Daniel R. Montello

11.1k total citations · 3 hit papers
79 papers, 5.1k citations indexed

About

Daniel R. Montello is a scholar working on Automotive Engineering, Geography, Planning and Development and Experimental and Cognitive Psychology. According to data from OpenAlex, Daniel R. Montello has authored 79 papers receiving a total of 5.1k indexed citations (citations by other indexed papers that have themselves been cited), including 53 papers in Automotive Engineering, 44 papers in Geography, Planning and Development and 17 papers in Experimental and Cognitive Psychology. Recurrent topics in Daniel R. Montello's work include Spatial Cognition and Navigation (53 papers), Geographic Information Systems Studies (38 papers) and Geography Education and Pedagogy (14 papers). Daniel R. Montello is often cited by papers focused on Spatial Cognition and Navigation (53 papers), Geographic Information Systems Studies (38 papers) and Geography Education and Pedagogy (14 papers). Daniel R. Montello collaborates with scholars based in United States, Switzerland and United Kingdom. Daniel R. Montello's co-authors include Mary Hegarty, Toru Ishikawa, Anthony E. Richardson, Clark C. Presson, Herbert L. Pick, Madeleine Keehner, Reginald G. Golledge, Edward K. Sadalla, Michael F. Goodchild and Peter Khooshabeh and has published in prestigious journals such as Scientific Reports, Developmental Psychology and Personality and Social Psychology Bulletin.

In The Last Decade

Daniel R. Montello

76 papers receiving 4.7k citations

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What are hit papers?

Hit papers significantly outperform the citation benchmark for their cohort. A paper qualifies if it has ≥500 total citations, achieves ≥1.5× the top-1% citation threshold for papers in the same subfield and year (this is the minimum needed to enter the top 1%, not the average within it), or reaches the top citation threshold in at least one of its specific research topics.

Spatial abilities at different scales: Individual differences in aptitude-test performance and spatial-layout learning

2005 561 citations Mary Hegarty, Daniel R. Montello et al. profile →
Spatial knowledge acquisition from maps and from navigation in real and virtual environments

1999 415 citations Anthony E. Richardson, Daniel R. Montello et al. profile →
Spatial knowledge acquisition from direct experience in the environment: Individual differences in the development of metric knowledge and the integration of separately learned places☆

2005 408 citations Toru Ishikawa, Daniel R. Montello Cognitive Psychology profile →

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Name	h						Papers	Cites
Daniel R. Montello United States	33	3.1k	2.0k	1.0k	935	668	79	5.1k
Reginald G. Golledge United States	47	3.3k 1.1×	1.9k 1.0×	663 0.7×	1.0k 1.1×	2.1k 3.1×	137	7.5k
Jan Wiener United Kingdom	28	1.8k 0.6×	510 0.3×	415 0.4×	554 0.6×	1.2k 1.8×	121	3.2k
David H. Uttal United States	36	2.1k 0.7×	1.0k 0.5×	553 0.5×	1.1k 1.2×	496 0.7×	144	5.9k
Christoph Hölscher Switzerland	24	1.3k 0.4×	597 0.3×	417 0.4×	288 0.3×	302 0.5×	82	2.5k
Timothy P. McNamara United States	39	3.3k 1.1×	846 0.4×	707 0.7×	1.9k 2.0×	3.0k 4.5×	127	6.4k
Alexander W. Siegel United States	27	1.7k 0.6×	809 0.4×	338 0.3×	806 0.9×	837 1.3×	77	3.6k
Stephen C. Hirtle United States	17	943 0.3×	627 0.3×	277 0.3×	443 0.5×	266 0.4×	48	2.0k
Barbara Tversky United States	55	3.0k 1.0×	1.1k 0.6×	2.1k 2.1×	4.5k 4.8×	2.9k 4.3×	169	11.9k
Mary Hegarty United States	59	5.8k 1.9×	2.2k 1.1×	2.6k 2.6×	4.6k 4.9×	2.5k 3.7×	172	13.5k
Mark Blades United Kingdom	38	1.2k 0.4×	575 0.3×	241 0.2×	385 0.4×	1.2k 1.9×	128	3.7k

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Hegarty, Mary, et al.. (2025). Mapping the response: A survey of municipal firefighter navigation training and practices in the United States. International Journal of Disaster Risk Reduction. 123. 105446–105446.

Götz, Friedrich M., Daniel R. Montello, Michael E. W. Varnum, Davide Luca, & Douglas T. Kenrick. (2025). A unified framework integrating psychology and geography. Nature Human Behaviour. 9(9). 1780–1792.

Giannopoulos, Ioannis, et al.. (2025). Predicting spatial familiarity by exploiting head and eye movements during pedestrian navigation in the real world. Scientific Reports. 15(1). 7970–7970. 1 indexed citations

Montello, Daniel R., et al.. (2024). Wayfinding in pairs: comparing the planning and navigation performance of dyads and individuals in a real-world environment. Cognitive Research Principles and Implications. 9(1). 40–40. 2 indexed citations

Montello, Daniel R., et al.. (2019). Dyadic Route Planning and Navigation in Collaborative Wayfinding. DROPS (Schloss Dagstuhl – Leibniz Center for Informatics). 20. 8 indexed citations

Montello, Daniel R., et al.. (2017). How sense-of-direction and learning intentionality relate to spatial knowledge acquisition in the environment. Cognitive Research Principles and Implications. 2(1). 18–18. 18 indexed citations

Montello, Daniel R., et al.. (2014). Space in mind : concepts for spatial learning and education. MIT Press eBooks. 5 indexed citations

Montello, Daniel R. & Paul C. Sutton. (2013). An introduction to scientific research methods in geography & environmental studies. Sage eBooks. 10 indexed citations

Friedman, Alinda, et al.. (2012). Location memory for dots in polygons versus cities in regions: Evaluating the category adjustment model.. Journal of Experimental Psychology Learning Memory and Cognition. 38(5). 1336–1351. 7 indexed citations

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Keehner, Madeleine, Daniel R. Montello, Sara Irina Fabrikant, Eric M. Riggs, & Ruth Dalton. (2011). Everyday cognitive science: using the methods of cognitive science to explore spatial thinking in related disciplines. Cognitive Science. 33(33). 1 indexed citations

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Montello, Daniel R.. (2010). You Are Where? The Function and Frustration of You-Are-Here (YAH) Maps. Spatial Cognition and Computation. 10(2-3). 94–104. 51 indexed citations

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Fabrikant, Sara Irina, Daniel R. Montello, & David Mark. (2009). The natural landscape metaphor in information visualization: The role of commonsense geomorphology. Journal of the American Society for Information Science and Technology. 61(2). 253–270. 27 indexed citations

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Keehner, Madeleine, Mary Hegarty, Cheryl A. Cohen, Peter Khooshabeh, & Daniel R. Montello. (2008). Spatial Reasoning With External Visualizations: What Matters Is What You See, Not Whether You Interact. Cognitive Science. 32(7). 1099–1132. 125 indexed citations

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Ishikawa, Toru & Daniel R. Montello. (2005). Spatial knowledge acquisition from direct experience in the environment: Individual differences in the development of metric knowledge and the integration of separately learned places☆. Cognitive Psychology. 52(2). 93–129. 408 indexed citations breakdown →

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Keehner, Madeleine, Daniel R. Montello, Mary Hegarty, & Cheryl Cohen. (2004). Effects of Interactivity and Spatial Ability on the Comprehension of Spatial Relations in a 3D Computer Visualization. eScholarship (California Digital Library). 26(26). 12 indexed citations

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Cohen, Cheryl A., et al.. (2003). Spatial Ability in the Representation of Cross Sections. eScholarship (California Digital Library). 25(25). 7 indexed citations

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Montello, Daniel R.. (2003). Regions in Geography.. 173–189. 1 indexed citations

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Waller, David, Daniel R. Montello, Anthony E. Richardson, & Mary Hegarty. (2002). Orientation specificity and spatial updating of memories for layouts.. Journal of Experimental Psychology Learning Memory and Cognition. 28(6). 1051–1063. 110 indexed citations

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Montello, Daniel R., et al.. (1999). A Comparison of Methods for Estimating Directions in Egocentric Space. Perception. 28(8). 981–1000. 49 indexed citations

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Montello, Daniel R. & Reginald G. Golledge. (1999). Scale and Detail in the Cognition of Geographic Information. 2(5005). 1355–8. 16 indexed citations

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