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Michael Tomasello

Active 1983–2024

293
Papers
107,847
Citations
180
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Citations

Citations per year for Michael Tomasello1896: 3 citations1916: 1 citations1938: 3 citations1959: 2 citations1966: 2 citations1967: 1 citations1969: 8 citations1975: 4 citations1978: 1 citations1984: 1 citations1986: 4 citations1987: 5 citations1988: 9 citations1989: 5 citations1990: 4 citations1991: 26 citations1992: 31 citations1993: 40 citations1994: 50 citations1995: 49 citations1996: 98 citations1997: 154 citations1998: 161 citations1999: 146 citations2000: 254 citations2001: 297 citations2002: 257 citations2003: 400 citations2004: 565 citations2005: 658 citations2006: 672 citations2007: 796 citations2008: 870 citations2009: 1,080 citations2010: 902 citations2011: 847 citations2012: 1,066 citations2013: 1,085 citations2014: 897 citations2015: 826 citations2016: 759 citations2017: 712 citations2018: 522 citations2019: 1,522 citations2020: 1,393 citations2021: 1,201 citations2022: 866 citations2023: 578 citations2024: 761 citations2025: 320 citations2026: 39 citations1897–1915: no citations, so these years are not shown1917–1937: no citations, so these years are not shown1939–1958: no citations, so these years are not shown1960–1965: no citations, so these years are not shown1968: no citations, so this year is not shown1970–1974: no citations, so these years are not shown1976–1977: no citations, so these years are not shown1979–1983: no citations, so these years are not shown1985: no citations, so this year is not shown

Citation sources

Countries

World map of the countries and regions citing this authorUnited States: 4,210 citing papers, 31.3% of this breakdownUnited Kingdom: 1,942 citing papers, 14.4% of this breakdownGermany: 1,282 citing papers, 9.5% of this breakdownCanada: 645 citing papers, 4.8% of this breakdownFrance: 499 citing papers, 3.7% of this breakdownNetherlands: 493 citing papers, 3.7% of this breakdownItaly: 475 citing papers, 3.5% of this breakdownJapan: 393 citing papers, 2.9% of this breakdownAustralia: 385 citing papers, 2.9% of this breakdownSwitzerland: 261 citing papers, 1.9% of this breakdownAustria: 247 citing papers, 1.8% of this breakdownChina: 243 citing papers, 1.8% of this breakdown
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Institutions

Fields

  • Psychology43.7%
  • Neuroscience19.6%
  • Social Sciences10.9%
  • Computer Science8%
  • Biochemistry, Genetics and Molecular Biology7%
  • Arts and Humanities4.2%
  • Other6.6%

Topics

  • Child and Animal Learning Development8.8%
  • Language Development and Disorders4.4%
  • Action Observation and Synchronization3.8%
  • Primate Behavior and Ecology3.4%
  • Psychology of Moral and Emotional Judgment2.8%
  • Language and cultural evolution2.7%
  • Other74.1%

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  1. Understanding and sharing intentions: The origins of cultural cognition

    Authors: Michael Tomasello, Malinda Carpenter, Josep Call, Tanya Behne, Henrike Moll - Behavioral and Brain Sciences 2005 cited by 4,847

  2. Origins of Human Communication

    Authors: Michael Tomasello - The MIT Press eBooks 2008 cited by 3,153

  3. Social Cognition, Joint Attention, and Communicative Competence from 9 to 15 Months of Age

    Authors: Malinda Carpenter, Katherine Nagell, Michael Tomasello, George Butterworth, Chris Moore - Monographs of the Society for Research in Child Development 1998 cited by 2,720

  4. Variability in Early Communicative Development

    Authors: Larry Fenson, Philip S. Dale, J. Steven Reznick, Elizabeth Bates, Donna Thal, Stephen J. Pethick, Michael Tomasello, Carolyn Β. Mervis, Joan Stiles - Monographs of the Society for Research in Child Development 1994 cited by 2,773

  5. Humans Have Evolved Specialized Skills of Social Cognition: The Cultural Intelligence Hypothesis

    Authors: Esther Herrmann, Josep Call, María Victoria Hernández‐Lloreda, Brian Hare, Michael Tomasello - Science 2007 cited by 1,599

  6. Ratcheting up the ratchet: on the evolution of cumulative culture

    Authors: Claudio Tennie, Josep Call, Michael Tomasello - Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society B Biological Sciences 2009 cited by 1,199

  7. Altruistic Helping in Human Infants and Young Chimpanzees

    Authors: Felix Warneken, Michael Tomasello - Science 2006 cited by 1,645

  8. Does the chimpanzee have a theory of mind? 30 years later

    Authors: Josep Call, Michael Tomasello - Trends in Cognitive Sciences 2008 cited by 1,591

  9. A Natural History of Human Thinking

    Authors: Michael Tomasello - Harvard University Press eBooks 2014 cited by 1,830

  10. Origins of Human Cooperation and Morality

    Authors: Michael Tomasello, Amrisha Vaish - Annual Review of Psychology 2012 cited by 929

  11. Joint music making promotes prosocial behavior in 4-year-old children☆☆☆

    Authors: Sebastian Kirschner, Michael Tomasello - Evolution and Human Behavior 2010 cited by 866

  12. Constructing a Language

    Authors: Michael Tomasello - Harvard University Press eBooks 2005 cited by 1,137

  13. Human-like social skills in dogs?

    Authors: Brian Hare, Michael Tomasello - Trends in Cognitive Sciences 2005 cited by 964

  14. Two Key Steps in the Evolution of Human Cooperation

    Authors: Michael Tomasello, Alicia P. Melis, Claudio Tennie, Emily Wyman, Esther Herrmann - Current Anthropology 2012 cited by 724

  15. A Natural History of Human Morality

    Authors: Michael Tomasello - Harvard University Press eBooks 2016 cited by 870

  16. Great apes anticipate that other individuals will act according to false beliefs

    Authors: Christopher Krupenye, Fumihiro Kano, Satoshi Hirata, Josep Call, Michael Tomasello - Science 2016 cited by 857

  17. Joint drumming: Social context facilitates synchronization in preschool children

    Authors: Sebastian Kirschner, Michael Tomasello - Journal of Experimental Child Psychology 2008 cited by 490

  18. Shared intentionality

    Authors: Michael Tomasello, Malinda Carpenter - Developmental Science 2006 cited by 914

  19. Becoming Human A Theory of Ontogeny

    Authors: Michael Tomasello - 2019 cited by 643

  20. The ultra‐social animal

    Authors: Michael Tomasello - European Journal of Social Psychology 2014 cited by 505

  21. Cultural learning

    Authors: Michael Tomasello, Ann Cale Kruger, Hilary Horn Ratner - Behavioral and Brain Sciences 1993 cited by 1,775

  22. The Domestication of Social Cognition in Dogs

    Authors: Brian Hare, Michelle Brown, Christina Williamson, Michael Tomasello - Science 2002 cited by 1,055

  23. Becoming Human

    Authors: Michael Tomasello - Harvard University Press eBooks 2019 cited by 649

  24. Do chimpanzees know what conspecifics know?

    Authors: Brian Hare, Josep Call, Michael Tomasello - Animal Behaviour 2001 cited by 1,085