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

5 papers align trajectories

What are hit papers?

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 Esther Herrmann, Josep Call 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 →

Peers

Countries citing papers authored by Josep Call

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Citations

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Fields of papers citing papers by Josep Call

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Physical SciencesHealth SciencesLife SciencesSocial Sciences

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Co-authorship network of co-authors of Josep Call

This figure shows the co-authorship network connecting the top 25 collaborators of Josep Call. A scholar is included among the top collaborators of Josep Call based on the total number of citations received by their joint publications. Widths of edges represent the number of papers authors have co-authored together. Node borders signify the number of papers an author published with Josep Call. Josep Call is excluded from the visualization to improve readability, since they are connected to all nodes in the network.

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#	Work	Indexed citations
1	Chimpanzees (Pan troglodytes) and bonobos (Pan paniscus) chase prey around obstacles in virtual environments. 2025 ·Journal of comparative psychology ·(unknown), (unknown), (unknown), (unknown), (unknown), (unknown), (unknown), (unknown), Matthias Allritz, Lauren M. Robinson, Francine L. Dolins, Josep Call	1
2	Do chimpanzees produce context-specific vocal structures in group-specific ways? 2025 ·Animal Behaviour ·(unknown), Katie E. Slocombe, Josep Call, Klaus Zuberbühler, Erik P. Willems, Paweł Fedurek	0
3	Generative vocal plasticity in chimpanzees 2025 ·iScience ·Adriano R. Lameira, (unknown), Arik Kershenbaum, Guillermo Santamaría-Bonfil, Josep Call	0
4	Training primates to forage in virtual 3D environments 2024 ·Behavioural Processes ·(unknown), Matthias Allritz, Josep Call, (unknown), (unknown), (unknown), Charles R. Menzel, Francine L. Dolins, Karline R. L. Janmaat, (unknown)	0
5	Chimpanzees ( Pan troglodytes ) recognize that their guesses could be wrong and can pass a two-cup disjunctive syllogism task 2024 ·Biology Letters ·(unknown), Josep Call	2
6	Chimpanzees use social information to acquire a skill they fail to innovate 2024 ·Nature Human Behaviour ·Edwin J. C. van Leeuwen, (unknown), Daniel B. M. Haun, Josep Call	5
7	Orcas remember what to copy: a deferred and interference-resistant imitation study 2023 ·Animal Cognition ·(unknown), María Victoria Hernández‐Lloreda, Fernando Colmenares, Josep Call	3
8	Chimpanzees ( Pan troglodytes ) navigate to find hidden fruit in a virtual environment 2022 ·Science Advances ·Matthias Allritz, Josep Call, (unknown), (unknown), Miguel de Guinea, Karline R. L. Janmaat, Charles R. Menzel, Francine L. Dolins	8
9	Great apes and human children rationally monitor their decisions 2022 ·Proceedings of the Royal Society B Biological Sciences ·Cathal O’Madagain, (unknown), Marco F. H. Schmidt, (unknown), Josep Call, Michael Tomasello	12
10	Audience sensitivity in chimpanzee display pant hoots 2022 ·Animal Behaviour ·(unknown), Paweł Fedurek, Guillaume Dezecache, Josep Call, Klaus Zuberbühler	15
11	Learning from communication versus observation in great apes 2022 ·Scientific Reports ·(unknown), Christoph J. Völter, (unknown), Dan Sperber, Josep Call	3
12	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. 2021 ·Journal of comparative psychology ·Héctor M. Manrique, Josep Call, Elisabetta Visalberghi, Gloria Sabbatini	1
13	The Ape Lottery: Chimpanzees Fail To Consider Spatial Information When Drawing Statistical Inferences 2021 ·SHILAP Revista de lepidopterología ·(unknown), Hannes Rakoczy, Shona Duguid, Esther Herrmann, Josep Call	4
14	Chimpanzees behave prosocially in a group-specific manner 2021 ·Science Advances ·Edwin J. C. van Leeuwen, (unknown), (unknown), (unknown), (unknown), Josep Call, Daniel B. M. Haun	16
15	Prior experience mediates the usage of food items as tools in great apes (Pan paniscus, Pan troglodytes, Gorilla gorilla, and Pongo abelii). 2020 ·Journal of comparative psychology ·(unknown), Christoph J. Völter, Josep Call	9
16	Social inhibition and behavioural flexibility when the context changes: a comparison across six primate species 2018 ·Scientific Reports ·Federica Amici, Josep Call, Julia Watzek, Sarah F. Brosnan, Filippo Aureli	32
17	“Giving” and “responding” differences in gestural communication between nonhuman great ape mothers and infants 2017 ·Developmental Psychobiology ·(unknown), Katja Liebal, Josep Call	5
18	Great apes anticipate that other individuals will act according to false beliefs breakdown → 2016 ·Science ·Christopher Krupenye, Fumihiro Kano, Satoshi Hirata, Josep Call, Michael Tomasello	366
19	Great Apes' Understanding of Other Individuals' Line of Sight 2007 ·Psychological Science ·Sanae Okamoto‐Barth, Josep Call, Michael Tomasello	69
20	Chimpanzees Are Rational Maximizers in an Ultimatum Game 2007 ·Science ·Keith Jensen, Josep Call, Michael Tomasello	242

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