2026 James R. Anderson: Psychology Researcher – H-Index, Publications & Awards

Discipline name	D-Index	World Ranking	Current World Ranking	National Ranking	Current National Ranking	Publications	Citations
Psychology	58	3928	3624	3	2	174	9002

Research.com Recognitions

2026 - Research.com Psychology in Japan Leader Award
2025 - Research.com Psychology in Japan Leader Award
1951 - Fellow of the American Association for the Advancement of Science (AAAS)

Overview

James R. Anderson is affiliated with Kyoto University in Japan. Their research spans multiple scientific fields, primarily focused on biochemistry, genetics, molecular biology, psychology, and neuroscience. The main subfields studied include social psychology, cellular and molecular neuroscience, molecular biology, ecology, evolution, behavior and systematics, and genetics.

Their work addresses several key topics, such as:

Primate behavior and ecology
Retinal development and disorders
Human-animal interaction studies
Photoreceptor and optogenetics research
Neuroscience and neural engineering
Neuroendocrine regulation and behavior
Animal behavior and reproduction

James R. Anderson has contributed to numerous recent publications, including:

"A Color Vision Circuit for Non-Image-Forming Vision in the Primate Retina," 2020, Current Biology
"A pathoconnectome of early neurodegeneration: Network changes in retinal degeneration," 2020, Experimental Eye Research
"Network Architecture of Gap Junctional Coupling among Parallel Processing Channels in the Mammalian Retina," 2020, Journal of Neuroscience
"Responses to death and dying: primates and other mammals," 2020, Primates
"Synaptic inputs to broad thorny ganglion cells in macaque retina," 2021, The Journal of Comparative Neurology

The most frequent publication venues for Anderson's research include:

Primates
Behavioural Processes
Animal Cognition
Biology
Experimental Eye Research

The scientist has collaborated regularly with several coauthors, notably:

Rebecca L. Pfeiffer
Bryan W. Jones
Crystal Sigulinsky
Nina Gou
Min Mao

James R. Anderson is also recognized as a Fellow of the American Association for the Advancement of Science, an honor received in 1951.

Best Publications

Sleep, sleeping sites, and sleep-related activities : Awakening to their significance

James R. Anderson;James R. Anderson

364
Citations
Contagious yawning in chimpanzees.

James R. Anderson;Masako MyowaYamakoshi;Tetsuro Matsuzawa

332
Citations
The mirror test

Gordon G. Gallup;James R. Anderson;Daniel J. Shillito

278
Citations
Ethology and Ecology of Sleep in Monkeys and Apes

James R. Anderson

248
Citations
Mirror self-recognition: a review and critique of attempts to promote and engineer self-recognition in primates.

James R. Anderson;Gordon G. Gallup

224
Citations
Use of wild and cultivated foods by chimpanzees at Bossou, Republic of Guinea: feeding dynamics in a human-influenced environment.

Kimberley J. Hockings;Kimberley J. Hockings;James R. Anderson;Tetsuro Matsuzawa

204
Citations
The development of self‐recognition: A review

James R. Anderson

192
Citations
Rhesus monkeys fail to use gaze direction as an experimenter-given cue in an object-choice task

James R. Anderson;James R. Anderson;Marie Montant;Didier Schmitt

184
Citations
Sleep-related behavioural adaptations in free-ranging anthropoid primates

James R. Anderson

181
Citations
Chimpanzees Share Forbidden Fruit

Kimberley J. Hockings;Tatyana Humle;James R. Anderson;Dora Biro

178
Citations
Road crossing in chimpanzees: a risky business.

Kimberley J. Hockings;James R. Anderson;Tetsuro Matsuzawa

164
Citations
Video-induced yawning in stumptail macaques (Macaca arctoides)

Annika Paukner;James R Anderson

160
Citations
Deep Woodchip Litter: Hygiene, Feeding, and Behavioral Enhancement in Eight Primate Species

Arnold S. Chamove;James R. Anderson;Susan C. Morgan-Jones;Susan P. Jones

150
Citations
Macaques but Not Lemurs Co-Orient Visually with Humans

James R. Anderson;Robert W. Mitchell

142
Citations
Use of objects as hammers to open nuts by capuchin monkeys (Cebus apella).

James R. Anderson

132
Citations
Chimpanzees of Sapo Forest, Liberia: Density, nests, tools and meat-eating

James R. Anderson;Elizabeth A. Williamson;Janis Carter

124
Citations
USE OF EXPERIMENTER-GIVEN MANUAL AND FACIAL CUES BY GORILLAS (GORILLA GORILLA) IN AN OBJECT-CHOICE TASK

Patricia Peignot;James R. Anderson

121
Citations
I. WHY INVESTIGATE MNEMONIC SELF‐REFERENCE EFFECTS IN PRESCHOOLERS?

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119
Citations
Self-awareness, social intelligence and schizophrenia

Gordon G. Gallup;James R. Anderson;Steven M. Platek

118
Citations
Macaques (Macaca nemestrina) recognize when they are being imitated.

Annika Paukner;James R Anderson;Eleonora Borelli;Elisabetta Visalberghi

118
Citations
Monkeys with mirrors: Some questions for primate psychology.

James R. Anderson

117
Citations
Redundant food searches by capuchin monkeys (Cebus apella): a failure of metacognition?

Annika Paukner;James R. Anderson;Kazuo Fujita

114
Citations
Development of tool-use to obtain food in a captive group of Macaca tonkeana

James R. Anderson

113
Citations
Adoption in Anthropoid Primates

Bernard Thierry;James R. Anderson

112
Citations
The rapid development of explicit gaze judgment ability at 3 years

Martin J. Doherty;James R. Anderson;Lynne Howieson

109
Citations

Frequent Co-Authors

Kazuo Fujita Kyoto University

Tetsuro Matsuzawa California Institute of Technology

Gordon G. Gallup University at Albany, State University of New York

Elisabetta Visalberghi National Research Council (CNR)

Pier Francesco Ferrari Centre national de la recherche scientifique, CNRS

Daniel J. Povinelli University of Louisiana at Lafayette

Kim A. Bard University of Portsmouth

Kathy Hirsh-Pasek Temple University

Roberta Michnick Golinkoff University of Delaware

Steven M. Platek Georgia Gwinnett College

External Links

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