| Exploring factors related to preschool teachers’ self-efficacy Y Guo, LM Justice, B Sawyer, V Tompkins Teaching and Teacher Education 27 (5), 961-968, 2011 | 453 | 2011 |
| Inference generation, story comprehension, and language skills in the preschool years V Tompkins, Y Guo, LM Justice Reading and Writing 26, 403-429, 2013 | 251 | 2013 |
| The relation between parents' mental state talk and children's social understanding: A meta‐analysis V Tompkins, JP Benigno, B Kiger Lee, BM Wright Social Development 27 (2), 223-246, 2018 | 164 | 2018 |
| Language and theory of mind in preschool children with specific language impairment MJ Farrar, B Johnson, V Tompkins, M Easters, A Zilisi-Medus, JP Benigno Journal of communication disorders 42 (6), 428-441, 2009 | 107 | 2009 |
| Inferential talk during teacher–child interactions in small-group play V Tompkins, TA Zucker, LM Justice, S Binici Early Childhood Research Quarterly 28 (2), 424-436, 2013 | 97 | 2013 |
| Are there different pathways to explicit false belief understanding? General language and complementation in typical and atypical children MJ Farrar, JP Benigno, V Tompkins, NA Gage Cognitive Development 43, 49-66, 2017 | 71 | 2017 |
| Maternal inferential input and children's language skills V Tompkins, A Bengochea, S Nicol, LM Justice Reading Research Quarterly 52 (4), 397-416, 2017 | 70 | 2017 |
| Classroom quality and student engagement: Contributions to third-grade reading skills Y Guo, CMD Connor, V Tompkins, FJ Morrison Frontiers in psychology 2, 157, 2011 | 65 | 2011 |
| Empirically based profiles of the early literacy skills of children with language impairment in early childhood special education L Justice, J Logan, J Kaderavek, MB Schmitt, V Tompkins, C Bartlett Journal of learning disabilities 48 (5), 482-494, 2015 | 62 | 2015 |
| Classroom age composition and vocabulary development among at-risk preschoolers Y Guo, V Tompkins, L Justice, Y Petscher Early Education and Development 25 (7), 1016-1034, 2014 | 60 | 2014 |
| Speaking your mind: Language and narrative in young children's theory of mind development V Tompkins, MJ Farrar, DE Montgomery Advances in child development and behavior 56, 109-140, 2019 | 56 | 2019 |
| Mothers’ cognitive state talk during shared book reading and children’s later false belief understanding V Tompkins Cognitive Development 36, 40-51, 2015 | 54 | 2015 |
| Improving low-income preschoolers’ theory of mind: A training study V Tompkins Cognitive Development 36, 1-19, 2015 | 45 | 2015 |
| Mothers’ autobiographical memory and book narratives with children with specific language impairment V Tompkins, MJ Farrar Journal of communication disorders 44 (1), 1-22, 2011 | 31 | 2011 |
| Child language and parent discipline mediate the relation between family income and false belief understanding V Tompkins, JAR Logan, DF Blosser, K Duffy Journal of experimental child psychology 158, 1-18, 2017 | 24 | 2017 |
| Personalization in mother–child emotion talk across three contexts N Kucirkova, V Tompkins Infant and Child Development 23 (2), 153-169, 2014 | 24 | 2014 |
| Parent discipline and pre-schoolers’ social skills V Tompkins, E Villaruel Early Child Development and Care 192 (3), 410-424, 2022 | 20 | 2022 |
| False belief understanding and narrative comprehension in the preschool years V Tompkins, MK Blosser, M Downing Cognitive Development 56, 100936, 2020 | 19 | 2020 |
| Siblings, language, and false belief in low-income children V Tompkins, MJ Farrar, Y Guo The Journal of genetic psychology 174 (4), 457-463, 2013 | 16 | 2013 |
| Mother‐child talk about mental states: The what, who, and how of conversations about the mind V Tompkins, DE Montgomery, MK Blosser Social Development 31 (2), 281-302, 2022 | 10 | 2022 |
