Jonathan Birch

3.8k total citations
81 papers, 1.6k citations indexed

About

Jonathan Birch is a scholar working on Sociology and Political Science, Cognitive Neuroscience and Social Psychology. According to data from OpenAlex, Jonathan Birch has authored 81 papers receiving a total of 1.6k indexed citations (citations by other indexed papers that have themselves been cited), including 32 papers in Sociology and Political Science, 25 papers in Cognitive Neuroscience and 20 papers in Social Psychology. Recurrent topics in Jonathan Birch's work include Evolutionary Game Theory and Cooperation (30 papers), Psychology of Moral and Emotional Judgment (15 papers) and Evolution and Genetic Dynamics (10 papers). Jonathan Birch is often cited by papers focused on Evolutionary Game Theory and Cooperation (30 papers), Psychology of Moral and Emotional Judgment (15 papers) and Evolution and Genetic Dynamics (10 papers). Jonathan Birch collaborates with scholars based in United Kingdom, United States and Australia. Jonathan Birch's co-authors include Alexandra K. Schnell, Heather Browning, Nicola S. Clayton, Andrew Crump, Samir Okasha, Charlotte C. Burn, Eva Jablonka, Simona Ginsburg, Cecilia Heyes and Meghan Barrett and has published in prestigious journals such as Nature Medicine, Current Biology and Trends in Cognitive Sciences.

In The Last Decade

Jonathan Birch

76 papers receiving 1.5k citations

Peers — A (Enhanced Table)

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

Name h Career Trend Papers Cites
Jonathan Birch United Kingdom 20 409 390 375 349 243 81 1.6k
Jessica C. Flack United States 19 580 1.4× 252 0.6× 239 0.6× 605 1.7× 650 2.7× 43 2.0k
Lynda Birke United Kingdom 27 371 0.9× 145 0.4× 584 1.6× 566 1.6× 179 0.7× 103 2.2k
Stefano Ghirlanda Sweden 26 927 2.3× 887 2.3× 472 1.3× 625 1.8× 527 2.2× 70 2.9k
Karen L. Hollis United States 22 113 0.3× 170 0.4× 417 1.1× 379 1.1× 663 2.7× 48 1.3k
Tim W. Fawcett United Kingdom 26 361 0.9× 165 0.4× 411 1.1× 494 1.4× 1.2k 5.1× 54 2.3k
Jennifer Vonk United States 25 477 1.2× 562 1.4× 542 1.4× 1.5k 4.4× 368 1.5× 124 2.8k
Jeffrey C. Schank United States 21 227 0.6× 129 0.3× 155 0.4× 309 0.9× 312 1.3× 58 1.0k
Jeremy Kendal United Kingdom 21 567 1.4× 99 0.3× 204 0.5× 600 1.7× 525 2.2× 44 1.7k
Pete C. Trimmer United Kingdom 20 221 0.5× 241 0.6× 223 0.6× 221 0.6× 514 2.1× 33 1.2k
Alex H. Taylor New Zealand 25 254 0.6× 289 0.7× 182 0.5× 1.1k 3.1× 635 2.6× 88 1.9k

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All Works

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Birch, Jonathan, et al.. (2025). When and why are motivational trade-offs evidence of sentience?. Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society B Biological Sciences. 380(1939). 20240309–20240309. 3 indexed citations
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Browning, Heather, Charlotte C. Burn, Alexandra K. Schnell, Andrew Crump, & Jonathan Birch. (2025). Animal welfare risks from commercial practices involving cephalopod molluscs and decapod crustaceans. Animal Welfare. 34. e24–e24. 1 indexed citations
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Caviola, Lucius, Jeff Sebo, & Jonathan Birch. (2025). What will society think about AI consciousness? Lessons from the animal case. Trends in Cognitive Sciences. 29(8). 681–683. 1 indexed citations
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Long, Robert P., Tim Bayne, Yoshua Bengio, et al.. (2025). Identifying indicators of consciousness in AI systems. Trends in Cognitive Sciences.
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Birch, Jonathan. (2024). The Edge of Sentience. LSE Research Online. 26 indexed citations
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Paul, Elizabeth S., et al.. (2024). To test the boundaries of consciousness, study animals. Trends in Cognitive Sciences. 28(10). 874–875. 2 indexed citations
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Browning, Heather & Jonathan Birch. (2022). Animal sentience. Philosophy Compass. 17(5). e12822–e12822. 56 indexed citations
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Crump, Andrew, Heather Browning, Alexandra K. Schnell, Charlotte C. Burn, & Jonathan Birch. (2022). Invertebrate sentience and sustainable seafood. Nature Food. 3(11). 884–886. 13 indexed citations
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Birch, Jonathan, Charlotte C. Burn, Alexandra K. Schnell, Heather Browning, & Andrew Crump. (2021). Review of the Evidence of Sentience in Cephalopod Molluscs and Decapod Crustaceans. London School of Economics and Political Science Research Online (London School of Economics and Political Science). 52 indexed citations
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Birch, Jonathan. (2021). The Skilful Origins of Human Normative Cognition. Analyse & Kritik. 43(1). 191–202. 1 indexed citations
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Birch, Jonathan. (2021). Refining the Skill Hypothesis: Replies to Andrews/Westra, Tomasello, Sterelny, and Railton. Analyse & Kritik. 43(1). 253–260.
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Birch, Jonathan & Cecilia Heyes. (2021). The cultural evolution of cultural evolution. Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society B Biological Sciences. 376(1828). 20200051–20200051. 29 indexed citations
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Birch, Jonathan, Alexandra K. Schnell, & Nicola S. Clayton. (2020). Dimensions of Animal Consciousness. Trends in Cognitive Sciences. 24(10). 789–801. 166 indexed citations
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Birch, Jonathan, Simona Ginsburg, & Eva Jablonka. (2020). Unlimited Associative Learning and the origins of consciousness: a primer and some predictions. Biology & Philosophy. 35(6). 56–56. 62 indexed citations
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Birch, Jonathan. (2019). Are kin and group selection rivals or friends?. Current Biology. 29(11). R433–R438. 9 indexed citations
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Birch, Jonathan. (2019). Inclusive fitness as a criterion for improvement. Studies in History and Philosophy of Science Part C Studies in History and Philosophy of Biological and Biomedical Sciences. 76. 101186–101186. 5 indexed citations
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Birch, Jonathan. (2018). On crabs and statistics. Animal Sentience. 2(16). 2 indexed citations
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Birch, Jonathan. (2017). The Philosophy of Social Evolution. Oxford University Press eBooks. 76 indexed citations
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Birch, Jonathan. (2017). The inclusive fitness controversy: finding a way forward. Royal Society Open Science. 4(7). 170335–170335. 32 indexed citations
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Birch, Jonathan. (2015). Natural selection and the maximization of fitness. Biological reviews/Biological reviews of the Cambridge Philosophical Society. 91(3). 712–727. 38 indexed citations

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