2026 Charles R. Gallistel: Psychology Researcher – H-Index, Publications & Awards

Discipline name	D-Index	World Ranking	Current World Ranking	National Ranking	Current National Ranking	Publications	Citations
Neuroscience	65	3060	2796	1418	1276	205	31807
Psychology	68	2427	2217	1405	1255	200	32541

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

4670
Citations
The child's understanding of number

Rochel Gelman;C. R. Gallistel

4569
Citations
Preverbal and verbal counting and computation.

C.R. Gallistel;Rochel Gelman

2035
Citations
Time, rate, and conditioning.

C. R. Gallistel;John Gibbon

1378
Citations
The Organization of Action: A New Synthesis

C.R. Gallistel

1259
Citations
Non-verbal numerical cognition: from reals to integers.

C.R. Gallistel;Rochel Gelman

1195
Citations
Toward a neurobiology of temporal cognition: advances and challenges

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

927
Citations
Nonverbal Counting in Humans: The Psychophysics of Number Representation

John Whalen;C.R. Gallistel;Rochel Gelman

819
Citations
The learning curve: Implications of a quantitative analysis

Charles R. Gallistel;Stephen Fairhurst;Peter Balsam

732
Citations
Memory and the Computational Brain: Why Cognitive Science will Transform Neuroscience

C. R. Gallistel;Adam Philip King

656
Citations
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

620
Citations
The importance of proving the null.

C. R. Gallistel

494
Citations
A portrait of the substrate for self-stimulation.

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

448
Citations
ANIMAL COGNITION: The Representation of Space, Time and Number

C R Gallistel

440
Citations
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

318
Citations
Temporal maps and informativeness in associative learning

Peter D Balsam;C. Randy Gallistel

315
Citations
Heading in the rat: determination by environmental shape

Joan Margules;C. R. Gallistel

297
Citations
Numerical Subtraction in the Pigeon: Evidence for a Linear Subjective Number Scale

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

277
Citations
Language and the Origin of Numerical Concepts

Rochel Gelman;C. R. Gallistel

276
Citations
The Child's Understanding of Number

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

197
Citations

Frequent Co-Authors

Rochel Gelman Rutgers, The State University of New Jersey

Peter D. Balsam Columbia University

Fuat Balcı University of Manitoba

Randolf Menzel Freie Universität Berlin

Elizabeth M. Brannon University of Pennsylvania

Russell M. Church Brown University

Alan M. Leslie Rutgers, The State University of New Jersey

Martin E. P. Seligman University of Pennsylvania

Susan Goldin-Meadow University of Chicago

Melitta Schachner Rutgers, The State University of New Jersey

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