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Researcher · Max Planck Institute for Evolutionary Anthropology · Germany

Michael Tomasello

Michael Tomasello publishes mostly in Developmental and Educational Psychology, Social Psychology and Language and Linguistics, on topics such as Child and Animal Learning Development, Primate Behavior and Ecology and Language Development and Disorders.

ORCID 0000-0002-1649-088X OpenAlex
World rank
#180
of 7,710,434 ranked researchers
Rank in Germany
#6
of 364,343
Works
1,027
Citations
135k
Citations per work
131.5
h-index
184
i10-index 716Top 0.1% in Developmental and Educational Psychology
Michael Tomasello

What does Michael Tomasello research?

Michael Tomasello's work is mostly in Psychology (56%), Arts and Humanities (7%), Neuroscience (7%).

Social Sciences: 707 works · 68.8% of their workPsychology: 572 works · 55.7% of their workDevelopmental and Educational Psychology: 349 works · 34.0% of their workSocial Psychology: 173 works · 16.8% of their workExperimental and Cognitive Psychology: 50 works · 4.9% of their workArts and Humanities: 73 works · 7.1% of their workLanguage and Linguistics: 73 works · 7.1% of their workSocial Sciences: 62 works · 6.0% of their workSociology and Political Science: 62 works · 6.0% of their workEverything else: 250 works · 24.3% of their workLife Sciences: 71 works · 6.9% of their workNeuroscience: 71 works · 6.9% of their workCognitive Neuroscience: 71 works · 6.9% of their workTHEIR WORKMichael Tomasello1,027works
Life Sciences7%Social Sciences69%

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. Psychology57255.7%
    2. Arts and Humanities737.1%
    3. Social Sciences626.0%
  2. Everything else25024.3%
    1. Neuroscience716.9%
  1. 1Developmental and Educational Psychology34% of their works
  2. 2Social Psychology17% of their works
  3. 3Language and Linguistics7% of their works
  4. 4Cognitive Neuroscience7% of their works
  5. 5Sociology and Political Science6% of their works
  6. 6Experimental and Cognitive Psychology5% of their works

Research topics

Which keywords describe Michael Tomasello's research?

The keywords of their largest research topics: Language Development, Social Interaction, Social Cognition, Child Development, Theory of Mind, Altruism, Cooperation and Primates.

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. Language Development7963 topics
  2. Social Interaction7903 topics
  3. Social Cognition6002 topics
  4. Child Development5271 topic
  5. Theory of Mind5271 topic
  6. Altruism3232 topics
  7. Cooperation3232 topics
  8. Primates2311 topic
  9. Social Behavior2311 topic
  10. Bilingualism1771 topic
  11. Speech and Language Disorder1771 topic
  12. Cultural Evolution1692 topics
  13. Dyslexia921 topic
  14. Evolutionary Games921 topic
  15. Reading Acquisition921 topic
  16. Social Networks921 topic
  17. Conversation Analysis861 topic
  18. Interactional Linguistics861 topic
  19. Language771 topic
  20. Social Learning771 topic
  21. Dog Domestication731 topic
  22. Genomic Analysis731 topic

Where does Michael Tomasello work?

Michael Tomasello's main affiliation in the publication record is Max Planck Institute for Evolutionary Anthropology, Germany.

How many publications and citations does Michael Tomasello have?

OpenAlex counts 1,027 works and 135,063 citations for Michael Tomasello, an h-index of 184, ranking #180 of 7,710,434 researchers worldwide on the quality 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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