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Social Sciences and Humanities

D-Index
65
Citations
26453
World Ranking
1012
National Ranking
58

Engineering and Technology

D-Index
57
Citations
18977
World Ranking
2585
National Ranking
107

Stevan Harnad 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 Stevan Harnad sits on this spectrum.

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44 publications 570+

This scientist: 470 publications — 97th percentile

97% of scientists in this discipline score the same or lower.

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

Stevan Harnad 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 Stevan Harnad sits on this spectrum.

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

This scientist: 65 D-Index — 87th percentile

87% of scientists in this discipline score the same or lower.

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

Overview

Stevan Harnad is affiliated with the University of Quebec at Montreal in Canada. Their research spans several interconnected areas within cognitive science and artificial intelligence.

Thematically, their work covers topics such as:

  • Language and cultural evolution
  • Neurobiology of language and bilingualism
  • Child and animal learning development
  • Artificial intelligence in healthcare and education
  • Embodied and extended cognition
  • Cognitive science and mapping
  • Cognitive science and education research

Harnad's research is rooted in fields including:

  • Cognitive neuroscience
  • Cultural studies
  • Developmental and educational psychology
  • Health informatics
  • Artificial intelligence

They have collaborated with several researchers, with frequent co-authors being:

  • Itiel E. Dror
  • Roger Bartra
  • Fernanda Pérez-Gay Juárez
  • Tomy Sicotte

Publication venues where Stevan Harnad has contributed include:

  • arXiv (Cornell University)
  • Frontiers in Artificial Intelligence
  • Leibniz-Zentrum für Informatik (Schloss Dagstuhl)
  • Animal Sentience
  • Mente y Cultura

Recent papers authored by Harnad provide insight into their evolving study interests and include:

  • Language writ large: LLMs, ChatGPT, meaning, and understanding (2025) in Frontiers in Artificial Intelligence
  • Language Writ Large: LLMs, ChatGPT, Grounding, Meaning and Understanding (2024) in arXiv (Cornell University)
  • Insentient "cognition"? (2023) in Animal Sentience
  • Are Psychological Variables Relevant to Evaluating Geoinformatics Applications? The Case of Landmarks (Vision Paper) (2022) in Leibniz-Zentrum für Informatik (Schloss Dagstuhl)
  • On theexocerebrum (2020) in Mente y Cultura

Best Publications

  • The symbol grounding problem

    Stevan Harnad

  • Categorical Perception: The Groundwork of Cognition

    Stevan R. Harnad

  • Comparing the Impact of Open Access (OA) vs. Non-OA Articles in the Same Journals

    Stevan Harnad;Tim Brody

  • Lateralization in the nervous system

    Stevan Harnad;R.W. Doty;L. Goldstein;J. Jaynes

  • Self-Selected or Mandated, Open Access Increases Citation Impact for Higher Quality Research

    Yassine Gargouri;Chawki Hajjem;Vincent Larivière;Yves Gingras

  • The Access/Impact Problem and the Green and Gold Roads to Open Access☆

    Stevan Harnad;Tim Brody;François Vallières;Les Carr

  • Post-Gutenberg Galaxy: The Fourth Revolution in the Means of Production of Knowledge

    Stevan Harnad

  • Earlier Web Usage Statistics as Predictors of Later Citation Impact

    Tim Brody;Stevan Harnad;Leslie Carr

  • Scholarly Skywriting and the Prepublication Continuum of Scientific Inquiry

    Stevan Harnad

  • To Cognize is to Categorize: Cognition is Categorization

    Stevan Harnad

  • Origins and Evolution of Language and Speech

    Stevan R. Harnad;Horst D. Steklis;Jane Beckman Lancaster

  • Psychophysical and cognitive aspects of categorical perception: A critical overview

    Stevan Harnad

  • The self-archiving initiative

    Stevan Harnad

  • Implementing peer review on the net: scientific quality control in scholarly electronic journals

    Stevan Harnad

  • Ten-Year Cross-Disciplinary Comparison of the Growth of Open Access and How it Increases Research Citation Impact

    Chawki Hajjem;Stevan Harnad;Yves Gingras

  • The Selection of Behavior: The Operant Behaviorism of B. F. Skinner: Comments and Consequences

    A.C. Catania;S Harnad

  • Minds, machines, and Searle

    Stevan Harnad

  • Categorical Perception Effects Induced by Category Learning

    Kenneth R. Livingston;Janet K. Andrews;Stevan Harnad

  • The Access/Impact Problem and the Green and Gold Roads to Open Access: An Update

    Stevan Harnad;Tim Brody;François Vallières;Les Carr

  • The Adaptive Advantage of Symbolic Theft Over Sensorimotor Toil: Grounding Language in Perceptual Categories

    Angelo Cangelosi;Stevan Harnad

Frequent Co-Authors

Yves Gingras
Yves Gingras University of Quebec at Montreal
Charles Oppenheim
Charles Oppenheim Robert Gordon University
Wendy Hall
Wendy Hall University of Southampton
Angelo Cangelosi
Angelo Cangelosi University of Manchester
Edward F. Pace-Schott
Edward F. Pace-Schott Harvard University
Vincent Larivière
Vincent Larivière University of Montreal
Nigel Shadbolt
Nigel Shadbolt University of Oxford
Itiel E. Dror
Itiel E. Dror University College London
Carl Lagoze
Carl Lagoze University of Michigan–Ann Arbor
Tim Berners-Lee
Tim Berners-Lee University of Oxford

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