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Discipline name D-Index World Ranking Current World Ranking National Ranking Current National Ranking Publications Citations
Psychology 52 4964 4602 38 35 147 11743
Neuroscience 52 5262 4832 34 32 163 11864

Galit Yovel publications per year

The chart shows the history of publications by Galit Yovel between 1998 and 2025, highlighting the no. of papers published in each year and offering an overview of the publication velocity of this scholar. Galit Yovel published across 28 years, from 1998 to 2025, averaging 6.3 papers a year. Output peaked at 22 publications in 2010. 17 of the 175 publications appeared in the last two years.

No. of publications
5 10 15 20
Bar chart. Horizontal axis: year, 1998 to 2025. Vertical axis: number of publications, 0 to 22. Peak 22 publications in 2010. 1998: 1 publication 1999: 0 publications 2000: 1 publication 2001: 2 publications 2002: 0 publications 2003: 2 publications 2004: 4 publications 2005: 3 publications 2006: 3 publications 2007: 4 publications 2008: 4 publications 2009: 5 publications 2010: 22 publications 2011: 11 publications 2012: 11 publications 2013: 6 publications 2014: 9 publications 2015: 12 publications 2016: 10 publications 2017: 7 publications 2018: 4 publications 2019: 9 publications 2020: 8 publications 2021: 9 publications 2022: 8 publications 2023: 3 publications 2024: 10 publications 2025: 7 publications
1998 2025

175 publications in total across all disciplines

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Galit Yovel: publications per year, 1998 to 2025
Year Publications
1998 1
1999 0
2000 1
2001 2
2002 0
2003 2
2004 4
2005 3
2006 3
2007 4
2008 4
2009 5
2010 22
2011 11
2012 11
2013 6
2014 9
2015 12
2016 10
2017 7
2018 4
2019 9
2020 8
2021 9
2022 8
2023 3
2024 10
2025 7
Total 175
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Galit Yovel 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 Galit Yovel sits on this spectrum.

No. of scientists
200 400 600
Bar chart with 69 bars. Horizontal axis: publications, 31–40 to 705+. Vertical axis: number of scientists, 0 to 736. Most scientists, 736, have 101–110 publications. The last bar groups every scientist with 705 publications or more. The highlighted bar, 141–150 publications, is where this scientist sits. 31–40 publications: 6 scientists 41–50 publications: 52 scientists 51–60 publications: 138 scientists 61–70 publications: 299 scientists 71–80 publications: 461 scientists 81–90 publications: 605 scientists 91–100 publications: 713 scientists 101–110 publications: 736 scientists 111–120 publications: 686 scientists 121–130 publications: 670 scientists 131–140 publications: 644 scientists 141–150 publications: 597 scientists 151–160 publications: 576 scientists 161–170 publications: 477 scientists 171–180 publications: 450 scientists 181–190 publications: 397 scientists 191–200 publications: 343 scientists 201–210 publications: 328 scientists 211–220 publications: 313 scientists 221–230 publications: 283 scientists 231–240 publications: 226 scientists 241–250 publications: 196 scientists 251–260 publications: 201 scientists 261–270 publications: 171 scientists 271–280 publications: 151 scientists 281–290 publications: 139 scientists 291–300 publications: 113 scientists 301–310 publications: 102 scientists 311–320 publications: 100 scientists 321–330 publications: 76 scientists 331–340 publications: 92 scientists 341–350 publications: 85 scientists 351–360 publications: 69 scientists 361–370 publications: 71 scientists 371–380 publications: 63 scientists 381–390 publications: 58 scientists 391–400 publications: 57 scientists 401–410 publications: 43 scientists 411–420 publications: 33 scientists 421–430 publications: 50 scientists 431–440 publications: 41 scientists 441–450 publications: 32 scientists 451–460 publications: 27 scientists 461–470 publications: 28 scientists 471–480 publications: 25 scientists 481–490 publications: 28 scientists 491–500 publications: 20 scientists 501–510 publications: 23 scientists 511–520 publications: 26 scientists 521–530 publications: 17 scientists 531–540 publications: 21 scientists 541–550 publications: 14 scientists 551–560 publications: 16 scientists 561–570 publications: 10 scientists 571–580 publications: 22 scientists 581–590 publications: 9 scientists 591–600 publications: 14 scientists 601–610 publications: 9 scientists 611–620 publications: 11 scientists 621–630 publications: 4 scientists 631–640 publications: 7 scientists 641–650 publications: 5 scientists 651–660 publications: 10 scientists 661–670 publications: 8 scientists 671–680 publications: 8 scientists 681–690 publications: 4 scientists 691–700 publications: 3 scientists 701–704 publications: 4 scientists 705+ publications: 100 scientists
31–40 publications 705+

This scientist: 147 publications — 47th percentile

47% of scientists in this discipline score the same or lower.

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

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Number of Psychology scientists by publication count, Research.com 2026 ranking edition. Based on 11,416 ranked scientists.
Publications Scientists This scientist
31–40 6
41–50 52
51–60 138
61–70 299
71–80 461
81–90 605
91–100 713
101–110 736
111–120 686
121–130 670
131–140 644
141–150 597 147
151–160 576
161–170 477
171–180 450
181–190 397
191–200 343
201–210 328
211–220 313
221–230 283
231–240 226
241–250 196
251–260 201
261–270 171
271–280 151
281–290 139
291–300 113
301–310 102
311–320 100
321–330 76
331–340 92
341–350 85
351–360 69
361–370 71
371–380 63
381–390 58
391–400 57
401–410 43
411–420 33
421–430 50
431–440 41
441–450 32
451–460 27
461–470 28
471–480 25
481–490 28
491–500 20
501–510 23
511–520 26
521–530 17
531–540 21
541–550 14
551–560 16
561–570 10
571–580 22
581–590 9
591–600 14
601–610 9
611–620 11
621–630 4
631–640 7
641–650 5
651–660 10
661–670 8
671–680 8
681–690 4
691–700 3
701–704 4
705+ 100
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Galit Yovel 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 Galit Yovel sits on this spectrum.

No. of scientists
200 400 600
Bar chart with 58 bars. Horizontal axis: D-Index, 30–31 to 144+. Vertical axis: number of scientists, 0 to 702. Most scientists, 702, have 32–33 D-Index. The last bar groups every scientist with 144 D-Index or more. The highlighted bar, 52–53 D-Index, is where this scientist sits. 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
30–31 D-Index 144+

This scientist: 52 D-Index — 57th percentile

57% of scientists in this discipline score the same or lower.

The last bar groups every scientist with 144 D-Index or more.

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Number of Psychology scientists by D-index, Research.com 2026 ranking edition. Based on 11,416 ranked scientists.
D-Index Scientists This scientist
30–31 398
32–33 702
34–35 671
36–37 659
38–39 641
40–41 671
42–43 617
44–45 558
46–47 495
48–49 487
50–51 445
52–53 390 52
54–55 408
56–57 345
58–59 325
60–61 321
62–63 248
64–65 290
66–67 218
68–69 219
70–71 215
72–73 183
74–75 169
76–77 132
78–79 137
80–81 120
82–83 112
84–85 86
86–87 101
88–89 83
90–91 77
92–93 70
94–95 78
96–97 58
98–99 53
100–101 57
102–103 48
104–105 53
106–107 46
108–109 24
110–111 35
112–113 27
114–115 32
116–117 31
118–119 22
120–121 16
122–123 24
124–125 18
126–127 11
128–129 19
130–131 10
132–133 16
134–135 10
136–137 12
138–139 8
140–141 5
142–143 12
144+ 98
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Overview

Galit Yovel is a researcher affiliated with Tel Aviv University in Israel. Their work primarily focuses on the intersection of neuroscience and computer science, with a specialization in cognitive neuroscience and computer vision and pattern recognition. Their research contributions span multiple subfields including experimental and cognitive psychology, biomedical engineering, and developmental biology.

The core topics addressed by Yovel include:

  • Face Recognition and Perception
  • Face recognition and analysis
  • Evolutionary Psychology and Human Behavior
  • Visual Attention and Saliency Detection
  • Face and Expression Recognition
  • Visual perception and processing mechanisms
  • Psychology of Moral and Emotional Judgment

Yovel has published extensively in scientific venues, with notable frequent publications in:

  • Journal of Vision
  • bioRxiv (Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory)
  • Journal of Neuroscience
  • Vision Research
  • Cognition

Their recent papers include:

  • "Face Recognition Depends on Specialized Mechanisms Tuned to View-Invariant Facial Features: Insights from Deep Neural Networks Optimized for Face or Object Recognition" (2021, Cognitive Science)
  • "Using deep neural networks to disentangle visual and semantic information in human perception and memory" (2024, Nature Human Behaviour)
  • "The Functional Organization of High-Level Visual Cortex Determines the Representation of Complex Visual Stimuli" (2020, Journal of Neuroscience)
  • "Developmental prosopagnosics and super recognizers rely on the same facial features used by individuals with normal face recognition abilities for face identification" (2021, Neuropsychologia)
  • "Learning faces as concepts improves face recognition by engaging the social brain network" (2021, Social Cognitive and Affective Neuroscience)

Yovel frequently collaborates with other researchers, including Adva Shoham, Idan Grosbard, Naphtali Abudarham, Libi Kliger, and Rotem Broday-Dvir. Collaborative works with these co-authors have contributed significantly to studies in face recognition mechanisms and neural underpinnings of visual cognition.

Best Publications

  • The fusiform face area: a cortical region specialized for the perception of faces.

    Nancy Kanwisher;Galit Yovel

  • Face Perception: Domain Specific, Not Process Specific

    Galit Yovel;Nancy Kanwisher

  • TMS Evidence for the Involvement of the Right Occipital Face Area in Early Face Processing

    David Pitcher;Vincent Walsh;Galit Yovel;Bradley Duchaine

  • The neural basis of the behavioral face-inversion effect.

    Galit Yovel;Nancy Kanwisher

  • A Revised Neural Framework for Face Processing

    Brad Duchaine;Galit Yovel

  • Diagnosing prosopagnosia: Effects of ageing, sex, and participant–stimulus ethnic match on the Cambridge Face Memory Test and Cambridge Face Perception Test

    Devin C. Bowles;Elinor McKone;Amy Dawel;Bradley Duchaine

  • Why does picture-plane inversion sometimes dissociate perception of features and spacing in faces, and sometimes not? Toward a new theory of holistic processing

    Elinor McKone;Galit Yovel

  • Prosopagnosia as an impairment to face-specific mechanisms: Elimination of the alternative hypotheses in a developmental case

    Bradley C. Duchaine;Galit Yovel;Edward J. Butterworth;Ken Nakayama

  • The neural basis of the butcher-on-the-bus phenomenon: when a face seems familiar but is not remembered.

    Galit Yovel;Ken A Paller

  • The asymmetry of the fusiform face area is a stable individual characteristic that underlies the left-visual-field superiority for faces.

    Galit Yovel;Arielle Tambini;Talli Brandman

  • Event-related potential and functional MRI measures of face-selectivity are highly correlated: a simultaneous ERP-fMRI investigation.

    Boaz Sadeh;Ilana Podlipsky;Ilana Podlipsky;Andrey Zhdanov;Galit Yovel

  • Two neural pathways of face processing: A critical evaluation of current models.

    Michal Bernstein;Galit Yovel

  • Specialized Face Perception Mechanisms Extract Both Part and Spacing Information: Evidence from Developmental Prosopagnosia

    Galit Yovel;Brad Duchaine

  • No global processing deficit in the Navon task in 14 developmental prosopagnosics

    Bradley Duchaine;Galit Yovel;Ken Nakayama

  • Face Processing Systems: From Neurons to Real-World Social Perception

    Winrich Freiwald;Bradley Duchaine;Galit Yovel

  • A unified coding strategy for processing faces and voices

    Galit Yovel;Pascal Belin;Pascal Belin;Pascal Belin

  • Faces in the eye of the beholder: unique and stable eye scanning patterns of individual observers

    Eyal Mehoudar;Joseph Arizpe;Chris I. Baker;Galit Yovel

  • Recognizing People in Motion

    Galit Yovel;Alice J. O’Toole

  • The Effects of Sex, Menstrual Cycle, and Oral Contraceptives on the Number and Activity of Natural Killer Cells

    Galit Yovel;Keren Shakhar;Shamgar Ben-Eliyahu

  • In vivo correlation between axon diameter and conduction velocity in the human brain

    Assaf Horowitz;Daniel Barazany;Ido Tavor;Moran Bernstein

  • Hemispheric asymmetries for global and local visual perception: effects of stimulus and task factors.

    Galit Yovel;Iftah Yovel;Jerre Levy

  • Report The Neural Basis of the Behavioral Face-Inversion Effect

    Galit Yovel;Nancy Kanwisher

  • Separate face and body selectivity on the fusiform gyrus

    Rebecca Schwarzlose;Chris I. Baker;Galit Yovel;Nancy Kanwisher

Frequent Co-Authors

Bradley Duchaine
Bradley Duchaine Dartmouth College
Chris I. Baker
Chris I. Baker National Institutes of Health
Elinor McKone
Elinor McKone Australian National University
Vincent Walsh
Vincent Walsh University College London
Talma Hendler
Talma Hendler Tel Aviv University
Yaacov Trope
Yaacov Trope New York University
Pascal Belin
Pascal Belin Aix-Marseille University
Pamela D. Butler
Pamela D. Butler Nathan Kline Institute for Psychiatric Research
Ken A. Paller
Ken A. Paller Northwestern University

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