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Discipline name D-index D-index (Discipline H-index) only includes papers and citation values for an examined discipline in contrast to General H-index which accounts for publications across all disciplines. Citations Publications World Ranking National Ranking
Psychology D-index 38 Citations 17,450 242 World Ranking 6043 National Ranking 3376

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Awards & Achievements

1933 - Fellow of the American Association for the Advancement of Science (AAAS)

1917 - Member of the National Academy of Sciences

Overview

What is he best known for?

The fields of study he is best known for:

  • Law
  • Cognition
  • Social science

The scientist’s investigation covers issues in Cognitive science, Animal cognition, Cognitive psychology, Cognition and School psychology. His studies deal with areas such as Animal learning and Principles of learning as well as Cognitive science. He studied Animal cognition and Associative property that intersect with Comparative psychology.

His research in Cognitive psychology tackles topics such as Social psychology which are related to areas like Implicit learning and Motor skill. His Cognition research includes themes of Function, Statistics and Econometrics. His School psychology research incorporates themes from Educational psychology, Psychology of learning, Critical psychology and Philosophy of psychology.

His most cited work include:

  • The Teacher's Word Book of 30, 000 Words (2658 citations)
  • Intelligence and its uses. (1057 citations)
  • Animal Intelligence: An Experimental Study of the Associative Processes in Animals (1019 citations)

What are the main themes of his work throughout his whole career to date?

His main research concerns Cognitive psychology, Cognitive science, Social psychology, Mathematics education and Linguistics. Much of his study explores Cognitive psychology relationship to Cognition. His study brings together the fields of Animal cognition and Cognitive science.

He most often published in these fields:

  • Cognitive psychology (13.19%)
  • Cognitive science (8.06%)
  • Social psychology (7.69%)

What were the highlights of his more recent work (between 1966-2018)?

  • Linguistics (5.13%)
  • Mathematics education (6.96%)
  • Critical psychology (2.93%)

In recent papers he was focusing on the following fields of study:

His scientific interests lie mostly in Linguistics, Mathematics education, Critical psychology, Mental work and Pedagogy. His work in Linguistics covers topics such as Word lists by frequency which are related to areas like Frequency theory. His biological study spans a wide range of topics, including Composition and Arithmetic.

His Critical psychology course of study focuses on School psychology and Theoretical psychology and Basic science. He has researched Psychotherapist in several fields, including Cognition and Educational psychology. His Experimental psychology research is multidisciplinary, incorporating perspectives in Cognitive science and Principles of learning.

Between 1966 and 2018, his most popular works were:

  • The Teacher's Word Book of 30, 000 Words (2658 citations)
  • Animal Intelligence; Experimental Studies (333 citations)
  • The Teacher's Word Book (297 citations)

In his most recent research, the most cited papers focused on:

  • Law
  • Cognition
  • Social science

Edward L. Thorndike mainly focuses on Linguistics, Word lists by frequency, Word, Epistemology and Reading. His work carried out in the field of Linguistics brings together such families of science as Dynamics and Meaning. His Word lists by frequency research includes elements of Frequency theory and Natural language processing.

His research integrates issues of Exposition, Mainstream and Psychological research in his study of Epistemology. His Reading research is multidisciplinary, incorporating elements of Paragraph, Simple, English language, Word and Vocabulary. As part of one scientific family, he deals mainly with the area of Theoretical psychology, narrowing it down to issues related to the Differential psychology, and often Educational psychology, Cognition, Experimental psychology, Principles of learning and Cognitive science.

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Best Publications

The Teacher's Word Book of 30, 000 Words

Edward L. Thorndike;Irving Lorge.
(2018)

4364 Citations

Intelligence and its uses.

E.L. Thorndike.
Harper's Magazine (1920)

1706 Citations

Animal Intelligence: An Experimental Study of the Associative Processes in Animals

Edward L. Thorndike.
(1898)

1702 Citations

THE INFLUENCE OF IMPROVEMENT IN ONE MENTAL FUNCTION UPON THE EFFICIENCY OF OTHER FUNCTIONS

R. S. Woodworth;E. L. Thorndike.
Psychological Review (1901)

1504 Citations

Animal Intelligence. Experimental Studies

Edward L. Thorndike;Jelliffe.
Journal of Nervous and Mental Disease (1912)

1336 Citations

The fundamentals of learning

Edward L. Thorndike.
American Journal of Psychology (1932)

938 Citations

The law of effect.

Edward L. Thorndike.
American Journal of Psychology (1927)

626 Citations

Animal Intelligence; Experimental Studies

Edward Lee Thorndike.
(1999)

545 Citations

The Teacher's Word Book

Edward L. Thorndike.
(2007)

467 Citations

Reading as Reasoning: A Study of Mistakes in Paragraph Reading

Edward L. Thorndike.
(2009)

449 Citations

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