Cody T. Ross

3.0k total citations · 2 hit papers
60 papers, 1.4k citations indexed

About

Cody T. Ross is a scholar working on Sociology and Political Science, Experimental and Cognitive Psychology and Social Psychology. According to data from OpenAlex, Cody T. Ross has authored 60 papers receiving a total of 1.4k indexed citations (citations by other indexed papers that have themselves been cited), including 26 papers in Sociology and Political Science, 16 papers in Experimental and Cognitive Psychology and 11 papers in Social Psychology. Recurrent topics in Cody T. Ross's work include Evolutionary Game Theory and Cooperation (16 papers), Evolutionary Psychology and Human Behavior (15 papers) and Experimental Behavioral Economics Studies (8 papers). Cody T. Ross is often cited by papers focused on Evolutionary Game Theory and Cooperation (16 papers), Evolutionary Psychology and Human Behavior (15 papers) and Experimental Behavioral Economics Studies (8 papers). Cody T. Ross collaborates with scholars based in United States, Germany and United Kingdom. Cody T. Ross's co-authors include Bruce Winterhalder, Peter J. Richerson, Richard McElreath, Daniel Redhead, Anne C. Pisor, Adrian V. Bell, Paul E. Smaldino, Sarah Mathew, Kathryn Demps and Timothy M. Waring and has published in prestigious journals such as Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, SHILAP Revista de lepidopterología and PLoS ONE.

In The Last Decade

Cody T. Ross

53 papers receiving 1.3k 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. Cultural group selection plays an essential role in explaining human cooperation: A sketch of the evidence
    2014 354 citations Peter J. Richerson, Ryan Baldini et al. Behavioral and Brain Sciences profile →
  2. A Multi-Level Bayesian Analysis of Racial Bias in Police Shootings at the County-Level in the United States, 2011–2014
    2015 250 citations Cody T. Ross PLoS ONE profile →

Peers

Cody T. Ross
Lee Cronk United States
Bruce M. Knauft United States
Thomas N. Headland United States
Melvin Ember United States
Carol R. Ember United States
Nicolas Peterson Australia
Polly Wiessner United States
Eduardo Viveiros de Castro Brazil
Thomas E. Currie United Kingdom
Raymond Hames United States
Lee Cronk United States
Cody T. Ross
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Fields of papers citing papers by Cody T. Ross

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Physical SciencesHealth SciencesLife SciencesSocial Sciences

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Co-authorship network of co-authors of Cody T. Ross

This figure shows the co-authorship network connecting the top 25 collaborators of Cody T. Ross. A scholar is included among the top collaborators of Cody T. Ross 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 Cody T. Ross. Cody T. Ross 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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Sosa, Sebastiàn, et al.. (2025). Robust Bayesian analysis of animal networks subject to biases in sampling intensity and censoring. Methods in Ecology and Evolution. 16(6). 1273–1294. 1 indexed citations
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Ross, Cody T. & Anne C. Pisor. (2025). Perceived inequality and variability in the expression of parochial altruism. Evolutionary Human Sciences. 7. e3–e3. 2 indexed citations
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Ready, Elspeth, et al.. (2024). Indigenous food production in a carbon economy. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences. 121(32). e2317686121–e2317686121.
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Beheim, Bret, Hillard Kaplan, Jonathan Stieglitz, et al.. (2024). Cross-cousin marriage among Tsimane forager–horticulturalists during demographic transition and market integration. Evolutionary Human Sciences. 6. e18–e18.
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Redhead, Daniel, et al.. (2024). Evidence of direct and indirect reciprocity in network-structured economic games. SHILAP Revista de lepidopterología. 2(1). 44–44. 9 indexed citations
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Ross, Cody T., Richard McElreath, & Daniel Redhead. (2023). Modelling animal network data in R using STRAND. Journal of Animal Ecology. 93(3). 254–266. 14 indexed citations
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Redhead, Daniel, Richard McElreath, & Cody T. Ross. (2023). Reliable network inference from unreliable data: A tutorial on latent network modeling using STRAND.. Psychological Methods. 29(6). 1100–1122. 18 indexed citations
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Pisor, Anne C. & Cody T. Ross. (2022). Distinguishing Intergroup and Long-Distance Relationships. Human Nature. 33(3). 280–303. 12 indexed citations
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Watts, Joseph, et al.. (2021). The Austronesian Game Taxonomy: A cross-cultural dataset of historical games. Humanities and Social Sciences Communications. 8(1). 1 indexed citations
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Ross, Cody T., et al.. (2021). Cofeeding tolerance in chimpanzees depends on group composition: A longitudinal study across four communities. iScience. 24(3). 102175–102175. 18 indexed citations
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Janmaat, Karline R. L., Miguel de Guinea, Julien Collet, et al.. (2021). Using natural travel paths to infer and compare primate cognition in the wild. iScience. 24(4). 102343–102343. 20 indexed citations
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Broesch, Tanya, Alyssa N. Crittenden, Bret Beheim, et al.. (2020). Navigating cross-cultural research: methodological and ethical considerations. Proceedings of the Royal Society B Biological Sciences. 287(1935). 20201245–20201245. 91 indexed citations
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Ross, Cody T., Luís Pacheco-Cobos, & Bruce Winterhalder. (2018). A general model of forager search: Adaptive encounter-conditional heuristics outperform Lévy flights in the search for patchily distributed prey. Journal of Theoretical Biology. 455. 357–369. 13 indexed citations
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Purzycki, Benjamin Grant, Cody T. Ross, Coren L. Apicella, et al.. (2018). Material security, life history, and moralistic religions: A cross-cultural examination. PLoS ONE. 13(3). e0193856–e0193856. 22 indexed citations
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Ross, Cody T., et al.. (2016). Bayesian phylogenetic modeling of cultural evolution under the influence of selection: The origins and maintenance of female genital modification across Africa. Human Nature. 26(4).
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Ross, Cody T., Pontus Strimling, Karen Paige Ericksen, Patrik Lindenfors, & Monique Borgerhoff Mulder. (2016). The Origins and Maintenance of Female Genital Modification across Africa. Human Nature. 27(2). 173–200. 25 indexed citations
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Ross, Cody T.. (2015). Cultural transmission and the interethnic transfer of female genital modification in the African diaspora and indigenous populations of Colombia. Human Nature. 1 indexed citations
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Richerson, Peter J., Ryan Baldini, Adrian V. Bell, et al.. (2014). Cultural group selection plays an essential role in explaining human cooperation: A sketch of the evidence. Behavioral and Brain Sciences. 39. e30–e30. 354 indexed citations breakdown →
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Kanthaswamy, Sree, Cody T. Ross, Jessica Satkoski Trask, et al.. (2012). Identifying human-rhesus macaque gene orthologs using heterospecific SNP probes. Genomics. 101(1). 30–37. 12 indexed citations

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