Josep Call

50.2k total citations · 9 hit papers
427 papers, 27.3k citations indexed

About

Josep Call is a scholar working on Developmental and Educational Psychology, Social Psychology and Cognitive Neuroscience. According to data from OpenAlex, Josep Call has authored 427 papers receiving a total of 27.3k indexed citations (citations by other indexed papers that have themselves been cited), including 298 papers in Developmental and Educational Psychology, 294 papers in Social Psychology and 110 papers in Cognitive Neuroscience. Recurrent topics in Josep Call's work include Child and Animal Learning Development (290 papers), Primate Behavior and Ecology (263 papers) and Memory and Neural Mechanisms (68 papers). Josep Call is often cited by papers focused on Child and Animal Learning Development (290 papers), Primate Behavior and Ecology (263 papers) and Memory and Neural Mechanisms (68 papers). Josep Call collaborates with scholars based in Germany, United Kingdom and United States. Josep Call's co-authors include Michael Tomasello, Malinda Carpenter, Brian Hare, Tanya Behne, Juliane Kaminski, Henrike Moll, Juliane Bräuer, Claudio Tennie, Esther Herrmann and Filippo Aureli and has published in prestigious journals such as Science, Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences and Nature Communications.

In The Last Decade

Josep Call

416 papers receiving 26.0k 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.

Understanding and sharing intentions: The origins of cultural cognition

2005 2.6k citations Michael Tomasello, Josep Call et al. profile →
Humans Have Evolved Specialized Skills of Social Cognition: The Cultural Intelligence Hypothesis

2007 832 citations Josep Call, María Victoria Hernández‐Lloreda et al. Science profile →
Primate cognition

1997 757 citations Michael Tomasello, Josep Call profile →
Does the chimpanzee have a theory of mind? 30 years later

2008 708 citations Josep Call, Michael Tomasello profile →
Fission‐Fusion Dynamics

2008 695 citations Filippo Aureli, Josep Call et al. profile →
Ratcheting up the ratchet: on the evolution of cumulative culture

2009 658 citations Josep Call, Michael Tomasello et al. profile →
Do chimpanzees know what conspecifics know?

2001 550 citations Josep Call, Michael Tomasello et al. Animal Behaviour profile →
Chimpanzees know what conspecifics do and do not see

2000 536 citations Josep Call, Michael Tomasello et al. Animal Behaviour profile →
Great apes anticipate that other individuals will act according to false beliefs

2016 366 citations Christopher Krupenye, Fumihiro Kano et al. Science profile →

Author Peers

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Author						Papers	Cites
Josep Call	16.6k	13.2k	6.9k	4.9k	4.1k	427	27.3k
Andrew Whiten	12.4k 0.7×	6.7k 0.5×	4.2k 0.6×	1.8k 0.4×	2.2k 0.5×	252	20.0k
Frans Β. Μ. de Waal	15.7k 0.9×	3.1k 0.2×	4.9k 0.7×	2.8k 0.6×	4.9k 1.2×	244	23.3k
Robin Dunbar	20.5k 1.2×	2.9k 0.2×	6.0k 0.9×	2.3k 0.5×	9.0k 2.2×	506	40.4k
Michael A. Hauser	8.1k 0.5×	5.4k 0.4×	9.4k 1.4×	857 0.2×	4.0k 1.0×	273	22.3k
Michael Tomasello	30.3k 1.8×	43.6k 3.3×	19.8k 2.9×	7.4k 1.5×	12.4k 3.0×	754	74.2k
Brian Hare	7.5k 0.5×	4.2k 0.3×	2.2k 0.3×	4.5k 0.9×	2.4k 0.6×	126	12.6k
Richard W. Wrangham	15.9k 1.0×	2.4k 0.2×	1.3k 0.2×	3.0k 0.6×	4.1k 1.0×	285	24.4k
Richard W. Byrne	7.4k 0.4×	3.6k 0.3×	2.3k 0.3×	1.3k 0.3×	1.4k 0.3×	300	13.1k
Carel P. van Schaik	17.9k 1.1×	2.4k 0.2×	1.3k 0.2×	2.3k 0.5×	3.6k 0.9×	324	25.0k
Kevin N. Laland	7.7k 0.5×	2.0k 0.2×	1.9k 0.3×	4.1k 0.8×	2.5k 0.6×	237	25.3k

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Co-authorship network of co-authors of Josep Call

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Allritz, Matthias, et al.. (2025). Chimpanzees (Pan troglodytes) and bonobos (Pan paniscus) chase prey around obstacles in virtual environments.. Journal of comparative psychology. 139(3). 155–177. 1 indexed citations

Slocombe, Katie E., et al.. (2025). Do chimpanzees produce context-specific vocal structures in group-specific ways?. Animal Behaviour. 223. 123185–123185.

Call, Josep, et al.. (2024). Chimpanzees ( Pan troglodytes ) recognize that their guesses could be wrong and can pass a two-cup disjunctive syllogism task. Biology Letters. 20(6). 20240051–20240051. 2 indexed citations

Allritz, Matthias, et al.. (2024). Training primates to forage in virtual 3D environments. Behavioural Processes. 224. 105126–105126.

Leeuwen, Edwin J. C. van, et al.. (2024). Chimpanzees use social information to acquire a skill they fail to innovate. Nature Human Behaviour. 8(5). 891–902. 5 indexed citations

Hernández‐Lloreda, María Victoria, et al.. (2023). Orcas remember what to copy: a deferred and interference-resistant imitation study. Animal Cognition. 26(3). 1035–1048. 3 indexed citations

Allritz, Matthias, Josep Call, Miguel de Guinea, et al.. (2022). Chimpanzees ( Pan troglodytes ) navigate to find hidden fruit in a virtual environment. Science Advances. 8(25). eabm4754–eabm4754. 8 indexed citations

O’Madagain, Cathal, et al.. (2022). Great apes and human children rationally monitor their decisions. Proceedings of the Royal Society B Biological Sciences. 289(1971). 20212686–20212686. 12 indexed citations

Fedurek, Paweł, et al.. (2022). Audience sensitivity in chimpanzee display pant hoots. Animal Behaviour. 190. 23–40. 15 indexed citations

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Völter, Christoph J., et al.. (2022). Learning from communication versus observation in great apes. Scientific Reports. 12(1). 2917–2917. 3 indexed citations

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Leeuwen, Edwin J. C. van, et al.. (2021). Chimpanzees behave prosocially in a group-specific manner. Science Advances. 7(9). 16 indexed citations

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Manrique, Héctor M., Josep Call, Elisabetta Visalberghi, & Gloria Sabbatini. (2021). Great apes (Pan troglodytes, Pan paniscus, Pongo abelii) exploit better the information of failure than capuchin monkeys (Sapajus spp.) when selecting tools to solve the same foraging problem.. Journal of comparative psychology. 135(2). 273–279. 1 indexed citations

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Call, Josep, et al.. (2021). Targeted helping and cooperation in zoo-living chimpanzees and bonobos. Royal Society Open Science. 8(3). 201688–201688. 15 indexed citations

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Völter, Christoph J., et al.. (2020). Prior experience mediates the usage of food items as tools in great apes (Pan paniscus, Pan troglodytes, Gorilla gorilla, and Pongo abelii).. Journal of comparative psychology. 135(1). 64–73. 9 indexed citations

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Call, Josep, et al.. (2018). The interplay of prior experience and motivation in great ape problem-solving (Gorilla gorilla, Pan paniscus, Pan troglodytes, and Pongo abelii).. Journal of comparative psychology. 132(3). 294–305. 10 indexed citations

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Amici, Federica, Josep Call, Julia Watzek, Sarah F. Brosnan, & Filippo Aureli. (2018). Social inhibition and behavioural flexibility when the context changes: a comparison across six primate species. Scientific Reports. 8(1). 3067–3067. 32 indexed citations

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Krupenye, Christopher, Fumihiro Kano, Satoshi Hirata, Josep Call, & Michael Tomasello. (2016). Great apes anticipate that other individuals will act according to false beliefs. Science. 354(6308). 110–114. 366 indexed citations breakdown →

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Amici, Federica, Filippo Aureli, Elisabetta Visalberghi, & Josep Call. (2009). Spider monkeys (Ateles geoffroyi) and capuchin monkeys (Cebus apella) follow gaze around barriers: Evidence for perspective taking?. Journal of comparative psychology. 123(4). 368–374. 48 indexed citations

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Jensen, Keith, Josep Call, & Michael Tomasello. (2007). Chimpanzees Are Rational Maximizers in an Ultimatum Game. Science. 318(5847). 107–109. 242 indexed citations

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Okamoto‐Barth, Sanae, Josep Call, & Michael Tomasello. (2007). Great Apes' Understanding of Other Individuals' Line of Sight. Psychological Science. 18(5). 462–468. 69 indexed citations

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