Pawan Sinha publications per year

The chart shows the history of publications by Pawan Sinha between 1989 and 2025, highlighting the no. of papers published in each year and offering an overview of the publication velocity of this scholar. Pawan Sinha published across 37 years, from 1989 to 2025, averaging 8.2 papers a year. Output peaked at 46 publications in 2010. 36 of the 303 publications appeared in the last two years.

No. of publications

10 20 30 40

1989 2025

303 publications in total across all disciplines

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Pawan Sinha: publications per year, 1989 to 2025
Year	Publications
1989	1
1990	0
1991	0
1992	0
1993	4
1994	2
1995	4
1996	6
1997	7
1998	2
1999	2
2000	3
2001	7
2002	5
2003	6
2004	8
2005	7
2006	10
2007	8
2008	3
2009	9
2010	46
2011	11
2012	15
2013	12
2014	10
2015	3
2016	7
2017	8
2018	4
2019	10
2020	9
2021	11
2022	10
2023	17
2024	25
2025	11
Total	303

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Pawan Sinha publication distribution in Social Sciences and Humanities in 2026

The chart shows the distribution of publications by all Research.com ranked scientists in the field of Social Sciences and Humanities in 2026. The highlighted bar marks where Pawan Sinha sits on this spectrum.

No. of scientists

100 200 300 400

44–53 publications 570+

This scientist: 201 publications — 65th percentile

65% of scientists in this discipline score the same or lower.

The last bar groups every scientist with 570 publications or more.

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Number of Social Sciences and Humanities scientists by publication count, Research.com 2026 ranking edition. Based on 7,777 ranked scientists.
Publications	Scientists	This scientist
44–53	28
54–63	61
64–73	161
74–83	225
84–93	301
94–103	390
104–113	406
114–123	474
124–133	453
134–143	434
144–153	407
154–163	411
164–173	391
174–183	313
184–193	319
194–203	304	201
204–213	285
214–223	246
224–233	213
234–243	170
244–253	167
254–263	162
264–273	138
274–283	138
284–293	113
294–303	106
304–313	95
314–323	101
324–333	81
334–343	69
344–353	56
354–363	36
364–373	42
374–383	41
384–393	44
394–403	27
404–413	30
414–423	20
424–433	29
434–443	29
444–453	25
454–463	19
464–473	21
474–483	11
484–493	17
494–503	7
504–513	6
514–523	12
524–533	10
534–543	7
544–553	6
554–563	12
564–569	8
570+	100

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Pawan Sinha D-index placement in Social Sciences and Humanities in 2026

The chart shows the D-index (discipline H-index) distribution of Social Sciences and Humanities scientists ranked by Research.com in 2026. The highlighted bar marks where Pawan Sinha sits on this spectrum.

No. of scientists

100 200 300

30 D-Index 100+

This scientist: 41 D-Index — 38th percentile

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

The last bar groups every scientist with 100 D-Index or more.

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Number of Social Sciences and Humanities scientists by D-index, Research.com 2026 ranking edition. Based on 7,777 ranked scientists.
D-Index	Scientists	This scientist
30	177
31	210
32	222
33	188
34	181
35	243
36	261
37	272
38	278
39	300
40	297
41	308	41
42	313
43	300
44	269
45	260
46	228
47	251
48	203
49	186
50	187
51	166
52	138
53	141
54	131
55	137
56	109
57	129
58	95
59	105
60	106
61	86
62	94
63	77
64	79
65	59
66	68
67	51
68	49
69	40
70	43
71	40
72	50
73	46
74	43
75	45
76	45
77	30
78	25
79	31
80	29
81	18
82	21
83	26
84	15
85	15
86	19
87	19
88	12
89	7
90	19
91	20
92	13
93	9
94	13
95	8
96	7
97	6
98	6
99	6
100+	97

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Research.com Recognitions

2007 - Troland Research Awards, United States National Academy of Sciences For elucidating how humans learn to recognize visual objects, and for developing computational models of the mechanisms that mediate this learning.
2000 - Fellow of Alfred P. Sloan Foundation

Overview

Pawan Sinha is affiliated with MIT in the United States and has a research focus primarily within the field of Neuroscience. Their work spans several subfields, including Cognitive Neuroscience, Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition, Developmental and Educational Psychology, Epidemiology, and Artificial Intelligence.

The scientist has published extensively on topics related to visual perception and processing mechanisms, tactile and sensory interactions, face recognition and perception, autism spectrum disorder research, neural dynamics and brain function, ophthalmology and visual impairment studies, as well as visual attention and saliency detection.

Recent papers authored or co-authored by Pawan Sinha include:

Prediction in Autism Spectrum Disorder: A Systematic Review of Empirical Evidence, 2021, Autism Research
Reduced Sensory Habituation in Autism and Its Correlation with Behavioral Measures, 2020, Journal of Autism and Developmental Disorders
Mechanisms underlying simultaneous brightness contrast: Early and innate, 2020, Vision Research
Prenatal auditory experience and its sequelae, 2022, Developmental Science
White matter plasticity following cataract surgery in congenitally blind patients, 2023, Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences

The scientist has frequently published in several distinguished venues, including:

Journal of Vision
arXiv (Cornell University)
Journal of Autism and Developmental Disorders
Developmental Science
Autism Research

Collaborative work has been carried out with frequent co-authors such as Sharon Gilad-Gutnick, Priti Gupta, Pragya Shah, Shlomit Ben-Ami, and Suma Ganesh, each with multiple joint publications.

Awards received by Pawan Sinha include the Troland Research Awards from the United States National Academy of Sciences in 2007, recognizing contributions to understanding how humans learn to recognize visual objects and the development of computational models of these learning mechanisms. Earlier, in 2000, they were named a Fellow of the Alfred P. Sloan Foundation.

Best Publications

Face Recognition by Humans: Nineteen Results All Computer Vision Researchers Should Know About

P. Sinha;B. Balas;Y. Ostrovsky;R. Russell

1011
Citations
Effects of early experience on children's recognition of facial displays of emotion.

Seth D. Pollak;Pawan Sinha

803
Citations
Functional neuroanatomy of biological motion perception in humans

Lucia M. Vaina;Jeffrey Solomon;Sanjida Chowdhury;Pawan Sinha

683
Citations
Autism as a disorder of prediction

Pawan Sinha;Margaret M. Kjelgaard;Tapan K. Gandhi;Kleovoulos Tsourides

632
Citations
The role of eyebrows in face recognition.

Javid Sadr;Izzat Jarudi;Pawan Sinha

471
Citations
The newly sighted fail to match seen with felt

Richard Held;Yuri Ostrovsky;Beatrice de Gelder;Tapan Gandhi

323
Citations
Contribution of color to face recognition.

Andrew W Yip;Pawan Sinha

295
Citations
Top-down influences on stereoscopic depth-perception

Isabelle Bülthoff;Heinrich Bülthoff;Pawan Sinha

247
Citations
Role of learning in three-dimensional form perception

Pawan Sinha;Tomaso Poggio

228
Citations
Contextually evoked object-specific responses in human visual cortex.

David Cox;Ethan Meyers;Pawan Sinha

219
Citations
Perceiving illumination inconsistencies in scenes.

Yuri Ostrovsky;Patrick Cavanagh;Pawan Sinha

215
Citations
Vision Following Extended Congenital Blindness

Yuri Ostrovsky;Aaron Andalman;Pawan Sinha

213
Citations
Lateralization of face processing in the human brain

Ming Meng;Tharian Cherian;Gaurav Singal;Pawan Sinha

195
Citations
Is pigmentation important for face recognition? Evidence from contrast negation.

Richard Russell;Pawan Sinha;Irving Biederman;Marissa Nederhouser

191
Citations
Last but Not Least

Pawan Sinha;Tomaso Poggio

189
Citations
Visual Parsing After Recovery From Blindness

Yuri Ostrovsky;Ethan Meyers;Suma Ganesh;Umang Mathur

187
Citations
Face Processing in Humans is Compatible with a Simple Shape-Based Model of Vision

Maximilian Riesenhuber;Izzat Jarudi;Sharon Gilad;Pawan Sinha

182
Citations
Face Recognition by Computers and Humans

R. Chellappa;P. Sinha;P.J. Phillips

170
Citations
Prediction in Autism Spectrum Disorder: A Systematic Review of Empirical Evidence

Jonathan Cannon;Amanda M. O'Brien;Amanda M. O'Brien;Lindsay Bungert;Pawan Sinha

148
Citations
Recovering reflectance and illumination in a world of painted polyhedra

P. Sinha;E. Adelson

146
Citations
Face Recognition by Humans: Nineteen Results All Computer Vision Researchers Should Know About Increased knowledge about the ways people recognize each other may help to guide efforts to develop practical automatic face-recognition systems.

Pawan Sinha;Benjamin Balas;Yuri Ostrovsky;Richard Russell

4
Citations

Frequent Co-Authors

Tomaso Poggio MIT

John D. E. Gabrieli MIT

Heinrich H. Bülthoff Max Planck Institute for Biological Cybernetics

Peter J. Bex Northeastern University

Antonio Torralba MIT

Charles A. Nelson Boston Children's Hospital

Mriganka Sur MIT

Lotfi B. Merabet Massachusetts Eye and Ear Infirmary

Galit Yovel Tel Aviv University

Irving Biederman University of Southern California

External Links

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