Most cited papers in Animal Vocal Communication and Behavior
What are the most cited papers in Animal Vocal Communication and Behavior?
The most cited paper in Animal Vocal Communication and Behavior is "BORIS : a free, versatile open‐source event‐logging software for video/audio coding and live observations" (Olivier Friard, Marco Gamba, 2016), with 3,591 citations. Next come "The motor theory of speech perception revised" (2,864) and "Natural language and natural selection" (2,478).
Showing 50 of 100 papers. Every paper with more than 730 citations is listed.
| # | Paper | ||
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | BORIS : a free, versatile open‐source event‐logging software for video/audio coding and live observations Olivier Friard, Marco Gamba · Methods in Ecology and Evolution | 4 May 2016 | 3,591 |
| 2 | The motor theory of speech perception revised Alvin M. Liberman, Ignatius G. Mattingly · Cognition | Oct 1985 | 2,864 |
| 3 | Natural language and natural selection Steven A. Pinker, Paul Bloom · Behavioral and Brain Sciences | Dec 1990 | 2,478 |
| 4 | Cultures in chimpanzees Andrew Whiten, J. R. Goodall, William C. McGrew et al. · Nature | Jun 1999 | 2,351 |
| 5 | The bottlenose dolphin community of Doubtful Sound features a large proportion of long-lasting associations David Lusseau, Karsten Schneider, Oliver J. Boisseau et al. · Behavioral Ecology and Sociobiology | Sep 2003 | 2,310 |
| 6 | Scalar expectancy theory and Weber's law in animal timing. John Gibbon · Psychological Review | May 1977 | 2,188 |
| 7 | An Ecological Model of Female-Bonded Primate Groups Richard W. Wrangham · Behaviour | 1980 | 1,991 |
| 8 | Evoked Mechanical Responses of Isolated Cochlear Outer Hair Cells William E. Brownell, Charles R. Bader, Daniel Bertrand et al. · Science | 11 Jan 1985 | 1,849 |
| 9 | Communication of emotions in vocal expression and music performance: Different channels, same code? Patrik N. Juslin, Petri Laukka · Psychological Bulletin | 2003 | 1,835 |
| 10 | The CMA Evolution Strategy: A Comparing Review Nikolaus Hansen · Studies in fuzziness and soft computing | 18 Jun 2007 | 1,814 |
| 11 | Vocal affect expression: A review and a model for future research. Klaus R. Scherer · Psychological Bulletin | 1986 | 1,682 |
| 12 | BIRDSONG AND HUMAN SPEECH: Common Themes and Mechanisms Allison J. Doupe, Patricia K. Kuhl · Annual Review of Neuroscience | Mar 1999 | 1,680 |
| 13 | Central control of song in the canary, Serinus canarius Fernando Nottebohm, Tegner M. Stokes, Christiana M. Leonard · The Journal of Comparative Neurology | 15 Feb 1976 | 1,675 |
| 14 | Biological Bases of Childhood Shyness Jerome Kagan, J. Steven Reznick, Nancy C. Snidman · Science | 8 Apr 1988 | 1,592 |
| 15 | Evolution in the Social Brain Robin Dunbar, Susanne Shultz · Science | 7 Sep 2007 | 1,566 |
| 16 | AUTO‐SHAPING OF THE PIGEON'S KEY‐PECK1 Paul Brown, Herbert M. Jenkins · Journal of the Experimental Analysis of Behavior | 1968 | 1,552 |
| 17 | Acoustic profiles in vocal emotion expression. Rainer Banse, Klaus R. Scherer · Journal of Personality and Social Psychology | 1996 | 1,535 |
| 18 | Sexual Differentiation of the Central Nervous System Neil James MacLusky, Frederick Nicholas Naftolin · Science | 20 Mar 1981 | 1,484 |
| 19 | Monkey Responses to Three Different Alarm Calls: Evidence of Predator Classification and Semantic Communication Robert M. Seyfarth, Dorothy L. Cheney, Peter Marler · Science | 14 Nov 1980 | 1,477 |
| 20 | ESC Karol J. Piczak | 13 Oct 2015 | 1,415 |
| 21 | Auditory Scene Analysis Albert S. Bregman · Elsevier eBooks | 2008 | 1,410 |
| 22 | Deep Convolutional Neural Networks and Data Augmentation for Environmental Sound Classification Justin Salamon, Juan Pablo Bello · IEEE Signal Processing Letters | 23 Jan 2017 | 1,357 |
| 23 | Evidence for a morphological sex difference within the medial preoptic area of the rat brain Roger A. Gorski, J.H. Gordon, James E. Shryne et al. · Brain Research | Jun 1978 | 1,249 |
| 24 | How animals communicate Charles T. Snowdon · Animal Behaviour | Nov 1978 | 1,243 |
| 25 | The Mentality of Crows: Convergent Evolution of Intelligence in Corvids and Apes Nathan J. Emery, Nicola Susan Clayton · Science | 10 Dec 2004 | 1,222 |
| 26 | Perceived Predation Risk Reduces the Number of Offspring Songbirds Produce per Year Liana Zanette, Aija F. White, Marek C. Allen et al. · Science | 8 Dec 2011 | 1,188 |
| 27 | Revised nomenclature for avian telencephalon and some related brainstem nuclei Anton J. Reiner et al. · The Journal of Comparative Neurology | 22 Apr 2004 | 1,163 |
| 28 | Towards a functional neuroanatomy of speech perception Gregory Hickok, Gregory Hickok, David Poeppel · Trends in Cognitive Sciences | Apr 2000 | 1,160 |
| 29 | Vervet monkey alarm calls: Semantic communication in a free-ranging primate Robert M. Seyfarth, Dorothy L. Cheney, Peter Marler · Animal Behaviour | Nov 1980 | 1,142 |
| 30 | Physical constraints on acoustic communication in the atmosphere: Implications for the evolution of animal vocalizations R. Haven Wiley, Douglas G. Richards · Behavioral Ecology and Sociobiology | 1978 | 1,127 |
| 31 | Sexual Dimorphism in Vocal Control Areas of the Songbird Brain Fernando Nottebohm, Arthur P. Arnold · Science | 8 Oct 1976 | 1,124 |
| 32 | Recognizing friends by their walk: Gait perception without familiarity cues James E. Cutting, Lynn T. Kozlowski · Bulletin of the Psychonomic Society | May 1977 | 1,095 |
| 33 | Do chimpanzees know what conspecifics know? Brian A. Hare, Josep Call, Michael Tomasello · Animal Behaviour | 2001 | 1,094 |
| 34 | Hierarchical group dynamics in pigeon flocks Máté Nagy, Zsuzsa Ákos, Dora Biro et al. · Nature | 7 Apr 2010 | 1,092 |
| 35 | Neural Basis of Rhythmic Behavior in Animals Fred Delcomyn · Science | 31 Oct 1980 | 1,089 |
| 36 | Chimpanzees know what conspecifics do and do not see Hare Brian, Josep Call, Bryan Agnetta et al. · Animal Behaviour | Apr 2000 | 1,079 |
| 37 | The Social Brain: Mind, Language, and Society in Evolutionary Perspective Robin Dunbar · Annual Review of Anthropology | Oct 2003 | 1,074 |
| 38 | Birds sing at a higher pitch in urban noise Hans Slabbekoorn, Margriet Peet · Nature | 16 Jul 2003 | 1,041 |
| 39 | Why Are Diurnal Primates Living in Groups? Carel P. van Schaik · Behaviour | 1983 | 1,031 |
| 40 | Photoperiodic Control of Seasonality in Birds Alistair Dawson, Verdun M. King, George E. Bentley et al. · Journal of Biological Rhythms | Aug 2001 | 1,028 |
| 41 | Receiver psychology and the evolution of animal signals Tim Guilford, Marian Stamp Dawkins · Animal Behaviour | Jul 1991 | 1,027 |
| 42 | The cost of honesty Amotz Avishag Zahavi · Journal of Theoretical Biology | Aug 1977 | 1,017 |
| 43 | The costs of chronic noise exposure for terrestrial organisms Jesse R. Barber, Kevin R. Crooks, Kurt M. Fristrup · Trends in Ecology & Evolution | 16 Sep 2009 | 1,015 |
| 44 | Avian brains and a new understanding of vertebrate brain evolution Erich D. Jarvis et al. · Nature reviews. Neuroscience | Feb 2005 | 999 |
| 45 | Culture in whales and dolphins Luke E. Rendell, Hal Whitehead · Behavioral and Brain Sciences | Apr 2001 | 997 |
| 46 | Mechanisms of Sound Localization in Mammals Benedikt Grothe, Michael Pecka, David McAlpine · Physiological Reviews | Jul 2010 | 993 |
| 47 | Neuronal production, migration, and differentiation in a vocal control nucleus of the adult female canary brain. Steven A. Goldman, Fernando Nottebohm · Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences | Apr 1983 | 992 |
| 48 | Generative Model for the Inverse Design of Metasurfaces Zhaocheng Liu, Dayu Zhu, Sean P. Rodrigues et al. · Nano Letters | 12 Sep 2018 | 989 |
| 49 | Acoustic Communication in Noise Henrik Brumm, Hans Slabbekoorn · Advances in the study of behavior | 2005 | 987 |
| 50 | Behavioural responses of wildlife to urban environments Hélène Lowry, Alan Lill, Bob B. M. Wong · Biological reviews/Biological reviews of the Cambridge Philosophical Society | 24 Dec 2012 | 982 |
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