Isaac Davis

4.8k total citations · 1 hit paper
8 papers, 3.6k citations indexed

About

Isaac Davis is a scholar working on Developmental and Educational Psychology, Sociology and Political Science and Cognitive Neuroscience. According to data from OpenAlex, Isaac Davis has authored 8 papers receiving a total of 3.6k indexed citations (citations by other indexed papers that have themselves been cited), including 3 papers in Developmental and Educational Psychology, 2 papers in Sociology and Political Science and 2 papers in Cognitive Neuroscience. Recurrent topics in Isaac Davis's work include Child and Animal Learning Development (3 papers), Epistemology, Ethics, and Metaphysics (2 papers) and Decision-Making and Behavioral Economics (2 papers). Isaac Davis is often cited by papers focused on Child and Animal Learning Development (3 papers), Epistemology, Ethics, and Metaphysics (2 papers) and Decision-Making and Behavioral Economics (2 papers). Isaac Davis collaborates with scholars based in United States, Germany and Canada. Isaac Davis's co-authors include Mark M. Davis, Frederick B. Davis, Mark H. Davis, Helen Davis, Yarrow Dunham, Julian Jara‐Ettinger, Ryan W. Carlson, Z. Wang, Rosie Aboody and L. A. Paul and has published in prestigious journals such as Cognition, Synthese and Philosophical Psychology.

In The Last Decade

Isaac Davis

5 papers receiving 3.3k 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.

A multidimensional approach to individual differences in empathy

1980 3.6k citations Mark H. Davis, Mark M. Davis et al. Medical Entomology and Zoology profile →

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

Name	h						Papers	Cites
Isaac Davis United States	2	1.6k	1.2k	836	750	717	8	3.6k
Helen Davis Australia	10	1.8k 1.1×	1.5k 1.3×	981 1.2×	817 1.1×	772 1.1×	13	4.3k
Ann Buysse Belgium	35	1.5k 0.9×	1.3k 1.2×	699 0.8×	583 0.8×	764 1.1×	150	4.0k
Miriam Liss United States	34	963 0.6×	2.0k 1.7×	930 1.1×	606 0.8×	1.5k 2.1×	67	4.7k
Sylvia A. Morelli United States	18	1.6k 1.0×	672 0.6×	1.5k 1.8×	383 0.5×	697 1.0×	23	3.0k
Jefferson A. Singer United States	26	1.1k 0.7×	995 0.9×	1.1k 1.4×	218 0.3×	1.1k 1.5×	70	4.1k
David A. Wilder United States	40	1.3k 0.8×	747 0.6×	1.5k 1.8×	703 0.9×	1.5k 2.1×	200	4.6k
Stephanie A. Shields United States	30	1.4k 0.9×	1.3k 1.1×	369 0.4×	344 0.5×	1.4k 1.9×	74	4.5k
Darrick Jolliffe United Kingdom	20	1.6k 1.0×	2.1k 1.8×	366 0.4×	410 0.5×	1.3k 1.8×	53	3.8k
Jim Fultz United States	23	1.7k 1.0×	1.0k 0.9×	698 0.8×	447 0.6×	1.1k 1.5×	37	3.3k
Stephen Houghton Australia	39	989 0.6×	1.7k 1.5×	719 0.9×	918 1.2×	996 1.4×	213	4.8k

Countries citing papers authored by Isaac Davis

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Fields of papers citing papers by Isaac Davis

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Co-authorship network of co-authors of Isaac Davis

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All Works

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8 of 8 papers shown

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Aboody, Rosie, Isaac Davis, Yarrow Dunham, & Julian Jara‐Ettinger. (2025). People can infer the magnitude of other people’s knowledge even when they cannot infer its contents. Cognition. 265. 106236–106236.

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Wang, Z., Isaac Davis, & Julian Jara‐Ettinger. (2025). Modeling Other Minds: A Computational Account of Social Cognition and Its Development. 7(1). 65–89.

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Davis, Isaac, et al.. (2024). When New Experience Leads to New Knowledge: A Computational Framework for Formalizing Epistemically Transformative Experiences. Open Mind. 8. 1291–1311.

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Davis, Isaac. (2024). Rational representations of uncertainty: a pluralistic approach to bounded rationality. Synthese. 203(5). 1 indexed citations

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Davis, Isaac, Ryan W. Carlson, Yarrow Dunham, & Julian Jara‐Ettinger. (2023). Identifying social partners through indirect prosociality: A computational account. Cognition. 240. 105580–105580. 8 indexed citations

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Aboody, Rosie, Isaac Davis, Yarrow Dunham, & Julian Jara‐Ettinger. (2021). I can tell you know a lot, although I'm not sure what: Modeling broad epistemic inference from minimal action. eScholarship (California Digital Library). 1 indexed citations

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Davis, Isaac. (2020). How do we know what babies know? The limits of inferring cognitive representations from visual fixation data. Philosophical Psychology. 34(2). 182–209. 1 indexed citations

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Davis, Mark H., et al.. (1980). A multidimensional approach to individual differences in empathy. Medical Entomology and Zoology. 10. 85. 3617 indexed citations breakdown →

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