Colin Allen

9.4k total citations · 1 hit paper
101 papers, 4.9k citations indexed

About

Colin Allen is a scholar working on Cognitive Neuroscience, Artificial Intelligence and Developmental and Educational Psychology. According to data from OpenAlex, Colin Allen has authored 101 papers receiving a total of 4.9k indexed citations (citations by other indexed papers that have themselves been cited), including 27 papers in Cognitive Neuroscience, 25 papers in Artificial Intelligence and 14 papers in Developmental and Educational Psychology. Recurrent topics in Colin Allen's work include Topic Modeling (13 papers), Child and Animal Learning Development (13 papers) and Evolutionary Game Theory and Cooperation (13 papers). Colin Allen is often cited by papers focused on Topic Modeling (13 papers), Child and Animal Learning Development (13 papers) and Evolutionary Game Theory and Cooperation (13 papers). Colin Allen collaborates with scholars based in United States, United Kingdom and Germany. Colin Allen's co-authors include Uri Nodelman, Edward N. Zalta, Wendell Wallach, Marc Bekoff, Iva Smit, Denise D. Cummins, Gary Varner, Georg Theiner, Robert L. Goldstone and Stan Franklin and has published in prestigious journals such as Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, SHILAP Revista de lepidopterología and PLoS ONE.

In The Last Decade

Colin Allen

90 papers receiving 4.3k citations

Hit Papers

Stanford encyclopedia of philosophy 2002 2026 2010 2018 2002 250 500 750 1000

Peers — A (Enhanced Table)

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

Name h Career Trend Papers Cites
Colin Allen United States 27 1.5k 943 798 774 679 101 4.9k
Michael E. Bratman United States 26 1.9k 1.3× 253 0.3× 1.5k 1.8× 930 1.2× 1.9k 2.7× 79 5.8k
Brian Skyrms United States 33 517 0.4× 1.1k 1.2× 718 0.9× 2.4k 3.1× 852 1.3× 140 5.2k
Don Ihde United States 30 1.0k 0.7× 321 0.3× 158 0.2× 1.2k 1.6× 578 0.9× 113 4.9k
Christian List United Kingdom 35 827 0.6× 583 0.6× 745 0.9× 1.1k 1.4× 1.3k 1.9× 120 4.7k
Ulrike Hahn United Kingdom 32 746 0.5× 191 0.2× 883 1.1× 702 0.9× 323 0.5× 147 3.7k
Peter M. Todd United States 41 1.8k 1.2× 870 0.9× 1.4k 1.8× 2.0k 2.6× 156 0.2× 161 9.6k
Christopher Cherniak United States 15 830 0.6× 225 0.2× 324 0.4× 1.1k 1.4× 212 0.3× 26 4.0k
Barbara A. Mellers United States 48 1.5k 1.0× 945 1.0× 728 0.9× 1.8k 2.3× 106 0.2× 151 8.2k
David H. Krantz United States 41 1.8k 1.2× 335 0.4× 946 1.2× 1.1k 1.4× 133 0.2× 108 7.7k
Nick Bostrom United Kingdom 27 1.6k 1.1× 383 0.4× 224 0.3× 646 0.8× 323 0.5× 66 3.5k

Countries citing papers authored by Colin Allen

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Fields of papers citing papers by Colin Allen

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Co-authorship network of co-authors of Colin Allen

This figure shows the co-authorship network connecting the top 25 collaborators of Colin Allen. A scholar is included among the top collaborators of Colin Allen 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 Colin Allen. Colin Allen 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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Gigerenzer, Gerd, Colin Allen, Robert L. Goldstone, et al.. (2025). Alternative models of funding curiosity-driven research. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences. 122(5). e2401237121–e2401237121. 1 indexed citations
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Binz, Marcel, Adina L. Roskies, Balázs Aczél, et al.. (2025). How should the advancement of large language models affect the practice of science?. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences. 122(5). e2401227121–e2401227121. 14 indexed citations
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Nelson, Ximena J., Alex H. Taylor, Erica A. Cartmill, et al.. (2023). Joyful by nature: approaches to investigate the evolution and function of joy in non‐human animals. Biological reviews/Biological reviews of the Cambridge Philosophical Society. 98(5). 1548–1563. 9 indexed citations
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Taylor, Alex H., et al.. (2022). The signature-testing approach to mapping biological and artificial intelligences. Trends in Cognitive Sciences. 26(9). 738–750. 16 indexed citations
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Ravenscroft, Andrew & Colin Allen. (2019). Finding and Interpreting Arguments: An Important Challenge for Humanities Computing and Scholarly Practice. Digital humanities quarterly. 13(4). 1 indexed citations
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Murdock, Jaimie, Colin Allen, & Simon DeDeo. (2016). Exploration and exploitation of Victorian science in Darwin’s reading notebooks. Cognition. 159. 117–126. 34 indexed citations
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Allen, Colin. (2014). Umwelt or Umwelten? How should shared representation be understood given such diversity?. Semiotica. 2014(198). 8 indexed citations
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Allen, Colin. (2013). The Geometry of Partial Understanding. American Philosophical Quarterly. 50(3). 5 indexed citations
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Allen, Colin, et al.. (2013). Cross-Cutting Categorization Schemes in the Digital Humanities. Isis. 104(3). 573–583.
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Buckner, Cameron, Adam Shriver, Stephen Crowley, & Colin Allen. (2009). How “weak” mindreaders inherited the earth. Behavioral and Brain Sciences. 32(2). 140–141. 6 indexed citations
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Niepert, Mathias, Cameron Buckner, & Colin Allen. (2008). Answer Set Programming on Expert Feedback to Populate and Extend Dynamic Ontologies. The Florida AI Research Society. 500–505. 7 indexed citations
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Vigo, Ronaldo & Colin Allen. (2008). How to reason without words: inference as categorization. Cognitive Processing. 10(1). 77–88. 17 indexed citations
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Rodrı́guez, Luis F., Laura Gómez, Laurent Loinard, et al.. (2008). NEW OBSERVATIONS OF THE LARGE PROPER MOTIONS OF RADIO SOURCES IN THE ORION BN/KL REGION. Redalyc (Universidad Autónoma del Estado de México). 34. 75–78. 1 indexed citations
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Allen, Colin. (2007). Parallel Dualisms: Understanding America’s Apathy for the Homeless through the Sociological Imagination. Human architecture. 5(2). 5.
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Wallach, Wendell, Colin Allen, & Iva Smit. (2007). Machine morality: bottom-up and top-down approaches for modelling human moral faculties. AI & Society. 22(4). 565–582. 83 indexed citations
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Khanarian, Garo, et al.. (2003). An improved technique for measuring optical loss in slab waveguides. Conference on Lasers and Electro-Optics. 980–982. 1 indexed citations
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Cummins, Denise D. & Colin Allen. (1998). The evolution of mind. eScholarship (California Digital Library). 118 indexed citations
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Allen, Colin, Marc Bekoff, & George Lauder. (1998). Nature's Purposes: Analyses of Function and Design in Biology. MIT Press eBooks. 70 indexed citations
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Bekoff, Marc & Colin Allen. (1995). Teleology, function, design and the evolution of animal behaviour. Trends in Ecology & Evolution. 10(6). 253–255. 16 indexed citations
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Allen, Colin, et al.. (1963). A study of the influence of various intermetallic iron-zinc layers on the rates of attack of solid iron by liquid zinc. Corrosion Science. 3(2). 87–97. 23 indexed citations

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