Anja Widdig

4.3k total citations · 1 hit paper
97 papers, 2.9k citations indexed

About

Anja Widdig is a scholar working on Social Psychology, Ecology, Evolution, Behavior and Systematics and Experimental and Cognitive Psychology. According to data from OpenAlex, Anja Widdig has authored 97 papers receiving a total of 2.9k indexed citations (citations by other indexed papers that have themselves been cited), including 78 papers in Social Psychology, 65 papers in Ecology, Evolution, Behavior and Systematics and 29 papers in Experimental and Cognitive Psychology. Recurrent topics in Anja Widdig's work include Primate Behavior and Ecology (78 papers), Animal Behavior and Reproduction (64 papers) and Evolutionary Psychology and Human Behavior (29 papers). Anja Widdig is often cited by papers focused on Primate Behavior and Ecology (78 papers), Animal Behavior and Reproduction (64 papers) and Evolutionary Psychology and Human Behavior (29 papers). Anja Widdig collaborates with scholars based in Germany, United States and United Kingdom. Anja Widdig's co-authors include Fred B. Bercovitch, Michael Krawczak, Antje Engelhardt, Lars Kulik, Wolf Jürgen Streich, Constance Dubuc, Peter Nürnberg, Muhammad Agil, Federica Amici and Angelina Ruíz-Lambides and has published in prestigious journals such as Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, Journal of Personality and Social Psychology and PLoS ONE.

In The Last Decade

Anja Widdig

94 papers receiving 2.8k citations

Hit Papers

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Hit papers significantly outperform the citation benchmark for their cohort. A paper qualifies if it has ≥500 total citations, achieves ≥1.5× the top-1% citation threshold for papers in the same subfield and year (this is the minimum needed to enter the top 1%, not the average within it), or reaches the top citation threshold in at least one of its specific research topics.

Assessing dominance hierarchies: validation and advantages of progressive evaluation with Elo-rating

2011 357 citations Christof Neumann, Muhammad Agil et al. profile →

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Name	h						Papers	Cites
Anja Widdig Germany	31	2.1k	1.7k	775	738	429	97	2.9k
James P. Higham United States	37	2.2k 1.0×	1.8k 1.0×	619 0.8×	618 0.8×	606 1.4×	148	3.8k
Lauren J. N. Brent United Kingdom	30	1.7k 0.8×	1.2k 0.7×	536 0.7×	567 0.8×	599 1.4×	90	2.9k
Joanna M. Setchell United Kingdom	34	2.1k 1.0×	1.7k 1.0×	512 0.7×	632 0.9×	754 1.8×	85	3.1k
Elisabeth H. M. Sterck Netherlands	31	2.9k 1.4×	1.9k 1.1×	1.3k 1.7×	687 0.9×	591 1.4×	111	3.7k
Stuart Semple United Kingdom	36	1.8k 0.8×	1.2k 0.7×	952 1.2×	433 0.6×	510 1.2×	89	3.1k
Bonaventura Majolo United Kingdom	28	1.9k 0.9×	1.5k 0.8×	781 1.0×	379 0.5×	397 0.9×	91	2.4k
Takeshi Furuichi Japan	34	2.6k 1.2×	1.6k 0.9×	1.2k 1.6×	557 0.8×	546 1.3×	111	3.1k
Colleen M. Schaffner United Kingdom	29	2.1k 1.0×	1.6k 0.9×	1.0k 1.3×	274 0.4×	630 1.5×	71	2.9k
Patrícia Izar Brazil	32	2.7k 1.3×	1.3k 0.7×	1.2k 1.6×	279 0.4×	665 1.6×	112	3.7k
Claudia Fichtel Germany	30	1.7k 0.8×	1.6k 0.9×	1.2k 1.5×	305 0.4×	647 1.5×	117	3.0k

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Co-authorship network of co-authors of Anja Widdig

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20 of 20 papers shown

Weiß, B., et al.. (2025). Urine washing and urinary odour profiles in relation to dominance rank status in wild male capuchin monkeys ( Cebus imitator ). Royal Society Open Science. 12(7). 250608–250608. 1 indexed citations

Weiß, B., et al.. (2025). Chemical signatures of social information in Barbary macaques. Scientific Reports. 15(1). 1902–1902. 1 indexed citations

Lestari, Shanti Dwita, et al.. (2024). Distribution and Human-Mediated Establishment of Crested Macaque (Macaca nigra) Populations in the North Moluccas, Indonesia. International Journal of Primatology. 46(2). 419–435.

Simon, Miriam, Anja Widdig, & B. Weiß. (2024). Sniffing behavior of semi free‐ranging Barbary macaques ( Macaca sylvanus ). American Journal of Primatology. 86(5). e23611–e23611. 2 indexed citations

Lamarque, François, et al.. (2023). Ten Years of Positive Impact of a Conservation Education Program on Children's Knowledge and Behaviour Toward Crested Macaques (Macaca nigra) in the Greater Tangkoko Area, North Sulawesi, Indonesia. International Journal of Primatology. 44(4). 743–763. 6 indexed citations

Neumann, Christof, Lars Kulik, Muhammad Agil, Antje Engelhardt, & Anja Widdig. (2022). Temporal dynamics and fitness consequences of coalition formation in male primates. Proceedings of the Royal Society B Biological Sciences. 289(1976). 20212626–20212626. 10 indexed citations

Higham, James P., Michael Heistermann, Muhammad Agil, et al.. (2021). Female fertile phase synchrony, and male mating and reproductive skew, in the crested macaque. Scientific Reports. 11(1). 4251–4251. 14 indexed citations

Colell, Montserrat, et al.. (2021). Neophobia in 10 ungulate species—a comparative approach. Behavioral Ecology and Sociobiology. 75(7). 102–102. 23 indexed citations

Weiß, B., et al.. (2019). Chemical cues of female fertility states in a non-human primate. Scientific Reports. 9(1). 13716–13716. 19 indexed citations

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Kazem, Anahita J.N., et al.. (2018). Parent–offspring facial resemblance increases with age in rhesus macaques. Proceedings of the Royal Society B Biological Sciences. 285(1886). 20181208–20181208. 3 indexed citations

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Kulik, Lars, et al.. (2016). Mothers Make a Difference: Mothers Develop Weaker Bonds with Immature Sons than Daughters. PLoS ONE. 11(5). e0154845–e0154845. 25 indexed citations

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Kulik, Lars, et al.. (2015). Does Male Care, Provided to Immature Individuals, Influence Immature Fitness in Rhesus Macaques?. PLoS ONE. 10(9). e0137841–e0137841. 13 indexed citations

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Perwitasari‐Farajallah, Dyah, et al.. (2014). Social and ecological factors influencing offspring survival in wild macaques. Behavioral Ecology. 25(5). 1164–1172. 36 indexed citations

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Pfefferle, Dana, et al.. (2014). Monkeys Spontaneously Discriminate Their Unfamiliar Paternal Kin under Natural Conditions Using Facial Cues. Current Biology. 24(15). 1806–1810. 44 indexed citations

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Neumann, Christof, Muhammad Agil, Anja Widdig, & Antje Engelhardt. (2013). Personality of Wild Male Crested Macaques (Macaca nigra). PLoS ONE. 8(8). e69383–e69383. 38 indexed citations

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Kazem, Anahita J.N. & Anja Widdig. (2013). Visual Phenotype Matching: Cues to Paternity Are Present in Rhesus Macaque Faces. PLoS ONE. 8(2). e55846–e55846. 30 indexed citations

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Widdig, Anja, Susan C. Alberts, Peter Nürnberg, & Michael Krawczak. (2008). Do mothers promote social preference among their paternally related offspring?: Testing mechanisms of paternal kin discrimination. Folia Primatologica. 398–398. 1 indexed citations

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Widdig, Anja. (2007). Paternal kin discrimination: the evidence and likely mechanisms. Biological reviews/Biological reviews of the Cambridge Philosophical Society. 82(2). 319–334. 123 indexed citations

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Charpentier, Marie J. E., Anja Widdig, & Susan C. Alberts. (2007). Inbreeding depression in non‐human primates: a historical review of methods used and empirical data. American Journal of Primatology. 69(12). 1370–1386. 44 indexed citations

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Krawczak, Michael, Andrea Trefilov, John Berard, et al.. (2005). Male Reproductive Timing in Rhesus Macaques Is Influenced by the 5HTTLPR Promoter Polymorphism of the Serotonin Transporter Gene1. Biology of Reproduction. 72(5). 1109–1113. 26 indexed citations

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