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?
Shares of their own output, by the field each of their topics belongs to. The grey slice is everything not listed.
- 1Social Psychology22% of their works
- 2Sociology and Political Science13% of their works
- 3Experimental and Cognitive Psychology10% of their works
- 4Statistical and Nonlinear Physics9% of their works
- 5Ecology, Evolution, Behavior and Systematics8% of their works
- 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.
- Language
- Community Structure
- Oxytocin
- Neurobiology
- Bounded Confidence
- Human Behavior
- Evolutionary Games
- Social Influence
- Primates
- Cultural Evolution
- Cooperation
- Altruism
- Social Behavior
- Evolution
- Network Dynamics
- Evolutionary Dynamics
- Evolutionary Psychology
- Social Networks
- Natural Selection
- Opinion Dynamics
- Phenotypic Plasticity
- Scale-Free Networks
- Social Learning
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
- Altruism262 topics
- Cooperation262 topics
- Social Behavior232 topics
- Cultural Evolution162 topics
- Evolution151 topic
- Primates151 topic
- Network Dynamics142 topics
- Social Influence142 topics
- Evolutionary Dynamics132 topics
- Evolutionary Games111 topic
- Evolutionary Psychology111 topic
- Human Behavior111 topic
- Social Networks111 topic
- Bounded Confidence81 topic
- Natural Selection81 topic
- Neurobiology81 topic
- Opinion Dynamics81 topic
- Oxytocin81 topic
- Phenotypic Plasticity81 topic
- Community Structure61 topic
- Scale-Free Networks61 topic
- Language51 topic
- 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.
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