Claudio Tennie

6.1k total citations · 2 hit papers
84 papers, 3.2k citations indexed

About

Claudio Tennie is a scholar working on Social Psychology, Developmental and Educational Psychology and Developmental Biology. According to data from OpenAlex, Claudio Tennie has authored 84 papers receiving a total of 3.2k indexed citations (citations by other indexed papers that have themselves been cited), including 58 papers in Social Psychology, 35 papers in Developmental and Educational Psychology and 26 papers in Developmental Biology. Recurrent topics in Claudio Tennie's work include Primate Behavior and Ecology (56 papers), Child and Animal Learning Development (35 papers) and Animal Vocal Communication and Behavior (26 papers). Claudio Tennie is often cited by papers focused on Primate Behavior and Ecology (56 papers), Child and Animal Learning Development (35 papers) and Animal Vocal Communication and Behavior (26 papers). Claudio Tennie collaborates with scholars based in Germany, United Kingdom and United States. Claudio Tennie's co-authors include Michael Tomasello, Josep Call, Emily Wyman, Esther Herrmann, Alicia P. Melis, Elisa Bandini, Carel P. van Schaik, Zanna Clay, Alberto Acerbi and Gauri R. Pradhan and has published in prestigious journals such as Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, Nature Communications and SHILAP Revista de lepidopterología.

In The Last Decade

Claudio Tennie

78 papers receiving 3.1k 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.

Ratcheting up the ratchet: on the evolution of cumulative culture

2009 658 citations Claudio Tennie, Josep Call et al. profile →
Two Key Steps in the Evolution of Human Cooperation

2012 458 citations Michael Tomasello, Claudio Tennie et al. profile →

Peers — A (Enhanced Table)

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

Name	h						Papers	Cites
Claudio Tennie Germany	27	1.9k	1.1k	987	938	479	84	3.2k
Victoria Horner United States	14	1.8k 0.9×	652 0.6×	1.1k 1.2×	678 0.7×	541 1.1×	16	2.5k
Rachel L. Kendal United Kingdom	23	1.4k 0.7×	1.0k 0.9×	679 0.7×	863 0.9×	426 0.9×	49	2.6k
Kathleen R. Gibson United States	16	1.4k 0.7×	325 0.3×	1.0k 1.1×	739 0.8×	434 0.9×	42	3.2k
Lydia M. Hopper United States	28	1.7k 0.9×	436 0.4×	716 0.7×	424 0.5×	418 0.9×	80	2.4k
Alex Mesoudi United Kingdom	41	1.6k 0.8×	3.0k 2.7×	410 0.4×	2.5k 2.6×	250 0.5×	97	5.6k
Susan P. Lambeth United States	31	2.2k 1.2×	835 0.8×	740 0.7×	360 0.4×	511 1.1×	81	3.2k
Judith M. Burkart Switzerland	31	2.7k 1.4×	787 0.7×	807 0.8×	299 0.3×	672 1.4×	97	3.9k
William Hoppitt United Kingdom	33	2.0k 1.0×	1.5k 1.4×	403 0.4×	904 1.0×	1.2k 2.4×	63	4.6k
Anne E. Russon Canada	20	1.5k 0.8×	331 0.3×	942 1.0×	347 0.4×	393 0.8×	49	2.3k
Daniel B. M. Haun Germany	32	1.8k 0.9×	867 0.8×	1.5k 1.5×	493 0.5×	284 0.6×	134	4.1k

Countries citing papers authored by Claudio Tennie

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Fields of papers citing papers by Claudio Tennie

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Physical SciencesHealth SciencesLife SciencesSocial Sciences

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Co-authorship network of co-authors of Claudio Tennie

This figure shows the co-authorship network connecting the top 25 collaborators of Claudio Tennie. A scholar is included among the top collaborators of Claudio Tennie 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 Claudio Tennie. Claudio Tennie is excluded from the visualization to improve readability, since they are connected to all nodes in the network.

All Works

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20 of 20 papers shown

Reeves, Jonathan S., et al.. (2025). Machine Learning Applications in Archaeological Practices: A Review. SPIRE - Sciences Po Institutional REpository. 8(1). 282–321.

Gärdenfors, Peter, Robert C. McCarthy, Claudio Tennie, et al.. (2025). Correlates of Vocal Tract Evolution in Late Pliocene and Pleistocene Hominins. Human Nature. 36(1). 22–69.

Tennie, Claudio, et al.. (2025). Art beyond cognition: reframing Neanderthal art through social connectivity and cultural transmission. Evolutionary Human Sciences. 7. e38–e38.

Tennie, Claudio, et al.. (2024). Trade-Offs in Standardizing Raw Materials: Experimental Control in Live Knapping Studies. Advances in Archaeological Practice. 12(4). 390–415.

Buskell, Andrew, et al.. (2023). Evolved Open-Endedness in Cultural Evolution: A New Dimension in Open-Ended Evolution Research. Artificial Life. 30(3). 417–438. 8 indexed citations

Motes‐Rodrigo, Alba, et al.. (2022). Experimental investigation of orangutans’ lithic percussive and sharp stone tool behaviours. PLoS ONE. 17(2). e0263343–e0263343. 15 indexed citations

Reeves, Jonathan S., et al.. (2022). Early knapping techniques do not necessitate cultural transmission. Science Advances. 8(27). eabo2894–eabo2894. 26 indexed citations

Hopper, Lydia M., et al.. (2020). Zoo-Housed Chimpanzees Can Spontaneously Use Tool Sets But Perseverate on Previously Successful Tool-Use Methods. SHILAP Revista de lepidopterología. 7(3). 288–309. 11 indexed citations

Bandini, Elisa & Claudio Tennie. (2020). Exploring the role of individual learning in animal tool-use. PeerJ. 8. e9877–e9877. 21 indexed citations

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Bandini, Elisa, et al.. (2020). Testing the individual and social learning abilities of task-naïve captive chimpanzees ( Pan troglodytes sp. ) in a nut-cracking task. PeerJ. 8. e8734–e8734. 15 indexed citations

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Tennie, Claudio, et al.. (2019). Chimpanzees use observed temporal directionality to learn novel causal relations. Primates. 60(6). 517–524. 5 indexed citations

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Tennie, Claudio, et al.. (2018). Young children fail to generate an additive ratchet effect in an open-ended construction task. PLoS ONE. 13(6). e0197828–e0197828. 15 indexed citations

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Allritz, Matthias, et al.. (2017). Food cleaning in gorillas: Social learning is a possibility but not a necessity. PLoS ONE. 12(12). e0188866–e0188866. 22 indexed citations

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Bandini, Elisa & Claudio Tennie. (2017). Spontaneous reoccurrence of “scooping”, a wild tool-use behaviour, in naïve chimpanzees. PeerJ. 5. e3814–e3814. 41 indexed citations

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Beck, Sarah R., et al.. (2016). Young children spontaneously invent wild great apes’ tool-use behaviours. Proceedings of the Royal Society B Biological Sciences. 283(1825). 20152402–20152402. 35 indexed citations

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Tennie, Claudio, et al.. (2014). Limitations to the cultural ratchet effect in young children. Journal of Experimental Child Psychology. 126. 152–160. 19 indexed citations

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Jensen, Keith, et al.. (2014). Preschoolers are sensitive to free riding in a public goods game. Frontiers in Psychology. 5. 729–729. 17 indexed citations

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Tennie, Claudio, Robert C. O’Malley, & Ian C. Gilby. (2014). Why do chimpanzees hunt? Considering the benefits and costs of acquiring and consuming vertebrate versus invertebrate prey. Journal of Human Evolution. 71. 38–45. 26 indexed citations

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Hanus, Daniel, Natacha Mendes, Claudio Tennie, & Josep Call. (2011). Comparing the Performances of Apes (Gorilla gorilla, Pan troglodytes, Pongo pygmaeus) and Human Children (Homo sapiens) in the Floating Peanut Task. PLoS ONE. 6(6). e19555–e19555. 113 indexed citations

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Tennie, Claudio, Uta Frith, & Chris Frith. (2010). Reputation management in the age of the world-wide web. Trends in Cognitive Sciences. 14(11). 482–488. 96 indexed citations

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