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D-Index
97
Citations
47082
World Ranking
696
National Ranking
437

Susan Carey 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 Susan Carey sits on this spectrum.

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31 publications 705+

This scientist: 214 publications — 73rd percentile

73% of scientists in this discipline score the same or lower.

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

Susan Carey 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 Susan Carey sits on this spectrum.

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30 D-Index 144+

This scientist: 97 D-Index — 94th percentile

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

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

Overview

Susan Carey is affiliated with Harvard University in the United States. Their research primarily focuses on psychology, with a significant body of work in developmental and educational psychology. They also have contributions within cognitive neuroscience, social psychology, experimental and cognitive psychology, and artificial intelligence.

Their main topics of study include:

  • Child and Animal Learning Development
  • Memory and Neural Mechanisms
  • Behavioral and Psychological Studies
  • Action Observation and Synchronization
  • Language and cultural evolution
  • Categorization, perception, and language
  • Neural and Behavioral Psychology Studies

Key recent papers authored or co-authored by Carey include:

  • Age and Species Comparisons of Visual Mental Manipulation Ability as Evidence for its Development and Evolution, 2020, Scientific Reports
  • The development of reasoning by exclusion in infancy, 2022, Cognitive Psychology
  • Minimal representations of possibility at age 3, 2022, Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences
  • Parent-focused prevention of adolescent health risk behavior: Study protocol for a multisite cluster-randomized trial implemented in pediatric primary care, 2021, Contemporary Clinical Trials
  • The Formal Structure of Kind Representations, 2021, Cognitive Science

Frequent co-authors associated with Carey's work include:

  • Michael Huemer
  • Jonathan F. Kominsky
  • Ivan Kroupin
  • Stephen Ferrigno
  • Samuel Cheyette

Their publications often appear in venues such as:

  • Cognitive Science
  • Cognition
  • Current Opinion in Behavioral Sciences
  • Behavioral and Brain Sciences
  • Scientific Reports

The concentration of publications in developmental and educational psychology highlights an emphasis on developmental processes and learning mechanisms. The presence of works in cognitive neuroscience and experimental psychology further indicates engagement with understanding cognitive functions and neural underpinnings.

Best Publications

  • Conceptual Change in Childhood

    Susan Carey

  • Why faces are and are not special: an effect of expertise.

    Rhea Diamond;Susan Carey

  • The Origin of Concepts

    Susan Carey

  • Acquiring a Single New Word

    Susan Carey;Elsa Bartlett

  • Domain-specific knowledge and conceptual change.

    Susan Carey;Elizabeth Spelke

  • From piecemeal to configurational representation of faces

    Susan Carey;Rhea Diamond

  • Infants' Metaphysics: The Case of Numerical Identity

    Fei Xu;Susan Carey

  • Understanding Other Minds: Linking Developmental Psychology and Functional Neuroimaging

    R. Saxe;S. Carey;N. Kanwisher

  • One, two, three, four, nothing more: An investigation of the conceptual sources of the verbal counting principles ☆

    Mathieu Le Corre;Susan Carey

  • The Representations Underlying Infants' Choice of More: Object Files Versus Analog Magnitudes

    Lisa Feigenson;Susan Carey;Marc Hauser

  • Ontological categories guide young children's inductions of word meaning: object terms and substance terms.

    Nancy N. Soja;Susan Carey;Elizabeth S. Spelke

  • The child as word learner

    S. Carey

  • Consequences of “Minimal” Group Affiliations in Children

    Yarrow Dunham;Andrew Scott Baron;Susan Carey

  • On understanding the nature of scientific knowledge

    Susan Carey;Carol Smith

  • Infants' Discrimination of Number vs. Continuous Extent

    Lisa Feigenson;Susan Carey;Elizabeth Spelke

  • How infants and toddlers react to antisocial others

    J. Kiley Hamlin;Karen Wynn;Paul J. Bloom;Neha Mahajan

  • How counting represents number: what children must learn and when they learn it.

    Barbara W. Sarnecka;Susan Carey

  • On differentiation: a case study of the development of the concepts of size, weight, and density.

    Carol Smith;Susan Carey;Marianne Wiser

  • Tracking individuals via object-files: evidence from infants' manual search

    Lisa Feigenson;Susan Carey

  • Spontaneous number representation in semi–free–ranging rhesus monkeys

    Marc D. Hauser;Susan Carey;Lilan B. Hauser

  • Whose gaze will infants follow? The elicitation of gaze-following in 12-month-olds

    Susan Johnson;Virginia Slaughter;Susan Carey

Frequent Co-Authors

Elizabeth S. Spelke
Elizabeth S. Spelke Harvard University
Marc D. Hauser
Marc D. Hauser Harvard University
Lisa Feigenson
Lisa Feigenson Johns Hopkins University
David Barner
David Barner University of California, San Diego
Rochel Gelman
Rochel Gelman Rutgers, The State University of New Jersey
Edgar Zurif
Edgar Zurif Brandeis University
Yarrow Dunham
Yarrow Dunham Yale University
Tania Lombrozo
Tania Lombrozo Princeton University
Deborah Kelemen
Deborah Kelemen Boston University

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