Rafael Núñez

7.1k total citations · 1 hit paper
60 papers, 3.6k citations indexed

About

Rafael Núñez is a scholar working on Experimental and Cognitive Psychology, Developmental and Educational Psychology and Statistics and Probability. According to data from OpenAlex, Rafael Núñez has authored 60 papers receiving a total of 3.6k indexed citations (citations by other indexed papers that have themselves been cited), including 28 papers in Experimental and Cognitive Psychology, 18 papers in Developmental and Educational Psychology and 18 papers in Statistics and Probability. Recurrent topics in Rafael Núñez's work include Language, Metaphor, and Cognition (24 papers), Cognitive and developmental aspects of mathematical skills (18 papers) and Categorization, perception, and language (14 papers). Rafael Núñez is often cited by papers focused on Language, Metaphor, and Cognition (24 papers), Cognitive and developmental aspects of mathematical skills (18 papers) and Categorization, perception, and language (14 papers). Rafael Núñez collaborates with scholars based in United States, Switzerland and Germany. Rafael Núñez's co-authors include Jeffrey Nunemacher, Eve Sweetser, Kensy Cooperrider, George Lakoff, Walter J. Freeman, João Filipe Matos, Laurie D. Edwards, Tyler Marghetis, Benjamin Motz and Ursina Teuscher and has published in prestigious journals such as PLoS ONE, Trends in Cognitive Sciences and Psychological Science.

In The Last Decade

Rafael Núñez

55 papers receiving 3.1k citations

Hit Papers

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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. Where Mathematics Comes From: How the Embodied Mind Brings Mathematics into Being
    2002 911 citations Jeffrey Nunemacher, Rafael Núñez et al. American Mathematical Monthly profile →

Peers

Rafael Núñez
Romain Martin Luxembourg
Vladimir M. Sloutsky United States
Elsbeth Stern Germany
Susan Carey United States
Wolfgang Schnotz Germany
Robert F. Lorch United States
Douglas K. Detterman United States
William J. Friedman United States
Jeanne D. Day United States
Maartje E. J. Raijmakers Netherlands
Romain Martin Luxembourg
Rafael Núñez
Citations per year, relative to Rafael Núñez Rafael Núñez (= 1×) peers Romain Martin

Countries citing papers authored by Rafael Núñez

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Fields of papers citing papers by Rafael Núñez

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Physical SciencesHealth SciencesLife SciencesSocial Sciences

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Co-authorship network of co-authors of Rafael Núñez

This figure shows the co-authorship network connecting the top 25 collaborators of Rafael Núñez. A scholar is included among the top collaborators of Rafael Núñez 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 Rafael Núñez. Rafael Núñez is excluded from the visualization to improve readability, since they are connected to all nodes in the network.

All Works

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Topsakal, Oğuzhan, et al.. (2020). Digitizing rhinoplasty: a web application with three-dimensional preoperative evaluation to assist rhinoplasty surgeons with surgical planning. International Journal of Computer Assisted Radiology and Surgery. 15(11). 1941–1950. 12 indexed citations
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Núñez, Rafael, et al.. (2019). What happened to cognitive science?. Nature Human Behaviour. 3(8). 782–791. 84 indexed citations
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Núñez, Rafael, et al.. (2017). When does a 'visual proof by induction' serve a proof-like function in mathematics?. Cognitive Science. 2 indexed citations
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Walker, Esther, Benjamin K. Bergen, & Rafael Núñez. (2017). The spatial alignment of time: Differences in alignment of deictic and sequence time along the sagittal and lateral axes. Acta Psychologica. 175. 13–20. 25 indexed citations
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Núñez, Rafael. (2017). Is There Really an Evolved Capacity for Number?. Trends in Cognitive Sciences. 21(6). 409–424. 117 indexed citations
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Núñez, Rafael. (2017). Number – Biological Enculturation Beyond Natural Selection. Trends in Cognitive Sciences. 21(6). 404–405. 10 indexed citations
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Núñez, Rafael, Kensy Cooperrider, & Jürg Wassmann. (2012). Number Concepts without Number Lines in an Indigenous Group of Papua New Guinea. PLoS ONE. 7(4). e35662–e35662. 33 indexed citations
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Núñez, Rafael, et al.. (2012). Religiosity as a Protective Factor in Suicidal Behavior. The Journal of Nervous and Mental Disease. 200(10). 863–867. 36 indexed citations
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Marghetis, Tyler, Esther Walker, Benjamin K. Bergen, & Rafael Núñez. (2011). Making SNAP Judgments: Rethinking the Spatial Representation of Number. Cognitive Science. 33(33). 4 indexed citations
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Núñez, Rafael. (2011). No Innate Number Line in the Human Brain. Journal of Cross-Cultural Psychology. 42(4). 651–668. 64 indexed citations
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Marghetis, Tyler & Rafael Núñez. (2010). Dynamic construals, static formalisms: Evidence from co-speech gesture during mathematical proving. 4 indexed citations
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Cornejo, Carlos, Franco Simonetti, Agustín Ibáñez, et al.. (2009). Gesture and metaphor comprehension: Electrophysiological evidence of cross-modal coordination by audiovisual stimulation. Brain and Cognition. 70(1). 42–52. 57 indexed citations
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Núñez, Rafael & Eve Sweetser. (2006). With the Future Behind Them: Convergent Evidence From Aymara Language and Gesture in the Crosslinguistic Comparison of Spatial Construals of Time. Cognitive Science. 30(3). 401–450. 481 indexed citations
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Núñez, Rafael. (2004). Embodied Cognition and The Nature of Mathematics: Language, Gesture, and Abstraction. eScholarship (California Digital Library). 26(26). 6 indexed citations
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Nunemacher, Jeffrey, et al.. (2002). Where Mathematics Comes From: How the Embodied Mind Brings Mathematics into Being. American Mathematical Monthly. 109(7). 672–672. 911 indexed citations breakdown →
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Núñez, Rafael. (2000). Mathematical Idea Analysis: What Embodied Cognitive Science Can Say about the Human Nature of Mathematics.. 27 indexed citations
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Núñez, Rafael & Walter J. Freeman. (1999). Reclaiming cognition : the primacy of action, intention and emotion. 112 indexed citations
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Freeman, Walter J. & Rafael Núñez. (1999). Restoring to cognition the forgotten primacy of action, intention and emotion. 44(6). 37–42. 27 indexed citations
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Núñez, Rafael. (1999). Could the future taste purple? Reclaiming mind, body and cognition. Journal of Consciousness Studies. 6. 35 indexed citations

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