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Researcher · University of St Andrews · United Kingdom

Kevin N. Laland

Kevin N. Laland publishes mostly in Sociology and Political Science, Ecology, Evolution, Behavior and Systematics and Cultural Studies, on topics such as Evolutionary Game Theory and Cooperation, Language and cultural evolution and Animal Behavior and Reproduction.

ORCID 0000-0002-2457-0900 OpenAlex
World rank
#1,090
of 7,710,434 ranked researchers
Rank in United Kingdom
#85
of 367,258
Works
436
Citations
45k
Citations per work
103.7
h-index
105
i10-index 236Top 0.1% in Sociology and Political Science
Kevin N. Laland

What does Kevin N. Laland research?

Kevin N. Laland's work is mostly in Social Sciences (29%), Agricultural and Biological Sciences (12%), Psychology (10%).

Social Sciences: 190 works · 43.5% of their workSocial Sciences: 126 works · 28.9% of their workSociology and Political Science: 75 works · 17.3% of their workCultural Studies: 51 works · 11.6% of their workPsychology: 42 works · 9.7% of their workSocial Psychology: 42 works · 9.7% of their workArts and Humanities: 21 works · 4.9% of their workHistory and Philosophy of Science: 21 works · 4.9% of their workEverything else: 162 works · 37.1% of their workLife Sciences: 85 works · 19.4% of their workAgricultural and Biological Sciences: 51 works · 11.7% of their workEcology, Evolution, Behavior and Systematics: 51 works · 11.7% of their workBiochemistry, Genetics and Molecular Biology: 34 works · 7.7% of their workGenetics: 34 works · 7.7% of their workTHEIR WORKKevin N. Laland436works
Life Sciences19%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. Social Sciences12628.9%
    2. Psychology429.7%
    3. Arts and Humanities214.9%
  2. Everything else16237.1%
    1. Agricultural and Biological Sciences5111.7%
    2. Biochemistry, Genetics and Molecular Biology347.7%
  1. 1Sociology and Political Science17% of their works
  2. 2Ecology, Evolution, Behavior and Systematics12% of their works
  3. 3Cultural Studies12% of their works
  4. 4Social Psychology10% of their works
  5. 5Genetics8% of their works
  6. 6History and Philosophy of Science5% of their works

Research topics

Which keywords describe Kevin N. Laland's research?

The keywords of their largest research topics: Cultural Evolution, Altruism, Cooperation, Evolutionary Dynamics, Evolutionary Games, Social Networks, Social Learning and Natural Selection.

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 24 words, with their numbers
  1. Cultural Evolution2702 topics
  2. Altruism2202 topics
  3. Cooperation2202 topics
  4. Evolutionary Dynamics2062 topics
  5. Evolutionary Games1581 topic
  6. Social Networks1581 topic
  7. Social Learning1442 topics
  8. Natural Selection1372 topics
  9. Language1121 topic
  10. Phylogenetics1121 topic
  11. Evolution1052 topics
  12. Behavioral Syndromes941 topic
  13. Phenotypic Plasticity941 topic
  14. Adaptation742 topics
  15. Primates621 topic
  16. Social Behavior621 topic
  17. Genetic Dynamics431 topic
  18. Mutation431 topic
  19. Avian Vocal Communication321 topic
  20. Birdsong321 topic
  21. Evolutionary Psychology311 topic
  22. Human Behavior311 topic
  23. Evolutionary Synthesis231 topic
  24. Mechanistic Explanation231 topic

Where does Kevin N. Laland work?

Kevin N. Laland's main affiliation in the publication record is University of St Andrews, United Kingdom.

How many publications and citations does Kevin N. Laland have?

OpenAlex counts 436 works and 45,229 citations for Kevin N. Laland, an h-index of 105, ranking #1,090 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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