David Kirsh

9.6k total citations · 3 hit papers
83 papers, 5.0k citations indexed

About

David Kirsh is a scholar working on Cognitive Neuroscience, Experimental and Cognitive Psychology and Human-Computer Interaction. According to data from OpenAlex, David Kirsh has authored 83 papers receiving a total of 5.0k indexed citations (citations by other indexed papers that have themselves been cited), including 19 papers in Cognitive Neuroscience, 16 papers in Experimental and Cognitive Psychology and 14 papers in Human-Computer Interaction. Recurrent topics in David Kirsh's work include Action Observation and Synchronization (9 papers), Embodied and Extended Cognition (9 papers) and Spatial Cognition and Navigation (8 papers). David Kirsh is often cited by papers focused on Action Observation and Synchronization (9 papers), Embodied and Extended Cognition (9 papers) and Spatial Cognition and Navigation (8 papers). David Kirsh collaborates with scholars based in United States, Germany and Australia. David Kirsh's co-authors include James D. Hollan, Edwin Hutchins, Paul P. Maglio, Ron L. Alterman, David R. Nadeau, T. Todd Elvins, Hendrik Knoche, Rina Schul, Joshua M. Lewis and William G. Griswold and has published in prestigious journals such as Science, JAMA and SHILAP Revista de lepidopterología.

In The Last Decade

David Kirsh

76 papers receiving 4.4k citations

Hit Papers

Distributed cognition 1994 2026 2004 2015 2000 1994 1995 400 800 1.2k

Peers — A (Enhanced Table)

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

Name h Career Trend Papers Cites
David Kirsh United States 26 1.3k 1.2k 1.0k 867 777 83 5.0k
Barry H. Kantowitz United States 20 1.2k 0.9× 1.2k 1.0× 1.5k 1.5× 703 0.8× 644 0.8× 96 6.0k
Dominic W. Massaro United States 9 815 0.7× 758 0.6× 650 0.6× 813 0.9× 586 0.8× 9 4.1k
Michael D. Byrne United States 27 1.1k 0.9× 643 0.5× 843 0.8× 483 0.6× 479 0.6× 112 3.9k
David E. Kieras United States 32 2.4k 1.9× 1.3k 1.1× 1.6k 1.6× 1.1k 1.3× 1.2k 1.5× 114 6.4k
Andrew Monk United Kingdom 37 626 0.5× 1.5k 1.3× 664 0.6× 514 0.6× 264 0.3× 149 4.5k
James D. Hollan United States 26 703 0.6× 1.8k 1.5× 565 0.6× 565 0.7× 326 0.4× 92 5.1k
J. Gregory Trafton United States 37 1.2k 0.9× 701 0.6× 1.9k 1.9× 554 0.6× 1.0k 1.3× 177 4.9k
Susan R. Fussell United States 41 612 0.5× 2.2k 1.9× 2.4k 2.3× 567 0.7× 715 0.9× 169 6.6k
Sharon Oviatt United States 40 808 0.6× 2.0k 1.7× 961 0.9× 593 0.7× 806 1.0× 141 5.8k
Edwin Hutchins United States 29 1.7k 1.4× 1.7k 1.5× 2.6k 2.6× 1.6k 1.9× 1.4k 1.8× 53 10.8k

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Fields of papers citing papers by David Kirsh

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Physical SciencesHealth SciencesLife SciencesSocial Sciences

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Co-authorship network of co-authors of David Kirsh

This figure shows the co-authorship network connecting the top 25 collaborators of David Kirsh. A scholar is included among the top collaborators of David Kirsh 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 David Kirsh. David Kirsh 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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Mattar, Marcelo G., et al.. (2025). Humans Select Subgoals That Balance Immediate and Future Cognitive Costs During Physical Assembly. Cognitive Science. 49(11). e70135–e70135.
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Kirsh, David, et al.. (2023). Consistency and Variation in Reasoning About Physical Assembly. Cognitive Science. 47(12). e13397–e13397. 1 indexed citations
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Kirsh, David. (2023). Atmosphere, mood, and scientific explanation. Frontiers in Computer Science. 5. 6 indexed citations
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Kirsh, David, et al.. (2020). Learning to build physical structures better over time.. Cognitive Science.
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Kirsh, David, et al.. (2016). CHOREOGRAPHIC METHODS FOR CREATING NOVEL, HIGH QUALITY DANCE. SHILAP Revista de lepidopterología. 9 indexed citations
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Kirsh, David. (2013). Poznanie ucieleśnione i magiczna przyszłość projektowania interakcji. SHILAP Revista de lepidopterología. 1 indexed citations
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Kirsh, David. (2012). Running it through the body. Cognitive Science. 34(34). 4 indexed citations
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Skagerlund, Kenny, David Kirsh, & Nils Dahlbäck. (2012). Maps in the Head and Maps in the Hand. Cognitive Science. 34(34). 2339–2344. 1 indexed citations
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Kirsh, David, et al.. (2012). When doing the wrong thing is right. Cognitive Science. 34(34). 2 indexed citations
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Chan, Theodore C., William G. Griswold, Colleen Buono, et al.. (2011). Impact of Wireless Electronic Medical Record System on the Quality of Patient Documentation by Emergency Field Responders during a Disaster Mass-Casualty Exercise. Prehospital and Disaster Medicine. 26(4). 268–275. 12 indexed citations
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Kirsh, David. (2011). How marking in dance constitutes thinking with the body. PhilPapers (PhilPapers Foundation). 183–214. 31 indexed citations
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Kirsh, David. (2009). Projection, Problem Space and Anchoring. eScholarship (California Digital Library). 31(31). 25 indexed citations
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Carlson, Richard A., Wayne D. Gray, Alex Kirlik, et al.. (2007). Immediate Interactive Behavior — How Embodied and Embedded Cognition Uses and Changes the World to Achieve its Goals. Cognitive Science. 29(29). 33–34. 4 indexed citations
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Kirsh, David. (2005). Multi-tasking and Cost Structure: Implications for Design. eScholarship (California Digital Library). 27(27). 4 indexed citations
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Alterman, Richard & David Kirsh. (2003). Proceedings of the Twenty-Fifth Annual Conference of the Cognitive Science Society : July 30-August 2, 2003, Park Plaza-Hotel, Boston, Massachusetts USA. 1 indexed citations
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Alterman, Richard, et al.. (2003). How people represent and reason from graphs. eScholarship (California Digital Library). 25(25). 1206–1211. 5 indexed citations
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Hollan, James D., Edwin Hutchins, & David Kirsh. (2000). Distributed cognition. ACM Transactions on Computer-Human Interaction. 7(2). 174–196. 1320 indexed citations breakdown →
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Kirsh, David, et al.. (1995). Complementary Strategies: Why we use our hands when we think. Conference Cognitive Science. 84 indexed citations
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Kirsh, David & Paul P. Maglio. (1992). Perceptive Actions in Tetris. PhilPapers (PhilPapers Foundation). 3 indexed citations
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Kirsh, David & Paul P. Maglio. (1992). Some Epistemic Benefits of Action-Tetris, a Case Study. eScholarship (California Digital Library). 20 indexed citations

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