2026 James J. Gibson: Psychology Researcher – H-Index, Publications & Awards

Discipline name	D-Index	World Ranking	National Ranking	Publications	Citations
Psychology	56	4090	2285	116	75888

Discipline name

D-Index

World Ranking

National Ranking

Publications

Citations

Psychology

4090

2285

116

75888

Overview

James J. Gibson is affiliated with Cornell University in the United States. Their research focuses primarily on health professions and business, management, and accounting, with particular attention to subfields such as general health professions, organizational behavior and human resource management, and emergency medical services.

Their work covers several main topics, including:

Primary care and health outcomes
Healthcare systems and technology
Global health workforce issues

James J. Gibson has published in the following venues:

BJGP Open

A recent publication by Gibson includes the paper titled "Patient perceptions of relational continuity in England: insights from two cross-sectional surveys," published in 2025 in BJGP Open.

Frequent collaborators in their research include:

Bolanle Odebiyi
Mhorag Goff
Ali Hindi
Jonathan Hammond
Kath Checkland

Best Publications

The Ecological Approach to Visual Perception

James Jerome Gibson

31948
Citations
The senses considered as perceptual systems

James Jerome Gibson

10048
Citations
The perception of the visual world

James Jerome Gibson

6492
Citations
The theory of affordances

James J. Gibson

5525
Citations
Observations on active touch.

James J. Gibson

1879
Citations
Perceptual learning; differentiation or enrichment?

James J. Gibson;Eleanor J. Gibson

1349
Citations
Visually controlled locomotion and visual orientation in animals

James J. Gibson

1152
Citations
Adaptation, after-effect and contrast in the perception of tilted lines. I. Quantitative studies

J. J. Gibson;M. Radner

1115
Citations
The Ecological Approach to Visual Perception: Classic Edition

James J. Gibson

1068
Citations
A theoretical field-analysis of automobile-driving

James J. Gibson;Laurence E. Crooks

802
Citations
The perception of visual surfaces.

James J. Gibson

671
Citations
A developmental study of the discrimination of letter-like forms.

Eleanor P. Gibson;James J. Gibson;Anne D. Pick;Harry Osser

560
Citations
Persistent fear responses in rhesus monkeys to the optical stimulus of "looming"

William Schiff;James A. Caviness;James J. Gibson

544
Citations
Perception of another person's looking behavior.

James J. Gibson;Anne D. Pick

536
Citations
Parallax and perspective during aircraft landings.

James J. Gibson;Paul Olum;Frank Rosenblatt

526
Citations
The visual perception of objective motion and subjective movement.

James J. Gibson

524
Citations
THE INFORMATION AVAILABLE IN PICTURES

James J. Gibson

449
Citations
The concept of the stimulus in psychology.

James J. Gibson

448
Citations
The Senses Considered as Perceptual Systems

Edwin G. Boring;James J. Gibson

418
Citations
The Ecological Approach to the Visual Perception of Pictures

James J. Gibson

393
Citations
The useful dimensions of sensitivity.

James J. Gibson

373
Citations

Frequent Co-Authors

Eleanor J. Gibson Cornell University

Harry F. Harlow University of Wisconsin–Madison

Irving L. Janis Yale University

B. F. Skinner Harvard University

Jerome Kagan Harvard University

Jerome S. Bruner New York University

Leon Festinger New School

Edwin G. Boring Harvard University

Charles E. Osgood University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign

William K. Estes Harvard University

External Links

Personal website of James J. Gibson

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