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Child and Animal Learning Development

Child and Animal Learning Development is a research topic within Developmental and Educational Psychology. Science Explorer counts 28k research works in it since 1950. 29.5% of them reached the world's top 10% most cited for their field and year.

This cluster of papers explores the development of theory of mind in children, focusing on topics such as social cognition, infant understanding, cultural learning, executive function, false belief understanding, joint attention, and language development.

  • Theory of Mind
  • Child Development
  • Social Cognition
  • Infant Understanding
  • Cultural Learning
  • Executive Function
  • False Belief Understanding
  • Joint Attention
  • Language Development
  • Social Interaction
Research works
28k
fractional, since 1950
In the world top 10%
8.1k
per year above
Top-10% rate
29.5%
share of its works in the world top 10%
Growth, 2013–17 → 2018–22
-1%
the tick is no change

Which countries lead Child and Animal Learning Development research?

By volume, the United States and the United Kingdom publish the most (951 and 304 works in 2022–2025).

By volume, 2022–2025

  1. 1 United States 951 works
  2. 2 United Kingdom 304 works
  3. 3 Germany 263 works
  4. 4 China 169 works
  5. 5 Canada 159 works
  6. 6 France 135 works
  7. 7 Italy 126 works
  8. 8 Japan 117 works
  9. 9 Netherlands 81 works
  10. 10 Australia 78 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: 39.9%United Kingdom: 12.8%Germany: 11.0%China: 7.1%6 others listed: 29.2%40%largest
United States951 · 39.9%United Kingdom304 · 12.8%Germany263 · 11.0%China169 · 7.1%6 others listed696 · 29.2%

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

Which institutions lead Child and Animal Learning Development research?

By volume in 2022–2025, University of Toronto publishes the most Child and Animal Learning Development research, followed by University College London and New York University.

By volume, 2022–2025

  1. 1 University of TorontoCanada 23 works
  2. 2 University College LondonUnited Kingdom 22 works
  3. 3 New York UniversityUnited States 21 works
  4. 4 Centre National de la Recherche ScientifiqueFrance 21 works
  5. 5 Harvard UniversityUnited States 20 works
  6. 6 Stanford UniversityUnited States 20 works
  7. 7 University of OxfordUnited Kingdom 18 works
  8. 8 Yale UniversityUnited States 18 works
  9. 9 University of California, BerkeleyUnited States 17 works
  10. 10 University of California San DiegoUnited States 17 works

Who are the leading researchers in Child and Animal Learning Development?

The most-cited researchers publishing on Child and Animal Learning Development include James A. Russell, Robert J. Sternberg and Simon Baron‐Cohen.

  1. 1 James A. Russell United States 5k citations
  2. 2 Robert J. Sternberg United States 4.4k citations
  3. 3 Simon Baron‐Cohen United Kingdom 3.8k citations
  4. 4 L. Gauthier United States 3.7k citations

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

Where is Child and Animal Learning Development research done?

The largest centres of Child and Animal Learning Development research in 2022–2025 are London (United Kingdom), Paris (France), New York (United States) and Beijing (China). Among places with at least 20 works in it, it is an unusually large share of all research in Leipzig.

Largest cities, 2022–2025

  1. 1 London United Kingdom 61 works
  2. 2 Paris France 57 works
  3. 3 New York United States 57 works
  4. 4 Beijing China 42 works
  5. 5 Tokyo Japan 41 works
  6. 6 Toronto Canada 34 works
  7. 7 Cambridge United States 31 works
  8. 8 Vienna Austria 31 works
  9. 9 Boston United States 30 works
  10. 10 Leipzig Germany 30 works

Where it is the local speciality

  1. LeipzigDE · 29.8 works16×
← less than its size predicts1×more →

Location quotient: how much more of its research is in Child and Animal Learning Development than the world average.

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Where is the best place to study Child and Animal Learning Development?

Among universities, judged by research, New York University, University of Tübingen and University of St Andrews 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%20%40%60%mean 41.29%fractional works in this node (log) →share in the world top 10% →New York University: 21, 55.7%University of Tübingen: 11, 49.8%University of St Andrews: 16, 34.4%University of Göttingen: 10, 39.1%University College London: 22, 40.6%University of Zurich: 14, 37.4%Central European University: 9, 39.8%Princeton University: 11, 46.2%Harvard University: 20, 45.2%Lancaster University: 12, 24.7%New York UniversityUniversity of TübingenUniversity of Göttin…University of St And…
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One dot per university in the table below. The upper left is the interesting corner: small places doing unusually strong work.

#UniversityScoreTop 10%SpecialisationWorksGrowth
1 New York UniversityUnited States 76.255.7%8.8×21 +10.5%
2 University of TübingenGermany 68.449.8%10.0×11 +23.2%
3 University of St AndrewsUnited Kingdom 65.734.4%24.8×16 +18.5%
4 University of GöttingenGermany 60.939.1%12.1×10 +26.7%
5 University College LondonUnited Kingdom 60.040.6%5.5×22 -7.0%
6 University of ZurichSwitzerland 59.437.4%8.5×14 -3.6%
7 Central European UniversityAustria 59.239.8%61.5×9 +16.5%
8 Princeton UniversityUnited States 58.446.2%8.5×11 +11.2%
9 Harvard UniversityUnited States 58.045.2%5.3×20 -14.4%
10 Lancaster UniversityUnited Kingdom 57.424.7%15.7×12 +28.7%

Universities only. Score blends excellence (30%), specialisation (25%), size (20%), growth (15%) and international reach (10%), 2015–2022; growth compares 2010–14 with 2015–19.

Is Child and Animal Learning Development research growing?

Output in 2018–2022 was 1% lower than in 2013–2017, peaking in 2012. The fastest-growing topics are Child and Animal Learning Development.

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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.