| Play, cognitive development, and the social world: Piaget, Vygotsky, and beyond A Nicolopoulou Human development 36 (1), 1-23, 1993 | 454 | 1993 |
| The alarming disappearance of play from early childhood education A Nicolopoulou Human development 53 (1), 1-4, 2010 | 324 | 2010 |
| Using a narrative-and play-based activity to promote low-income preschoolers’ oral language, emergent literacy, and social competence A Nicolopoulou, KS Cortina, H Ilgaz, CB Cates, AB de Sá Early childhood research quarterly 31, 147-162, 2015 | 247 | 2015 |
| Oyun, bilişsel gelişim ve toplumsal dünya: Piaget, Vygotsky ve sonrası A Nicolopoulou Ankara University Journal of Faculty of Educational Sciences (JFES) 37 (2 …, 2004 | 244 | 2004 |
| Generation and transmission of shared knowledge in the culture of collaborative learning: The Fifth Dimension, its play-world, and its institutional contexts A Nicolopoulou, M Cole Contexts for learning: Sociocultural dynamics in children's development, 283-313, 1993 | 240 | 1993 |
| Children and narratives: Toward an interpretive and sociocultural approach A Nicolopoulou Narrative development, 179-215, 2012 | 198 | 2012 |
| The language of play: Developing preschool vocabulary through play following shared book-reading TS Toub, B Hassinger-Das, KT Nesbitt, H Ilgaz, DS Weisberg, ... Early Childhood Research Quarterly 45, 1-17, 2018 | 177 | 2018 |
| Using the transformative power of play to educate hearts and minds: From Vygotsky to Vivian Paley and beyond A Nicolopoulou, A Barbosa de Sa, H Ilgaz, C Brockmeyer Mind, culture, and activity 17 (1), 42-58, 2009 | 172 | 2009 |
| Narrative play and emergent literacy: Storytelling and story-acting meet journal writing A Nicolopoulou, J McDowell, C Brockmeyer Play= Learning: How play motivates and enhances children's cognitive and …, 2006 | 171 | 2006 |
| From actors to agents to persons: The development of character representation in young children's narratives A Nicolopoulou, ES Richner Child development 78 (2), 412-429, 2007 | 145 | 2007 |
| Gender differences and symbolic imagination in the stories of four-year-olds A Nicolopoulou, B Scales, J Weintraub The need for story: Cultural diversity in classroom and community, 102-123, 1994 | 131 | 1994 |
| Worldmaking and identity formation in children's narrative play-acting A Nicolopoulou Sociogenetic perspectives on internalization, 165-196, 2013 | 128 | 2013 |
| Peer-group culture and narrative development A Nicolopoulou Talking to adults, 121-156, 2002 | 126 | 2002 |
| The elementary forms of narrative coherence in young children’s storytelling A Nicolopoulou Narrative Inquiry 18 (2), 299-325, 2008 | 113 | 2008 |
| Teaching for breadth and depth of vocabulary knowledge: Learning from explicit and implicit instruction and the storybook texts DK Dickinson, KT Nesbitt, MF Collins, EB Hadley, K Newman, BL Rivera, ... Early Childhood Research Quarterly 47, 341-356, 2019 | 106 | 2019 |
| Narrative Development in Social Context1 A Nicolopoulou Social interaction, social context, and language, 369-390, 2014 | 102 | 2014 |
| Shovels and swords: How realistic and fantastical themes affect children's word learning DS Weisberg, H Ilgaz, K Hirsh-Pasek, R Golinkoff, A Nicolopoulou, ... Cognitive Development 35, 1-14, 2015 | 97 | 2015 |
| The narrative construction of differing conceptions of the person in the development of young children's social understanding ES Richner, A Nicolopoulou Early Education and Development 12 (3), 393-432, 2001 | 92 | 2001 |
| Play and narrative in the process of development: Commonalities, differences, and interrelations. A Nicolopoulou Elsevier Science, 2005 | 80 | 2005 |
| The interplay of play and narrative in children’s development: Theoretical reflections and concrete examples A Nicolopoulou Play and development, 249-275, 2007 | 78 | 2007 |
