Linda L. Sperry

2.1k total citations · 1 hit paper
16 papers, 1.3k citations indexed

About

Linda L. Sperry is a scholar working on Education, Developmental and Educational Psychology and Language and Linguistics. According to data from OpenAlex, Linda L. Sperry has authored 16 papers receiving a total of 1.3k indexed citations (citations by other indexed papers that have themselves been cited), including 9 papers in Education, 6 papers in Developmental and Educational Psychology and 5 papers in Language and Linguistics. Recurrent topics in Linda L. Sperry's work include Early Childhood Education and Development (6 papers), Language, Discourse, Communication Strategies (5 papers) and Multilingual Education and Policy (3 papers). Linda L. Sperry is often cited by papers focused on Early Childhood Education and Development (6 papers), Language, Discourse, Communication Strategies (5 papers) and Multilingual Education and Policy (3 papers). Linda L. Sperry collaborates with scholars based in United States and Spain. Linda L. Sperry's co-authors include Peggy J. Miller, Tom Trabasso, Douglas E. Sperry and Patricia A. Smiley and has published in prestigious journals such as Child Development, Frontiers in Psychology and Journal of Memory and Language.

In The Last Decade

Linda L. Sperry

16 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.

Reexamining the Verbal Environments of Children From Different Socioeconomic Backgrounds

2018 221 citations Douglas E. Sperry, Linda L. Sperry et al. Child Development profile →

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Name	h						Papers	Cites
Linda L. Sperry United States	9	664	397	260	232	191	16	1.3k
W. Patrick Dickson United States	14	606 0.9×	650 1.6×	207 0.8×	87 0.4×	153 0.8×	32	1.2k
Reuven Feuerstein Israel	16	986 1.5×	671 1.7×	286 1.1×	169 0.7×	262 1.4×	44	1.6k
H. Colleen Sinclair United States	19	498 0.8×	249 0.6×	264 1.0×	118 0.5×	193 1.0×	44	1.3k
Carol Westby United States	22	896 1.3×	438 1.1×	537 2.1×	354 1.5×	141 0.7×	172	1.6k
R. Steve McCallum United States	18	509 0.8×	363 0.9×	151 0.6×	175 0.8×	246 1.3×	85	1.1k
Robert L. Russell United States	22	448 0.7×	305 0.8×	857 3.3×	120 0.5×	299 1.6×	77	1.7k
Denise Davidson United States	20	492 0.7×	172 0.4×	184 0.7×	402 1.7×	167 0.9×	63	1.1k
Sarah McGeown United Kingdom	23	614 0.9×	805 2.0×	214 0.8×	92 0.4×	343 1.8×	69	1.6k
Teresa Limpo Portugal	20	701 1.1×	904 2.3×	141 0.5×	88 0.4×	136 0.7×	59	1.3k
Barbara Alexander Pan United States	20	1.5k 2.3×	1.3k 3.2×	687 2.6×	207 0.9×	98 0.5×	29	2.5k

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16 of 16 papers shown

Miller, Peggy J., Douglas E. Sperry, & Linda L. Sperry. (2024). A deficit story in motion: How marginalized youngsters are defined out of the educational game before they enter school. Journal of Social Issues. 80(4). 1218–1237. 8 indexed citations

Sperry, Linda L. & Douglas E. Sperry. (2021). Entering Into the Story: Implications for Emergent Literacy. Frontiers in Psychology. 12. 665092–665092. 4 indexed citations

Sperry, Linda L., et al.. (2020). Children and the COVID-19 pandemic.. Psychological Trauma Theory Research Practice and Policy. 12(S1). S73–S75. 147 indexed citations

Sperry, Linda L., et al.. (2020). An Exploration of Mothers’ Beliefs, Expectations, and Behaviors Regarding Young African American Children’s Early School Experiences and Success. Journal of Black Psychology. 47(1). 51–80. 5 indexed citations

Sperry, Douglas E., Peggy J. Miller, & Linda L. Sperry. (2019). Hazardous intersections: Crossing disciplinary lines in developmental psychology. European Journal of Social Theory. 23(1). 93–112. 10 indexed citations

Sperry, Douglas E., Linda L. Sperry, & Peggy J. Miller. (2018). Reexamining the Verbal Environments of Children From Different Socioeconomic Backgrounds. Child Development. 90(4). 1303–1318. 221 indexed citations breakdown →

Sperry, Linda L., et al.. (2007). The Whole Truth and Nothing But The Truth?. Journal of Black Studies. 37(5). 655–676. 8 indexed citations

Sperry, Linda L., et al.. (1999). Examining Scholarship: A Case Study in Redefining the Role of the Professoriate. 2 indexed citations

Sperry, Linda L. & Douglas E. Sperry. (1996). Early development of narrative skills. Cognitive Development. 11(3). 443–465. 48 indexed citations

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Sperry, Linda L., et al.. (1995). Reducing Education Students' Ethnocentrism: Difficulties and Possible Solutions.. Contemporary education. 67(1). 49–50. 2 indexed citations

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Sperry, Linda L. & Patricia A. Smiley. (1995). Exploring young children's concepts of self and other through conversation. Medical Entomology and Zoology. 11 indexed citations

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Sperry, Linda L. & Douglas E. Sperry. (1995). Young children's presentations of self in conversational narration. New Directions for Child and Adolescent Development. 1995(69). 47–60. 10 indexed citations

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Miller, Peggy J. & Linda L. Sperry. (1988). The Socialization and Acquisition of Emotional Meanings, with Special Reference to Language: A Reply to Saarni.. Merrill-palmer Quarterly. 34(2). 8 indexed citations

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Miller, Peggy J. & Linda L. Sperry. (1988). Early talk about the past: the origins of conversational stories of personal experience. Journal of Child Language. 15(2). 293–315. 206 indexed citations

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Miller, Peggy J. & Linda L. Sperry. (1987). The Socialization of Anger and Aggression.. Genes. 33(1). 1–31. 174 indexed citations

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Trabasso, Tom & Linda L. Sperry. (1985). Causal relatedness and importance of story events. Journal of Memory and Language. 24(5). 595–611. 483 indexed citations

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