Joshua M. Plotnik

2.9k total citations
31 papers, 1.1k citations indexed

About

Joshua M. Plotnik is a scholar working on Social Psychology, Genetics and Small Animals. According to data from OpenAlex, Joshua M. Plotnik has authored 31 papers receiving a total of 1.1k indexed citations (citations by other indexed papers that have themselves been cited), including 24 papers in Social Psychology, 13 papers in Genetics and 10 papers in Small Animals. Recurrent topics in Joshua M. Plotnik's work include Primate Behavior and Ecology (23 papers), Human-Animal Interaction Studies (13 papers) and Animal Behavior and Welfare Studies (10 papers). Joshua M. Plotnik is often cited by papers focused on Primate Behavior and Ecology (23 papers), Human-Animal Interaction Studies (13 papers) and Animal Behavior and Welfare Studies (10 papers). Joshua M. Plotnik collaborates with scholars based in United States, United Kingdom and Thailand. Joshua M. Plotnik's co-authors include Frans Β. Μ. de Waal, Diana Reiss, Hannah S. Mumby, Richard Lair, Nicola S. Clayton, Rachael C. Shaw, Rachel Dale, Donald E. Moore, Alison L. Greggor and Rebecca J. Snyder and has published in prestigious journals such as Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, SHILAP Revista de lepidopterología and Scientific Reports.

In The Last Decade

Joshua M. Plotnik

29 papers receiving 1.0k citations

Peers — A (Enhanced Table)

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

Name h Career Trend Papers Cites
Joshua M. Plotnik United States 14 620 313 300 230 199 31 1.1k
Lucy A. Bates United Kingdom 15 494 0.8× 215 0.7× 242 0.8× 130 0.6× 225 1.1× 26 879
Bonnie M. Perdue United States 21 549 0.9× 274 0.9× 144 0.5× 300 1.3× 172 0.9× 56 1.2k
Corsin A. Müller Austria 18 492 0.8× 675 2.2× 163 0.5× 234 1.0× 265 1.3× 31 1.1k
Claudia A. F. Wascher Austria 18 421 0.7× 154 0.5× 238 0.8× 164 0.7× 475 2.4× 55 1.0k
Anna Wilkinson United Kingdom 24 691 1.1× 608 1.9× 272 0.9× 367 1.6× 602 3.0× 84 1.7k
Sarah Benson‐Amram United States 15 638 1.0× 193 0.6× 349 1.2× 170 0.7× 612 3.1× 27 1.1k
Kristen E. Lukas United States 23 856 1.4× 482 1.5× 295 1.0× 690 3.0× 280 1.4× 69 1.3k
Suzanne E. MacDonald Canada 20 352 0.6× 212 0.7× 194 0.6× 154 0.7× 128 0.6× 59 1.3k
Shinya Yamamoto Japan 16 548 0.9× 201 0.6× 124 0.4× 130 0.6× 140 0.7× 47 907
Dalila Bovet France 18 443 0.7× 177 0.6× 122 0.4× 112 0.5× 337 1.7× 60 991

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Fields of papers citing papers by Joshua M. Plotnik

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Physical SciencesHealth SciencesLife SciencesSocial Sciences

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Co-authorship network of co-authors of Joshua M. Plotnik

This figure shows the co-authorship network connecting the top 25 collaborators of Joshua M. Plotnik. A scholar is included among the top collaborators of Joshua M. Plotnik 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 Joshua M. Plotnik. Joshua M. Plotnik is excluded from the visualization to improve readability, since they are connected to all nodes in the network.

All Works

20 of 20 papers shown
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Bates, Lucy A., et al.. (2025). Knowledge transmission, culture and the consequences of social disruption in wild elephants. Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society B Biological Sciences. 380(1925). 20240132–20240132. 5 indexed citations
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Yindee, Marnoch, et al.. (2025). Do Asian elephants plan for mutually-exclusive outcomes?. Animal Cognition. 28(1). 93–93.
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Schmitt, Melissa H., et al.. (2025). Differences in Olfactory Discrimination, but Not Sensitivity, Between African Savanna and Asian Elephants. Ecology and Evolution. 15(8). e71896–e71896. 1 indexed citations
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Yamamoto, Shinya, et al.. (2025). Asian elephants (Elephas maximus) recognise human visual attention from body and face orientation. Scientific Reports. 15(1). 32623–32623.
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Plotnik, Joshua M., et al.. (2024). Do elephants really never forget? What we know about elephant memory and a call for further investigation. Learning & Behavior. 53(1). 44–64. 4 indexed citations
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Yindee, Marnoch, et al.. (2023). Innovating to solve a novel puzzle: wild Asian elephants vary in their ability to problem solve. Animal Behaviour. 205. 227–239. 8 indexed citations
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Clark, Fay E., Alison L. Greggor, Stephen H. Montgomery, & Joshua M. Plotnik. (2023). The endangered brain: actively preserving ex-situ animal behaviour and cognition will benefit in-situ conservation. Royal Society Open Science. 10(8). 230707–230707. 6 indexed citations
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Raviv, Limor, et al.. (2023). Elephants as an animal model for self-domestication. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences. 120(15). e2208607120–e2208607120. 13 indexed citations
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Chodorow, Martin, et al.. (2023). Day and night camera trap videos are effective for identifying individual wild Asian elephants. PeerJ. 11. e15130–e15130. 7 indexed citations
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Sarabian, Cécile, Anna Wilkinson, Fumihiro Kano, et al.. (2023). Disgust in animals and the application of disease avoidance to wildlife management and conservation. Journal of Animal Ecology. 92(8). 1489–1508. 11 indexed citations
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Plotnik, Joshua M., et al.. (2021). Cooperating elephants mitigate competition until the stakes get too high. PLoS Biology. 19(9). e3001391–e3001391. 11 indexed citations
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Snyder, Rebecca J., et al.. (2021). Persistence is key: investigating innovative problem solving by Asian elephants using a novel multi-access box. Animal Cognition. 25(3). 657–669. 18 indexed citations
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Shaw, Rachael C., Alison L. Greggor, & Joshua M. Plotnik. (2021). The Challenges of Replicating Research on Endangered Species. SHILAP Revista de lepidopterología. 8(2). 240–246. 15 indexed citations
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Yindee, Marnoch, et al.. (2020). Investigating the use of sensory information to detect and track prey by the Sunda pangolin (Manis javanica) with conservation in mind. Scientific Reports. 10(1). 9787–9787. 2 indexed citations
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Plotnik, Joshua M., et al.. (2019). The use of a human’s location and social cues by Asian elephants in an object-choice task. Animal Cognition. 22(6). 907–915. 14 indexed citations
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Dale, Rachel & Joshua M. Plotnik. (2017). Elephants know when their bodies are obstacles to success in a novel transfer task. Scientific Reports. 7(1). 33 indexed citations
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Plotnik, Joshua M. & Frans Β. Μ. de Waal. (2014). Asian elephants ( Elephas maximus ) reassure others in distress. PeerJ. 2. e278–e278. 82 indexed citations
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Shaw, Rachael C., Joshua M. Plotnik, & Nicola S. Clayton. (2013). Exclusion in corvids: The performance of food-caching Eurasian jays (Garrulus glandarius).. Journal of comparative psychology. 127(4). 428–435. 24 indexed citations
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Plotnik, Joshua M., Frans Β. Μ. de Waal, & Diana Reiss. (2006). Self-recognition in an Asian elephant. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences. 103(45). 17053–17057. 373 indexed citations
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Plotnik, Joshua M., et al.. (2003). Visual Field Information in the Face Perception of Chimpanzees (Pan troglodytes). Annals of the New York Academy of Sciences. 1000(1). 94–98. 4 indexed citations

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