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James R. Anderson

James R. Anderson

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Psychology
Japan
2026

D-Index & Metrics

Psychology

D-Index
58
Citations
9002
World Ranking
3926
National Ranking
3

James R. Anderson 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 James R. Anderson sits on this spectrum.

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31 publications 705+

This scientist: 174 publications — 60th percentile

60% of scientists in this discipline score the same or lower.

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

James R. Anderson 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 James R. Anderson sits on this spectrum.

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30 D-Index 144+

This scientist: 58 D-Index — 67th percentile

67% 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 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

  • Contagious yawning in chimpanzees.

    James R. Anderson;Masako MyowaYamakoshi;Tetsuro Matsuzawa

  • The mirror test

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

  • Ethology and Ecology of Sleep in Monkeys and Apes

    James R. Anderson

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

    James R. Anderson;Gordon G. Gallup

  • 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

  • The development of self‐recognition: A review

    James R. Anderson

  • 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

  • Sleep-related behavioural adaptations in free-ranging anthropoid primates

    James R. Anderson

  • Chimpanzees Share Forbidden Fruit

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

  • Road crossing in chimpanzees: a risky business.

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

  • Video-induced yawning in stumptail macaques (Macaca arctoides)

    Annika Paukner;James R Anderson

  • 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

  • Macaques but Not Lemurs Co-Orient Visually with Humans

    James R. Anderson;Robert W. Mitchell

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

    James R. Anderson

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

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

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

    Patricia Peignot;James R. Anderson

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

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  • Self-awareness, social intelligence and schizophrenia

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

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

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

  • Monkeys with mirrors: Some questions for primate psychology.

    James R. Anderson

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

    Annika Paukner;James R. Anderson;Kazuo Fujita

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

    James R. Anderson

  • Adoption in Anthropoid Primates

    Bernard Thierry;James R. Anderson

  • The rapid development of explicit gaze judgment ability at 3 years

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

Frequent Co-Authors

Kazuo Fujita
Kazuo Fujita Kyoto University
Tetsuro Matsuzawa
Tetsuro Matsuzawa California Institute of Technology
Annika Paukner
Annika Paukner National Institutes of Health
Gordon G. Gallup
Gordon G. Gallup University at Albany, State University of New York
Elisabetta Visalberghi
Elisabetta Visalberghi National Research Council (CNR)
Dorothy M. Fragaszy
Dorothy M. Fragaszy University of Georgia
Pier Francesco Ferrari
Pier Francesco Ferrari Centre national de la recherche scientifique, CNRS
Daniel J. Povinelli
Daniel J. Povinelli University of Louisiana at Lafayette
John G. Robinson
John G. Robinson Wildlife Conservation Society
Linda M. Fedigan
Linda M. Fedigan University of Calgary

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