2026 Edward Gibson: Social Sciences and Humanities Researcher – H-Index, Publications & Awards

D-Index & Metrics

Discipline name	D-Index	World Ranking	Current World Ranking	National Ranking	Current National Ranking	Publications	Citations
Social Sciences and Humanities	73	625	545	300	258	213	26270

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World Ranking

Current World Ranking

National Ranking

Current National Ranking

Publications

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Social Sciences and Humanities

625

545

300

258

213

26270

Social Sciences and Humanities

D-Index

Citations

26270

World Ranking

625

National Ranking

300

Overview

Edward Gibson is affiliated with MIT in the United States and has produced significant research primarily in the field of Psychology, with a focus on Experimental and Cognitive Psychology, Cognitive Neuroscience, Developmental and Educational Psychology, Artificial Intelligence, and Language and Linguistics.

Their research encompasses several main topics, including:

Neurobiology of Language and Bilingualism
Language, Metaphor, and Cognition
Reading and Literacy Development
Syntax, Semantics, Linguistic Variation
Categorization, perception, and language
Natural Language Processing Techniques
Text Readability and Simplification

Edward Gibson has published frequently in a number of venues, with the most common being:

Cognition
Language
Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences
Cognitive Science
bioRxiv (Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory)

Their recent notable papers include:

"Lossy-Context Surprisal: An Information-Theoretic Model of Memory Effects in Sentence Processing" (2020, Cognitive Science)
"Language is primarily a tool for communication rather than thought" (2024, Nature)
"Extraction from subjects: Differences in acceptability depend on the discourse function of the construction" (2020, Cognition)
"Dependency locality as an explanatory principle for word order" (2020, Language)
"Incremental Language Comprehension Difficulty Predicts Activity in the Language Network but Not the Multiple Demand Network" (2021, Cerebral Cortex)

Frequent coauthors of Edward Gibson include:

Rachel Ryskin
Evelina Fedorenko
Richard Futrell
Roger Lévy
Steven T. Piantadosi

Best Publications

Linguistic complexity: locality of syntactic dependencies

Edward Gibson

3414
Citations
The communicative function of ambiguity in language

Steven T. Piantadosi;Harry Tily;Edward Gibson

1680
Citations
The dependency locality theory: A distance-based theory of linguistic complexity.

Edward Gibson

1410
Citations
The P600 as an index of syntactic integration difficulty

Edith Kaan;Anthony Harris;Edward Gibson;Phillip Holcomb

1131
Citations
Processing Syntactic Relations in Language and Music: An Event-Related Potential Study

Aniruddh D. Patel;Edward Gibson;Jennifer Ratner;Mireille Besson

973
Citations
Word lengths are optimized for efficient communication

Steven Thomas Piantadosi;Harry Joel Tily;Edward A. Gibson

831
Citations
Number as a cognitive technology: evidence from Pirahã language and cognition.

Michael C. Frank;Daniel L. Everett;Evelina Fedorenko;Edward Gibson

775
Citations
The influence of referential processing on sentence complexity.

Tessa Warren;Edward Gibson

594
Citations
Consequences of the Serial Nature of Linguistic Input for Sentenial Complexity

Daniel J. Grodner;Edward A. F. Gibson

591
Citations
A computational theory of human linguistic processing: memory limitations and processing breakdown

Edward Albert Fletcher Gibson

565
Citations
Rational integration of noisy evidence and prior semantic expectations in sentence interpretation

Edward A. Gibson;Leon Bergen;Steven T. Piantadosi

502
Citations
How Efficiency Shapes Human Language.

Edward Gibson;Richard Futrell;Steven P. Piantadosi;Isabelle Dautriche

497
Citations
Large-scale evidence of dependency length minimization in 37 languages.

Richard Landy Jones Futrell;Kyle Adam Mahowald;Edward A. Gibson

495
Citations
Representing Discourse Coherence: A Corpus-Based Study

Florian Wolf;Edward Gibson

481
Citations
Processing Relative Clauses in Chinese.

Franny Hsiao;Edward Gibson

472
Citations
Acoustic Correlates of Information Structure.

Mara Breen;Evelina G. Fedorenko;Michael Wagner;Edward A. Gibson

416
Citations
Recency Preference in the Human Sentence Processing Mechanism.

Edward Gibson;Neal Pearlmutter;Enriqueta Canseco-Gonzalez;Gregory Hickok

395
Citations
The relationship between intonational phrasing and syntactic structure in language production

Duane G Watson;Edward Gibson

378
Citations
Structural integration in language and music: evidence for a shared system.

Evelina G. Fedorenko;Aniruddh Patel;Daniel Casasanto;Jonathan Winawer

377
Citations
A meta-analysis of syntactic priming in language production

Kyle Mahowald;Ariel James;Richard Futrell;Edward Gibson

365
Citations

Frequent Co-Authors

Evelina Fedorenko MIT

Michael C. Frank Stanford University

Swathi Kiran Boston University

Laura Schulz MIT

Daniel Casasanto Cornell University

Gregory Hickok University of California, Irvine

Jonathan Winawer New York University

Rebecca Saxe MIT

Phillip J. Holcomb San Diego State University

Aniruddh D. Patel Tufts University

External Links

Personal website of Edward Gibson Google Scholar page

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