Erika Hoff

14.2k total citations · 8 hit papers
65 papers, 8.0k citations indexed

About

Erika Hoff is a scholar working on Developmental and Educational Psychology, Linguistics and Language and Cognitive Neuroscience. According to data from OpenAlex, Erika Hoff has authored 65 papers receiving a total of 8.0k indexed citations (citations by other indexed papers that have themselves been cited), including 54 papers in Developmental and Educational Psychology, 21 papers in Linguistics and Language and 10 papers in Cognitive Neuroscience. Recurrent topics in Erika Hoff's work include Language Development and Disorders (51 papers), Reading and Literacy Development (44 papers) and Multilingual Education and Policy (21 papers). Erika Hoff is often cited by papers focused on Language Development and Disorders (51 papers), Reading and Literacy Development (44 papers) and Multilingual Education and Policy (21 papers). Erika Hoff collaborates with scholars based in United States, Denmark and Germany. Erika Hoff's co-authors include Brett Laursen, Cynthia Core, Letitia Naigles, Krystal M. Ribot, Chunyan Tian, Kelly Bridges, Andrea Burridge, Carol Scheffner Hammer, Cristina Gillanders and Dina C. Castro and has published in prestigious journals such as JAMA, Child Development and Developmental Psychology.

In The Last Decade

Erika Hoff

61 papers receiving 7.6k citations

Hit Papers

The Specificity of Environmental Influence: Socioeconomic... 2002 2026 2010 2018 2003 2006 2006 2012 2011 500 1000 1.5k
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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 Specificity of Environmental Influence: Socioeconomic Status Affects Early Vocabulary Development Via Maternal Speech
    2003 1.6k citations Erika Hoff Child Development profile →
  2. How social contexts support and shape language development☆
    2006 1.2k citations Erika Hoff profile →
  3. Person-Centered and Variable-Centered Approaches to Longitudinal Data
    2006 669 citations Erika Hoff et al. profile →
  4. Interpreting the early language trajectories of children from low-SES and language minority homes: Implications for closing achievement gaps.
    2012 663 citations Erika Hoff Developmental Psychology profile →
  5. Dual language exposure and early bilingual development
    2011 583 citations Erika Hoff, Cynthia Core et al. Journal of Child Language profile →
  6. How Children Use Input to Acquire a Lexicon
    2002 505 citations Erika Hoff, Letitia Naigles Child Development profile →
  7. Properties of Dual Language Exposure That Influence 2-Year-Olds’ Bilingual Proficiency
    2011 336 citations Erika Hoff et al. Child Development profile →
  8. The language and literacy development of young dual language learners: A critical review
    2014 243 citations Erika Hoff et al. Early Childhood Research Quarterly profile →

Peers — A (Enhanced Table)

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

Name h Career Trend Papers Cites
Erika Hoff United States 31 6.0k 2.5k 1.5k 1.4k 1.4k 65 8.0k
Meredith L. Rowe United States 40 5.1k 0.9× 2.9k 1.2× 484 0.3× 1.1k 0.8× 1.3k 1.0× 103 7.2k
Paul Leseman Netherlands 39 2.6k 0.4× 2.6k 1.1× 450 0.3× 864 0.6× 611 0.4× 134 5.2k
Linda S. Siegel Canada 61 11.1k 1.9× 4.6k 1.9× 645 0.4× 3.6k 2.5× 1.1k 0.8× 247 14.5k
Elizabeth D. Peña United States 39 4.4k 0.7× 649 0.3× 885 0.6× 1.7k 1.2× 866 0.6× 136 5.3k
Laura M. Justice United States 71 10.7k 1.8× 10.6k 4.3× 567 0.4× 1.2k 0.9× 2.6k 1.9× 370 15.5k
Catherine McBride‐Chang Hong Kong 67 8.9k 1.5× 4.6k 1.8× 417 0.3× 3.3k 2.3× 1.8k 1.3× 150 12.4k
Grover J. Whitehurst United States 41 6.6k 1.1× 5.0k 2.0× 371 0.2× 857 0.6× 1.0k 0.8× 103 8.6k
Allyssa McCabe United States 35 3.7k 0.6× 1.9k 0.8× 621 0.4× 879 0.6× 657 0.5× 99 5.1k
Christopher J. Lonigan United States 65 10.6k 1.8× 9.7k 3.9× 552 0.4× 1.6k 1.1× 4.0k 2.9× 186 16.3k
Adam Winsler United States 44 1.9k 0.3× 3.3k 1.3× 333 0.2× 648 0.5× 1.7k 1.3× 140 5.8k

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All Works

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Core, Cynthia, et al.. (2024). Early skills that predict English reading ability: A longitudinal study of bilingual children from 5 to 10 years. Journal of Experimental Child Psychology. 246. 105993–105993. 3 indexed citations
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Hoff, Erika, Anders Højen, & Dorthe Bleses. (2022). Social Contexts and Language Development:Past, Present, and Future.
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Hoff, Erika, et al.. (2021). A multidimensional approach to Spanish–English bilingual preschoolers’ narrative skills. 44(2). 370–400.
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Dickson, Daniel J., et al.. (2021). Majority language skill, not measures of bilingualism, predicts executive attention in bilingual children. Journal of Experimental Child Psychology. 213. 105256–105256. 7 indexed citations
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Hoff, Erika, et al.. (2020). Cultural differences in the content of child talk: evaluative lexis of English monolingual and Spanish–English bilingual 30-month-olds. Journal of Child Language. 47(4). 844–869. 4 indexed citations
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Özçalışkan, Şeyda, et al.. (2019). Do parents provide a helping hand to vocabulary development in bilingual children?. Journal of Child Language. 46(3). 501–521. 12 indexed citations
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Hoff, Erika, et al.. (2019). The quality of child-directed speech depends on the speaker's language proficiency. Journal of Child Language. 47(1). 132–145. 34 indexed citations
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Hoff, Erika, et al.. (2018). El desarrollo de inglés y español de niños en familias inmigrantes en los Estados Unidos. Pensamiento Educativo Revista de Investigación Educacional Latinoamericana. 55(2). 1–17. 15 indexed citations
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Hoff, Erika, et al.. (2017). Language specificity in the relation of maternal education to bilingual children’s vocabulary growth.. Developmental Psychology. 54(6). 1011–1019. 55 indexed citations
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Hoff, Erika & Krystal M. Ribot. (2017). Language Growth in English Monolingual and Spanish-English Bilingual Children from 2.5 to 5 Years. The Journal of Pediatrics. 190. 241–245.e1. 76 indexed citations
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Hoff, Erika, et al.. (2014). Expressive vocabulary development in children from bilingual and monolingual homes: A longitudinal study from two to four years. Early Childhood Research Quarterly. 29(4). 433–444. 136 indexed citations
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McCabe, Allyssa, Marc H. Bornstein, Alison Wishard Guerra, et al.. (2013). Multilingual Children: Beyond Myths and Toward Best Practices and commentaries. 27(4). 1–37. 39 indexed citations
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Bridges, Kelly & Erika Hoff. (2012). Older sibling influences on the language environment and language development of toddlers in bilingual homes. Applied Psycholinguistics. 35(2). 225–241. 124 indexed citations
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Hoff, Erika. (2012). Interpreting the early language trajectories of children from low-SES and language minority homes: Implications for closing achievement gaps.. Developmental Psychology. 49(1). 4–14. 663 indexed citations breakdown →
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Hoff, Erika, et al.. (2011). Dual language exposure and early bilingual development. Journal of Child Language. 39(1). 1–27. 583 indexed citations breakdown →
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Hoff, Erika, et al.. (2010). Relations among language exposure, phonological memory, and language development in Spanish–English bilingually developing 2-year-olds. Journal of Experimental Child Psychology. 108(1). 113–125. 84 indexed citations
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Naigles, Letitia, et al.. (2009). ABSTRACT. Monographs of the Society for Research in Child Development. 74(2). vii–vii. 53 indexed citations
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Hoff, Erika, Cynthia Core, & Kelly Bridges. (2008). Non-word repetition assesses phonological memory and is related to vocabulary development in 20- to 24-month-olds. Journal of Child Language. 35(4). 903–916. 80 indexed citations
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Hoff, Erika & Chunyan Tian. (2005). Socioeconomic status and cultural influences on language. Journal of Communication Disorders. 38(4). 271–278. 229 indexed citations
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Hoff, Erika & Letitia Naigles. (2002). How Children Use Input to Acquire a Lexicon. Child Development. 73(2). 418–433. 505 indexed citations breakdown →

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