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Cognition
H-index 42

Cognition

0010-0277

Published by: Elsevier

https://www.journals.elsevier.com/cognition

Ranking & Metrics

Discipline name Position Best Scientists Publications D-Index
Psychology 47 499 718 41
Neuroscience 78 205 271 31

Additional Metrics

Number of Best Scientists*: 669
Documents by Best Scientists*: 882
Top 100 Ranked Scientists*: 18
SCIMAGO H-index: 235
SCIMAGO SJR: 1.686
Impact Factor: 2.8

Overview

Top Research Topics at Cognition?

Cognition mostly deals with topics like Cognitive psychology, Cognition, Linguistics, Perception and Social psychology. In addition to Cognitive psychology research, the journal aims to explore topics under Cognitive development, Context (language use), Communication, Visual perception and Social cognition. Communication and Artificial intelligence are closely related fields of research discussed in Cognition.

The journal explores research in Artificial intelligence and the adjacent study of Computer vision. The studies on Cognition discussed can also contribute to research in the domains of Categorization, Developmental psychology, Cognitive science, Task analysis and Concept learning. It connects the study in Linguistics with the closely related area of Psycholinguistics.

Cognition is focused mainly on Perception, particularly Speech perception. The work on Language acquisition addressed in Cognition expands to the thematically related Language development.

  • Cognitive psychology (45.79%)
  • Cognition (28.97%)
  • Linguistics (21.43%)

What are the most cited papers published in the journal?

  • Does the autistic child have a theory of mind (5506 citations)
  • Insensitivity to future consequences following damage to human prefrontal cortex (4608 citations)
  • Beliefs about beliefs: representation and constraining function of wrong beliefs in young children's understanding of deception. (4333 citations)

Research areas of the most cited articles at Cognition:

The most cited papers generally zeroe in on subjects such as Cognitive psychology, Cognition, Linguistics, Cognitive science and Perception. While the most cited articles mainly focused on Cognitive psychology studies, they also tackled the scientific discipline of interrelated fields such as

  • Social psychology that connect with fields like Morality,
  • Social cognition, which have a strong connection to Theory of mind.. While Cognition is the focus of the most cited papers, it also provides insights into the studies of Developmental psychology, Concept learning, Task analysis and Categorization.

What topics the last edition of the journal is best known for?

  • Artificial intelligence
  • Cognition
  • Linguistics

The previous edition focused in particular on these issues:

Cognition tackles a plethora of topics, such as Cognitive psychology, Context (language use), Ambiguity, Artificial intelligence and Test (assessment). Topics in Cognitive psychology explored in it were investigated in conjunction with research in Associative property and Categorization. The Context (language use) works featured in the journal incorporate elements from Pronoun, Language production, Congruence (geometry), Similarity (psychology) and Semantic similarity.

In the journal, Pragmatics, Utterance, Inference and Bayesian inference are investigated in conjunction with one another to address concerns in Ambiguity research. The featured works in Word order, which all belong in the domain if Artificial intelligence, also overlaps with concepts under Out-of-order execution. The research on Test (assessment) tackled can also make contributions to studies in the areas of Developmental psychology and Replicate.

The most cited articles from the last journal are:

  • A transposed-word effect across space and time: Evidence from Chinese. (0 citations)
  • The role of mechanism knowledge in singular causation judgments. (0 citations)
  • Human navigation in curved spaces. (0 citations)

Papers citation over time

A key indicator for each journal is its effectiveness in reaching other researchers with the papers published at that venue.

The chart below presents the interquartile range (first quartile 25%, median 50% and third quartile 75%) of the number of citations of articles over time.

The top authors publishing in Cognition (based on the number of publications) are:

  • Elizabeth S. Spelke (41 papers) absent at the last edition,
  • Susan Carey (30 papers) absent at the last edition,
  • Paul Bloom (27 papers) absent at the last edition,
  • Susan Goldin-Meadow (25 papers) absent at the last edition,
  • Stanislas Dehaene (23 papers) absent at the last edition.

The overall trend for top authors publishing in this journal is outlined below. The chart shows the number of publications at each edition of the journal for top authors.

Only papers with recognized affiliations are considered

The top affiliations publishing in Cognition (based on the number of publications) are:

  • Max Planck Society (229 papers) absent at the last edition,
  • Harvard University (219 papers) absent at the last edition,
  • University College London (154 papers) absent at the last edition,
  • Massachusetts Institute of Technology (143 papers) absent at the last edition,
  • Yale University (115 papers) absent at the last edition.

The overall trend for top affiliations publishing in this journal is outlined below. The chart shows the number of publications at each edition of the journal for top affiliations.

Publication chance based on affiliation

The publication chance index shows the ratio of articles published by the best research institutions in the journal edition to all articles published within that journal. The best research institutions were selected based on the largest number of articles published during all editions of the journal.

The chart below presents the percentage ratio of articles from top institutions (based on their ranking of total papers).Top affiliations were grouped by their rank into the following tiers: top 1-10, top 11-20, top 21-50, and top 51+. Only articles with a recognized affiliation are considered.

During the most recent 2022 edition, 0.00% of publications had an unrecognized affiliation. Out of the publications with recognized affiliations, 22.22% were posted by at least one author from the top 10 institutions publishing in the journal. Another 11.11% included authors affiliated with research institutions from the top 11-20 affiliations. Institutions from the 21-50 range included 11.11% of all publications and 55.56% were from other institutions.

Returning Authors Index

A very common phenomenon observed among researchers publishing scientific articles is the intentional selection of journals they have already attended in the past. In particular, it is worth analyzing the case when the authors participate in the same journal from year to year.

The Returning Authors Index presented below illustrates the ratio of authors who participated in both a given as well as the previous edition of the journal in relation to all participants in a given year.

Returning Institution Index

The graph below shows the Returning Institution Index, illustrating the ratio of institutions that participated in both a given and the previous edition of the conference in relation to all affiliations present in a given year.

The experience to innovation index

Our experience to innovation index was created to show a cross-section of the experience level of authors publishing in a journal. The index includes the authors publishing at the last edition of a journal, grouped by total number of publications throughout their academic career (P) and the total number of citations of these publications ever received (C).

The group intervals were selected empirically to best show the diversity of the authors' experiences, their labels were selected as a convenience, not as judgment. The authors were divided into the following groups:

  • Novice - P < 5 or C < 25 (the number of publications less than 5 or the number of citations less than 25),
  • Competent - P < 10 or C < 100 (the number of publications less than 10 or the number of citations less than 100),
  • Experienced - P < 25 or C < 625 (the number of publications less than 25 or the number of citations less than 625),
  • Master - P < 50 or C < 2500 (the number of publications less than 50 or the number of citations less than 2500),
  • Star - P ≥ 50 and C ≥ 2500 (both the number of publications greater than 50 and the number of citations greater than 2500).

The chart below illustrates experience levels of first authors in cases of publications with multiple authors.

Career Opportunities in Research Fields

As today's research in various fields such as cognitive psychology, cognition, linguistics, and artificial intelligence continues to grow and expand, the demand for professionals trained in these areas has risen correspondingly. Career opportunities are diverse, spanning from academia to private sector industries and governmental agencies. For individuals interested in unraveling the mysteries of the human mind and the complex ways it interacts with the world, a career in research may be the perfect choice.

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A career in research not only offers rewarding opportunities for intellectual exploration, but also provides a foundation for a wide range of professional paths and impacts. Anybody can contribute to their field by publishing scientific articles, exploring new research topics, and participating in cutting-edge studies. Undertaking a career in research can thus bring about immense personal satisfaction and lasting contributions to society as a whole.

Top Publications

  • Differential Benefits of Mental Training Types for Attention, Compassion, and Theory of Mind

    Fynn-Mathis Trautwein;Philipp Kanske;Anne Böckler;Tania Singer

    (2020)
    155 Citations
  • Lack of selectivity for syntax relative to word meanings throughout the language network.

    Evelina Fedorenko;Evelina Fedorenko;Idan Asher Blank;Matthew Siegelman;Zachary Mineroff

    (2020)
    142 Citations
  • An initial accuracy focus prevents illusory truth

    Nadia M. Brashier;Emmaline Drew Eliseev;Elizabeth J. Marsh

    (2020)
    112 Citations
  • Reward prediction errors create event boundaries in memory.

    Nina Rouhani;Kenneth A. Norman;Yael Niv;Aaron M. Bornstein

    (2020)
    107 Citations
  • Children are more exploratory and learn more than adults in an approach-avoid task.

    Emily G Liquin;Alison Gopnik

    (2022)
    87 Citations
  • A multi-faceted approach to understanding individual differences in mind-wandering

    Matthew K. Robison;Ashley L. Miller;Nash Unsworth

    (2020)
    84 Citations
  • Bayesian or biased? Analytic thinking and political belief updating.

    Ben M. Tappin;Gordon Pennycook;David G. Rand

    (2020)
    82 Citations

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