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Thomas Suddendorf 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 Thomas Suddendorf sits on this spectrum.

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31 publications 705+

This scientist: 172 publications — 59th percentile

59% of scientists in this discipline score the same or lower.

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

Thomas Suddendorf 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 Thomas Suddendorf sits on this spectrum.

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30 D-Index 144+

This scientist: 54 D-Index — 61st percentile

61% of scientists in this discipline score the same or lower.

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

Overview

Thomas Suddendorf is affiliated with the University of Queensland in Australia. Their research primarily spans the fields of psychology and neuroscience, with a focus on developmental and educational psychology and cognitive neuroscience. Within these fields, they have contributed significantly to understanding child and animal learning development, memory and neural mechanisms, and primate behavior and ecology.

Their main areas of study include:

  • Child and Animal Learning Development
  • Memory and Neural Mechanisms
  • Primate Behavior and Ecology
  • Early Childhood Education and Development
  • Memory Processes and Influences
  • Embodied and Extended Cognition
  • Action Observation and Synchronization

Suddendorf's frequent co-authors are:

  • Jonathan Redshaw
  • Adam Bulley
  • Shalini Gautam
  • Nicola S. Clayton
  • Alex H. Taylor

The scientist has published articles in several venues repeatedly, including:

  • Cognitive Development
  • Developmental Psychology
  • Current Biology
  • Proceedings of the Royal Society B Biological Sciences
  • Child Development

Suddendorf's publications cover a variety of topics related to cognition and development. Some of their recent papers are:

  • "Consciousness beyond the human case," 2023, in Current Biology
  • "Does Neonatal Imitation Exist? Insights From a Meta-Analysis of 336 Effect Sizes," 2021, in Perspectives on Psychological Science
  • "New Caledonian crows plan for specific future tool use," 2020, in Proceedings of the Royal Society B Biological Sciences
  • "Children Devise and Selectively Use Tools to Offload Cognition," 2020, in Current Biology
  • "When can young children reason about an exclusive disjunction? A follow up to," 2020, in Cognition

Their research often intersects with experimental and cognitive psychology as well as social psychology, exploring mechanisms of memory, cognition, social behavior, and tool use in both humans and animals. This breadth is reflected in their publication record and collaborations, illustrating a consistent engagement with topics that bridge developmental processes and cognitive functions across species.

Best Publications

  • The evolution of foresight: What is mental time travel, and is it unique to humans?

    Thomas Suddendorf;Michael C. Corballis

  • Imitation, mirror neurons and autism.

    Justin H.G. Williams;Andrew Whiten;Thomas Suddendorf;David I. Perrett

  • Mental time travel and the evolution of the human mind.

    Thomas Suddendorf;Michael C. Corballis

  • The Gap: The Science of What Separates Us from Other Animals

    Thomas Suddendorf

  • Mental evolution and development: Evidence for secondary representation in children, great apes, and other animals.

    Thomas Suddendorf;Andrew Whiten

  • Mental time travel and the shaping of the human mind.

    Thomas Suddendorf;Donna Rose Addis;Michael C. Corballis

  • Making decisions with the future in mind: Developmental and comparative identification of mental time travel

    Thomas Suddendorf;Janie Busby

  • Recalling yesterday and predicting tomorrow

    Janie Busby;Thomas Suddendorf

  • Mental time travel in animals

    Thomas Suddendorf;Janie Busby

  • Comprehensive Longitudinal Study Challenges the Existence of Neonatal Imitation in Humans.

    Janine Oostenbroek;Janine Oostenbroek;Thomas Suddendorf;Mark Nielsen;Mark Nielsen;Jonathan Redshaw

  • Children's Capacity to Remember a Novel Problem and to Secure Its Future Solution.

    Thomas Suddendorf;Mark Nielsen;Rebecca von Gehlen

  • Behavioural evidence for mental time travel in nonhuman animals

    Thomas Suddendorf;Michael C. Corballis

  • The Rise of the Metamind

    Thomas Suddendorf

  • Children's and Apes' Preparatory Responses to Two Mutually Exclusive Possibilities.

    Jonathan Redshaw;Thomas Suddendorf

  • Visual–auditory integration during speech imitation in autism

    Justin H.G. Williams;Dominic W. Massaro;Natalie J. Peel;Alexis Bosseler

  • Foresight and Evolution of the Human Mind

    Thomas Suddendorf

  • Prospection and the Present Moment: The Role of Episodic Foresight in Intertemporal Choices between Immediate and Delayed Rewards:

    Adam Bulley;Julie Henry;Thomas Suddendorf

  • The nature of visual self-recognition

    Thomas Suddendorf;David L. Butler

  • Dissociating memory traces and scenario construction in mental time travel

    Sen Cheng;Markus Werning;Thomas Suddendorf

  • The future is here: A review of foresight systems in anxiety and depression

    Beyon Miloyan;Nancy A. Pachana;Thomas Suddendorf

  • Lip-reading and visual-auditory integration during speech imitation in autism

    D.D. Massaro;J Williams;T. Suddendorf;A Bosseler

Frequent Co-Authors

Mark Nielsen
Mark Nielsen University of Queensland
Julie D. Henry
Julie D. Henry University of Queensland
Virginia Slaughter
Virginia Slaughter University of Queensland
Michael C. Corballis
Michael C. Corballis University of Auckland
Alex H. Taylor
Alex H. Taylor Institució Catalana de Recerca i Estudis Avançats
Peter G. Rendell
Peter G. Rendell University of Queensland
Andrew Whiten
Andrew Whiten University of St Andrews
Nicola S. Clayton
Nicola S. Clayton University of Cambridge
Sam J. Gilbert
Sam J. Gilbert University College London
Cheryl Dissanayake
Cheryl Dissanayake La Trobe University

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