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Researcher · University of Zurich · Switzerland

Simon William Townsend

Simon William Townsend publishes mostly in Developmental Biology, Social Psychology and Ecology, Evolution, Behavior and Systematics, on topics such as Animal Vocal Communication and Behavior, Primate Behavior and Ecology and Animal Behavior and Reproduction.

ORCID 0000-0003-1504-1801 OpenAlex
World rank
#95,527
of 7,710,434 ranked researchers
Rank in Switzerland
#2,026
of 80,918
Works
104
Citations
4.3k
Citations per work
40.9
h-index
35
i10-index 60Top 11% in Developmental Biology
Simon William Townsend

What does Simon William Townsend research?

Simon William Townsend's work is mostly in Biochemistry, Genetics and Molecular Biology (28%), Psychology (23%), Agricultural and Biological Sciences (12%).

Life Sciences: 41 works · 39.2% of their workBiochemistry, Genetics and Molecular Biology: 29 works · 27.6% of their workDevelopmental Biology: 29 works · 27.6% of their workAgricultural and Biological Sciences: 12 works · 11.6% of their workEcology, Evolution, Behavior and Systematics: 12 works · 11.6% of their workSocial Sciences: 32 works · 30.5% of their workPsychology: 24 works · 22.7% of their workSocial Psychology: 15 works · 14.9% of their workDevelopmental and Educational Psychology: 8 works · 7.8% of their workSocial Sciences: 8 works · 7.8% of their workCultural Studies: 8 works · 7.8% of their workEverything else: 23 works · 22.1% of their workPhysical Sciences: 9 works · 8.2% of their workEnvironmental Science: 9 works · 8.2% of their workEcology: 9 works · 8.2% of their workTHEIR WORKSimon WilliamTownsend104works
Life Sciences39%Physical Sciences8%Social Sciences30%

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. Biochemistry, Genetics and Molecular Biology2927.6%
    2. Agricultural and Biological Sciences1211.6%
    1. Psychology2422.7%
    2. Social Sciences87.8%
  3. Everything else2322.1%
    1. Environmental Science98.2%
  1. 1Developmental Biology28% of their works
  2. 2Social Psychology15% of their works
  3. 3Ecology, Evolution, Behavior and Systematics12% of their works
  4. 4Ecology8% of their works
  5. 5Developmental and Educational Psychology8% of their works
  6. 6Cultural Studies8% of their works

Research topics

Which keywords describe Simon William Townsend's research?

The keywords of their largest research topics: Social Learning, Acoustic Communication, Avian Vocal Communication, Birdsong, Evolutionary Dynamics, Primates, Social Behavior and Natural Selection.

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. Social Learning952 topics
  2. Acoustic Communication912 topics
  3. Avian Vocal Communication741 topic
  4. Birdsong741 topic
  5. Evolutionary Dynamics502 topics
  6. Primates351 topic
  7. Social Behavior351 topic
  8. Natural Selection291 topic
  9. Phenotypic Plasticity291 topic
  10. Cultural Evolution211 topic
  11. Language211 topic
  12. Anthropogenic Noise171 topic
  13. Marine Mammals171 topic
  14. Child Development141 topic
  15. Theory of Mind141 topic
  16. Colic61 topic
  17. Infant Crying61 topic
  18. Language Change51 topic
  19. Sociolinguistic Variation51 topic

Where does Simon William Townsend work?

Simon William Townsend's main affiliation in the publication record is University of Zurich, Switzerland.

How many publications and citations does Simon William Townsend have?

OpenAlex counts 104 works and 4,253 citations for Simon William Townsend, an h-index of 35, ranking #95,527 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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