Hans A. Hofmann

11.6k total citations · 3 hit papers
137 papers, 7.5k citations indexed

About

Hans A. Hofmann is a scholar working on Ecology, Evolution, Behavior and Systematics, Social Psychology and Molecular Biology. According to data from OpenAlex, Hans A. Hofmann has authored 137 papers receiving a total of 7.5k indexed citations (citations by other indexed papers that have themselves been cited), including 73 papers in Ecology, Evolution, Behavior and Systematics, 54 papers in Social Psychology and 25 papers in Molecular Biology. Recurrent topics in Hans A. Hofmann's work include Animal Behavior and Reproduction (70 papers), Neuroendocrine regulation and behavior (48 papers) and Primate Behavior and Ecology (15 papers). Hans A. Hofmann is often cited by papers focused on Animal Behavior and Reproduction (70 papers), Neuroendocrine regulation and behavior (48 papers) and Primate Behavior and Ecology (15 papers). Hans A. Hofmann collaborates with scholars based in United States, Germany and Canada. Hans A. Hofmann's co-authors include Lauren A. O’Connell, Nadia Aubin‐Horth, Russell D. Fernald, Klaus Schildberger, H. Harris, Paul A. Stevenson, Susan C. P. Renn, Brian C. Trainor, Benjamin H. Letcher and Chelsea A. Weitekamp and has published in prestigious journals such as Nature, Science and Cell.

In The Last Decade

Hans A. Hofmann

134 papers receiving 7.3k 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.

Paternally Induced Transgenerational Environmental Reprogramming of Metabolic Gene Expression in Mammals

2010 836 citations Hans A. Hofmann et al. profile →
The Vertebrate mesolimbic reward system and social behavior network: A comparative synthesis

2011 734 citations Lauren A. O’Connell, Hans A. Hofmann profile →
Evolution of a Vertebrate Social Decision-Making Network

2012 436 citations Lauren A. O’Connell, Hans A. Hofmann Science profile →

Peers

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Russell D. Fernald United States

Dustin J. Penn Austria

Rui F. Oliveira Portugal

Andrew H. Bass United States

Barney A. Schlinger United States

Angelo Bisazza Italy

Kiran K. Soma Canada

Svante Winberg Sweden

David Crews United States

Gregory F. Ball United States

Russell D. Fernald United States

Hans A. Hofmann

4.2k ×1.3

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2.7k ×1.1

2.3k ×1.5

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3.0k ×2.4

1.9k ×1.6

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Citations per year, relative to Hans A. Hofmann Hans A. Hofmann (= 1×) peers Russell D. Fernald

Countries citing papers authored by Hans A. Hofmann

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Fields of papers citing papers by Hans A. Hofmann

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Physical SciencesHealth SciencesLife SciencesSocial Sciences

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Co-authorship network of co-authors of Hans A. Hofmann

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

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Lee, Won, et al.. (2025). Rapid changes in plasma corticosterone and medial amygdala transcriptome profiles during social status change reveal molecular pathways associated with a major life history transition in mouse dominance hierarchies. PLoS Genetics. 21(1). e1011548–e1011548. 1 indexed citations

Vági, Balázs, Hans A. Hofmann, Éva E. Plagányi, et al.. (2024). The evolution of exceptional diversity in parental care and fertilization modes in ray-finned fishes. Evolution. 78(10). 1673–1684. 3 indexed citations

Keagy, Jason, Hans A. Hofmann, & Janette W. Boughman. (2024). Mate choice in the brain: species differ in how male traits ‘turn on’ gene expression in female brains. Proceedings of the Royal Society B Biological Sciences. 291(2027). 20240121–20240121. 1 indexed citations

Hofmann, Hans A., et al.. (2023). The Promise of an Evolutionary Perspective of Alcohol Consumption. SHILAP Revista de lepidopterología. 18. 2308791493–2308791493. 6 indexed citations

Wallace, Kelly J., et al.. (2022). Social ascent changes cognition, behaviour and physiology in a highly social cichlid fish. Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society B Biological Sciences. 377(1845). 20200448–20200448. 19 indexed citations

Jordan, Alex, et al.. (2022). Neural activity patterns differ between learning contexts in a social fish. Proceedings of the Royal Society B Biological Sciences. 289(1974). 20220135–20220135. 4 indexed citations

Young, Rebecca L., et al.. (2021). EDCs Reorganize Brain-Behavior Phenotypic Relationships in Rats. Journal of the Endocrine Society. 5(5). bvab021–bvab021. 7 indexed citations

Goldsby, Heather J., et al.. (2021). Comparative Transcriptomics Reveals Distinct Patterns of Gene Expression Conservation through Vertebrate Embryogenesis. Genome Biology and Evolution. 13(8). 4 indexed citations

Wallace, Kelly J. & Hans A. Hofmann. (2021). Equal performance but distinct behaviors: sex differences in a novel object recognition task and spatial maze in a highly social cichlid fish. Animal Cognition. 24(5). 1057–1073. 18 indexed citations

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Whitaker, Keith W., et al.. (2021). Courting danger: socially dominant fish adjust their escape behavior and compensate for increased conspicuousness to avian predators. Hydrobiologia. 848(16). 3667–3681. 6 indexed citations

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Deußen, Oliver, et al.. (2020). Behavioral traits that define social dominance are the same that reduce social influence in a consensus task. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences. 117(31). 18566–18573. 25 indexed citations

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Young, Rebecca L., Laura Quintana, Harold H. Zakon, et al.. (2020). Brain transcriptomics of agonistic behaviour in the weakly electric fish Gymnotus omarorum, a wild teleost model of non-breeding aggression. Scientific Reports. 10(1). 9496–9496. 44 indexed citations

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DeAngelis, Ross & Hans A. Hofmann. (2020). Neural and molecular mechanisms underlying female mate choice decisions in vertebrates. Journal of Experimental Biology. 223(17). 16 indexed citations

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Wylie, Dennis, Hans A. Hofmann, & Boris V. Zemelman. (2019). SArKS: de novo discovery of gene expression regulatory motif sites and domains by suffix array kernel smoothing. Bioinformatics. 35(20). 3944–3952. 1 indexed citations

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Harris, H., et al.. (2019). Hippocampal transcriptomic responses to enzyme‐mediated cellular dissociation. Hippocampus. 29(9). 876–882. 4 indexed citations

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Li, Chengyu, Hans A. Hofmann, Melissa L. Harris, & Ryan L. Earley. (2018). Real or fake? Natural and artificial social stimuli elicit divergent behavioural and neural responses in mangrove rivulus, Kryptolebias marmoratus. Proceedings of the Royal Society B Biological Sciences. 285(1891). 20181610–20181610. 11 indexed citations

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Liebeskind, Benjamin J., Hans A. Hofmann, David M. Hillis, & Harold H. Zakon. (2017). Evolution of Animal Neural Systems. Annual Review of Ecology Evolution and Systematics. 48(1). 377–398. 35 indexed citations

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Dijkstra, Peter D., et al.. (2017). The melanocortin system regulates body pigmentation and social behaviour in a colour polymorphic cichlid fish . Proceedings of the Royal Society B Biological Sciences. 284(1851). 20162838–20162838. 58 indexed citations

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O’Connell, Lauren A. & Hans A. Hofmann. (2012). Evolution of a Vertebrate Social Decision-Making Network. Science. 336(6085). 1154–1157. 436 indexed citations breakdown →

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Aubin‐Horth, Nadia, Christian R. Landry, Benjamin H. Letcher, & Hans A. Hofmann. (2005). Alternative life histories shape brain gene expression profiles in males of the same population. Proceedings of the Royal Society B Biological Sciences. 272(1573). 1655–1662. 131 indexed citations

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