Ashley J Thomas

473 total citations
19 papers, 189 citations indexed

About

Ashley J Thomas is a scholar working on Developmental and Educational Psychology, Sociology and Political Science and Social Psychology. According to data from OpenAlex, Ashley J Thomas has authored 19 papers receiving a total of 189 indexed citations (citations by other indexed papers that have themselves been cited), including 12 papers in Developmental and Educational Psychology, 9 papers in Sociology and Political Science and 8 papers in Social Psychology. Recurrent topics in Ashley J Thomas's work include Child and Animal Learning Development (12 papers), Psychology of Moral and Emotional Judgment (4 papers) and Social and Intergroup Psychology (4 papers). Ashley J Thomas is often cited by papers focused on Child and Animal Learning Development (12 papers), Psychology of Moral and Emotional Judgment (4 papers) and Social and Intergroup Psychology (4 papers). Ashley J Thomas collaborates with scholars based in United States, Denmark and Sweden. Ashley J Thomas's co-authors include Barbara W. Sarnecka, Elizabeth S. Spelke, Rebecca Saxe, Lotte Thomsen, Angela F. Lukowski, Daniel Nettle, Brandon Matthew Woo, Jonathan F. Kominsky, Michael C. Frank and Kelsey Lucca and has published in prestigious journals such as Science, Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences and Current Biology.

In The Last Decade

Ashley J Thomas

15 papers receiving 184 citations

Peers — A (Enhanced Table)

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

Name	h						Papers	Cites
Ashley J Thomas United States	8	107	100	71	47	29	19	189
Anthea Pun Canada	6	116 1.1×	103 1.0×	112 1.6×	56 1.2×	32 1.1×	8	194
Brandon Matthew Woo United States	9	139 1.3×	161 1.6×	46 0.6×	98 2.1×	30 1.0×	17	244
Kyong‐sun Jin South Korea	6	78 0.7×	132 1.3×	62 0.9×	76 1.6×	29 1.0×	22	208
Danielle Perszyk United States	8	61 0.6×	121 1.2×	38 0.5×	98 2.1×	42 1.4×	11	252
Denis Tatone United Kingdom	7	154 1.4×	255 2.5×	44 0.6×	100 2.1×	65 2.2×	15	314
Beate Priewasser Austria	6	100 0.9×	194 1.9×	34 0.5×	102 2.2×	14 0.5×	9	219
Silvia Guerrero Spain	9	98 0.9×	114 1.1×	114 1.6×	33 0.7×	14 0.5×	28	264
Valerie San Juan Canada	9	46 0.4×	136 1.4×	50 0.7×	128 2.7×	81 2.8×	17	296
Mika Asaba United States	7	80 0.7×	111 1.1×	34 0.5×	93 2.0×	37 1.3×	20	215

Countries citing papers authored by Ashley J Thomas

Since Specialization

Citations

This map shows the geographic impact of Ashley J Thomas's research. It shows the number of citations coming from papers published by authors working in each country. You can also color the map by specialization and compare the number of citations received by Ashley J Thomas with the expected number of citations based on a country's size and research output (numbers larger than one mean the country cites Ashley J Thomas more than expected).

Fields of papers citing papers by Ashley J Thomas

Since Specialization

Physical SciencesHealth SciencesLife SciencesSocial Sciences

This network shows the impact of papers produced by Ashley J Thomas. Nodes represent research fields, and links connect fields that are likely to share authors. Colored nodes show fields that tend to cite the papers produced by Ashley J Thomas. The network helps show where Ashley J Thomas may publish in the future.

Co-authorship network of co-authors of Ashley J Thomas

This figure shows the co-authorship network connecting the top 25 collaborators of Ashley J Thomas. A scholar is included among the top collaborators of Ashley J Thomas based on the total number of citations received by their joint publications. Widths of edges represent the number of papers authors have co-authored together. Node borders signify the number of papers an author published with Ashley J Thomas. Ashley J Thomas is excluded from the visualization to improve readability, since they are connected to all nodes in the network.

All Works

Sort: Min cites: Since: Top N: Style:

19 of 19 papers shown

Thomas, Ashley J, et al.. (2025). How Do Infants Experience Caregiving?. Daedalus. 154(1). 14–35. 2 indexed citations

Thomas, Ashley J, Rebecca Saxe, & Elizabeth S. Spelke. (2025). Infants use imitation but not comforting or social synchrony to evaluate those in social interactions.

Thomas, Ashley J, Chris Bourg, & Rebecca Saxe. (2025). Beliefs about social dynamics and open science. Royal Society Open Science. 12(5). 230061–230061.

Woo, Brandon Matthew, et al.. (2025). Developing Intuitions That Close Friends Know the Content of Each Other’s Minds. Open Mind. 9. 1251–1276.

Thomas, Ashley J. (2024). Cognitive Representations of Social Relationships and their Developmental Origins. Behavioral and Brain Sciences. 1–53. 7 indexed citations

Spelke, Elizabeth S., et al.. (2024). Infants Infer Social Relationships Between Individuals Who Engage in Imitative Social Interactions. Open Mind. 8. 202–216. 3 indexed citations

Thomas, Ashley J, Brandon Matthew Woo, Daniel Nettle, Elizabeth S. Spelke, & Rebecca Saxe. (2022). Early concepts of intimacy: Young humans use saliva sharing to infer close relationships. Science. 375(6578). 311–315. 32 indexed citations

Thomas, Ashley J, et al.. (2022). Children Expect Leaders to Oust Intruders, Refrain From Unprovoked Aggression, but Not to Be Generally Prosocial. Collabra Psychology. 8(1). 1 indexed citations

Thomas, Ashley J, et al.. (2022). Intuitive Sociology: Children Recognize Decision-Making Structures and Prefer Groups With Less-Concentrated Power. Open Mind. 6. 25–40. 2 indexed citations

10.

Thomas, Ashley J, Rebecca Saxe, & Elizabeth S. Spelke. (2022). Infants infer potential social partners by observing the interactions of their parent with unknown others. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences. 119(32). e2121390119–e2121390119. 17 indexed citations

11.

Kominsky, Jonathan F., Kelsey Lucca, Ashley J Thomas, Michael C. Frank, & J. Kiley Hamlin. (2022). Simplicity and validity in infant research. Cognitive Development. 63. 101213–101213. 23 indexed citations

12.

Thomas, Ashley J & Barbara W. Sarnecka. (2019). Infants Choose Those Who Defer in Conflicts. Current Biology. 29(13). 2183–2189.e5. 21 indexed citations

13.

Thomas, Ashley J, et al.. (2018). Toddlers prefer those who win but not when they win by force. Nature Human Behaviour. 2(9). 662–669. 55 indexed citations

14.

Thomas, Ashley J, et al.. (2016). Preferring the Mighty to the Meek: Toddlers prefer Superior to Subordinate Individuals.. Cognitive Science. 1 indexed citations

15.

Thomas, Ashley J, et al.. (2016). Preferring the Mighty to the Meek: Toddlers Prefer Novel Dominant Agents. eScholarship (California Digital Library). 3 indexed citations

16.

Thomas, Ashley J, P. Kyle Stanford, & Barbara W. Sarnecka. (2016). No Child Left Alone: Moral Judgments about Parents Affect Estimates of Risk to Children. Collabra Psychology. 2(1). 11 indexed citations

17.

Thomas, Ashley J, P. Kyle Stanford, & Barbara W. Sarnecka. (2016). Correction: No Child Left Alone: Moral Judgments about Parents Affect Estimates of Risk to Children. Collabra Psychology. 2(1). 1 indexed citations

18.

Thomas, Ashley J & Barbara W. Sarnecka. (2015). Exploring the relation between people’s theories of intelligence and beliefs about brain development. Frontiers in Psychology. 6. 921–921. 9 indexed citations

19.

Thomas, Ashley J & Leandra A. Bedini. (2011). Let Me Play! Girls with Disabilities and Physical Activity. Women in Sport and Physical Activity Journal. 20(1). 104–106. 1 indexed citations

Rankless uses publication and citation data sourced from OpenAlex, an open and comprehensive bibliographic database. While OpenAlex provides broad and valuable coverage of the global research landscape, it—like all bibliographic datasets—has inherent limitations. These include incomplete records, variations in author disambiguation, differences in journal indexing, and delays in data updates. As a result, some metrics and network relationships displayed in Rankless may not fully capture the entirety of a scholar's output or impact.

Explore authors with similar magnitude of impact