Marina Vasilyeva

4.2k total citations · 1 hit paper
60 papers, 2.8k citations indexed

About

Marina Vasilyeva is a scholar working on Developmental and Educational Psychology, Statistics and Probability and Education. According to data from OpenAlex, Marina Vasilyeva has authored 60 papers receiving a total of 2.8k indexed citations (citations by other indexed papers that have themselves been cited), including 35 papers in Developmental and Educational Psychology, 33 papers in Statistics and Probability and 28 papers in Education. Recurrent topics in Marina Vasilyeva's work include Cognitive and developmental aspects of mathematical skills (32 papers), Spatial Cognition and Navigation (18 papers) and Child and Animal Learning Development (18 papers). Marina Vasilyeva is often cited by papers focused on Cognitive and developmental aspects of mathematical skills (32 papers), Spatial Cognition and Navigation (18 papers) and Child and Animal Learning Development (18 papers). Marina Vasilyeva collaborates with scholars based in United States, Russia and Taiwan. Marina Vasilyeva's co-authors include Janellen Huttenlocher, Heidi Waterfall, Larry V. Hedges, Jack L. Vevea, Susan C. Levine, Colleen M. Ganley, Stella F. Lourenco, Nora S. Newcombe, Edmond P. Bowers and Elida V. Laski and has published in prestigious journals such as SHILAP Revista de lepidopterología, Child Development and Psychological Science.

In The Last Decade

Marina Vasilyeva

57 papers receiving 2.6k citations

Hit Papers

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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. Sources of variability in children’s language growth
    2010 652 citations Janellen Huttenlocher, Heidi Waterfall et al. Cognitive Psychology profile →

Peers — A (Enhanced Table)

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

Name h Career Trend Papers Cites
Marina Vasilyeva United States 24 1.6k 1.1k 730 541 434 60 2.8k
Kathryn Hirsh‐Pasek United States 16 1.3k 0.8× 444 0.4× 337 0.5× 270 0.5× 263 0.6× 22 1.7k
Martha Carr United States 29 1.2k 0.8× 1.2k 1.1× 604 0.8× 194 0.4× 737 1.7× 52 2.4k
Janice M. Keenan United States 33 2.8k 1.8× 867 0.8× 693 0.9× 71 0.1× 889 2.0× 69 4.4k
Elizabeth A. Gunderson United States 23 1.3k 0.8× 2.6k 2.3× 1.6k 2.2× 369 0.7× 1.6k 3.8× 49 4.4k
Virginia A. Mann United States 38 3.5k 2.2× 1.2k 1.0× 1.0k 1.4× 113 0.2× 1.7k 3.9× 73 5.1k
Clarissa A. Thompson United States 22 1.0k 0.6× 1.9k 1.6× 1.7k 2.4× 110 0.2× 335 0.8× 81 2.6k
David Barner United States 33 1.7k 1.1× 969 0.8× 1.3k 1.8× 41 0.1× 623 1.4× 120 2.9k
John W. Adams United Kingdom 18 1.3k 0.8× 601 0.5× 709 1.0× 56 0.1× 337 0.8× 37 2.0k
Laura L. Namy United States 24 1.8k 1.1× 282 0.2× 215 0.3× 71 0.1× 913 2.1× 48 2.5k
Kevin F. Miller United States 27 960 0.6× 906 0.8× 791 1.1× 81 0.1× 412 0.9× 58 2.2k

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Co-authorship network of co-authors of Marina Vasilyeva

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All Works

20 of 20 papers shown
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Vasilyeva, Marina, et al.. (2025). Navigating Trade-Offs in Early Math: How Informational Priming Influences Parent–Child Interaction. Child Development. 96(6). 2162–2175.
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Vasilyeva, Marina, et al.. (2025). Parental input as a mediating pathway for gender differences in early academic skills. Early Childhood Research Quarterly. 72. 35–43.
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Vasilyeva, Marina, et al.. (2024). Words matter: Effect of manipulating storybook texts on parent and child math talk. Early Childhood Research Quarterly. 69. 65–77. 2 indexed citations
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Vasilyeva, Marina, et al.. (2023). Spatial–Numerical Magnitude Estimation Mediates Early Sex Differences in the Use of Advanced Arithmetic Strategies. Journal of Intelligence. 11(5). 97–97. 2 indexed citations
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Vasilyeva, Marina, et al.. (2023). Minor changes, big differences? Effects of manipulating play materials on parental math talk.. Developmental Psychology. 59(7). 1283–1299. 7 indexed citations
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Vasilyeva, Marina, Elida V. Laski, Аleksander Veraksa, & Daria Bukhalenkova. (2020). Leveraging measurement instruction to develop kindergartners’ numerical magnitude knowledge.. Journal of Educational Psychology. 113(7). 1354–1369. 9 indexed citations
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Laski, Elida V., et al.. (2016). Kindergartners' base-10 knowledge predicts arithmetic accuracy concurrently and longitudinally. Learning and Individual Differences. 50. 234–239. 5 indexed citations
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Laski, Elida V., et al.. (2016). Longitudinal Comparison of Place-Value and Arithmetic Knowledge in Montessori and Non-Montessori Students.. 2(1). 1–15. 6 indexed citations
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Vasilyeva, Marina, Elida V. Laski, & Chen Shen. (2015). Computational fluency and strategy choice predict individual and cross-national differences in complex arithmetic.. Developmental Psychology. 51(10). 1489–1500. 19 indexed citations
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Vasilyeva, Marina, et al.. (2015). Minding the gap: Children’s difficulty conceptualizing spatial intervals as linear measurement units.. Developmental Psychology. 51(11). 1564–1573. 28 indexed citations
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Vasilyeva, Marina, et al.. (2014). Reexamining the language account of cross-national differences in base-10 number representations. Journal of Experimental Child Psychology. 129. 12–25. 9 indexed citations
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Карданова, Елена, et al.. (2014). Operationalizing Levels of Academic Mastery Based on Vygotsky’s Theory. Educational and Psychological Measurement. 75(2). 235–259. 7 indexed citations
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Casey, Beth M., et al.. (2011). Spatial and numerical predictors of measurement performance: The moderating effects of community income and gender.. Journal of Educational Psychology. 103(2). 296–311. 54 indexed citations
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Huttenlocher, Janellen, Heidi Waterfall, Marina Vasilyeva, Jack L. Vevea, & Larry V. Hedges. (2010). Sources of variability in children’s language growth. Cognitive Psychology. 61(4). 343–365. 652 indexed citations breakdown →
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Vasilyeva, Marina & Edmond P. Bowers. (2010). Exploring the effects of similarity on mapping spatial relations. Journal of Experimental Child Psychology. 106(4). 221–239. 9 indexed citations
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Vasilyeva, Marina, Heidi Waterfall, & Janellen Huttenlocher. (2007). Emergence of syntax: commonalities and differences across children. Developmental Science. 11(1). 84–97. 130 indexed citations
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Vasilyeva, Marina, Janellen Huttenlocher, & Heidi Waterfall. (2006). Effects of language intervention on syntactic skill levels in preschoolers.. Developmental Psychology. 42(1). 164–174. 98 indexed citations
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Lourenco, Stella F., Janellen Huttenlocher, & Marina Vasilyeva. (2005). Toddlers' Representations of Space. Psychological Science. 16(4). 255–259. 24 indexed citations
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Vasilyeva, Marina & Janellen Huttenlocher. (2004). Early Development of Scaling Ability.. Developmental Psychology. 40(5). 682–690. 59 indexed citations
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Huttenlocher, Janellen & Marina Vasilyeva. (2003). How toddlers represent enclosed spaces. Cognitive Science. 27(5). 749–766. 35 indexed citations

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