Steven 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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- Neurobiology of Language and Bilingualism 14
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- Language Development and Disorders 24
- Child and Animal Learning Development 15
- Reading and Literacy Development 15
- Co-authors
- Paul Bloom (4 shared papers)Alan Prince (12 shared papers)Ellen Bialystok (1 shared paper)Michael T. Ullman (8 shared papers)Ray Jackendoff (5 shared papers)Nolan Miller (1 shared paper)Gerda Oldham (1 shared paper)Michael J. Tarr (3 shared papers)
- Journals
- Cognition (13 papers)Behavioral and Brain Sciences (13 papers)Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences (6 papers)Journal of Experimental Psychology Learning Memory and Cognition (5 papers)Science (5 papers)
- Partner nations
- United StatesCanadaFrance
In The Last Decade
Steven Pinker
192 papers receiving 23.8k citations
Steven Pinker's Hit Papers
Peers
Comparison fields: 5 of 213
- Developmental and Educational Psychology 9.7k
- Language and Linguistics 6.5k
- Experimental and Cognitive Psychology 7.2k
- Cultural Studies 4.5k
- Cognitive Neuroscience 8.6k
Countries citing papers authored by Steven Pinker
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Fields of papers citing papers by Steven Pinker
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Co-authors
The 25 scholars most cited alongside Steven 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
Showing the 20 most-cited of 218 papers — load more, or switch the sort, to bring in the rest.
| # | Work | ||
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | How the Mind Works Hit paper breakdown → | 1999 | 2766 |
| 2 | On The Language Instinct Hit paper breakdown → | 1994 | 2205 |
| 3 | Quantitative Analysis of Culture Using Millions of Digitized Books Hit paper breakdown → | 2010 | 1947 |
| 4 | Natural language and natural selection Hit paper breakdown → | 1990 | 1696 |
| 5 | Language Learnability and Language Development Hit paper breakdown → | 1986 | 1485 |
| 6 | The Language Instinct: How the Mind Creates Language Hit paper breakdown → | 1994 | 1277 |
| 7 | On language and connectionism: Analysis of a parallel distributed processing model of language acquisition Hit paper breakdown → | 1988 | 1169 |
| 8 | The faculty of language: what's special about it? Hit paper breakdown → | 2005 | 790 |
| 9 | Rules of Language Hit paper breakdown → | 1991 | 767 |
| 10 | Overregularization in Language Acquisition Hit paper breakdown → | 1992 | 707 |
| 11 | The past and future of the past tense Hit paper breakdown → | 2002 | 640 |
| 12 | Mental rotation and orientation-dependence in shape recognition Hit paper breakdown → | 1989 | 640 |
| 13 | A Neural Dissociation within Language: Evidence that the Mental Dictionary Is Part of Declarative Memory, and that Grammatical Rules Are Processed by the Procedural System Hit paper breakdown → | 1997 | 618 |
| 14 | 1995 | 477 | |
| 15 | 1998 | 429 | |
| 16 | 1991 | 426 | |
| 17 | 1993 | 386 | |
| 18 | 1979 | 382 | |
| 19 | The language instinct : the new science of language and mind | 1995 | 365 |
| 20 | 1989 | 358 |
About Steven Pinker
Steven Pinker is a scholar working on Cognitive Neuroscience, Developmental and Educational Psychology, Experimental and Cognitive Psychology, Language and Linguistics and Cultural Studies, having authored 218 papers that have together received 28.9k indexed citations. Recurring topics across this work include Language Development and Disorders (24 papers), Language and cultural evolution (22 papers), Syntax, Semantics, Linguistic Variation (21 papers), Child and Animal Learning Development (15 papers), Reading and Literacy Development (15 papers), Neurobiology of Language and Bilingualism (14 papers), Spatial Cognition and Navigation (13 papers) and Categorization, perception, and language (12 papers). The work is most often cited by research in Developmental and Educational Psychology (9.7k citations), Language and Linguistics (6.5k citations), Experimental and Cognitive Psychology (7.2k citations), Cultural Studies (4.5k citations) and Cognitive Neuroscience (8.6k citations). Steven Pinker has collaborated with scholars based in United States, Canada and France. Frequent co-authors include Paul Bloom, Alan Prince, Ellen Bialystok, Michael T. Ullman, Ray Jackendoff, Nolan Miller, Gerda Oldham, Michael J. Tarr, Sandeep Prasada and Michelle Hollander. Their work appears in journals such as Cognition, Behavioral and Brain Sciences, Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, Journal of Experimental Psychology Learning Memory and Cognition and Science.
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