2026 Janet Metcalfe: Psychology Researcher – H-Index, Publications & Awards

Discipline name	D-Index	World Ranking	Current World Ranking	National Ranking	Current National Ranking	Publications	Citations
Psychology	67	2555	2339	1477	1321	150	24448

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Current World Ranking

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Psychology

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24448

Overview

Janet Metcalfe is affiliated with Columbia University in the United States. Their research primarily spans the fields of Psychology and Neuroscience, with particular emphasis on subfields such as Cognitive Neuroscience, Experimental and Cognitive Psychology, Developmental and Educational Psychology, Artificial Intelligence, and Social Psychology.

Their work explores several main topics, including:

Psychological and Educational Research Studies
Memory Processes and Influences
Innovative Teaching and Learning Methods
Epistemology, Ethics, and Metaphysics
Intelligent Tutoring Systems and Adaptive Learning
Psychology of Moral and Emotional Judgment
Neural and Behavioral Psychology Studies

Janet Metcalfe has published frequently in venues such as Zenodo (CERN European Organization for Nuclear Research), Metacognition and Learning, Current Opinion in Behavioral Sciences, Journal of Experimental Psychology General, and Cognitive Research Principles and Implications. Notable recent papers include:

The MAPS model of self-regulation: Integrating metacognition, agency, and possible selves, 2021, Metacognition and Learning
Epistemic curiosity and the region of proximal learning, 2020, Current Opinion in Behavioral Sciences
Curiosity: The effects of feedback and confidence on the desire to know., 2022, Journal of Experimental Psychology General
Measures of relative metacognitive accuracy are confounded with task performance in tasks that permit guessing, 2021, Metacognition and Learning
Curiosity and the desire for agency: wait, wait... don't tell me!, 2021, Cognitive Research Principles and Implications

Their frequent collaborators include Matti Vuorre, Brian Cahill, Bennett L. Schwartz, Gábor Kismihók, and Teal S. Eich, with counts of multiple joint publications reflecting ongoing research partnerships.

Best Publications

A Hot/Cool-System Analysis of Delay of Gratification: Dynamics of Willpower.

Janet Metcalfe;Walter Mischel

4260
Citations
Metacognition : knowing about knowing

Janet Metcalfe;Arthur Paul Shimamura

1684
Citations
Intuition in insight and noninsight problem solving.

Janet Metcalfe;David Wiebe

1056
Citations
Organizing Instruction and Study to Improve Student Learning. IES Practice Guide. NCER 2007-2004.

Harold Pashler;Patrice M. Bain;Brian A. Bottge;Arthur Graesser

701
Citations
Metacognitive and control strategies in study-time allocation.

Lisa K. Son;Janet Metcalfe

652
Citations
Neural systems and cue-induced cocaine craving.

Katherine R Bonson;Steven J Grant;Carlo S Contoreggi;Jonathan M Links

638
Citations
Feeling of knowing in memory and problem solving.

Janet Metcalfe

569
Citations
Evidence that judgments of learning are causally related to study choice.

Janet Metcalfe;Bridgid Finn

529
Citations
The cue-familiarity heuristic in metacognition.

Janet Metcalfe;Bennett L. Schwartz;Scott G. Joaquim

516
Citations
Metacognitive Judgments and Control of Study

Janet Metcalfe

510
Citations
Mood Dependent Memory for Internal Versus External Events

Eric Eich;Janet Metcalfe

489
Citations
A Region of Proximal Learning model of study time allocation

Janet Metcalfe;Nate Kornell

471
Citations
Learning from Errors.

Janet Metcalfe

464
Citations
From the Revolution to Embodiment: 25 Years of Cognitive Psychology

Arthur M. Glenberg;Arthur M. Glenberg;Jessica K. Witt;Janet Metcalfe

451
Citations
Premonitions of insight predict impending error.

Janet Metcalfe

407
Citations
Study Efficacy and the Region of Proximal Learning Framework

Nate Kornell;Janet Metcalfe

397
Citations
Anatomical coupling between distinct metacognitive systems for memory and visual perception.

Li Yan McCurdy;Brian Maniscalco;Janet Metcalfe;Ka Yuet Liu

360
Citations
EMPATH: Face, Emotion, and Gender Recognition Using Holons

Garrison W. Cottrell;Janet Metcalfe

345
Citations
Is study time allocated selectively to a region of proximal learning

Janet Metcalfe

339
Citations
Cue familiarity but not target retrievability enhances feeling-of-knowing judgments.

Bennett L. Schwartz;Janet Metcalfe

307
Citations

Frequent Co-Authors

Bennett L. Schwartz Florida International University

Nate Kornell Williams College

Yaakov Stern Columbia University

Paul Bloom Columbia University

Herbert S. Terrace Columbia University

W. Jake Jacobs University of Arizona

Bennet B. Murdock University of Toronto

Jason P. Mitchell Harvard University

Alan D. Castel University of California, Los Angeles

Peter D. Balsam Columbia University

External Links

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