Steven A. Pinker
Impact in
- Developmental and Educational Psychology top 0.02%
- Language Development and Disorders
- Reading and Literacy Development
- Child and Animal Learning Development
- Language and Linguistics top 0.02%
- Syntax, Semantics, Linguistic Variation
Papers in
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- Language Development and Disorders 24
- Child and Animal Learning Development 16
- Reading and Literacy Development 13
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- Neurobiology of Language and Bilingualism 13
- Psychology of Moral and Emotional Judgment 12
- Co-authors
- Paul Bloom (4 shared papers)Alan Prince (12 shared papers)Ellen Bialystok (1 shared paper)Ray S. Jackendoff (5 shared papers)Michael T. Ullman (8 shared papers)Nolan Miller (1 shared paper)Gerda Wilk Oldham (1 shared paper)Michael J. Tarr (2 shared papers)
- Journals
- Behavioral and Brain Sciences (15 papers)Cognition (13 papers)Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences (8 papers)Science (7 papers)Journal of Experimental Psychology Learning Memory and Cognition (5 papers)
- Partner nations
- United StatesCanadaFrance
In The Last Decade
Steven A. Pinker
191 papers receiving 22.0k citations
Steven A. Pinker's Hit Papers
Peers
Comparison fields: 5 of 217
- Developmental and Educational Psychology 8.8k
- Language and Linguistics 5.9k
- Experimental and Cognitive Psychology 6.5k
- Cultural Studies 4.1k
- Cognitive Neuroscience 8.0k
Countries citing papers authored by Steven A. Pinker
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Fields of papers citing papers by Steven A. Pinker
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Co-authors
The 25 scholars most cited alongside Steven A. Pinker, linked wherever they have co-authored with each other. Click a name or a connecting line to browse the papers they share.
All Works
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| # | Work | ||
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | How the Mind Works Hit paper breakdown → | 1999 | 2693 |
| 2 | Quantitative Analysis of Culture Using Millions of Digitized Books Hit paper breakdown → | 2010 | 1936 |
| 3 | Natural language and natural selection Hit paper breakdown → | 1990 | 1667 |
| 4 | Language Learnability and Language Development Hit paper breakdown → | 1986 | 1457 |
| 5 | The Language Instinct: How the Mind Creates Language Hit paper breakdown → | 1994 | 1237 |
| 6 | On language and connectionism: Analysis of a parallel distributed processing model of language acquisition Hit paper breakdown → | 1988 | 1133 |
| 7 | The faculty of language: what's special about it? Hit paper breakdown → | 2005 | 777 |
| 8 | Rules of Language Hit paper breakdown → | 1991 | 745 |
| 9 | 1992 | 680 | |
| 10 | Mental rotation and orientation-dependence in shape recognition Hit paper breakdown → | 1989 | 636 |
| 11 | 2002 | 599 | |
| 12 | 1997 | 593 | |
| 13 | 1995 | 447 | |
| 14 | 1998 | 418 | |
| 15 | 1991 | 411 | |
| 16 | 1979 | 381 | |
| 17 | 1993 | 361 | |
| 18 | The language instinct : the new science of language and mind | 1995 | 347 |
| 19 | A critical period for second language acquisition: Evidence from 2/3 million English speakers Hit paper breakdown → | 2018 | 345 |
| 20 | Universality and diversity in human song Hit paper breakdown → | 2019 | 345 |
About Steven A. Pinker
Steven A. Pinker is a scholar working on Developmental and Educational Psychology, Cognitive Neuroscience, Experimental and Cognitive Psychology, Cultural Studies and Language and Linguistics, having authored 211 papers that have together received 26.5k indexed citations. Recurring topics across this work include Language and cultural evolution (24 papers), Language Development and Disorders (24 papers), Syntax, Semantics, Linguistic Variation (21 papers), Child and Animal Learning Development (16 papers), Reading and Literacy Development (13 papers), Neurobiology of Language and Bilingualism (13 papers), Spatial Cognition and Navigation (12 papers) and Psychology of Moral and Emotional Judgment (12 papers). The work is most often cited by research in Developmental and Educational Psychology (8.8k citations), Language and Linguistics (5.9k citations), Experimental and Cognitive Psychology (6.5k citations), Cultural Studies (4.1k citations) and Cognitive Neuroscience (8.0k citations). Steven A. Pinker has collaborated with scholars based in United States, Canada and France. Frequent co-authors include Paul Bloom, Alan Prince, Ellen Bialystok, Ray S. Jackendoff, Michael T. Ullman, Nolan Miller, Gerda Wilk Oldham, Michael J. Tarr, Michelle A. Hollander and Sandeep Prasada. Their work appears in journals such as Behavioral and Brain Sciences, Cognition, Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, Science and Journal of Experimental Psychology Learning Memory and Cognition.
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