Neil Sutherland

4.4k total citations · 1 hit paper
105 papers, 3.1k citations indexed

About

Neil Sutherland is a scholar working on Ecology, Evolution, Behavior and Systematics, Sociology and Political Science and Cognitive Neuroscience. According to data from OpenAlex, Neil Sutherland has authored 105 papers receiving a total of 3.1k indexed citations (citations by other indexed papers that have themselves been cited), including 24 papers in Ecology, Evolution, Behavior and Systematics, 18 papers in Sociology and Political Science and 18 papers in Cognitive Neuroscience. Recurrent topics in Neil Sutherland's work include Cephalopods and Marine Biology (23 papers), Canadian Identity and History (16 papers) and Visual perception and processing mechanisms (13 papers). Neil Sutherland is often cited by papers focused on Cephalopods and Marine Biology (23 papers), Canadian Identity and History (16 papers) and Visual perception and processing mechanisms (13 papers). Neil Sutherland collaborates with scholars based in United Kingdom, China and Canada. Neil Sutherland's co-authors include N. J. Mackintosh, M. E. Bitterman, Steffen Böhm, Chris Land, G. D. Sullivan, Keith Oatley, Mona Gleason, C. J. Darwin, Robert M. Mennel and B. R. Judd and has published in prestigious journals such as Nature, Science and The Journal of Comparative Neurology.

In The Last Decade

Neil Sutherland

95 papers receiving 2.6k citations

Hit Papers

Mechanisms of Animal Discrimination Learning 1972 2026 1990 2008 1972 250 500 750
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.

  1. Mechanisms of Animal Discrimination Learning
    1972 766 citations Neil Sutherland, N. J. Mackintosh et al. profile →

Peers — A (Enhanced Table)

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

Name h Career Trend Papers Cites
Neil Sutherland United Kingdom 30 1.4k 515 471 405 390 105 3.1k
Lewis Petrinovich United States 36 1.4k 1.1× 311 0.6× 1.1k 2.3× 483 1.2× 616 1.6× 83 4.1k
Eckhard H. Hess United States 27 1.5k 1.1× 155 0.3× 520 1.1× 360 0.9× 1.1k 2.8× 67 4.2k
E. J. Capaldi United States 28 1.6k 1.2× 619 1.2× 151 0.3× 1.2k 2.9× 685 1.8× 150 3.3k
Lynn D. Devenport United States 30 940 0.7× 473 0.9× 157 0.3× 236 0.6× 457 1.2× 93 2.9k
A. W. Logue United States 36 1.2k 0.9× 497 1.0× 182 0.4× 2.0k 4.9× 616 1.6× 90 4.4k
Eliot Hearst United States 29 1.3k 1.0× 773 1.5× 206 0.4× 1.7k 4.1× 479 1.2× 82 3.3k
William Timberlake United States 32 1.3k 0.9× 574 1.1× 365 0.8× 1.8k 4.4× 813 2.1× 135 3.6k
Herbert M. Jenkins Canada 13 1.2k 0.9× 549 1.1× 187 0.4× 1.9k 4.7× 544 1.4× 13 3.7k
Frances K. McSweeney United States 33 1.3k 1.0× 820 1.6× 307 0.7× 1.9k 4.6× 529 1.4× 111 4.0k
Konrad Lorenz Germany 25 1.1k 0.8× 142 0.3× 543 1.2× 539 1.3× 1.5k 3.8× 99 4.5k

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Co-authorship network of co-authors of Neil Sutherland

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All Works

20 of 20 papers shown
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Smith, Susan, et al.. (2024). Opening the black box of degree classification algorithms: towards a research agenda. Teaching in Higher Education. 29(5). 1398–1408.
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Sutherland, Neil. (2023). Leadership without Leaders. Leadership.
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Sutherland, Neil. (2018). Social Policy, 'Deviant' Children, and the Public Health Apparatus in British Columbia Between the Wars. Journal of educational thought.. 14(2). 80–91.
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Bendell, Jem, Neil Sutherland, & Richard Little. (2017). Beyond unsustainable leadership: critical social theory for sustainable leadership. Sustainability Accounting Management and Policy Journal. 8(4). 418–444. 42 indexed citations
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Sutherland, Neil. (2012). Activist ethnography and social movements: Opportunities and potentialities. UWE Research Repository (UWE Bristol). 1 indexed citations
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Bamps, Catharina, et al.. (2008). Spatial Data Infrastructures in The United Kingdom: State of play. 1 indexed citations
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Sutherland, Neil, et al.. (2002). e-Cadastre - Automation of the New Zealand Survey System. 10 indexed citations
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Sutherland, Neil, et al.. (1998). Growing up: Childhood in English Canada from the Great War to the Age of Television. History of Education Quarterly. 38(3). 336–336. 16 indexed citations
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Sutherland, Neil. (1991). "I can't recall when I didn't help": the Working Lives of Pioneering Children in Twentieth-Century British Columbia. Histoire sociale. 24(48). 3 indexed citations
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Longuet–Higgins, H. C. & Neil Sutherland. (1980). The psychology of vision : a Royal Society discussion. 2 indexed citations
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Sutherland, Neil. (1976). Children in English-Canadian Society. University of Toronto Press eBooks. 31 indexed citations
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Sutherland, Neil. (1972). Psychology on a Behaviourist Basis. Nature. 240(5377). 167–168. 65 indexed citations
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Sutherland, Neil, et al.. (1967). Learning with one and two cues. Psychonomic Science. 7(3). 107–108. 19 indexed citations
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Sutherland, Neil. (1964). A Further Experiment on the Discrimination of Open and Closed Shapes by Rats. Quarterly Journal of Experimental Psychology. 16(3). 268–271. 1 indexed citations
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Sutherland, Neil, et al.. (1964). Discrimination Learning : Non-additivity of Cues. Nature. 201(4918). 528–530. 18 indexed citations
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Muntz, W. R. A. & Neil Sutherland. (1964). The role of crossed and uncrossed optic nerve fibers in the visual discrimination of shape by rats. The Journal of Comparative Neurology. 122(1). 69–77. 21 indexed citations
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Sutherland, Neil, et al.. (1963). The visual discrimination of reduplicated patterns by octopus. Animal Behaviour. 11(1). 106–110. 13 indexed citations
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Sutherland, Neil. (1961). Visual Discrimination of Horizontal and Vertical Rectangles by Rats on a New Discrimination Training Apparatus. Quarterly Journal of Experimental Psychology. 13(2). 117–121. 14 indexed citations
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Sutherland, Neil. (1961). Figural After-Effects and Apparent Size. Quarterly Journal of Experimental Psychology. 13(4). 222–228. 206 indexed citations
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Sutherland, Neil. (1958). Visual discrimination of the orientation of rectangles by Octopus Vulgaris Lamarck.. Journal of Comparative and Physiological Psychology. 51(4). 452–458. 24 indexed citations

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