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Researcher · University of California, Los Angeles · United States

Joan B. Silk

Joan B. Silk publishes mostly in Social Psychology, Experimental and Cognitive Psychology and Ecology, Evolution, Behavior and Systematics, on topics such as Primate Behavior and Ecology, Evolutionary Psychology and Human Behavior and Animal Behavior and Reproduction.

ORCID 0000-0002-1286-707X OpenAlex
World rank
#22,073
of 7,710,434 ranked researchers
Rank in United States
#8,100
of 1,627,098
Works
201
Citations
18k
Citations per work
91.0
h-index
69
i10-index 141Top 0.7% in Social Psychology
Joan B. Silk

What does Joan B. Silk research?

Joan B. Silk's work is mostly in Psychology (48%), Agricultural and Biological Sciences (13%), Social Sciences (10%).

Social Sciences: 118 works · 58.5% of their workPsychology: 96 works · 48.0% of their workSocial Psychology: 68 works · 33.9% of their workExperimental and Cognitive Psychology: 28 works · 14.1% of their workSocial Sciences: 21 works · 10.5% of their workSociology and Political Science: 21 works · 10.5% of their workLife Sciences: 43 works · 21.3% of their workAgricultural and Biological Sciences: 27 works · 13.4% of their workEcology, Evolution, Behavior and Systematics: 27 works · 13.4% of their workBiochemistry, Genetics and Molecular Biology: 16 works · 7.9% of their workDevelopmental Biology: 16 works · 7.9% of their workEverything else: 37 works · 18.2% of their workPhysical Sciences: 4 works · 2.0% of their workEnvironmental Science: 4 works · 2.0% of their workEcology: 4 works · 2.0% of their workTHEIR WORKJoan B. Silk201works
Life Sciences21%Physical Sciences2%Social Sciences58%

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. Psychology9648.0%
    2. Social Sciences2110.5%
    1. Agricultural and Biological Sciences2713.4%
    2. Biochemistry, Genetics and Molecular Biology167.9%
  3. Everything else3718.2%
    1. Environmental Science42.0%
  1. 1Social Psychology34% of their works
  2. 2Experimental and Cognitive Psychology14% of their works
  3. 3Ecology, Evolution, Behavior and Systematics13% of their works
  4. 4Sociology and Political Science10% of their works
  5. 5Developmental Biology8% of their works
  6. 6Ecology2% of their works

Research topics

Which keywords describe Joan B. Silk's research?

The keywords of their largest research topics: Altruism, Cooperation, Social Behavior, Evolution, Primates, Social Cognition, Evolutionary Psychology and Human Behavior.

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. Altruism1892 topics
  2. Cooperation1892 topics
  3. Social Behavior1712 topics
  4. Evolution1401 topic
  5. Primates1401 topic
  6. Social Cognition862 topics
  7. Evolutionary Psychology761 topic
  8. Human Behavior761 topic
  9. Natural Selection701 topic
  10. Phenotypic Plasticity701 topic
  11. Evolutionary Games491 topic
  12. Social Networks491 topic
  13. Avian Vocal Communication431 topic
  14. Birdsong431 topic
  15. Neurobiology311 topic
  16. Oxytocin311 topic
  17. Sex Ratios111 topic
  18. Son Preference111 topic
  19. Child Development101 topic
  20. Theory of Mind101 topic

Where does Joan B. Silk work?

Joan B. Silk's main affiliation in the publication record is University of California, Los Angeles, United States.

How many publications and citations does Joan B. Silk have?

OpenAlex counts 201 works and 18,288 citations for Joan B. Silk, an h-index of 69, ranking #22,073 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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