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Cognitive Science and Mapping

Cognitive Science and Mapping is a research topic within Artificial Intelligence. Science Explorer counts 17k research works in it since 1950. 10.3% of them reached the world's top 10% most cited for their field and year.

This cluster of papers focuses on the application of Fuzzy Cognitive Maps (FCMs) in modeling complex systems, decision support, and knowledge representation. It explores various learning algorithms for FCMs, their use in scenario development for social-ecological systems, prediction in healthcare decision making, and their role in multi-criteria analysis.

  • Fuzzy Cognitive Maps
  • Modeling
  • Decision Support
  • Knowledge Representation
  • Learning Algorithms
  • Scenario Development
  • Social-Ecological Systems
  • Prediction
  • Healthcare Decision Making
  • Multi-Criteria Analysis
Research works
17k
fractional, since 1950
In the world top 10%
1.8k
per year above
Top-10% rate
10.3%
share of its works in the world top 10%
Growth, 2018-21 → 2022-25
+9%
the tick is no change
Largest producer
China
27% of the 10 largest, 2022-now
Cognitive Science and Mapping

Which countries lead Cognitive Science and Mapping research?

By volume, China and the United States publish the most (591 and 583 works in 2022-now).

By volume, 2022-now

  1. 1 China 591 works
  2. 2 United States 583 works
  3. 3 Russia 200 works
  4. 4 India 180 works
  5. 5 United Kingdom 151 works
  6. 6 Germany 146 works
  7. 7 Italy 100 works
  8. 8 Canada 76 works
  9. 9 France 74 works
  10. 10 Spain 70 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.

China: 27.2%United States: 26.9%Russia: 9.2%India: 8.3%6 others listed: 28.4%27%largest
China591 · 27.2%United States583 · 26.9%Russia200 · 9.2%India180 · 8.3%6 others listed617 · 28.4%

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

Which institutions lead Cognitive Science and Mapping research?

By volume in 2022-now, Russian Academy of Sciences publishes the most Cognitive Science and Mapping research, followed by Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique and Beijing Normal University.

By volume, 2022-now

  1. 1 Russian Academy of SciencesRussia 41 works
  2. 2 Centre National de la Recherche ScientifiqueFrance 20 works
  3. 3 Beijing Normal UniversityChina 19 works
  4. 4 Peking UniversityChina 13 works
  5. 5 Islamic Azad University, TehranIran 12 works
  6. 6 Sichuan UniversityChina 11 works
  7. 7 Chinese Academy of SciencesChina 11 works
  8. 8 University of OxfordUnited Kingdom 11 works
  9. 9 Vrije Universiteit AmsterdamNetherlands 11 works
  10. 10 Max Planck SocietyGermany 11 works

Who are the leading researchers in Cognitive Science and Mapping?

The most-cited researchers publishing on Cognitive Science and Mapping include Daniel J. Kahneman, Albert Bandura and Amos Tversky.

  1. 1 Daniel J. Kahneman United States 395k citations
  2. 2 Albert Bandura United States 370k citations
  3. 3 Amos Tversky United States 327k citations
  4. 4 Karl John Friston United Kingdom 310k citations
  5. 5 Icek Ajzen United States 267k citations
  6. 6 Peter M. Bentler United States 233k citations
  7. 7 Li Fei-Fei United States 225k 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 Cognitive Science and Mapping?

The most cited paper in Cognitive Science and Mapping is "The magical number seven, plus or minus two: Some limits on our capacity for processing information." (George Miller, 1994), with 17,321 citations. Next come "An index to quantify an individual's scientific research output" (11,729) and "Perceptual symbol systems" (6,855).

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 1994 17,321
2 An index to quantify an individual's scientific research output J. E. Hirsch · Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences Open access 7 Nov 2005 11,729
3 Perceptual symbol systems Lawrence W. Barsalou · Behavioral and Brain Sciences Aug 1999 6,855
4 Family resemblances: Studies in the internal structure of categories Eleanor H. Rosch, Carolyn B. Mervis · Cognitive Psychology Oct 1975 5,991
5 Case-Based Reasoning: Foundational Issues, Methodological Variations, and System Approaches Agnar Aamodt, Enric Plaza · AI Communications 1994 5,599
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Where is Cognitive Science and Mapping research done?

The largest centres of Cognitive Science and Mapping research in 2022-now are Beijing (China), Moscow (Russia), Nanjing (China) and Shanghai (China).

Largest cities, 2022-now

  1. 1 BeijingChina 106 works
  2. 2 MoscowRussia 101 works
  3. 3 NanjingChina 36 works
  4. 4 ShanghaiChina 34 works
  5. 5 LondonUnited Kingdom 32 works
  6. 6 KyivUkraine 31 works
  7. 7 Xi'anChina 30 works
  8. 8 TehranIran 30 works
  9. 9 ChengduChina 30 works
  10. 10 IstanbulTürkiye 29 works
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Where is the best place to study Cognitive Science and Mapping?

Among universities, judged by research, Beijing Normal University, Peking University and University of Oxford 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.

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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
1Beijing Normal UniversityChina 71.214.4%8.1×19 +399.1%
2Peking UniversityChina 57.024.2%2.1×13 +369.6%
3University of OxfordUnited Kingdom 55.317.0%2.7×11 +54.7%
4Sichuan UniversityChina 54.128.8%1.7×11 -33.6%
5University of ThessalyGreece 48.810.2%14.1×9 +70.3%
6Vrije Universiteit AmsterdamNetherlands 44.99.6%9.3×11 -0.5%
7University College LondonUnited Kingdom 42.916.9%1.9×9 +1.2%
8University of AlbertaCanada 32.715.2%3.3×8 -51.0%
9Tsinghua UniversityChina 28.814.3%1.3×8 +67.8%
10Zhejiang UniversityChina 28.78.6%1.3×10 +327.4%

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 Cognitive Science and Mapping, country by country

Is Cognitive Science and Mapping research growing?

Output in 2022-2025 was 9% higher than in 2018-2021, peaking in 2025. The fastest-growing topics are Cognitive Science and Mapping.

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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 Cognitive Science and Mapping as a percentage of every work published that year, 0.015% in 2024.

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Fractional works of Cognitive Science and Mapping 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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