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Steven Pinker

Steven Pinker publishes mostly in Cognitive Neuroscience, Sociology and Political Science and Experimental and Cognitive Psychology, on topics such as Psychology of Moral and Emotional Judgment, Neuroethics, Human Enhancement, Biomedical Innovations and Image Retrieval and Classification Techniques.

World rank
#5,155
of 1,633,909 ranked researchers
Rank in United States
#2,451
of 358,040
Works
70
Citations
1.1k
Citations per work
15.5

What does Steven Pinker research?

Cognitive Neuroscience: 11.5%Sociology and Political Science: 10.3%Experimental and Cognitive Psychology: 10.3%Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition: 8.0%other fields: 59.9%12%top field
Cognitive Neuroscience11.5%Sociology and Political Science10.3%Experimental and Cognitive Psychology10.3%Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition8.0%other fields59.9%

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

  1. 1Cognitive Neuroscience12% of their works
  2. 2Sociology and Political Science10% of their works
  3. 3Experimental and Cognitive Psychology10% of their works
  4. 4Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition8% of their works
  5. 5Cultural Studies5% of their works
  6. 6Developmental and Educational Psychology5% of their works

Research topics

Which keywords describe Steven Pinker's research?

The keywords of their largest research topics: Language, Cognition, Disgust, Moral Judgment, Cognitive Enhancement, Color Perception, Content-Based Image Retrieval and Neuroenhancement.

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. Language73 topics
  2. Cognition52 topics
  3. Disgust41 topic
  4. Moral Judgment41 topic
  5. Cognitive Enhancement31 topic
  6. Color Perception31 topic
  7. Content-Based Image Retrieval31 topic
  8. Neuroenhancement31 topic
  9. Shape Matching31 topic
  10. Spatial Reasoning31 topic
  11. Child Development21 topic
  12. Cultural Evolution21 topic
  13. Language Change21 topic
  14. Metaphor21 topic
  15. Social Learning21 topic
  16. Sociolinguistic Variation21 topic
  17. Theory of Mind21 topic
  18. Time21 topic

Where does Steven Pinker work?

Steven Pinker's main affiliation in the publication record is Harvard University Press, United States.

How many publications and citations does Steven Pinker have?

Science Explorer counts 70 works and 1,083 citations for Steven Pinker, ranking #5,155 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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