Klaus Zuberbühler

22.6k total citations · 1 hit paper
294 papers, 11.5k citations indexed

About

Klaus Zuberbühler is a scholar working on Social Psychology, Developmental Biology and Ecology, Evolution, Behavior and Systematics. According to data from OpenAlex, Klaus Zuberbühler has authored 294 papers receiving a total of 11.5k indexed citations (citations by other indexed papers that have themselves been cited), including 227 papers in Social Psychology, 210 papers in Developmental Biology and 121 papers in Ecology, Evolution, Behavior and Systematics. Recurrent topics in Klaus Zuberbühler's work include Primate Behavior and Ecology (219 papers), Animal Vocal Communication and Behavior (210 papers) and Animal Behavior and Reproduction (119 papers). Klaus Zuberbühler is often cited by papers focused on Primate Behavior and Ecology (219 papers), Animal Vocal Communication and Behavior (210 papers) and Animal Behavior and Reproduction (119 papers). Klaus Zuberbühler collaborates with scholars based in United Kingdom, Switzerland and United States. Klaus Zuberbühler's co-authors include Katie E. Slocombe, Alban Lemasson, Kate Arnold, Catherine Crockford, Roman M. Wittig, Karim Ouattara, Zanna Clay, Thibaud Gruber, Simon W. Townsend and David Jenny and has published in prestigious journals such as Nature, Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences and Journal of the American Chemical Society.

In The Last Decade

Klaus Zuberbühler

285 papers receiving 11.2k 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, Kay Prüfer et al. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences profile →

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Name	h						Papers	Cites
Klaus Zuberbühler United Kingdom	58	6.8k	6.7k	4.2k	2.1k	1.9k	294	11.5k
William C. McGrew United Kingdom	57	3.7k 0.5×	9.1k 1.3×	3.1k 0.7×	2.8k 1.4×	1.6k 0.9×	199	11.7k
Robert M. Seyfarth United States	76	8.5k 1.3×	11.7k 1.7×	8.3k 2.0×	2.4k 1.1×	2.6k 1.4×	158	17.9k
Dorothy L. Cheney United States	79	8.5k 1.3×	12.0k 1.8×	8.3k 2.0×	2.4k 1.2×	2.7k 1.4×	158	18.2k
W. Tecumseh Fitch Austria	51	5.1k 0.8×	2.7k 0.4×	2.3k 0.6×	2.4k 1.1×	2.0k 1.1×	211	14.0k
Christophe Boesch Germany	81	6.0k 0.9×	14.1k 2.1×	6.7k 1.6×	3.0k 1.4×	5.1k 2.7×	311	22.3k
Julia Fischer Germany	49	3.9k 0.6×	4.0k 0.6×	2.8k 0.7×	753 0.4×	1.4k 0.8×	201	8.3k
Tetsuro Matsuzawa Japan	57	2.4k 0.4×	6.7k 1.0×	1.6k 0.4×	3.4k 1.6×	1.0k 0.6×	287	10.2k
Charles T. Snowdon United States	56	3.4k 0.5×	5.2k 0.8×	3.5k 0.8×	760 0.4×	1.7k 0.9×	184	9.1k
Toshisada Nishida Japan	45	2.8k 0.4×	5.9k 0.9×	2.6k 0.6×	1.5k 0.7×	1.1k 0.6×	117	7.6k
Nicola S. Clayton United Kingdom	68	3.2k 0.5×	6.8k 1.0×	5.7k 1.4×	2.7k 1.3×	2.6k 1.4×	311	14.9k

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Freymond, N., et al.. (2025). Rank and social context influence sleep in wild chimpanzees. Current Biology. 36(1). 199–208.e4.

Heesen, Raphaela, Adrian Bangerter, Klaus Zuberbühler, et al.. (2025). Potential evidence of reengagement attempts following interruptions of a triadic social game in bonobos and chimpanzees. PLoS ONE. 20(3). e0292984–e0292984. 1 indexed citations

Tatone, Denis, et al.. (2024). The motivation to inform others: a field experiment with wild chimpanzees. PeerJ. 12. e18498–e18498. 1 indexed citations

Graham, Kirsty E., et al.. (2023). Dialects in leaf-clipping and other leaf-modifying gestures between neighbouring communities of East African chimpanzees. Scientific Reports. 13(1). 147–147. 16 indexed citations

Samuni, Liran, Cédric Girard‐Buttoz, Klaus Zuberbühler, et al.. (2023). Social uncertainty promotes signal complexity during approaches in wild chimpanzees ( Pan troglodytes verus ) and mangabeys ( Cercocebus atys atys ). Royal Society Open Science. 10(11). 231073–231073. 10 indexed citations

Zuberbühler, Klaus, et al.. (2023). Discrete choices: understanding the foraging strategies of wild chimpanzees. Animal Behaviour. 200. 209–219. 1 indexed citations

Zuberbühler, Klaus, et al.. (2022). The form and function of chimpanzee buttress drumming. Animal Behaviour. 192. 189–205. 15 indexed citations

Fedurek, Paweł, et al.. (2022). Dead-infant carrying by chimpanzee mothers in the Budongo Forest. Primates. 63(5). 497–508. 4 indexed citations

Zuberbühler, Klaus, et al.. (2022). Patch choice decisions by a fission–fusion forager as a test of the ecological constraints model. Behavioral Ecology and Sociobiology. 76(12). 3 indexed citations

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

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Zuberbühler, Klaus, et al.. (2022). Flexibility in the social structure of male chimpanzees ( Pan troglodytes schweinfurthii ) in the Budongo Forest, Uganda. Royal Society Open Science. 9(9). 220904–220904. 15 indexed citations

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Leroux, Maël, et al.. (2021). Chimpanzees combine pant hoots with food calls into larger structures. Animal Behaviour. 179. 41–50. 42 indexed citations

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Zuberbühler, Klaus, et al.. (2021). Dramatic decline in a titi monkey population after the 2016–2018 sylvatic yellow fever outbreak in Brazil. American Journal of Primatology. 83(12). e23335–e23335. 14 indexed citations

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Fedurek, Paweł, Patrick Tkaczynski, Catherine Hobaiter, et al.. (2021). The function of chimpanzee greeting calls is modulated by their acoustic variation. Animal Behaviour. 174. 279–289. 16 indexed citations

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Zuberbühler, Klaus. (2019). Syntax and compositionality in animal communication. Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society B Biological Sciences. 375(1789). 20190062–20190062. 52 indexed citations

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Fedurek, Paweł, Patrick Tkaczynski, Caroline Asiimwe, et al.. (2019). Maternal cannibalism in two populations of wild chimpanzees. Primates. 61(2). 181–187. 14 indexed citations

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Hobaiter, Catherine, et al.. (2019). Intra-community infanticide in wild, eastern chimpanzees: a 24-year review. Primates. 61(1). 69–82. 28 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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Gruber, Thibaud & Klaus Zuberbühler. (2012). Evolutionary origins of the human cultural mind. Psychologist. 25(5). 364–369. 4 indexed citations

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Langergraber, Kevin E., Kay Prüfer, Carolyn Rowney, et al.. (2012). Generation times in wild chimpanzees and gorillas suggest earlier divergence times in great ape and human evolution. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences. 109(39). 15716–15721. 364 indexed citations breakdown →

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