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Michael Cole 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 Michael Cole sits on this spectrum.

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31 publications 705+

This scientist: 385 publications — 93rd percentile

93% of scientists in this discipline score the same or lower.

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

Michael Cole 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 Michael Cole sits on this spectrum.

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30 D-Index 144+

This scientist: 67 D-Index — 78th percentile

78% 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

  • 2008 - Fellow of the American Educational Research Association
  • 2006 - APA Award for Distinguished Contributions to the International Advancement of Psychology
  • 1987 - Distinguished Contributions to Research in Education Award, American Educational Research Association
  • 1981 - Fellow of the American Psychological Association (APA)
  • 1981 - Fellow of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences

Overview

Michael Cole is affiliated with the University of East London in the United Kingdom. They have contributed research primarily within the field of social sciences, with notable work spanning several related subfields including education, social psychology, general health professions, general social sciences, and safety research.

Their recent publications reflect a range of topics and venues. Key papers include:

  • "Utopian methodology: Researching educational interventions to promote equity over multiple timescales" (2022, Journal of the Learning Sciences)
  • "The Challenges to the Study of Cultural Variation in Cognition" (2022, Review of Philosophy and Psychology)
  • "Productivity and Welfare of Migrants in Chinese Megacities" (2020, Harvard Dataverse)
  • "Background to the special issue on pedology" (2021, Mind Culture and Activity)
  • "Remembering Alexander Luria..." (2022, Cultural-Historical Psychology)

They have collaborated frequently with several co-authors, including Antti Rajala, Moisès Esteban-Guitart, Martin J. Packer, Jiajing Sun, and Thijs van Rens.

Michael Cole's research explores a range of main topics such as youth development and social support, teacher education and leadership studies, early childhood education and development, cultural differences and values, psychology of moral and emotional judgment, emotions and moral behavior, as well as hermeneutics and narrative identity.

Frequent publication venues for their work include:

  • Journal of the Learning Sciences
  • Review of Philosophy and Psychology
  • Harvard Dataverse
  • Mind Culture and Activity
  • Cultural-Historical Psychology

Throughout their career, Michael Cole has been recognized with several awards, including:

  • Fellow of the American Educational Research Association (2008)
  • APA Award for Distinguished Contributions to the International Advancement of Psychology (2006)
  • Distinguished Contributions to Research in Education Award, American Educational Research Association (1987)
  • Fellow of the American Psychological Association (APA) (1981)
  • Fellow of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences (1981)

Best Publications

  • Cultural Psychology: A Once and Future Discipline

    Michael Cole

  • The psychology of literacy

    Sylvia Scribner;Michael Cole

  • Cognitive development : its cultural and social foundations

    Martin Lopez-Morillas;Lynn Solotaroff;Michael Cole;A. R. Lurii︠a︡

  • A cultural-historical approach to distributed cognition

    M. Cole

  • The Construction Zone: Working for Cognitive Change in School

    Denis Newman;Peg Griffin;Michael Cole;Shelia Broyles

  • The Development of Children

    Michael Cole;Sheila R. Cole

  • Culture and thought; a psychological introduction

    Michael Cole;Sylvia Scribner

  • The cultural context of learning and thinking. An Exploration in Experimental Anthropology.

    Michael Cole;Thomas J. Ciborowski

  • Mind in society: The development of higher psychological processes. L. S. Vygotsky.

    Michael Cole;Vera John-Steiner;Sylvia Scribner;Ellen Souberman

  • The Making of Mind. A Personal Account of Soviet Psychology

    A. R. Luria;Michael Cole;Sheila Cole

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

    Michael Cole;James V. Wertsch

  • Cognitive Consequences of Formal and Informal Education: New accommodations are needed between school-based learning and learning experiences of everyday life

    Sylvia Scribner;Michael Cole

  • The Cambridge Companion to Vygotsky

    Harry Daniels;Michael Cole;James V. Wertsch

  • Cultural Differences and Inferences About Psychological Processes.

    Michael Cole;Jerome S. Bruner

  • Readings on the Development of Children

    Mary Gauvain;Michael Cole

  • A handbook of contemporary Soviet psychology

    Michael Cole;Irving Maltzman;Alekseĭ Nikolaevich Leontʹev

  • Mind, culture, and activity : seminal papers from the Laboratory of Comparative Human Cognition

    Michael Cole;Yrjö Engeström;Olga A. Vasquez

  • Development of free recall learning in children.

    Michael Cole;Frederick Frankel;Donald Sharp

  • Comparative Studies of How People Think: An Introduction

    Michael Cole

  • Critical Race Theory and Education: A Marxist Response

    Mike Cole

  • Cross-cultural universals of affective meaning.

    Michael Cole

  • Ethnocentrism: Theories of conflict, ethnic attitudes, and group behavior.

    Michael Cole

Frequent Co-Authors

Alan Anticevic
Alan Anticevic Yale University
Todd S. Braver
Todd S. Braver Washington University in St. Louis
Grega Repovs
Grega Repovs University of Ljubljana
Danielle S. Bassett
Danielle S. Bassett University of Pennsylvania
John H. Krystal
John H. Krystal Yale University
Alexander Luria
Alexander Luria Lomonosov Moscow State University
Walter Schneider
Walter Schneider University of Pittsburgh
Peter McLaren
Peter McLaren Chapman University
James V. Wertsch
James V. Wertsch Washington University in St. Louis
Steven M. Silverstein
Steven M. Silverstein University of Rochester Medical Center

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