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 John Tooby sits on this spectrum.
This scientist: 128 publications — 37th percentile
37% of scientists in this discipline score the same or lower.
The last bar groups every scientist with 705 publications or more.
The chart shows the D-index (discipline H-index) distribution of Psychology scientists ranked by Research.com in 2026. The highlighted bar marks where John Tooby sits on this spectrum.
This scientist: 78 D-Index — 87th percentile
87% of scientists in this discipline score the same or lower.
The last bar groups every scientist with 144 D-Index or more.
John Tooby is affiliated with the University of California, Santa Barbara, United States. Their research primarily spans the fields of Social Sciences and Psychology, with a focus on subfields including Sociology and Political Science, Experimental and Cognitive Psychology, Safety Research, Cognitive Neuroscience, and Social Psychology.
The scientist's work covers a range of main topics such as:
John Tooby has multiple recent publications, notable among them are:
The scientist has frequently published in the following venues:
Frequent co-authors include:
John Tooby has received awards including the Jean Nicod Prize from the Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique (CNRS) in 2020, and was named a Fellow of the John Simon Guggenheim Memorial Foundation in 1999.
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