Nicholas E. Waters

785 total citations · 1 hit paper
7 papers, 397 citations indexed

About

Nicholas E. Waters is a scholar working on Education, Clinical Psychology and Experimental and Cognitive Psychology. According to data from OpenAlex, Nicholas E. Waters has authored 7 papers receiving a total of 397 indexed citations (citations by other indexed papers that have themselves been cited), including 6 papers in Education, 4 papers in Clinical Psychology and 3 papers in Experimental and Cognitive Psychology. Recurrent topics in Nicholas E. Waters's work include Early Childhood Education and Development (6 papers), Cognitive Abilities and Testing (3 papers) and Child and Adolescent Psychosocial and Emotional Development (3 papers). Nicholas E. Waters is often cited by papers focused on Early Childhood Education and Development (6 papers), Cognitive Abilities and Testing (3 papers) and Child and Adolescent Psychosocial and Emotional Development (3 papers). Nicholas E. Waters collaborates with scholars based in United States. Nicholas E. Waters's co-authors include Pamela Davis‐Kean, Sammy F. Ahmed, Sandra Tang, Lauren A. Tighe, Frederick J. Morrison, Natasha Chaku, Nicholas Waters, Joakim Tedroff and Alexa Ellis and has published in prestigious journals such as Journal of Educational Psychology, Journal of Neurology Neurosurgery & Psychiatry and Current Directions in Psychological Science.

In The Last Decade

Nicholas E. Waters

6 papers receiving 382 citations

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The Role of Parent Educational Attainment in Parenting and Children’s Development

2021 138 citations Pamela Davis‐Kean, Lauren A. Tighe et al. Current Directions in Psychological Science profile →

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Name	h						Papers	Cites
Nicholas E. Waters United States	4	226	111	103	101	60	7	397
Sammy F. Ahmed United States	12	240 1.1×	154 1.4×	149 1.4×	142 1.4×	102 1.7×	20	504
Callie W. Little United States	13	232 1.0×	51 0.5×	195 1.9×	81 0.8×	72 1.2×	36	449
Mary Ellen Voegler‐Lee United States	5	247 1.1×	123 1.1×	130 1.3×	41 0.4×	39 0.7×	5	341
Nihal Yeniad Netherlands	5	159 0.7×	106 1.0×	232 2.3×	81 0.8×	120 2.0×	5	450
Wing Kai Fung Hong Kong	11	213 0.9×	120 1.1×	113 1.1×	63 0.6×	55 0.9×	37	360
Sandra Schmiedeler Germany	12	155 0.7×	84 0.8×	158 1.5×	52 0.5×	22 0.4×	22	373
Sylvia Sastre i Riba Spain	12	224 1.0×	198 1.8×	101 1.0×	122 1.2×	18 0.3×	73	531
Jessica Fanning United States	5	213 0.9×	96 0.9×	239 2.3×	104 1.0×	30 0.5×	8	532
Claire Parker United Kingdom	11	285 1.3×	196 1.8×	66 0.6×	174 1.7×	66 1.1×	14	517
Glenda Fredman United Kingdom	10	114 0.5×	173 1.6×	232 2.3×	40 0.4×	59 1.0×	21	436

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7 of 7 papers shown

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Waters, Nicholas E., Sammy F. Ahmed, & Pamela Davis‐Kean. (2025). Socioeconomic status and academic achievement: Developmental pathways through parenting and children’s executive functions. Journal of Experimental Child Psychology. 260. 106335–106335.

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Chaku, Natasha, Nicholas E. Waters, & Sammy F. Ahmed. (2024). Links between socioeconomic position and cognitive and behavioral regulation in adolescence: The role of pubertal development. Journal of Research on Adolescence. 34(4). 1232–1246. 1 indexed citations

3.

Ahmed, Sammy F., Natasha Chaku, Nicholas E. Waters, Alexa Ellis, & Pamela Davis‐Kean. (2022). Developmental cascades and educational attainment. Advances in child development and behavior. 64. 289–326. 2 indexed citations

4.

Davis‐Kean, Pamela, Lauren A. Tighe, & Nicholas E. Waters. (2021). The Role of Parent Educational Attainment in Parenting and Children’s Development. Current Directions in Psychological Science. 30(2). 186–192. 138 indexed citations breakdown →

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Waters, Nicholas E., Sammy F. Ahmed, Sandra Tang, Frederick J. Morrison, & Pamela Davis‐Kean. (2020). Pathways from socioeconomic status to early academic achievement: The role of specific executive functions. Early Childhood Research Quarterly. 54. 321–331. 67 indexed citations

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Ahmed, Sammy F., Sandra Tang, Nicholas E. Waters, & Pamela Davis‐Kean. (2018). Executive function and academic achievement: Longitudinal relations from early childhood to adolescence.. Journal of Educational Psychology. 111(3). 446–458. 186 indexed citations

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Waters, Nicholas, et al.. (2010). F10 Correlations between functional measures, voluntary and involuntary motor symptoms in HD -multivariate analysis of cross-sectional and longitudinal registry data. Journal of Neurology Neurosurgery & Psychiatry. 81(Suppl 1). A25.1–A26. 3 indexed citations

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