Dan Sperber

35.8k total citations · 9 hit papers
143 papers, 15.5k citations indexed

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 143 papers receiving a total of 15.5k indexed citations (citations by other indexed papers that have themselves been cited), including 32 papers in Experimental and Cognitive Psychology, 26 papers in Sociology and Political Science and 25 papers in Language and Linguistics. Recurrent topics in Dan Sperber's work include Language, Metaphor, and Cognition (18 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 (18 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, Nicolas Baumard, Nicolas Claidière, Paul Meara, Lawrence A. Hirschfeld, Luca Surian and Jean‐Baptiste André and has published in prestigious journals such as Nature, SHILAP Revista de lepidopterología and Contemporary Sociology A Journal of Reviews.

In The Last Decade

Dan Sperber

129 papers receiving 13.0k citations

Hit Papers

Relevance: Communication and Cognition 1986 2026 1999 2012 1986 2011 1998 2010 2002 1000 2.0k 3.0k

Peers — A (Enhanced Table)

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

Name h Career Trend Papers Cites
Dan Sperber France 43 5.3k 4.3k 3.6k 3.2k 3.1k 143 15.5k
Teun A. van Dijk Spain 59 4.0k 0.8× 5.0k 1.2× 6.1k 1.7× 4.6k 1.5× 1.4k 0.4× 228 23.9k
Stephen C. Levinson Netherlands 59 10.4k 2.0× 11.4k 2.6× 3.0k 0.9× 4.0k 1.3× 4.4k 1.4× 195 25.0k
Deirdre Wilson United Kingdom 33 4.3k 0.8× 4.4k 1.0× 959 0.3× 1.8k 0.6× 1.3k 0.4× 70 9.8k
George Lakoff United States 49 15.5k 2.9× 8.9k 2.1× 4.8k 1.4× 3.5k 1.1× 6.0k 1.9× 167 33.0k
Eleanor Rosch United States 22 6.6k 1.2× 1.9k 0.4× 2.4k 0.7× 6.1k 1.9× 5.2k 1.7× 39 21.7k
Steven Pinker United States 59 5.6k 1.1× 4.8k 1.1× 2.7k 0.8× 8.5k 2.7× 2.7k 0.9× 186 23.6k
Raymond W. Gibbs United States 55 9.1k 1.7× 4.5k 1.0× 798 0.2× 2.1k 0.7× 3.1k 1.0× 188 12.9k
Jerry A. Fodor United States 48 7.7k 1.5× 2.8k 0.7× 1.2k 0.3× 5.0k 1.6× 3.3k 1.0× 131 20.2k
Herbert H. Clark United States 56 9.7k 1.8× 8.9k 2.1× 1.6k 0.5× 6.8k 2.2× 4.3k 1.4× 100 24.5k
P. N. Johnson‐Laird United States 62 5.6k 1.1× 1.5k 0.3× 1.6k 0.4× 6.1k 1.9× 3.3k 1.0× 272 21.4k

Countries citing papers authored by Dan Sperber

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Fields of papers citing papers by Dan Sperber

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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.

All Works

20 of 20 papers shown
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Völter, Christoph J., et al.. (2022). Learning from communication versus observation in great apes. Scientific Reports. 12(1). 2917–2917. 3 indexed citations
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Mercier, Hugo & Dan Sperber. (2019). Replies to Critics. Teorema: Revista internacional de filosofía. 38(1). 139–156. 1 indexed citations
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Mercier, Hugo & Dan Sperber. (2019). Resumen de The Enigma of Reason. Dialnet (Universidad de la Rioja). 38(1). 59–67.
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Wilson, Deirdre & Dan Sperber. (2010). TEORIA DA RELEVÂNCIA. LA Referencia (Red Federada de Repositorios Institucionales de Publicaciones Científicas). 5. 221–268. 6 indexed citations
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Mercier, Hugo & Dan Sperber. (2010). Why Do Humans Reason? Arguments for an Argumentative Theory. Scholarly Commons (University of Pennsylvania). 7 indexed citations
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Sperber, Dan. (2008). Une pensée à l'orée des sciences cognitives. 70–71.
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Sperber, Dan. (2000). Metarepresentations : a multidisciplinary perspective. Oxford University Press eBooks. 241 indexed citations
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Sperber, Dan, et al.. (1999). Des idées qui viennent. 3 indexed citations
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Sperber, Dan. (1998). INTERPRETATÍVNA ETNOGRAFIA A TEORETICKÁ ANTROPOLÓGIA. 179–193.
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Sperber, Dan & Deirdre Wilson. (1996). Fodor's frame problem and relevance theory - Response. UCL Discovery (University College London). 1 indexed citations
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Sperber, Dan. (1996). La contagion des idées : théorie naturaliste de la culture. 18 indexed citations
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Sperber, Dan & Deirdre Wilson. (1994). La relevancia: comunicación y procesos cognitivos. 19 indexed citations
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Sperber, Dan, et al.. (1991). La Pertinence, communication et cognition, collection « Propositions ». Revue de métaphysique et de morale. 96(3).
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Sperber, Dan, et al.. (1990). Retórica y pertinencia. Revista de occidente. 5–26. 2 indexed citations
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Sperber, Dan & Deirdre Wilson. (1989). La pertinence: Communication et cognition (French translation of Relevance: Communication and Cognitioin). 63(2). 213–5. 1 indexed citations
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Sperber, Dan, et al.. (1985). On choosing the context for utterance interpretation. UCL Discovery (University College London). 9 indexed citations
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Sperber, Dan, et al.. (1975). El estructuralismo en antropología. 2 indexed citations
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Chomsky, Noam, et al.. (1969). La linguistique cartésienne : un chapitre de l'histoire de la pensée rationaliste ; suivi de, La nature formelle du langage. Éditions du Seuil eBooks.
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Sperber, Dan. (1968). Le structuralisme en anthropologie. Seuil eBooks. 8 indexed citations

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