Leaderboards/Cognitive Science and Mapping

Cognitive Science and Mapping

Last updated July 7, 2026

Rising Stars

New and hot

Rising Stars Researchers

1
Nastacia L. Goodwin
University of Washington
2
Rahul Bhui
Massachusetts Institute of Technology
3
Zhuolin Li
Dalian University of Technology
4
Frederick Callaway
Princeton University
5
Ana Rita D. Rodrigues
Iscte – Instituto Universitário de Lisboa
6
Nazanin Vafaei
Uninova
7
Xinyue Hao
Cardiff University
8
Kai Xiong
Sichuan University
9
Irina F.B. Braga
Iscte – Instituto Universitário de Lisboa
10
Mark K. Ho
Princeton University

Rising Stars Papers

1
Simple Behavioral Analysis (SimBA) as a platform for explainable machine learning in behavioral neuroscience
Nature Neuroscience|2024
185 cit.
2
Exploring collaborative decision-making: A quasi-experimental study of human and Generative AI interaction
Technology in Society|2024
125 cit.
3
Artificial intelligence in supply chain management: enablers and constraints in pre-development, deployment, and post-development stages
Production Planning & Control|2024
44 cit.
4
AI-generated visuals of car-free US cities help improve support for sustainable policies
Nature Sustainability|2024
24 cit.
5
An incremental preference elicitation-based approach to learning potentially non-monotonic preferences in multi-criteria sorting
European Journal of Operational Research|2024
21 cit.
6
Integrating machine learning models to learn potentially non-monotonic preferences for multi-criteria sorting from large-scale assignment examples
Omega|2024
18 cit.
7
When customers know it’s AI: Experimental comparison of human and LLM-Based Communication in service recovery
Journal of Marketing Communications|2025
16 cit.
8
Visual narratives and audience engagement: edutainment interactive strategies with computer vision and natural language processing
Journal of Research in Interactive Marketing|2025
12 cit.
9
Critical success and failure factors in the AI lifecycle: a knowledge graph-based ontological study
Journal of Modelling in Management|2025
11 cit.
10
Beyond human-in-the-loop: Sensemaking between artificial intelligence and human intelligence collaboration
Sustainable Futures|2025
11 cit.

Emerging Leaders

Gaining momentum

Emerging Leaders Researchers

1
Chung Ji-Hyong
Electronics and Telecommunications Research Institute
2
Harpalsinh Chudasama
Aga Khan Development Network
3
Erie D. Boorman
University of California, Davis
4
Joran Lokkerbol
University of Amsterdam
5
Αλέξανδρος Νίκας
National Technical University of Athens
6
Alamir N. Al-Alawi
College of Applied Sciences, Nizwa
7
Oleksii Shpenkov
Taras Shevchenko National University of Kyiv
8
Ivan Seleznov
National Technical University of Ukraine “Igor Sikorsky Kyiv Polytechnic Institute”
9
Nel M. Mostert
Unilever (Netherlands)
10
Xueqing Wang
Tianjin University

Emerging Leaders Papers

1
Drivers of generative AI adoption in higher education through the lens of the Theory of Planned Behaviour
Technology in Society|2024
325 cit.
2
A multimodel analysis of post-Glasgow climate targets and feasibility challenges
Nature Climate Change|2023
108 cit.
3
Pursuing the drivers of consumer behaviour toward service robots in the hotel industry
International Journal of Hospitality Management|2024
50 cit.
4
Neural mechanisms of credit assignment for inferred relationships in a structured world
Neuron|2022
37 cit.
5
Three different directions in which the European Union could replace Russian natural gas
Energy|2024
21 cit.
6
Co-creating Canada's path to net-zero: a stakeholder-driven modelling analysis
Renewable and Sustainable Energy Transition|2023
12 cit.
7
Stakeholder-driven scenario analysis of ambitious decarbonisation of the Russian economy
Renewable and Sustainable Energy Transition|2023
11 cit.
8
Re-entry intentions of failed entrepreneurs: the roles of social support and resilience
Journal of Small Business and Enterprise Development|2025
10 cit.
9
Geo-information-enabled village level micro-planning for enhancing common good
Technological Forecasting and Social Change|2023
6 cit.
10
A roadmap for applying machine learning when working with privacy-sensitive data: predicting non-response to treatment for eating disorders
Expert Review of Pharmacoeconomics & Outcomes Research|2023
6 cit.

Current Senior Leaders

Established & currently active

Current Senior Leaders Researchers

1
Enrique Herrera‐Viedma
Universidad de Granada
2
Carolyn Β. Mervis
Rome Foundation
3
Enric Plaza
Artificial Intelligence Research Institute
4
Francisco Herrera
Universidad de Granada
5
Zeshui Xu
Chinese Academy of Sciences
6
Keith E. Stanovich
Oakland University
7
Daniel Kahneman
Princeton University
8
Brian J. Reiser
Northwestern University
9
Peter P. Groumpos
University of Patras
10
Thomas W. Malone
Massachusetts Institute of Technology

Current Senior Leaders Papers

1
Prospect Theory: An Analysis of Decision under Risk
Econometrica|1979
47k cit.
2
Judgment under Uncertainty: Heuristics and Biases
Science|1974
28k cit.
3
Judgment under Uncertainty: Heuristics and Biases
Unknown Journal|1975
23.1k cit.
4
The Framing of Decisions and the Psychology of Choice
Science|1981
17.3k cit.
5
Advances in prospect theory: Cumulative representation of uncertainty
Journal of Risk and Uncertainty|1992
15.6k cit.
6
Availability: A heuristic for judging frequency and probability
Cognitive Psychology|1973
9.9k cit.
7
Explainable Artificial Intelligence (XAI): Concepts, taxonomies, opportunities and challenges toward responsible AI
Information Fusion|2019
9k cit.
8
Attention and Effort
The American Journal of Psychology|1975
7.1k cit.
9
Choices, values, and frames.
American Psychologist|1984
6.5k cit.
10
Loss Aversion in Riskless Choice: A Reference-Dependent Model
The Quarterly Journal of Economics|1991
6.4k cit.

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