Dieter Lukas

4.8k total citations · 1 hit paper
68 papers, 2.9k citations indexed

About

Dieter Lukas is a scholar working on Ecology, Evolution, Behavior and Systematics, Social Psychology and Ecology. According to data from OpenAlex, Dieter Lukas has authored 68 papers receiving a total of 2.9k indexed citations (citations by other indexed papers that have themselves been cited), including 28 papers in Ecology, Evolution, Behavior and Systematics, 23 papers in Social Psychology and 17 papers in Ecology. Recurrent topics in Dieter Lukas's work include Animal Behavior and Reproduction (28 papers), Primate Behavior and Ecology (20 papers) and Evolutionary Psychology and Human Behavior (15 papers). Dieter Lukas is often cited by papers focused on Animal Behavior and Reproduction (28 papers), Primate Behavior and Ecology (20 papers) and Evolutionary Psychology and Human Behavior (15 papers). Dieter Lukas collaborates with scholars based in Germany, United Kingdom and United States. Dieter Lukas's co-authors include Tim Clutton‐Brock, T. H. Clutton‐Brock, T. H. Clutton-Brock, W Schulte, Alex Thornton, Élise Huchard, Linda Vigilant, Christophe Boesch, W. Schulte and Vernon Reynolds and has published in prestigious journals such as Science, Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences and SHILAP Revista de lepidopterología.

In The Last Decade

Dieter Lukas

64 papers receiving 2.9k citations

Hit Papers

The Evolution of Social Monogamy in Mammals 2013 2026 2017 2021 2013 100 200 300
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. The Evolution of Social Monogamy in Mammals
    2013 376 citations Dieter Lukas et al. Science profile →

Peers — A (Enhanced Table)

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

Name h Career Trend Papers Cites
Dieter Lukas Germany 28 1.4k 1.3k 754 496 477 68 2.9k
Robert S. Corruccini United States 39 364 0.3× 1.3k 1.0× 548 0.7× 836 1.7× 111 0.2× 153 4.7k
J. Michael Plavcan United States 33 1.0k 0.7× 2.3k 1.8× 1.1k 1.4× 325 0.7× 568 1.2× 67 3.6k
Ian Tattersall United States 35 1.2k 0.9× 2.2k 1.7× 760 1.0× 498 1.0× 257 0.5× 186 5.2k
Milford H. Wolpoff United States 34 127 0.1× 970 0.8× 465 0.6× 676 1.4× 219 0.5× 118 4.4k
Gary T. Schwartz United States 29 187 0.1× 981 0.8× 604 0.8× 235 0.5× 81 0.2× 85 2.6k
Anne M. Burrows United States 31 340 0.2× 1.2k 1.0× 221 0.3× 719 1.4× 343 0.7× 97 2.7k
S. L. Washburn United States 21 411 0.3× 1.1k 0.9× 289 0.4× 379 0.8× 447 0.9× 61 2.6k
Kevin D. Hunt United States 27 977 0.7× 2.5k 1.9× 758 1.0× 375 0.8× 160 0.3× 56 3.5k
David J. Daegling United States 31 226 0.2× 1.3k 1.1× 438 0.6× 138 0.3× 32 0.1× 89 2.4k
Dennis C. Turner Switzerland 28 143 0.1× 496 0.4× 189 0.3× 1.2k 2.5× 272 0.6× 56 2.0k

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Fields of papers citing papers by Dieter Lukas

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Physical SciencesHealth SciencesLife SciencesSocial Sciences

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Co-authorship network of co-authors of Dieter Lukas

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

All Works

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Huchard, Élise, et al.. (2025). The evolution of male–female dominance relations in primate societies. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences. 122(28). e2500405122–e2500405122. 1 indexed citations
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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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Blaisdell, Aaron P., et al.. (2023). Using repeatability of performance within and across contexts to validate measures of behavioral flexibility. PeerJ. 11. e15773–e15773. 4 indexed citations
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Logan, Corina, et al.. (2023). Implementing a rapid geographic range expansion - the role of behavior changes. SHILAP Revista de lepidopterología. 3. 6 indexed citations
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Logan, Corina, et al.. (2023). Behavioral flexibility is manipulable and it improves flexibility and innovativeness in a new context. SHILAP Revista de lepidopterología. 3. 4 indexed citations
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Lukas, Dieter, et al.. (2023). The role of climate change and niche shifts in divergent range dynamics of a sister-species pair. SHILAP Revista de lepidopterología. 3. 9 indexed citations
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Huchard, Élise, et al.. (2022). The effect of dominance rank on female reproductive success in social mammals. SHILAP Revista de lepidopterología. 2. 7 indexed citations
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Davidian, Eve, Martin Surbeck, Dieter Lukas, Peter M. Kappeler, & Élise Huchard. (2022). The eco-evolutionary landscape of power relationships between males and females. Trends in Ecology & Evolution. 37(8). 706–718. 25 indexed citations
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Lukas, Dieter, et al.. (2021). Local convergence of behavior across species. Science. 371(6526). 292–295. 24 indexed citations
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Lukas, Dieter, Mary C. Towner, & Monique Borgerhoff Mulder. (2021). The potential to infer the historical pattern of cultural macroevolution. Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society B Biological Sciences. 376(1828). 20200057–20200057. 7 indexed citations
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Kappeler, Peter M., Tim Clutton‐Brock, Susanne Shultz, & Dieter Lukas. (2019). Social complexity: patterns, processes, and evolution. Behavioral Ecology and Sociobiology. 73(1). 43 indexed citations
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Lukas, Dieter & Élise Huchard. (2019). The evolution of infanticide by females in mammals. Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society B Biological Sciences. 374(1780). 20180075–20180075. 48 indexed citations
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Lukas, Dieter & Tim Clutton‐Brock. (2017). Climate and the distribution of cooperative breeding in mammals. Royal Society Open Science. 4(1). 160897–160897. 81 indexed citations
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Lukas, Dieter, et al.. (2002). Lithuanian American Private Libraries: Survey and Data. Slavic & East European Information Resources. 3(4). 21–32. 3 indexed citations
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dʼHoedt, B, et al.. (1985). [Periotest methods--development and clinical trial].. PubMed. 40(2). 113–25. 11 indexed citations
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Scholz, F. & Dieter Lukas. (1979). [Retrograde movement of upper incisors].. Munich Personal RePEc Archive (Ludwig Maximilian University of Munich). 34(4). 367–70. 2 indexed citations

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