Virginia Tompkins

1.3k total citations
28 papers, 837 citations indexed

About

Virginia Tompkins is a scholar working on Developmental and Educational Psychology, Education and Clinical Psychology. According to data from OpenAlex, Virginia Tompkins has authored 28 papers receiving a total of 837 indexed citations (citations by other indexed papers that have themselves been cited), including 22 papers in Developmental and Educational Psychology, 12 papers in Education and 7 papers in Clinical Psychology. Recurrent topics in Virginia Tompkins's work include Child and Animal Learning Development (14 papers), Reading and Literacy Development (11 papers) and Language Development and Disorders (9 papers). Virginia Tompkins is often cited by papers focused on Child and Animal Learning Development (14 papers), Reading and Literacy Development (11 papers) and Language Development and Disorders (9 papers). Virginia Tompkins collaborates with scholars based in United States, United Kingdom and Cameroon. Virginia Tompkins's co-authors include Laura M. Justice, Ying Guo, Joann P. Benigno, Brook E. Sawyer, Ying Guo, M. Jeffrey Farrar, Bridget Kiger Lee, Derek E. Montgomery, Nicholas A. Gage and Tricia A. Zucker and has published in prestigious journals such as Developmental Psychology, Frontiers in Psychology and Teaching and Teacher Education.

In The Last Decade

Virginia Tompkins

25 papers receiving 787 citations

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Virginia Tompkins

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Janette Pelletier Canada

Deborah Pino‐Pasternak Australia

Carolyn M. Palmquist United States

Simon Gibbs United Kingdom

Susanne Ebert Germany

Adam B. Feinberg United States

Panayiota Metallidou Greece

Christine A. Marvin United States

Benjamin A. Mason United States

Mack D. Burke United States

Janette Pelletier Canada

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Pitt, Mark A., et al.. (2025). A Script and Tutorial for Using Rev AI 's Automatic Speech Transcription. Infant and Child Development. 34(2).

Tompkins, Virginia, Derek E. Montgomery, Rebecca A. Dore, & Bridget Kiger Lee. (2024). Theory of mind and text comprehension across the lifespan: A meta-analysis.. Developmental Psychology. 61(6). 1112–1125. 3 indexed citations

Tompkins, Virginia & Xin Feng. (2024). Grandparent support moderates the relation between socioeconomic status and children’s cognitive development.. Journal of Family Psychology. 39(1). 65–76.

Montgomery, Derek E., Virginia Tompkins, & Xin Feng. (2024). The theory of mind construct in adulthood: perspective taking in relation to language and executive function. Frontiers in Psychology. 15. 1435685–1435685. 2 indexed citations

Tompkins, Virginia. (2022). Relations between the home literacy environment and young children’s theory of mind. Cognitive Development. 62. 101179–101179. 3 indexed citations

Tompkins, Virginia, et al.. (2020). Parent discipline and pre-schoolers’ social skills. Early Child Development and Care. 192(3). 410–424. 12 indexed citations

Tompkins, Virginia, Katrina A. Meyer, & Laura M. Justice. (2020). Mothers’ Sophisticated Vocabulary Input and Children’s Story Comprehension. Early Education and Development. 32(3). 402–420. 3 indexed citations

Tompkins, Virginia, et al.. (2019). Who was Abraham Lincoln anyway? Mother–child reminiscing across levels of abstraction.. Developmental Psychology. 55(7). 1493–1508. 6 indexed citations

Tompkins, Virginia, M. Jeffrey Farrar, & Derek E. Montgomery. (2019). Speaking Your Mind: Language and Narrative in Young Children's Theory of Mind Development. Advances in child development and behavior. 56. 109–140. 29 indexed citations

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Tompkins, Virginia, et al.. (2017). Child language and parent discipline mediate the relation between family income and false belief understanding. Journal of Experimental Child Psychology. 158. 1–18. 12 indexed citations

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Tompkins, Virginia, et al.. (2017). Maternal Inferential Input and Children's Language Skills. Reading Research Quarterly. 52(4). 397–416. 44 indexed citations

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Tompkins, Virginia. (2015). Improving low-income preschoolers’ theory of mind: A training study. Cognitive Development. 36. 1–19. 26 indexed citations

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Guo, Ying, Virginia Tompkins, Laura M. Justice, & Yaacov Petscher. (2014). Classroom Age Composition and Vocabulary Development Among At-Risk Preschoolers. Early Education and Development. 25(7). 1016–1034. 33 indexed citations

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Tompkins, Virginia, M. Jeffrey Farrar, & Ying Guo. (2013). Siblings, Language, and False Belief in Low-Income Children. The Journal of Genetic Psychology. 174(4). 457–463. 9 indexed citations

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Justice, Laura M., Jessica A. R. Logan, Joan N. Kaderavek, et al.. (2013). Empirically Based Profiles of the Early Literacy Skills of Children With Language Impairment in Early Childhood Special Education. Journal of Learning Disabilities. 48(5). 482–494. 36 indexed citations

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Tompkins, Virginia, et al.. (2012). Inferential talk during teacher–child interactions in small-group play. Early Childhood Research Quarterly. 28(2). 424–436. 45 indexed citations

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Guo, Ying, Laura M. Justice, Brook E. Sawyer, & Virginia Tompkins. (2011). Exploring factors related to preschool teachers’ self-efficacy. Teaching and Teacher Education. 27(5). 961–968. 163 indexed citations

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Guo, Ying, et al.. (2011). Classroom Quality and Student Engagement: Contributions to Third-Grade Reading Skills. Frontiers in Psychology. 2(1). 59–157. 25 indexed citations

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Tompkins, Virginia & M. Jeffrey Farrar. (2010). Mothers’ autobiographical memory and book narratives with children with specific language impairment. Journal of Communication Disorders. 44(1). 1–22. 13 indexed citations

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Farrar, M. Jeffrey, et al.. (2009). Language and theory of mind in preschool children with specific language impairment. Journal of Communication Disorders. 42(6). 428–441. 56 indexed citations

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