Marco Gamba

5.6k total citations · 1 hit paper
119 papers, 3.7k citations indexed

About

Marco Gamba is a scholar working on Developmental Biology, Social Psychology and Ecology, Evolution, Behavior and Systematics. According to data from OpenAlex, Marco Gamba has authored 119 papers receiving a total of 3.7k indexed citations (citations by other indexed papers that have themselves been cited), including 91 papers in Developmental Biology, 46 papers in Social Psychology and 46 papers in Ecology, Evolution, Behavior and Systematics. Recurrent topics in Marco Gamba's work include Animal Vocal Communication and Behavior (91 papers), Primate Behavior and Ecology (45 papers) and Animal Behavior and Reproduction (41 papers). Marco Gamba is often cited by papers focused on Animal Vocal Communication and Behavior (91 papers), Primate Behavior and Ecology (45 papers) and Animal Behavior and Reproduction (41 papers). Marco Gamba collaborates with scholars based in Italy, Madagascar and United Kingdom. Marco Gamba's co-authors include Olivier Friard, Cristina Giacoma, Valeria Torti, Livio Favaro, Daria Valente, Chiara De Gregorio, Rose Marie Randrianarison, Teresa Raimondi, Daniela Pessani and Anna Zanoli and has published in prestigious journals such as PLoS ONE, Current Biology and Scientific Reports.

In The Last Decade

Marco Gamba

119 papers receiving 3.6k citations

Hit Papers

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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.

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Name	h						Papers	Cites
Marco Gamba Italy	25	1.4k	1.4k	1.2k	965	546	119	3.7k
Brenda McCowan United States	38	2.0k 1.4×	1.6k 1.2×	1.8k 1.6×	1.8k 1.9×	645 1.2×	147	4.7k
Elke Zimmermann Germany	41	1.9k 1.4×	2.0k 1.5×	2.7k 2.3×	861 0.9×	398 0.7×	175	4.4k
Kurt Hammerschmidt Germany	42	2.9k 2.1×	1.7k 1.2×	2.2k 1.9×	991 1.0×	822 1.5×	100	5.1k
Olivier Friard Italy	16	478 0.3×	825 0.6×	670 0.6×	570 0.6×	565 1.0×	44	2.8k
Claudia Fichtel Germany	30	1.2k 0.8×	1.6k 1.2×	1.7k 1.5×	647 0.7×	270 0.5×	117	3.0k
David Reby United Kingdom	38	3.3k 2.4×	1.6k 1.2×	802 0.7×	1.9k 2.0×	647 1.2×	140	5.0k
Karen McComb United Kingdom	40	2.7k 1.9×	2.5k 1.8×	1.6k 1.4×	2.3k 2.3×	1.4k 2.5×	62	5.8k
Christopher S. Evans Australia	38	1.8k 1.3×	3.0k 2.2×	857 0.7×	1.5k 1.5×	490 0.9×	82	4.3k
Tobias Riede United States	34	2.2k 1.6×	1.2k 0.9×	487 0.4×	1.2k 1.2×	173 0.3×	83	3.0k
Stuart Semple United Kingdom	36	952 0.7×	1.2k 0.9×	1.8k 1.5×	510 0.5×	313 0.6×	89	3.1k

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20 of 20 papers shown

Gregorio, Chiara De, Marco Gamba, & Adriano R. Lameira. (2025). Third‐order self‐embedded vocal motifs in wild orangutans, and the selective evolution of recursion. Annals of the New York Academy of Sciences. 1549(1). 219–229. 2 indexed citations

Jadoul, Yannick, et al.. (2025). An evolutionary model of rhythmic accelerando in animal vocal signalling. PLoS Computational Biology. 21(4). e1013011–e1013011. 1 indexed citations

Gregorio, Chiara De, Teresa Raimondi, Daria Valente, et al.. (2024). Isochrony as ancestral condition to call and song in a primate. Annals of the New York Academy of Sciences. 1537(1). 41–50. 9 indexed citations

Truppa, Valentina, et al.. (2024). Manual preference, performance, and dexterity for bimanual grass‐feeding behavior in wild geladas (Theropithecus gelada). American Journal of Primatology. 86(5). e23602–e23602. 2 indexed citations

Raimondi, Teresa, Chiara De Gregorio, Valeria Torti, et al.. (2024). Singing in the rain! Climate constraints on the occurrence of indri's song. American Journal of Primatology. 86(10). e23673–e23673. 2 indexed citations

Gregorio, Chiara De, Daria Valente, Teresa Raimondi, et al.. (2024). Who you live with and what you duet for: a review of the function of primate duets in relation to their social organization. Journal of Comparative Physiology A. 210(2). 281–294. 2 indexed citations

Gamba, Marco, et al.. (2024). What do rattle quills tell? A morphological analysis of the rattling in the African crested porcupine. Mammalian Biology. 105(1). 49–56. 1 indexed citations

Gregorio, Chiara De, Teresa Raimondi, Valeria Bevilacqua, et al.. (2023). Isochronous singing in 3 crested gibbon species (Nomascus spp.). Current Zoology. 70(3). 291–297. 14 indexed citations

Torti, Valeria, Daria Valente, Chiara De Gregorio, et al.. (2023). Behavioural Correlates of Lemur Scent-Marking in Wild Diademed Sifakas (Propithecus diadema) in the Maromizaha Forest (Madagascar). Animals. 13(18). 2848–2848. 1 indexed citations

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Favaro, Livio, Anna Zanoli, Katrin Ludynia, et al.. (2023). Vocal tract shape variation contributes to individual vocal identity in African penguins. Proceedings of the Royal Society B Biological Sciences. 290(2008). 20231029–20231029. 4 indexed citations

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Raimondi, Teresa, Daria Valente, Chiara De Gregorio, et al.. (2023). Singing more, singing harsher: occurrence of nonlinear phenomena in a primate’ song. Animal Cognition. 26(5). 1661–1673. 6 indexed citations

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Raimondi, Teresa, et al.. (2023). Isochrony and rhythmic interaction in ape duetting. Proceedings of the Royal Society B Biological Sciences. 290(1990). 20222244–20222244. 35 indexed citations

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Gregorio, Chiara De, Teresa Raimondi, Valeria Torti, et al.. (2023). There You Are! Automated Detection of Indris’ Songs on Features Extracted from Passive Acoustic Recordings. Animals. 13(2). 241–241. 22 indexed citations

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Randrianarison, Rose Marie, Valeria Torti, Chia L. Tan, et al.. (2022). Feeding Ecology and Regurgitation–Reingestion Behavior of the Critically Endangered Indri indri in the Maromizaha Protected Area, Eastern Madagascar. International Journal of Primatology. 43(4). 584–610. 4 indexed citations

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Randrianarison, Rose Marie, Valeria Torti, Chia L. Tan, et al.. (2022). Correction to: Feeding Ecology and Regurgitation–Reingestion Behavior of the Critically Endangered Indri indri in the Maromizaha Protected Area, Eastern Madagascar. International Journal of Primatology. 43(5). 987–987. 1 indexed citations

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Valente, Daria, Chiara De Gregorio, Livio Favaro, et al.. (2021). Linguistic laws of brevity: conformity in Indri indri. Animal Cognition. 24(4). 897–906. 17 indexed citations

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Baciadonna, Luigi, et al.. (2021). Long-term stability of vocal individuality cues in a territorial and monogamous seabird. Animal Cognition. 24(6). 1165–1169. 16 indexed citations

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Favaro, Livio, et al.. (2020). Do penguins’ vocal sequences conform to linguistic laws?. Biology Letters. 16(2). 20190589–20190589. 35 indexed citations

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Favaro, Livio, Marco Gamba, Claudia Gili, & Daniela Pessani. (2017). Acoustic correlates of body size and individual identity in banded penguins. PLoS ONE. 12(2). e0170001–e0170001. 38 indexed citations

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Pozzi, Luca, et al.. (2006). Eulemur Phylogeny: Evidence From Molecular And Acoustic Data. [IPS 2006 XXI Congress of The International Primatological Society, 25-30 June, 2006, Entebbe, Uganda]. International Journal of Primatology. 27. 1 indexed citations

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