James P. Higham

6.4k total citations · 1 hit paper
148 papers, 3.8k citations indexed

About

James P. Higham is a scholar working on Social Psychology, Ecology, Evolution, Behavior and Systematics and Developmental Biology. According to data from OpenAlex, James P. Higham has authored 148 papers receiving a total of 3.8k indexed citations (citations by other indexed papers that have themselves been cited), including 102 papers in Social Psychology, 63 papers in Ecology, Evolution, Behavior and Systematics and 30 papers in Developmental Biology. Recurrent topics in James P. Higham's work include Primate Behavior and Ecology (91 papers), Animal Behavior and Reproduction (58 papers) and Animal Vocal Communication and Behavior (30 papers). James P. Higham is often cited by papers focused on Primate Behavior and Ecology (91 papers), Animal Behavior and Reproduction (58 papers) and Animal Vocal Communication and Behavior (30 papers). James P. Higham collaborates with scholars based in United States, United Kingdom and Germany. James P. Higham's co-authors include Michael Heistermann, Dario Maestripieri, Alex R. DeCasien, Scott A. Williams, Andrew Gosler, Eileen A. Hebets, Constance Dubuc, William L. Allen, Martin Stevens and Caroline Ross and has published in prestigious journals such as Science, Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences and Nature Communications.

In The Last Decade

James P. Higham

137 papers receiving 3.7k 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.

Primate brain size is predicted by diet but not sociality

2017 281 citations Alex R. DeCasien, James P. Higham et al. profile →

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Name	h						Papers	Cites
James P. Higham United States	37	2.2k	1.8k	619	618	606	148	3.8k
Lauren J. N. Brent United Kingdom	30	1.7k 0.8×	1.2k 0.7×	536 0.9×	567 0.9×	599 1.0×	90	2.9k
Ann MacLarnon United Kingdom	31	1.5k 0.7×	1.2k 0.7×	549 0.9×	371 0.6×	586 1.0×	65	2.8k
Stuart Semple United Kingdom	36	1.8k 0.8×	1.2k 0.7×	952 1.5×	433 0.7×	510 0.8×	89	3.1k
Lauren A. O’Connell United States	28	1.6k 0.7×	1.3k 0.8×	302 0.5×	405 0.7×	465 0.8×	90	3.4k
Joanna M. Setchell United Kingdom	34	2.1k 0.9×	1.7k 0.9×	512 0.8×	632 1.0×	754 1.2×	85	3.1k
Jacinta C. Beehner United States	34	3.5k 1.6×	2.4k 1.4×	1.2k 1.9×	1.1k 1.9×	728 1.2×	89	4.8k
Eduardo Fernández‐Duque United States	31	1.9k 0.9×	1.2k 0.7×	733 1.2×	453 0.7×	614 1.0×	104	2.7k
Thore J. Bergman United States	37	3.6k 1.6×	2.6k 1.5×	1.6k 2.6×	1.1k 1.8×	806 1.3×	94	5.1k
Melissa Emery Thompson United States	39	2.9k 1.3×	1.6k 0.9×	751 1.2×	1.4k 2.3×	556 0.9×	140	5.0k
Marie J. E. Charpentier France	31	1.4k 0.7×	1.2k 0.7×	396 0.6×	449 0.7×	627 1.0×	77	2.8k

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Co-authorship network of co-authors of James P. Higham

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González, Nicole Thompson, et al.. (2025). Costs and constraints of cellular immune activity during development in an arboreal primate. Royal Society Open Science. 12(4). 241659–241659.

Snyder‐Mackler, Noah, et al.. (2024). Associations between social behaviour and proinflammatory immune activation are modulated by age in a free-ranging primate population. Animal Behaviour. 219. 123021–123021.

Siracusa, Erin R., Michael L. Platt, Noah Snyder‐Mackler, et al.. (2024). Social ageing can protect against infectious disease in a group-living primate. Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society B Biological Sciences. 379(1916). 20220462–20220462. 8 indexed citations

Heistermann, Michael, et al.. (2024). Associations between fecal glucocorticoid levels and social bonds vary with relatedness in juvenile rhesus macaques. Scientific Reports. 14(1). 30966–30966.

Brent, Lauren J. N., et al.. (2024). Demography and climate influence sex‐specific survival costs of reproduction over 60 years in a free ranging primate population. Oikos. 2024(10). 1 indexed citations

Watowich, Marina M., Kenneth L. Chiou, Rachel M. Petersen, et al.. (2024). Immune gene regulation is associated with age and environmental adversity in a nonhuman primate. Molecular Ecology. 33(21). e17445–e17445.

Fontsere, Claudia, Richard A. Bergl, Magdalena Bermejo, et al.. (2023). Past Connectivity but Recent Inbreeding in Cross River Gorillas Determined Using Whole Genomes from Single Hairs. Genes. 14(3). 743–743. 6 indexed citations

Newman, Laura, Marina M. Watowich, Erin R. Siracusa, et al.. (2023). Social Status is Associated with Impaired Anti-Inflammatory Response in Free-Ranging Male Rhesus Macaques. The Journal of Immunology. 210(Supplement_1). 248.13–248.13. 1 indexed citations

Aung, Toe, Alexander K. Hill, Dana Pfefferle, et al.. (2023). Group size and mating system predict sex differences in vocal fundamental frequency in anthropoid primates. Nature Communications. 14(1). 4069–4069. 8 indexed citations

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Williams, Hannah J., Vivek H. Sridhar, Edward Hurme, et al.. (2023). Sensory collectives in natural systems. eLife. 12. 6 indexed citations

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Watowich, Marina M., Kenneth L. Chiou, Brian Graves, et al.. (2023). Best practices for genotype imputation from low‐coverage sequencing data in natural populations. Molecular Ecology Resources. 25(5). e13854–e13854. 11 indexed citations

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DeCasien, Alex R., et al.. (2022). Greater variability in rhesus macaque ( Macaca mulatta ) endocranial volume among males than females. Proceedings of the Royal Society B Biological Sciences. 289(1986). 20220728–20220728. 2 indexed citations

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Higham, James P., Luke A. Pattison, Toni S. Taylor, et al.. (2022). Sensitization of colonic nociceptors by TNFα is dependent on TNFR1 expression and p38 MAPK activity. The Journal of Physiology. 600(16). 3819–3836. 13 indexed citations

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Chiou, Kenneth L., Michael J. Montague, Marina M. Watowich, et al.. (2020). Rhesus macaques as a tractable physiological model of human ageing. Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society B Biological Sciences. 375(1811). 20190612–20190612. 72 indexed citations

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DeCasien, Alex R., Chet C. Sherwood, Steven J. Schapiro, & James P. Higham. (2020). Greater variability in chimpanzee ( Pan troglodytes ) brain structure among males. Proceedings of the Royal Society B Biological Sciences. 287(1925). 20192858–20192858. 9 indexed citations

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Melin, Amanda, et al.. (2020). Comparative ACE2 variation and primate COVID-19 risk. Communications Biology. 3(1). 641–641. 110 indexed citations

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Semple, Stuart, et al.. (2019). Experimental evidence that female rhesus macaques ( Macaca mulatta ) perceive variation in male facial masculinity. Royal Society Open Science. 6(1). 181415–181415. 10 indexed citations

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Higham, James P. & Nathaniel J. Dominy. (2018). The promise of primatology fulfilled?. American Journal of Physical Anthropology. 166(4). 783–790. 4 indexed citations

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Higham, James P., et al.. (2013). Multimodal Sexual Signaling and Mating Behavior in Olive Baboons (Papio anubis). American Journal of Primatology. 75(7). 774–787. 28 indexed citations

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Higham, James P., et al.. (2012). The mating and signaling system of the socially-tolerant crested macaque. 1 indexed citations

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