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Keith J. Holyoak 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 Keith J. Holyoak sits on this spectrum.

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31 publications 705+

This scientist: 290 publications — 86th percentile

86% of scientists in this discipline score the same or lower.

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

Keith J. Holyoak 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 Keith J. Holyoak sits on this spectrum.

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30 D-Index 144+

This scientist: 94 D-Index — 93rd percentile

93% 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

  • 2019 - Fellow of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences
  • 2003 - Fellow of the American Association for the Advancement of Science (AAAS)
  • 1991 - Fellow of John Simon Guggenheim Memorial Foundation

Overview

Keith J. Holyoak is affiliated with the University of California, Los Angeles in the United States. Their research spans major fields of study including Computer Science and Psychology, with focused subfields such as Artificial Intelligence, Experimental and Cognitive Psychology, Cognitive Neuroscience, Developmental and Educational Psychology, and Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition.

Their work covers a range of topics, notably Topic Modeling, Natural Language Processing Techniques, Child and Animal Learning Development, Language, Metaphor, and Cognition, Multimodal Machine Learning Applications, Language and cultural evolution, and Neural and Behavioral Psychology Studies.

Recent papers authored or coauthored by Keith J. Holyoak include:

  • Emergent analogical reasoning in large language models, 2023, published in Nature Human Behaviour
  • Teaching by Analogy: From Theory to Practice, 2021, published in Mind Brain and Education
  • Metaphor processing in autism: A systematic review and meta-analysis, 2020, published in Developmental Review
  • Relational Integration in the Human Brain: A Review and Synthesis, 2020, published in Journal of Cognitive Neuroscience
  • A darkening spring: How preexisting distrust shaped COVID-19 skepticism, 2022, published in PLoS ONE

Among frequent coauthors are Hongjing Lu, Nicholas Ichien, Taylor W. Webb, Dušan Stamenković, and Trevor Bihl. Their collaborative work reflects a significant network within their research domains.

Keith J. Holyoak has contributed to multiple publication venues, with the highest number of publications appearing in arXiv (Cornell University), followed by Metaphor and Symbol, Creativity Research Journal, Journal of Cognitive Neuroscience, and Journal of Experimental Psychology Learning Memory and Cognition.

Their professional recognition includes fellowships with several prestigious organizations: the American Academy of Arts and Sciences awarded in 2019, the American Association for the Advancement of Science (AAAS) in 2003, and the John Simon Guggenheim Memorial Foundation in 1991.

Best Publications

  • Schema induction and analogical transfer

    Mary L. Gick;Keith J. Holyoak

  • Induction: Processes of Inference, Learning, and Discovery

    John H. Holland;Keith J. Holyoak;Richard E. Nisbett;Paul R. Thagard

  • Induction: Processes of Inference, Learning, and Discovery

    John H. Holland;Keith J. Holyoak;Richard E. Nisbett;Paul R. Thagard

  • Analogical problem solving

    Mary L. Gick;Keith J. Holyoak

  • Mental Leaps: Analogy in Creative Thought

    Keith J. Holyoak;Paul Thagard

  • Pragmatic reasoning schemas

    Patricia W Cheng;Keith J Holyoak

  • Analogical mapping by constraint satisfaction

    Keith J. Holyoak;Paul Thagard

  • Darwin's mistake: Explaining the discontinuity between human and nonhuman minds

    Derek C. Penn;Keith J. Holyoak;Daniel J. Povinelli

  • Distributed representations of structure: A theory of analogical access and mapping.

    John E. Hummel;Keith J. Holyoak

  • Surface and structural similarity in analogical transfer

    Keith J. Holyoak;Kyunghee Koh

  • The analogical mind : perspectives from cognitive science

    Dedre Gentner;Keith James Holyoak;Boicho N. Kokinov

  • Conditionals: A Theory of Meaning, Pragmatics, and Inference

    Philip Johnson-Laird;Ruth M. J. Byrne

  • The Cambridge handbook of thinking and reasoning

    K. Holyoak;B. Morrison

  • Overcoming contextual limitations on problem-solving transfer.

    Richard Catrambone;Keith J. Holyoak

  • Pragmatic versus syntactic approaches to training deductive reasoning

    Patricia W Cheng;Keith J Holyoak;Richard E Nisbett;Lindsay M Oliver

  • Rostrolateral Prefrontal Cortex Involvement in Relational Integration during Reasoning

    Kalina Christoff;Vivek Prabhakaran;Jennifer Dorfman;Zuo Zhao

  • The analogical mind.

    Keith J. Holyoak;Paul Thagard

  • A symbolic-connectionist theory of relational inference and generalization.

    John E. Hummel;Keith J. Holyoak

  • Recruitment of Anterior Dorsolateral Prefrontal Cortex in Human Reasoning: a Parametric Study of Relational Complexity

    James K. Kroger;Fred W. Sabb;Christina L. Fales;Susan Y. Bookheimer

  • A System for Relational Reasoning in Human Prefrontal Cortex

    James A. Waltz;Barbara J. Knowlton;Keith J. Holyoak;Kyle B. Boone

  • Induction: Processes Of Inference

    John H. Holland;Keith J. Holyoak;Richard E. Nisbett;Paul Thagard

  • The Oxford handbook of thinking and reasoning

    Keith James Holyoak;Robert G. Morrison

Frequent Co-Authors

John E. Hummel
John E. Hummel University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
Barbara J. Knowlton
Barbara J. Knowlton University of California, Los Angeles
Paul Thagard
Paul Thagard University of Waterloo
Daniel C. Krawczyk
Daniel C. Krawczyk The University of Texas at Dallas
Michael R. Waldmann
Michael R. Waldmann University of Göttingen
Alan L. Yuille
Alan L. Yuille Johns Hopkins University
Richard E. Nisbett
Richard E. Nisbett University of Michigan–Ann Arbor
Aniket Kittur
Aniket Kittur Carnegie Mellon University
Daniel J. Povinelli
Daniel J. Povinelli University of Louisiana at Lafayette
Dedre Gentner
Dedre Gentner Northwestern University

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