Patrick Shafto

3.9k total citations · 1 hit paper
87 papers, 2.1k citations indexed

About

Patrick Shafto is a scholar working on Developmental and Educational Psychology, Artificial Intelligence and Education. According to data from OpenAlex, Patrick Shafto has authored 87 papers receiving a total of 2.1k indexed citations (citations by other indexed papers that have themselves been cited), including 52 papers in Developmental and Educational Psychology, 37 papers in Artificial Intelligence and 17 papers in Education. Recurrent topics in Patrick Shafto's work include Child and Animal Learning Development (40 papers), Educational Strategies and Epistemologies (10 papers) and Innovative Teaching and Learning Methods (8 papers). Patrick Shafto is often cited by papers focused on Child and Animal Learning Development (40 papers), Educational Strategies and Epistemologies (10 papers) and Innovative Teaching and Learning Methods (8 papers). Patrick Shafto collaborates with scholars based in United States, Netherlands and Germany. Patrick Shafto's co-authors include Noah D. Goodman, Elizabeth Bonawitz, Thomas L. Griffiths, Laura Schulz, Hyowon Gweon, John D. Coley, Elizabeth S. Spelke, Alison Gopnik, Asheley R. Landrum and Olfa Nasraoui and has published in prestigious journals such as SHILAP Revista de lepidopterología, PLoS ONE and Psychological Review.

In The Last Decade

Patrick Shafto

84 papers receiving 1.9k citations

Hit Papers

The double-edged sword of pedagogy: Instruction limits sp... 2011 2026 2016 2021 2011 100 200 300 400

Peers — A (Enhanced Table)

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

Name h Career Trend Papers Cites
Patrick Shafto United States 21 1.2k 515 429 381 289 87 2.1k
Charles W. Kalish United States 32 1.7k 1.4× 496 1.0× 271 0.6× 919 2.4× 518 1.8× 79 2.7k
Li Wei United Kingdom 42 827 0.7× 830 1.6× 204 0.5× 269 0.7× 604 2.1× 162 7.9k
Denise D. Cummins United States 18 819 0.7× 358 0.7× 372 0.9× 280 0.7× 335 1.2× 35 1.8k
Tania Lombrozo United States 31 1.4k 1.2× 549 1.1× 929 2.2× 635 1.7× 710 2.5× 141 3.7k
Bob Rehder United States 26 1.3k 1.1× 136 0.3× 1.1k 2.6× 228 0.6× 140 0.5× 74 2.4k
Evan Heit United States 27 1.0k 0.9× 155 0.3× 642 1.5× 461 1.2× 208 0.7× 71 2.3k
Richard A. Griggs United States 24 664 0.6× 387 0.8× 598 1.4× 303 0.8× 313 1.1× 121 2.2k
Sharon J. Derry United States 22 1.5k 1.2× 1.5k 3.0× 410 1.0× 260 0.7× 269 0.9× 74 3.1k
Rafael Núñez United States 26 1.0k 0.9× 895 1.7× 236 0.6× 577 1.5× 186 0.6× 60 3.6k
Thomas R. Shultz Canada 36 1.5k 1.3× 386 0.7× 706 1.6× 1.1k 2.9× 623 2.2× 161 3.8k

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Co-authorship network of co-authors of Patrick Shafto

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All Works

20 of 20 papers shown
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Bascandziev, Igor, Patrick Shafto, & Elizabeth Bonawitz. (2025). Prosodic Cues Support Inferences About the Question’s Pedagogical Intent. Open Mind. 9. 340–363. 2 indexed citations
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Choi, Koeun, et al.. (2024). Young Children’s Directed Question Asking in Preschool Classrooms. Behavioral Sciences. 14(9). 754–754. 1 indexed citations
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Shafto, Patrick, et al.. (2021). Making Heads or Tails of it: A Competition–Compensation Account of Morphological Deficits in Language Impairment. eScholarship (California Digital Library). 43(43). 2 indexed citations
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Lu, Chi-Ken, et al.. (2020). Interpretable Deep Gaussian Processes with Moments. International Conference on Artificial Intelligence and Statistics. 613–623. 3 indexed citations
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Yu, Yue, et al.. (2019). Pedagogical Questions Empower Exploration.. Cognitive Science. 485–491. 1 indexed citations
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Yu, Yue, et al.. (2018). Optimal cooperative inference. International Conference on Artificial Intelligence and Statistics. 376–385. 2 indexed citations
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Landrum, Asheley R., et al.. (2018). Questioning supports effective transmission of knowledge and increased exploratory learning in pre‐kindergarten children. Developmental Science. 21(6). e12696–e12696. 40 indexed citations
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Yang, Scott Cheng‐Hsin, et al.. (2018). Bayesian Teaching of Image Categories.. Cognitive Science. 2 indexed citations
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Yu, Yue, Elizabeth Bonawitz, & Patrick Shafto. (2017). Pedagogical Questions in Parent–Child Conversations. Child Development. 90(1). 147–161. 44 indexed citations
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Bonawitz, Elizabeth, et al.. (2017). I know what you need to know: Children's developing theory of mind and pedagogical evidence selection.. Cognitive Science. 2 indexed citations
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Yang, Scott Cheng‐Hsin, et al.. (2017). Unifying recommendation and active learning for human-algorithm interactions.. Cognitive Science. 2 indexed citations
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Yu, Yue, Elizabeth Bonawitz, & Patrick Shafto. (2017). Inconvenient samples: Modeling the effects of non-consent by coupling observational and experimental results.. Cognitive Science. 3 indexed citations
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Durkin, Kelley, et al.. (2015). Explaining Choice Behavior: The Intentional Selection Assumption.. Cognitive Science. 1 indexed citations
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Noles, Nicholaus S., Judith H. Danovitch, & Patrick Shafto. (2015). Children's Trust in Technological and Human Informants.. Cognitive Science. 9 indexed citations
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Landrum, Asheley R., et al.. (2015). More than true: Developmental changes in use of the inductive strength for selective trust.. Cognitive Science. 3 indexed citations
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Shafto, Patrick, et al.. (2010). Prior expectations in pedagogical situations. eScholarship (California Digital Library). 32(32). 3 indexed citations
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Bonawitz, Elizabeth, et al.. (2009). The Double-edged Sword of Pedagogy: Modeling the Effect of Pedagogical Contexts on Preschoolers’ Exploratory Play. eScholarship (California Digital Library). 31(31). 24 indexed citations
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Shafto, Patrick & Noah D. Goodman. (2008). A Bayesian model of pedagogical reasoning. National Conference on Artificial Intelligence. 101–102. 1 indexed citations
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Coley, John D., et al.. (2005). Context-Sensitive Induction. eScholarship (California Digital Library). 27(27). 8 indexed citations

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