Marlen Fröhlich

1.1k total citations
31 papers, 687 citations indexed

About

Marlen Fröhlich is a scholar working on Social Psychology, Developmental Biology and Developmental and Educational Psychology. According to data from OpenAlex, Marlen Fröhlich has authored 31 papers receiving a total of 687 indexed citations (citations by other indexed papers that have themselves been cited), including 23 papers in Social Psychology, 23 papers in Developmental Biology and 17 papers in Developmental and Educational Psychology. Recurrent topics in Marlen Fröhlich's work include Animal Vocal Communication and Behavior (23 papers), Primate Behavior and Ecology (22 papers) and Child and Animal Learning Development (15 papers). Marlen Fröhlich is often cited by papers focused on Animal Vocal Communication and Behavior (23 papers), Primate Behavior and Ecology (22 papers) and Child and Animal Learning Development (15 papers). Marlen Fröhlich collaborates with scholars based in Germany, Switzerland and Ivory Coast. Marlen Fröhlich's co-authors include Simone Pika, Roman M. Wittig, Carel P. van Schaik, Gudrun Müller, Catherine Hobaiter, Simon W. Townsend, Thibaud Gruber, Barbara Fruth, Takeshi Furuichi and Raphaela Heesen and has published in prestigious journals such as Scientific Reports, Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society B Biological Sciences and Neuroscience & Biobehavioral Reviews.

In The Last Decade

Marlen Fröhlich

31 papers receiving 680 citations

Peers — A (Enhanced Table)

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

Name h Career Trend Papers Cites
Marlen Fröhlich Germany 15 478 423 367 99 93 31 687
Kirsty E. Graham United Kingdom 12 314 0.7× 245 0.6× 229 0.6× 69 0.7× 62 0.7× 28 480
Émilie Genty Switzerland 17 678 1.4× 441 1.0× 509 1.4× 159 1.6× 107 1.2× 31 966
Paweł Fedurek United Kingdom 16 508 1.1× 440 1.0× 144 0.4× 248 2.5× 81 0.9× 35 808
Anna Ilona Roberts United Kingdom 11 397 0.8× 309 0.7× 232 0.6× 82 0.8× 26 0.3× 21 465
Anne Marijke Schel United Kingdom 18 671 1.4× 725 1.7× 242 0.7× 322 3.3× 215 2.3× 23 1.0k
Stéphanie Barbu France 16 233 0.5× 153 0.4× 174 0.5× 63 0.6× 41 0.4× 30 604
Claudia Wilke United Kingdom 10 265 0.6× 266 0.6× 109 0.3× 123 1.2× 76 0.8× 18 425
Madeleine E. Hardus Netherlands 14 372 0.8× 426 1.0× 109 0.3× 114 1.2× 154 1.7× 20 625
Karen Brakke United States 14 278 0.6× 117 0.3× 460 1.3× 37 0.4× 168 1.8× 25 794
Hiroki Koda Japan 16 357 0.7× 485 1.1× 98 0.3× 259 2.6× 93 1.0× 53 749

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Physical SciencesHealth SciencesLife SciencesSocial Sciences

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Co-authorship network of co-authors of Marlen Fröhlich

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All Works

20 of 20 papers shown
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Utami, Sri, et al.. (2025). Sumatran orangutan mothers differ in the extent and trajectory of their expression of maternal behaviour. Proceedings of the Royal Society B Biological Sciences. 292(2046). 20250443–20250443. 2 indexed citations
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Harvati, Katerina, et al.. (2025). Flexible use of multimodal communicative strategies in adult chimpanzees. Scientific Reports. 15(1). 32384–32384. 1 indexed citations
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Fröhlich, Marlen, et al.. (2025). The role of exploration and exploitation in primate communication. Proceedings of the Royal Society B Biological Sciences. 292(2039). 20241665–20241665. 1 indexed citations
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Fröhlich, Marlen, et al.. (2025). Assessing flexibility in meaning and context in non‐human communication. Biological reviews/Biological reviews of the Cambridge Philosophical Society. 100(6). 2471–2481. 1 indexed citations
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Fröhlich, Marlen, et al.. (2025). Rethinking ambiguity across species. Neuroscience & Biobehavioral Reviews. 179. 106401–106401. 1 indexed citations
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Fröhlich, Marlen, Maria A. van Noordwijk, Tatang Mitra Setia, Carel P. van Schaik, & Ulrich Knief. (2024). Wild and captive immature orangutans differ in their non-vocal communication with others, but not with their mothers. Behavioral Ecology and Sociobiology. 78(1). 12–12. 1 indexed citations
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Fröhlich, Marlen, Carel P. van Schaik, Maria A. van Noordwijk, & Ulrich Knief. (2022). Individual variation and plasticity in the infant-directed communication of orang-utan mothers. Proceedings of the Royal Society B Biological Sciences. 289(1975). 20220200–20220200. 12 indexed citations
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Heesen, Raphaela, et al.. (2022). Coordinating social action: a primer for the cross-species investigation of communicative repair. Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society B Biological Sciences. 377(1859). 20210110–20210110. 23 indexed citations
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Heesen, Raphaela & Marlen Fröhlich. (2022). Revisiting the human ‘interaction engine’: comparative approaches to social action coordination. Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society B Biological Sciences. 377(1859). 20210092–20210092. 11 indexed citations
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Fröhlich, Marlen & Carel P. van Schaik. (2022). Social tolerance and interactional opportunities as drivers of gestural redoings in orang-utans. Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society B Biological Sciences. 377(1859). 20210106–20210106. 9 indexed citations
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Fröhlich, Marlen, et al.. (2021). Operationalizing Intentionality in Primate Communication: Social and Ecological Considerations. International Journal of Primatology. 45(3). 501–525. 10 indexed citations
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Fröhlich, Marlen, et al.. (2021). Orangutans have larger gestural repertoires in captivity than in the wild—A case of weak innovation?. iScience. 24(11). 103304–103304. 10 indexed citations
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Fröhlich, Marlen. (2021). Data and code: Multicomponent versus multisensory communicative acts in orang-utans. Zenodo (CERN European Organization for Nuclear Research). 1 indexed citations
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Fröhlich, Marlen, et al.. (2021). Multicomponent and multisensory communicative acts in orang-utans may serve different functions. Communications Biology. 4(1). 917–917. 17 indexed citations
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Fröhlich, Marlen, et al.. (2019). Begging and social tolerance: Food solicitation tactics in young chimpanzees (Pan troglodytes) in the wild. Evolution and Human Behavior. 41(2). 126–135. 13 indexed citations
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Fröhlich, Marlen, Kevin Lee, Tatang Mitra Setia, Caroline Schuppli, & Carel P. van Schaik. (2019). The loud scratch: a newly identified gesture of Sumatran orangutan mothers in the wild. Biology Letters. 15(7). 20190209–20190209. 12 indexed citations
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Pika, Simone & Marlen Fröhlich. (2018). Gestural acquisition in great apes: the Social Negotiation Hypothesis. Animal Cognition. 22(4). 551–565. 46 indexed citations
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Fröhlich, Marlen & Carel P. van Schaik. (2018). The function of primate multimodal communication. Animal Cognition. 21(5). 619–629. 45 indexed citations
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Fröhlich, Marlen, Gudrun Müller, Barbara Fruth, et al.. (2016). Unpeeling the layers of language: Bonobos and chimpanzees engage in cooperative turn-taking sequences. Scientific Reports. 6(1). 25887–25887. 80 indexed citations
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Fröhlich, Marlen, Roman M. Wittig, & Simone Pika. (2016). Should I stay or should I go? Initiation of joint travel in mother–infant dyads of two chimpanzee communities in the wild. Animal Cognition. 19(3). 483–500. 70 indexed citations

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