Susan Goldin‐Meadow

33.4k total citations · 4 hit papers
299 papers, 19.9k citations indexed

About

Susan Goldin‐Meadow is a scholar working on Developmental and Educational Psychology, Experimental and Cognitive Psychology and Human-Computer Interaction. According to data from OpenAlex, Susan Goldin‐Meadow has authored 299 papers receiving a total of 19.9k indexed citations (citations by other indexed papers that have themselves been cited), including 261 papers in Developmental and Educational Psychology, 100 papers in Experimental and Cognitive Psychology and 96 papers in Human-Computer Interaction. Recurrent topics in Susan Goldin‐Meadow's work include Hearing Impairment and Communication (223 papers), Hand Gesture Recognition Systems (95 papers) and Language, Metaphor, and Cognition (89 papers). Susan Goldin‐Meadow is often cited by papers focused on Hearing Impairment and Communication (223 papers), Hand Gesture Recognition Systems (95 papers) and Language, Metaphor, and Cognition (89 papers). Susan Goldin‐Meadow collaborates with scholars based in United States, United Kingdom and Netherlands. Susan Goldin‐Meadow's co-authors include Martha W. Alibali, Meredith L. Rowe, Susan Wagner Cook, Jana M. Iverson, R. Breckinridge Church, Carolyn Mylander, Şeyda Özçalışkan, Susan C. Levine, Dedre Gentner and Zachary A. Mitchell and has published in prestigious journals such as Nature, Science and Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences.

In The Last Decade

Susan Goldin‐Meadow

288 papers receiving 18.3k 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.

Gesture Paves the Way for Language Development

2005 686 citations Susan Goldin‐Meadow et al. profile →
Explaining Math: Gesturing Lightens the Load

2001 555 citations Susan Goldin‐Meadow et al. profile →
Differences in Early Gesture Explain SES Disparities in Child Vocabulary Size at School Entry

2009 341 citations Susan Goldin‐Meadow et al. profile →
Gesture's Role in Speaking, Learning, and Creating Language

2012 280 citations Susan Goldin‐Meadow et al. profile →

Peers — A (Enhanced Table)

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

Name	h						Papers	Cites
Susan Goldin‐Meadow United States	78	15.1k	6.6k	4.3k	4.1k	3.9k	299	19.9k
Keith Rayner United States	103	25.6k 1.7×	11.5k 1.7×	2.4k 0.6×	2.1k 0.5×	8.8k 2.3×	373	43.7k
Marc Brysbaert Belgium	75	11.9k 0.8×	6.8k 1.0×	2.0k 0.5×	2.5k 0.6×	586 0.2×	267	23.5k
Linda B. Smith United States	75	13.4k 0.9×	4.8k 0.7×	832 0.2×	3.4k 0.8×	417 0.1×	328	21.0k
Martha W. Alibali United States	48	6.0k 0.4×	3.2k 0.5×	1.1k 0.2×	1.6k 0.4×	1.5k 0.4×	170	9.7k
Andrew N. Meltzoff United States	90	15.5k 1.0×	5.9k 0.9×	927 0.2×	11.6k 2.8×	453 0.1×	292	31.7k
Elizabeth Bates United States	74	14.0k 0.9×	3.3k 0.5×	3.2k 0.7×	2.1k 0.5×	343 0.1×	236	21.0k
Richard Ν. Aslin United States	74	12.9k 0.9×	7.8k 1.2×	1.0k 0.2×	1.5k 0.4×	286 0.1×	242	22.4k
Rolf A. Zwaan Netherlands	56	5.2k 0.3×	6.7k 1.0×	1.2k 0.3×	4.4k 1.1×	295 0.1×	169	12.9k
Arthur M. Glenberg United States	50	5.1k 0.3×	5.5k 0.8×	631 0.1×	4.6k 1.1×	410 0.1×	130	12.1k
Willem J. M. Levelt Netherlands	52	10.8k 0.7×	6.5k 1.0×	3.7k 0.9×	1.5k 0.4×	397 0.1×	173	19.4k

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Özçalışkan, Şeyda & Susan Goldin‐Meadow. (2025). Does gesture follow speech in describing metaphorical motion events over developmental time?. Brain and Language. 270. 105620–105620.

Qian, Yihan, Susan Goldin‐Meadow, & Lin Bian. (2025). Gesture counteracts gender stereotypes conveyed through subtle linguistic cues. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences. 122(4). e2415671122–e2415671122. 2 indexed citations

Goldin‐Meadow, Susan, et al.. (2024). Gesturing during disfluent speech: A pragmatic account. Cognition. 250. 105855–105855.

Wakefield, Elizabeth M., et al.. (2024). Learners’ Spontaneous Gesture Before a Math Lesson Predicts the Efficacy of Seeing Versus Doing Gesture During the Lesson. Cognitive Science. 48(7). e13479–e13479. 4 indexed citations

Özçalışkan, Şeyda, et al.. (2024). Is vision necessary for the timely acquisition of language‐specific patterns in co‐speech gesture and their lack in silent gesture?. Developmental Science. 27(5). e13507–e13507. 1 indexed citations

Doherty, Rebecca, et al.. (2023). It's not just what we don't know: The mapping problem in the acquisition of negation. Cognitive Psychology. 145. 101592–101592. 5 indexed citations

Paul, Rhea, Louise Paatsch, Naomi Caselli, et al.. (2020). Current Research in Pragmatic Language Use Among Deaf and Hard of Hearing Children. PEDIATRICS. 146(Supplement 3). S237–S245. 20 indexed citations

Goldin‐Meadow, Susan. (2020). Discovering the Biases Children Bring to Language Learning. Child Development Perspectives. 14(4). 195–201. 12 indexed citations

Novack, Miriam A., Elizabeth M. Wakefield, Eliza Congdon, Steven Franconeri, & Susan Goldin‐Meadow. (2016). There is more to gesture than meets the eye: Visual attention to gesture's referents cannot account for its facilitative effects during math instruction.. Cognitive Science. 2141–2146. 3 indexed citations

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Goldin‐Meadow, Susan & Charles Yang. (2016). Statistical evidence that a child can create a combinatorial linguistic system without external linguistic input: Implications for language evolution. Neuroscience & Biobehavioral Reviews. 81(Pt B). 150–157. 12 indexed citations

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Goldin‐Meadow, Susan. (2016). Why Preregistration Makes Me Nervous. APS observer. 29(7). 20 indexed citations

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Bavin, Edith L., Edith L. Bavin, Letitia Naigles, et al.. (2015). The Cambridge Handbook of Child Language. Cambridge University Press eBooks. 35 indexed citations

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Cooperrider, Kensy, Elizabeth M. Wakefield, & Susan Goldin‐Meadow. (2015). More than Meets the Eye: Gesture Changes Thought, even without Visual Feedback.. Cognitive Science. 5 indexed citations

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Goldin‐Meadow, Susan & Diane Brentari. (2015). Gesture, sign, and language: The coming of age of sign language and gesture studies. Behavioral and Brain Sciences. 40. e46–e46. 181 indexed citations

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Goldin‐Meadow, Susan. (2014). The Impact of Time on Predicate Forms in the Manual Modality: Signers, Homesigners, and Silent Gesturers. Topics in Cognitive Science. 7(1). 169–184. 17 indexed citations

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Goldin‐Meadow, Susan, et al.. (2012). Hierarchical Structure in a Self-Created Communication System: Building Nominal Constituents in Homesign. Language. 88(4). 732–763. 41 indexed citations

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Ping, Raedy M., et al.. (2011). The Relationship Between Gesture and Speech Predicts Who Will Learn to Solve a Chemistry Problem. Cognitive Science. 33(33). 1 indexed citations

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Gentner, Dedre & Susan Goldin‐Meadow. (2003). Language in Mind: Advances in the Study of Language and Thought. MIT Press eBooks. 499 indexed citations

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Goldin‐Meadow, Susan, et al.. (1999). The role of gesture in communication and thinking. Trends in Cognitive Sciences. 3(11). 419–429. 434 indexed citations

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Goldin‐Meadow, Susan, et al.. (1985). Gesture in Early Child Language: Studies of Deaf and Hearing Children.. Merrill-palmer Quarterly. 31(2). 145–176. 52 indexed citations

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