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Researcher · Max Planck Institute for Evolutionary Anthropology · Germany

Christophe Boesch

Christophe Boesch publishes mostly in Social Psychology, Ecology, Evolution, Behavior and Systematics and Developmental Biology, on topics such as Primate Behavior and Ecology, Animal Behavior and Reproduction and Animal Vocal Communication and Behavior.

ORCID 0000-0001-9538-7858 OpenAlex
World rank
#4,111
of 7,710,434 ranked researchers
Rank in Germany
#154
of 364,343
Works
533
Citations
41k
Citations per work
76.7
h-index
110
i10-index 335Top 0.1% in Social Psychology
Christophe Boesch

What does Christophe Boesch research?

Christophe Boesch's work is mostly in Psychology (33%), Biochemistry, Genetics and Molecular Biology (13%), Agricultural and Biological Sciences (11%).

Everything else: 189 works · 35.4% of their workSocial Sciences: 174 works · 32.6% of their workPsychology: 174 works · 32.6% of their workSocial Psychology: 146 works · 27.4% of their workDevelopmental and Educational Psychology: 28 works · 5.2% of their workLife Sciences: 130 works · 24.3% of their workBiochemistry, Genetics and Molecular Biology: 69 works · 13.0% of their workDevelopmental Biology: 44 works · 8.3% of their workGenetics: 25 works · 4.7% of their workAgricultural and Biological Sciences: 60 works · 11.3% of their workEcology, Evolution, Behavior and Systematics: 60 works · 11.3% of their workPhysical Sciences: 41 works · 7.7% of their workEnvironmental Science: 41 works · 7.7% of their workEcology: 41 works · 7.7% of their workTHEIR WORKChristophe Boesch533works
Life Sciences24%Physical Sciences8%Social Sciences33%

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. Everything else18935.4%
    1. Psychology17432.6%
    1. Biochemistry, Genetics and Molecular Biology6913.0%
    2. Agricultural and Biological Sciences6011.3%
    1. Environmental Science417.7%
  1. 1Social Psychology27% of their works
  2. 2Ecology, Evolution, Behavior and Systematics11% of their works
  3. 3Developmental Biology8% of their works
  4. 4Ecology8% of their works
  5. 5Developmental and Educational Psychology5% of their works
  6. 6Genetics5% of their works

Research topics

Which keywords describe Christophe Boesch's research?

The keywords of their largest research topics: Primates, Social Behavior, Social Cognition, Natural Selection, Phenotypic Plasticity, Avian Vocal Communication, Birdsong and Animal Movement.

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 17 words, with their numbers
  1. Primates3281 topic
  2. Social Behavior3281 topic
  3. Social Cognition1213 topics
  4. Natural Selection1201 topic
  5. Phenotypic Plasticity1201 topic
  6. Avian Vocal Communication1081 topic
  7. Birdsong1081 topic
  8. Animal Movement761 topic
  9. Occupancy Rates761 topic
  10. Child Development661 topic
  11. Theory of Mind661 topic
  12. Dog Domestication291 topic
  13. Genomic Analysis291 topic
  14. Evolutionary Psychology261 topic
  15. Human Behavior261 topic
  16. Hominin Genetics241 topic
  17. Paleolithic Archaeology241 topic

Where does Christophe Boesch work?

Christophe Boesch's main affiliation in the publication record is Max Planck Institute for Evolutionary Anthropology, Germany.

How many publications and citations does Christophe Boesch have?

OpenAlex counts 533 works and 40,862 citations for Christophe Boesch, an h-index of 110, ranking #4,111 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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