Kevin E. Langergraber

6.2k total citations · 1 hit paper
57 papers, 2.7k citations indexed

About

Kevin E. Langergraber is a scholar working on Social Psychology, Ecology, Evolution, Behavior and Systematics and Experimental and Cognitive Psychology. According to data from OpenAlex, Kevin E. Langergraber has authored 57 papers receiving a total of 2.7k indexed citations (citations by other indexed papers that have themselves been cited), including 45 papers in Social Psychology, 20 papers in Ecology, Evolution, Behavior and Systematics and 16 papers in Experimental and Cognitive Psychology. Recurrent topics in Kevin E. Langergraber's work include Primate Behavior and Ecology (42 papers), Animal Behavior and Reproduction (18 papers) and Evolutionary Psychology and Human Behavior (16 papers). Kevin E. Langergraber is often cited by papers focused on Primate Behavior and Ecology (42 papers), Animal Behavior and Reproduction (18 papers) and Evolutionary Psychology and Human Behavior (16 papers). Kevin E. Langergraber collaborates with scholars based in United States, Germany and United Kingdom. Kevin E. Langergraber's co-authors include John C. Mitani, Linda Vigilant, Klaus Zuberbühler, Roman M. Wittig, Catherine Crockford, David P. Watts, Toni E. Ziegler, Tobias Deschner, Richard W. Wrangham and Christophe Boesch and has published in prestigious journals such as Science, Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences and Nature Communications.

In The Last Decade

Kevin E. Langergraber

55 papers receiving 2.6k citations

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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.

Generation times in wild chimpanzees and gorillas suggest earlier divergence times in great ape and human evolution

2012 364 citations Kevin E. Langergraber, Carolyn Rowney et al. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences profile →

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Name	h						Papers	Cites
Kevin E. Langergraber United States	25	1.9k	759	645	565	563	57	2.7k
Martin N. Muller United States	35	2.4k 1.2×	1.3k 1.7×	834 1.3×	639 1.1×	734 1.3×	81	4.6k
Barbara Fruth Germany	28	1.7k 0.9×	849 1.1×	299 0.5×	481 0.9×	636 1.1×	89	2.7k
Tara S. Stoinski United States	39	2.9k 1.5×	1.5k 2.0×	503 0.8×	816 1.4×	925 1.6×	155	4.3k
Melissa Emery Thompson United States	39	2.9k 1.5×	1.6k 2.1×	1.4k 2.2×	500 0.9×	751 1.3×	140	5.0k
Craig B. Stanford United States	27	1.8k 0.9×	938 1.2×	403 0.6×	284 0.5×	751 1.3×	69	2.5k
Tobias Deschner Germany	30	1.8k 1.0×	838 1.1×	529 0.8×	351 0.6×	422 0.7×	94	2.5k
James P. Higham United States	37	2.2k 1.2×	1.8k 2.3×	618 1.0×	322 0.6×	619 1.1×	148	3.8k
Gottfried Hohmann Germany	40	3.2k 1.7×	1.7k 2.3×	672 1.0×	787 1.4×	1.1k 2.0×	126	4.5k
Cheryl D. Knott United States	23	1.9k 1.0×	729 1.0×	205 0.3×	289 0.5×	684 1.2×	54	2.6k
Ann MacLarnon United Kingdom	31	1.5k 0.8×	1.2k 1.6×	371 0.6×	310 0.5×	549 1.0×	65	2.8k

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Wood, Brian M., David P. Watts, Kevin E. Langergraber, & John C. Mitani. (2025). Female fertility and infant survivorship increase following lethal intergroup aggression and territorial expansion in wild chimpanzees. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences. 122(47). e2524502122–e2524502122.

Städele, Veronika, et al.. (2024). Female chimpanzees avoid inbreeding even in the presence of substantial bisexual philopatry. Royal Society Open Science. 11(1). 230967–230967. 3 indexed citations

Mitani, John C., et al.. (2024). Removing snares is an effective conservation intervention: a case study involving chimpanzees. Primates. 65(4). 257–263. 1 indexed citations

Wood, Brian M., Jacob D. Negrey, Janine L. Brown, et al.. (2023). Demographic and hormonal evidence for menopause in wild chimpanzees. Science. 382(6669). eadd5473–eadd5473. 29 indexed citations

Lee, Kevin, Kevin E. Langergraber, John C. Mitani, et al.. (2023). White sclera is present in chimpanzees and other mammals. Journal of Human Evolution. 176. 103322–103322. 4 indexed citations

Negrey, Jacob D., Tobias Deschner, & Kevin E. Langergraber. (2023). Lean muscle mass, not aggression, mediates a link between dominance rank and testosterone in wild male chimpanzees. Animal Behaviour. 202. 99–109. 3 indexed citations

Negrey, Jacob D., John C. Mitani, Richard W. Wrangham, et al.. (2022). Viruses associated with ill health in wild chimpanzees. American Journal of Primatology. 84(2). e23358–e23358. 13 indexed citations

Muller, Martin N., Nicholas Jones, Fernando Colchero, et al.. (2020). Sexual dimorphism in chimpanzee (Pan troglodytes schweinfurthii) and human age-specific fertility. Journal of Human Evolution. 144. 102795–102795. 19 indexed citations

Negrey, Jacob D., Rachna B. Reddy, Erik J. Scully, et al.. (2019). Simultaneous outbreaks of respiratory disease in wild chimpanzees caused by distinct viruses of human origin. Emerging Microbes & Infections. 8(1). 139–149. 77 indexed citations

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Negrey, Jacob D. & Kevin E. Langergraber. (2019). Corpse-directed play parenting by a sterile adult female chimpanzee. Primates. 61(1). 29–34. 2 indexed citations

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Langergraber, Kevin E., et al.. (2019). Differences in MHC-B diversity and KIR epitopes in two populations of wild chimpanzees. Immunogenetics. 71(10). 617–633. 1 indexed citations

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Casteren, Adam van, Vicky M. Oelze, Samuel Angedakin, et al.. (2018). Food mechanical properties and isotopic signatures in forest versus savannah dwelling eastern chimpanzees. Communications Biology. 1(1). 109–109. 15 indexed citations

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Hernández-Rodríguez, Jessica, Mimi Arandjelovic, Jack D. Lester, et al.. (2017). The impact of endogenous content, replicates and pooling on genome capture from faecal samples. Molecular Ecology Resources. 18(2). 319–333. 26 indexed citations

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Surbeck, Martin, Cédric Girard‐Buttoz, Christophe Boesch, et al.. (2017). Sex-specific association patterns in bonobos and chimpanzees reflect species differences in cooperation. Royal Society Open Science. 4(5). 161081–161081. 46 indexed citations

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Wood, Brian M., Kevin E. Langergraber, John C. Mitani, & David P. Watts. (2017). Menopause is Common among Wild Female Chimpanzees in the Ngogo Community. 1 indexed citations

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Wood, Brian M., David P. Watts, John C. Mitani, & Kevin E. Langergraber. (2016). Low Mortality Rates among Ngogo Chimpanzees: Ecological Influences and Evolutionary Implications. 1 indexed citations

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Langergraber, Kevin E.. (2016). Chimpanzees and the phylogenetic origins of multi-level sociality in humans. 1 indexed citations

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Hobaiter, Catherine, Anne Marijke Schel, Kevin E. Langergraber, & Klaus Zuberbühler. (2014). ‘Adoption’ by Maternal Siblings in Wild Chimpanzees. PLoS ONE. 9(8). e103777–e103777. 22 indexed citations

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Langergraber, Kevin E., John C. Mitani, & Linda Vigilant. (2009). Kinship and social bonds in female chimpanzees (Pan troglodytes). American Journal of Primatology. 71(10). 840–851. 202 indexed citations

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Langergraber, Kevin E., Heike Siedel, John C. Mitani, et al.. (2007). The Genetic Signature of Sex-Biased Migration in Patrilocal Chimpanzees and Humans. PLoS ONE. 2(10). e973–e973. 71 indexed citations

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