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Shoji Itakura

Shoji Itakura

D-Index & Metrics

Psychology

D-Index
44
Citations
7457
World Ranking
6993
National Ranking
14

Shoji Itakura 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 Shoji Itakura sits on this spectrum.

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31 publications 705+

This scientist: 277 publications — 85th percentile

85% of scientists in this discipline score the same or lower.

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Shoji Itakura 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 Shoji Itakura sits on this spectrum.

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30 D-Index 144+

This scientist: 44 D-Index — 41st percentile

41% of scientists in this discipline score the same or lower.

The last bar groups every scientist with 144 D-Index or more.

Overview

Shoji Itakura is affiliated with Doshisha University in Japan and conducts research primarily in the fields of psychology and neuroscience. Within these broad domains, Itakura's work focuses extensively on developmental and educational psychology, social psychology, and cognitive neuroscience. Additional interests include education and experimental and cognitive psychology.

The main topics explored in Itakura's publications include child and animal learning development, face recognition and perception, social robot interaction and human-robot interaction (HRI), early childhood education and development, cultural differences and values, language development and disorders, as well as action observation and synchronization.

Frequent coauthors collaborating with Itakura include Mitsuhiko Ishikawa, Atsushi Senju, Federico Manzi, Hiroshi Ishiguro, and Davide Massaro. These collaborations indicate a networked approach to research spanning related subfields and interdisciplinary domains.

Itakura's research has appeared in several notable venues. These include Frontiers in Psychology, Scientific Reports, The Proceedings of the Annual Convention of the Japanese Psychological Association, International Journal of Social Robotics, and Developmental Psychology.

Selected recent papers by Shoji Itakura are:

  • Quantifying Sources of Variability in Infancy Research Using the Infant-Directed-Speech Preference, 2020, Advances in Methods and Practices in Psychological Science
  • A Robot Is Not Worth Another: Exploring Children's Mental State Attribution to Different Humanoid Robots, 2020, Frontiers in Psychology
  • Culture modulates face scanning during dyadic social interactions, 2020, Scientific Reports
  • Preschoolers' and adults' animism tendencies toward a humanoid robot, 2021, Computers in Human Behavior
  • The understanding of congruent and incongruent referential gaze in 17-month-old infants: an eye-tracking study comparing human and robot, 2020, Scientific Reports

In addition to journal articles, Itakura has contributed to book publications, including a title published by Frontiers Media entitled Sociomateriality in Children with Typical and/or Atypical Development (2021).

Best Publications

  • Synchrony in the Onset of Mental-State Reasoning: Evidence From Five Cultures

    Tara Callaghan;Philippe Rochat;Angeline Lillard;Mary Louise Claux

  • Quantifying sources of variability in infancy research using the infant-directed-speech preference

    Michael C. Frank;Katherine Jane Alcock;Natalia Arias-Trejo;Gisa Aschersleben

  • Developmental correspondence between action prediction and motor ability in early infancy

    Yasuhiro Kanakogi;Shoji Itakura

  • Development of an android robot for studying human-robot interaction

    Takashi Minato;Michihiro Shimada;Hiroshi Ishiguro;Shoji Itakura

  • An exploratory study of gaze‐monitoring in nonhuman primates1

    Shoji Itakura

  • Use of experimenter-given cues during object-choice tasks by chimpanzees (Pan troglodytes), an orangutan (Pongo pygmaeus), and human infants (Homo sapiens).

    Shoji Itakura;Masayuki Tanaka

  • Chimpanzee Use of Human and Conspecific Social Cues to Locate Hidden Food

    Shoji Itakura;Bryan Agnetta;Brian Hare;Michael Tomasello

  • Measuring empathy for human and robot hand pain using electroencephalography.

    Yutaka Suzuki;Lisa Galli;Ayaka Ikeda;Shoji Itakura

  • Cultural Display Rules Drive Eye Gaze During Thinking

    Anjanie McCarthy;Kang Lee;Shoji Itakura;Darwin W Muir

  • East-West cultural differences in context-sensitivity are evident in early childhood.

    Toshie Imada;Stephanie M. Carlson;Shoji Itakura

  • The role of the right prefrontal cortex in self-evaluation of the face: A functional magnetic resonance imaging study

    Tomoyo Morita;Shoji Itakura;Daisuke N. Saito;Satoshi Nakashita

  • Rudimentary sympathy in preverbal infants: preference for others in distress

    Yasuhiro Kanakogi;Yuko Okumura;Yasuyuki Inoue;Michiteru Kitazaki

  • How the eyes, head and hand serve definite reference

    George Butterworth;Shoji Itakura

  • Learning to use experimenter-given cues during an object-choice task by a capuchin monkey.

    Shoji Itakura;James R. Anderson

  • Development of cultural strategies of attention in North American and Japanese children.

    Sean Duffy;Rie Toriyama;Shoji Itakura;Shinobu Kitayama

  • Assessing Human Likeness by Eye Contact in an Android Testbed

    Stephen Cowley;Hiroshi Ishiguro;Shoji Itakura;Karl F. MacDorman

  • A Robot Is Not Worth Another: Exploring Children's Mental State Attribution to Different Humanoid Robots.

    Federico Manzi;Giulia Peretti;Cinzia Di Dio;Angelo Cangelosi

  • Mirror guided behavior in Japanese monkeys (Macaca fuscata fuscata)

    Shoji Itakura

  • Bilingualism accentuates children's conversational understanding.

    Michael Siegal;Michael Siegal;Luca Surian;Ayumi Matsuo;Alessandra Geraci

  • Gaze‐following and joint visual attention in nonhuman animals

    Shoji Itakura

  • How to Build an Intentional Android: Infants' Imitation of a Robot's Goal-Directed Actions

    Shoji Itakura;Hiraku Ishida;Takayuki Kanda;Yohko Shimada

Frequent Co-Authors

Hiroshi Ishiguro
Hiroshi Ishiguro Osaka University
Takayuki Kanda
Takayuki Kanda Kyoto University
Kang Lee
Kang Lee University of Toronto
Norihiro Sadato
Norihiro Sadato National Institute for Physiological Sciences
Atsushi Senju
Atsushi Senju Birkbeck, University of London
Masaki Tomonaga
Masaki Tomonaga University of Human Environments
Kazuo Fujita
Kazuo Fujita Kyoto University
Virginia Slaughter
Virginia Slaughter University of Queensland
Tim J. Smith
Tim J. Smith Birkbeck, University of London
Mark F. Teaford
Mark F. Teaford RMIT University

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