Lee Cronk

3.7k total citations
83 papers, 1.9k citations indexed

About

Lee Cronk is a scholar working on Sociology and Political Science, Experimental and Cognitive Psychology and Safety Research. According to data from OpenAlex, Lee Cronk has authored 83 papers receiving a total of 1.9k indexed citations (citations by other indexed papers that have themselves been cited), including 34 papers in Sociology and Political Science, 26 papers in Experimental and Cognitive Psychology and 15 papers in Safety Research. Recurrent topics in Lee Cronk's work include Evolutionary Game Theory and Cooperation (26 papers), Evolutionary Psychology and Human Behavior (24 papers) and Experimental Behavioral Economics Studies (14 papers). Lee Cronk is often cited by papers focused on Evolutionary Game Theory and Cooperation (26 papers), Evolutionary Psychology and Human Behavior (24 papers) and Experimental Behavioral Economics Studies (14 papers). Lee Cronk collaborates with scholars based in United States, Netherlands and United Kingdom. Lee Cronk's co-authors include Athena Aktipis, Beth L. Leech, Jessica D. Ayers, Daniel Balliet, Sera L. Young, Alexandra Brewis, Ellis Adjei Adams, Cassandra L. Workman, Asher Y. Rosinger and Amber Wutich and has published in prestigious journals such as SHILAP Revista de lepidopterología, PLoS ONE and Scientific Reports.

In The Last Decade

Lee Cronk

77 papers receiving 1.7k citations

Peers — A (Enhanced Table)

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

Name h Career Trend Papers Cites
Lee Cronk United States 26 853 638 378 357 238 83 1.9k
Karen L. Kramer United States 30 943 1.1× 1.2k 1.9× 552 1.5× 866 2.4× 302 1.3× 89 3.0k
Brooke A. Scelza United States 20 488 0.6× 494 0.8× 208 0.6× 342 1.0× 125 0.5× 49 1.3k
William Irons United States 15 1.4k 1.6× 1.3k 2.1× 424 1.1× 669 1.9× 251 1.1× 32 2.7k
Raymond Hames United States 23 454 0.5× 490 0.8× 182 0.5× 427 1.2× 104 0.4× 49 2.0k
Laura Betzig United States 23 1.5k 1.7× 1.5k 2.4× 627 1.7× 530 1.5× 363 1.5× 51 2.5k
Carol R. Ember United States 32 1.5k 1.8× 705 1.1× 257 0.7× 749 2.1× 406 1.7× 104 3.4k
Mhairi A. Gibson United Kingdom 20 405 0.5× 389 0.6× 439 1.2× 187 0.5× 215 0.9× 38 1.2k
Nancy Howell Canada 15 554 0.6× 492 0.8× 282 0.7× 308 0.9× 147 0.6× 37 1.8k
Christopher von Rueden United States 30 1.6k 1.9× 1.7k 2.7× 255 0.7× 1.0k 2.8× 225 0.9× 57 3.2k
Melvin Ember United States 29 1.0k 1.2× 444 0.7× 226 0.6× 413 1.2× 362 1.5× 85 2.4k

Countries citing papers authored by Lee Cronk

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Fields of papers citing papers by Lee Cronk

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Physical SciencesHealth SciencesLife SciencesSocial Sciences

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Co-authorship network of co-authors of Lee Cronk

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

All Works

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Ayers, Jessica D., et al.. (2025). Sources of fitness interdependence associated with shared fate and cooperation in a small-scale horticultural society. Evolution and Human Behavior. 47(1). 106802–106802.
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Danel, Dariusz P., Athena Aktipis, J. Colette Berbesque, et al.. (2024). Height and integration in proximity networks among Tanzanian Hadza men. American Journal of Human Biology. 36(10). e24129–e24129.
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Ayers, Jessica D., Joe Alcock, Lee Cronk, et al.. (2024). Shared fate was associated with sustained cooperation during the COVID-19 pandemic. PLoS ONE. 19(9). e0307829–e0307829. 1 indexed citations
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Ayers, Jessica D., et al.. (2023). COVID-19 and friendships: Agreeableness and neuroticism are associated with more concern about COVID-19 and friends' risky behaviors. Personality and Individual Differences. 213. 112297–112297. 3 indexed citations
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Ayers, Jessica D., et al.. (2023). Unpredictable needs are associated with lower expectations of repayment. SHILAP Revista de lepidopterología. 4. 100095–100095. 1 indexed citations
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Ayers, Jessica D., et al.. (2023). What is reciprocity? A review and expert-based classification of cooperative transfers. Evolution and Human Behavior. 44(4). 384–393. 7 indexed citations
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Ayers, Jessica D., et al.. (2022). What is Reciprocity? A Review and Expert-based Classification of Cooperative Transfers. PsyArXiv (OSF Preprints). 1 indexed citations
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Ayers, Jessica D., Daniel Sznycer, Daniel Sullivan, et al.. (2022). Fitness interdependence as indexed by shared fate: Factor structure and validity of a new measure.. Evolutionary Behavioral Sciences. 17(3). 259–284. 13 indexed citations
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Cronk, Lee, et al.. (2021). “A Solidarity-Type World”: Need-Based Helping among Ranchers in the Southwestern United States. Human Nature. 32(2). 482–508. 6 indexed citations
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Cronk, Lee & Athena Aktipis. (2021). Design principles for risk-pooling systems. Nature Human Behaviour. 5(7). 825–833. 20 indexed citations
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Lacroix, Laurent, Julia Lehmann, Athena Aktipis, et al.. (2020). Status does not predict stress: Women in an egalitarian hunter–gatherer society. Evolutionary Human Sciences. 2. 13 indexed citations
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Aktipis, Athena, et al.. (2020). Generosity among the Ik of Uganda. Evolutionary Human Sciences. 2. e23–e23. 16 indexed citations
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Brewis, Alexandra, Asher Y. Rosinger, Amber Wutich, et al.. (2019). Water sharing, reciprocity, and need: A comparative study of interhousehold water transfers in sub‐Saharan Africa. Economic Anthropology. 6(2). 208–221. 40 indexed citations
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Wutich, Amber, Jessica Budds, Wendy Jepson, et al.. (2018). Household water sharing: A review of water gifts, exchanges, and transfers across cultures. Wiley Interdisciplinary Reviews Water. 5(6). 67 indexed citations
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Aktipis, Athena, Lee Cronk, Joe Alcock, et al.. (2018). Understanding cooperation through fitness interdependence. Nature Human Behaviour. 2(7). 429–431. 94 indexed citations
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Lynch, Robert, et al.. (2018). Sexual conflict and the Trivers-Willard hypothesis: Females prefer daughters and males prefer sons. Scientific Reports. 8(1). 15463–15463. 9 indexed citations
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Cronk, Lee & Beth L. Leech. (2012). Meeting at Grand Central. Princeton University Press eBooks. 1 indexed citations
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Cronk, Lee. (1993). Parental favoritism toward daughters. American Scientist. 81(3). 272–279. 43 indexed citations
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Cronk, Lee. (1991). Intention versus behaviour in parental sex preferences among the Mukogodo of Kenya. Journal of Biosocial Science. 23(2). 229–240. 34 indexed citations

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