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Researcher · University of St Andrews · United Kingdom

Andrew Whiten

Andrew Whiten publishes mostly in Social Psychology, Developmental and Educational Psychology and Cultural Studies, on topics such as Primate Behavior and Ecology, Child and Animal Learning Development and Language and cultural evolution.

ORCID 0000-0003-2426-5890 OpenAlex
World rank
#8,670
of 7,710,434 ranked researchers
Rank in United Kingdom
#560
of 367,258
Works
360
Citations
35k
Citations per work
96.2
h-index
90
i10-index 230Top 0.2% in Social Psychology
Andrew Whiten

What does Andrew Whiten research?

Andrew Whiten's work is mostly in Psychology (45%), Social Sciences (18%), Biochemistry, Genetics and Molecular Biology (9%).

Social Sciences: 227 works · 63.1% of their workPsychology: 162 works · 45.1% of their workSocial Psychology: 111 works · 30.8% of their workDevelopmental and Educational Psychology: 51 works · 14.3% of their workSocial Sciences: 65 works · 18.0% of their workCultural Studies: 33 works · 9.3% of their workSociology and Political Science: 31 works · 8.7% of their workEverything else: 76 works · 21.2% of their workLife Sciences: 57 works · 15.7% of their workBiochemistry, Genetics and Molecular Biology: 32 works · 9.0% of their workDevelopmental Biology: 32 works · 9.0% of their workAgricultural and Biological Sciences: 24 works · 6.7% of their workEcology, Evolution, Behavior and Systematics: 24 works · 6.7% of their workTHEIR WORKAndrew Whiten360works
Life Sciences16%Social Sciences63%

Their six largest subfields, inside their fields and domains; the grey slice is everything else they publish. The interactive view splits every one of their works down to single topics.

The fields and subfields, with their numbers
    1. Psychology16245.1%
    2. Social Sciences6518.0%
  2. Everything else7621.2%
    1. Biochemistry, Genetics and Molecular Biology329.0%
    2. Agricultural and Biological Sciences246.7%
  1. 1Social Psychology31% of their works
  2. 2Developmental and Educational Psychology14% of their works
  3. 3Cultural Studies9% of their works
  4. 4Developmental Biology9% of their works
  5. 5Sociology and Political Science9% of their works
  6. 6Ecology, Evolution, Behavior and Systematics7% of their works

Research topics

Which keywords describe Andrew Whiten's research?

The keywords of their largest research topics: Altruism, Cooperation, Primates, Social Behavior, Social Cognition, Social Learning, Cultural Evolution and Evolutionary Dynamics.

Size is their works in the topics tagged with each word, from their 8 largest topics. Each links to the topic it comes from most. The words come from the keyword list OpenAlex gives each topic, not from the text of the papers, so a word can appear that none of the papers uses.

All 22 words, with their numbers
  1. Altruism2852 topics
  2. Cooperation2852 topics
  3. Primates2131 topic
  4. Social Behavior2131 topic
  5. Social Cognition1723 topics
  6. Social Learning1702 topics
  7. Cultural Evolution1582 topics
  8. Evolutionary Dynamics1422 topics
  9. Child Development1221 topic
  10. Theory of Mind1221 topic
  11. Language861 topic
  12. Phylogenetics861 topic
  13. Avian Vocal Communication841 topic
  14. Birdsong841 topic
  15. Evolutionary Games721 topic
  16. Social Networks721 topic
  17. Natural Selection561 topic
  18. Phenotypic Plasticity561 topic
  19. Embodiment321 topic
  20. Mirror Neuron System321 topic
  21. Dog Domestication181 topic
  22. Genomic Analysis181 topic

Where does Andrew Whiten work?

Andrew Whiten's main affiliation in the publication record is University of St Andrews, United Kingdom.

How many publications and citations does Andrew Whiten have?

OpenAlex counts 360 works and 34,628 citations for Andrew Whiten, an h-index of 90, ranking #8,670 of 7,710,434 researchers worldwide on the quality score.

Ranked on field-normalised citation excellence (50%), output (30%) and citations (20%). Counts come from OpenAlex author records, which occasionally merge different people who share a name or split one person into several.

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