Michael Cole

9.2k total citations · 3 hit papers
136 papers, 5.3k citations indexed

About

Michael Cole is a scholar working on Developmental and Educational Psychology, Education and Social Psychology. According to data from OpenAlex, Michael Cole has authored 136 papers receiving a total of 5.3k indexed citations (citations by other indexed papers that have themselves been cited), including 43 papers in Developmental and Educational Psychology, 29 papers in Education and 25 papers in Social Psychology. Recurrent topics in Michael Cole's work include Early Childhood Education and Development (19 papers), Social Representations and Identity (16 papers) and Innovative Education and Learning Practices (15 papers). Michael Cole is often cited by papers focused on Early Childhood Education and Development (19 papers), Social Representations and Identity (16 papers) and Innovative Education and Learning Practices (15 papers). Michael Cole collaborates with scholars based in United States, Finland and Canada. Michael Cole's co-authors include Sylvia Scribner, Vera John‐Steiner, Jerome S. Bruner, James V. Wertsch, Donald W. Sharp, Yrjö Engeström, Olga A. Vásquez, Peg Griffin, Jean M. Mandler and Charles Lave and has published in prestigious journals such as Science, Psychological Bulletin and SHILAP Revista de lepidopterología.

In The Last Decade

Michael Cole

122 papers receiving 4.2k citations

Hit Papers

Mind in society: The development of higher psychological ... 1971 2026 1989 2007 1978 1989 1971 250 500 750

Peers — A (Enhanced Table)

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

Name h Career Trend Papers Cites
Michael Cole United States 31 2.2k 1.9k 788 776 724 136 5.3k
Sylvia Scribner United States 18 2.0k 0.9× 1.6k 0.8× 661 0.8× 532 0.7× 543 0.8× 36 4.7k
Alex Kozulin United States 21 2.1k 0.9× 2.0k 1.0× 446 0.6× 390 0.5× 288 0.4× 68 4.4k
Robert W. Rieber United States 22 1.0k 0.5× 1.1k 0.5× 448 0.6× 463 0.6× 290 0.4× 70 2.9k
Nancy L. Mergler United States 10 1.6k 0.7× 1.1k 0.6× 1.0k 1.3× 584 0.8× 492 0.7× 16 4.6k
Brigid Barron United States 24 3.9k 1.7× 2.5k 1.3× 749 1.0× 547 0.7× 531 0.7× 55 6.5k
Ronald Schleifer United States 11 1.6k 0.7× 1.1k 0.6× 1.1k 1.4× 577 0.7× 448 0.6× 65 4.8k
Kenneth Tobin United States 50 5.6k 2.5× 2.2k 1.1× 657 0.8× 696 0.9× 559 0.8× 224 7.0k
Michael Cole United Kingdom 18 1.7k 0.8× 978 0.5× 677 0.9× 456 0.6× 318 0.4× 96 4.0k
Jaan Valsiner United States 41 1.3k 0.6× 1.2k 0.6× 1.2k 1.6× 3.2k 4.2× 838 1.2× 274 6.3k
James W. Stigler United States 44 6.1k 2.8× 2.1k 1.1× 1.1k 1.5× 1.0k 1.3× 1.2k 1.6× 115 8.6k

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Fields of papers citing papers by Michael Cole

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Physical SciencesHealth SciencesLife SciencesSocial Sciences

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Co-authorship network of co-authors of Michael Cole

This figure shows the co-authorship network connecting the top 25 collaborators of Michael Cole. A scholar is included among the top collaborators of Michael Cole 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 Michael Cole. Michael Cole 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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Esteban‐Guitart, Moisès, Antti Rajala, & Michael Cole. (2023). Expanding Cycles of Collaboration and Critical Inquiry in Utopian Methodology. The 360 Education Alliance Case. SHILAP Revista de lepidopterología. 12(1). 25–51.
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Packer, Martin J. & Michael Cole. (2019). Evolution and Ontogenesis: The Deontic Niche of Human Development. Human Development. 62(4). 175–211. 8 indexed citations
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Cole, Michael. (2011). Re-inventing Past Educational Practices for Future Pedagogical Success. Revista de Estudios Sociales. 23–32. 1 indexed citations
4.
Lecusay, Robert, et al.. (2011). Ambiguous Coordination: Collaboration in Informal Science Education Research. KTH Publication Database DiVA (KTH Royal Institute of Technology). 215–240. 2 indexed citations
5.
Cole, Michael, et al.. (2011). “Minding the Gap”: Imagination, Creativity and Human Cognition. Integrative Psychological and Behavioral Science. 45(4). 397–418. 90 indexed citations
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Cole, Michael. (2010). Education as an intergenerational process of human learning, teaching, and development.. American Psychologist. 65(8). 796–807. 4 indexed citations
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Cole, Michael. (2007). Phylogeny and cultural history in ontogeny. Journal of Physiology-Paris. 101(4-6). 236–246. 23 indexed citations
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Cole, Michael. (2006). Internationalism in psychology: We need it now more than ever.. American Psychologist. 61(8). 904–917. 29 indexed citations
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Gallego, Margaret A. & Michael Cole. (2000). Success is not enough: challenges to sustaining new forms of educational activity. Computers in Human Behavior. 16(3). 271–286. 4 indexed citations
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Blanton, William E., et al.. (1999). Computer Mediation for Learning and Play. Journal of Adolescent & Adult Literacy. 43(3). 10 indexed citations
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Cole, Michael, Yrjö Engeström, & Olga A. Vásquez. (1997). Mind, culture, and activity : seminal papers from the Laboratory of Comparative Human Cognition. Cambridge University Press eBooks. 265 indexed citations
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Cole, Michael & James V. Wertsch. (1996). Beyond the Individual-Social Antinomy in Discussions of Piaget and Vygotsky. Human Development. 39(5). 250–256. 262 indexed citations
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Martín, Laura Miraut, Roy Pea, Robert Serpell, et al.. (1995). Sociocultural Psychology. Cambridge University Press eBooks. 18 indexed citations
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Subbotsky, Eugene & Michael Cole. (1993). The fate of stages past : reflections on the heterogeneity of thinking from the perspective of cultural–historical psychology.. Swiss Journal of Psychology. 52(2). 103–113. 7 indexed citations
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Luria, A. R., Michael Cole, & Sheila Cole. (1982). The Making of Mind. A Personal Account of Soviet Psychology. MPG.PuRe (Max Planck Society). 23(3). 11 indexed citations
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Mandler, Jean M., et al.. (1980). Cross-Cultural Invariance in Story Recall. Child Development. 51(1). 19–19. 71 indexed citations
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Sharp, Donald W., Michael Cole, Charles Lave, et al.. (1979). Education and Cognitive Development: The Evidence from Experimental Research. Monographs of the Society for Research in Child Development. 44(1/2). 1–1. 152 indexed citations
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Cole, Michael. (1977). Soviet developmental psychology : an anthology. 18 indexed citations
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Cole, Michael. (1976). Review of Cross-cultural universals of affective meaning.. Contemporary Psychology. 21(8). 602–602. 1 indexed citations
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Cole, Michael & Jerome S. Bruner. (1972). Early Childhood Education: Preliminaries to a Theory of Cultural Differences.. Yearbook of the National Society for the Study of Education. 17(5). 273–9. 1 indexed citations

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