| Parents explain more often to boys than to girls during shared scientific thinking K Crowley, MA Callanan, HR Tenenbaum, E Allen Psychological science 12 (3), 258-261, 2001 | 669 | 2001 |
| Shared Scientific Thinking in Everyday Parent--Child Activity K Crowley, MA Callanan, JL Jipson, J Galco, K Topping, J Shrager Science Education, 2001 | 600 | 2001 |
| Preschoolers' questions and parents' explanations: Causal thinking in everyday activity MA Callanan, LM Oakes Cognitive development 7 (2), 213-233, 1992 | 562 | 1992 |
| Learning words through overhearing N Akhtar, J Jipson, MA Callanan Child development 72 (2), 416-430, 2001 | 516 | 2001 |
| The organization of informal learning B Rogoff, M Callanan, KD Gutiérrez, F Erickson Review of Research in education 40 (1), 356-401, 2016 | 401 | 2016 |
| Labels and explanations in mother–child emotion talk: Age and gender differentiation. CA Cervantes, MA Callanan Developmental psychology 34 (1), 88, 1998 | 363 | 1998 |
| Everyday conversations and young children’s developing scientific literacy MA Callanan, JL Jipson Designing for science: Implications from everyday, classroom, and …, 2001 | 275* | 2001 |
| How parents label objects for young children: The role of input in the acquisition of category hierarchies MA Callanan Child development, 508-523, 1985 | 266 | 1985 |
| The importance of understanding children’s lived experience B Rogoff, A Dahl, M Callanan Developmental Review 50, 5-15, 2018 | 222 | 2018 |
| Describing and supporting collaborative scientific thinking in parent-child interactions K Crowley, M Callanan Journal of Museum Education 23 (1), 12-17, 1998 | 205 | 1998 |
| An analysis of hierarchical classification EM Markman, MA Callanan Advances in the psychology of human intelligence 2, 325-365, 1984 | 204 | 1984 |
| Informal learning M Callanan, C Cervantes, M Loomis Wiley Interdisciplinary Reviews: Cognitive Science 2 (6), 646-655, 2011 | 186 | 2011 |
| Metarepresentation in action: 3-, 4-, and 5-year-olds' developing theories of mind in parent–child conversations. MA Sabbagh, MA Callanan Developmental Psychology 34 (3), 491, 1998 | 178 | 1998 |
| Explain this, explore that: A study of parent–child interaction in a children's museum AK Willard, JTA Busch, KA Cullum, SM Letourneau, DM Sobel, ... Child Development 90 (5), e598-e617, 2019 | 156 | 2019 |
| Exploration, explanation, and parent–child interaction in museums MA Callanan, CH Legare, DM Sobel, GJ Jaeger, S Letourneau, ... Monographs of the Society for Research in Child Development 85 (1), 7-137, 2020 | 130 | 2020 |
| Why things happen: teleological explanation in parent-child conversations. D Kelemen, MA Callanan, K Casler, DR Pérez-Granados Developmental Psychology 41 (1), 251, 2005 | 130 | 2005 |
| Family science talk in museums: Predicting children's engagement from variations in talk and activity MA Callanan, CL Castañeda, MR Luce, JL Martin Child development 88 (5), 1492-1504, 2017 | 121 | 2017 |
| Generic language in scientific communication JM DeJesus, MA Callanan, G Solis, SA Gelman Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences 116 (37), 18370-18377, 2019 | 115 | 2019 |
| Conducting cognitive developmental research in museums: Theoretical issues and practical considerations MA Callanan Journal of Cognition and Development 13 (2), 137-151, 2012 | 114 | 2012 |
| Principles of organization in young children's natural language hierarchies MA Callanan, EM Markman Child Development, 1093-1101, 1982 | 111 | 1982 |
