Gordon M. Burghardt

12.3k total citations
235 papers, 8.0k citations indexed

About

Gordon M. Burghardt is a scholar working on Global and Planetary Change, Ecology, Evolution, Behavior and Systematics and Social Psychology. According to data from OpenAlex, Gordon M. Burghardt has authored 235 papers receiving a total of 8.0k indexed citations (citations by other indexed papers that have themselves been cited), including 108 papers in Global and Planetary Change, 104 papers in Ecology, Evolution, Behavior and Systematics and 59 papers in Social Psychology. Recurrent topics in Gordon M. Burghardt's work include Amphibian and Reptile Biology (107 papers), Animal Behavior and Reproduction (93 papers) and Primate Behavior and Ecology (41 papers). Gordon M. Burghardt is often cited by papers focused on Amphibian and Reptile Biology (107 papers), Animal Behavior and Reproduction (93 papers) and Primate Behavior and Ecology (41 papers). Gordon M. Burghardt collaborates with scholars based in United States, Canada and Japan. Gordon M. Burghardt's co-authors include Marc Bekoff, Harold A. Herzog, A. Stanley Rand, Harry W. Greene, William E. Cooper, Akira Mori, Eckhard H. Hess, Sergio M. Pellis, Mark A. Krause and Gary F. McCracken 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

Gordon M. Burghardt

228 papers receiving 7.2k citations

Peers — A (Enhanced Table)

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

Name h Career Trend Papers Cites
Gordon M. Burghardt United States 48 3.7k 3.1k 2.4k 1.6k 1.6k 235 8.0k
Simon M. Reader United Kingdom 37 4.7k 1.3× 1.0k 0.3× 3.0k 1.2× 1.9k 1.2× 1.2k 0.8× 123 8.7k
Louis Lefebvre Canada 50 5.7k 1.5× 1.1k 0.4× 3.7k 1.5× 3.0k 1.9× 875 0.5× 134 8.9k
J. R. Krebs United Kingdom 36 5.3k 1.4× 899 0.3× 1.9k 0.8× 3.9k 2.4× 1.8k 1.1× 57 10.3k
Daniel Sol Spain 49 7.1k 1.9× 1.9k 0.6× 2.8k 1.1× 5.5k 3.4× 1.6k 1.0× 128 12.1k
Tim Caro United States 51 2.4k 0.7× 1.6k 0.5× 1.4k 0.6× 4.2k 2.6× 992 0.6× 179 7.7k
Victoria A. Braithwaite United Kingdom 50 3.1k 0.9× 1.6k 0.5× 1.1k 0.5× 2.2k 1.4× 700 0.4× 110 7.6k
Angelo Bisazza Italy 64 4.6k 1.3× 1.5k 0.5× 1.8k 0.7× 1.3k 0.8× 1.0k 0.6× 178 10.6k
Guy Cowlishaw United Kingdom 51 4.2k 1.1× 1.4k 0.5× 3.7k 1.5× 4.3k 2.7× 1.3k 0.8× 134 9.4k
Thomas Caraco United States 39 3.8k 1.0× 640 0.2× 701 0.3× 2.9k 1.8× 1.4k 0.9× 88 7.7k
Culum Brown Australia 46 3.2k 0.9× 1.7k 0.5× 1.2k 0.5× 2.2k 1.3× 662 0.4× 174 7.0k

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All Works

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Gillespie, Alex, et al.. (2025). From Play Date to Stress Fate: Juvenile Social Play Rescues Stress‐Induced Changes in Adult Social Behavior. Developmental Psychobiology. 67(1). e70020–e70020. 1 indexed citations
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Burghardt, Gordon M.. (2025). The enduring search for the nature of play. International Journal of Play. 14(1). 20–32.
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Burghardt, Gordon M.. (2024). Don Griffin and the early days of cognitive ethology. Animal Sentience. 9(35). 1 indexed citations
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Burghardt, Gordon M.. (2024). Jakob von Uexküll, Heterophenomenology, and Behavior Systems I: Core Ethology and Merleau-Ponty. Biosemiotics. 17(2). 387–406. 2 indexed citations
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Cooper, Matthew A., et al.. (2023). Comparing the ontogeny, neurobiology, and function of social play in hamsters and rats. Neuroscience & Biobehavioral Reviews. 147. 105102–105102. 15 indexed citations
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Davis, Karen M., et al.. (2023). A Descriptive Methodology for Studying the Ontogeny of Object Play and Breed Differences in Dogs (Canis lupus familiaris). Animals. 13(8). 1371–1371. 2 indexed citations
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Davis, Karen M., et al.. (2023). The development of object play in wolf puppies (Canis lupus). International Journal of Play. 12(1). 20–39. 2 indexed citations
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Burghardt, Gordon M.. (2010). The Comparative Reach of Play and Brain: Perspective, Evidence, and Implications.. 2(3). 338–356. 36 indexed citations
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King, Richard B., et al.. (2010). Phylogenetically widespread multiple paternity in New World natricine snakes. Herpetological conservation and biology. 5(1). 21 indexed citations
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Kuba, Michael J., Ruth A. Byrne, & Gordon M. Burghardt. (2010). Introducing a new method to study problem solving and tool use in fresh water stingrays, Potamotrygon castexi. Animal Cognition. 13(4). 1 indexed citations
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Burghardt, Gordon M.. (2008). Evolution and Paradigms in the Study of Literature. Style. 42. 144. 2 indexed citations
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Hutchinson, Deborah A., Akira Mori, Alan H. Savitzky, et al.. (2007). Dietary sequestration of defensive steroids in nuchal glands of the Asian snake Rhabdophis tigrinus. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences. 104(7). 2265–2270. 90 indexed citations
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Krause, Mark A. & Gordon M. Burghardt. (2007). Sexual dimorphism of body and relative head sizes in neonatal common garter snakes (Thamnophis sirtalis). Journal of Zoology. 272(2). 1 indexed citations
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Burghardt, Gordon M., et al.. (2005). Snake mating systems: The revisionary implications of recent findings. Journal of Comparative and Physiological Psychology. 119(4). 1 indexed citations
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Mori, Akira & Gordon M. Burghardt. (2004). Thermal effects on the antipredator behaviour of snakes: A review and proposed terminology. Herpetological Journal. 14(2). 79–87. 23 indexed citations
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Krause, Mark A., Gordon M. Burghardt, & James C. Gillingham. (2003). Body size plasticity and local variation of relative sexual size dimorphism in garter snakes (Thamnophis sirtalis). Journal of Zoology. 261(4). 2 indexed citations
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Mori, Akira & Gordon M. Burghardt. (2001). Thermal effects on antipredator behaviour of Rhabdophis tigrinus tigrinus, a snake with toxic nuchal glands. Ethology. 107(9). 3 indexed citations
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Krause, Mark A. & Gordon M. Burghardt. (1999). Access to another mind: Naturalistic theories require naturalistic data. Psyche. 5(32). 2 indexed citations
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York, Daniel & Gordon M. Burghardt. (1988). 02. Brooding in the Malayan pit viper, Caloselasma rhodostoma temperature, relative humidity, and defensive behaviour. Herpetological Journal. 1(6). 210–213. 7 indexed citations
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Burghardt, Gordon M. & Marc Bekoff. (1978). The Development of Behavior: Comparative and Evolutionary Aspects. 215 indexed citations

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