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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, Language Development and Disorders and Language and cultural evolution.

ORCID 0000-0002-1649-088X OpenAlex
World rank
#14,436
of 1,633,909 ranked researchers
Rank in Germany
#1,318
of 86,443
Works
166
Citations
1.6k
Citations per work
9.7

What does Michael Tomasello research?

Developmental and Educational Psychology: 29.4%Social Psychology: 11.0%Language and Linguistics: 9.2%Cultural Studies: 8.0%other fields: 42.4%29%top field
Developmental and Educational Psychology29.4%Social Psychology11.0%Language and Linguistics9.2%Cultural Studies8.0%other fields42.4%

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

  1. 1Developmental and Educational Psychology29% of their works
  2. 2Social Psychology11% of their works
  3. 3Language and Linguistics9% of their works
  4. 4Cultural Studies8% of their works
  5. 5Cognitive Neuroscience7% of their works
  6. 6Experimental and Cognitive Psychology6% 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, Evolution, Bilingualism and Speech and Language Disorder.

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 20 words, with their numbers
  1. Language Development443 topics
  2. Social Interaction413 topics
  3. Social Cognition282 topics
  4. Child Development241 topic
  5. Theory of Mind241 topic
  6. Evolution132 topics
  7. Bilingualism121 topic
  8. Speech and Language Disorder121 topic
  9. Cultural Evolution111 topic
  10. Language111 topic
  11. Dyslexia81 topic
  12. Primates81 topic
  13. Reading Acquisition81 topic
  14. Social Behavior81 topic
  15. Conversation Analysis51 topic
  16. Disgust51 topic
  17. Interactional Linguistics51 topic
  18. Moral Judgment51 topic
  19. Dog Domestication41 topic
  20. Genomic Analysis41 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?

Science Explorer counts 166 works and 1,610 citations for Michael Tomasello, ranking #14,436 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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