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Mark Nielsen 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 Mark Nielsen sits on this spectrum.

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31 publications 705+

This scientist: 137 publications — 42nd percentile

42% of scientists in this discipline score the same or lower.

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

Mark Nielsen 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 Mark Nielsen sits on this spectrum.

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30 D-Index 144+

This scientist: 43 D-Index — 38th percentile

38% of scientists in this discipline score the same or lower.

The last bar groups every scientist with 144 D-Index or more.

Overview

Mark Nielsen is affiliated with the University of Queensland in Australia and has contributed extensively to the fields of Psychology and Social Sciences. Their research output encompasses 63 publications primarily in Psychology, with 33 focused on Social Sciences. Subfields of particular interest include Social Psychology and Developmental and Educational Psychology, each accounting for 28 publications, along with Education, Sociology and Political Science, and Cognitive Neuroscience.

Their main research topics center on Child and Animal Learning Development, which comprises 56 publications. Other significant areas include Cultural Differences and Values, Child Development and Digital Technology, Psychology of Moral and Emotional Judgment, Social and Intergroup Psychology, Action Observation and Synchronization, and Neuroendocrine regulation and behavior.

Mark Nielsen has collaborated regularly with several co-authors, including Frankie T. K. Fong with 14 co-authored works, Matti Wilks with 9, Jonathan Redshaw with 8, Kelly Kirkland with 6, and Cristine H. Legare with 4.

The researcher has published frequently in a number of academic venues, notably:

  • Journal of Experimental Child Psychology (5 publications)
  • Royal Society Open Science (3 publications)
  • British Journal of Developmental Psychology (3 publications)
  • Cognitive Development (3 publications)
  • Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society B Biological Sciences (2 publications)

Recent papers authored by Mark Nielsen include:

  • "Ritual explained: interdisciplinary answers to Tinbergen's four questions", 2020, Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society B Biological Sciences
  • "Does Neonatal Imitation Exist? Insights From a Meta-Analysis of 336 Effect Sizes", 2021, Perspectives on Psychological Science
  • "A cross-cultural investigation of young children's spontaneous invention of tool use behaviours", 2020, Royal Society Open Science
  • "Cultural Components of Sex Differences in Color Preference", 2021, Child Development
  • "The effect of economic inequality on young children's prosocial decision-making", 2020, British Journal of Developmental Psychology

Best Publications

  • The persistent sampling bias in developmental psychology: A call to action

    Mark Nielsen;Mark Nielsen;Daniel Haun;Joscha Kärtner;Cristine H. Legare

  • Copying Actions and Copying Outcomes: Social Learning through the Second Year.

    Mark Nielsen

  • Imitation and Innovation: The Dual Engines of Cultural Learning

    Cristine H. Legare;Mark Nielsen;Mark Nielsen

  • Overimitation in Kalahari Bushman Children and the Origins of Human Cultural Cognition

    Mark Nielsen;Keyan Tomaselli

  • Comprehensive Longitudinal Study Challenges the Existence of Neonatal Imitation in Humans.

    Janine Oostenbroek;Janine Oostenbroek;Thomas Suddendorf;Mark Nielsen;Mark Nielsen;Jonathan Redshaw

  • The effect of social engagement on 24-month-olds’ imitation from live and televised models

    Mark Nielsen;Gabrielle Simcock;Linda Jenkins

  • Imitation in young children: when who gets copied is more important than what gets copied.

    Mark Nielsen;Cornelia Blank

  • Children's Capacity to Remember a Novel Problem and to Secure Its Future Solution.

    Thomas Suddendorf;Mark Nielsen;Rebecca von Gehlen

  • Imitation, pretend play, and childhood: essential elements in the evolution of human culture?

    Mark Nielsen

  • Pretend play, mirror self-recognition and imitation: a longitudinal investigation through the second year

    Mark Nielsen;Cheryl Dissanayake

  • An investigation of pretend play, mental state terms and false belief understanding: In search of a metarepresentational link

    Mark Nielsen;Cheryl Dissanayake

  • Where Culture Takes Hold: “Overimitation” and Its Flexible Deployment in Western, Aboriginal, and Bushmen Children

    Mark Nielsen;Ilana Mushin;Keyan Tomaselli;Andrew Whiten

  • Why developmental psychology is incomplete without comparative and cross-cultural perspectives.

    Mark Nielsen;Daniel Haun

  • Failure to demonstrate that playing violent video games diminishes prosocial behavior.

    Morgan J. Tear;Mark Nielsen

  • Mirror Self-Recognition Beyond the Face

    Mark Nielsen;Thomas Suddendorf;Virginia Slaughter

  • Adopting the ritual stance: The role of opacity and context in ritual and everyday actions

    Rohan Kapitány;Mark Nielsen;Mark Nielsen

  • Before Cumulative Culture

    Ceri Shipton;Mark Nielsen;Mark Nielsen

  • Cultural and Family Influences on Children’s Theory of Mind Development A Comparison of Australian and Iranian School-Age Children

    Ameneh Shahaeian;Mark Nielsen;Candida C. Peterson;Virginia Slaughter

  • Visual self-recognition in mirrors and live videos: Evidence for a developmental asynchrony

    Thomas Suddendorf;Gabrielle F. Simcock;Mark G. Nielsen

  • The perpetuation of ritualistic actions as revealed by young children's transmission of normative behavior

    Mark Nielsen;Mark Nielsen;Rohan Kapitány;Rosemary Elkins

  • Pretend Play and Cognitive Development

    Mark Nielsen

Frequent Co-Authors

Virginia Slaughter
Virginia Slaughter University of Queensland
Thomas Suddendorf
Thomas Suddendorf University of Queensland
Cheryl Dissanayake
Cheryl Dissanayake La Trobe University
Laith Yakob
Laith Yakob London School of Hygiene & Tropical Medicine
Archie C. A. Clements
Archie C. A. Clements Queen's University Belfast
Andrew Whiten
Andrew Whiten University of St Andrews
Cristine H. Legare
Cristine H. Legare The University of Texas at Austin
Candida C. Peterson
Candida C. Peterson University of Queensland
James N. Kirby
James N. Kirby University of Queensland
Malinda Carpenter
Malinda Carpenter University of St Andrews

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