Masaki Tomonaga

6.5k total citations
224 papers, 4.3k citations indexed

About

Masaki Tomonaga is a scholar working on Social Psychology, Cognitive Neuroscience and Developmental and Educational Psychology. According to data from OpenAlex, Masaki Tomonaga has authored 224 papers receiving a total of 4.3k indexed citations (citations by other indexed papers that have themselves been cited), including 119 papers in Social Psychology, 113 papers in Cognitive Neuroscience and 78 papers in Developmental and Educational Psychology. Recurrent topics in Masaki Tomonaga's work include Primate Behavior and Ecology (107 papers), Child and Animal Learning Development (73 papers) and Face Recognition and Perception (63 papers). Masaki Tomonaga is often cited by papers focused on Primate Behavior and Ecology (107 papers), Child and Animal Learning Development (73 papers) and Face Recognition and Perception (63 papers). Masaki Tomonaga collaborates with scholars based in Japan, Kenya and United States. Masaki Tomonaga's co-authors include Tetsuro Matsuzawa, Fumihiro Kano, Masayuki Tanaka, Tomoko Imura, Masako Myowa‐Yamakoshi, Yuko Hattori, Joël Fagot, Satoshi Hirata, Josep Call and Ikuma Adachi and has published in prestigious journals such as Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, Journal of Neuroscience and SHILAP Revista de lepidopterología.

In The Last Decade

Masaki Tomonaga

215 papers receiving 4.1k citations

Peers — A (Enhanced Table)

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

Name h Career Trend Papers Cites
Masaki Tomonaga Japan 35 2.2k 2.0k 1.3k 766 519 224 4.3k
Kazuo Fujita Japan 35 1.8k 0.8× 1.4k 0.7× 1.1k 0.9× 533 0.7× 658 1.3× 198 3.9k
Toshikazu Hasegawa Japan 42 2.2k 1.0× 2.1k 1.1× 818 0.6× 1.3k 1.7× 968 1.9× 154 5.6k
James R. Anderson United Kingdom 48 3.5k 1.6× 1.5k 0.8× 1.6k 1.2× 521 0.7× 1.1k 2.1× 194 6.2k
Jacques Vauclair France 37 2.1k 1.0× 2.7k 1.3× 2.3k 1.7× 585 0.8× 317 0.6× 131 4.3k
Robert G. Cook United States 35 959 0.4× 2.0k 1.0× 1.3k 1.0× 519 0.7× 140 0.3× 147 4.2k
Robert Lickliter United States 31 995 0.5× 1.2k 0.6× 1.2k 0.9× 1.5k 1.9× 226 0.4× 139 3.9k
Marcia L. Spetch Canada 43 752 0.3× 2.5k 1.3× 2.0k 1.5× 607 0.8× 235 0.5× 192 5.2k
Lucia Regolin Italy 41 1.7k 0.8× 2.3k 1.2× 1.5k 1.1× 403 0.5× 368 0.7× 120 5.0k
Shoji Itakura Japan 35 2.3k 1.1× 1.8k 0.9× 2.0k 1.5× 625 0.8× 392 0.8× 200 4.1k
Sara J. Shettleworth Canada 44 1.9k 0.9× 2.0k 1.0× 1.5k 1.2× 410 0.5× 515 1.0× 113 5.8k

Countries citing papers authored by Masaki Tomonaga

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Fields of papers citing papers by Masaki Tomonaga

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Physical SciencesHealth SciencesLife SciencesSocial Sciences

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Co-authorship network of co-authors of Masaki Tomonaga

This figure shows the co-authorship network connecting the top 25 collaborators of Masaki Tomonaga. A scholar is included among the top collaborators of Masaki Tomonaga 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 Masaki Tomonaga. Masaki Tomonaga 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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Tomonaga, Masaki & Tomoko Imura. (2023). Attention to inattention: Effect of the other’s attentional state on visual search performance in chimpanzees. Perception. 52(4). 266–294. 2 indexed citations
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Saito, Wataru, Tomoko Ikawa, Yasuko Momoi, et al.. (2023). Endodontic Treatment of a Maxillary Incisor Tooth in a Chimpanzee (Pan troglodytes). Journal of Veterinary Dentistry. 41(2). 148–154.
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Tomonaga, Masaki, et al.. (2023). The impact of tourist visits on mountain gorilla behavior in Uganda. Journal of Ecotourism. 23(3). 277–295. 2 indexed citations
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Tomonaga, Masaki, et al.. (2021). Search asymmetries for threatening faces in chimpanzees (Pan troglodytes).. Journal of comparative psychology. 136(1). 20–34. 3 indexed citations
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Kitazaki, Michiteru, et al.. (2021). Great apes’ understanding of biomechanics: eye-tracking experiments using three-dimensional computer-generated animations. Primates. 62(5). 735–747. 2 indexed citations
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Cantlon, Jessica F., Steven T. Piantadosi, Evan L. MacLean, et al.. (2021). The evolution of quantitative sensitivity. Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society B Biological Sciences. 377(1844). 20200529–20200529. 14 indexed citations
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Tomonaga, Masaki, et al.. (2018). Exploring attentional bias towards threatening faces in chimpanzees using the dot probe task. PLoS ONE. 13(11). e0207378–e0207378. 16 indexed citations
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Bard, Kim A., et al.. (2017). The gesture ‘Touch’: Does meaning-making develop in chimpanzees’ use of a very flexible gesture?. Animal Cognition. 22(4). 535–550. 26 indexed citations
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Okamoto, Masaaki, Mariko Naito, Susumu Imai, et al.. (2016). Complete genome sequence of Streptococcus troglodytae TKU31 isolated from the oral cavity of a chimpanzee (Pan troglodytes). Microbiology and Immunology. 60(12). 811–816. 5 indexed citations
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Okamoto, Masaaki, Susumu Imai, Wataru Saito, et al.. (2015). Streptococcus panodentis sp. nov. from the oral cavities of chimpanzees. Microbiology and Immunology. 59(9). 526–532. 10 indexed citations
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Kaneko, Takaaki, Tomoko Sakai, Takako Miyabe‐Nishiwaki, & Masaki Tomonaga. (2013). A case of naturally occurring visual field loss in a chimpanzee with an arachnoid cyst. Neuropsychologia. 51(13). 2856–2862. 11 indexed citations
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Tomonaga, Masaki. (2006). Triadic relations and emergence of mind in nonhuman primates. 56(1). 67–78. 4 indexed citations
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Kuwahata, Hiroko, Ikuma Adachi, Κ. Fujita, Masaki Tomonaga, & Tetsuro Matsuzawa. (2004). Development of schematic face preference in macaque monkeys. Behavioural Processes. 66(1). 17–21. 37 indexed citations
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Tomonaga, Masaki, et al.. (2001). Learning Processes in the Acquisition of a Tool Using Task by Captive Chimpanzees. 44(1). 70–81. 9 indexed citations
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Tomonaga, Masaki. (2001). Visual Search for Biological Motion Patterns in Chimpanzees (Pan troglodytes). Psychologica. 44(1). 46–59. 36 indexed citations

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