Consciousness and Cognition

Top Research Topics at Consciousness and Cognition?

The journal was organized to reinforce research efforts on Cognitive psychology, Cognition, Consciousness, Social psychology and Perception. Cognitive psychology research featured in the journal incorporates concerns from various other topics such as Communication, Stimulus (physiology), Developmental psychology, Visual perception and Unconscious mind. The concepts on Developmental psychology presented in the journal can also apply to other research fields, including Autobiographical memory, Recall and Dream.

Cognition studies tackled cover an aspect of the field of Neuroscience. The research on Consciousness tackled can also make contributions to studies in the areas of Cognitive science and Conscience. The work on Social psychology addressed in it expands to the thematically related Action (philosophy).

Consciousness and Cognition investigates Perception research which frequently intersects with Illusion. The works on Priming (psychology) deal in particular with Response priming.

• Cognitive psychology (54.57%)
• Cognition (30.49%)
• Consciousness (22.95%)

What are the most cited papers published in the journal?

• Responding to the emotions of others: dissociating forms of empathy through the study of typical and psychiatric populations. (856 citations)
• Mindfulness meditation improves cognition: Evidence of brief mental training☆ (735 citations)
• Affective consciousness: Core emotional feelings in animals and humans. (707 citations)

Research areas of the most cited articles at Consciousness and Cognition:

The main points discussed in the published papers deal with Cognitive psychology, Cognition, Consciousness, Perception and Social psychology. Specifically, studies on Recall are prevalent in the Cognitive psychology works discussed in the published papers. Issues in Cognition were discussed in the most cited papers, taking into consideration concepts from other disciplines like Developmental psychology, Cognitive science and Action (philosophy).

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

• Cognition
• Social psychology
• Artificial intelligence

The previous edition focused in particular on these issues:

The journal focuses on Cognitive psychology, Perception, Cognition, Consciousness and Sense of agency. Topics in Cognitive psychology explored in Consciousness and Cognition were investigated in conjunction with research in Context (language use), Mental image, Construct (philosophy), Unconscious mind and Feeling. The subject of Association (psychology), which is connected to the field of Mood, Mindfulness, Visual perception and Social psychology, serves as the foundation of the Perception research featured in the journal.

The work on Cognition tackled in Consciousness and Cognition brings together disciplines like Creativity, Anxiety, Content (Freudian dream analysis), Personality and Everyday life. It addresses concerns in Consciousness which are intertwined with other disciplines, such as Stimulus (physiology), Working memory, Cognitive science and Visibility (geometry). Consciousness and Cognition explores research in Action (philosophy) and overlapping concepts in Prospective memory to expand the discourse in Sense of agency.

The most cited articles from the last journal are:

• The first prior: From co-embodiment to co-homeostasis in early life. (7 citations)
• A distinction concerning vision-for-action and affordance perception. (5 citations)
• Does COVID-19 impact the frequency of threatening events in dreams? An exploration of pandemic dreaming in light of contemporary dream theories. (4 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.

Top authors and change over time

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

• Zoltan Dienes (34 papers) absent at the last edition,
• Patrick Haggard (31 papers) absent at the last edition,
• Axel Cleeremans (22 papers) published 1 paper at the last edition,
• Daniel Smilek (19 papers) absent at the last edition,
• Talis Bachmann (18 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.

Top affiliations and change over time

Only papers with recognized affiliations are considered

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

• University College London (82 papers) published 4 papers at the last edition, 1 more than at the previous edition,
• University of Sussex (60 papers) published 1 paper at the last edition, 1 less than at the previous edition,
• Harvard University (56 papers) absent at the last edition,
• Max Planck Society (55 papers) published 2 papers at the last edition the same number as at the previous edition,
• University of Waterloo (54 papers) published 1 paper at the last edition the same number as at the previous 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 2021 edition, 0.00% of publications had an unrecognized affiliation. Out of the publications with recognized affiliations, 14.95% were posted by at least one author from the top 10 institutions publishing in the journal. Another 8.41% included authors affiliated with research institutions from the top 11-20 affiliations. Institutions from the 21-50 range included 18.69% of all publications and 57.94% 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 Speech-Language Pathology

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