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Researcher · Institut Jean Nicod · France

Dan Sperber

Dan Sperber publishes mostly in Experimental and Cognitive Psychology, Sociology and Political Science and Language and Linguistics, on topics such as Language, Metaphor, and Cognition, Language and cultural evolution and Child and Animal Learning Development.

ORCID 0000-0002-4066-3058 OpenAlex
World rank
#45,416
of 7,710,434 ranked researchers
Rank in France
#5,079
of 324,115
Works
272
Citations
36k
Citations per work
130.8
h-index
68
i10-index 143Top 1.1% in Experimental and Cognitive Psychology
Dan Sperber

What does Dan Sperber research?

Dan Sperber's work is mostly in Arts and Humanities (21%), Psychology (20%), Social Sciences (19%).

Social Sciences: 160 works · 59.0% of their workArts and Humanities: 57 works · 20.8% of their workLanguage and Linguistics: 30 works · 11.2% of their workPhilosophy: 26 works · 9.6% of their workPsychology: 53 works · 19.6% of their workExperimental and Cognitive Psychology: 35 works · 12.9% of their workDevelopmental and Educational Psychology: 18 works · 6.7% of their workSocial Sciences: 51 works · 18.6% of their workSociology and Political Science: 32 works · 11.6% of their workCultural Studies: 19 works · 7.0% of their workEverything else: 112 works · 41.0% of their workTHEIR WORKDan Sperber272works
Social Sciences59%

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. Arts and Humanities5720.8%
    2. Psychology5319.6%
    3. Social Sciences5118.6%
  2. Everything else11241.0%
  1. 1Experimental and Cognitive Psychology13% of their works
  2. 2Sociology and Political Science12% of their works
  3. 3Language and Linguistics11% of their works
  4. 4Philosophy10% of their works
  5. 5Cultural Studies7% of their works
  6. 6Developmental and Educational Psychology7% of their works

Research topics

Which keywords describe Dan Sperber's research?

The keywords of their largest research topics: Language, Cognition, Pragmatics, Cultural Evolution, Social Interaction, Metaphor, Time and Phylogenetics.

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 21 words, with their numbers
  1. Language1053 topics
  2. Cognition662 topics
  3. Pragmatics643 topics
  4. Cultural Evolution612 topics
  5. Social Interaction582 topics
  6. Metaphor521 topic
  7. Time521 topic
  8. Phylogenetics391 topic
  9. Social Learning391 topic
  10. Child Development331 topic
  11. Theory of Mind331 topic
  12. Argumentation251 topic
  13. Conversation Analysis251 topic
  14. Discourse Analysis251 topic
  15. Interactional Linguistics251 topic
  16. Altruism221 topic
  17. Cooperation221 topic
  18. Color Perception141 topic
  19. Semantics141 topic
  20. Spatial Reasoning141 topic
  21. Syntax141 topic

Where does Dan Sperber work?

Dan Sperber's main affiliation in the publication record is Institut Jean Nicod, France.

How many publications and citations does Dan Sperber have?

OpenAlex counts 272 works and 35,564 citations for Dan Sperber, an h-index of 68, ranking #45,416 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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