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Researcher · University of Trento · Italy

Giorgio Vallortígara

Giorgio Vallortígara publishes mostly in Cognitive Neuroscience, Social Psychology and Developmental and Educational Psychology, on topics such as Hemispheric Asymmetry in Neuroscience, Primate Behavior and Ecology and Animal Vocal Communication and Behavior.

ORCID 0000-0001-8192-9062 OpenAlex
World rank
#47,432
of 7,710,434 ranked researchers
Rank in Italy
#837
of 242,206
Works
621
Citations
28k
Citations per work
45.6
h-index
94
i10-index 357Top 0.4% in Cognitive Neuroscience
Giorgio Vallortígara

What does Giorgio Vallortígara research?

Giorgio Vallortígara's work is mostly in Neuroscience (23%), Psychology (19%), Agricultural and Biological Sciences (7%).

Everything else: 245 works · 39.5% of their workLife Sciences: 225 works · 36.2% of their workNeuroscience: 143 works · 23.0% of their workCognitive Neuroscience: 143 works · 23.0% of their workAgricultural and Biological Sciences: 43 works · 6.9% of their workEcology, Evolution, Behavior and Systematics: 43 works · 6.9% of their workBiochemistry, Genetics and Molecular Biology: 39 works · 6.3% of their workDevelopmental Biology: 39 works · 6.3% of their workSocial Sciences: 116 works · 18.6% of their workPsychology: 116 works · 18.6% of their workSocial Psychology: 69 works · 11.1% of their workDevelopmental and Educational Psychology: 47 works · 7.5% of their workPhysical Sciences: 35 works · 5.7% of their workMathematics: 35 works · 5.7% of their workStatistics and Probability: 35 works · 5.7% of their workTHEIR WORKGiorgioVallortígara621works
Life Sciences36%Physical Sciences6%Social Sciences19%

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. Everything else24539.5%
    1. Neuroscience14323.0%
    2. Agricultural and Biological Sciences436.9%
    3. Biochemistry, Genetics and Molecular Biology396.3%
    1. Psychology11618.6%
    1. Mathematics355.7%
  1. 1Cognitive Neuroscience23% of their works
  2. 2Social Psychology11% of their works
  3. 3Developmental and Educational Psychology8% of their works
  4. 4Ecology, Evolution, Behavior and Systematics7% of their works
  5. 5Developmental Biology6% of their works
  6. 6Statistics and Probability6% of their works

Research topics

Which keywords describe Giorgio Vallortígara's research?

The keywords of their largest research topics: Brain Lateralization, Handedness, Evolutionary Biology, Primates, Social Behavior, Avian Vocal Communication, Birdsong and Child Development.

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 17 words, with their numbers
  1. Brain Lateralization2191 topic
  2. Handedness2191 topic
  3. Evolutionary Biology1762 topics
  4. Primates1321 topic
  5. Social Behavior1321 topic
  6. Avian Vocal Communication981 topic
  7. Birdsong981 topic
  8. Child Development951 topic
  9. Theory of Mind951 topic
  10. Mathematical Achievement871 topic
  11. Numerical Cognition871 topic
  12. Geometric Morphometrics781 topic
  13. Morphological Integration781 topic
  14. Natural Selection751 topic
  15. Phenotypic Plasticity751 topic
  16. Amino Acids581 topic
  17. Gut Microbiota581 topic

Where does Giorgio Vallortígara work?

Giorgio Vallortígara's main affiliation in the publication record is University of Trento, Italy.

How many publications and citations does Giorgio Vallortígara have?

OpenAlex counts 621 works and 28,344 citations for Giorgio Vallortígara, an h-index of 94, ranking #47,432 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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