Joan B. Silk

18.0k total citations · 3 hit papers
137 papers, 11.3k citations indexed

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Joan B. Silk is a scholar working on Social Psychology, Experimental and Cognitive Psychology and Ecology, Evolution, Behavior and Systematics. According to data from OpenAlex, Joan B. Silk has authored 137 papers receiving a total of 11.3k indexed citations (citations by other indexed papers that have themselves been cited), including 109 papers in Social Psychology, 60 papers in Experimental and Cognitive Psychology and 56 papers in Ecology, Evolution, Behavior and Systematics. Recurrent topics in Joan B. Silk's work include Primate Behavior and Ecology (101 papers), Evolutionary Psychology and Human Behavior (59 papers) and Animal Behavior and Reproduction (56 papers). Joan B. Silk is often cited by papers focused on Primate Behavior and Ecology (101 papers), Evolutionary Psychology and Human Behavior (59 papers) and Animal Behavior and Reproduction (56 papers). Joan B. Silk collaborates with scholars based in United States, Germany and Kenya. Joan B. Silk's co-authors include Jeanne Altmann, Susan C. Alberts, Dorothy L. Cheney, Robert M. Seyfarth, Bailey R. House, Joseph Henrich, Thore J. Bergman, Jacinta C. Beehner, Amy Samuels and Liza R. Moscovice and has published in prestigious journals such as Nature, Science and Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences.

In The Last Decade

Joan B. Silk

135 papers receiving 10.8k 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 Bonds of Female Baboons Enhance Infant Survival

2003 767 citations Joan B. Silk, Susan C. Alberts et al. profile →
Strong and Consistent Social Bonds Enhance the Longevity of Female Baboons

2010 541 citations Joan B. Silk, Robert M. Seyfarth et al. Current Biology profile →
The adaptive value of sociality in mammalian groups

2007 521 citations Joan B. Silk 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
Joan B. Silk United States	57	8.0k	4.8k	3.3k	2.9k	2.3k	137	11.3k
Dario Maestripieri United States	55	6.0k 0.7×	2.4k 0.5×	2.4k 0.7×	1.4k 0.5×	679 0.3×	215	9.5k
Anne E. Pusey United States	61	6.2k 0.8×	5.4k 1.1×	1.9k 0.6×	2.3k 0.8×	1.2k 0.5×	136	13.3k
Robert A. Hinde United Kingdom	59	6.9k 0.9×	3.4k 0.7×	2.1k 0.6×	2.2k 0.8×	2.4k 1.0×	231	15.8k
Jane Goodall United States	37	5.2k 0.7×	2.3k 0.5×	1.4k 0.4×	2.0k 0.7×	847 0.4×	94	7.6k
Dorothy L. Cheney United States	79	12.0k 1.5×	8.3k 1.7×	3.6k 1.1×	8.5k 2.9×	1.9k 0.8×	158	18.2k
Richard W. Wrangham United States	89	15.9k 2.0×	7.9k 1.6×	4.1k 1.3×	6.1k 2.1×	3.5k 1.5×	285	24.4k
Peter M. Kappeler Germany	65	8.1k 1.0×	7.4k 1.5×	1.5k 0.5×	3.5k 1.2×	933 0.4×	291	12.9k
Susan C. Alberts United States	64	7.7k 1.0×	5.3k 1.1×	2.4k 0.7×	2.2k 0.8×	911 0.4×	187	12.4k
S. Peter Henzi South Africa	43	4.4k 0.6×	3.3k 0.7×	1.8k 0.5×	2.0k 0.7×	746 0.3×	158	7.1k
Bennett G. Galef Canada	52	4.6k 0.6×	3.3k 0.7×	877 0.3×	1.2k 0.4×	1.1k 0.5×	225	9.6k

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Silk, Joan B.. (2025). The natural history of social bonds. Annals of the New York Academy of Sciences. 1546(1). 90–99. 1 indexed citations

Silk, Joan B., et al.. (2025). Reevaluating the relationship between female sociality and infant survival in wild baboons. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences. 122(20). e2417378122–e2417378122. 1 indexed citations

House, Bailey R., Joan B. Silk, & Katherine McAuliffe. (2022). No strong evidence for universal gender differences in the development of cooperative behaviour across societies. Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society B Biological Sciences. 378(1868). 20210439–20210439. 9 indexed citations

Fox, Stephanie A., Brooke A. Scelza, Joan B. Silk, & Karen L. Kramer. (2022). New perspectives on the evolution of women's cooperation. Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society B Biological Sciences. 378(1868). 20210424–20210424. 8 indexed citations

Rosenbaum, Stacy & Joan B. Silk. (2022). Pathways to paternal care in primates. Evolutionary Anthropology Issues News and Reviews. 31(5). 245–262. 15 indexed citations

Silk, Joan B., Veronika Städele, Eila K. Roberts, Linda Vigilant, & Shirley C. Strum. (2020). Shifts in Male Reproductive Tactics over the Life Course in a Polygynandrous Mammal. Current Biology. 30(9). 1716–1720.e3. 15 indexed citations

Silk, Joan B.. (2019). Dorothy Cheney (1950–2018). Evolutionary Anthropology Issues News and Reviews. 28(2). 50–51.

House, Bailey R., Patricia Kanngießer, H. Clark Barrett, et al.. (2019). Universal norm psychology leads to societal diversity in prosocial behaviour and development. Nature Human Behaviour. 4(1). 36–44. 125 indexed citations

Städele, Veronika, et al.. (2019). Male–female relationships in olive baboons (Papio anubis): Parenting or mating effort?. Journal of Human Evolution. 127. 81–92. 25 indexed citations

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Silk, Joan B., Robert M. Seyfarth, & Dorothy L. Cheney. (2018). Quality versus quantity: do weak bonds enhance the fitness of female baboons?. Animal Behaviour. 140. 207–211. 21 indexed citations

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Silk, Joan B., et al.. (2018). To grunt or not to grunt: Factors governing call production in female olive baboons, Papio anubis. PLoS ONE. 13(11). e0204601–e0204601. 5 indexed citations

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Silk, Joan B., et al.. (2017). Female–male relationships influence the form of female–female relationships in olive baboons, Papio anubis. Animal Behaviour. 131. 89–98. 11 indexed citations

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Cheney, Dorothy L., Joan B. Silk, & Robert M. Seyfarth. (2016). Network connections, dyadic bonds and fitness in wild female baboons. Royal Society Open Science. 3(7). 160255–160255. 88 indexed citations

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Silk, Joan B., Robert M. Seyfarth, & Dorothy L. Cheney. (2016). Strategic Use of Affiliative Vocalizations by Wild Female Baboons. PLoS ONE. 11(10). e0163978–e0163978. 33 indexed citations

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Cheney, Dorothy L., Joan B. Silk, & Robert M. Seyfarth. (2012). Evidence for intrasexual selection in wild female baboons. Animal Behaviour. 84(1). 21–27. 38 indexed citations

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Cronin, Katherine A., et al.. (2009). Cooperatively breeding cottontop tamarins (Saguinus oedipus) do not donate rewards to their long-term mates.. Journal of comparative psychology. 123(3). 231–241. 75 indexed citations

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Silk, Joan B., Sarah F. Brosnan, Jennifer Vonk, et al.. (2005). Chimpanzees are indifferent to the welfare of unrelated group members. Nature. 437(7063). 1357–1359. 336 indexed citations

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Silk, Joan B.. (1998). Making amends. Human Nature. 9(4). 341–368. 23 indexed citations

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Cheney, Dorothy L., et al.. (1995). The responses of female baboons (Papio cynocephalus ursinus) to anomalous social interactions: Evidence for causal reasoning?. Journal of comparative psychology. 109(2). 134–141. 99 indexed citations

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Silk, Joan B.. (1992). The origins of caregiving behavior. American Journal of Physical Anthropology. 87(2). 227–229. 2 indexed citations

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