Sylvia Scribner

7.0k total citations · 4 hit papers
36 papers, 4.7k citations indexed

About

Sylvia Scribner is a scholar working on Developmental and Educational Psychology, Education and Social Psychology. According to data from OpenAlex, Sylvia Scribner has authored 36 papers receiving a total of 4.7k indexed citations (citations by other indexed papers that have themselves been cited), including 11 papers in Developmental and Educational Psychology, 6 papers in Education and 5 papers in Social Psychology. Recurrent topics in Sylvia Scribner's work include Reading and Literacy Development (5 papers), Child and Animal Learning Development (5 papers) and Media, Communication, and Education (4 papers). Sylvia Scribner is often cited by papers focused on Reading and Literacy Development (5 papers), Child and Animal Learning Development (5 papers) and Media, Communication, and Education (4 papers). Sylvia Scribner collaborates with scholars based in United States and Switzerland. Sylvia Scribner's co-authors include Michael Cole, Michael Cole, Vera John‐Steiner, Michael D. Cole, Jan B. Deręgowski, Jean M. Mandler, Roy Pea, Joseph Glick, Laura Miraut Martín and King Beach and has published in prestigious journals such as Science, American Journal of Psychiatry and Child Development.

In The Last Decade

Sylvia Scribner

33 papers receiving 3.5k citations

Hit Papers

The Psychology of Literacy 1973 2026 1990 2008 1981 1978 1976 1973 500 1000 1.5k
What are hit papers?

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. The Psychology of Literacy
    1981 1.8k citations Sylvia Scribner, Michael Cole profile →
  2. Mind in society: The development of higher psychological processes. L. S. Vygotsky.
    1978 904 citations Michael Cole, Vera John‐Steiner et al. profile →
  3. Culture and Thought: A Psychological Introduction
    1976 379 citations Jan B. Deręgowski, Michael D. Cole et al. Leonardo profile →
  4. Cognitive Consequences of Formal and Informal Education
    1973 373 citations Sylvia Scribner, Michael Cole Science profile →

Peers — A (Enhanced Table)

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

Name h Career Trend Papers Cites
Sylvia Scribner United States 18 2.0k 1.6k 661 637 543 36 4.7k
Michael Cole United States 31 2.2k 1.1× 1.9k 1.2× 788 1.2× 377 0.6× 724 1.3× 136 5.3k
Nancy L. Mergler United States 10 1.6k 0.8× 1.1k 0.7× 1.0k 1.5× 653 1.0× 492 0.9× 16 4.6k
Michael Cole United Kingdom 18 1.7k 0.8× 978 0.6× 677 1.0× 494 0.8× 318 0.6× 96 4.0k
Ronald Schleifer United States 11 1.6k 0.8× 1.1k 0.7× 1.1k 1.7× 828 1.3× 448 0.8× 65 4.8k
Alex Kozulin United States 21 2.1k 1.0× 2.0k 1.3× 446 0.7× 519 0.8× 288 0.5× 68 4.4k
Élizabeth G. Cohen United States 24 3.0k 1.5× 2.1k 1.3× 949 1.4× 224 0.4× 346 0.6× 69 5.1k
Frederick Erickson United States 31 2.6k 1.3× 899 0.6× 1.1k 1.7× 667 1.0× 298 0.5× 69 4.7k
Karen Littleton United Kingdom 30 2.6k 1.3× 1.7k 1.1× 629 1.0× 401 0.6× 345 0.6× 122 4.2k
Jay L. Lemke United States 29 3.9k 1.9× 2.5k 1.6× 1.2k 1.8× 1.9k 3.0× 613 1.1× 67 7.3k
Edward Wasiolek United States 9 1.7k 0.9× 549 0.3× 1.4k 2.1× 1.9k 3.0× 532 1.0× 46 5.8k

Countries citing papers authored by Sylvia Scribner

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Fields of papers citing papers by Sylvia Scribner

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Physical SciencesHealth SciencesLife SciencesSocial Sciences

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Co-authorship network of co-authors of Sylvia Scribner

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All Works

20 of 20 papers shown
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Scribner, Sylvia & Patricia Sachs. (1990). A Study of On-the-Job Training. Technical Paper No. 13.. 1 indexed citations
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Scribner, Sylvia. (1988). Head and Hand: An Action Approach to Thinking. Occasional Paper No. 3.. 7 indexed citations
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Scribner, Sylvia. (1984). Studying working intelligence.. 318 indexed citations
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Pea, Roy, et al.. (1984). "Merds that laugh don't like mushrooms": Evidence for deductive reasoning by preschoolers.. Developmental Psychology. 20(4). 584–594. 105 indexed citations
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Mandler, Jean M., et al.. (1980). Cross-Cultural Invariance in Story Recall. Child Development. 51(1). 19–19. 71 indexed citations
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Mandler, Jean M., et al.. (1980). Cross-cultural Invariance in Story Recall. Child Development. 51(1). 19–26. 92 indexed citations
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Orasanu, Judith, Catherine Lee, & Sylvia Scribner. (1979). The Development of Category Organization and Free Recall: Ethnic and Economic Group Comparisons. Child Development. 50(4). 1100–1100. 5 indexed citations
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Orasanu, Judith, Catherine Lee, & Sylvia Scribner. (1979). The Development of Category Organization and Free Recall: Ethnic and Economic Group Comparisons. Child Development. 50(4). 1100–1109. 6 indexed citations
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Scribner, Sylvia & Michael Cole. (1978). Literacy without Schooling: Testing for Intellectual Effects. Harvard Educational Review. 48(4). 448–461. 1 indexed citations
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Cole, Michael, et al.. (1977). Культура и мышление : психологический очерк.
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Pratt, Michael W., Sylvia Scribner, & Michael Cole. (1977). Children as Teachers: Developmental Studies of Instructional Communication. Child Development. 48(4). 1475–1475. 10 indexed citations
13.
Goody, Jack, Michael Cole, & Sylvia Scribner. (1977). Writing and Formal Operations: A Case Study among the Vai. Africa. 47(3). 289–304. 17 indexed citations
14.
Pratt, Michael W., Sylvia Scribner, & Michael Cole. (1977). Children as Teachers: Developmental Studies of Instructional Communication. Child Development. 48(4). 1475–1481. 14 indexed citations
15.
Deręgowski, Jan B., Michael D. Cole, & Sylvia Scribner. (1976). Culture and Thought: A Psychological Introduction. Leonardo. 9(3). 247–247. 379 indexed citations breakdown →
16.
Cole, Michael & Sylvia Scribner. (1975). Theorizing about Socialization of Cognition. Ethos. 3(2). 249–268. 19 indexed citations
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Scribner, Sylvia. (1975). Book Review: Culture and Cognition: Readings in Cross-Cultural Psychology. Journal of Cross-Cultural Psychology. 6(1). 122–126.
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Scribner, Sylvia & Michael Cole. (1973). Cognitive Consequences of Formal and Informal Education. Science. 182(4112). 553–559. 373 indexed citations breakdown →
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Scribner, Sylvia & Michael D. Cole. (1972). Effects of Constrained Recall Training on Children's Performance in a Verbal Memory Task. Child Development. 43(3). 845–845. 28 indexed citations
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Scribner, Sylvia & Michael Cole. (1972). EFFECTS OF CONSTRAINED RECALL TRAINING ON CHILDREN'S PERFORMANCE IN A VERBAL MEMORY TASK. Child Development. 43(3). 845–857. 31 indexed citations

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