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Researcher · University of Oxford · United Kingdom

Robin Dunbar

Robin Dunbar publishes mostly in Social Psychology, Sociology and Political Science and Experimental and Cognitive Psychology, on topics such as Primate Behavior and Ecology, Evolutionary Psychology and Human Behavior and Evolutionary Game Theory and Cooperation.

ORCID 0000-0002-9982-9702 OpenAlex
World rank
#4,180
of 7,710,434 ranked researchers
Rank in United Kingdom
#258
of 367,258
Works
842
Citations
69k
Citations per work
81.4
h-index
133
i10-index 469Top 0.1% in Social Psychology
Robin Dunbar

What does Robin Dunbar research?

Robin Dunbar's work is mostly in Psychology (32%), Social Sciences (12%), Agricultural and Biological Sciences (6%).

Social Sciences: 370 works · 43.9% of their workPsychology: 269 works · 31.9% of their workSocial Psychology: 189 works · 22.4% of their workExperimental and Cognitive Psychology: 80 works · 9.5% of their workSocial Sciences: 101 works · 12.0% of their workSociology and Political Science: 101 works · 12.0% of their workEverything else: 333 works · 39.6% of their workLife Sciences: 96 works · 11.4% of their workAgricultural and Biological Sciences: 54 works · 6.4% of their workEcology, Evolution, Behavior and Systematics: 54 works · 6.4% of their workNeuroscience: 42 works · 5.0% of their workCognitive Neuroscience: 42 works · 5.0% of their workPhysical Sciences: 43 works · 5.1% of their workPhysics and Astronomy: 43 works · 5.1% of their workStatistical and Nonlinear Physics: 43 works · 5.1% of their workTHEIR WORKRobin Dunbar842works
Life Sciences11%Physical Sciences5%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. Psychology26931.9%
    2. Social Sciences10112.0%
  2. Everything else33339.6%
    1. Agricultural and Biological Sciences546.4%
    2. Neuroscience425.0%
    1. Physics and Astronomy435.1%
  1. 1Social Psychology22% of their works
  2. 2Sociology and Political Science12% of their works
  3. 3Experimental and Cognitive Psychology10% of their works
  4. 4Ecology, Evolution, Behavior and Systematics6% of their works
  5. 5Statistical and Nonlinear Physics5% of their works
  6. 6Cognitive Neuroscience5% of their works

Research topics

Which keywords describe Robin Dunbar's research?

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

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 22 words, with their numbers
  1. Altruism3942 topics
  2. Cooperation3942 topics
  3. Social Behavior3342 topics
  4. Evolution2441 topic
  5. Primates2441 topic
  6. Cultural Evolution2052 topics
  7. Evolutionary Dynamics1562 topics
  8. Evolutionary Psychology1511 topic
  9. Human Behavior1511 topic
  10. Evolutionary Games1501 topic
  11. Social Networks1501 topic
  12. Social Learning1282 topics
  13. Natural Selection1011 topic
  14. Phenotypic Plasticity1011 topic
  15. Neurobiology901 topic
  16. Oxytocin901 topic
  17. Avian Vocal Communication731 topic
  18. Birdsong731 topic
  19. Language551 topic
  20. Opinion Dynamics551 topic
  21. Phylogenetics551 topic
  22. Social Influence551 topic

Where does Robin Dunbar work?

Robin Dunbar's main affiliation in the publication record is University of Oxford, United Kingdom.

How many publications and citations does Robin Dunbar have?

OpenAlex counts 842 works and 68,571 citations for Robin Dunbar, an h-index of 133, ranking #4,180 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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