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Researcher · Harvard University · United States

Richard W. Wrangham

Richard W. Wrangham 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 0000-0003-0435-2209 OpenAlex
World rank
#4,551
of 7,710,434 ranked researchers
Rank in United States
#1,560
of 1,627,098
Works
438
Citations
44k
Citations per work
99.8
h-index
114
i10-index 291Top 0.1% in Social Psychology
Richard W. Wrangham

What does Richard W. Wrangham research?

Richard W. Wrangham's work is mostly in Psychology (34%), Agricultural and Biological Sciences (9%), Biochemistry, Genetics and Molecular Biology (7%).

Everything else: 170 works · 38.7% of their workSocial Sciences: 169 works · 38.6% of their workPsychology: 147 works · 33.5% of their workSocial Psychology: 118 works · 26.9% of their workExperimental and Cognitive Psychology: 29 works · 6.6% of their workSocial Sciences: 22 works · 5.1% of their workSociology and Political Science: 22 works · 5.1% of their workLife Sciences: 70 works · 15.9% of their workAgricultural and Biological Sciences: 40 works · 9.1% of their workEcology, Evolution, Behavior and Systematics: 40 works · 9.1% of their workBiochemistry, Genetics and Molecular Biology: 30 works · 6.8% of their workDevelopmental Biology: 30 works · 6.8% of their workPhysical Sciences: 30 works · 6.8% of their workEnvironmental Science: 30 works · 6.8% of their workEcology: 30 works · 6.8% of their workTHEIR WORKRichard W.Wrangham438works
Life Sciences16%Physical Sciences7%Social Sciences39%

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 else17038.7%
    1. Psychology14733.5%
    2. Social Sciences225.1%
    1. Agricultural and Biological Sciences409.1%
    2. Biochemistry, Genetics and Molecular Biology306.8%
    1. Environmental Science306.8%
  1. 1Social Psychology27% of their works
  2. 2Ecology, Evolution, Behavior and Systematics9% of their works
  3. 3Developmental Biology7% of their works
  4. 4Ecology7% of their works
  5. 5Experimental and Cognitive Psychology7% of their works
  6. 6Sociology and Political Science5% of their works

Research topics

Which keywords describe Richard W. Wrangham's research?

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

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. Altruism3022 topics
  2. Cooperation3022 topics
  3. Primates2621 topic
  4. Social Behavior2621 topic
  5. Social Cognition1453 topics
  6. Natural Selection851 topic
  7. Phenotypic Plasticity851 topic
  8. Avian Vocal Communication761 topic
  9. Birdsong761 topic
  10. Evolutionary Psychology721 topic
  11. Human Behavior721 topic
  12. Animal Movement551 topic
  13. Occupancy Rates551 topic
  14. Child Development411 topic
  15. Theory of Mind411 topic
  16. Evolutionary Games401 topic
  17. Social Networks401 topic
  18. Dog Domestication321 topic
  19. Genomic Analysis321 topic

Where does Richard W. Wrangham work?

Richard W. Wrangham's main affiliation in the publication record is Harvard University, United States.

How many publications and citations does Richard W. Wrangham have?

OpenAlex counts 438 works and 43,732 citations for Richard W. Wrangham, an h-index of 114, ranking #4,551 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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