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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. 9.9% 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%
2.7k
per year above
Top-10% rate
9.9%
share of its works in the world top 10%
Growth, 2018-21 → 2022-25
-9%
the tick is no change
Largest producer
United States
40% of the 10 largest, 2022-now
Child and Animal Learning Development

Which countries lead Child and Animal Learning Development research?

By volume, the United States and the United Kingdom publish the most (1.1k and 354 works in 2022-now).

By volume, 2022-now

  1. 1 United States 1.1k works
  2. 2 United Kingdom 354 works
  3. 3 Germany 303 works
  4. 4 China 244 works
  5. 5 Canada 186 works
  6. 6 France 151 works
  7. 7 Italy 140 works
  8. 8 Japan 131 works
  9. 9 Netherlands 94 works
  10. 10 Australia 90 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: 40.0%United Kingdom: 12.6%Germany: 10.7%China: 8.6%6 others listed: 28.0%40%largest
United States1,130 · 40.0%United Kingdom354 · 12.6%Germany303 · 10.7%China244 · 8.6%6 others listed792 · 28.0%

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

Which institutions lead Child and Animal Learning Development research?

By volume in 2022-now, Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique publishes the most Child and Animal Learning Development research, followed by Max Planck Society and University of Toronto.

By volume, 2022-now

  1. 1 Centre National de la Recherche ScientifiqueFrance 59 works
  2. 2 Max Planck SocietyGermany 45 works
  3. 3 University of TorontoCanada 31 works
  4. 4 New York UniversityUnited States 29 works
  5. 5 University of OxfordUnited Kingdom 26 works
  6. 6 University College LondonUnited Kingdom 26 works
  7. 7 Harvard UniversityUnited States 25 works
  8. 8 Stanford UniversityUnited States 24 works
  9. 9 Yale UniversityUnited States 22 works
  10. 10 University of ChicagoUnited States 22 works

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

The most-cited researchers publishing on Child and Animal Learning Development include Daniel J. Kahneman, Richard M. Ryan and Albert Bandura.

  1. 1 Daniel J. Kahneman United States 395k citations
  2. 2 Richard M. Ryan United States 395k citations
  3. 3 Albert Bandura United States 370k citations
  4. 4 Amos Tversky United States 327k citations
  5. 5 Edward L. Deci United States 325k citations
  6. 6 Karl John Friston United Kingdom 310k citations
  7. 7 Peter M. Bentler United States 233k citations
  8. 8 Nicholas G. Martin Australia 228k citations
  9. 9 Li Fei-Fei United States 225k citations
  10. 10 Kai You Wang China 224k 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 Child and Animal Learning Development?

The most cited paper in Child and Animal Learning Development is "The magical number seven, plus or minus two: Some limits on our capacity for processing information." (George Miller, 1956), with 17,806 citations. Next come "Toward an experimental ecology of human development." (10,424) and "Levels of processing: A framework for memory research" (9,656).

Most cited papers
#PaperReleasedCitations
1 The magical number seven, plus or minus two: Some limits on our capacity for processing information. George Miller · Psychological Review Mar 1956 17,806
2 Toward an experimental ecology of human development. Urie Bronfenbrenner · American Psychologist Jul 1977 10,424
3 Levels of processing: A framework for memory research Fergus I. M. Craik, Robert S. Lockhart · Journal of Verbal Learning and Verbal Behavior Dec 1972 9,656
4 Does the chimpanzee have a theory of mind? David Premack, Guy Woodruff · Behavioral and Brain Sciences Open access Dec 1978 8,737
5 Features of similarity. Amos Tversky · Psychological Review Jul 1977 7,354
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Where is Child and Animal Learning Development research done?

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

Largest cities, 2022-now

  1. 1 LondonUnited Kingdom 73 works
  2. 2 New YorkUnited States 70 works
  3. 3 ParisFrance 65 works
  4. 4 BeijingChina 54 works
  5. 5 TokyoJapan 46 works
  6. 6 TorontoCanada 41 works
  7. 7 CambridgeUnited States 40 works
  8. 8 BostonUnited States 35 works
  9. 9 ViennaAustria 34 works
  10. 10 LeipzigGermany 34 works

Where it is the local speciality

  1. LeipzigDE · 34.1 works15×
  2. NijmegenNL · 22.1 works9.6×
← 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, University College London, University of Oxford and University of Zurich 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 16.72%fractional works in this field (log) →share of work in the world top 10% →University College L…University of ZurichStanford UniversityUniversity of Oxford
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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 College LondonUnited Kingdom 81.819.2%5.2×26 +4.1%
2University of OxfordUnited Kingdom 80.314.4%5.9×26 +31.2%
3University of ZurichSwitzerland 74.519.2%7.0×16 +20.9%
4Stanford UniversityUnited States 74.015.3%5.2×24 +0.6%
5Harvard UniversityUnited States 73.217.3%2.5×25 +1.4%
6New York UniversityUnited States 72.817.8%8.1×29 -28.3%
7University of California, BerkeleyUnited States 72.621.3%6.2×18 +17.2%
8University of St AndrewsUnited Kingdom 71.122.3%24.2×16 -5.1%
9University of TorontoCanada 70.912.2%4.9×31 +1.9%
10University of ChicagoUnited States 66.78.2%8.1×22 +16.4%

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 Child and Animal Learning Development, country by country

Is Child and Animal Learning Development research growing?

Output in 2022-2025 was 9% lower than in 2018-2021, peaking in 2012.

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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 Child and Animal Learning Development as a percentage of every work published that year, 0.014% in 2024.

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Fractional works of Child and Animal Learning Development 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.

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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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