2026 Michael Cole: Psychology Researcher – H-Index, Publications & Awards

Discipline name	D-Index	World Ranking	Current World Ranking	National Ranking	Current National Ranking	Publications	Citations
Psychology	67	2532	2318	277	261	385	53701

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

10850
Citations
The psychology of literacy

Sylvia Scribner;Michael Cole

6114
Citations
Cognitive development : its cultural and social foundations

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

4344
Citations
A cultural-historical approach to distributed cognition

M. Cole

3541
Citations
The Construction Zone: Working for Cognitive Change in School

Denis Newman;Peg Griffin;Michael Cole;Shelia Broyles

2533
Citations
The Development of Children

Michael Cole;Sheila R. Cole

2375
Citations
Culture and thought; a psychological introduction

Michael Cole;Sylvia Scribner

2354
Citations
The cultural context of learning and thinking. An Exploration in Experimental Anthropology.

Michael Cole;Thomas J. Ciborowski

2127
Citations
Mind in society: The development of higher psychological processes. L. S. Vygotsky.

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

2126
Citations
The Making of Mind. A Personal Account of Soviet Psychology

A. R. Luria;Michael Cole;Sheila Cole

1460
Citations
Beyond the Individual-Social Antinomy in Discussions of Piaget and Vygotsky

Michael Cole;James V. Wertsch

1066
Citations
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

761
Citations
The Cambridge Companion to Vygotsky

Harry Daniels;Michael Cole;James V. Wertsch

757
Citations
Cultural Differences and Inferences About Psychological Processes.

Michael Cole;Jerome S. Bruner

729
Citations
Readings on the Development of Children

Mary Gauvain;Michael Cole

428
Citations
A handbook of contemporary Soviet psychology

Michael Cole;Irving Maltzman;Alekseĭ Nikolaevich Leontʹev

343
Citations
Mind, culture, and activity : seminal papers from the Laboratory of Comparative Human Cognition

Michael Cole;Yrjö Engeström;Olga A. Vasquez

328
Citations
Development of free recall learning in children.

Michael Cole;Frederick Frankel;Donald Sharp

316
Citations
Comparative Studies of How People Think: An Introduction

Michael Cole

308
Citations
Critical Race Theory and Education: A Marxist Response

Mike Cole

288
Citations
Cross-cultural universals of affective meaning.

Michael Cole

1
Citations
Ethnocentrism: Theories of conflict, ethnic attitudes, and group behavior.

Michael Cole

0
Citations

Frequent Co-Authors

Todd S. Braver Washington University in St. Louis

Alexander Luria Lomonosov Moscow State University

Walter Schneider University of Pittsburgh

Steven M. Silverstein University of Rochester Medical Center

James V. Wertsch Washington University in St. Louis

Nachshon Meiran Ben-Gurion University of the Negev

R. Nathan Spreng McGill University

Sharon L. Thompson-Schill University of Pennsylvania

Douglas L. Medin Northwestern University

Nick Yeung University of Oxford

External Links

Personal website of Michael Cole

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