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Simon Kirby 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 Simon Kirby sits on this spectrum.

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31 publications 705+

This scientist: 202 publications — 69th percentile

69% of scientists in this discipline score the same or lower.

The last bar groups every scientist with 705 publications or more.

Simon Kirby 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 Simon Kirby sits on this spectrum.

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30 D-Index 144+

This scientist: 49 D-Index — 52nd percentile

52% of scientists in this discipline score the same or lower.

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

Overview

Simon Kirby is affiliated with the University of Edinburgh in the United Kingdom. Their research primarily focuses on the field of Psychology, with a particular emphasis on several subfields including Cultural Studies, Artificial Intelligence, Experimental and Cognitive Psychology, Language and Linguistics, and Developmental and Educational Psychology.

The scientist's work encompasses a range of topics including Language and cultural evolution, Natural Language Processing Techniques, Hearing Impairment and Communication, Language, Metaphor, and Cognition, Language, Discourse, Communication Strategies, Syntax, Semantics, Linguistic Variation, and Hand Gesture Recognition Systems.

Simon Kirby has contributed to numerous publications in well-known academic venues. Frequent publication outlets include:

  • Cognitive Science
  • Cognition
  • Language
  • Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society B Biological Sciences
  • arXiv (Cornell University)

Some of their recent papers exemplify the breadth of their research interests and include:

  • Simplicity and informativeness in semantic category systems, 2020, published in Cognition
  • The emergence of collective knowledge and cumulative culture in animals, humans and machines, 2021, published in Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society B Biological Sciences
  • Engaging communities in addressing air quality: a scoping review, 2022, published in Environmental Health
  • From the world to word order: Deriving biases in noun phrase order from statistical properties of the world, 2020, published in Language
  • Compositional Languages Emerge in a Neural Iterated Learning Model, 2020, published on arXiv (Cornell University)

Throughout their career, Simon Kirby has frequently collaborated with several coauthors, notable among them are Jennifer Culbertson, Kenny Smith, Marieke Schouwstra, Yasamin Motamedi, and Ellen C. Garland. These collaborations highlight a tendency towards interdisciplinary and cooperative research within their areas of expertise.

Best Publications

  • Cumulative cultural evolution in the laboratory: An experimental approach to the origins of structure in human language

    Simon Kirby;Hannah Cornish;Kenny Smith

  • Compression and communication in the cultural evolution of linguistic structure.

    Simon Kirby;Monica Tamariz;Hannah Cornish;Kenny Smith

  • Language evolution: consensus and controversies.

    Morten H. Christiansen;Simon Kirby

  • The emergence of linguistic structure: an overview of the iterated learning model

    Simon Kirby;James R. Hurford

  • Spontaneous evolution of linguistic structure-an iterated learning model of the emergence of regularity and irregularity

    S. Kirby

  • Innateness and culture in the evolution of language

    Simon Kirby;Mike Dowman;Thomas L. Griffiths

  • Iterated learning: a framework for the emergence of language

    Kenny Smith;Simon Kirby;Henry Brighton

  • Natural language from artificial life

    Simon Kirby

  • Iterated learning and the evolution of language

    Simon Kirby;Tom Griffiths;Kenny Smith

  • How arbitrary is language

    Padraic Monaghan;Richard C. Shillcock;Morten H. Christiansen;Simon Kirby

  • Language evolution in the laboratory

    Thomas C. Scott-Phillips;Simon Kirby

  • Proceedings of the 39th Annual Conference of the Cognitive Science Society

    Yasamin Motamedi-mousavi;Marieke Schouwstra;Jennifer Culbertson;Kenny Smith

  • Language as an adaptation to the cognitive niche

    S Pinker;S. Kirby;M. Christiansen

  • Signalling signalhood and the emergence of communication

    Thomas C. Scott-Phillips;Simon Kirby;Graham R.S. Ritchie

  • Language Evolution: The Hardest Problem in Science?

    Morten H. Christiansen;Simon Kirby

  • Language as an evolutionary system

    Henry Brighton;Kenny Smith;Simon Kirby

  • Musical evolution in the lab exhibits rhythmic universals

    Andrea Ravignani;Andrea Ravignani;Tania Delgado;Tania Delgado;Simon Kirby

  • Syntax Without Natural Selection: How Compositionality Emerges from Vocabulary in a Population of Learners

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  • What sound does that taste? Cross-modal mappings across gustation and audition

    Julia Simner;Christine Cuskley;Simon Kirby

  • Zipf's Law of Abbreviation and the Principle of Least Effort: Language users optimise a miniature lexicon for efficient communication

    Jasmeen Kanwal;Kenny Smith;Jennifer Culbertson;Simon Kirby

  • The cultural evolution of language

    Monica Tamariz;Simon Kirby

  • Cultural evolution of systematically structured behaviour in a non-human primate.

    Nicolas Claidière;Kenny Smith;Simon Kirby;Joël Fagot

Frequent Co-Authors

Morten H. Christiansen
Morten H. Christiansen Cornell University
Julia Simner
Julia Simner University of Sussex
Thomas L. Griffiths
Thomas L. Griffiths Princeton University
Joël Fagot
Joël Fagot Aix-Marseille University
Dan Sperber
Dan Sperber Central European University
Carol Padden
Carol Padden University of California, San Diego
Jon Oberlander
Jon Oberlander University of Edinburgh
Peter M. Todd
Peter M. Todd Indiana University
Nick Chater
Nick Chater University of Warwick

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