Topic · Primate Behavior and Ecology
Most cited papers in Primate Behavior and Ecology
What are the most cited papers in Primate Behavior and Ecology?
The most cited paper in Primate Behavior and Ecology is "The Evolution of Cooperation" (Robert Axelrod, William D. O. Hamilton, 1981), with 20,368 citations. Next come "ape 5.0: an environment for modern phylogenetics and evolutionary analyses in R" (9,939) and "Does the chimpanzee have a theory of mind?" (8,737).
Showing 50 of 100 papers. Every paper with more than 900 citations is listed.
| # | Paper | ||
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | The Evolution of Cooperation Robert Axelrod, William D. O. Hamilton · Science | 27 Mar 1981 | 20,368 |
| 2 | ape 5.0: an environment for modern phylogenetics and evolutionary analyses in R Emmanuel Paradis, Klaus Peter Schliep · Bioinformatics | 14 Jul 2018 | 9,939 |
| 3 | Does the chimpanzee have a theory of mind? David Premack, Guy Woodruff · Behavioral and Brain Sciences | Dec 1978 | 8,737 |
| 4 | DeepLabCut: markerless pose estimation of user-defined body parts with deep learning Alexander Mathis, Pranav Mamidanna, Kevin M. Cury et al. · Nature Neuroscience | 10 Aug 2018 | 5,835 |
| 5 | Understanding and sharing intentions: The origins of cultural cognition Michael Tomasello, Malinda Carpenter, Josep Call et al. · Behavioral and Brain Sciences | Oct 2005 | 4,912 |
| 6 | Integrating animal temperament within ecology and evolution Denis Réale, Simon M. Reader, Daniel Sol et al. · Biological reviews/Biological reviews of the Cambridge Philosophical Society | 16 Apr 2007 | 3,650 |
| 7 | Measuring Behaviour. An Introductory Guide Marian Stamp Dawkins, Paul B. Martin, Patrick Bateson · Journal of Animal Ecology | Jul 1994 | 2,971 |
| 8 | The revolution that wasn't: a new interpretation of the origin of modern human behavior Sally McBrearty, Alison S. Brooks · Journal of Human Evolution | Nov 2000 | 2,725 |
| 9 | Cellular Scaling Rules for the Brains of Marsupials: Not as “Primitive” as Expected Sandra Esmeralda Dos Santos, Jairo Porfírio, Felipe Cunha et al. · Brain Behavior and Evolution | 2017 | 2,657 |
| 10 | Neocortex size as a constraint on group size in primates Robin Dunbar · Journal of Human Evolution | Jun 1992 | 2,554 |
| 11 | Coevolution of neocortical size, group size and language in humans Robin Dunbar · Behavioral and Brain Sciences | Dec 1993 | 2,378 |
| 12 | Cultures in chimpanzees Andrew Whiten, J. R. Goodall, William C. McGrew et al. · Nature | Jun 1999 | 2,351 |
| 13 | Costs and limits of phenotypic plasticity Thomas J. DeWitt, Andrew Sih, David Sloan Wilson · Trends in Ecology & Evolution | Feb 1998 | 2,345 |
| 14 | The Social Organisation of Antelope in Relation To Their Ecology P. J. Jarman · Behaviour | 1974 | 2,191 |
| 15 | The eyes have it: the neuroethology, function and evolution of social gaze Nathan J. Emery · Neuroscience & Biobehavioral Reviews | Aug 2000 | 2,075 |
| 16 | A theory of human life history evolution: Diet, intelligence, and longevity Hillard S Kaplan, Kim R. Hill, Jane B. Lancaster et al. · Evolutionary Anthropology Issues News and Reviews | 2000 | 2,067 |
| 17 | Behavioural ecology: An evolutionary approach H. Ronald Pulliam · Animal Behaviour | Nov 1979 | 1,999 |
| 18 | An Ecological Model of Female-Bonded Primate Groups Richard W. Wrangham · Behaviour | 1980 | 1,991 |
| 19 | The human brain in numbers: a linearly scaled-up primate brain Suzana Herculano‐Houzel · Frontiers in Human Neuroscience | 2009 | 1,802 |
| 20 | The Evolutionary Psychology of Facial Beauty Gillian Rhodes · Annual Review of Psychology | 12 Aug 2005 | 1,786 |
| 21 | Predicting extinction risk in declining species Andy Purvis, John L. Gittleman, Guy Cowlishaw et al. · Proceedings of the Royal Society B Biological Sciences | 7 Oct 2000 | 1,781 |
| 22 | Endurance running and the evolution of Homo Dennis M. Bramble, Daniel E. Lieberman · Nature | Nov 2004 | 1,758 |
| 23 | On the generality of the laws of learning. Martin E. P. Seligman · Psychological Review | Sep 1970 | 1,758 |
| 24 | Origin of HIV-1 in the chimpanzee Pan troglodytes troglodytes Feng Gao, Elizabeth Bailes, David L. Robertson et al. · Nature | 4 Feb 1999 | 1,753 |
| 25 | An Introduction to Behavioural Ecology Nick J. Royle · Animal Behaviour | 31 Jan 2013 | 1,629 |
| 26 | Species-specific defense reactions and avoidance learning. Robert C. Bolles · Psychological Review | 1970 | 1,626 |
| 27 | Does the chimpanzee have a theory of mind? 30 years later Josep Call, Michael Tomasello · Trends in Cognitive Sciences | 18 Apr 2008 | 1,606 |
| 28 | Humans Have Evolved Specialized Skills of Social Cognition: The Cultural Intelligence Hypothesis Esther Herrmann, Josep Call, María Victoria Hernández‐Lloreda et al. · Science | 7 Sep 2007 | 1,602 |
| 29 | Learning and Instinct in Animals J. S. Kennedy, William Homan Thorpe · Journal of Animal Ecology | Jun 1964 | 1,598 |
| 30 | Monkeys reject unequal pay Sarah Frances Brosnan, Frans Β. Μ. de Waal · Nature | Sep 2003 | 1,591 |
| 31 | Tests for emotionality in rats and mice: A review John E. Archer · Animal Behaviour | May 1973 | 1,590 |
| 32 | Evolution in the Social Brain Robin Dunbar, Susanne Shultz · Science | 7 Sep 2007 | 1,566 |
| 33 | The neurobiology of pair bonding Larry J. Young, Zuoxin Wang · Nature Neuroscience | 26 Sep 2004 | 1,553 |
| 34 | Past and future spread of the arbovirus vectors Aedes aegypti and Aedes albopictus Moritz U. G. Kraemer et al. · Nature Microbiology | 4 Mar 2019 | 1,535 |
| 35 | Estimating overlap of daily activity patterns from camera trap data M. S. Ridout, Matthew Linkie · Journal of Agricultural Biological and Environmental Statistics | Sep 2009 | 1,530 |
| 36 | Impending extinction crisis of the world’s primates: Why primates matter Alejandro Estrada et al. · Science Advances | 6 Jan 2017 | 1,497 |
| 37 | Episodic-like memory during cache recovery by scrub jays Nicola Susan Clayton, Anthony Dickinson · Nature | Sep 1998 | 1,484 |
| 38 | 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 |
| 39 | Review Lecture: Mammalian mating systems Timothy Hugh Clutton-Brock · Proceedings of the Royal Society B Biological Sciences | 22 May 1989 | 1,428 |
| 40 | The Origin of Man C. Owen Lovejoy · Science | 23 Jan 1981 | 1,400 |
| 41 | Attractive Faces Are Only Average Judith H. Langlois, Lori A. Roggman · Psychological Science | Mar 1990 | 1,334 |
| 42 | Body mass in comparative primatology Richard J. Smith, William L. Jungers · Journal of Human Evolution | Jun 1997 | 1,332 |
| 43 | Infanticide among animals: A review, classification, and examination of the implications for the reproductive strategies of females Sarah Blaffer Hrdy · Ethology and Sociobiology | Oct 1979 | 1,327 |
| 44 | Human neural systems for face recognition and social communication James V. Haxby, Elizabeth A. Hoffman, M. Ida Gobbini · Biological Psychiatry | 2002 | 1,309 |
| 45 | The evolution of female social relationships in nonhuman primates Elisabeth H. M. Sterck, David P. Watts, Carel P. van Schaik · Behavioral Ecology and Sociobiology | 20 Nov 1997 | 1,283 |
| 46 | 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 |
| 47 | Linked Regularities in the Development and Evolution of Mammalian Brains Barbara L. Finlay, Richard B. Darlington · Science | 16 Jun 1995 | 1,246 |
| 48 | Social reward requires coordinated activity of nucleus accumbens oxytocin and serotonin Gül Dölen, Ayeh Darvishzadeh, Kee Wui Huang et al. · Nature | Sep 2013 | 1,243 |
| 49 | AIDS as a Zoonosis: Scientific and Public Health Implications Beatrice H. Hahn, George M. Shaw, Kevin M. De et al. · Science | 28 Jan 2000 | 1,227 |
| 50 | The Mentality of Crows: Convergent Evolution of Intelligence in Corvids and Apes Nathan J. Emery, Nicola Susan Clayton · Science | 10 Dec 2004 | 1,222 |
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