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Researcher · University of Zurich · Switzerland

Carel P. van Schaik

Carel P. van Schaik publishes mostly in Social Psychology, Ecology, Evolution, Behavior and Systematics and Ecology, on topics such as Primate Behavior and Ecology, Animal Behavior and Reproduction and Animal Vocal Communication and Behavior.

ORCID 0000-0001-5738-4509 OpenAlex
World rank
#985
of 7,710,434 ranked researchers
Rank in Switzerland
#5
of 80,918
Works
548
Citations
45k
Citations per work
82.5
h-index
123
i10-index 366Top 0.1% in Social Psychology
Carel P. van Schaik

What does Carel P. van Schaik research?

Carel P. van Schaik's work is mostly in Psychology (38%), Agricultural and Biological Sciences (11%), Environmental Science (9%).

Social Sciences: 242 works · 44.1% of their workPsychology: 207 works · 37.8% of their workSocial Psychology: 169 works · 30.8% of their workExperimental and Cognitive Psychology: 38 works · 7.0% of their workSocial Sciences: 35 works · 6.3% of their workSociology and Political Science: 35 works · 6.3% of their workEverything else: 152 works · 27.7% of their workLife Sciences: 106 works · 19.4% of their workAgricultural and Biological Sciences: 60 works · 11.0% of their workEcology, Evolution, Behavior and Systematics: 60 works · 11.0% of their workBiochemistry, Genetics and Molecular Biology: 46 works · 8.4% of their workDevelopmental Biology: 46 works · 8.4% of their workPhysical Sciences: 48 works · 8.8% of their workEnvironmental Science: 48 works · 8.8% of their workEcology: 48 works · 8.8% of their workTHEIR WORKCarel P. vanSchaik548works
Life Sciences19%Physical Sciences9%Social Sciences44%

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. Psychology20737.8%
    2. Social Sciences356.3%
  2. Everything else15227.7%
    1. Agricultural and Biological Sciences6011.0%
    2. Biochemistry, Genetics and Molecular Biology468.4%
    1. Environmental Science488.8%
  1. 1Social Psychology31% of their works
  2. 2Ecology, Evolution, Behavior and Systematics11% of their works
  3. 3Ecology9% of their works
  4. 4Developmental Biology8% of their works
  5. 5Experimental and Cognitive Psychology7% of their works
  6. 6Sociology and Political Science6% of their works

Research topics

Which keywords describe Carel P. van Schaik's research?

The keywords of their largest research topics: Altruism, Cooperation, Social Behavior, Evolution, Primates, Social Cognition, Natural Selection and Phenotypic Plasticity.

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 20 words, with their numbers
  1. Altruism4292 topics
  2. Cooperation4292 topics
  3. Social Behavior4082 topics
  4. Evolution3541 topic
  5. Primates3541 topic
  6. Social Cognition1452 topics
  7. Natural Selection1221 topic
  8. Phenotypic Plasticity1221 topic
  9. Avian Vocal Communication1141 topic
  10. Birdsong1141 topic
  11. Evolutionary Psychology891 topic
  12. Human Behavior891 topic
  13. Animal Movement831 topic
  14. Occupancy Rates831 topic
  15. Evolutionary Games751 topic
  16. Social Networks751 topic
  17. Child Development561 topic
  18. Theory of Mind561 topic
  19. Neurobiology541 topic
  20. Oxytocin541 topic

Where does Carel P. van Schaik work?

Carel P. van Schaik's main affiliation in the publication record is University of Zurich, Switzerland.

How many publications and citations does Carel P. van Schaik have?

OpenAlex counts 548 works and 45,211 citations for Carel P. van Schaik, an h-index of 123, ranking #985 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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