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Jaan Valsiner

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Psychology
Denmark
2026

D-Index & Metrics

Psychology

D-Index
70
Citations
20313
World Ranking
2263
National Ranking
8

Jaan Valsiner 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 Jaan Valsiner sits on this spectrum.

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31 publications 705+

This scientist: 509 publications — 97th percentile

97% of scientists in this discipline score the same or lower.

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

Jaan Valsiner 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 Jaan Valsiner sits on this spectrum.

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30 D-Index 144+

This scientist: 70 D-Index — 81st percentile

81% 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 Denmark Leader Award
  • 2025 - Research.com Psychology in Denmark Leader Award

Overview

Jaan Valsiner is affiliated with Aalborg University in Denmark and has a significant body of research primarily within psychology and related social sciences. Their work spans several specific domains, including social psychology, clinical psychology, general psychology, health professions, and sociology and political science.

The main fields of study for this researcher include:

  • Psychology
  • Social Sciences
  • Health Professions

Within these fields, the subfields of focus comprise:

  • Social Psychology
  • General Health Professions
  • General Psychology
  • Clinical Psychology
  • Sociology and Political Science

The research topics commonly addressed in their work include:

  • Social Representations and Identity
  • Cultural Differences and Values
  • Community Health and Development
  • Academic and Historical Perspectives in Psychology
  • Language, Discourse, Communication Strategies
  • Embodied and Extended Cognition
  • Psychotherapy Techniques and Applications

Recent notable papers by Jaan Valsiner are:

  • Where Occidental Science Went Wrong: Failing to See Systemic Unity in Diversity, 2020, Psychology and Developing Societies
  • The Inter-modal Pre-Construction Method (IMPreC): Exploring Hyper-Generalization, 2021, Human Arenas
  • From Clay Feet to New Psychology: Starting the Move, 2020, Integrative Psychological and Behavioral Science

Other relevant papers by Valsiner include:

  • Spiral and Helical Models for Psychology: Leaving Linearity Behind, 2021, Human Arenas (note: co-authored with Marc Antoine Campill)

Frequent publication venues for this researcher are:

  • Human Arenas
  • Psychology and Developing Societies
  • Integrative Psychological and Behavioral Science
  • Possibility Studies & Society
  • Review of General Psychology

Jaan Valsiner has published books primarily through Springer International Publishing, with titles including:

  • General Human Psychology, 2021
  • Sensuality in Human Living, 2020
  • Courageous Methods in Cultural Psychology, 2022
  • Dynamic Semiosis, 2024
  • Experimental Psychology, 2022

Additional book publications include:

  • Hyper-Generalization by the Human Mind, 2021, Psychosozial-Verlag eBooks
  • Hyper-generalization by the human mind: The role of sign hierarchies in meaning-making processes, 2020, King's College London

The researcher has collaborated frequently with the following colleagues:

  • Luca Tateo
  • Giuseppina Marsico
  • Marc Antoine Campill
  • Davood G. Gozli
  • Teppei Tsuchimoto

Best Publications

  • Understanding Vygotsky. A quest for synthesis

    René van der Veer;Jaan Valsiner

  • The Social Mind: Construction of the Idea

    Jaan Valsiner;René van der Veer

  • Culture and the Development of Children's Action: A Theory of Human Development

    Jaan Valsiner

  • The Development of Political Attitudes in Children

    Robert D. Hess;Judith V. Torney;Jaan Valsiner

  • The Vygotsky Reader

    R. van der Veer;J. Valsiner

  • Culture in Minds and Societies: Foundations of Cultural Psychology

    Jaan Valsiner

  • An Invitation to Cultural Psychology

    Jaan Valsiner

  • The Guided Mind: A Sociogenetic Approach to Personality

    Jaan Valsiner

  • The Oxford Handbook of Culture and Psychology.

    Jaan Valsiner

  • Changing Methodologies: A Co-constructivist Study of Goal Orientations in Social Interactions

    Angela Uchoa Branco;Jaan Valsiner

  • The Cambridge Handbook of Sociocultural Psychology

    Jaan Valsiner;Alberto Rosa

  • Forms of Dialogical Relations and Semiotic Autoregulation within the Self

    Jaan Valsiner

  • Between the General and the Unique: Overcoming the Nomothetic versus Idiographic Opposition

    Sergio Salvatore;Jaan Valsiner

  • Process Structure of Semiotic Mediation in Human Development

    Jaan Valsiner

  • From Methodology to Methods in Human Psychology

    Jaan Valsiner

  • Human Development in the Life Course: Melodies of Living

    Tania Zittoun;Jaan Valsiner;Dankert Vedeler;João Salgado

  • Dynamic process methodology in the social and developmental sciences

    Jaan Valsiner;Peter C.M. Molenaar;Maria C.D.P. Lyra;Nandita Chaudhary

  • The Individual subject and scientific psychology

    Jaan Valsiner

  • The Cambridge handbook of social representations.

    Gordon Sammut;Eleni Andreouli;George Gaskell;Jaan Valsiner

  • Culture and the development of children's action : a cultural-historical theory of developmental psychology

    Jaan Valsiner

  • Culture and human development : an introduction

    Jaan Valsiner

  • Human Development in the Life Course

    Tania Zittoun;Jaan Valsiner;Dankert Vedeler;João Salgado

Frequent Co-Authors

Miguel M. Gonçalves
Miguel M. Gonçalves University of Minho
Tania Zittoun
Tania Zittoun University of Neuchâtel
René van der Veer
René van der Veer Leiden University
George Gaskell
George Gaskell London School of Economics and Political Science
Tommy Gärling
Tommy Gärling University of Gothenburg
Alex Gillespie
Alex Gillespie London School of Economics and Political Science
Jonathan Tudge
Jonathan Tudge University of North Carolina at Greensboro
Vlad Petre Glaveanu
Vlad Petre Glaveanu University of Bergen
Michael J. Shanahan
Michael J. Shanahan University of Zurich
Alan Fogel
Alan Fogel University of Utah

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