Dan Sperber

121 papers and 14.8k indexed citations i.

About

Dan Sperber is a scholar working on Experimental and Cognitive Psychology, Sociology and Political Science and Language and Linguistics. According to data from OpenAlex, Dan Sperber has authored 121 papers receiving a total of 14.8k indexed citations (citations by other indexed papers that have themselves been cited), including 33 papers in Experimental and Cognitive Psychology, 25 papers in Sociology and Political Science and 23 papers in Language and Linguistics. Recurrent topics in Dan Sperber’s work include Language, Metaphor, and Cognition (19 papers), Child and Animal Learning Development (15 papers) and Language, Discourse, Communication Strategies (14 papers). Dan Sperber is often cited by papers focused on Language, Metaphor, and Cognition (19 papers), Child and Animal Learning Development (15 papers) and Language, Discourse, Communication Strategies (14 papers). Dan Sperber collaborates with scholars based in France, United Kingdom and United States. Dan Sperber's co-authors include Deirdre Wilson, Hugo Mercier, Jerome H. Barkow, Olivier Mascaro, Daniel Nettle, Nicolas Baumard, Nicolas Claidière, Paul Meara, Lawrence A. Hirschfeld and Luca Surian and has published in prestigious journals such as Nature, PLoS ONE and Contemporary Sociology A Journal of Reviews.

In The Last Decade

Co-authorship network of co-authors of Dan Sperber

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

Fields of papers citing papers by Dan Sperber

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Countries citing papers authored by Dan Sperber

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