Luke Glowacki

3.8k total citations · 2 hit papers
36 papers, 1.6k citations indexed

About

Luke Glowacki is a scholar working on Sociology and Political Science, Management, Monitoring, Policy and Law and Experimental and Cognitive Psychology. According to data from OpenAlex, Luke Glowacki has authored 36 papers receiving a total of 1.6k indexed citations (citations by other indexed papers that have themselves been cited), including 26 papers in Sociology and Political Science, 10 papers in Management, Monitoring, Policy and Law and 9 papers in Experimental and Cognitive Psychology. Recurrent topics in Luke Glowacki's work include Evolutionary Game Theory and Cooperation (24 papers), Rangeland Management and Livestock Ecology (10 papers) and Evolutionary Psychology and Human Behavior (9 papers). Luke Glowacki is often cited by papers focused on Evolutionary Game Theory and Cooperation (24 papers), Rangeland Management and Livestock Ecology (10 papers) and Evolutionary Psychology and Human Behavior (9 papers). Luke Glowacki collaborates with scholars based in United States, France and United Kingdom. Luke Glowacki's co-authors include Richard W. Wrangham, Christopher von Rueden, Manvir Singh, Adena Schachner, Bronwyn Tarr, Steven Mithen, W. Tecumseh Fitch, Patrick E. Savage, Psyche Loui and Max M. Krasnow and has published in prestigious journals such as Science, Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences and PLoS ONE.

In The Last Decade

Luke Glowacki

31 papers receiving 1.6k citations

Hit Papers

Universality and diversity in human song 2019 2026 2021 2023 2019 2020 50 100 150 200 250
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.

  1. Universality and diversity in human song
    2019 266 citations Samuel A. Mehr, Manvir Singh et al. Science profile →
  2. Music as a coevolved system for social bonding
    2020 236 citations Patrick E. Savage, Psyche Loui et al. Behavioral and Brain Sciences profile →

Peers — A (Enhanced Table)

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

Name h Career Trend Papers Cites
Luke Glowacki United States 19 795 509 487 467 181 36 1.6k
Thomas E. Currie United Kingdom 19 598 0.8× 256 0.5× 261 0.5× 231 0.5× 61 0.3× 41 1.6k
Gregory A. Bryant United States 25 274 0.3× 697 1.4× 707 1.5× 1.1k 2.3× 52 0.3× 48 2.3k
Manvir Singh France 16 319 0.4× 230 0.5× 324 0.7× 215 0.5× 42 0.2× 30 914
Katarzyna Pisanski Poland 26 419 0.5× 299 0.6× 332 0.7× 991 2.1× 28 0.2× 72 2.2k
Christopher von Rueden United States 30 1.6k 2.0× 1.0k 2.0× 454 0.9× 1.7k 3.7× 349 1.9× 57 3.2k
Federico Rossano United States 21 256 0.3× 623 1.2× 397 0.8× 837 1.8× 54 0.3× 61 2.3k
Nicolas Claidière France 22 661 0.8× 652 1.3× 214 0.4× 190 0.4× 59 0.3× 58 1.4k
Frans de Waal United States 13 625 0.8× 898 1.8× 477 1.0× 371 0.8× 132 0.7× 28 1.8k
Simon J. Greenhill Germany 32 886 1.1× 421 0.8× 176 0.4× 645 1.4× 42 0.2× 85 4.1k
Rodrigo A. Cárdenas United States 19 262 0.3× 253 0.5× 321 0.7× 977 2.1× 21 0.1× 37 1.4k

Countries citing papers authored by Luke Glowacki

Since Specialization
Citations

This map shows the geographic impact of Luke Glowacki's research. It shows the number of citations coming from papers published by authors working in each country. You can also color the map by specialization and compare the number of citations received by Luke Glowacki with the expected number of citations based on a country's size and research output (numbers larger than one mean the country cites Luke Glowacki more than expected).

Fields of papers citing papers by Luke Glowacki

Since Specialization
Physical SciencesHealth SciencesLife SciencesSocial Sciences

This network shows the impact of papers produced by Luke Glowacki. Nodes represent research fields, and links connect fields that are likely to share authors. Colored nodes show fields that tend to cite the papers produced by Luke Glowacki. The network helps show where Luke Glowacki may publish in the future.

Co-authorship network of co-authors of Luke Glowacki

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

All Works

20 of 20 papers shown
1.
Glowacki, Luke. (2025). Robust evidence that mobile hunter-gatherers participated in war: Comment on Fry (2025). Evolution and Human Behavior. 46(2). 106658–106658.
2.
Fava, Francesco, James M. Hassell, Lance W. Robinson, et al.. (2025). Leveraging deep learning models to increase the representation of nomadic pastoralists in health campaigns and demographic surveillance. PLOS Global Public Health. 5(4). e0004018–e0004018.
3.
Glowacki, Luke. (2024). The controversial origins of war and peace: apes, foragers, and human evolution. Evolution and Human Behavior. 45(6). 106618–106618. 5 indexed citations
4.
Glowacki, Luke. (2024). Author's response: The challenge of peace. Behavioral and Brain Sciences. 47. e32–e32.
5.
Singh, Manvir, Luke Glowacki, Quentin D. Atkinson, et al.. (2023). Universal interpretations of vocal music. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences. 120(37). e2218593120–e2218593120. 13 indexed citations
6.
Garfield, Zachary H. & Luke Glowacki. (2023). Interpersonal conflicts and third-party mediation in a pastoralist society. Evolution and Human Behavior. 44(6). 613–623. 3 indexed citations
7.
Garfield, Zachary H., et al.. (2023). Norm violations and punishments across human societies. Evolutionary Human Sciences. 5. e11–e11. 8 indexed citations
8.
Glowacki, Luke. (2022). The evolution of peace. Behavioral and Brain Sciences. 47. e1–e1. 17 indexed citations
9.
Glowacki, Luke & Rose McDermott. (2022). Key individuals catalyse intergroup violence. Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society B Biological Sciences. 377(1851). 20210141–20210141. 19 indexed citations
10.
Glowacki, Luke, et al.. (2022). Are strangers just enemies you have not yet met? Group homogeneity, not intergroup relations, shapes ingroup bias in three natural groups. Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society B Biological Sciences. 377(1851). 20210419–20210419. 9 indexed citations
11.
Savage, Patrick E., Psyche Loui, Bronwyn Tarr, et al.. (2021). Toward inclusive theories of the evolution of musicality. Behavioral and Brain Sciences. 44. e121–e121. 21 indexed citations
12.
Savage, Patrick E., Psyche Loui, Bronwyn Tarr, et al.. (2020). Music as a coevolved system for social bonding. Behavioral and Brain Sciences. 44. e59–e59. 236 indexed citations breakdown →
13.
Glowacki, Luke. (2020). The emergence of locally adaptive institutions: Insights from traditional social structures of East African pastoralists. Biosystems. 198. 104257–104257. 16 indexed citations
14.
Mehr, Samuel A., Manvir Singh, Dean Knox, et al.. (2019). Universality and diversity in human song. Science. 366(6468). 266 indexed citations breakdown →
15.
Mehr, Samuel A., Manvir Singh, Hunter York, Luke Glowacki, & Max M. Krasnow. (2018). Form and Function in Human Song. Current Biology. 28(3). 356–368.e5. 91 indexed citations
16.
Glowacki, Luke, et al.. (2018). Spoils division rules shape aggression between natural groups. Nature Human Behaviour. 2(5). 322–326. 31 indexed citations
17.
Singh, Manvir, Richard W. Wrangham, & Luke Glowacki. (2017). Self-Interest and the Design of Rules. Human Nature. 28(4). 457–480. 45 indexed citations
18.
Isakov, Alexander, et al.. (2016). Modeling the Role of Networks and Individual Differences in Inter-Group Violence. PLoS ONE. 11(2). e0148314–e0148314. 7 indexed citations
19.
Glowacki, Luke & Richard W. Wrangham. (2013). The Role of Rewards in Motivating Participation in Simple Warfare. Human Nature. 24(4). 444–460. 90 indexed citations
20.
Wrangham, Richard W. & Luke Glowacki. (2012). Intergroup Aggression in Chimpanzees and War in Nomadic Hunter-Gatherers. Human Nature. 23(1). 5–29. 181 indexed citations

Rankless uses publication and citation data sourced from OpenAlex, an open and comprehensive bibliographic database. While OpenAlex provides broad and valuable coverage of the global research landscape, it—like all bibliographic datasets—has inherent limitations. These include incomplete records, variations in author disambiguation, differences in journal indexing, and delays in data updates. As a result, some metrics and network relationships displayed in Rankless may not fully capture the entirety of a scholar's output or impact.

Explore authors with similar magnitude of impact

Breakdown of academic impact, for papers by Thomas E. Currie Breakdown of academic impact, for papers by Gregory A. Bryant Breakdown of academic impact, for papers by Manvir Singh Breakdown of academic impact, for papers by Katarzyna Pisanski Breakdown of academic impact, for papers by Christopher von Rueden Breakdown of academic impact, for papers by Federico Rossano Breakdown of academic impact, for papers by Nicolas Claidière Breakdown of academic impact, for papers by Frans de Waal Breakdown of academic impact, for papers by Simon J. Greenhill Breakdown of academic impact, for papers by Rodrigo A. Cárdenas
Rankless by CCL
2026