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DistinguishedMid-Career

Samuel J. Gershman

Harvard University

US

Core Metrics

Total Citations

20,281

H-Index

71

Publications

438

i10-Index

206

2-Year Citedness

5.6

avg citations per work

Ability Dimensions

Overall Score44
Prolific
Impact72%

20,281 citations, h=71

Momentum56%

2yr mean: 5.6

Output80%

438 papers (24.3/year)

Efficiency26%

46 cites/paper

Novelty5%

2 unique research topics

Breadth40%

4 topic areas

Peak Power26%

Top 3 papers: 17% of citations

* Percentile scores are calculated relative to all scholars in the computational neuroscience dataset. Tags are assigned based on dimension combinations. Hover over the radar chart for details.

Scholar Profile Analysis

Samuel J. Gershman is a distinguished scholar with 20k+ citations in computational neuroscience, currently affiliated with Harvard University.

Over a 18-year academic career, published 438 papers (averaging 24.3 per year), with 20,281 citations.

An h-index of 71, well above field average, indicates a substantial body of highly-cited work.

Primary research areas include Public economics, Competence (human resources), Competence (human resources).

Key Findings

Signature Work

"Model-Based Influences on Humans' Choices and Striatal Prediction Errors" is the most influential work, with 1,868 citations, published in 2011.

Early Career Analysis (First 5 Years)

Career Start

2007 - 2011

Early Citations

3,746

Early Works

16

Early Impact %

18.5%

Top Early Career Paper

Model-Based Influences on Humans' Choices and Striatal Prediction Errors

Publication Timeline

Research Topics

Public economics33.9%
Competence (human resources)78.7%
Competence (human resources)76.4%
Competence (human resources)79.2%

Top Publications

12011Neuron

Model-Based Influences on Humans' Choices and Striatal Prediction Errors

1,868

Citations

22017Nature Neuroscience

The hippocampus as a predictive map

973

Citations

32015Science

Computational rationality: A converging paradigm for intelligence in brains, minds, and machines

678

Citations

2011Journal of Mathematical Psychology

A tutorial on Bayesian nonparametric models

592

Citations

2016Annual Review of Psychology

Reinforcement Learning and Episodic Memory in Humans and Animals: An Integrative Framework

478

Citations

2015Journal of Neuroscience

Reinforcement Learning in Multidimensional Environments Relies on Attention Mechanisms

396

Citations

2010Psychological Review

Context, learning, and extinction.

394

Citations

2017Nature Human Behaviour

The successor representation in human reinforcement learning

387

Citations

2013Psychological Science

The Curse of Planning

371

Citations

2017PLoS Computational Biology

Predictive representations can link model-based reinforcement learning to model-free mechanisms

338

Citations

Impact Classification

高影响力

总引用超过2万次,是领域内公认的重要人物

稳定产出

h-index超过50,具有持续的学术产出能力