Axel Constant

2.2k total citations
40 papers, 837 citations indexed

About

Axel Constant is a scholar working on Cognitive Neuroscience, Sociology and Political Science and Social Psychology. According to data from OpenAlex, Axel Constant has authored 40 papers receiving a total of 837 indexed citations (citations by other indexed papers that have themselves been cited), including 24 papers in Cognitive Neuroscience, 12 papers in Sociology and Political Science and 6 papers in Social Psychology. Recurrent topics in Axel Constant's work include Embodied and Extended Cognition (20 papers), Evolutionary Game Theory and Cooperation (11 papers) and Neural dynamics and brain function (6 papers). Axel Constant is often cited by papers focused on Embodied and Extended Cognition (20 papers), Evolutionary Game Theory and Cooperation (11 papers) and Neural dynamics and brain function (6 papers). Axel Constant collaborates with scholars based in United Kingdom, Australia and Canada. Axel Constant's co-authors include Karl Friston, Maxwell J. D. Ramstead, Samuel P. L. Veissière, Laurence J. Kirmayer, Andy Clark, John O. Campbell, Paul B. Badcock, Michael D. Kirchhoff, Hubert Preißl and Anna Ciaunica and has published in prestigious journals such as SHILAP Revista de lepidopterología, Trends in Cognitive Sciences and Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society B Biological Sciences.

In The Last Decade

Axel Constant

33 papers receiving 811 citations

Peers — A (Enhanced Table)

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

Name h Career Trend Papers Cites
Axel Constant United Kingdom 15 576 249 162 120 96 40 837
Maxwell J. D. Ramstead Canada 15 847 1.5× 354 1.4× 208 1.3× 188 1.6× 147 1.5× 21 1.2k
Jelle Bruineberg Netherlands 12 810 1.4× 365 1.5× 92 0.6× 155 1.3× 113 1.2× 26 1.1k
Michael Wheeler United Kingdom 13 587 1.0× 336 1.3× 104 0.6× 185 1.5× 126 1.3× 50 882
Michael D. Kirchhoff Australia 20 1.1k 1.9× 453 1.8× 144 0.9× 173 1.4× 204 2.1× 50 1.5k
Matteo Colombo Netherlands 17 475 0.8× 121 0.5× 96 0.6× 87 0.7× 79 0.8× 66 777
Eric Mandelbaum United States 13 435 0.8× 160 0.6× 212 1.3× 206 1.7× 205 2.1× 28 725
Maxwell J. D. Ramstead United Kingdom 12 418 0.7× 147 0.6× 73 0.5× 94 0.8× 65 0.7× 24 602
Valerie Gray Hardcastle United States 13 418 0.7× 137 0.6× 65 0.4× 153 1.3× 113 1.2× 82 750
Erik Myin Belgium 18 1.0k 1.8× 617 2.5× 105 0.6× 326 2.7× 150 1.6× 49 1.4k
Tobias Schlicht Germany 9 917 1.6× 687 2.8× 83 0.5× 264 2.2× 102 1.1× 22 1.3k

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Fields of papers citing papers by Axel Constant

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Co-authorship network of co-authors of Axel Constant

This figure shows the co-authorship network connecting the top 25 collaborators of Axel Constant. A scholar is included among the top collaborators of Axel Constant 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 Axel Constant. Axel Constant is excluded from the visualization to improve readability, since they are connected to all nodes in the network.

All Works

20 of 20 papers shown
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Pouliot, Mylène, Timothy L. Friesen, Vincent Paquin, et al.. (2025). Systematic review: the integration and interpretation of Social Determinants of Health (SDH) in Digital Phenotyping research (DP). PsyArXiv (OSF Preprints).
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Long, Robert P., Tim Bayne, Yoshua Bengio, et al.. (2025). Identifying indicators of consciousness in AI systems. Trends in Cognitive Sciences.
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Gauld, Christophe, et al.. (2025). The role of clinicians in the looping effect: epistemic injustices and looping breaks. Medicine Health Care and Philosophy. 28(3). 561–576.
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Constant, Axel, et al.. (2025). Material culture both reflects and causes human cognitive evolution. Behavioral and Brain Sciences. 48. e7–e7. 1 indexed citations
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Deane, George, Axel Constant, Guillaume Dumas, et al.. (2024). Sources of richness and ineffability for phenomenally conscious states. Neuroscience of Consciousness. 2024(1). niae001–niae001. 5 indexed citations
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Constant, Axel, et al.. (2023). Blockchain and regenerative finance: charting a path toward regeneration. SHILAP Revista de lepidopterología. 6. 5 indexed citations
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Constant, Axel. (2023). A Bayesian model of legal syllogistic reasoning. Artificial Intelligence and Law. 32(2). 441–462. 3 indexed citations
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Friston, Karl, Thomas Parr, Conor Heins, et al.. (2023). Federated inference and belief sharing. Neuroscience & Biobehavioral Reviews. 156. 105500–105500. 13 indexed citations
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Hipólito, Inês, Maxwell J. D. Ramstead, Axel Constant, & Karl Friston. (2021). Cognition coming about: Self-organisation and free-energy: Commentary on Wright, J.J. and Bourke, P.D. (2020) “The growth of cognition: Free energy minimization and the embryogenesis of cortical computation”. Research Online (University of Wollongong). 4 indexed citations
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Constant, Axel, Alexander Tschantz, Beren Millidge, et al.. (2021). The Acquisition of Culturally Patterned Attention Styles Under Active Inference. Frontiers in Neurorobotics. 15. 729665–729665. 9 indexed citations
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Constant, Axel, et al.. (2021). A Variational Approach to Scripts. Frontiers in Psychology. 12. 585493–585493. 12 indexed citations
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Friedman, Daniel, et al.. (2021). Active Inferants: An Active Inference Framework for Ant Colony Behavior. Frontiers in Behavioral Neuroscience. 15. 647732–647732. 18 indexed citations
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Ciaunica, Anna, et al.. (2021). The first prior: From co-embodiment to co-homeostasis in early life. Consciousness and Cognition. 91. 103117–103117. 45 indexed citations
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Constant, Axel, Karl Friston, & Maxwell J. D. Ramstead. (2020). What kind of explanation is the constructing and coasting strategy?. Physics of Life Reviews. 36. 80–82. 2 indexed citations
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Veissière, Samuel P. L., Axel Constant, Maxwell J. D. Ramstead, Karl Friston, & Laurence J. Kirmayer. (2019). Thinking through other minds: A variational approach to cognition and culture. Behavioral and Brain Sciences. 43. e90–e90. 157 indexed citations
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Ramstead, Maxwell J. D., Axel Constant, Paul B. Badcock, & Karl Friston. (2019). Variational ecology and the physics of sentient systems. Physics of Life Reviews. 31. 188–205. 63 indexed citations
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Constant, Axel, Maxwell J. D. Ramstead, Samuel P. L. Veissière, & Karl Friston. (2019). Regimes of Expectations: An Active Inference Model of Social Conformity and Human Decision Making. Frontiers in Psychology. 10. 679–679. 75 indexed citations
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Ramstead, Maxwell J. D., Michael D. Kirchhoff, Axel Constant, & Karl Friston. (2019). Multiscale integration: beyond internalism and externalism. Synthese. 198(S1). 41–70. 54 indexed citations
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Constant, Axel, Maxwell J. D. Ramstead, Samuel P. L. Veissière, John O. Campbell, & Karl Friston. (2018). A variational approach to niche construction. Journal of The Royal Society Interface. 15(141). 116 indexed citations

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