Christophe Boesch

40.4k total citations · 5 hit papers
311 papers, 22.3k citations indexed

About

Christophe Boesch is a scholar working on Social Psychology, Ecology, Evolution, Behavior and Systematics and Developmental Biology. According to data from OpenAlex, Christophe Boesch has authored 311 papers receiving a total of 22.3k indexed citations (citations by other indexed papers that have themselves been cited), including 227 papers in Social Psychology, 107 papers in Ecology, Evolution, Behavior and Systematics and 90 papers in Developmental Biology. Recurrent topics in Christophe Boesch's work include Primate Behavior and Ecology (224 papers), Animal Behavior and Reproduction (94 papers) and Animal Vocal Communication and Behavior (90 papers). Christophe Boesch is often cited by papers focused on Primate Behavior and Ecology (224 papers), Animal Behavior and Reproduction (94 papers) and Animal Vocal Communication and Behavior (90 papers). Christophe Boesch collaborates with scholars based in Germany, United States and Ivory Coast. Christophe Boesch's co-authors include H. Boesch, Linda Vigilant, Martha M. Robbins, Roman M. Wittig, Roger Mundry, Hedwige Boesch‐Achermann, Julia Lehmann, Gottfried Hohmann, Fabian H. Leendertz and Catherine Crockford and has published in prestigious journals such as Nature, Science and Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences.

In The Last Decade

Christophe Boesch

309 papers receiving 21.3k citations

Hit Papers

5 papers align trajectories

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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.

Cultures in chimpanzees

1999 1.4k citations Richard W. Wrangham, Christophe Boesch et al. profile →
Fission‐Fusion Dynamics

2008 695 citations Christophe Boesch et al. profile →
Hunting behavior of wild chimpanzees in the Taï National Park

1989 640 citations Christophe Boesch et al. profile →
The Chimpanzees of the Tai Forest : Behavioural Ecology and Evolution

2000 514 citations Christophe Boesch, Hedwige Boesch‐Achermann Max Planck Institute for Plasma Physics profile →
Generation times in wild chimpanzees and gorillas suggest earlier divergence times in great ape and human evolution

2012 364 citations Kevin E. Langergraber, Christophe Boesch et al. profile →

Peers — A (Enhanced Table)

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

Name	h						Papers	Cites
Christophe Boesch Germany	81	14.1k	6.7k	6.0k	5.1k	3.3k	311	22.3k
Richard W. Wrangham United States	89	15.9k 1.1×	7.9k 1.2×	6.1k 1.0×	4.6k 0.9×	3.0k 0.9×	285	24.4k
Carel P. van Schaik Switzerland	88	17.9k 1.3×	11.3k 1.7×	7.1k 1.2×	5.9k 1.2×	2.3k 0.7×	324	25.0k
Jeanne Altmann United States	64	14.2k 1.0×	11.2k 1.7×	6.3k 1.1×	7.4k 1.5×	2.8k 0.8×	145	23.9k
Anne E. Pusey United States	61	6.2k 0.4×	5.4k 0.8×	2.3k 0.4×	4.4k 0.9×	2.8k 0.8×	136	13.3k
Dorothy L. Cheney United States	79	12.0k 0.8×	8.3k 1.2×	8.5k 1.4×	2.7k 0.5×	1.3k 0.4×	158	18.2k
Robert M. Seyfarth United States	76	11.7k 0.8×	8.3k 1.2×	8.5k 1.4×	2.6k 0.5×	1.2k 0.4×	158	17.9k
William C. McGrew United Kingdom	57	9.1k 0.6×	3.1k 0.5×	3.7k 0.6×	1.6k 0.3×	1.5k 0.4×	199	11.7k
Colin A. Chapman United States	83	12.2k 0.9×	8.2k 1.2×	4.6k 0.8×	10.2k 2.0×	1.6k 0.5×	496	23.0k
Klaus Zuberbühler United Kingdom	58	6.7k 0.5×	4.2k 0.6×	6.8k 1.1×	1.9k 0.4×	949 0.3×	294	11.5k
Richard W. Byrne United Kingdom	59	7.4k 0.5×	2.7k 0.4×	3.3k 0.6×	1.1k 0.2×	1.3k 0.4×	300	13.1k

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Boesch, Christophe, et al.. (2019). Travel linearity and speed of human foragers and chimpanzees during their daily search for food in tropical rainforests. Scientific Reports. 9(1). 11066–11066. 36 indexed citations

Boesch, Christophe, et al.. (2019). Learning curves and teaching when acquiring nut-cracking in humans and chimpanzees. Scientific Reports. 9(1). 1515–1515. 29 indexed citations

Hernández-Rodríguez, Jessica, Mimi Arandjelovic, Jack D. Lester, et al.. (2017). The impact of endogenous content, replicates and pooling on genome capture from faecal samples. Molecular Ecology Resources. 18(2). 319–333. 26 indexed citations

Surbeck, Martin, Cédric Girard‐Buttoz, Christophe Boesch, et al.. (2017). Sex-specific association patterns in bonobos and chimpanzees reflect species differences in cooperation. Royal Society Open Science. 4(5). 161081–161081. 46 indexed citations

Gogarten, Jan F., Ariane Düx, Verena J. Schuenemann, et al.. (2016). Tools for opening new chapters in the book of Treponema pallidum evolutionary history. Clinical Microbiology and Infection. 22(11). 916–921. 17 indexed citations

Behringer, Verena, Stefan A. Wudy, Werner Blum, et al.. (2016). Sex Differences in Age-Related Decline of Urinary Insulin-Like Growth Factor-Binding Protein-3 Levels in Adult Bonobos and Chimpanzees. Frontiers in Endocrinology. 7. 118–118. 7 indexed citations

Humle, Tatyana, et al.. (2015). Diversity of Hand Grips and Laterality in Wild African Apes. Max Planck Digital Library. 3 indexed citations

Gogarten, Jan F., Chantal Akoua‐Koffi, Sébastien Calvignac‐Spencer, et al.. (2014). The ecology of primate retroviruses – An assessment of 12 years of retroviral studies in the Taï national park area, Côte d׳Ivoire. Virology. 460-461. 147–153. 18 indexed citations

Wilson, Michael L., Christophe Boesch, Takeshi Furuichi, et al.. (2012). Rates of lethal aggression in chimpanzees depend on the number of adult males rather than measures of human disturbance. 3 indexed citations

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Boesch, Christophe. (2012). From Material to Symbolic Cultures: Culture in Primates. Oxford University Press eBooks. 9 indexed citations

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Campbell, Geneviève, et al.. (2011). Long-term research sites as refugia for threatened and over-harvested species. Biology Letters. 7(5). 723–726. 73 indexed citations

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Smith, B. Holly & Christophe Boesch. (2010). Magnitude of the "wild effect" in tooth emergence in chimpanzees of the Tai and Gombe forests. Max Planck Institute for Plasma Physics. 1 indexed citations

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Smith, B. Holly & Christophe Boesch. (2010). Mortality and the magnitude of the “wild effect” in chimpanzee tooth emergence. Journal of Human Evolution. 60(1). 34–46. 45 indexed citations

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Hohmann, Gottfried, Christophe Boesch, & Martha M. Robbins. (2006). Feeding ecology in apes and other primates : ecological, physical, and behavioral aspects. Cambridge University Press eBooks. 170 indexed citations

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Bakarr, Mohamed I., Christophe Boesch, Thomas M. Butynski, & Rebecca Kormos. (2004). Chimpanzés d'Afrique de l'Ouest : état de conservation de l'espèce et plan d'action. IUCN eBooks. 1 indexed citations

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Kormos, Rebecca, Christophe Boesch, Mohamed I. Bakarr, & Thomas M. Butynski. (2003). West African chimpanzees : status survey and conservation action plan. Max Planck Institute for Plasma Physics. 90 indexed citations

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Wittig, Roman M. & Christophe Boesch. (2003). Linear dominance hierarchy due to contest competition among female chimpanzees (Pan troglodytes verus). Folia Primatologica. 229–230. 1 indexed citations

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Leendertz, Fabian H., Christophe Boesch, Sandra Junglen, Georg Pauli, & Heinz Ellerbrok. (2003). Characterization of a New Simian T-Lymphotropic Virus Type 1 (STLV-1) in a Wild Living Chimpanzee ( Pan troglodytes verus ) from Ivory Coast: Evidence of a New STLV-1 Group?. AIDS Research and Human Retroviruses. 19(3). 255–258. 15 indexed citations

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Boesch, Christophe & Hedwige Boesch‐Achermann. (1991). Dim Forest, Bright Chimps. In the Rain Forest of Ivory Coast, Chimpanzees Meet the Challenge of Life by Hunting Cooperatively and Using Crude Tools. Natural history. 50–57. 1 indexed citations

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Dubois-Randé, J L, Christian Hervé, Anne-Marie Duval-Moulin, et al.. (1989). [Prehospital thrombolysis. Evaluation of preliminary experiences at Val-de-Marne].. PubMed. 82(12). 1963–6. 5 indexed citations

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