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Roberta Michnick Golinkoff

Roberta Michnick Golinkoff

University of Delaware
United States

D-Index & Metrics

Psychology

D-Index
94
Citations
31112
World Ranking
819
National Ranking
515

Roberta Michnick Golinkoff 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 Roberta Michnick Golinkoff sits on this spectrum.

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31 publications 705+

This scientist: 307 publications — 88th percentile

88% of scientists in this discipline score the same or lower.

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

Roberta Michnick Golinkoff 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 Roberta Michnick Golinkoff sits on this spectrum.

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30 D-Index 144+

This scientist: 94 D-Index — 93rd percentile

93% of scientists in this discipline score the same or lower.

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

  • 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

  • The Origins of Grammar: Evidence from Early Language Comprehension

    Kathy Hirsh-Pasek;Roberta Michnick Golinkoff

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

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

  • Skype Me! Socially Contingent Interactions Help Toddlers Learn Language

    Sarah Roseberry;Kathy Hirsh-Pasek;Roberta Michnick Golinkoff

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

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

  • Guided Play: Where Curricular Goals Meet a Playful Pedagogy

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

  • Young children and adults use lexical principles to learn New Nouns

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

  • Speaking Out for Language Why Language Is Central to Reading Development

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

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

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

  • 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

  • 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

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

    Roberta Michnick Golinkoff

  • Identifying Pathways Between Socioeconomic Status and Language Development

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

  • 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

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

    Roberta Michnick Golinkoff

  • Automatic semantic processing in a picture-word interference task.

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

  • A Mandate for Playful Learning in Preschool: Presenting the Evidence

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

Frequent Co-Authors

Kathy Hirsh-Pasek
Kathy Hirsh-Pasek Temple University
Nora S. Newcombe
Nora S. Newcombe Temple University
David K. Dickinson
David K. Dickinson Vanderbilt University
Jill de Villiers
Jill de Villiers Smith College
Sarah Paterson
Sarah Paterson Temple University
Leher Singh
Leher Singh University of Maryland, Baltimore County
Roger Bakeman
Roger Bakeman Georgia State University
David Klahr
David Klahr Carnegie Mellon University
Catherine S. Tamis-LeMonda
Catherine S. Tamis-LeMonda New York University
Mutsumi Imai
Mutsumi Imai Keio University

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