Christopher Boehm

6.5k total citations · 1 hit paper
47 papers, 2.9k citations indexed

About

Christopher Boehm is a scholar working on Sociology and Political Science, Experimental and Cognitive Psychology and Social Psychology. According to data from OpenAlex, Christopher Boehm has authored 47 papers receiving a total of 2.9k indexed citations (citations by other indexed papers that have themselves been cited), including 20 papers in Sociology and Political Science, 14 papers in Experimental and Cognitive Psychology and 12 papers in Social Psychology. Recurrent topics in Christopher Boehm's work include Evolutionary Game Theory and Cooperation (19 papers), Evolutionary Psychology and Human Behavior (13 papers) and Cultural Differences and Values (8 papers). Christopher Boehm is often cited by papers focused on Evolutionary Game Theory and Cooperation (19 papers), Evolutionary Psychology and Human Behavior (13 papers) and Cultural Differences and Values (8 papers). Christopher Boehm collaborates with scholars based in United States, United Kingdom and Switzerland. Christopher Boehm's co-authors include Bruce M. Knauft, Keith F. Otterbein, Robert Knox Dentan, E. Adamson Hoebel, Susan Kent, Harold B. Barclay, Steve Rayner, Jonathan D. Hill, Marie-Claude Dupré and Herbert Gintis and has published in prestigious journals such as Nature, Science and American Psychologist.

In The Last Decade

Christopher Boehm

44 papers receiving 2.5k citations

Hit Papers

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What are hit papers?

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.

  1. Hierarchy in the Forest
    2009 473 citations Christopher Boehm Harvard University Press eBooks profile →

Peers — A (Enhanced Table)

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

Name h Career Trend Papers Cites
Christopher Boehm United States 24 1.8k 896 872 516 404 47 2.9k
Francisco Gil-White United States 9 1.9k 1.0× 697 0.8× 1.0k 1.2× 767 1.5× 511 1.3× 15 3.0k
Richard Sosis United States 28 2.4k 1.4× 731 0.8× 993 1.1× 362 0.7× 437 1.1× 109 3.5k
Michael Alvard United States 16 987 0.6× 425 0.5× 604 0.7× 629 1.2× 223 0.6× 24 2.3k
Christopher von Rueden United States 30 1.6k 0.9× 1.7k 1.9× 1.0k 1.2× 349 0.7× 454 1.1× 57 3.2k
Napoleon A. Chagnon United States 23 1.6k 0.9× 1.5k 1.7× 793 0.9× 153 0.3× 176 0.4× 50 3.9k
William Irons United States 15 1.4k 0.8× 1.3k 1.5× 669 0.8× 127 0.2× 151 0.4× 32 2.7k
Coren L. Apicella United States 35 1.5k 0.9× 2.1k 2.3× 1.0k 1.2× 544 1.1× 685 1.7× 73 4.1k
Carol R. Ember United States 32 1.5k 0.9× 705 0.8× 749 0.9× 146 0.3× 140 0.3× 104 3.4k
Keith F. Otterbein United States 17 1.2k 0.6× 608 0.7× 537 0.6× 202 0.4× 116 0.3× 58 2.1k
Jane B. Lancaster United States 22 931 0.5× 1.4k 1.6× 1.1k 1.3× 140 0.3× 171 0.4× 36 3.0k

Countries citing papers authored by Christopher Boehm

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Fields of papers citing papers by Christopher Boehm

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Physical SciencesHealth SciencesLife SciencesSocial Sciences

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Co-authorship network of co-authors of Christopher Boehm

This figure shows the co-authorship network connecting the top 25 collaborators of Christopher Boehm. A scholar is included among the top collaborators of Christopher Boehm based on the total number of citations received by their joint publications. Widths of edges represent the number of papers authors have co-authored together. Node borders signify the number of papers an author published with Christopher Boehm. Christopher Boehm is excluded from the visualization to improve readability, since they are connected to all nodes in the network.

All Works

20 of 20 papers shown
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Gintis, Herbert, Carel P. van Schaik, & Christopher Boehm. (2018). Zoon politikon: The evolutionary origins of human socio-political systems. Behavioural Processes. 161. 17–30. 28 indexed citations
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Boehm, Christopher. (2018). Collective intentionality: A basic and early component of moral evolution. Philosophical Psychology. 31(5). 680–702. 7 indexed citations
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Boehm, Christopher. (2013). Morally bankrupt. The New Scientist. 217(2909). 26–27.
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Boehm, Christopher. (2009). Hierarchy in the Forest. Harvard University Press eBooks. 473 indexed citations breakdown →
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Boehm, Christopher. (2000). Conflict and the evolution of social control.. Journal of Consciousness Studies. 69 indexed citations
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Boehm, Christopher. (1999). Hierarchy in the Forest. Harvard University Press eBooks. 115 indexed citations
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Boehm, Christopher. (1999). Fieldwork in Familiar Places: Morality, Culture, and Philosophy.. American Anthropologist. 101(2). 468–469. 25 indexed citations
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Boehm, Christopher. (1999). The natural selection of altruistic traits. Human Nature. 10(3). 205–252. 27 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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Boehm, Christopher. (1997). Impact of the Human Egalitarian Syndrome on Darwinian Selection Mechanics. The American Naturalist. 150(S1). S100–S121. 102 indexed citations
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Boehm, Christopher, Robert Chapman, Antonio Gilman, et al.. (1996). Social Archaeology and the Irrational [and Comments and Reply]. Current Anthropology. 37(4). 609–627. 8 indexed citations
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Stanford, Craig B., et al.. (1995). A Note on Scavenging by Wild Chimpanzees. Folia Primatologica. 65(1). 43–47. 20 indexed citations
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Roscoe, Paul, Christopher Boehm, Carol R. Ember, et al.. (1993). Practice and Political Centralisation: A New Approach to Political Evolution [and Comments and Reply]. Current Anthropology. 34(2). 111–140. 55 indexed citations
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Hoebel, E. Adamson & Christopher Boehm. (1985). Blood Revenge: The Anthropology of Feuding in Montenegro and Other Tribal Societies.. Man. 20(3). 564–564. 97 indexed citations
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Boehm, Christopher. (1985). Execution within the clan as an extreme form of ostracism. Social Science Information. 24(2). 309–321. 8 indexed citations
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Boehm, Christopher. (1982). A Fresh Outlook on Cultural Selection. American Anthropologist. 84(1). 105–125. 8 indexed citations
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Boehm, Christopher. (1979). Some problems with altruism in the search for moral universals. Systems Research and Behavioral Science. 24(1). 15–24. 16 indexed citations
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Boehm, Christopher. (1978). Rational Preselection from Hamadryas to Homo Sapiens: The Place of Decisions in Adaptive Process. American Anthropologist. 80(2). 265–296. 70 indexed citations
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Boehm, Christopher. (1976). Biological versus Social Evolution.. American Psychologist. 5 indexed citations
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Boehm, Christopher. (1976). "On the conflicts between biological and social evolution and between psychology and moral tradition": Comment.. American Psychologist. 31(5). 348–351. 1 indexed citations

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