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92
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Dean Keith Simonton 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 Dean Keith Simonton sits on this spectrum.

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31 publications 705+

This scientist: 421 publications — 95th percentile

95% of scientists in this discipline score the same or lower.

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

Dean Keith Simonton 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 Dean Keith Simonton sits on this spectrum.

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30 D-Index 144+

This scientist: 92 D-Index — 93rd percentile

93% 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

  • 1998 - Fellow of the American Association for the Advancement of Science (AAAS)
  • 1983 - Fellow of the American Psychological Association (APA)

Overview

Dean Keith Simonton is affiliated with the University of California, Davis in the United States. Their research spans primarily the fields of psychology and neuroscience, with 18 publications in psychology and 7 in neuroscience. Within these fields, the main subfields of study include experimental and cognitive psychology, cognitive neuroscience, visual arts and performing arts, developmental and educational psychology, and mechanical engineering.

The scientist's research topics focus heavily on creativity in education and neuroscience, supported by 18 publications in this area. Other significant topics include mind wandering and attention, aesthetic perception and analysis, education, achievement, and giftedness, cognitive abilities and testing, neuroscience and cognitive function related to education, and learning styles along with cognitive differences.

Dean Keith Simonton has published papers in a variety of academic venues. Frequent publication sites include Clio's Psyche, with two publications, Creativity Research Journal, Frontiers in Psychology, Physics of Life Reviews, and Gifted Child Quarterly.

Recent papers authored by Simonton include the following:

  • The Blind-Variation and Selective-Retention Theory of Creativity: Recent Developments and Current Status of BVSR, 2022, Creativity Research Journal
  • Scientific Creativity: Discovery and Invention as Combinatorial, 2021, Frontiers in Psychology
  • Galton, Terman, Cox: The Distinctive Volume II in Genetic Studies of Genius, 2020, Gifted Child Quarterly
  • Combinatorial creativity as blind-variation and selective-retention: A definitional update, 2024, Physics of Life Reviews
  • Giftedness from the perspective of research on genius: Some precautionary implications, 2021, Gifted Education International

No frequent co-authors have been identified in the available data. Dean Keith Simonton has not been recorded as the author of books in the provided data.

Regarding honors, the scientist was awarded the Fellow of the American Psychological Association (APA) in 1983 and was named Fellow of the American Association for the Advancement of Science (AAAS) in 1998.

Best Publications

  • Origins of genius : Darwinian perspectives on creativity

    Dean Keith Simonton

  • Scientific Genius: A Psychology of Science

    Dean Keith Simonton

  • Greatness: Who Makes History and Why

    Dean Keith Simonton

  • Scientific creativity as constrained stochastic behavior: The integration of product, person, and process perspectives.

    Dean Keith Simonton

  • Creative productivity: A predictive and explanatory model of career trajectories and landmarks.

    Dean Keith Simonton

  • Creativity. Cognitive, personal, developmental, and social aspects

    Dean Keith Simonton

  • Creativity in Science: Chance, Logic, Genius, and Zeitgeist

    Dean Keith Simonton

  • Genius, Creativity, and Leadership: Historiometric Inquiries

    Dean Keith Simonton

  • Talent and its development: An emergenic and epigenetic model.

    Dean Keith Simonton

  • Age and outstanding achievement: what do we know after a century of research?

    Dean K. Simonton

  • Creativity, leadership, and chance.

    Dean Keith Simonton

  • Creativity as Blind Variation and Selective Retention: Is the Creative Process Darwinian?

    Dean Keith Simonton

  • Artistic creativity and interpersonal relationships across and within generations.

    Dean K. Simonton

  • Sociocultural context of individual creativity: a transhistorical time-series analysis.

    Dean K. Simonton

  • Diversifying experiences enhance cognitive flexibility

    Simone M. Ritter;Rodica Ioana Damian;Dean Keith Simonton;Rick B. van Baaren

  • Taking the U.S. Patent Office Criteria Seriously: A Quantitative Three-Criterion Creativity Definition and Its Implications

    Dean Keith Simonton

  • Creative productivity, age, and stress: A biographical time-series analysis of 10 classical composers.

    Dean K. Simonton

  • Advancing Creativity Theory and Research: A Socio‐cultural Manifesto

    Vlad Petre Glaveanu;Michael Hanchett Hanson;John Baer;Baptiste Barbot

  • Creativity from a historiometric perspective.

    Dean Keith Simonton

  • Presidential style: Personality, biography, and performance.

    Dean K. Simonton

  • Creativity in Science by Dean Keith Simonton

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Frequent Co-Authors

James C. Kaufman
James C. Kaufman University of Connecticut
Vlad Petre Glaveanu
Vlad Petre Glaveanu University of Bergen
Robert J. Sternberg
Robert J. Sternberg Cornell University
John Baer
John Baer Rider University
Jonathan A. Plucker
Jonathan A. Plucker Johns Hopkins University
Roni Reiter-Palmon
Roni Reiter-Palmon University of Nebraska at Omaha
John Antonakis
John Antonakis University of Lausanne
Baptiste Barbot
Baptiste Barbot Université Catholique de Louvain
Todd Lubart
Todd Lubart Université Paris Cité
Giovanni Emanuele Corazza
Giovanni Emanuele Corazza University of Bologna

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