Alex Kiefer

410 total citations
15 papers, 187 citations indexed

About

Alex Kiefer is a scholar working on Cognitive Neuroscience, History and Philosophy of Science and Artificial Intelligence. According to data from OpenAlex, Alex Kiefer has authored 15 papers receiving a total of 187 indexed citations (citations by other indexed papers that have themselves been cited), including 8 papers in Cognitive Neuroscience, 3 papers in History and Philosophy of Science and 3 papers in Artificial Intelligence. Recurrent topics in Alex Kiefer's work include Embodied and Extended Cognition (8 papers), Philosophy and History of Science (3 papers) and Neural dynamics and brain function (2 papers). Alex Kiefer is often cited by papers focused on Embodied and Extended Cognition (8 papers), Philosophy and History of Science (3 papers) and Neural dynamics and brain function (2 papers). Alex Kiefer collaborates with scholars based in Australia, United States and United Kingdom. Alex Kiefer's co-authors include Jakob Hohwy, Maxwell J. D. Ramstead, Ryan Smith, Karl Friston, Judit Megyesi, Levi J. Beverly, Alexander Tschantz, Cierra N. Sharp, Mark A. Doll and Deanna Siow and has published in prestigious journals such as The FASEB Journal, Frontiers in Psychology and Neural Computation.

In The Last Decade

Alex Kiefer

14 papers receiving 181 citations

Peers — A (Enhanced Table)

Peers by citation overlap · career bar shows stage (early→late) cites · hero ref

Name	h						Papers	Cites
Alex Kiefer Australia	8	125	37	36	22	18	15	187
Manuel Baltieri United Kingdom	7	168 1.3×	45 1.2×	44 1.2×	9 0.4×		12	217
Jeff Yoshimi United States	9	76 0.6×	28 0.8×	15 0.4×	33 1.5×		18	148
John O. Campbell Australia	4	144 1.2×	45 1.2×	22 0.6×	20 0.9×		13	218
Beate Krickel Germany	8	62 0.5×	21 0.6×	90 2.5×	18 0.8×		14	164
Majid Davoody Beni Türkiye	8	88 0.7×	10 0.3×	89 2.5×	23 1.0×		39	137
Paweł Gładziejewski Poland	7	204 1.6×	62 1.7×	85 2.4×	46 2.1×		17	243
Rowland Stout Ireland	9	88 0.7×	38 1.0×	44 1.2×	104 4.7×	2 0.1×	25	220
Matteo Grasso United States	7	159 1.3×	18 0.5×	9 0.3×	41 1.9×		12	212
Guillermo Lorenzo Spain	11	41 0.3×	12 0.3×	16 0.4×	47 2.1×		48	313
Célia Rasga Portugal	9	67 0.5×	12 0.3×	16 0.4×	16 0.7×		26	194

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All Works

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15 of 15 papers shown

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Kiefer, Alex. (2025). Intrinsic Motivation as Constrained Entropy Maximization. Entropy. 27(4). 372–372. 1 indexed citations

2.

Kiefer, Alex. (2025). Embeddings as Dirichlet counts: Attention is the tip of the iceberg. Cognitive Neuroscience. 16(1-4). 29–31. 1 indexed citations

3.

Friston, Karl, Tommaso Salvatori, Takuya Isomura, et al.. (2025). Active Inference and Intentional Behavior. Neural Computation. 37(4). 666–700. 7 indexed citations

4.

Fields, Chris, et al.. (2025). How do inner screens enable imaginative experience? Applying the free-energy principle directly to the study of conscious experience. Neuroscience of Consciousness. 2025(1). niaf009–niaf009. 1 indexed citations

5.

Friston, Karl, Lancelot Da Costa, Alexander Tschantz, et al.. (2024). Supervised structure learning. Biological Psychology. 193. 108891–108891. 12 indexed citations

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Friston, Karl, Alex Kiefer, Alexander Tschantz, et al.. (2024). Designing ecosystems of intelligence from first principles. TU/e Research Portal. 3(1). 12 indexed citations

7.

Kiefer, Alex. (2023). What, precisely, is a Bayesian belief?. Physics of Life Reviews. 48. 36–38. 1 indexed citations

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Smith, Ryan, Maxwell J. D. Ramstead, & Alex Kiefer. (2022). Active inference models do not contradict folk psychology. Synthese. 200(2). 20 indexed citations

9.

Miller, Mark, et al.. (2022). Resilience and active inference. Frontiers in Psychology. 13. 1059117–1059117. 9 indexed citations

10.

Kiefer, Alex. (2020). Psychophysical identity and free energy. Journal of The Royal Society Interface. 17(169). 20200370–20200370. 20 indexed citations

11.

Kiefer, Alex. (2019). A Defense of Pure Connectionism. CUNY Academic Works (City University of New York). 1 indexed citations

12.

Kiefer, Alex & Jakob Hohwy. (2017). Content and misrepresentation in hierarchical generative models. Synthese. 195(6). 2387–2415. 72 indexed citations

13.

Dupre, Tess V., Mark A. Doll, Parag P. Shah, et al.. (2016). Suramin Protects From Cisplatin‐Induced Acute Kidney Injury. The FASEB Journal. 30(S1).

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Dupre, Tess V., Mark A. Doll, Parag P. Shah, et al.. (2015). Suramin protects from cisplatin-induced acute kidney injury. American Journal of Physiology-Renal Physiology. 310(3). F248–F258. 25 indexed citations

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Kiefer, Alex. (2005). The Intentional Model in Interpretation. Journal of Aesthetics and Art Criticism. 63(3). 271–281. 5 indexed citations

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