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Researcher · Indianapolis Zoo · United States

Robert W. Shumaker

Robert W. Shumaker publishes mostly in Social Psychology, Developmental and Educational Psychology and Developmental Biology, on topics such as Primate Behavior and Ecology, Child and Animal Learning Development and Animal Vocal Communication and Behavior.

OpenAlex
World rank
#1,407,961
of 7,710,434 ranked researchers
Rank in United States
#444,444
of 1,627,098
Works
38
Citations
2k
Citations per work
51.6
h-index
20
i10-index 26Top 17% in Social Psychology
Robert W. Shumaker

What does Robert W. Shumaker research?

Robert W. Shumaker's work is mostly in Psychology (42%), Environmental Science (10%), Biochemistry, Genetics and Molecular Biology (7%).

Social Sciences: 16 works · 42.1% of their workPsychology: 16 works · 42.1% of their workSocial Psychology: 12 works · 31.6% of their workDevelopmental and Educational Psychology: 4 works · 10.5% of their workEverything else: 13 works · 33.7% of their workLife Sciences: 5 works · 13.7% of their workBiochemistry, Genetics and Molecular Biology: 3 works · 7.4% of their workDevelopmental Biology: 3 works · 7.4% of their workNeuroscience: 2 works · 6.3% of their workCognitive Neuroscience: 2 works · 6.3% of their workPhysical Sciences: 4 works · 10.5% of their workEnvironmental Science: 4 works · 10.5% of their workEcology: 2 works · 6.3% of their workManagement, Monitoring, Policy and Law: 2 works · 4.2% of their workTHEIR WORKRobert W.Shumaker38works
Life Sciences14%Physical Sciences10%Social Sciences42%

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. Psychology1642.1%
  2. Everything else1333.7%
    1. Biochemistry, Genetics and Molecular Biology37.4%
    2. Neuroscience26.3%
    1. Environmental Science410.5%
  1. 1Social Psychology32% of their works
  2. 2Developmental and Educational Psychology10% of their works
  3. 3Developmental Biology7% of their works
  4. 4Ecology6% of their works
  5. 5Cognitive Neuroscience6% of their works
  6. 6Management, Monitoring, Policy and Law4% of their works

Research topics

Which keywords describe Robert W. Shumaker's research?

The keywords of their largest research topics: Primates, Social Behavior, Social Cognition, Child Development, Social Learning, Theory of Mind, Avian Vocal Communication and Birdsong.

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. Primates261 topic
  2. Social Behavior261 topic
  3. Social Cognition142 topics
  4. Child Development101 topic
  5. Social Learning102 topics
  6. Theory of Mind101 topic
  7. Avian Vocal Communication71 topic
  8. Birdsong71 topic
  9. Memory52 topics
  10. Neurobiology52 topics
  11. Dog Domestication41 topic
  12. Genomic Analysis41 topic
  13. Cultural Evolution31 topic
  14. Hippocampus31 topic
  15. Language31 topic
  16. Navigation31 topic
  17. Camouflage21 topic
  18. Cephalopods21 topic
  19. Consolidation21 topic
  20. Sleep21 topic

Where does Robert W. Shumaker work?

Robert W. Shumaker's main affiliation in the publication record is Indianapolis Zoo, United States.

How many publications and citations does Robert W. Shumaker have?

OpenAlex counts 38 works and 1,962 citations for Robert W. Shumaker, an h-index of 20, ranking #1,407,961 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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