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 Dedre Gentner sits on this spectrum.
This scientist: 352 publications — 91st percentile
91% of scientists in this discipline score the same or lower.
The last bar groups every scientist with 705 publications or more.
The chart shows the D-index (discipline H-index) distribution of Psychology scientists ranked by Research.com in 2026. The highlighted bar marks where Dedre Gentner sits on this spectrum.
This scientist: 107 D-Index — 96th percentile
96% of scientists in this discipline score the same or lower.
The last bar groups every scientist with 144 D-Index or more.
Dedre Gentner is affiliated with Northwestern University in the United States and specializes in psychology with a focus on developmental and educational psychology as well as experimental and cognitive psychology.
Their research spans topics including child and animal learning development, categorization, perception, and language, visual and cognitive learning processes, language and cultural evolution, language development and disorders, language, metaphor, and cognition, and spatial cognition and navigation.
Frequent publication venues for their work include Cognitive Science, Current Opinion in Behavioral Sciences, Journal of Experimental Psychology Human Perception & Performance, Instructional Science, and Cognition.
Notable recent papers include:
The scientist collaborates frequently with colleagues including Bryan J. Matlen, Nina Simms, Susan J. Hespos, Ruxue Shao, and Erin Anderson.
Awards received by Dedre Gentner include the David E. Rumelhart Prize for Contributions to the Theoretical Foundations of Human Cognition (2016), APA Award for Distinguished Scientific Contributions to Psychology from the American Psychological Association (2016), Fellow of the American Association for the Advancement of Science (2010), Fellow of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences (2004), and Fellow of the American Psychological Association (1993).
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