David Premack

18.7k total citations · 2 hit papers
85 papers, 10.9k citations indexed

About

David Premack is a scholar working on Developmental and Educational Psychology, Social Psychology and Cognitive Neuroscience. According to data from OpenAlex, David Premack has authored 85 papers receiving a total of 10.9k indexed citations (citations by other indexed papers that have themselves been cited), including 45 papers in Developmental and Educational Psychology, 19 papers in Social Psychology and 17 papers in Cognitive Neuroscience. Recurrent topics in David Premack's work include Child and Animal Learning Development (32 papers), Behavioral and Psychological Studies (18 papers) and Primate Behavior and Ecology (11 papers). David Premack is often cited by papers focused on Child and Animal Learning Development (32 papers), Behavioral and Psychological Studies (18 papers) and Primate Behavior and Ecology (11 papers). David Premack collaborates with scholars based in United States, France and Australia. David Premack's co-authors include Guy Woodruff, Ann James Premack, Stephanie Sloane, Renée Baillargeon, Roger K. R. Thompson, David L. Oden, Robert W. Schaeffer, Michael S. Gazzaniga, Douglas J. Gillan and George Collier and has published in prestigious journals such as Nature, Science and Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences.

In The Last Decade

David Premack

83 papers receiving 9.8k citations

Hit Papers

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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.

Does the chimpanzee have a theory of mind?

1978 4.9k citations David Premack, Guy Woodruff Behavioral and Brain Sciences profile →
Intelligence in ape and man

1976 374 citations David Premack profile →

Peers — A (Enhanced Table)

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

Name	h						Papers	Cites
David Premack United States	37	5.6k	4.0k	3.9k	1.8k	1.2k	85	10.9k
Guy Woodruff United States	12	2.7k 0.5×	2.4k 0.6×	2.3k 0.6×	1.1k 0.6×	678 0.6×	16	6.0k
Josef Perner Austria	56	10.0k 1.8×	7.0k 1.8×	4.7k 1.2×	2.4k 1.3×	1.2k 1.0×	172	15.0k
Alan M. Leslie United States	42	9.2k 1.6×	8.4k 2.1×	4.0k 1.0×	2.0k 1.1×	1.1k 0.9×	78	14.7k
Esther Thelen United States	57	6.5k 1.2×	4.9k 1.2×	2.9k 0.8×	1.3k 0.7×	484 0.4×	120	13.3k
R. J. Herrnstein United States	49	7.0k 1.3×	4.3k 1.1×	2.1k 0.5×	1.8k 1.0×	3.0k 2.6×	118	16.5k
Gergely Csibra United Kingdom	61	8.6k 1.5×	7.2k 1.8×	5.7k 1.5×	2.4k 1.4×	954 0.8×	157	14.7k
Michael C. Corballis New Zealand	59	3.9k 0.7×	8.8k 2.2×	3.1k 0.8×	3.4k 1.9×	513 0.4×	322	13.5k
Chris Moore Canada	48	5.5k 1.0×	3.5k 0.9×	2.7k 0.7×	1.3k 0.7×	913 0.8×	139	8.7k
Elizabeth Bates United States	74	14.0k 2.5×	9.1k 2.3×	2.1k 0.5×	3.3k 1.9×	742 0.6×	236	21.0k
Jean M. Mandler United States	50	5.0k 0.9×	2.5k 0.6×	1.6k 0.4×	2.9k 1.6×	495 0.4×	116	9.1k

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Fields of papers citing papers by David Premack

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Co-authorship network of co-authors of David Premack

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20 of 20 papers shown

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Premack, David. (2007). Human and animal cognition: Continuity and discontinuity. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences. 104(35). 13861–13867. 194 indexed citations

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Premack, David & Ann James Premack. (2003). Original intelligence : unlocking the mystery of who we are. McGraw-Hill eBooks. 46 indexed citations

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Premack, David & Ann James Premack. (1995). Origins of human social competence.. 56 indexed citations

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Premack, David & Ann James Premack. (1994). Levels of causal understanding in chimpanzees and children. Cognition. 50(1-3). 347–362. 68 indexed citations

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Premack, David. (1990). The infant's theory of self-propelled objects. Cognition. 36(1). 1–16. 387 indexed citations

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Premack, David. (1990). Words: What are they, and do animals have them?. Cognition. 37(3). 197–212. 17 indexed citations

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Premack, David. (1990). On the coevolution of language and social competence. Behavioral and Brain Sciences. 13(4). 754–756. 5 indexed citations

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Premack, David & Ann James Premack. (1988). La mente del simio. Dialnet (Universidad de la Rioja). 2 indexed citations

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Premack, David & Ann James Premack. (1983). The Mind of an Ape. Medical Entomology and Zoology. 129 indexed citations

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Woodruff, Guy & David Premack. (1979). Intentional communication in the chimpanzee: The development of deception. Cognition. 7(4). 333–362. 426 indexed citations

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Premack, David & Guy Woodruff. (1978). Does the chimpanzee have a theory of mind?. Behavioral and Brain Sciences. 1(4). 515–526. 4934 indexed citations breakdown →

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Premack, David. (1976). Language and Intelligence in Ape and Man. American Scientist. 64(6). 674–683. 20 indexed citations

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Premack, David, et al.. (1976). On the Study of Intelligence in Chimpanzees. Current Anthropology. 17(3). 516–521. 1 indexed citations

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Premack, David. (1970). A FUNCTIONAL ANALYSIS OF LANGUAGE¹. Journal of the Experimental Analysis of Behavior. 14(1). 107–125. 105 indexed citations

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Premack, David & Walter Kintsch. (1970). A description of free responding in the rat. Learning and Motivation. 1(4). 321–336. 14 indexed citations

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Premack, David & George Collier. (1966). Duration of looking and number of brief looks as dependent variables. Psychonomic Science. 4(1). 81–82. 36 indexed citations

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Premack, David, et al.. (1963). INCREASED EATING IN RATS DEPRIVED OF RUNNING¹. Journal of the Experimental Analysis of Behavior. 6(2). 209–212. 52 indexed citations

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Premack, David. (1963). RATE DIFFERENTIAL REINFORCEMENT IN MONKEY MANIPULATION. Journal of the Experimental Analysis of Behavior. 6(1). 81–89. 48 indexed citations

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Premack, David, et al.. (1962). Evidence for shift effects in the consummatory response.. Journal of Experimental Psychology. 63(3). 284–288. 15 indexed citations

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Premack, David, et al.. (1959). OPERANT‐LEVEL LEVER PRESSING BY A MONKEY AS A FUNCTION OF INTERTEST INTERVAL. Journal of the Experimental Analysis of Behavior. 2(2). 127–131. 13 indexed citations

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