Kimberly Turner Nesbitt

1.8k total citations · 1 hit paper
31 papers, 1.3k citations indexed

About

Kimberly Turner Nesbitt is a scholar working on Education, Developmental and Educational Psychology and Statistics and Probability. According to data from OpenAlex, Kimberly Turner Nesbitt has authored 31 papers receiving a total of 1.3k indexed citations (citations by other indexed papers that have themselves been cited), including 23 papers in Education, 19 papers in Developmental and Educational Psychology and 8 papers in Statistics and Probability. Recurrent topics in Kimberly Turner Nesbitt's work include Early Childhood Education and Development (18 papers), Cognitive and developmental aspects of mathematical skills (8 papers) and Educational and Psychological Assessments (8 papers). Kimberly Turner Nesbitt is often cited by papers focused on Early Childhood Education and Development (18 papers), Cognitive and developmental aspects of mathematical skills (8 papers) and Educational and Psychological Assessments (8 papers). Kimberly Turner Nesbitt collaborates with scholars based in United States, United Kingdom and Sweden. Kimberly Turner Nesbitt's co-authors include Dale C. Farran, Mary Wagner Fuhs, Nianbo Dong, David K. Dickinson, Kathy Hirsh‐Pasek, Roberta Michnick Golinkoff, Michael T. Willoughby, Lynne Baker‐Ward, Elizabeth Burke Hadley and Ageliki Nicolopoulou and has published in prestigious journals such as Child Development, Journal of Educational Psychology and Developmental Psychology.

In The Last Decade

Kimberly Turner Nesbitt

29 papers receiving 1.2k citations

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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.

Longitudinal associations between executive functioning and academic skills across content areas.

2014 286 citations Mary Wagner Fuhs, Kimberly Turner Nesbitt et al. Developmental Psychology profile →

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Name	h						Papers	Cites
Kimberly Turner Nesbitt United States	17	911	647	272	249	148	31	1.3k
Lori Nathanson United States	7	890 1.0×	365 0.6×	428 1.6×	92 0.4×	125 0.8×	10	1.1k
Mary Wagner Fuhs United States	13	922 1.0×	678 1.0×	264 1.0×	531 2.1×	173 1.2×	19	1.3k
Laura E. Hume United States	7	493 0.5×	430 0.7×	132 0.5×	269 1.1×	89 0.6×	7	752
Maria Carmen Usai Italy	16	379 0.4×	466 0.7×	215 0.8×	218 0.9×	273 1.8×	50	969
Valentina Tobia Italy	18	359 0.4×	396 0.6×	265 1.0×	161 0.6×	65 0.4×	57	878
Anne Puolakanaho Finland	16	351 0.4×	778 1.2×	297 1.1×	267 1.1×	117 0.8×	33	1.2k
Jeanine Clancy‐Menchetti United States	11	655 0.7×	520 0.8×	244 0.9×	98 0.4×	50 0.3×	12	866
Marianne Röthlisberger Switzerland	10	328 0.4×	468 0.7×	168 0.6×	181 0.7×	226 1.5×	14	808
Fiona J. Duff United Kingdom	17	523 0.6×	1.2k 1.9×	105 0.4×	290 1.2×	51 0.3×	24	1.4k
Paula Lyytinen Finland	25	727 0.8×	1.8k 2.7×	253 0.9×	429 1.7×	129 0.9×	45	2.1k

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Nesbitt, Kimberly Turner, et al.. (2025). Feasibility and Acceptability of an Active Playful Learning Intervention for Kindergarten Teachers Using Instructional Coaching. Early Education and Development. 36(4). 818–838.

Nesbitt, Kimberly Turner, et al.. (2024). Observation of Student and Teacher Behaviors during a Preliminary Active Playful Learning Intervention in Kindergarten Classrooms. Education Sciences. 14(6). 648–648. 6 indexed citations

Nesbitt, Kimberly Turner, et al.. (2024). Caregiver and child question types during a museum interaction. Frontiers in Psychology. 15. 1401772–1401772. 1 indexed citations

Nesbitt, Kimberly Turner, et al.. (2023). Making schools work: An equation for active playful learning. Theory Into Practice. 62(2). 141–154. 16 indexed citations

Christopher, Caroline & Kimberly Turner Nesbitt. (2023). Consistency and inconsistency in learning experiences across the early grades. Frontiers in Education. 8.

Nesbitt, Kimberly Turner, et al.. (2023). Investigating the contributions of active, playful learning to student interest and educational outcomes. Acta Psychologica. 238. 103983–103983. 12 indexed citations

Anderson, Kirsten L., et al.. (2022). Executive function mediates the relationship between Conscious Discipline fidelity and kindergarten readiness. Journal of Applied Developmental Psychology. 79. 101393–101393. 6 indexed citations

Nesbitt, Kimberly Turner, et al.. (2022). Expressing information status through prosody in the spontaneous speech of American English-speaking children. 101–104. 1 indexed citations

Nesbitt, Kimberly Turner & Dale C. Farran. (2021). Effects of Prekindergarten Curricula: Tools of the Mind as a Case Study. Monographs of the Society for Research in Child Development. 86(1). 7–119. 47 indexed citations

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Nesbitt, Kimberly Turner, et al.. (2020). The impact of question prosody during parent-child interactions in a museum setting. The Journal of the Acoustical Society of America. 148(4_Supplement). 2501–2501. 1 indexed citations

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Dickinson, David K., Kimberly Turner Nesbitt, Molly F. Collins, et al.. (2019). Teaching for breadth and depth of vocabulary knowledge: Learning from explicit and implicit instruction and the storybook texts. Early Childhood Research Quarterly. 47. 341–356. 56 indexed citations

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Toub, Tamara Spiewak, Brenna Hassinger‐Das, Kimberly Turner Nesbitt, et al.. (2018). The language of play: Developing preschool vocabulary through play following shared book-reading. Early Childhood Research Quarterly. 45. 1–17. 80 indexed citations

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Fuhs, Mary Wagner, Kimberly Turner Nesbitt, & Hannah L. Jackson. (2018). Chronic Absenteeism and Preschool Children's Executive Functioning Skills Development. Journal of Education for Students Placed at Risk (JESPAR). 23(1-2). 39–52. 19 indexed citations

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Farran, Dale C., et al.. (2017). Data-Driven Improvement in Prekindergarten Classrooms: Report From a Partnership in an Urban District. Child Development. 88(5). 1466–1479. 40 indexed citations

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Nesbitt, Kimberly Turner, Dale C. Farran, & Mary Wagner Fuhs. (2015). Executive function skills and academic achievement gains in prekindergarten: Contributions of learning-related behaviors.. Developmental Psychology. 51(7). 865–878. 108 indexed citations

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Farran, Dale C., et al.. (2015). Experimental Evaluation of the Tools of the Mind Pre-K Curriculum. Technical Report. Working Paper.. 5 indexed citations

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Hadley, Elizabeth Burke, David K. Dickinson, Kathy Hirsh‐Pasek, Roberta Michnick Golinkoff, & Kimberly Turner Nesbitt. (2015). Examining the Acquisition of Vocabulary Knowledge Depth Among Preschool Students. Reading Research Quarterly. 51(2). 181–198. 71 indexed citations

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Fuhs, Mary Wagner, Kimberly Turner Nesbitt, Dale C. Farran, & Nianbo Dong. (2014). Longitudinal associations between executive functioning and academic skills across content areas.. Developmental Psychology. 50(6). 1698–1709. 286 indexed citations breakdown →

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Fuhs, Mary Wagner, Dale C. Farran, & Kimberly Turner Nesbitt. (2013). Preschool classroom processes as predictors of children’s cognitive self-regulation skills development.. School Psychology Quarterly. 28(4). 347–359. 103 indexed citations

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Nesbitt, Kimberly Turner, Lynne Baker‐Ward, & Michael T. Willoughby. (2013). Executive function mediates socio-economic and racial differences in early academic achievement. Early Childhood Research Quarterly. 28(4). 774–783. 103 indexed citations

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