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Categorization, perception, and language

Categorization, perception, and language is a research topic within Experimental and Cognitive Psychology. Science Explorer counts 12k research works in it since 1950. 10.2% of them reached the world's top 10% most cited for their field and year.

This cluster of papers explores the influence of language on cognition, perception, and conceptualization, with a focus on color perception, spatial reasoning, categorical perception, and cross-linguistic influences. It investigates the Whorfian hypothesis, cultural consonance, and the impact of linguistic relativity on various cognitive processes.

  • Language
  • Cognition
  • Color Perception
  • Spatial Reasoning
  • Categorical Perception
  • Cross-linguistic Influence
  • Cultural Consonance
  • Event Conceptualization
  • Motion Events
  • Linguistic Relativity
Research works
12k
fractional, since 1950
In the world top 10%
1.3k
per year above
Top-10% rate
10.2%
share of its works in the world top 10%
Growth, 2018-21 → 2022-25
+20%
the tick is no change
Largest producer
United States
29% of the 10 largest, 2022-now
Categorization, perception, and language

Which countries lead Categorization, perception, and language research?

By volume, the United States and China publish the most (507 and 300 works in 2022-now).

By volume, 2022-now

  1. 1 United States 507 works
  2. 2 China 300 works
  3. 3 Germany 164 works
  4. 4 United Kingdom 161 works
  5. 5 France 152 works
  6. 6 Russia 106 works
  7. 7 Japan 101 works
  8. 8 Spain 96 works
  9. 9 Canada 82 works
  10. 10 Italy 75 works

How concentrated that is

The same countries as shares of everything the list above accounts for. A node where two countries do two thirds of the work and one spread evenly across twelve read alike as a ranking and not at all alike here.

United States: 29.0%China: 17.2%Germany: 9.4%United Kingdom: 9.2%6 others listed: 35.1%29%largest
United States507 · 29.0%China300 · 17.2%Germany164 · 9.4%United Kingdom161 · 9.2%6 others listed612 · 35.1%

Shares of the rows listed above, not of the whole node.

Which institutions lead Categorization, perception, and language research?

By volume in 2022-now, Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique publishes the most Categorization, perception, and language research, followed by North Carolina State University and University of Oxford.

By volume, 2022-now

  1. 1 Centre National de la Recherche ScientifiqueFrance 67 works
  2. 2 North Carolina State UniversityUnited States 18 works
  3. 3 University of OxfordUnited Kingdom 15 works
  4. 4 Max Planck SocietyGermany 14 works
  5. 5 University of CambridgeUnited Kingdom 13 works
  6. 6 The Ohio State UniversityUnited States 12 works
  7. 7 University of CologneGermany 12 works
  8. 8 Uzbek State University of World LanguagesUzbekistan 12 works
  9. 9 Russian Academy of SciencesRussia 12 works
  10. 10 University of TorontoCanada 10 works

Who are the leading researchers in Categorization, perception, and language?

The most-cited researchers publishing on Categorization, perception, and language include Amos Tversky, Karl John Friston and Herbert A. Simon.

  1. 1 Amos Tversky United States 327k citations
  2. 2 Karl John Friston United Kingdom 310k citations
  3. 3 Herbert A. Simon United States 179k citations

Ranked by citations received across their whole record, among researchers with at least three works on this topic.

What are the most cited papers in Categorization, perception, and language?

The most cited paper in Categorization, perception, and language is "How Many Interviews Are Enough?" (Greg Guest, Arwen Bunce, Laura Johnson, 2005), with 20,652 citations. Next come "Feeling and thinking: Preferences need no inferences." (7,922) and "Features of similarity." (7,354).

Most cited papers
#PaperReleasedCitations
1 How Many Interviews Are Enough? Greg Guest, Arwen Bunce, Laura Johnson · Field Methods 23 Dec 2005 20,652
2 Feeling and thinking: Preferences need no inferences. Robert B. Zajonc · American Psychologist Open access Feb 1980 7,922
3 Features of similarity. Amos Tversky · Psychological Review Jul 1977 7,354
4 Family resemblances: Studies in the internal structure of categories Eleanor H. Rosch, Carolyn B. Mervis · Cognitive Psychology Oct 1975 5,991
5 Basic objects in natural categories Eleanor H. Rosch, Carolyn B. Mervis, Wayne D. Gray et al. · Cognitive Psychology Jul 1976 5,578
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Where is Categorization, perception, and language research done?

The largest centres of Categorization, perception, and language research in 2022-now are Paris (France), Beijing (China), Moscow (Russia) and Tokyo (Japan).

Largest cities, 2022-now

  1. 1 ParisFrance 56 works
  2. 2 BeijingChina 54 works
  3. 3 MoscowRussia 42 works
  4. 4 TokyoJapan 37 works
  5. 5 ShanghaiChina 25 works
  6. 6 New YorkUnited States 25 works
  7. 7 LondonUnited Kingdom 24 works
  8. 8 Hong KongChina 22 works
  9. 9 SeoulSouth Korea 19 works
  10. 10 TashkentUzbekistan 19 works
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Where is the best place to study Categorization, perception, and language?

Among universities, judged by research, University of Oxford, University of Cambridge and University of Cologne score highest, combining excellence, specialisation, size, growth and international reach. Research strength is one signal when choosing where to study; it does not measure teaching.

0%10%20%mean 13.67%fractional works in this field (log) →share of work in the world top 10% →University of OxfordUniversity of CologneUniversity of ChicagoUniversity of Cambri…
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One dot per university in the first ten of the table below, at the default weights. The upper left is the interesting corner: small places doing unusually strong work.

Excellenceshare of its work in the world top 10%, 2022-now and all time averaged
40%
Specialisationhow much of its work is in this field, counted up to 10× the world share
10%
Sizeits output in this field, on a log scale
30%
Growthoutput growth, counted from -20% to +20%
10%
Internationalshare of its work with a co-author abroad
10%
Each slider sets a weight; the share it gets of the score is beside it.
#UniversityScoreTop 10%SpecialisationWorksGrowth
1University of OxfordUnited Kingdom 80.114.8%4.7×15 +28.6%
2University of CambridgeUnited Kingdom 65.011.6%4.6×13 +91.4%
3University of CologneGermany 64.213.7%12.1×12 +62.5%
4University of ChicagoUnited States 60.112.0%5.0×10 +99.9%
5Radboud University NijmegenNetherlands 59.123.3%6.2×9 -38.9%
6University College LondonUnited Kingdom 50.522.0%2.3×8 -37.6%
7University of PotsdamGermany 49.913.1%15.5×9 +146.5%
8North Carolina State UniversityUnited States 48.90.0%13.8×18 -
9The University of MelbourneAustralia 48.617.9%3.3×8 +109.5%
10University of EdinburghUnited Kingdom 48.18.3%4.9×10 +3.9%

Universities only. The score blends excellence (40%), size (30%), specialisation (10%), growth (10%), international reach (10%), 2022-now; growth compares 2018-21 with 2022-25 and counts up to +20%, since a jump from a small base is mostly noise.

Every institution in Categorization, perception, and language, country by country

Is Categorization, perception, and language research growing?

Output in 2022-2025 was 20% higher than in 2018-2021, peaking in 2025. The fastest-growing topics are Categorization, perception, and language.

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The same series as a ribbon: one cell per year, darker for more. The line above answers how much; this answers when.

Its share of all research

Growing output can still be a shrinking share: all of science grows. This is Categorization, perception, and language as a percentage of every work published that year, 0.0095% in 2024.

still counting0.010%0.020%0.030%Categorization, perception, and language0.013% in 202519801990200020102020

Fractional works of Categorization, perception, and language over all fractional works that year. How the balance of science has shifted.

How much of it reaches the world top 10%

Year by year.

still counting5%10%15%Categorization, perception, and language9.9% in 2025200020102020

Of each year's works in it, the share that reached the world's 10% most cited for their field and year. A field is the world for its own topics, so there is no other line to hold it against.

Which topics inside it are moving

Growth and decline on one axis around a shared zero. Two lists side by side hide the thing that matters: whether the growth dwarfs the decline, or the other way round.

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