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Charles R. Gallistel publication distribution in Psychology in 2026

The chart shows the distribution of publications by all Research.com ranked scientists in the field of Psychology in 2026. The highlighted bar marks where Charles R. Gallistel sits on this spectrum.

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31 publications 706+

This scientist: 200 publications — 69th percentile

69% of scientists in this discipline score the same or lower.

The last bar groups every scientist with 706 publications or more.

Charles R. Gallistel D-index placement in Psychology in 2026

The chart shows the D-index (discipline H-index) distribution of Psychology scientists ranked by Research.com in 2026. The highlighted bar marks where Charles R. Gallistel sits on this spectrum.

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30 D-Index 144+

This scientist: 68 D-Index — 79th percentile

79% of scientists in this discipline score the same or lower.

The last bar groups every scientist with 144 D-Index or more.

Research.com Recognitions

  • 2005 - William James Fellow Award, Association for Psychological Science (APA)
  • 2002 - Member of the National Academy of Sciences
  • 2001 - Fellow of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences
  • 1988 - Fellow of the American Association for the Advancement of Science (AAAS)

Overview

Charles R. Gallistel is affiliated with Rutgers, The State University of New Jersey in the United States. Their research primarily focuses on the field of Neuroscience, with significant contributions in Cognitive Neuroscience, Developmental and Educational Psychology, Statistics and Probability, Cellular and Molecular Neuroscience, and Molecular Biology.

Their work spans a variety of topics, including:

  • Neural dynamics and brain function
  • Neuroscience and Music Perception
  • Memory and Neural Mechanisms
  • Child and Animal Learning Development
  • Cognitive and developmental aspects of mathematical skills
  • Receptor Mechanisms and Signaling
  • Neurotransmitter Receptor Influence on Behavior

Recent papers published by Gallistel and collaborators cover several areas of interest in neuroscience and psychology. Notable recent publications include:

  • "Locating the engram: Should we look for plastic synapses or information-storing molecules?" (2020), published in Neurobiology of Learning and Memory
  • "The physical basis of memory" (2020), published in Cognition
  • "Dopamine encodes real-time reward availability and transitions between reward availability states on different timescales" (2022), published in Nature Communications
  • "Honey bees infer source location from the dances of returning foragers" (2023), published in Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences
  • "Robert Rescorla: Time, Information and Contingency." (2021), published in Revista de historia de la psicología

Frequent co-authors include:

  • Peter D. Balsam
  • Abigail Kalmbach
  • Eleanor H. Simpson
  • Zhengwei Wang
  • Frank Becker

Key venues for Gallistel's publications are:

  • Journal of Experimental Psychology Animal Learning and Cognition
  • bioRxiv (Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory)
  • Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences
  • Neurobiology of Learning and Memory
  • Cognition

The scientist has received several awards, including the William James Fellow Award from the Association for Psychological Science in 2005, membership of the National Academy of Sciences in 2002, fellowship of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences in 2001, and fellowship of the American Association for the Advancement of Science in 1988.

Best Publications

  • The organization of learning

    Charles R. Gallistel

  • The child's understanding of number

    Rochel Gelman;C. R. Gallistel

  • Preverbal and verbal counting and computation.

    C.R. Gallistel;Rochel Gelman

  • Time, rate, and conditioning.

    C. R. Gallistel;John Gibbon

  • The Organization of Action: A New Synthesis

    C.R. Gallistel

  • Non-verbal numerical cognition: from reals to integers.

    C.R. Gallistel;Rochel Gelman

  • Toward a neurobiology of temporal cognition: advances and challenges

    John Gibbon;Chara Malapani;Corby L Dale;C.R. Gallistel

  • Nonverbal Counting in Humans: The Psychophysics of Number Representation

    John Whalen;C.R. Gallistel;Rochel Gelman

  • The learning curve: Implications of a quantitative analysis

    Charles R. Gallistel;Stephen Fairhurst;Peter Balsam

  • Memory and the Computational Brain: Why Cognitive Science will Transform Neuroscience

    C. R. Gallistel;Adam Philip King

  • Variability signatures distinguish verbal from nonverbal counting for both large and small numbers.

    Sara Cordes;Rochel Gelman;Rochel Gelman;C. R. Gallistel;C. R. Gallistel;John Whalen

  • The importance of proving the null.

    C. R. Gallistel

  • A portrait of the substrate for self-stimulation.

    C. R. Gallistel;Peter Shizgal;John S. Yeomans

  • ANIMAL COGNITION: The Representation of Space, Time and Number

    C R Gallistel

  • The rat approximates an ideal detector of changes in rates of reward: implications for the law of effect.

    C. R. Gallistel;Terence A. Mark;Adam Philip King;P. E. Latham

  • Temporal maps and informativeness in associative learning

    Peter D Balsam;C. Randy Gallistel

  • Heading in the rat: determination by environmental shape

    Joan Margules;C. R. Gallistel

  • Numerical Subtraction in the Pigeon: Evidence for a Linear Subjective Number Scale

    Elizabeth M. Brannon;Courtney J. Wusthoff;C.R. Gallistel;John Gibbon

  • Language and the Origin of Numerical Concepts

    Rochel Gelman;C. R. Gallistel

  • The Child's Understanding of Number

    Karen C. Fuson;R. Gelman;C. R. Gallistel

Frequent Co-Authors

Rochel Gelman
Rochel Gelman Rutgers, The State University of New Jersey
Peter D. Balsam
Peter D. Balsam Columbia University
Fuat Balcı
Fuat Balcı University of Manitoba
Randolf Menzel
Randolf Menzel Freie Universität Berlin
Elizabeth M. Brannon
Elizabeth M. Brannon University of Pennsylvania
Russell M. Church
Russell M. Church Brown University
Alan M. Leslie
Alan M. Leslie Rutgers, The State University of New Jersey
Martin E. P. Seligman
Martin E. P. Seligman University of Pennsylvania
Susan Goldin-Meadow
Susan Goldin-Meadow University of Chicago
Melitta Schachner
Melitta Schachner Rutgers, The State University of New Jersey

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