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Robert Boyd

Active 1982–2021

59
Papers
36,234
Citations
53
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Citations

Citations per year for Robert Boyd1912: 1 citations1959: 1 citations1978: 1 citations1980: 1 citations1986: 4 citations1987: 5 citations1988: 14 citations1989: 24 citations1990: 21 citations1991: 26 citations1992: 27 citations1993: 22 citations1994: 24 citations1995: 25 citations1996: 33 citations1997: 25 citations1998: 28 citations1999: 35 citations2000: 67 citations2001: 71 citations2002: 110 citations2003: 182 citations2004: 180 citations2005: 204 citations2006: 256 citations2007: 242 citations2008: 223 citations2009: 220 citations2010: 336 citations2011: 317 citations2012: 294 citations2013: 284 citations2014: 311 citations2015: 276 citations2016: 197 citations2017: 199 citations2018: 221 citations2019: 341 citations2020: 365 citations2021: 282 citations2022: 255 citations2023: 187 citations2024: 202 citations2025: 121 citations2026: 24 citations2027: 2 citations1913–1958: no citations, so these years are not shown1960–1977: no citations, so these years are not shown1979: no citations, so this year is not shown1981–1985: no citations, so these years are not shown

Citation sources

Countries

World map of the countries and regions citing this authorUnited States: 1,730 citing papers, 28.5% of this breakdownUnited Kingdom: 805 citing papers, 13.3% of this breakdownGermany: 432 citing papers, 7.1% of this breakdownCanada: 317 citing papers, 5.2% of this breakdownChina: 301 citing papers, 5% of this breakdownNetherlands: 205 citing papers, 3.4% of this breakdownSwitzerland: 182 citing papers, 3% of this breakdownJapan: 179 citing papers, 2.9% of this breakdownItaly: 177 citing papers, 2.9% of this breakdownAustralia: 168 citing papers, 2.8% of this breakdownFrance: 155 citing papers, 2.6% of this breakdownAustria: 132 citing papers, 2.2% of this breakdown
0%28.5%Other 21.1%

Institutions

Fields

  • Social Sciences49.5%
  • Psychology13.3%
  • Neuroscience8.2%
  • Computer Science5.4%
  • Biochemistry, Genetics and Molecular Biology4.5%
  • Agricultural and Biological Sciences2.7%
  • Other16.4%

Topics

  • Evolutionary Game Theory and Cooperation14.8%
  • Experimental Behavioral Economics Studies8%
  • Psychology of Moral and Emotional Judgment4.6%
  • Evolutionary Psychology and Human Behavior4%
  • Language and cultural evolution4%
  • Evolution and Genetic Dynamics3.7%
  • Other60.9%

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  1. Culture and the Evolutionary Process

    Authors: James R. Griesemer, Robert Boyd, Peter J. Richerson - Ornithological Applications 1986 cited by 7,218

  2. The cultural niche: Why social learning is essential for human adaptation

    Authors: Robert Boyd, Peter J. Richerson, Joseph Henrich - National Academy of Sciences, Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences 2011 cited by 1,314

  3. Culture and the evolution of human cooperation

    Authors: Robert Boyd, Peter J. Richerson - Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society B Biological Sciences 2009 cited by 1,046

  4. Punishment allows the evolution of cooperation (or anything else) in sizable groups

    Authors: Robert Boyd, Peter J. Richerson - Ethology and Sociobiology 1992 cited by 1,490

  5. The evolution of altruistic punishment

    Authors: Robert Boyd, Herbert Gintis, Samuel Bowles, Peter J. Richerson - National Academy of Sciences, Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences 2003 cited by 1,757

  6. Why Copy Others? Insights from the Social Learning Strategies Tournament

    Authors: Luke Rendell, Robert Boyd, Daniel Cownden, Magnus Enquist, Kimmo Eriksson, Marcus W. Feldman, Laurel Fogarty, Stefano Ghirlanda, Timothy Lillicrap, Kevin N. Laland - Science 2010 cited by 836

  7. “Economic man” in cross-cultural perspective: Behavioral experiments in 15 small-scale societies

    Authors: Joseph Henrich, Robert Boyd, Samuel Bowles, Colin F. Camerer, Ernst Fehr, Herbert Gintis, Richard McElreath, Michael Alvard, Abigail Barr, Jean Ensminger, Natalie Henrich, Kim Hill, Francisco Gil-White, Michael Gurven, Frank W. Marlowe, John Q. Patton, David P. Tracer - Behavioral and Brain Sciences 2005 cited by 1,924

  8. Indirect reciprocity can stabilize cooperation without the second-order free rider problem

    Authors: Karthik Panchanathan, Robert Boyd - Nature 2004 cited by 881

  9. In Search of Homo Economicus: Behavioral Experiments in 15 Small-Scale Societies

    Authors: Joseph Henrich, Robert Boyd, Samuel Bowles, Colin Camerer, Ernst Fehr, Herbert Gintis, Richard McElreath - American Economic Review 2001 cited by 2,612

  10. Coordinated Punishment of Defectors Sustains Cooperation and Can Proliferate When Rare

    Authors: Robert Boyd, Herbert Gintis, Samuel Bowles - Science 2010 cited by 629

  11. The Evolution of Conformist Transmission and the Emergence of Between-Group Differences

    Authors: Joe Henrich, Robert Boyd - Evolution and Human Behavior 1998 cited by 1,245

  12. Why Culture Is Common, but Cultural Evolution Is Rare

    Authors: Robert Boyd, Peter J. Richerson - The Origin and Evolution of Cultures 2005 cited by 620

  13. The evolution of indirect reciprocity

    Authors: Robert Boyd, Peter J. Richerson - Social Networks 1989 cited by 409

  14. A tale of two defectors: the importance of standing for evolution of indirect reciprocity

    Authors: Karthik Panchanathan, Robert Boyd - Journal of Theoretical Biology 2003 cited by 394

  15. Partial connectivity increases cultural accumulation within groups

    Authors: Maxime Derex, Robert Boyd - National Academy of Sciences, Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences 2016 cited by 313

  16. Punishment sustains large-scale cooperation in prestate warfare

    Authors: Sarah Mathew, Robert Boyd - National Academy of Sciences, Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences 2011 cited by 377

  17. Explaining altruistic behavior in humans

    Authors: Herbert Gintis, Samuel Bowles, Robert Boyd, Ernst Fehr - Evolution and Human Behavior 2003 cited by 1,039

  18. Why People Punish Defectors

    Authors: Joseph Henrich, Robert Boyd - Journal of Theoretical Biology 2001 cited by 815

  19. The evolution of reciprocity in sizable groups

    Authors: Robert Boyd, Peter J. Richerson - Journal of Theoretical Biology 1988 cited by 722

  20. Gene-culture coevolution in the age of genomics

    Authors: Peter J. Richerson, Robert Boyd, Joseph Henrich - National Academy of Sciences, Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences 2010 cited by 388

  21. Bioconjugation and characterisation of gold colloid-labelled proteins

    Authors: Smita Thobhani, Simon Attree, Robert Boyd, Neelam Kumarswami, James E. Noble, Mateusz Szymański, R. Porter - Journal of Immunological Methods 2010 cited by 159

  22. Shared Norms and the Evolution of Ethnic Markers

    Authors: Richard McElreath, Robert Boyd, Peter J. Richerson - Current Anthropology 2003 cited by 557

  23. Population size predicts technological complexity in Oceania

    Authors: Michelle A. Kline, Robert Boyd - Royal Society B Biological Sciences, Proceedings of the Royal Society B Biological Sciences 2010 cited by 329

  24. No pure strategy is evolutionarily stable in the repeated Prisoner's Dilemma game

    Authors: Robert Boyd, Jeffrey P. Lorberbaum - Nature 1987 cited by 431