Nianbo Dong

1.8k total citations · 1 hit paper
50 papers, 1.2k citations indexed

About

Nianbo Dong is a scholar working on Statistics and Probability, Education and Developmental and Educational Psychology. According to data from OpenAlex, Nianbo Dong has authored 50 papers receiving a total of 1.2k indexed citations (citations by other indexed papers that have themselves been cited), including 26 papers in Statistics and Probability, 23 papers in Education and 18 papers in Developmental and Educational Psychology. Recurrent topics in Nianbo Dong's work include Advanced Causal Inference Techniques (24 papers), Early Childhood Education and Development (16 papers) and Behavioral and Psychological Studies (15 papers). Nianbo Dong is often cited by papers focused on Advanced Causal Inference Techniques (24 papers), Early Childhood Education and Development (16 papers) and Behavioral and Psychological Studies (15 papers). Nianbo Dong collaborates with scholars based in United States, Türkiye and Taiwan. Nianbo Dong's co-authors include Dale C. Farran, Mary Wagner Fuhs, Kimberly Turner Nesbitt, Rebecca Maynard, Jessaca Spybrook, Benjamin Kelcey, Chiungjung Huang, Wendy M. Reinke, Keith C. Herman and Mark W. Lipsey and has published in prestigious journals such as Journal of Educational Psychology, Developmental Psychology and Organizational Research Methods.

In The Last Decade

Nianbo Dong

47 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
Nianbo Dong United States	18	535	409	348	238	124	50	1.2k
Mark Reiser United States	15	484 0.9×	148 0.4×	164 0.5×	623 2.6×	122 1.0×	28	1.5k
Myeongsun Yoon United States	17	248 0.5×	167 0.4×	172 0.5×	373 1.6×	241 1.9×	38	1.4k
Ryan J. Kettler United States	18	606 1.1×	64 0.2×	291 0.8×	372 1.6×	61 0.5×	69	1.0k
Greg Roberts United States	17	649 1.2×	219 0.5×	623 1.8×	133 0.6×	49 0.4×	32	1.1k
Michele F. Zimowski United States	6	203 0.4×	129 0.3×	114 0.3×	204 0.9×	166 1.3×	14	996
Lynn Foster‐Johnson United States	14	203 0.4×	96 0.2×	386 1.1×	252 1.1×	36 0.3×	28	998
Greg Roberts United States	28	976 1.8×	511 1.2×	1.5k 4.3×	110 0.5×	57 0.5×	74	2.0k
Christina Weiland United States	24	2.3k 4.4×	270 0.7×	763 2.2×	586 2.5×	80 0.6×	73	2.7k
Louis M. Hsu United States	20	130 0.2×	118 0.3×	169 0.5×	357 1.5×	154 1.2×	56	1.0k
Kirsten Kainz United States	22	852 1.6×	51 0.1×	347 1.0×	360 1.5×	29 0.2×	51	1.3k

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Dong, Nianbo, Rebecca Maynard, Benjamin Kelcey, et al.. (2024). Advantages of Monte Carlo Confidence Intervals for Incremental Cost-Effectiveness Ratios: A Comparison of Five Methods. Journal of Research on Educational Effectiveness. 18(4). 951–979.

Dong, Nianbo, et al.. (2022). Investigating the Differential Effects of Early Child Care and Education in Reducing Gender and Racial Academic Achievement Gaps From Kindergarten to 8th Grade. Journal of Education. 204(1). 71–91. 1 indexed citations

Dong, Nianbo, Keith C. Herman, Wendy M. Reinke, Sandra Jo Wilson, & Catherine P. Bradshaw. (2022). Gender, Racial, and Socioeconomic Disparities on Social and Behavioral Skills for K-8 Students With and Without Interventions: An Integrative Data Analysis of Eight Cluster Randomized Trials. Prevention Science. 24(8). 1483–1498. 6 indexed citations

Dong, Nianbo, Jessaca Spybrook, Benjamin Kelcey, & Metin Buluş. (2021). Power analyses for moderator effects with (non)randomly varying slopes in cluster randomized trials. Methodology. 17(2). 92–110. 12 indexed citations

Li, Wei, Nianbo Dong, & Rebecca Maynard. (2020). Power Analysis for Two-Level Multisite Randomized Cost-Effectiveness Trials. Journal of Educational and Behavioral Statistics. 45(6). 690–718. 5 indexed citations

Kelcey, Ben, et al.. (2020). Cross-Level Mediation in School-Randomized Studies of Teacher Development: Experimental Design and Power. Journal of Research on Educational Effectiveness. 13(3). 459–487. 7 indexed citations

Dong, Nianbo, et al.. (2020). Using Propensity Score Analysis of Survey Data to Estimate Population Average Treatment Effects: A Case Study Comparing Different Methods. Evaluation Review. 44(1). 84–108. 22 indexed citations

Spybrook, Jessaca, Qi Zhang, Ben Kelcey, & Nianbo Dong. (2020). Learning From Cluster Randomized Trials in Education: An Assessment of the Capacity of Studies to Determine What Works, For Whom, and Under What Conditions. Educational Evaluation and Policy Analysis. 42(3). 354–374. 13 indexed citations

Reinke, Wendy M., Keith C. Herman, & Nianbo Dong. (2018). The Incredible Years Teacher Classroom Management Program: Outcomes from a Group Randomized Trial. Prevention Science. 19(8). 1043–1054. 57 indexed citations

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Reinke, Wendy M., Keith C. Herman, & Nianbo Dong. (2018). The Incredible Years Teacher Classroom Management Program: Outcomes from a Group Randomized Trial.. Grantee Submission. 19. 1043–1054. 1 indexed citations

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Kelcey, Ben, Jessaca Spybrook, & Nianbo Dong. (2018). Sample Size Planning for Cluster-Randomized Interventions Probing Multilevel Mediation. Prevention Science. 20(3). 407–418. 14 indexed citations

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Stuart, Elizabeth A., et al.. (2016). Combining Propensity Score Methods and Complex Survey Data to Estimate Population Treatment Effects.. Society for Research on Educational Effectiveness.

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Curenton, Stephanie M., et al.. (2015). Does aggregate school-wide achievement mediate fifth grade outcomes for former early childhood education participants?. Developmental Psychology. 51(7). 921–934. 16 indexed citations

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Dong, Nianbo & Mark W. Lipsey. (2014). Empirical Benchmarks of Hidden Bias in Educational Research: Implication for Assessing How well Propensity Score Methods Approximate Experiments and Conducting Sensitivity Analysis.. Society for Research on Educational Effectiveness. 1 indexed citations

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Reinke, Wendy M., Keith C. Herman, & Nianbo Dong. (2014). The Incredible Year Teacher Classroom Management Program: Initial Findings from a Group Randomized Control Trial.. Society for Research on Educational Effectiveness. 5 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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Lipsey, Mark W., et al.. (2013). Evaluation of the Tennessee Voluntary Prekindergarten Program: Kindergarten and First Grade Follow-Up Results from the Randomized Control Design. Research Report.. 36 indexed citations

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Dong, Nianbo. (2012). Causal Moderation Analysis Using Propensity Score Methods.. Society for Research on Educational Effectiveness. 3 indexed citations

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Dong, Nianbo & Mark W. Lipsey. (2011). Biases in Estimating Treatment Effects Due to Attrition in Randomized Controlled Trials and Cluster Randomized Controlled Trials: A Simulation Study.. Society for Research on Educational Effectiveness. 1 indexed citations

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Dong, Nianbo, et al.. (2008). Averaging Effect Sizes Within and Across Studies of Interventions Aimed at Improving Child Outcomes. Child Development Perspectives. 2(3). 187–197. 8 indexed citations

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