Lewis Dean

1.2k total citations · 1 hit paper
11 papers, 686 citations indexed

About

Lewis Dean is a scholar working on Sociology and Political Science, Social Psychology and Cultural Studies. According to data from OpenAlex, Lewis Dean has authored 11 papers receiving a total of 686 indexed citations (citations by other indexed papers that have themselves been cited), including 8 papers in Sociology and Political Science, 6 papers in Social Psychology and 5 papers in Cultural Studies. Recurrent topics in Lewis Dean's work include Evolutionary Game Theory and Cooperation (8 papers), Language and cultural evolution (5 papers) and Child and Animal Learning Development (4 papers). Lewis Dean is often cited by papers focused on Evolutionary Game Theory and Cooperation (8 papers), Language and cultural evolution (5 papers) and Child and Animal Learning Development (4 papers). Lewis Dean collaborates with scholars based in United Kingdom, United States and Denmark. Lewis Dean's co-authors include Rachel L. Kendal, Kevin N. Laland, Steven J. Schapiro, Bernard Thierry, Emma Flynn, Emily Burdett, Gillian L. Vale, Andrew Whiten, Nicola McGuigan and G. Vaughan and has published in prestigious journals such as Science, Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society B Biological Sciences and Biological reviews/Biological reviews of the Cambridge Philosophical Society.

In The Last Decade

Lewis Dean

11 papers receiving 658 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.

Identification of the Social and Cognitive Processes Underlying Human Cumulative Culture

2012 319 citations Lewis Dean, Rachel L. Kendal et al. Science profile →

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Name	h						Papers	Cites
Lewis Dean United Kingdom	9	385	346	316	203	88	11	686
Maxime Derex France	14	233 0.6×	455 1.3×	529 1.7×	80 0.4×	52 0.6×	22	882
Cara L. Evans United Kingdom	7	229 0.6×	205 0.6×	134 0.4×	121 0.6×	38 0.4×	8	472
Ailsa E. Millen United Kingdom	9	235 0.6×	248 0.7×	214 0.7×	123 0.6×	56 0.6×	10	459
Gillian L. Vale United States	11	237 0.6×	134 0.4×	139 0.4×	85 0.4×	77 0.9×	18	337
Bennett G. Galef Canada	5	353 0.9×	132 0.4×	165 0.5×	135 0.7×	168 1.9×	7	693
Laura Chouinard‐Thuly Canada	5	194 0.5×	146 0.4×	82 0.3×	82 0.4×	33 0.4×	8	454
H. Lyn Miles United States	5	303 0.8×	140 0.4×	121 0.4×	248 1.2×	65 0.7×	11	661
Williams	3	279 0.7×	68 0.2×	116 0.4×	145 0.7×	80 0.9×	6	490
Gauri R. Pradhan United States	10	301 0.8×	78 0.2×	113 0.4×	40 0.2×	101 1.1×	23	459
Sarah Hrdy United States	6	411 1.1×	58 0.2×	154 0.5×	92 0.5×	110 1.3×	10	649

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Co-authorship network of co-authors of Lewis Dean

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11 of 11 papers shown

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Dean, Lewis, et al.. (2020). Skills and motivations underlying children’s cumulative cultural learning: case not closed. Palgrave Communications. 6(1). 17 indexed citations

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Stubbersfield, Joseph, Lewis Dean, Sana Sheikh, Kevin N. Laland, & Catharine Cross. (2019). Social transmission favours the ‘morally good’ over the ‘merely arousing’. Palgrave Communications. 5(1). 12 indexed citations

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Watson, Stuart K., Gillian L. Vale, Lydia M. Hopper, et al.. (2018). Chimpanzees demonstrate individual differences in social information use. Animal Cognition. 21(5). 639–650. 27 indexed citations

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Burdett, Emily, Lewis Dean, & Samuel Ronfard. (2017). A Diverse and Flexible Teaching Toolkit Facilitates the Human Capacity for Cumulative Culture. Review of Philosophy and Psychology. 9(4). 807–818. 12 indexed citations

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McGuigan, Nicola, Emily Burdett, Lewis Dean, et al.. (2017). Innovation and social transmission in experimental micro-societies: exploring the scope of cumulative culture in young children. Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society B Biological Sciences. 372(1735). 20160425–20160425. 36 indexed citations

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Dean, Lewis, et al.. (2014). Is it hot in here? Thermoregulation and homeostasis through an exercise activity. AJP Advances in Physiology Education. 38(1). 99–100. 3 indexed citations

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Dean, Lewis, et al.. (2013). Human cumulative culture: a comparative perspective. Biological reviews/Biological reviews of the Cambridge Philosophical Society. 89(2). 284–301. 226 indexed citations

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Dean, Lewis, Rachel L. Kendal, Steven J. Schapiro, Bernard Thierry, & Kevin N. Laland. (2012). Identification of the Social and Cognitive Processes Underlying Human Cumulative Culture. Science. 335(6072). 1114–1118. 319 indexed citations breakdown →

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Dean, Lewis, William Hoppitt, Kevin N. Laland, & Rachel L. Kendal. (2011). Sex ratio affects sex‐specific innovation and learning in captive ruffed lemurs (Varecia variegataandVarecia rubra). American Journal of Primatology. 73(12). 1210–1221. 14 indexed citations

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Kendal, Rachel L., Lewis Dean, & Kevin N. Laland. (2007). Objectivism should not be a casualty of innovation's operationalization. Behavioral and Brain Sciences. 30(4). 413–414. 2 indexed citations

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Vaughan, G., et al.. (2005). Water vapour and ozone profiles in the midlatitude upper troposphere. Atmospheric chemistry and physics. 5(4). 963–971. 18 indexed citations

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