Anne E. Russon

5.0k total citations · 1 hit paper
49 papers, 2.3k citations indexed

About

Anne E. Russon is a scholar working on Social Psychology, Developmental and Educational Psychology and Ecology. According to data from OpenAlex, Anne E. Russon has authored 49 papers receiving a total of 2.3k indexed citations (citations by other indexed papers that have themselves been cited), including 30 papers in Social Psychology, 16 papers in Developmental and Educational Psychology and 9 papers in Ecology. Recurrent topics in Anne E. Russon's work include Primate Behavior and Ecology (26 papers), Child and Animal Learning Development (15 papers) and Animal Vocal Communication and Behavior (8 papers). Anne E. Russon is often cited by papers focused on Primate Behavior and Ecology (26 papers), Child and Animal Learning Development (15 papers) and Animal Vocal Communication and Behavior (8 papers). Anne E. Russon collaborates with scholars based in Canada, United Kingdom and United States. Anne E. Russon's co-authors include Richard W. Byrne, Biruté M. F. Galdikas, Kim A. Bard, Sue Taylor Parker, Thomas D. Sambrook, Kristin Andrews, Howard E. Gruber, Tetsuro Matsuzawa, Dorothy M. Fragaszy and Sarah T. Boysen and has published in prestigious journals such as PLoS ONE, Current Biology and Computers in Human Behavior.

In The Last Decade

Anne E. Russon

47 papers receiving 2.1k citations

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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.

Learning by imitation: A hierarchical approach

1998 509 citations Richard W. Byrne, Anne E. Russon Behavioral and Brain Sciences profile →

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Name	h						Papers	Cites
Anne E. Russon Canada	20	1.5k	942	393	391	347	49	2.3k
Sue Taylor Parker United States	14	1.4k 0.9×	1.0k 1.1×	431 1.1×	473 1.2×	456 1.3×	31	2.2k
Kathleen R. Gibson United States	16	1.4k 0.9×	1.0k 1.1×	434 1.1×	547 1.4×	739 2.1×	42	3.2k
Victoria Horner United States	14	1.8k 1.2×	1.1k 1.2×	541 1.4×	372 1.0×	678 2.0×	16	2.5k
Lydia M. Hopper United States	28	1.7k 1.2×	716 0.8×	418 1.1×	356 0.9×	424 1.2×	80	2.4k
Sue Savage‐Rumbaugh United States	23	1.1k 0.8×	1.4k 1.5×	414 1.1×	429 1.1×	513 1.5×	48	2.4k
Horst D. Steklis United States	21	1.1k 0.8×	430 0.5×	350 0.9×	518 1.3×	274 0.8×	49	2.0k
Alison Jolly United Kingdom	21	1.4k 1.0×	591 0.6×	524 1.3×	247 0.6×	162 0.5×	51	2.7k
Amanda M. Seed United Kingdom	18	1.4k 1.0×	641 0.7×	514 1.3×	372 1.0×	133 0.4×	45	2.0k
Stephen Hutt United States	24	1.0k 0.7×	729 0.8×	324 0.8×	1.0k 2.7×	156 0.4×	78	3.2k
Thibaud Gruber Switzerland	24	988 0.7×	405 0.4×	541 1.4×	633 1.6×	216 0.6×	59	1.9k

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20 of 20 papers shown

Sherman, Julie, Maria Voigt, Marc Ancrenaz, et al.. (2025). Outcomes of orangutan wild-to-wild translocations reveal conservation and welfare risks. PLoS ONE. 20(3). e0317862–e0317862.

Yuliani, L., Mohammad Ilyas, Anne E. Russon, et al.. (2023). Bornean orangutan Pongo pygmaeus pygmaeus population estimate within and around Danau Sentarum National Park, Kapuas Hulu, West Kalimantan. Conservation Science and Practice. 5(4). 2 indexed citations

Arbib, Michael A., Francisco Aboitiz, Judith M. Burkart, et al.. (2018). The comparative neuroprimatology 2018 (CNP-2018) road map for research on How the Brain Got Language. Interaction Studies Social Behaviour and Communication in Biological and Artificial Systems. 19(1-2). 370–387. 6 indexed citations

Russon, Anne E.. (2016). Reconsidering great ape imitation and pantomime. Physics of Life Reviews. 16. 91–92. 2 indexed citations

Russon, Anne E., et al.. (2014). Orangutan fish eating, primate aquatic fauna eating, and their implications for the origins of ancestral hominin fish eating. Journal of Human Evolution. 77. 50–63. 18 indexed citations

Kuze, Noko, et al.. (2011). Factors affecting reproduction in rehabilitant female orangutans: young age at first birth and short inter-birth interval. Primates. 53(2). 181–192. 18 indexed citations

Russon, Anne E., et al.. (2010). How orangutans (Pongo pygmaeus) innovate for water.. Journal of comparative psychology. 124(1). 14–28. 22 indexed citations

Russon, Anne E.. (2010). Life History: The Energy-Efficient Orangutan. Current Biology. 20(22). R981–R983. 6 indexed citations

Russon, Anne E.. (2009). Orangutans. Current Biology. 19(20). R925–R927. 4 indexed citations

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Russon, Anne E., et al.. (2006). Orangutan leaf-carrying for nest-building: Toward unraveling cultural processes. Animal Cognition. 10(2). 189–202. 25 indexed citations

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Keller, Heidi, Gustav Jahoda, Anne E. Russon, et al.. (2002). Between Culture and Biology. Cambridge University Press eBooks. 47 indexed citations

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Russon, Anne E., et al.. (2000). Declining Orangutan Populations in and around the Danau Sentarum National Park, West Kalimantan, Indonesia. 31. 372. 2 indexed citations

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Russon, Anne E.. (1999). Naturalistic Approaches to Orangutan Intelligence and the Question of Enculturation. International Journal of Comparative Psychology. 12(4). 5 indexed citations

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Byrne, Richard W. & Anne E. Russon. (1998). Learning by imitation: A hierarchical approach. Behavioral and Brain Sciences. 21(5). 667–684. 509 indexed citations breakdown →

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Russon, Anne E.. (1998). The nature and evolution of intelligence in orangutans (Pongo pygmaeus). Primates. 39(4). 485–503. 36 indexed citations

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Whiten, Andrew, Richard W. Byrne, Marina Cords, et al.. (1997). Machiavellian Intelligence II. Cambridge University Press eBooks. 257 indexed citations

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Russon, Anne E., et al.. (1996). On the wild side of culture and cognition in the great apes. 33(5). 504–7. 12 indexed citations

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Russon, Anne E. & Biruté M. F. Galdikas. (1995). Constraints on great apes' imitation: Model and action selectivity in rehabilitant orangutan (Pongo pygmaeus) imitation.. Journal of comparative psychology. 109(1). 5–17. 63 indexed citations

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Russon, Anne E. & Biruté M. F. Galdikas. (1993). Imitation in free-ranging rehabilitant orangutans (Pongo pygmaeus).. Journal of comparative psychology. 107(2). 147–161. 121 indexed citations

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Russon, Anne E., et al.. (1990). Direct caregiver intervention in infant peer social encounters.. American Journal of Orthopsychiatry. 60(3). 428–439. 11 indexed citations

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