David S. Palermo

5.4k total citations · 2 hit papers
80 papers, 3.1k citations indexed

About

David S. Palermo is a scholar working on Developmental and Educational Psychology, Experimental and Cognitive Psychology and Education. According to data from OpenAlex, David S. Palermo has authored 80 papers receiving a total of 3.1k indexed citations (citations by other indexed papers that have themselves been cited), including 29 papers in Developmental and Educational Psychology, 16 papers in Experimental and Cognitive Psychology and 13 papers in Education. Recurrent topics in David S. Palermo's work include Language, Metaphor, and Cognition (10 papers), Child and Adolescent Psychosocial and Emotional Development (8 papers) and Behavioral and Psychological Studies (8 papers). David S. Palermo is often cited by papers focused on Language, Metaphor, and Cognition (10 papers), Child and Adolescent Psychosocial and Emotional Development (8 papers) and Behavioral and Psychological Studies (8 papers). David S. Palermo collaborates with scholars based in United States, Brazil and Germany. David S. Palermo's co-authors include James J. Jenkins, Alfred Castaneda, Boyd R. McCandless, Dennis L. Molfese, Robert B. Freeman, Walter B. Weimer, S. I. Shapiro, V. J. McGill, Stephen Wilcox and Audrey R. Tyrka and has published in prestigious journals such as Journal of Personality and Social Psychology, Psychological Bulletin and Child Development.

In The Last Decade

David S. Palermo

72 papers receiving 2.4k citations

Hit Papers

The Children's Form of the Manifest Anxiety Scale 1956 2026 1979 2002 1956 1964 100 200 300 400
What are hit papers?

Hit papers significantly outperform the citation benchmark for their cohort. A paper qualifies if it has ≥500 total citations, achieves ≥1.5× the top-1% citation threshold for papers in the same subfield and year (this is the minimum needed to enter the top 1%, not the average within it), or reaches the top citation threshold in at least one of its specific research topics.

  1. The Children's Form of the Manifest Anxiety Scale
    1956 466 citations Alfred Castaneda, Boyd R. McCandless et al. Child Development profile →
  2. Word association norms : grade school through college
    1964 436 citations David S. Palermo, James J. Jenkins Project Muse (Johns Hopkins University) profile →

Peers — A (Enhanced Table)

Peers by citation overlap · career bar shows stage (early→late) cites · hero ref

Name h Career Trend Papers Cites
David S. Palermo United States 25 1.2k 839 741 517 394 80 3.1k
Alexander R. Luria Japan 9 1.1k 0.9× 1.4k 1.7× 504 0.7× 331 0.6× 291 0.7× 12 2.8k
Joseph Jaffe United States 22 777 0.6× 525 0.6× 389 0.5× 1.3k 2.5× 204 0.5× 84 3.0k
Stanley Feldstein United States 33 823 0.7× 569 0.7× 579 0.8× 1.2k 2.4× 242 0.6× 104 3.4k
J. P. Das Canada 32 2.6k 2.1× 981 1.2× 1.2k 1.6× 286 0.6× 781 2.0× 208 4.0k
Keith E. Nelson United States 28 2.6k 2.2× 1.1k 1.3× 400 0.5× 849 1.6× 1.3k 3.3× 76 3.9k
M. Jeffrey Farrar United States 24 2.6k 2.1× 1.1k 1.3× 374 0.5× 618 1.2× 658 1.7× 44 3.4k
Robbie Case Canada 33 2.7k 2.2× 1.3k 1.5× 1.3k 1.7× 352 0.7× 1.9k 4.9× 62 4.9k
Jean Berko Gleason United States 24 918 0.8× 800 1.0× 416 0.6× 180 0.3× 284 0.7× 43 2.0k
Paul van Geert Netherlands 31 1.6k 1.3× 610 0.7× 824 1.1× 442 0.9× 689 1.7× 123 3.5k
Juan Pascual‐Leone Canada 26 1.5k 1.3× 1.1k 1.3× 924 1.2× 278 0.5× 586 1.5× 75 2.9k

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Co-authorship network of co-authors of David S. Palermo

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All Works

20 of 20 papers shown
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Weimer, Walter B. & David S. Palermo. (2024). Cognition and the Symbolic Processes.
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Overton, Willis F. & David S. Palermo. (2023). The Nature and Ontogenesis of Meaning.
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Ridout, Kathryn K., Mateus Luz Levandowski, Samuel J. Ridout, et al.. (2017). Early life adversity and telomere length: a meta-analysis. Molecular Psychiatry. 23(4). 858–871. 200 indexed citations
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Palermo, David S.. (1989). Knowledge and the Child's Developing Theory of the World. Advances in child development and behavior. 21. 269–295. 10 indexed citations
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Palermo, David S., et al.. (1989). Betty is a bouncing bubble: Children's comprehension of emotion-descriptive metaphors.. Developmental Psychology. 25(1). 152–163. 1 indexed citations
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Palermo, David S., et al.. (1983). The Morale of Teachers of Multihandicapped and Nonhandicapped Children in a Residential School for the Deaf. American annals of the deaf. 128(3). 383–387. 4 indexed citations
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Palermo, David S., et al.. (1975). On Learning "Less": Language and Cognitive Development. Child Development. 46(2). 437–437. 12 indexed citations
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Palermo, David S.. (1971). Characteristics of word association responses obtained from children in grades one through four.. Developmental Psychology. 5(1). 118–123. 32 indexed citations
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Shapiro, S. I. & David S. Palermo. (1968). Mediation in Children's Aural Paired-Associate Learning. Child Development. 39(2). 569–569. 3 indexed citations
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Palermo, David S., et al.. (1967). Aural Paired-Associate Learning in Children as a Function of Free-Associative Strength. Child Development. 38(4). 1143–1143. 3 indexed citations
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Palermo, David S., et al.. (1967). The Effect of Type Associative Relation on Word Recognition Times. Child Development. 38(3). 849–849. 3 indexed citations
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Shapiro, S. I. & David S. Palermo. (1967). Mediated clustering in free recall.. Journal of Experimental Psychology. 75(3). 365–371. 5 indexed citations
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Jenkins, James J. & David S. Palermo. (1965). Further data on changes in word-association norms.. Journal of Personality and Social Psychology. 1(4). 303–309. 15 indexed citations
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Palermo, David S. & James J. Jenkins. (1965). Changes in the word associations of fourth- and fifth-grade children from 1916 to 1961. Journal of Verbal Learning and Verbal Behavior. 4(3). 180–187. 12 indexed citations
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Palermo, David S. & James J. Jenkins. (1964). Word association norms : grade school through college. Project Muse (Johns Hopkins University). 436 indexed citations breakdown →
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Jenkins, James J. & David S. Palermo. (1964). Mediation Processes and the Acquisition of Linguistic Structure. Monographs of the Society for Research in Child Development. 29(1). 141–141. 48 indexed citations
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Thompson, Travis, et al.. (1963). EFFECT OF AMOUNT OF TRAINING ON RATE AND DURATION OF RESPONDING DURING EXTINCTION1. Journal of the Experimental Analysis of Behavior. 6(2). 155–161. 38 indexed citations
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Palermo, David S.. (1961). RELATION BETWEEN ANXIETY AND TWO MEASURES OF SPEED IN A REACTION TIME TASK1. Child Development. 32(2). 401–408. 1 indexed citations
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Palermo, David S.. (1959). Racial Comparisons and Additional Normative Data on the Children's Manifest Anxiety Scale. Child Development. 30(1). 53–53. 24 indexed citations
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McCandless, Boyd R., Alfred Castaneda, & David S. Palermo. (1956). Anxiety in Children and Social Status. Child Development. 27(4). 385–385. 19 indexed citations

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