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D-Index
51
Citations
33448
World Ranking
5079
National Ranking
10

György Gergely 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 György Gergely sits on this spectrum.

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31 publications 705+

This scientist: 115 publications — 29th percentile

29% of scientists in this discipline score the same or lower.

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

György Gergely 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 György Gergely sits on this spectrum.

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 D-Index 144+

This scientist: 51 D-Index — 56th percentile

56% 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

  • 2026 - Research.com Psychology in Hungary Leader Award
  • 2025 - Research.com Psychology in Hungary Leader Award
  • 2012 - Member of Academia Europaea
  • 2003 - Fellow of John Simon Guggenheim Memorial Foundation
  • 2002 - Goethe Award for Psychoanalytic and Psychodynamic Scholarship, Canadian Psychological Association

Overview

György Gergely is affiliated with the Central European University in Hungary. Their primary research domain lies within psychology, with a particular focus on developmental and educational psychology, social psychology, cultural studies, cognitive neuroscience, and genetics.

The scientist's work extensively covers topics such as child and animal learning development, action observation and synchronization, language and cultural evolution, language development and disorders, primate behavior and ecology, neurobiology of language and bilingualism, and human-animal interaction studies.

Frequent publication venues for György Gergely include:

  • Scientific Reports
  • Behavioral and Brain Sciences
  • Open Mind
  • Developmental Cognitive Neuroscience
  • Journal of Cognition and Development

Selected recent papers include:

  • The newborn brain is sensitive to the communicative function of language, 2022, Scientific Reports
  • Context-sensitive adjustment of pointing in great apes, 2020, Scientific Reports
  • Electrophysiological investigation of infants' understanding of understanding, 2020, Developmental Cognitive Neuroscience
  • The Propensity to Learn Shared Cultural Knowledge from Social Group Members: Selective Imitation in 18-month-olds, 2021, Journal of Cognition and Development
  • Acquiring sub-efficient and efficient variants of novel means by integrating information from multiple social models in preschoolers, 2020, Journal of Experimental Child Psychology

Key frequent co-authors of György Gergely include:

  • Ildikó Király
  • Tibor Tauzin
  • Bálint Forgács
  • Judit Gervain
  • Josep Call

György Gergely has been recognized with several awards during their career, including:

  • Member of Academia Europaea, 2012
  • Fellow of John Simon Guggenheim Memorial Foundation, 2003
  • Goethe Award for Psychoanalytic and Psychodynamic Scholarship, Canadian Psychological Association, 2002

Best Publications

  • Affect Regulation, Mentalization and the Development of the Self

    P Fonagy;G Gergely;EJ Jurist;M Target

  • Taking the intentional stance at 12 months of age

    György Gergely;Zoltán Nádasdy;Gergely Csibra;Szilvia Bíró

  • Rational imitation in preverbal infants

    György Gergely;Harold Bekkering;Ildikó Király

  • Natural pedagogy

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  • Teleological reasoning in infancy: the naı̈ve theory of rational action

    György Gergely;Gergely Csibra

  • Natural pedagogy as evolutionary adaptation

    Gergely Csibra;György Gergely

  • The parent-infant dyad and the construction of the subjective self

    Peter Fonagy;Peter Fonagy;George Gergely;George Gergely;Mary Target;Mary Target

  • Goal attribution without agency cues: the perception of ‘pure reason’ in infancy

    Gergely Csibra;György Gergely;György Gergely;Szilvia Bı́ró;Szilvia Bı́ró;Orsolya Koós

  • Early socio–emotional development: Contingency perception and the social-biofeedback model.

    György Gergely;John S. Watson

  • The social biofeedback theory of parental affect-mirroring: the development of emotional self-awareness and self-control in infancy.

    György Gergely;John S. Watson

  • Social learning and social cognition: The case for pedagogy

    Gergely Csibra;György Gergely

  • Sylvia's recipe: The role of imitation and pedagogy in the transmission of cultural knowledge

    György Gergely;Gergely Csibra

  • 'Obsessed with goals': functions and mechanisms of teleological interpretation of actions in humans.

    Gergely Csibra;György Gergely

  • One-year-old infants use teleological representations of actions productively

    Gergely Csibra;Szilvia Bíró;Orsolya Koós;György Gergely

  • Investigating action understanding: inferential processes versus action simulation.

    Marcel Brass;Ruth M. Schmitt;Stephanie Spengler;György Gergely

  • The Developmental Roots of Borderline Personality Disorder in Early Attachment Relationships: A Theory and Some Evidence

    Peter Fonagy;Mary Target;George Gergely;Jon G. Allen

  • Affektregulierung, Mentalisierung und die Entwicklung des Selbst

    Peter Fonagy;György Gergely;Elliot L. Jurist;Mary Target

  • The social construction of the cultural mind: Imitative learning as a mechanism of human pedagogy

    György Gergely;Gergely Csibra

  • Differential sensitivity to human communication in dogs, wolves, and human infants

    József Topál;György Gergely;Ágnes Erdőhegyi;Gergely Csibra

  • Infants' perseverative search errors are induced by pragmatic misinterpretation.

    József Topál;György Gergely;Ádám Miklósi;Ágnes Erdőhegyi

  • The teleological origins of mentalistic action explanations: A developmental hypothesis

    Gergely Csibra;György Gergely

Frequent Co-Authors

Gergely Csibra
Gergely Csibra Central European University
Peter Fonagy
Peter Fonagy University College London
József Topál
József Topál Hungarian Academy of Sciences
Mary Target
Mary Target University College London
Ádám Miklósi
Ádám Miklósi Eötvös Loránd University
Harold Bekkering
Harold Bekkering Radboud University
Marcel Brass
Marcel Brass Ghent University
Gisa Aschersleben
Gisa Aschersleben Saarland University
Jacqueline Nadel
Jacqueline Nadel Centre national de la recherche scientifique, CNRS
Josep Call
Josep Call University of St Andrews

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