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Researcher · Institut Jean Nicod · France

Dan Sperber

Dan Sperber publishes mostly in Language and Linguistics, Experimental and Cognitive Psychology and Philosophy, on topics such as Language, Metaphor, and Cognition, Language, Discourse, Communication Strategies and Linguistics and Discourse Analysis.

World rank
#6,931
of 1,633,909 ranked researchers
Rank in France
#428
of 96,116
Works
57
Citations
1.1k
Citations per work
18.6

What does Dan Sperber research?

Language and Linguistics: 23.3%Experimental and Cognitive Psychology: 13.3%Philosophy: 11.7%Sociology and Political Science: 11.7%other fields: 40.0%23%top field
Language and Linguistics23.3%Experimental and Cognitive Psychology13.3%Philosophy11.7%Sociology and Political Science11.7%other fields40.0%

Shares of their own output, by the field each of their topics belongs to. The grey slice is everything not listed.

  1. 1Language and Linguistics23% of their works
  2. 2Experimental and Cognitive Psychology13% of their works
  3. 3Philosophy12% of their works
  4. 4Sociology and Political Science12% of their works
  5. 5Artificial Intelligence5% of their works
  6. 6Social Psychology5% of their works

Research topics

Which keywords describe Dan Sperber's research?

The keywords of their largest research topics: Pragmatics, Cognitive Science, Social Interaction, Metaphor, Time, Conversation Analysis, Interactional Linguistics and Language Teaching.

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.

All 22 words, with their numbers
  1. Pragmatics92 topics
  2. Cognitive Science82 topics
  3. Social Interaction72 topics
  4. Metaphor61 topic
  5. Time61 topic
  6. Conversation Analysis51 topic
  7. Interactional Linguistics51 topic
  8. Language Teaching52 topics
  9. Argumentation41 topic
  10. Discourse Analysis41 topic
  11. Perception42 topics
  12. Truth42 topics
  13. Corrective Feedback31 topic
  14. Second Language Acquisition31 topic
  15. Belief21 topic
  16. Child Development21 topic
  17. Consciousness21 topic
  18. Knowledge21 topic
  19. Linguistic Historiography21 topic
  20. Phenomenal Experience21 topic
  21. Saussure21 topic
  22. Theory of Mind21 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?

Science Explorer counts 57 works and 1,059 citations for Dan Sperber, ranking #6,931 of 1,633,909 researchers worldwide on the composite score.

Ranked on field-normalised 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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