Faculty Productivity — BERSON, ILENE R

USF College of Education · Academic Analytics · snapshot Aug 2026
Program Directory
BERSON, ILENE R
Professor · Tenured · Regular
Teaching and Learning
SRI
1.72
Terminal degree
1997
Years since TD
29
Collaborators
51
Lifetime articles
33
Lifetime citations
572
Output by year
Metric2026*2025*20242023202220212020201920182017201620152014 Win. totalLifetime
Articles 1 4 5 3 5 2 1 4 · 2 1 · 1 29 33
Citations · 44 99 63 80 80 15 35 · 20 8 · 1 445 572
Conf. proc. · · 2 1 · · · · · · · · · 3 3
Books · · 1 · · · · 1 · · · 1 · 3 4
Chapters · · 1 1 1 1 · 3 · 2 1 · · 10 18
Awards · · · · · · · · · · · · · 0 0
Patents · · · · · · · · · · · · · 0 0
Trials · · · · · · · · · · · · · 0 0
Fed. grants · 1 · · · · · · · · · · · 1 1
Fed. grant $ · $268K · · · · · · · · · · · $268K $268K
* 2025–26 still filling in. "Lifetime" is AA's all‑time figure (includes pre‑2014).
Research keywords
child 3.6% perpetrator 2.6% maltreatment 2.6% online 2.6% fatal 2.6% class 2.1% problem 2.1% result 2.1% assault 2.1% youth 1.5% latent 1.5% perpetrators 1.5% face 1.0% finding 1.0% explore 1.0% girl 1.0% commit 1.0% health 1.0% domestic 1.0% history 1.0% create 1.0% implication 1.0% include 1.0% lca 1.0% male 1.0% mother 1.0% biological 1.0% multiple 1.0% people 1.0% zealand 1.0%
Suggested awards
AwardFitUnit wins
Member of the National Academy of Sciences (NAS Member)
National Academy of Sciences
0.65 0
NAEd Member
National Academy of Education
0.65 0
Presidential Award
Society for Prevention Research
0.65 0
Award for Distinguished Scientific Contributions prestige
American Psychological Association
0.65 0
American Academy of Arts and Sciences Member/Fellow
American Academy of Arts and Sciences
0.65 0
The Scientific Impact Award
Society of Experimental Social Psychology
0.65 0
Prevention Science Award
Society for Prevention Research
0.65 0
AERA Fellows
American Educational Research Association (AERA)
0.65 1
AAAS Fellow prestige
American Association for the Advancement of Science, The (AAAS)
0.65 1
Distance Learning Division/Crystal Award
Association for Educational Communications and Technology (AECT)
0.60 1
Center for Advanced Studies in the Behavioral Sciences/CASBS Residency Fellow
Stanford University
0.60 0
Fulbright Scholar prestige
United States Department of State, Bureau of Educational and Cultural Affairs
0.60 5
Most-cited papers
#TitleJournalYearCitations
1Aladdin’s Genie or Pandora’s Box for Early Childhood Education? Experts Chat on the Roles, Challenges, and Developments of ChatGPT Early Education and Development [10409289] 2024 72
2Are early childhood teachers ready for digital transformation of instruction in Mainland China? A systematic literature review Children and Youth Services Review [01907409] 2021 62
3Challenging Online Behaviors of Youth: Findings From a Comparative Analysis of Young People in the United States and New Zealand Social Science Computer Review 2005 46
4Innovating responsibly: ethical considerations for AI in early childhood education AI, Brain and Child [30593883] 2025 40
5Profiles of Child Maltreatment Perpetrators and Risk for Fatal Assault: A Latent Class Analysis Journal of Family Violence 2009 38
6An exploration of robot programming as a foundation for spatial reasoning and computational thinking in preschoolers’ guided play Early Childhood Research Quarterly [08852006] 2023 35
7Special Issue: Narrowing the Digital Divide in Early Childhood: Technological Advances and Curriculum Reforms Early Education and Development [10409289] 2022 28
8Young chinese children's remote peer interactions and social competence development during the COVID-19 pandemic Journal of Research on Technology in Education [15391523] 2022 25
9An Exploration of Early Childhood Teachers’ Technology, Pedagogy, and Content Knowledge (TPACK) in Mainland China Early Education and Development [10409289] 2023 21
10Building Resilience to Trauma: Creating a Safe and Supportive Early Childhood Classroom Childhood Education 2009 19
11Integration of Digital Technology into an Early Childhood Teacher Preparation Program in China Early Childhood Education Journal [10823301] 2021 18
12Intelligence Augmentation in Early Childhood Education: A Multimodal Creative Inquiry Approach Artificial Intelligence in Education. Posters and Late Breaking Results, Workshops and Tutorials, Industry and Innovation Tracks, Practitioners, Doctoral Consortium and Blue Sky: Communications in Computer and Information Science [Conference] 2023 15
13Revisiting reflective practice in an era of teacher education reform: A self-study of an early childhood teacher education program Journal of Early Childhood Teacher Education [10901027] 2020 15
14Public perception of early childhood language policy in Ghana: an exploratory study Early Years An International Journal of Research and Development [09575146] 2019 15
15Tangible Digital Play in Australian and U.S. Preschools Kappa Delta Pi Record [00228958] 2019 14
Awards on record
AwardYear
none on record
Grants
GrantAgencyStart$Role
Collaborative Research: SaTC: EDU: A Scalable Platform for Remote Hardware Security EducationNational Science Foundation 2025 $268K co-PI