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Researcher · University of Trento · Italy

Alessandra Geraci

Alessandra Geraci publishes mostly in Developmental and Educational Psychology, Social Psychology and Cognitive Neuroscience, on topics such as Child and Animal Learning Development, Neuroendocrine regulation and behavior and Psychology of Moral and Emotional Judgment.

ORCID 0000-0003-1375-9190 OpenAlex
World rank
#250,053
of 7,710,434 ranked researchers
Rank in Italy
#5,998
of 242,206
Works
68
Citations
1.7k
Citations per work
25.6
h-index
19
i10-index 29Top 21% in Developmental and Educational Psychology
Alessandra Geraci

What does Alessandra Geraci research?

Alessandra Geraci's work is mostly in Psychology (57%), Neuroscience (11%), Social Sciences (5%).

Social Sciences: 42 works · 61.4% of their workPsychology: 38 works · 56.6% of their workDevelopmental and Educational Psychology: 20 works · 29.1% of their workSocial Psychology: 15 works · 21.7% of their workExperimental and Cognitive Psychology: 4 works · 5.8% of their workSocial Sciences: 3 works · 4.8% of their workSociology and Political Science: 3 works · 4.8% of their workEverything else: 16 works · 23.8% of their workLife Sciences: 8 works · 11.1% of their workNeuroscience: 8 works · 11.1% of their workCognitive Neuroscience: 8 works · 11.1% of their workHealth Sciences: 3 works · 3.7% of their workMedicine: 3 works · 3.7% of their workPsychiatry and Mental health: 3 works · 3.7% of their workTHEIR WORKAlessandra Geraci68works
Life Sciences11%Health Sciences4%Social Sciences61%

Their six largest subfields, inside their fields and domains; the grey slice is everything else they publish. The interactive view splits every one of their works down to single topics.

The fields and subfields, with their numbers
    1. Psychology3856.6%
    2. Social Sciences34.8%
  2. Everything else1623.8%
    1. Neuroscience811.1%
    1. Medicine33.7%
  1. 1Developmental and Educational Psychology29% of their works
  2. 2Social Psychology22% of their works
  3. 3Cognitive Neuroscience11% of their works
  4. 4Experimental and Cognitive Psychology6% of their works
  5. 5Sociology and Political Science5% of their works
  6. 6Psychiatry and Mental health4% of their works

Research topics

Which keywords describe Alessandra Geraci's research?

The keywords of their largest research topics: Social Cognition, Language Development, Social Interaction, Child Development, Theory of Mind, Oxytocin, Social Behavior and Disgust.

Size is their works in the topics tagged with each word, from their 8 largest topics. Each links to the topic it comes from most. The words come from the keyword list OpenAlex gives each topic, not from the text of the papers, so a word can appear that none of the papers uses.

All 19 words, with their numbers
  1. Social Cognition573 topics
  2. Language Development492 topics
  3. Social Interaction492 topics
  4. Child Development441 topic
  5. Theory of Mind441 topic
  6. Oxytocin171 topic
  7. Social Behavior171 topic
  8. Disgust141 topic
  9. Moral Judgment141 topic
  10. Embodiment81 topic
  11. Mirror Neuron System81 topic
  12. Altruism51 topic
  13. Bilingualism51 topic
  14. Cooperation51 topic
  15. Evolutionary Psychology51 topic
  16. Human Behavior51 topic
  17. Mathematical Achievement51 topic
  18. Numerical Cognition51 topic
  19. Speech and Language Disorder51 topic

Where does Alessandra Geraci work?

Alessandra Geraci's main affiliation in the publication record is University of Trento, Italy.

How many publications and citations does Alessandra Geraci have?

OpenAlex counts 68 works and 1,741 citations for Alessandra Geraci, an h-index of 19, ranking #250,053 of 7,710,434 researchers worldwide on the quality score.

Ranked on field-normalised citation excellence (50%), output (30%) and citations (20%). Counts come from OpenAlex author records, which occasionally merge different people who share a name or split one person into several.

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