Laurel Fogarty

2.7k total citations · 2 hit papers
28 papers, 1.6k citations indexed

About

Laurel Fogarty is a scholar working on Sociology and Political Science, Cultural Studies and Genetics. According to data from OpenAlex, Laurel Fogarty has authored 28 papers receiving a total of 1.6k indexed citations (citations by other indexed papers that have themselves been cited), including 21 papers in Sociology and Political Science, 20 papers in Cultural Studies and 9 papers in Genetics. Recurrent topics in Laurel Fogarty's work include Evolutionary Game Theory and Cooperation (21 papers), Language and cultural evolution (20 papers) and Evolution and Genetic Dynamics (8 papers). Laurel Fogarty is often cited by papers focused on Evolutionary Game Theory and Cooperation (21 papers), Language and cultural evolution (20 papers) and Evolution and Genetic Dynamics (8 papers). Laurel Fogarty collaborates with scholars based in United States, United Kingdom and Germany. Laurel Fogarty's co-authors include Kevin N. Laland, Luke Rendell, Marcus W. Feldman, Nicole Creanza, Thomas J. H. Morgan, William Hoppitt, Mike Webster, Robert Boyd, Magnus Enquist and Kimmo Eriksson and has published in prestigious journals such as Science, Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences and PLoS ONE.

In The Last Decade

Laurel Fogarty

27 papers receiving 1.6k citations

Hit Papers

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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.

Why Copy Others? Insights from the Social Learning Strategies Tournament

2010 501 citations Luke Rendell, Marcus W. Feldman et al. profile →
Cognitive culture: theoretical and empirical insights into social learning strategies

2011 380 citations Luke Rendell, Laurel Fogarty et al. Trends in Cognitive Sciences profile →

Peers

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Thomas J. H. Morgan United States

Nicolas Claidière France

Jeremy Kendal United Kingdom

Pontus Strimling Sweden

Charles Efferson Switzerland

Thomas C. Scott‐Phillips United Kingdom

Paul A. Ballonoff United States

G.Ainsworth Harrison United Kingdom

Quentin D. Atkinson New Zealand

Paul E. Smaldino United States

Thomas J. H. Morgan United States

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185 ×0.6

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136 ×0.5

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Citations per year, relative to Laurel Fogarty Laurel Fogarty (= 1×) peers Thomas J. H. Morgan

Countries citing papers authored by Laurel Fogarty

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Fields of papers citing papers by Laurel Fogarty

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Physical SciencesHealth SciencesLife SciencesSocial Sciences

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Co-authorship network of co-authors of Laurel Fogarty

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

All Works

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20 of 20 papers shown

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Fogarty, Laurel, Stephen X. Zhang, & Marcus W. Feldman. (2025). Gene-culture association and coevolution. Theoretical Population Biology. 165. 62–71.

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Kandler, Anne, Laurel Fogarty, & Folgert Karsdorp. (2023). The interplay between age structure and cultural transmission. PLoS Computational Biology. 19(7). e1011297–e1011297. 4 indexed citations

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Fogarty, Laurel, et al.. (2023). Social learning and memory. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences. 120(33). e2310033120–e2310033120. 11 indexed citations

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Deffner, Dominik, Anne Kandler, & Laurel Fogarty. (2022). Effective population size for culturally evolving traits. PLoS Computational Biology. 18(4). e1009430–e1009430. 11 indexed citations

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Fogarty, Laurel & Michael J. Wade. (2022). Niche construction in quantitative traits: heritability and response to selection. Proceedings of the Royal Society B Biological Sciences. 289(1976). 20220401–20220401. 14 indexed citations

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Fogarty, Laurel, et al.. (2022). Ten simple rules for principled simulation modelling. PLoS Computational Biology. 18(3). e1009917–e1009917. 4 indexed citations

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Fogarty, Laurel & Anne Kandler. (2020). The fundamentals of cultural adaptation: implications for human adaptation. Scientific Reports. 10(1). 14318–14318. 20 indexed citations

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Fogarty, Laurel, Nicole Creanza, & Marcus W. Feldman. (2019). The life history of learning: Demographic structure changes cultural outcomes. PLoS Computational Biology. 15(4). e1006821–e1006821. 20 indexed citations

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Fogarty, Laurel, et al.. (2019). Cultural linkage: the influence of package transmission on cultural dynamics. Proceedings of the Royal Society B Biological Sciences. 286(1916). 20191951–20191951. 18 indexed citations

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Fogarty, Laurel. (2018). Cultural complexity and evolution in fluctuating environments. Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society B Biological Sciences. 373(1743). 20170063–20170063. 13 indexed citations

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Fogarty, Laurel & Nicole Creanza. (2017). The niche construction of cultural complexity: interactions between innovations, population size and the environment. Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society B Biological Sciences. 372(1735). 20160428–20160428. 53 indexed citations

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Fogarty, Laurel, Joe Yuichiro Wakano, Marcus W. Feldman, & Kenichi Aoki. (2016). The Driving Forces of Cultural Complexity. Human Nature. 28(1). 39–52. 28 indexed citations

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Fogarty, Laurel, Nicole Creanza, & Marcus W. Feldman. (2015). Cultural Evolutionary Perspectives on Creativity and Human Innovation. Trends in Ecology & Evolution. 30(12). 736–754. 68 indexed citations

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Fogarty, Laurel, Nicole Creanza, & Marcus W. Feldman. (2013). The role of cultural transmission in human demographic change: An age-structured model. Theoretical Population Biology. 88. 68–77. 23 indexed citations

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Mesoudi, Alex, Simon Blanchet, Anne Charmantier, et al.. (2013). Is Non-genetic Inheritance Just a Proximate Mechanism? A Corroboration of the Extended Evolutionary Synthesis. Biological Theory. 7(3). 189–195. 54 indexed citations

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Creanza, Nicole, Laurel Fogarty, & Marcus W. Feldman. (2012). Models of Cultural Niche Construction with Selection and Assortative Mating. PLoS ONE. 7(8). e42744–e42744. 34 indexed citations

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Fogarty, Laurel, Luke Rendell, & Kevin N. Laland. (2012). Mental time travel, memory and the social learning strategies tournament. Learning and Motivation. 43(4). 241–246. 11 indexed citations

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Fogarty, Laurel, Pontus Strimling, & Kevin N. Laland. (2011). THE EVOLUTION OF TEACHING. Evolution. 65(10). 2760–2770. 97 indexed citations

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Rendell, Luke, Laurel Fogarty, William Hoppitt, et al.. (2011). Cognitive culture: theoretical and empirical insights into social learning strategies. Trends in Cognitive Sciences. 15(2). 68–76. 380 indexed citations breakdown →

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Rendell, Luke, Laurel Fogarty, & Kevin N. Laland. (2009). ROGERS’ PARADOX RECAST AND RESOLVED: POPULATION STRUCTURE AND THE EVOLUTION OF SOCIAL LEARNING STRATEGIES. Evolution. 64(2). 534–548. 87 indexed citations

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