Jason M. Kamilar

2.9k total citations · 1 hit paper
67 papers, 1.8k citations indexed

About

Jason M. Kamilar is a scholar working on Social Psychology, Ecology, Evolution, Behavior and Systematics and Ecology. According to data from OpenAlex, Jason M. Kamilar has authored 67 papers receiving a total of 1.8k indexed citations (citations by other indexed papers that have themselves been cited), including 46 papers in Social Psychology, 28 papers in Ecology, Evolution, Behavior and Systematics and 25 papers in Ecology. Recurrent topics in Jason M. Kamilar's work include Primate Behavior and Ecology (44 papers), Wildlife Ecology and Conservation (24 papers) and Animal Behavior and Reproduction (22 papers). Jason M. Kamilar is often cited by papers focused on Primate Behavior and Ecology (44 papers), Wildlife Ecology and Conservation (24 papers) and Animal Behavior and Reproduction (22 papers). Jason M. Kamilar collaborates with scholars based in United States, United Kingdom and Germany. Jason M. Kamilar's co-authors include Natalie Cooper, Brenda J. Bradley, Lydia Beaudrot, Kathleen M. Muldoon, Kaye E. Reed, Margaret Hall, E. Christopher Kirk, Andrea L. Baden, Justin A. Ledogar and Herman Pontzer 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

Jason M. Kamilar

62 papers receiving 1.8k citations

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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.

Phylogenetic signal in primate behaviour, ecology and life history

2013 345 citations Jason M. Kamilar, Natalie Cooper Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society B Biological Sciences profile →

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

Name	h						Papers	Cites
Jason M. Kamilar United States	26	905	817	662	343	259	67	1.8k
Jean P. Boubli Brazil	23	1.1k 1.2×	509 0.6×	732 1.1×	366 1.1×	411 1.6×	77	1.8k
Mitchell T. Irwin United States	22	1.2k 1.3×	776 0.9×	681 1.0×	207 0.6×	609 2.4×	51	1.8k
Jéssica W. Lynch Alfaro United States	19	794 0.9×	389 0.5×	345 0.5×	329 1.0×	281 1.1×	20	1.3k
Xuelong Jiang China	27	544 0.6×	852 1.0×	868 1.3×	412 1.2×	251 1.0×	128	2.1k
Pierre Charles‐Dominique France	21	598 0.7×	1.0k 1.3×	729 1.1×	350 1.0×	289 1.1×	40	2.1k
Richard W. Thorington United States	31	534 0.6×	874 1.1×	1.0k 1.5×	882 2.6×	237 0.9×	62	2.1k
Alejandro González‐Voyer Mexico	23	317 0.4×	1.1k 1.3×	696 1.1×	169 0.5×	485 1.9×	57	1.8k
Eileen A. Lacey United States	28	624 0.7×	1.2k 1.5×	1.3k 2.0×	406 1.2×	106 0.4×	104	2.6k
Isabella Capellini United Kingdom	19	351 0.4×	479 0.6×	492 0.7×	153 0.4×	231 0.9×	36	1.4k
Kathrin H. Dausmann Germany	26	665 0.7×	1.5k 1.8×	1.0k 1.6×	88 0.3×	335 1.3×	64	2.1k

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Co-authorship network of co-authors of Jason M. Kamilar

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20 of 20 papers shown

Mubemba, Benjamin, et al.. (2025). A Friendlier “Kinda” Social System: Male Kinda Baboons Invest in Long‐Term Social Bonds With Females. American Journal of Biological Anthropology. 186(1). e25056–e25056.

Rowan, John, Andrew Du, Erick Lundgren, et al.. (2024). Long-term biotic homogenization in the East African Rift System over the last 6 million years of hominin evolution. Nature Ecology & Evolution. 8(9). 1751–1759. 1 indexed citations

Sandel, Aaron A., Jeremiah E. Scott, & Jason M. Kamilar. (2024). Primate Behavior and the Importance of Comparative Studies in Biological Anthropology. American Journal of Biological Anthropology. 186(S78). e70009–e70009. 1 indexed citations

Bertone‐Johnson, Elizabeth R., et al.. (2024). Chronic stress, social support, and symptoms at midlife. Is there a buffering effect?. American Journal of Biological Anthropology. 184(2). e24936–e24936. 1 indexed citations

Lieberman, Daniel E., et al.. (2023). Variation in human functional eccrine gland density and its implications for the evolution of human sweating. American Journal of Biological Anthropology. 181(3). 379–391. 4 indexed citations

Kamilar, Jason M., et al.. (2023). Effects of camera trap placement on photo rates of jaguars, their prey, and competitors in northwestern Costa Rica. SHILAP Revista de lepidopterología. 47(2). 7 indexed citations

Anestis, Stephanie F., et al.. (2020). Does facial hair greying in chimpanzees provide a salient progressive cue of aging?. PLoS ONE. 15(7). e0235610–e0235610. 2 indexed citations

Kamilar, Jason M., et al.. (2019). Sexual selection in the Kinda baboon. Journal of Human Evolution. 135. 102635–102635. 20 indexed citations

Baden, Andrea L., Sarah Federman, Sheila M. Holmes, et al.. (2019). Anthropogenic pressures drive population genetic structuring across a Critically Endangered lemur species range. Scientific Reports. 9(1). 16276–16276. 17 indexed citations

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Kamilar, Jason M., et al.. (2018). Dominance and Migration in Kinda Baboon Males. 1 indexed citations

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Irwin, Mitchell T., et al.. (2018). Subtle sexual dichromatism and dimorphism detected in wild Propithecus diadema.

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Kamilar, Jason M., et al.. (2018). The evolution of eccrine sweat glands in human and nonhuman primates. Journal of Human Evolution. 117. 33–43. 41 indexed citations

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Kamilar, Jason M., Lydia Beaudrot, & Kaye E. Reed. (2015). Climate and Species Richness Predict the Phylogenetic Structure of African Mammal Communities. PLoS ONE. 10(4). e0121808–e0121808. 45 indexed citations

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Kamilar, Jason M. & Andrea L. Baden. (2014). What drives flexibility in primate social organization?. Behavioral Ecology and Sociobiology. 68(10). 1677–1692. 19 indexed citations

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Kamilar, Jason M. & Natalie Cooper. (2013). Phylogenetic signal in primate behaviour, ecology and life history. Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society B Biological Sciences. 368(1618). 20120341–20120341. 345 indexed citations breakdown →

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Tecot, Stacey R., et al.. (2012). Infant parking and nesting, not allomaternal care, influence Malagasy primate life histories. Behavioral Ecology and Sociobiology. 66(10). 1375–1386. 32 indexed citations

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Kamilar, Jason M., Kathleen M. Muldoon, Shawn M. Lehman, & James P. Herrera. (2012). Testing Bergmann's rule and the resource seasonality hypothesis in Malagasy primates using GIS‐based climate data. American Journal of Physical Anthropology. 147(3). 401–408. 29 indexed citations

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Pointer, Marie A., Jason M. Kamilar, Vera Warmuth, et al.. (2012). RUNX2 tandem repeats and the evolution of facial length in placental mammals. BMC Evolutionary Biology. 12(1). 103–103. 35 indexed citations

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Kamilar, Jason M., et al.. (2008). Examining the extinction risk of specialized folivores: a comparative study of Colobine monkeys. American Journal of Primatology. 70(9). 816–827. 29 indexed citations

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Kamilar, Jason M.. (2008). Environmental and geographic correlates of the taxonomic structure of primate communities. American Journal of Physical Anthropology. 139(3). 382–393. 62 indexed citations

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