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Daniel R. Montello publication distribution in Social Sciences and Humanities in 2026

The chart shows the distribution of publications by all Research.com ranked scientists in the field of Social Sciences and Humanities in 2026. The highlighted bar marks where Daniel R. Montello sits on this spectrum.

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44 publications 570+

This scientist: 111 publications — 19th percentile

19% of scientists in this discipline score the same or lower.

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Daniel R. Montello D-index placement in Social Sciences and Humanities in 2026

The chart shows the D-index (discipline H-index) distribution of Social Sciences and Humanities scientists ranked by Research.com in 2026. The highlighted bar marks where Daniel R. Montello sits on this spectrum.

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This scientist: 52 D-Index — 70th percentile

70% of scientists in this discipline score the same or lower.

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Overview

Daniel R. Montello is affiliated with the University of California, Santa Barbara in the United States. Their research spans several interconnected fields including Engineering, Psychology, and Social Sciences, with specific contributions to subfields such as Automotive Engineering, Experimental and Cognitive Psychology, Geography, Planning and Development, Anatomy, and Transportation.

The core themes of Montello's work focus on Spatial Cognition and Navigation, Geographic Information Systems (GIS) Studies, Categorization, Perception, and Language, as well as Medical and Biological Sciences. The researcher also explores topics related to Visual and Cognitive Learning Processes, Urban Transport and Accessibility, and the Impact of Light on Environment and Health.

Montello's recent publications include:

  • "Geographic orientation, disorientation, and misorientation: a commentary on Fernandez Velasco and Casati", 2020, published in Spatial Cognition and Computation
  • "Another Look at the "Mercator Effect" on Global-Scale Cognitive Maps: Not in Areas but in Directions", 2021, published in Annals of the American Association of Geographers
  • "The symmetry and asymmetry of pedestrian route choice", 2023, published in Journal of Environmental Psychology
  • "Wayfinding in pairs: comparing the planning and navigation performance of dyads and individuals in a real-world environment", 2024, published in Cognitive Research Principles and Implications
  • "Predicting spatial familiarity by exploiting head and eye movements during pedestrian navigation in the real world", 2025, published in Scientific Reports

Frequent coauthors include Mary Hegarty, Madeleine Keehner, Cheryl A. Cohen, Yvonne Lippa, and Rie C. Davis, indicating collaboration across various studies.

Montello's work has been published in venues such as Journal of Environmental Psychology, Cognitive Research Principles and Implications, Spatial Cognition and Computation, Annals of the American Association of Geographers, and Scientific Reports.

Best Publications

  • Development of a self-report measure of environmental spatial ability.

    Mary Hegarty;Anthony E. Richardson;Daniel R. Montello;Kristin Lovelace

  • Spatial abilities at different scales: Individual differences in aptitude-test performance and spatial-layout learning

    Mary Hegarty;Daniel R. Montello;Anthony E. Richardson;Toru Ishikawa

  • Scale and multiple psychologies of space

    Daniel R. Montello

  • Spatial knowledge acquisition from direct experience in the environment: individual differences in the development of metric knowledge and the integration of separately learned places.

    Toru Ishikawa;Daniel R. Montello

  • Spatial knowledge acquisition from maps and from navigation in real and virtual environments.

    Anthony E. Richardson;Daniel R. Montello;Mary Hegarty

  • Changes in peer and parent influence during adolescence: Longitudinal versus cross-sectional perspectives on smoking initiation.

    Laurie Chassin;Clark C. Presson;Steven J. Sherman;Daniel Montello

  • A New Framework for Understanding the Acquisition of Spatial Knowledge in Large-Scale Environments

    Daniel R. Montello

  • Elements of Good Route Directions in Familiar and Unfamiliar Environments

    Kristin L. Lovelace;Mary Hegarty;Daniel R. Montello

  • Cognitive and Usability Issues in Geovisualization

    Terry A. Slocum;Connie Blok;Bin Jiang;Alexandra Koussoulakou

  • Cognitive Map-Design Research in the Twentieth Century: Theoretical and Empirical Approaches

    Daniel R. Montello

  • Sex-Related Differences and Similarities in Geographic and Environmental Spatial Abilities

    Daniel R. Montello;Kristin L. Lovelace;Reginald G. Golledge;Carole M. Self

  • Updating after rotational and translational body movements: coordinate structure of perspective space.

    Clark C Presson;Daniel R Montello

  • Where's Downtown?: Behavioral Methods for Determining Referents of Vague Spatial Queries

    Daniel R. Montello;Michael F. Goodchild;Jonathon Gottsegen;Peter Fohl

  • Points of reference in spatial cognition: Stalking the elusive landmark*

    Clark C. Presson;Daniel R. Montello

  • Integrating Knowledge of Vertically Aligned Large-Scale Spaces

    Daniel R. Montello;Herbert L. Pick

  • Remembering Changes in Direction

    Edward K. Sadalla;Daniel R. Montello

  • The measurement of cognitive distance: Methods and construct validity

    Daniel R. Montello

  • How spatial abilities enhance, and are enhanced by, dental education

    Mary Hegarty;Madeleine Keehner;Peter Khooshabeh;Daniel R. Montello

  • Spatial Memory of Real Environments, Virtual Environments, and Maps

    Daniel R. Montello;David Waller;Mary Hegarty;Anthony E. Richardson

  • Spatial Reasoning With External Visualizations: What Matters Is What You See, Not Whether You Interact

    Madeleine Keehner;Mary Hegarty;Cheryl Cohen;Peter Khooshabeh

  • The Perception and Cognition of Environmental Distance: Direct Sources of Information

    Daniel R. Montello

Frequent Co-Authors

Mary Hegarty
Mary Hegarty University of California, Santa Barbara
Sara Irina Fabrikant
Sara Irina Fabrikant University of Zurich
Reginald G. Golledge
Reginald G. Golledge University of California, Santa Barbara
Clark C. Presson
Clark C. Presson Arizona State University
Paul C. Sutton
Paul C. Sutton University of Denver
Ronald E. Rice
Ronald E. Rice University of California, Santa Barbara
Michael F. Goodchild
Michael F. Goodchild University of California, Santa Barbara
Gennady Andrienko
Gennady Andrienko Fraunhofer Institute for Intelligent Analysis and Information Systems
Natalia Andrienko
Natalia Andrienko Fraunhofer Institute for Intelligent Analysis and Information Systems
Laurie Chassin
Laurie Chassin Arizona State University

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