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Researcher · University of California, San Francisco · United States

Paul Ekman

Paul Ekman publishes mostly in Social Psychology, Cognitive Neuroscience and Experimental and Cognitive Psychology, on topics such as Face Recognition and Perception, Emotions and Moral Behavior and Psychology of Moral and Emotional Judgment.

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World rank
#5,701
of 1,633,909 ranked researchers
Rank in United States
#2,733
of 358,040
Works
56
Citations
3.1k
Citations per work
55.9

What does Paul Ekman research?

Social Psychology: 27.5%Cognitive Neuroscience: 15.7%Experimental and Cognitive Psychology: 13.7%Sociology and Political Science: 7.8%other fields: 35.3%28%top field
Social Psychology27.5%Cognitive Neuroscience15.7%Experimental and Cognitive Psychology13.7%Sociology and Political Science7.8%other fields35.3%

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

  1. 1Social Psychology28% of their works
  2. 2Cognitive Neuroscience16% of their works
  3. 3Experimental and Cognitive Psychology14% of their works
  4. 4Sociology and Political Science8% of their works
  5. 5Artificial Intelligence6% of their works
  6. 6Human-Computer Interaction4% of their works

Research topics

Which keywords describe Paul Ekman's research?

The keywords of their largest research topics: Face Perception, Neural Mechanisms, Gender Differences, Guilt, Neural Correlates, Shame, Social Interaction and Authorship Attribution.

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 19 words, with their numbers
  1. Face Perception51 topic
  2. Neural Mechanisms51 topic
  3. Gender Differences42 topics
  4. Guilt41 topic
  5. Neural Correlates42 topics
  6. Shame41 topic
  7. Social Interaction42 topics
  8. Authorship Attribution21 topic
  9. Computer-Mediated Communication21 topic
  10. Crossmodal Processing21 topic
  11. Disgust21 topic
  12. Emoticons21 topic
  13. Emotional Intelligence21 topic
  14. Gesture21 topic
  15. Leadership21 topic
  16. Moral Judgment21 topic
  17. Multisensory Integration21 topic
  18. Sign Language21 topic
  19. Stylometry21 topic

Where does Paul Ekman work?

Paul Ekman's main affiliation in the publication record is University of California, San Francisco, United States.

How many publications and citations does Paul Ekman have?

Science Explorer counts 56 works and 3,133 citations for Paul Ekman, ranking #5,701 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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