Charles L. Nunn

18.4k total citations · 2 hit papers
185 papers, 10.8k citations indexed

About

Charles L. Nunn is a scholar working on Social Psychology, Ecology and Ecology, Evolution, Behavior and Systematics. According to data from OpenAlex, Charles L. Nunn has authored 185 papers receiving a total of 10.8k indexed citations (citations by other indexed papers that have themselves been cited), including 93 papers in Social Psychology, 52 papers in Ecology and 49 papers in Ecology, Evolution, Behavior and Systematics. Recurrent topics in Charles L. Nunn's work include Primate Behavior and Ecology (91 papers), Zoonotic diseases and public health (44 papers) and Wildlife Ecology and Conservation (40 papers). Charles L. Nunn is often cited by papers focused on Primate Behavior and Ecology (91 papers), Zoonotic diseases and public health (44 papers) and Wildlife Ecology and Conservation (40 papers). Charles L. Nunn collaborates with scholars based in United States, Germany and United Kingdom. Charles L. Nunn's co-authors include Sonia Altizer, Robert A. Barton, Christian Arnold, Kate E. Jones, Luke J. Matthews, John L. Gittleman, Patrik Lindenfors, Roger Mundry, Wes Sechrest and Amy B. Pedersen and has published in prestigious journals such as Science, Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences and PLoS ONE.

In The Last Decade

Charles L. Nunn

179 papers receiving 10.6k 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.

Social Organization and Parasite Risk in Mammals: Integrating Theory and Empirical Studies

2003 577 citations Sonia Altizer, Charles L. Nunn et al. profile →
The 10kTrees website: A new online resource for primate phylogeny

2010 503 citations Charles L. Nunn et al. profile →

Peers — A (Enhanced Table)

Peers by citation overlap · career bar shows stage (early→late) cites · hero ref

Name	h						Papers	Cites
Charles L. Nunn United States	57	4.4k	3.4k	3.4k	1.8k	1.6k	185	10.8k
Craig Packer United States	72	3.5k 0.8×	4.6k 1.4×	8.3k 2.5×	3.8k 2.1×	1.6k 1.0×	188	17.1k
Anne E. Pusey United States	61	6.2k 1.4×	5.4k 1.6×	4.4k 1.3×	2.8k 1.5×	439 0.3×	136	13.3k
Colin A. Chapman United States	83	12.2k 2.8×	8.2k 2.4×	10.2k 3.0×	1.6k 0.9×	1.3k 0.8×	496	23.0k
T. H. Clutton‐Brock United Kingdom	55	3.0k 0.7×	7.1k 2.1×	7.5k 2.2×	3.4k 1.9×	318 0.2×	91	14.8k
John L. Gittleman United States	66	2.9k 0.7×	7.2k 2.1×	12.7k 3.8×	5.0k 2.7×	3.5k 2.2×	121	28.2k
Kate E. Jones United Kingdom	52	1.5k 0.3×	3.9k 1.2×	6.0k 1.8×	2.5k 1.4×	5.0k 3.1×	146	18.5k
Christophe Boesch Germany	81	14.1k 3.2×	6.7k 2.0×	5.1k 1.5×	3.3k 1.8×	1.1k 0.7×	311	22.3k
Guy Beauchamp Canada	49	963 0.2×	3.8k 1.1×	2.9k 0.9×	1.1k 0.6×	538 0.3×	335	9.4k
Heribert Hofer Germany	51	2.0k 0.4×	1.7k 0.5×	3.6k 1.1×	1.2k 0.7×	384 0.2×	228	7.3k
Marlene Zuk United States	53	969 0.2×	9.8k 2.9×	3.6k 1.1×	4.2k 2.3×	443 0.3×	188	13.2k

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Barrett, Tyler M., Voahangy Soarimalala, Michelle Pender, Randall A. Kramer, & Charles L. Nunn. (2025). Climate Change Perceptions and Adaptive Behavior Among Smallholder Farmers in Northeast Madagascar. PLOS Climate. 4(3). e0000501–e0000501.

Titcomb, Georgia, et al.. (2025). Differential Assembly of Core and Non‐Core Host‐Microbe Network Structures Along a Land‐Use Change Gradient. Ecology Letters. 28(11). e70255–e70255.

Titcomb, Georgia, Michelle Pender, James P. Herrera, et al.. (2022). Comparing transmission potential networks based on social network surveys, close contacts and environmental overlap in rural Madagascar. Journal of The Royal Society Interface. 19(186). 20210690–20210690. 10 indexed citations

Nunn, Charles L., et al.. (2021). One health disparities and COVID-19. Evolution Medicine and Public Health. 9(1). 70–77. 9 indexed citations

Kappeler, Peter M., et al.. (2020). Temporal patterns of waterhole use as a predator avoidance strategy. Journal of Mammalogy. 101(2). 574–581. 9 indexed citations

Kappeler, Peter M., et al.. (2019). Evolutionary dynamics of sexual size dimorphism in non-volant mammals following their independent colonization of Madagascar. Scientific Reports. 9(1). 1454–1454. 14 indexed citations

Kappeler, Peter M., et al.. (2018). Beggars can be choosers: Water-limited wild red-fronted lemurs (Eulemur rufifrons) prefer clean water. 1 indexed citations

Kelly, Clint D., Andrew M. Stoehr, Charles L. Nunn, Kendra Smyth, & Zofia M. Prokop. (2018). Sexual dimorphism in immunity across animals: a meta‐analysis. Ecology Letters. 21(12). 1885–1894. 83 indexed citations

Samson, David R., Alyssa N. Crittenden, Ibrahim A. Mabulla, Audax Mabulla, & Charles L. Nunn. (2017). Chronotype variation drives night-time sentinel-like behaviour in hunter–gatherers. Proceedings of the Royal Society B Biological Sciences. 284(1858). 20170967–20170967. 41 indexed citations

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Nesse, Randolph M., Caleb E. Finch, & Charles L. Nunn. (2017). Does selection for short sleep duration explain human vulnerability to Alzheimer’s disease?. Evolution Medicine and Public Health. 2017(1). 39–46. 15 indexed citations

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Sandel, Aaron A., et al.. (2016). Assessing sources of error in comparative analyses of primate behavior: Intraspecific variation in group size and the social brain hypothesis. Journal of Human Evolution. 94. 126–133. 30 indexed citations

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Samson, David R., Joel Bray, & Charles L. Nunn. (2015). Cathemerality and sleep intensity in seven captive lemur species. 1 indexed citations

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Cooper, Natalie, et al.. (2012). Phylogenetic host specificity and understanding parasite sharing in primates. Ecology Letters. 15(12). 1370–1377. 120 indexed citations

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Garamszegi, László Zsolt, et al.. (2012). Informatics approaches to develop dynamic meta-analyses. Evolutionary Ecology. 26(5). 1275–1276. 4 indexed citations

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Acerbi, Alberto, Patrick McNamara, & Charles L. Nunn. (2008). To sleep or not to sleep: the ecology of sleep in artificial organisms. BMC Ecology. 8(1). 10–10. 10 indexed citations

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Ostner, Julia, Charles L. Nunn, & Oliver Schülke. (2008). Female reproductive synchrony predicts skewed paternity across primates. Behavioral Ecology. 19(6). 1150–1158. 115 indexed citations

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Nunn, Charles L. & Sonia Altizer. (2006). Infectious diseases in primates: behavior, ecology and evolution.. Max Planck Institute for Plasma Physics. 219 indexed citations

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Nunn, Charles L., Sonia Altizer, Wes Sechrest, & Andrew A. Cunningham. (2005). Latitudinal gradients of parasite species richness in primates. Diversity and Distributions. 11(3). 249–256. 124 indexed citations

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Altizer, Sonia, et al.. (2004). Body size, diet and sociality influence the species richness of parasitic worms in anthropoid primates. Evolutionary ecology research. 6(2). 183–199. 95 indexed citations

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Nunn, Charles L.. (1999). The number of males in primate social groups: a comparative test of the socioecological model. Behavioral Ecology and Sociobiology. 46(1). 1–13. 133 indexed citations

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