2026 James V. Wertsch: Psychology Researcher – H-Index, Publications & Awards

Discipline name	D-Index	World Ranking	Current World Ranking	National Ranking	Current National Ranking	Publications	Citations
Psychology	55	4277	3955	2377	2148	170	57157

Research.com Recognitions

2009 - Fellow of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences

Overview

James V. Wertsch is affiliated with Washington University in St. Louis in the United States. Their research work encompasses various topics related to memory, identity, and social cognition, often intersecting fields such as social psychology, sociology, political science, language, linguistics, education, and cognitive neuroscience.

Wertsch's main topics of work include:

Memory, Trauma, and Commemoration
Cultural Differences and Values
Memory and Neural Mechanisms
Evolutionary Game Theory and Cooperation
Identity, Memory, and Therapy
Misinformation and Its Impacts
Social Representations and Identity

The scientist has contributed several papers recently. Notable publications include:

Habits of collective memory, 2022, published in Progress in Brain Research
Themes for future research on memory, mind and media, 2022, published in Memory Mind & Media
Ragnar Rommetveit: A full life, 2020, published in Culture & Psychology
Impressions of Alexander Romanovich Luria, 2022, published in Cultural-Historical Psychology
Debating Worlds: Contested Narratives of Global Modernity and World Order, 2025, published in Perspectives on Politics

Frequent co-authors collaborating with Wertsch include:

Henry L. Roediger
Nutsa Batiashvili
Olivia L. Jäggi
Bente Eriksen Hagtvet
Per Linell

Their work appears regularly in key journals such as:

Memory Mind & Media
Culture & Psychology
Progress in Brain Research
Cultural-Historical Psychology
Perspectives on Politics

Wertsch's research spans subfields including social psychology, sociology and political science, language and linguistics, education, and cognitive neuroscience, reflecting a multidisciplinary approach to understanding memory and social identity.

In recognition of their contributions, James V. Wertsch was awarded the title of Fellow of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences in 2009.

Best Publications

Voices of the Mind: A Sociocultural Approach to Mediated Action

James V. Wertsch

12029
Citations
Vygotsky and the Social Formation of Mind

James V. Wertsch

8869
Citations
Mind as action

James V. Wertsch

7043
Citations
Voices of Collective Remembering

James V. Wertsch

3104
Citations
Vygotsky y la formación social de la mente

James V. Wertsch

2271
Citations
Culture, communication, and cognition : Vygotskian perspectives

James V. Wertsch

2031
Citations
Sociocultural studies of mind.

James V. Wertsch;Pablo del Rio;Amelia Alvarez

1440
Citations
The Concept of Activity in Soviet Psychology

James V. Wertsch

1375
Citations
From Social Interaction to Higher Psychological Processes. A Clarification and Application of Vygotsky’s Theory

James V. Wertsch

1339
Citations
The zone of proximal development: Some conceptual issues†

James V. Wertsch

1134
Citations
Voces de la mente: un enfoque sociocultural para el estudio de la acción mediada

James V. Wertsch

1107
Citations
Beyond the Individual-Social Antinomy in Discussions of Piaget and Vygotsky

Michael Cole;James V. Wertsch

1066
Citations
Vygotsky and the Social Formation of Mind

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939
Citations
A sociocultural approach to socially shared cognition.

James V. Wertsch

883
Citations
Vygotsky and identity formation: A sociocultural approach.

William R. Penuel;James V. Wertsch

866
Citations
The Cambridge Companion to Vygotsky

Harry Daniels;Michael Cole;James V. Wertsch

757
Citations
The Neuropsychology of Memory

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612
Citations
Discourse and Learning in the Classroom: A Sociocultural Approach

James V. Wertsch;Chikako Toma

555
Citations
Children's learning in the "zone of proximal development"

Barbara Rogoff;James V. Wertsch

544
Citations
L. S. Vygotsky and Contemporary Developmental Psychology.

James V. Wertsch;Peeter Tulviste

484
Citations
Sociocultural studies of mind: Sociocultural studies: history, action, and mediation

James V. Wertsch;Pablo Del Río;Amelia Alvarez

379
Citations
Collective memory: conceptual foundations and theoretical approaches.

James V. Wertsch;Henry L. Roediger

355
Citations
The Adult-Child Dyad as a Problem-solving System.

James V. Wertsch;Gillian Dowley McNamee;Joan B. McLane;Nancy A. Budwig

330
Citations
The creation of context in joint problem-solving.

James V. Wertsch;Norris Minick;Flavio J. Arns

249
Citations
Voices of the Mind: A Sociocultural Approach to Mediated Action

Jacquelyn Baker-Sennett;Barbara Rogoff;Nancy Bell;James V. Wertsch

220
Citations

Frequent Co-Authors

Henry L. Roediger Washington University in St. Louis

Michael Cole University of East London

Deanna Kuhn Columbia University

Juan Pascual-Leone York University

Paul B. Baltes Max Planck Institute for Human Development

Ulman Lindenberger Max Planck Institute for Human Development

Barbara Rogoff University of California, Santa Cruz

Graeme S. Halford Griffith University

Kurt W. Fischer Harvard University

Richard M. Lerner Tufts University

External Links

Personal website of James V. Wertsch

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