current World Ranking	National Ranking	Current National Ranking	Publications	Citations
Psychology	94	820	717	515	439	307	31112

Research.com Recognitions

2019 - 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
1987 - Fellow of John Simon Guggenheim Memorial Foundation
1986 - Fellow of the American Psychological Association (APA)

Overview

Roberta Michnick Golinkoff is affiliated with the University of Delaware in the United States. Their research spans several fields within psychology and social sciences, with a focus on developmental and educational psychology.

Their work covers a number of main topics including:

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

Golinkoff's subfields of study emphasize:

Developmental and Educational Psychology
Education
Experimental and Cognitive Psychology
Automotive Engineering
Information Systems

Their frequent publication venues include:

Developmental Psychology
Early Childhood Research Quarterly
Journal of Experimental Child Psychology
Infant Behavior and Development
Journal of Children and Media

Some recent papers by Golinkoff are:

"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 coauthors who have collaborated extensively with Golinkoff include:

Kathy Hirsh-Pasek
Dani Levine
Aquiles Iglesias
Jill de Villiers
Lillian R. Masek

Throughout their career, Golinkoff has received several distinctions, such as:

Fellow of the American Educational Research Association (2019)
Outstanding Public Communication of Education Research Award, American Educational Research Association (2018)
James McKeen Cattell Fellow Award, Association for Psychological Science (2015)
Fellow of John Simon Guggenheim Memorial Foundation (1987)
Fellow of the American Psychological Association (APA) (1986)

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
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
Skype Me! Socially Contingent Interactions Help Toddlers Learn Language

Sarah Roseberry;Kathy Hirsh-Pasek;Roberta Michnick Golinkoff

619
Citations
Mommy and Me: Familiar Names Help Launch Babies Into Speech-Stream Segmentation

Heather Bortfeld;James L. Morgan;Roberta Michnick Golinkoff;Karen Rathbun

598
Citations
Guided Play: Where Curricular Goals Meet a Playful Pedagogy

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

547
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
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
Language Matters: Denying the Existence of the 30-Million-Word Gap Has Serious Consequences

Roberta Michnick Golinkoff;Erika Hoff;Meredith L. Rowe;Catherine S. Tamis-LeMonda

452
Citations
Once upon a Time: Parent-Child Dialogue and Storybook Reading in the Electronic Era.

Julia Parish-Morris;Neha Mahajan;Kathy Hirsh-Pasek;Roberta Michnick Golinkoff

441
Citations
'I beg your pardon?': the preverbal negotiation of failed messages.

Roberta Michnick Golinkoff

428
Citations
Identifying Pathways Between Socioeconomic Status and Language Development

Amy Pace;Rufan Luo;Kathy Hirsh-Pasek;Roberta Michnick Golinkoff

427
Citations
Einstein Never Used Flash Cards: How Our Children Really Learn--and Why They Need to Play More and Memorize Less

Kathy Hirsh-Pasek;Roberta M. Golinkoff;Diane E. Eyer

422
Citations
A Comparison of Reading Comprehension Processes in Good and Poor Comprehenders.

Roberta Michnick Golinkoff

407
Citations
Automatic semantic processing in a picture-word interference task.

Richard R. Rosinski;Roberta Michnick Golinkoff;Karen S. Kukish

387
Citations
A Mandate for Playful Learning in Preschool: Presenting the Evidence

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

383
Citations

Frequent Co-Authors

Kathy Hirsh-Pasek Temple University

Nora S. Newcombe Temple University

Sarah Paterson Temple University

Leher Singh University of Maryland, Baltimore County

Roger Bakeman Georgia State University

Lauren B. Adamson Georgia State University

David Klahr Carnegie Mellon University

Catherine S. Tamis-LeMonda New York University

Mutsumi Imai Keio University

Margaret Tresch Owen The University of Texas at Dallas

External Links

Personal website of Roberta Michnick Golinkoff

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