Roger N. Shepard

32.6k total citations · 11 hit papers
112 papers, 21.5k citations indexed

About

Roger N. Shepard is a scholar working on Cognitive Neuroscience, Experimental and Cognitive Psychology and Automotive Engineering. According to data from OpenAlex, Roger N. Shepard has authored 112 papers receiving a total of 21.5k indexed citations (citations by other indexed papers that have themselves been cited), including 36 papers in Cognitive Neuroscience, 27 papers in Experimental and Cognitive Psychology and 20 papers in Automotive Engineering. Recurrent topics in Roger N. Shepard's work include Spatial Cognition and Navigation (20 papers), Visual perception and processing mechanisms (17 papers) and Categorization, perception, and language (12 papers). Roger N. Shepard is often cited by papers focused on Spatial Cognition and Navigation (20 papers), Visual perception and processing mechanisms (17 papers) and Categorization, perception, and language (12 papers). Roger N. Shepard collaborates with scholars based in United States and Japan. Roger N. Shepard's co-authors include Jacqueline Metzler, Lynn A. Cooper, Carol L. Krumhansl, Susan F. Chipman, Herbert M. Jenkins, Carl I. Hovland, Phipps Arabie, Peter Podgorny, A. Kimball Romney and Sara B. Nerlove and has published in prestigious journals such as Science, Contemporary Sociology A Journal of Reviews and Psychological Review.

In The Last Decade

Roger N. Shepard

109 papers receiving 19.1k citations

Hit Papers

5 papers align trajectories

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.

Mental Rotation of Three-Dimensional Objects

1971 4.2k citations Roger N. Shepard et al. profile →
The Analysis of Proximities: Multidimensional Scaling with an Unknown Distance Function. I.

1962 1.8k citations Roger N. Shepard Psychometrika profile →
Toward a Universal Law of Generalization for Psychological Science

1987 1.6k citations Roger N. Shepard profile →
Mental Images and Their Transformations

1983 1.2k citations Roger N. Shepard et al. The American Journal of Psychology profile →
Recognition memory for words, sentences, and pictures

1967 1.1k citations Roger N. Shepard Journal of Verbal Learning and Verbal Behavior profile →
Ecological constraints on internal representation: Resonant kinematics of perceiving, imagining, thinking, and dreaming.

1984 681 citations Roger N. Shepard Psychological Review profile →
The Analysis of Proximities: Multidimensional Scaling with an Unknown Distance Function. II

1962 642 citations Roger N. Shepard Psychometrika profile →
Multidimensional Scaling: Theory and Applications in the Behavioral Sciences

1974 570 citations Roger N. Shepard et al. profile →
Learning and memorization of classifications.

1961 563 citations Roger N. Shepard et al. profile →
Multidimensional Scaling, Tree-Fitting, and Clustering

1980 538 citations Roger N. Shepard profile →
Stimulus and Response Generalization: A Stochastic Model Relating Generalization to Distance in Psychological Space

1957 326 citations Roger N. Shepard Psychometrika profile →

Peers — A (Enhanced Table)

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

Name	h						Papers	Cites
Roger N. Shepard United States	50	9.1k	5.8k	4.4k	4.3k	3.2k	112	21.5k
Stephen M. Kosslyn United States	87	19.0k 2.1×	9.2k 1.6×	5.5k 1.3×	5.1k 1.2×	1.7k 0.5×	282	30.4k
James J. Gibson United States	50	10.9k 1.2×	4.6k 0.8×	3.0k 0.7×	1.2k 0.3×	1.1k 0.3×	145	24.3k
Donald A. Norman United States	67	7.0k 0.8×	4.3k 0.7×	4.5k 1.0×	756 0.2×	4.3k 1.3×	203	28.7k
Barbara Tversky United States	55	2.9k 0.3×	4.5k 0.8×	3.1k 0.7×	3.0k 0.7×	1.4k 0.4×	169	11.9k
Anne Treisman United States	66	25.7k 2.8×	8.2k 1.4×	2.6k 0.6×	931 0.2×	1.3k 0.4×	116	31.9k
Patricia A. Carpenter United States	50	13.6k 1.5×	6.8k 1.2×	11.0k 2.5×	1.4k 0.3×	3.4k 1.1×	101	23.7k
George Miller United States	11	4.9k 0.5×	4.3k 0.7×	3.1k 0.7×	438 0.1×	4.1k 1.3×	32	20.5k
Marcel Adam Just United States	76	19.0k 2.1×	6.7k 1.2×	11.1k 2.5×	1.3k 0.3×	3.7k 1.2×	178	29.3k
Steven Pinker United States	59	7.5k 0.8×	5.6k 1.0×	8.5k 1.9×	676 0.2×	3.9k 1.2×	186	23.6k
Zenon W. Pylyshyn United States	43	8.4k 0.9×	4.2k 0.7×	2.5k 0.6×	914 0.2×	2.1k 0.6×	120	14.3k

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Shepard, Roger N.. (2008). The Step to Rationality: The Efficacy of Thought Experiments in Science, Ethics, and Free Will. Cognitive Science. 32(1). 3–35. 9 indexed citations

Shepard, Roger N.. (2007). The Genetic Basis of Human Scientific Knowledge. Novartis Foundation symposium. 208. 23–38. 7 indexed citations

Shepard, Roger N.. (2006). Thought Experiments in Scientific Discovery: What Emergent Mental Capabilities Underlie Their Efficacy?. eScholarship (California Digital Library). 28(28). 1 indexed citations

Shepard, Roger N.. (2004). How a cognitive psychologist came to seek universal laws. Psychonomic Bulletin & Review. 11(1). 1–23. 29 indexed citations

Lakatos, Stephen & Roger N. Shepard. (1997). Time—distance relations in shifting attention between locations on one’s body. Perception & Psychophysics. 59(4). 557–566. 47 indexed citations

Shepard, Roger N.. (1994). Perceptual-cognitive universals as reflections of the world. Psychonomic Bulletin & Review. 1(1). 2–28. 213 indexed citations

Miller, Geoffrey F. & Roger N. Shepard. (1993). An objective criterion for apparent motion based on phase discrimination.. Journal of Experimental Psychology Human Perception & Performance. 19(1). 48–62. 7 indexed citations

Shepard, Roger N., et al.. (1991). Comparison of cube rotations around axes inclined relative to the environment or to the cube.. Journal of Experimental Psychology Human Perception & Performance. 17(1). 44–54. 37 indexed citations

Shepard, Roger N. & Sheila J. Kannappan. (1990). Connectionist Implementation of a Theory of Generalization. Neural Information Processing Systems. 3. 665–671. 16 indexed citations

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Shepard, Roger N.. (1984). Ecological constraints on internal representation: Resonant kinematics of perceiving, imagining, thinking, and dreaming.. Psychological Review. 91(4). 417–447. 681 indexed citations breakdown →

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Shepard, Roger N.. (1983). Demonstrations of Circular Components of Pitch. Journal of the Audio Engineering Society. 31(9). 641–649. 12 indexed citations

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Shepard, Roger N.. (1978). The mental image.. American Psychologist. 33(2). 125–137. 456 indexed citations

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Robins, Clive J. & Roger N. Shepard. (1977). Spatio-temporal probing of apparent rotational movement. Perception & Psychophysics. 22(1). 12–18. 47 indexed citations

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Shepard, Roger N.. (1974). Representation of Structure in Similarity Data: Problems and Prospects. Psychometrika. 39(4). 373–421. 353 indexed citations

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Shepard, Roger N., et al.. (1973). The time required to prepare for a rotated stimulus. Memory & Cognition. 1(3). 246–250. 198 indexed citations

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Shepard, Roger N.. (1966). Learning and recall as organization and search. Journal of Verbal Learning and Verbal Behavior. 5(2). 201–204. 29 indexed citations

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Shepard, Roger N.. (1964). Edward feigenbaum and julian feldman (Editors). Computers and thought. New York: McGraw-Hill, 1963. Systems Research and Behavioral Science. 9(1). 57–65. 35 indexed citations

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Shepard, Roger N.. (1963). Production of Constrained Associates and the Informational Uncertainty of the Constraint. The American Journal of Psychology. 76(2). 218–218. 10 indexed citations

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Shepard, Roger N. & Martha Teghtsoonian. (1961). Retention of information under conditions approaching a steady state.. Journal of Experimental Psychology. 62(3). 302–309. 191 indexed citations

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Shepard, Roger N.. (1961). Role of Generalization in Stimulus-Response Compatibility. Perceptual and Motor Skills. 13(1). 59–62. 7 indexed citations

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