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Researcher · University of Parma · Italy

Giacomo Rizzolatti

Giacomo Rizzolatti publishes mostly in Cognitive Neuroscience, Social Psychology and Developmental and Educational Psychology, on topics such as Visual perception and processing mechanisms, Action Observation and Synchronization and Motor Control and Adaptation.

World rank
#53,555
of 1,633,909 ranked researchers
Rank in Italy
#1,412
of 65,712
Works
28
Citations
714
Citations per work
25.5

What does Giacomo Rizzolatti research?

Cognitive Neuroscience: 46.4%Social Psychology: 14.3%Developmental and Educational Psychology: 7.1%Reproductive Medicine: 7.1%other fields: 25.1%46%top field
Cognitive Neuroscience46.4%Social Psychology14.3%Developmental and Educational Psychology7.1%Reproductive Medicine7.1%other fields25.1%

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

  1. 1Cognitive Neuroscience46% of their works
  2. 2Social Psychology14% of their works
  3. 3Developmental and Educational Psychology7% of their works
  4. 4Reproductive Medicine7% of their works
  5. 5Experimental and Cognitive Psychology4% of their works
  6. 6Aerospace Engineering4% of their works

Research topics

Which keywords describe Giacomo Rizzolatti's research?

The keywords of their largest research topics: Neural Processing, Social Cognition, Visual Perception, Neural Mechanisms, Embodiment, Mirror Neuron System, Child Development and Motor Control.

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 18 words, with their numbers
  1. Neural Processing51 topic
  2. Social Cognition52 topics
  3. Visual Perception51 topic
  4. Neural Mechanisms42 topics
  5. Embodiment31 topic
  6. Mirror Neuron System31 topic
  7. Child Development21 topic
  8. Motor Control21 topic
  9. Sensorimotor Learning21 topic
  10. Theory of Mind21 topic
  11. Cognitive Control11 topic
  12. Congenital Adrenal Hyperplasia11 topic
  13. Cortical Networks11 topic
  14. Decision Making11 topic
  15. Drosophila11 topic
  16. Neuronal Oscillations11 topic
  17. Neuroscience11 topic
  18. Steroid 21-Hydroxylase Deficiency11 topic

Where does Giacomo Rizzolatti work?

Giacomo Rizzolatti's main affiliation in the publication record is University of Parma, Italy.

How many publications and citations does Giacomo Rizzolatti have?

Science Explorer counts 28 works and 714 citations for Giacomo Rizzolatti, ranking #53,555 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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