Gilbert Roberts

5.9k total citations · 2 hit papers
41 papers, 3.7k citations indexed

About

Gilbert Roberts is a scholar working on Sociology and Political Science, Experimental and Cognitive Psychology and Safety Research. According to data from OpenAlex, Gilbert Roberts has authored 41 papers receiving a total of 3.7k 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 16 papers in Safety Research. Recurrent topics in Gilbert Roberts's work include Evolutionary Game Theory and Cooperation (26 papers), Experimental Behavioral Economics Studies (16 papers) and Evolutionary Psychology and Human Behavior (16 papers). Gilbert Roberts is often cited by papers focused on Evolutionary Game Theory and Cooperation (26 papers), Experimental Behavioral Economics Studies (16 papers) and Evolutionary Psychology and Human Behavior (16 papers). Gilbert Roberts collaborates with scholars based in United Kingdom, Australia and Canada. Gilbert Roberts's co-authors include Daniel Nettle, Melissa Bateson, Thomas N. Sherratt, Karolina Sylwester, John H. Lazarus, Daniel Farrelly, Marion Petrie, Jack W. Scannell, Graeme D. Ruxton and H. D. Burges and has published in prestigious journals such as Nature, Science and PLoS ONE.

In The Last Decade

Gilbert Roberts

41 papers receiving 3.5k citations

Hit Papers

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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.

Cues of being watched enhance cooperation in a real-world setting

2006 783 citations Daniel Nettle, Gilbert Roberts et al. profile →
Why individual vigilance declines as group size increases

1996 740 citations Gilbert Roberts Animal Behaviour profile →

Author Peers

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Author						Papers	Cites
Gilbert Roberts	1.7k	968	907	890	820	41	3.7k
Dominic Johnson	1.6k 0.9×	488 0.5×	393 0.4×	555 0.6×	863 1.1×	99	3.9k
Peter Hammerstein	2.0k 1.2×	1.9k 2.0×	874 1.0×	906 1.0×	754 0.9×	79	6.9k
Claus Wedekind	1.3k 0.7×	2.1k 2.2×	692 0.8×	933 1.0×	474 0.6×	123	6.0k
Melissa Bateson	1.1k 0.6×	2.1k 2.2×	616 0.7×	935 1.1×	1.7k 2.1×	142	8.3k
Magnus Enquist	1.9k 1.1×	3.3k 3.4×	398 0.4×	856 1.0×	1.0k 1.2×	99	6.6k
Lee Alan Dugatkin	2.6k 1.5×	3.7k 3.9×	637 0.7×	1.2k 1.3×	1.1k 1.3×	115	6.4k
Nichola Raihani	1.4k 0.8×	930 1.0×	752 0.8×	694 0.8×	697 0.8×	89	3.0k
Margo Wilson	3.9k 2.2×	594 0.6×	298 0.3×	2.6k 3.0×	1.4k 1.8×	88	7.5k
Sarah F. Brosnan	2.0k 1.1×	1.0k 1.0×	1.2k 1.3×	1.7k 1.9×	3.1k 3.8×	158	5.5k
Alex Mesoudi	3.0k 1.7×	412 0.4×	217 0.2×	602 0.7×	1.6k 1.9×	97	5.6k

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Co-authorship network of co-authors of Gilbert Roberts

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Roberts, Gilbert. (2024). Helping those who help others: The roles of indirect reciprocity and relatedness. Ethology. 130(4). 2 indexed citations

Manrique, Héctor M., Gilbert Roberts, Pat Barclay, et al.. (2021). The psychological foundations of reputation-based cooperation. Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society B Biological Sciences. 376(1838). 20200287–20200287. 25 indexed citations

Roberts, Gilbert, et al.. (2021). The benefits of being seen to help others: indirect reciprocity and reputation-based partner choice. Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society B Biological Sciences. 376(1838). 20200290–20200290. 52 indexed citations

Roberts, Gilbert. (2015). Partner Choice Drives the Evolution of Cooperation via Indirect Reciprocity. PLoS ONE. 10(6). e0129442–e0129442. 22 indexed citations

Roberts, Gilbert. (2013). When Punishment Pays. PLoS ONE. 8(3). e57378–e57378. 12 indexed citations

Sherratt, Thomas N. & Gilbert Roberts. (2012). When Paths to Cooperation Converge. Science. 337(6100). 1304–1305. 8 indexed citations

Sylwester, Karolina, et al.. (2011). The role of Theory of Mind in assessing cooperative intentions. Personality and Individual Differences. 52(2). 113–117. 28 indexed citations

András, Péter, John H. Lazarus, & Gilbert Roberts. (2007). Environmental adversity and uncertainty favour cooperation. BMC Evolutionary Biology. 7(1). 240–240. 33 indexed citations

Petrie, Marion & Gilbert Roberts. (2006). Sexual selection and the evolution of evolvability. Heredity. 98(4). 198–205. 35 indexed citations

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Roberts, Gilbert. (2005). Cooperation through interdependence. Animal Behaviour. 70(4). 901–908. 209 indexed citations

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Roberts, Gilbert. (2003). The group-size effect in non-feeding animals. Behavioural Processes. 63(3). 127–128. 10 indexed citations

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Sherratt, Thomas N. & Gilbert Roberts. (2002). The Stability of Cooperation Involving Variable Investment. Journal of Theoretical Biology. 215(1). 47–56. 20 indexed citations

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Scannell, Jack W., Gilbert Roberts, & John H. Lazarus. (2001). Prey scan at random to evade observant predators. Proceedings of the Royal Society B Biological Sciences. 268(1466). 541–547. 53 indexed citations

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Sherratt, Thomas N. & Gilbert Roberts. (1999). The Evolution of Quantitatively Responsive Cooperative Trade. Journal of Theoretical Biology. 200(4). 419–426. 7 indexed citations

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Sherratt, Thomas N., et al.. (1999). A life-history approach to predicting the recovery of aquatic invertebrate populations after exposure to xenobiotic chemicals. Environmental Toxicology and Chemistry. 18(11). 2512–2518. 33 indexed citations

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Sherratt, Thomas N. & Gilbert Roberts. (1998). The Evolution of Generosity and Choosiness in Cooperative Exchanges. Journal of Theoretical Biology. 193(1). 167–177. 55 indexed citations

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Roberts, Gilbert & Thomas N. Sherratt. (1998). Development of cooperative relationships through increasing investment. Nature. 394(6689). 175–179. 193 indexed citations

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Roberts, Gilbert. (1995). Salt-marsh Crustaceans, Gammarus duebeni and Palaemonetes varians as Predators of Mosquito Larvae and Their Reaction to Bacillus thuringiensis subsp. israelensis. Biocontrol Science and Technology. 5(3). 379–386. 19 indexed citations

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Roberts, Gilbert. (1995). A real-time response of vigilance behaviour to changes in group size. Animal Behaviour. 50(5). 1371–1374. 60 indexed citations

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Roberts, Gilbert & P. R. Evans. (1993). A method for the detection of non-random associations among flocking birds and its application to sanderlings Calidris alba wintering in N.E. England. Behavioral Ecology and Sociobiology. 32(5). 6 indexed citations

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