Most cited papers in Scientific Research and Philosophical Inquiry
What are the most cited papers in Scientific Research and Philosophical Inquiry?
The most cited paper in Scientific Research and Philosophical Inquiry 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 "The Ontogeny of Information: Developmental Systems and Evolution" (1,314) and "A person-oriented approach in research on developmental psychopathology" (1,308).
Showing 50 of 101 papers. Every paper with more than 69 citations is listed.
| # | Paper | ||
|---|---|---|---|
| 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 | The Ontogeny of Information: Developmental Systems and Evolution Susan Oyama | 28 Feb 1986 | 1,314 |
| 3 | A person-oriented approach in research on developmental psychopathology Lars R. Bergman, David Magnusson · Development and Psychopathology | Jun 1997 | 1,308 |
| 4 | Mechanisms of Self-Regulation: A Systems View Paul Karoly · Annual Review of Psychology | 1993 | 1,098 |
| 5 | Foundations of transdisciplinarity Manfred A. Max-Neef · Ecological Economics | 12 Mar 2005 | 1,078 |
| 6 | Illusory correlation as an obstacle to the use of valid psychodiagnostic signs. Loren J. Chapman, Jean P. Chapman · Journal of Abnormal Psychology | Jun 1969 | 1,008 |
| 7 | The Literature of Bibliometrics, Scientometrics, and Informetrics William W. Hood, Concepción Shimizu Wilson · Scientometrics | Oct 2001 | 978 |
| 8 | How Big Is a Chunk? Herbert A. Simon · Science | 8 Feb 1974 | 930 |
| 9 | The Psychology of Consciousness Thomas Hardy Leahey | 25 Sep 2015 | 758 |
| 10 | Conceptual structures — Information processing in mind and machine William J. Clancey · Artificial Intelligence | Sep 1985 | 706 |
| 11 | Information Processing Models of Cognition Herbert A. Simon · Annual Review of Psychology | 1979 | 555 |
| 12 | The concept of information Rafael Capurro, Birger Hjørland · Annual Review of Information Science and Technology | 2003 | 465 |
| 13 | Psychological relevance and information science Stephen P. Harter · Journal of the American Society for Information Science | Oct 1992 | 420 |
| 14 | The Nature of Physical Reality Henry Margenau, R. Bruce Lindsay · American Journal of Physics | 1951 | 419 |
| 15 | Social-time: A Methodological and Functional Analysis Pitirim A. Sorokin, Robert Merton · Palgrave Macmillan UK eBooks | 1990 | 401 |
| 16 | Collective electron metamagnetism E.P. Wohlfarth, Peter A. Rhodes · Philosophical magazine | Nov 1962 | 362 |
| 17 | Imagined spatial transformation of one's body. Lawrence M. Parsons · Journal of Experimental Psychology General | 1987 | 358 |
| 18 | Analogical Reasoning in Children Usha Goswami · The MIT Press eBooks | 2 Mar 2001 | 343 |
| 19 | Scopus: A system for the evaluation of scientific journals A. N. Guz, Jeremiah J. Rushchitsky · International Applied Mechanics | Apr 2009 | 318 |
| 20 | Social functions of emotions. Dacher J. Keltner, Jonathan Haidt | 2001 | 301 |
| 21 | Inferred components of reaction times as functions of foreperiod duration. Raymond H. Hohle · Journal of Experimental Psychology | Apr 1965 | 295 |
| 22 | Co-word maps of biotechnology: An example of cognitive scientometrics Arie Rip, J Courtial · Scientometrics | Nov 1984 | 272 |
| 23 | Social Cognition: How Individuals Construct Social Reality Rainer Greifeneder, Herbert Bless, Klaus Fiedler | 19 Feb 2004 | 267 |
| 24 | Information Technology and Education: Computer Criticism vs. Technocentric Thinking Seymour A. Papert · Educational Researcher | 1987 | 265 |
| 25 | Why the distinction between single-event probabilities and frequencies is important for psychology (and vice versa) Gerd Gigerenzer · Max Planck Digital Library | 1994 | 261 |
| 26 | Language and Representation in Information Retrieval David C. Blair | Apr 1990 | 260 |
| 27 | Information structure: Notional distinctions, ways of expression Caroline Féry, Manfred Krifka · John Benjamins Publishing Company eBooks | 3 Jul 2008 | 256 |
| 28 | Social functions of emotion Agneta H. Fischer, Antony S. R. Manstead · UvA-DARE (University of Amsterdam) | 2008 | 255 |
| 29 | Fundamental forms of information Marcia J. Bates · Journal of the American Society for Information Science and Technology | 25 Apr 2006 | 242 |
| 30 | Genesis of Higher Mental Functions Robert W. Rieber | 1997 | 234 |
| 31 | Semantic linking through spaces for cyber-physical-socio intelligence: A methodology Hai Zhuge · Artificial Intelligence | 9 Feb 2011 | 229 |
| 32 | Is "the theory of everything" merely the ultimate ensemble theory? Tegmark, M · CERN Document Server (European Organization for Nuclear Research) | 1998 | 228 |
| 33 | A Critique of Technocentrism in Thinking About the School of the Future Seymour A. Papert · Elsevier eBooks | 1988 | 214 |
| 34 | Zoning Out while Reading: Evidence for Dissociations between Experience and Metaconsciousness. Jonathan W. Schooler, Erik D. Reichle, David V. Halpern | 2004 | 213 |
| 35 | Contemporary Schools of Metascience Gerard A. Radnitzky, Amedeo Giorgi · Journal of Phenomenological Psychology | 1973 | 212 |
| 36 | THE PRINCIPLE OF ASSOCIATIVE SYMMETRY Solomon E. Asch, Sheldon M. Ebenholtz | 1962 | 210 |
| 37 | MEASURES OF THE VALUE OF INFORMATION John F. McCarthy · Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences | Sep 1956 | 204 |
| 38 | An introduction to the information age Manuel Castells · City | May 1997 | 197 |
| 39 | Designing Information Technology in the Postmodern Age: From Method to Metaphor Richard Coyne · Leonardo | 1996 | 195 |
| 40 | The ecological approach to text visualization James A. Wise · Journal of the American Society for Information Science | 1999 | 184 |
| 41 | The need for a faceted classification as the basis of all methods of information retrieval Vanda Broughton · Aslib Journal of Information Management | 2006 | 183 |
| 42 | Gaps in Nature: Literary Interpretation and the Modular Mind Ellen Spolsky · Journal of Aesthetics and Art Criticism | 1996 | 181 |
| 43 | The Prediction of Social Action from a Dimension of Internal-External Control Bonnie Ruth Strickland · The Journal of Social Psychology | Aug 1965 | 177 |
| 44 | The nature of the audiovisual text and its parameters Patrick Zabalbeascoa · Benjamins translation library | 14 Aug 2008 | 173 |
| 45 | Contemporary Schools of Metascience Anne Marie McLaughlin · Telos | Oct 1969 | 171 |
| 46 | The processing of social stimulus information: A conceptual integration Robert S. Wyer, Thomas K. Srull | 1980 | 170 |
| 47 | The modularity of theory of mind Gabriel Segal · Cambridge University Press eBooks | 23 Feb 1996 | 169 |
| 48 | The life and work of A.A. Markov Г. П. Башарин, Amy Nicole Langville, Valeriy A. Naumov · Linear Algebra and its Applications | 12 Mar 2004 | 165 |
| 49 | Brain Wave Measures of Media Involvement Herbert E. Krugman | 1998 | 159 |
| 50 | Fundamental principles of network formation among preschool children David R. Schaefer, John M. Light, Richard A. Fabes et al. · Social Networks | 22 Jun 2009 | 158 |
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