2026 Nancy J. Nersessian: Social Sciences and Humanities Researcher – H-Index, Publications & Awards

Discipline name	D-Index	World Ranking	Current World Ranking	National Ranking	Current National Ranking	Publications	Citations
Social Sciences and Humanities	46	3643	3358	1745	1581	168	8667

Research.com Recognitions

2006 - Royal Netherlands Academy of Arts and Sciences
2006 - Fellow of the American Association for the Advancement of Science (AAAS)

Overview

Nancy J. Nersessian is affiliated with Harvard University in the United States and has contributed to the field of Arts and Humanities through research primarily in History and Philosophy of Science. Their work engages with several subfields including Molecular Biology, Cognitive Neuroscience, Information Systems and Management, and Social Psychology.

The scientist's recent publications cover a range of topics related to scientific thinking and qualitative methods. These include:

How Do Scientists Think? Contributions Toward a Cognitive Science of Science (2024, Topics in Cognitive Science)
Rethinking Ethnography for Philosophy of Science (2022, Philosophy of Science)
Why/how to study scientific thinking? (2024, Qualitative Psychology)
Qualitative methods in philosophy of science: Historical and contemporary applications (2024, Qualitative Psychology)
Research labs as distributed cognitive-cultural systems (2024, European Journal for Philosophy of Science)

Several venues where their work frequently appears include:

Qualitative Psychology
Topics in Cognitive Science
Philosophy of Science
European Journal for Philosophy of Science

Key topics addressed in their research are:

Philosophy and History of Science
Biomedical Text Mining and Ontologies
Interdisciplinary Research and Collaboration
Education, Healthcare and Sociology Research
Epistemology, Ethics, and Metaphysics
Psychology of Moral and Emotional Judgment
Cognitive Science and Mapping

Collaborators frequently working alongside Nancy J. Nersessian include Lisa M. Osbeck, Miles MacLeod, and Stephen L. Antczak.

Their contributions extend to book publications with a title published by The MIT Press:

Interdisciplinarity in the Making (2022)

Awards recognized in their career include:

Royal Netherlands Academy of Arts and Sciences (2006)
Fellow of the American Association for the Advancement of Science (AAAS) (2006)

Best Publications

Creating Scientific Concepts

Nancy J. Nersessian

1028
Citations
Model-Based Reasoning in Conceptual Change

Nancy J. Nersessian

544
Citations
Faraday to Einstein: Constructing Meaning in Scientific Theories

Nancy J. Nersessian

446
Citations
Model-based reasoning in scientific discovery

Lorenzo Magnani;Nancy J. Nersessian;Paul Thagard

443
Citations
Conceptual change in science and in science education

Nancy J. Nersessian

415
Citations
In the Theoretician's Laboratory: Thought Experimenting as Mental Modeling

Nancy J. Nersessian

338
Citations
The Cognitive Basis of Science: The cognitive basis of model-based reasoning in science

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305
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Distributed Cognition as a Theoretical Framework for Information Visualization

Zhicheng Liu;N. Nersessian;J. Stasko

235
Citations
Mental Modeling in Conceptual Change

Nancy J. Nersessian

219
Citations
Should Physicists Preach What They Practice? Constructive Modeling in Doing and Learning Physics.

Nancy J. Nersessian

216
Citations
The Cognitive-Cultural Systems of the Research Laboratory

Nancy J. Nersessian

203
Citations
Should Physicists Preach What They Practice

Nancy J. Nersessian

200
Citations
Opening the Black Box: Cognitive Science and History of Science

Nancy J. Nersessian

180
Citations
How Do Engineering Scientists Think? Model-Based Simulation in Biomedical Engineering Research Laboratories

Nancy J. Nersessian

157
Citations
Science as Psychology: Sense-Making and Identity in Science Practice

Lisa M. Osbeck;Nancy J. Nersessian;Kareen R. Malone;Wendy C. Newstetter

133
Citations
Research Laboratories as Evolving Distributed Cognitive Systems

Nancy J. Nersessian;Elke Kurz-Milcke;Wendy C. Newstetter;Jim Davies

130
Citations
Hybrid analogies in conceptual innovation in science

Nancy J. Nersessian;Sanjay Chandrasekharan

106
Citations
Building Cognition: The Construction of Computational Representations for Scientific Discovery

Sanjay Chandrasekharan;Nancy J. Nersessian

101
Citations
Engineering Concepts: The Interplay between Concept Formation and Modeling Practices in Bioengineering Sciences

Nancy J. Nersessian

89
Citations
Model-Based Reasoning in Scientific Practice

Nancy Nersessian

87
Citations
Turning Experiments into Objects: The Cognitive Processes Involved in the Design of a Lab‐on‐a‐Chip Device

Joshua Aurigemma;Sanjay Chandrasekharan;Nancy J. Nersessian;Wendy Newstetter

79
Citations
Reasoning from Imagery and Analogy in Scientific Concept Formation

Nancy J. Nersessian

75
Citations
Aether/or: The creation of scientific concepts

Nancy J. Nersessian

74
Citations

Frequent Co-Authors

Richard Catrambone Georgia Institute of Technology

Paul Thagard University of Waterloo

Mary Hegarty University of California, Santa Barbara

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