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Researcher · Yale University · United States

David P. Watts

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

ORCID 0000-0001-6603-2230 OpenAlex
World rank
#58,679
of 7,710,434 ranked researchers
Rank in United States
#22,610
of 1,627,098
Works
174
Citations
13k
Citations per work
76.3
h-index
66
i10-index 108Top 0.8% in Social Psychology
David P. Watts

What does David P. Watts research?

David P. Watts's work is mostly in Psychology (32%), Biochemistry, Genetics and Molecular Biology (18%), Agricultural and Biological Sciences (15%).

Life Sciences: 58 works · 33.6% of their workBiochemistry, Genetics and Molecular Biology: 32 works · 18.2% of their workDevelopmental Biology: 25 works · 14.6% of their workGenetics: 6 works · 3.6% of their workAgricultural and Biological Sciences: 27 works · 15.4% of their workEcology, Evolution, Behavior and Systematics: 27 works · 15.4% of their workSocial Sciences: 57 works · 32.5% of their workPsychology: 57 works · 32.5% of their workSocial Psychology: 50 works · 28.9% of their workDevelopmental and Educational Psychology: 6 works · 3.6% of their workEverything else: 48 works · 27.3% of their workPhysical Sciences: 11 works · 6.6% of their workEnvironmental Science: 11 works · 6.6% of their workEcology: 11 works · 6.6% of their workTHEIR WORKDavid P. Watts174works
Life Sciences34%Physical Sciences7%Social Sciences32%

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. Biochemistry, Genetics and Molecular Biology3218.2%
    2. Agricultural and Biological Sciences2715.4%
    1. Psychology5732.5%
  3. Everything else4827.3%
    1. Environmental Science116.6%
  1. 1Social Psychology29% of their works
  2. 2Ecology, Evolution, Behavior and Systematics15% of their works
  3. 3Developmental Biology15% of their works
  4. 4Ecology7% of their works
  5. 5Developmental and Educational Psychology4% of their works
  6. 6Genetics4% of their works

Research topics

Which keywords describe David P. Watts's research?

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

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 19 words, with their numbers
  1. Social Behavior1342 topics
  2. Evolution1241 topic
  3. Primates1241 topic
  4. Avian Vocal Communication681 topic
  5. Birdsong681 topic
  6. Natural Selection631 topic
  7. Phenotypic Plasticity631 topic
  8. Social Cognition373 topics
  9. Oxytocin212 topics
  10. Animal Movement201 topic
  11. Occupancy Rates201 topic
  12. Child Development171 topic
  13. Theory of Mind171 topic
  14. Dog Domestication111 topic
  15. Genomic Analysis111 topic
  16. Neurobiology101 topic
  17. Trust101 topic
  18. Evolutionary Psychology91 topic
  19. Human Behavior91 topic

Where does David P. Watts work?

David P. Watts's main affiliation in the publication record is Yale University, United States.

How many publications and citations does David P. Watts have?

OpenAlex counts 174 works and 13,276 citations for David P. Watts, an h-index of 66, ranking #58,679 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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