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Peter Gärdenfors

Peter Gärdenfors

D-Index & Metrics

Social Sciences and Humanities

D-Index
57
Citations
26803
World Ranking
1712
National Ranking
16

Peter Gärdenfors 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 Peter Gärdenfors sits on this spectrum.

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44 publications 570+

This scientist: 385 publications — 94th percentile

94% of scientists in this discipline score the same or lower.

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

Peter Gärdenfors 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 Peter Gärdenfors sits on this spectrum.

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30 D-Index 100+

This scientist: 57 D-Index — 78th percentile

78% of scientists in this discipline score the same or lower.

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

Research.com Recognitions

  • 2003 - German National Academy of Sciences Leopoldina - Deutsche Akademie der Naturforscher Leopoldina – Nationale Akademie der Wissenschaften Philosophy of Science
  • 1999 - Member of Academia Europaea

Overview

Peter Gärdenfors is affiliated with Lund University in Sweden and specializes primarily in the field of Psychology, with a significant focus on subfields such as Artificial Intelligence, Developmental and Educational Psychology, Experimental and Cognitive Psychology, Cultural Studies, and Social Psychology.

The main topics of Gärdenfors's research encompass Child and Animal Learning Development, Language and Cultural Evolution, Action Observation and Synchronization, Language, Metaphor, and Cognition, Categorization, Perception, and Language, Semantic Web and Ontologies, and Syntax, Semantics, Linguistic Variation.

Among frequent publication venues for this researcher are Philosophy of Science, Frontiers in Psychology, Language & Communication, Frontiers in Communication, and Human Nature.

Recent papers authored by Gärdenfors include the following:

  • Technology led to more abstract causal reasoning (2020, Biology & Philosophy)
  • Demonstration and pantomime in the evolution of teaching and communication (2021, Language & Communication)
  • Events and Causal Mappings Modeled in Conceptual Spaces (2020, Frontiers in Psychology)

Frequent collaborators in Gärdenfors's research activities include Andrea Woody, Kevin Elliott, Alan C. Love, Angela Potochnik, and Katie Steele.

Recognition of Gärdenfors's academic contributions includes membership in prestigious organizations such as the German National Academy of Sciences Leopoldina achieved in 2003 within the Philosophy of Science domain, and membership in the Academia Europaea since 1999.

Best Publications

  • On the logic of theory change: Partial meet contraction and revision functions

    Carlos E. Alchourrón;Peter Gärdenfors;David Makinson

  • Knowledge in Flux: Modeling the Dynamics of Epistemic States

    Peter Gärdenfors

  • Conceptual Spaces: The Geometry of Thought

    Peter Gärdenfors

  • Knowledge in Flux

    Henry E. Kyburg;Peter Gardenfors

  • Belief Revision

    Peter Gärdenfors;Hans Rott

  • Revisions of knowledge systems using epistemic entrenchment

    Peter Gärdenfors;David Makinson

  • Navigating cognition: Spatial codes for human thinking

    Jacob Lukas Sarid Bellmund;Jacob Lukas Sarid Bellmund;Jacob Lukas Sarid Bellmund;Peter Gärdenfors;Peter Gärdenfors;Edvard Ingjald Moser;Christian Fritz Andreas Doeller;Christian Fritz Andreas Doeller

  • The Geometry of Meaning: Semantics Based on Conceptual Spaces

    Peter Gärdenfors

  • Unreliable probabilities, risk-taking, and decision-making

    Peter Gärdenfors;Nils-Eric Sahlin

  • How Homo Became Sapiens: On the Evolution of Thinking

    Peter Gärdenfors

  • Nonmonotonic inference based on expectations

    Peter Gärdenfors;David Makinson

  • Lusten att förstå : om lärande på människans villkor

    Peter Gärdenfors

  • Manipulation of Social Choice Functions

    Peter Gärdenfors;Peter Gärdenfors

  • Belief revisions and the Ramsey test for conditionals

    Peter Gardenfors

  • Relations between the logic of theory change and nonmonotonic logic

    David Makinson;Peter Gärdenfors

  • Match making: Assignments based on bilateral preferences

    Peter Gärdenfors

  • Rights, Games and Social Choice

    Peter Gardenfors

  • Decision, Probability, and Utility

    Peter Gärdenfors;Nils-Eric Sahlin

  • Conceptual spaces as a framework for knowledge representation

    Peter Gärdenfors

  • Cooperation and the evolution of symbolic communication

    Peter Gärdenfors

  • Decision, Probability, and Utility : Selected Readings

    Peter Gärdenfors;Nils-Eric Sahlin

Frequent Co-Authors

Marlize Lombard
Marlize Lombard University of Johannesburg
Bengt Hansson
Bengt Hansson Lund University
Henri Prade
Henri Prade Paul Sabatier University
Jordan Zlatev
Jordan Zlatev Lund University
Christian Freksa
Christian Freksa University of Bremen
Benjamin Kuipers
Benjamin Kuipers University of Michigan–Ann Arbor
Nora S. Newcombe
Nora S. Newcombe Temple University
David B. Skillicorn
David B. Skillicorn Queen's University
Jürgen Jost
Jürgen Jost Max Planck Institute for Mathematics in the Sciences
Christian F. Doeller
Christian F. Doeller Max Planck Institute for Human Cognitive and Brain Sciences

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