James Winters

1.6k total citations
26 papers, 437 citations indexed

About

James Winters is a scholar working on Cultural Studies, Experimental and Cognitive Psychology and Artificial Intelligence. According to data from OpenAlex, James Winters has authored 26 papers receiving a total of 437 indexed citations (citations by other indexed papers that have themselves been cited), including 15 papers in Cultural Studies, 9 papers in Experimental and Cognitive Psychology and 5 papers in Artificial Intelligence. Recurrent topics in James Winters's work include Language and cultural evolution (15 papers), Language, Metaphor, and Cognition (6 papers) and Categorization, perception, and language (5 papers). James Winters is often cited by papers focused on Language and cultural evolution (15 papers), Language, Metaphor, and Cognition (6 papers) and Categorization, perception, and language (5 papers). James Winters collaborates with scholars based in Germany, France and United Kingdom. James Winters's co-authors include Seán G. Roberts, Kenny Smith, Simon Kirby, Olivier Morin, Piers Kelly, Tiffany Morisseau, Felix Creutzig, Jordan Zlatev, Helena Miton and Stefan Hartmann and has published in prestigious journals such as PLoS ONE, Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society B Biological Sciences and Cognition.

In The Last Decade

James Winters

25 papers receiving 426 citations

Peers — A (Enhanced Table)

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

Name h Career Trend Papers Cites
James Winters Germany 10 191 120 100 65 65 26 437
Viveka Velupillai Germany 9 226 1.2× 76 0.6× 207 2.1× 220 3.4× 192 3.0× 14 586
Dik Bakker Netherlands 11 245 1.3× 108 0.9× 287 2.9× 255 3.9× 203 3.1× 27 648
John H. McWhorter United States 14 189 1.0× 155 1.3× 506 5.1× 457 7.0× 121 1.9× 28 970
George W. Grace United States 9 148 0.8× 128 1.1× 278 2.8× 226 3.5× 50 0.8× 25 606
Wilhelm von Humboldt 13 85 0.4× 78 0.7× 175 1.8× 62 1.0× 23 0.4× 63 585
Maria Nikolajeva United Kingdom 16 45 0.2× 56 0.5× 84 0.8× 30 0.5× 15 0.2× 66 1.1k
Floyd G. Lounsbury United States 9 73 0.4× 159 1.3× 185 1.9× 92 1.4× 61 0.9× 19 556
Julien Meyer France 9 20 0.1× 82 0.7× 40 0.4× 53 0.8× 23 0.4× 37 381
Paul Friedrich United States 14 49 0.3× 119 1.0× 247 2.5× 112 1.7× 25 0.4× 49 574
Peter Eisenberg Germany 18 45 0.2× 163 1.4× 373 3.7× 85 1.3× 229 3.5× 63 1.0k

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Fields of papers citing papers by James Winters

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Physical SciencesHealth SciencesLife SciencesSocial Sciences

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Co-authorship network of co-authors of James Winters

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All Works

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Creutzig, Felix, et al.. (2023). Efficiency traps beyond the climate crisis: exploration–exploitation trade-offs and rebound effects. Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society B Biological Sciences. 378(1889). 20220405–20220405. 9 indexed citations
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Kelly, Piers, et al.. (2022). Simplification Is Not Dominant in the Evolution of Chinese Characters. Open Mind. 6. 264–279. 2 indexed citations
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Charbonneau, Mathieu, James W. A. Strachan, & James Winters. (2022). The problem with solutions: A commentary of “Blind alleys and fruitful pathways in the comparative study of cultural cognition” by Andrew Whiten. Physics of Life Reviews. 44. 61–63. 2 indexed citations
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Kelly, Piers, James Winters, Helena Miton, & Olivier Morin. (2021). The Predictable Evolution of Letter Shapes. Current Anthropology. 62(6). 669–691. 11 indexed citations
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Winters, James, et al.. (2021). Colour terms: native language semantic structure and artificial language structure formation in a large-scale online smartphone application. Journal of Cognitive Psychology. 33(4). 357–378. 1 indexed citations
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Winters, James, et al.. (2021). Standards and quantification of coin iconography: possibilities and challenges. Digital Scholarship in the Humanities. 37(1). 202–217.
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Winters, James, et al.. (2020). Effect of shared information and owner behavior on showing in dogs (Canis familiaris). Animal Cognition. 23(5). 1019–1034. 8 indexed citations
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Winters, James, et al.. (2020). Reverse engineering cash: Coin designs mark out high value differentials and coin sizes track values logarithmically. Cognition. 198. 104182–104182. 3 indexed citations
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Winters, James, et al.. (2019). Ancient coin designs encoded increasing amounts of economic information over centuries. Journal of Anthropological Archaeology. 56. 101103–101103. 8 indexed citations
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Winters, James, et al.. (2019). The Influence of Shared Visual Context on the Successful Emergence of Conventions in a Referential Communication Task. Cognitive Science. 43(9). e12783–e12783. 7 indexed citations
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Winters, James, Simon Kirby, & Kenny Smith. (2018). Contextual predictability shapes signal autonomy. Cognition. 176. 15–30. 30 indexed citations
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Morin, Olivier, et al.. (2018). What smartphone apps may contribute to language evolution research. ANU Open Research (Australian National University). 3(2). 91–93. 7 indexed citations
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Winters, James. (2017). The Use of Culturally Sensitive Education on Organ Donation and Its Impact on Attitudes and Willingness to Donate Organs. Aquila Digital Community (University of Southern Mississippi). 1 indexed citations
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Roberts, Seán G., et al.. (2015). Future Tense and Economic Decisions: Controlling for Cultural Evolution. PLoS ONE. 10(7). e0132145–e0132145. 77 indexed citations
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Winters, James, et al.. (2015). Integrating Cognitive Linguistics and language evolution research. 11. 19–19. 14 indexed citations
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Roberts, Seán G. & James Winters. (2013). Linguistic Diversity and Traffic Accidents: Lessons from Statistical Studies of Cultural Traits. PLoS ONE. 8(8). e70902–e70902. 93 indexed citations
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Winters, James, et al.. (2004). Deployment Optimization of a Boom for FalconSAT-3 using Elastic Memory Composite Material. Digital Commons - USU (Utah State University). 5 indexed citations

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