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David Premack 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 David Premack sits on this spectrum.

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31 publications 705+

This scientist: 103 publications — 22nd percentile

22% of scientists in this discipline score the same or lower.

The last bar groups every scientist with 705 publications or more.

David Premack 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 David Premack sits on this spectrum.

30–31 D-Index: 398 scientists 32–33 D-Index: 702 scientists 34–35 D-Index: 671 scientists 36–37 D-Index: 659 scientists 38–39 D-Index: 641 scientists 40–41 D-Index: 671 scientists 42–43 D-Index: 617 scientists 44–45 D-Index: 558 scientists 46–47 D-Index: 495 scientists 48–49 D-Index: 487 scientists 50–51 D-Index: 445 scientists 52–53 D-Index: 390 scientists 54–55 D-Index: 408 scientists 56–57 D-Index: 345 scientists 58–59 D-Index: 325 scientists 60–61 D-Index: 321 scientists 62–63 D-Index: 248 scientists 64–65 D-Index: 290 scientists 66–67 D-Index: 218 scientists 68–69 D-Index: 219 scientists 70–71 D-Index: 215 scientists 72–73 D-Index: 183 scientists 74–75 D-Index: 169 scientists 76–77 D-Index: 132 scientists 78–79 D-Index: 137 scientists 80–81 D-Index: 120 scientists 82–83 D-Index: 112 scientists 84–85 D-Index: 86 scientists 86–87 D-Index: 101 scientists 88–89 D-Index: 83 scientists 90–91 D-Index: 77 scientists 92–93 D-Index: 70 scientists 94–95 D-Index: 78 scientists 96–97 D-Index: 58 scientists 98–99 D-Index: 53 scientists 100–101 D-Index: 57 scientists 102–103 D-Index: 48 scientists 104–105 D-Index: 53 scientists 106–107 D-Index: 46 scientists 108–109 D-Index: 24 scientists 110–111 D-Index: 35 scientists 112–113 D-Index: 27 scientists 114–115 D-Index: 32 scientists 116–117 D-Index: 31 scientists 118–119 D-Index: 22 scientists 120–121 D-Index: 16 scientists 122–123 D-Index: 24 scientists 124–125 D-Index: 18 scientists 126–127 D-Index: 11 scientists 128–129 D-Index: 19 scientists 130–131 D-Index: 10 scientists 132–133 D-Index: 16 scientists 134–135 D-Index: 10 scientists 136–137 D-Index: 12 scientists 138–139 D-Index: 8 scientists 140–141 D-Index: 5 scientists 142–143 D-Index: 12 scientists 144+ D-Index: 98 scientists
30 D-Index 144+

This scientist: 49 D-Index — 52nd percentile

52% 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

  • 2004 - William James Fellow Award, Association for Psychological Science (APA)
  • 1978 - Fellow of John Simon Guggenheim Memorial Foundation
  • 1963 - Fellow of the American Association for the Advancement of Science (AAAS)

Overview

David Premack was affiliated with the University of Pennsylvania in the United States. Over the course of their career, they contributed to the academic community primarily through research and scholarly activities in psychology and related disciplines.

Premack's career was recognized with several awards, including the William James Fellow Award from the Association for Psychological Science (APA) in 2004. Earlier in their career, they were named a Fellow of the John Simon Guggenheim Memorial Foundation in 1978. Additionally, they were a Fellow of the American Association for the Advancement of Science (AAAS) from 1963, indicating longstanding recognition within the scientific community.

Although no specific publications, coauthors, or detailed fields of study are listed here, the available information reflects Premack's involvement in psychology and related research areas. Their affiliation with a major research university further reinforces a career based in academic research and teaching.

Premack's work likely influenced various aspects of their field given the honors received and their lengthy academic tenure. The awards suggest contributions significant enough to be acknowledged by prominent scientific organizations at multiple points in their career.

Best Publications

  • Does the chimpanzee have a theory of mind

    David Premack;Guy Woodruff

  • Intentional communication in the chimpanzee: The development of deception

    Guy Woodruff;David Premack

  • The infant's theory of self-propelled objects ☆

    David Premack

  • Intelligence in ape and man

    David Premack

  • Toward empirical behavior laws. I. positive reinforcement.

    David Premack

  • The codes of man and beasts.

    David Premack

  • Do Infants Have a Sense of Fairness

    Stephanie Sloane;Renée Baillargeon;David Premack

  • Causal cognition : a multidisciplinary debate

    Dan Sperber;David Premack;Ann James Premack

  • Language in Chimpanzee

    David Premack

  • Human and animal cognition: continuity and discontinuity.

    David Premack

  • Gavagai!: or the Future History of the Animal Language Controversy

    David Premack

  • Chimpanzee problem-solving: a test for comprehension

    David Premack;Guy Woodruff

  • Reversibility of the Reinforcement Relation

    David Premack

  • Infants attribute value± to the goal-directed actions of self-propelled objects

    David Premack;Ann James Premack

  • The Mind of an Ape

    David Premack;Ann J. Premack

  • Teaching language to an ape.

    Ann James Premack;David Premack

  • A functional analysis of language.

    David Premack

  • Spontaneous transfer of matching by infant chimpanzees (Pan troglodytes).

    David L. Oden;Roger K. Thompson;David Premack

  • Primative mathematical concepts in the chimpanzee: proportionality and numerosity

    Guy Woodruff;Guy Woodruff;David Premack

  • Artificial language training in global aphasics.

    Andrea Velletri Glass;Michael S. Gazzaniga;David Premack

Frequent Co-Authors

Dan Sperber
Dan Sperber Central European University
Michael S. Gazzaniga
Michael S. Gazzaniga University of California, Santa Barbara
Walter Kintsch
Walter Kintsch University of Colorado Boulder
Candida C. Peterson
Candida C. Peterson University of Queensland
Virginia Slaughter
Virginia Slaughter University of Queensland
Renée Baillargeon
Renée Baillargeon University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
Marc D. Hauser
Marc D. Hauser Harvard University
Michael A. Arbib
Michael A. Arbib University of Southern California

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