Jenny Tung

9.1k total citations · 2 hit papers
95 papers, 4.8k citations indexed

About

Jenny Tung is a scholar working on Social Psychology, Molecular Biology and Genetics. According to data from OpenAlex, Jenny Tung has authored 95 papers receiving a total of 4.8k indexed citations (citations by other indexed papers that have themselves been cited), including 50 papers in Social Psychology, 34 papers in Molecular Biology and 23 papers in Genetics. Recurrent topics in Jenny Tung's work include Primate Behavior and Ecology (42 papers), Animal Behavior and Reproduction (17 papers) and Neuroendocrine regulation and behavior (16 papers). Jenny Tung is often cited by papers focused on Primate Behavior and Ecology (42 papers), Animal Behavior and Reproduction (17 papers) and Neuroendocrine regulation and behavior (16 papers). Jenny Tung collaborates with scholars based in United States, Kenya and Canada. Jenny Tung's co-authors include Susan C. Alberts, Elizabeth A. Archie, Jeanne Altmann, Luis B. Barreiro, Yoav Gilad, Amanda J. Lea, Noah Snyder‐Mackler, Ran Blekhman, Athma A. Pai and Irene Gallego Romero and has published in prestigious journals such as Nature, Science and Cell.

In The Last Decade

Jenny Tung

90 papers receiving 4.8k 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.

Social determinants of health and survival in humans and other animals

2020 393 citations Noah Snyder‐Mackler, Joseph R. Burger et al. Science profile →
Social networks predict gut microbiome composition in wild baboons

2015 355 citations Jenny Tung, Luis B. Barreiro et al. eLife profile →

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Elizabeth A. Archie United States

Elizabeth V. Lonsdorf United States

Derek E. Wildman United States

Noah Snyder‐Mackler United States

Martin N. Muller United States

Jane L. Hurst United Kingdom

Jeffrey Rogers United States

Melissa Emery Thompson United States

Dustin J. Penn Austria

Gregory E. Demas United States

Elizabeth A. Archie United States

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Fields of papers citing papers by Jenny Tung

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Co-authorship network of co-authors of Jenny Tung

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20 of 20 papers shown

Jansen, David, J. Kinyua Warutere, Jenny Tung, Susan C. Alberts, & Elizabeth A. Archie. (2025). Early-life paternal relationships predict adult female survival in wild baboons. Proceedings of the Royal Society B Biological Sciences. 292(2049). 20250194–20250194.

Dasari, Mauna, Kimberly Roche, David Jansen, et al.. (2025). Social and environmental predictors of gut microbiome age in wild baboons. eLife. 13. 1 indexed citations

Rivas-González, Iker & Jenny Tung. (2024). A multi-million-year natural experiment. Evolution Medicine and Public Health. 12(1). 67–70.

Johnston, Rachel A., Katherine A Aracena, Luis B. Barreiro, Amanda J. Lea, & Jenny Tung. (2024). DNA methylation-environment interactions in the human genome. eLife. 12. 7 indexed citations

Campbell, C. Ryan, Marta B. Manser, Mari Shiratori, et al.. (2024). A female‐biased gene expression signature of dominance in cooperatively breeding meerkats. Molecular Ecology. 33(21). e17467–e17467. 1 indexed citations

Tung, Jenny, et al.. (2023). Social and early life determinants of survival from cradle to grave: A case study in wild baboons. Neuroscience & Biobehavioral Reviews. 152. 105282–105282. 14 indexed citations

Zipple, Matthew N., Elizabeth A. Archie, Jenny Tung, et al.. (2023). Five Decades of Data Yield No Support for Adaptive Biasing of Offspring Sex Ratio in Wild Baboons ( Papio cynocephalus ). The American Naturalist. 202(4). 383–398. 2 indexed citations

Kimwele, Charles, et al.. (2023). Ecology and age, but not genetic ancestry, predict fetal loss in a wild baboon hybrid zone. American Journal of Biological Anthropology. 180(4). 618–632. 2 indexed citations

McLean, Emily M., Jacob A. Moorad, Jenny Tung, Elizabeth A. Archie, & Susan C. Alberts. (2023). Genetic variance and indirect genetic effects for affiliative social behavior in a wild primate. Evolution. 77(7). 1607–1621. 8 indexed citations

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Archie, Elizabeth A., et al.. (2023). Environmental, sex-specific and genetic determinants of infant social behaviour in a wild primate. Proceedings of the Royal Society B Biological Sciences. 290(2011). 20231597–20231597. 2 indexed citations

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Lee, Anna, et al.. (2023). Early life drought predicts components of adult body size in wild female baboons. American Journal of Biological Anthropology. 182(3). 357–371. 6 indexed citations

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Roche, Kimberly, Johannes R. Björk, Mauna Dasari, et al.. (2023). Universal gut microbial relationships in the gut microbiome of wild baboons. eLife. 12. 12 indexed citations

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Vilgalys, Tauras P., Raphael S. Mututua, J. Kinyua Warutere, et al.. (2022). Selection against admixture and gene regulatory divergence in a long-term primate field study. Science. 377(6606). 635–641. 38 indexed citations

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Mututua, Raphael S., J. Kinyua Warutere, Jeanne Altmann, et al.. (2022). Mechanisms of inbreeding avoidance in a wild primate. Current Biology. 32(7). 1607–1615.e4. 14 indexed citations

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Johnston, Rachel A., Amanda J. Lea, Fernando A. Campos, et al.. (2021). High social status males experience accelerated epigenetic aging in wild baboons. eLife. 10. 61 indexed citations

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Snyder‐Mackler, Noah, Joseph R. Burger, Lauren Gaydosh, et al.. (2020). Social determinants of health and survival in humans and other animals. Science. 368(6493). 393 indexed citations breakdown →

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Sanz, Joaquín, Paul L. Maurizio, Noah Snyder‐Mackler, et al.. (2019). Social history and exposure to pathogen signals modulate social status effects on gene regulation in rhesus macaques. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences. 117(38). 23317–23322. 25 indexed citations

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Vilgalys, Tauras P., et al.. (2018). Evolution of DNA Methylation in Papio Baboons. Molecular Biology and Evolution. 36(3). 527–540. 9 indexed citations

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Snyder‐Mackler, Noah, William H. Majoros, Michael L. Yuan, et al.. (2016). Efficient Genome-Wide Sequencing and Low-Coverage Pedigree Analysis from Noninvasively Collected Samples. Genetics. 203(2). 699–714. 61 indexed citations

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Tung, Jenny, Luis B. Barreiro, Zachary P. Johnson, et al.. (2012). Social environment is associated with gene regulatory variation in the rhesus macaque immune system. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences. 109(17). 6490–6495. 203 indexed citations

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