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Researcher · University of Pennsylvania · United States

Dorothy L. Cheney

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

ORCID 0000-0002-5183-000X OpenAlex
World rank
#5,244
of 7,710,434 ranked researchers
Rank in United States
#1,807
of 1,627,098
Works
211
Citations
30k
Citations per work
140.0
h-index
95
i10-index 162Top 0.2% in Social Psychology
Dorothy L. Cheney

What does Dorothy L. Cheney research?

Dorothy L. Cheney's work is mostly in Psychology (48%), Biochemistry, Genetics and Molecular Biology (17%), Agricultural and Biological Sciences (13%).

Social Sciences: 111 works · 52.4% of their workPsychology: 102 works · 48.3% of their workSocial Psychology: 69 works · 32.7% of their workExperimental and Cognitive Psychology: 19 works · 9.2% of their workDevelopmental and Educational Psychology: 14 works · 6.4% of their workSocial Sciences: 9 works · 4.1% of their workCultural Studies: 9 works · 4.1% of their workLife Sciences: 64 works · 30.4% of their workBiochemistry, Genetics and Molecular Biology: 37 works · 17.4% of their workDevelopmental Biology: 37 works · 17.4% of their workAgricultural and Biological Sciences: 27 works · 13.0% of their workEcology, Evolution, Behavior and Systematics: 27 works · 13.0% of their workEverything else: 36 works · 17.2% of their workTHEIR WORKDorothy L. Cheney211works
Life Sciences30%Social Sciences52%

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. Psychology10248.3%
    2. Social Sciences94.1%
    1. Biochemistry, Genetics and Molecular Biology3717.4%
    2. Agricultural and Biological Sciences2713.0%
  3. Everything else3617.2%
  1. 1Social Psychology33% of their works
  2. 2Developmental Biology17% of their works
  3. 3Ecology, Evolution, Behavior and Systematics13% of their works
  4. 4Experimental and Cognitive Psychology9% of their works
  5. 5Developmental and Educational Psychology6% of their works
  6. 6Cultural Studies4% of their works

Research topics

Which keywords describe Dorothy L. Cheney's research?

The keywords of their largest research topics: Social Behavior, Evolution, Primates, Social Learning, Acoustic Communication, Avian Vocal Communication, Birdsong 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 21 words, with their numbers
  1. Social Behavior1792 topics
  2. Evolution1471 topic
  3. Primates1471 topic
  4. Social Learning1202 topics
  5. Acoustic Communication1082 topics
  6. Avian Vocal Communication981 topic
  7. Birdsong981 topic
  8. Evolutionary Dynamics942 topics
  9. Social Cognition732 topics
  10. Natural Selection721 topic
  11. Phenotypic Plasticity721 topic
  12. Evolutionary Psychology401 topic
  13. Human Behavior401 topic
  14. Child Development331 topic
  15. Theory of Mind331 topic
  16. Neurobiology321 topic
  17. Oxytocin321 topic
  18. Cultural Evolution221 topic
  19. Language221 topic
  20. Anthropogenic Noise101 topic
  21. Marine Mammals101 topic

Where does Dorothy L. Cheney work?

Dorothy L. Cheney's main affiliation in the publication record is University of Pennsylvania, United States.

How many publications and citations does Dorothy L. Cheney have?

OpenAlex counts 211 works and 29,533 citations for Dorothy L. Cheney, an h-index of 95, ranking #5,244 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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