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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.

World rank
#42,499
of 1,633,909 ranked researchers
Rank in United Kingdom
#4,009
of 90,785
Works
156
Citations
1.2k
Citations per work
7.6

What does Robin Dunbar research?

Social Psychology: 21.5%Sociology and Political Science: 12.7%Experimental and Cognitive Psychology: 10.1%Statistical and Nonlinear Physics: 8.9%other fields: 46.8%22%top field
Social Psychology21.5%Sociology and Political Science12.7%Experimental and Cognitive Psychology10.1%Statistical and Nonlinear Physics8.9%other fields46.8%

Shares of their own output, by the field each of their topics belongs to. The grey slice is everything not listed.

  1. 1Social Psychology22% of their works
  2. 2Sociology and Political Science13% of their works
  3. 3Experimental and Cognitive Psychology10% of their works
  4. 4Statistical and Nonlinear Physics9% of their works
  5. 5Ecology, Evolution, Behavior and Systematics8% of their works
  6. 6Cultural Studies4% of their works

Research topics

Which keywords describe Robin Dunbar's research?

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

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.

All 23 words, with their numbers
  1. Altruism262 topics
  2. Cooperation262 topics
  3. Social Behavior232 topics
  4. Cultural Evolution162 topics
  5. Evolution151 topic
  6. Primates151 topic
  7. Network Dynamics142 topics
  8. Social Influence142 topics
  9. Evolutionary Dynamics132 topics
  10. Evolutionary Games111 topic
  11. Evolutionary Psychology111 topic
  12. Human Behavior111 topic
  13. Social Networks111 topic
  14. Bounded Confidence81 topic
  15. Natural Selection81 topic
  16. Neurobiology81 topic
  17. Opinion Dynamics81 topic
  18. Oxytocin81 topic
  19. Phenotypic Plasticity81 topic
  20. Community Structure61 topic
  21. Scale-Free Networks61 topic
  22. Language51 topic
  23. Social Learning51 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?

Science Explorer counts 156 works and 1,178 citations for Robin Dunbar, ranking #42,499 of 1,633,909 researchers worldwide on the composite score.

Ranked on field-normalised 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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