Quentin D. Atkinson

11.5k total citations · 3 hit papers
85 papers, 4.5k citations indexed

About

Quentin D. Atkinson is a scholar working on Sociology and Political Science, Cultural Studies and Social Psychology. According to data from OpenAlex, Quentin D. Atkinson has authored 85 papers receiving a total of 4.5k indexed citations (citations by other indexed papers that have themselves been cited), including 45 papers in Sociology and Political Science, 38 papers in Cultural Studies and 19 papers in Social Psychology. Recurrent topics in Quentin D. Atkinson's work include Language and cultural evolution (38 papers), Evolutionary Game Theory and Cooperation (34 papers) and Cultural Differences and Values (14 papers). Quentin D. Atkinson is often cited by papers focused on Language and cultural evolution (38 papers), Evolutionary Game Theory and Cooperation (34 papers) and Cultural Differences and Values (14 papers). Quentin D. Atkinson collaborates with scholars based in New Zealand, United Kingdom and Germany. Quentin D. Atkinson's co-authors include Russell D. Gray, Andrew Meade, Simon J. Greenhill, Mark Pagel, Susanne Shultz, Alexei J. Drummond, Christopher Opie, Harvey Whitehouse, Joseph Watts and Pierrick Bourrat and has published in prestigious journals such as Nature, Science and Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences.

In The Last Decade

Quentin D. Atkinson

81 papers receiving 4.2k 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.

Language-tree divergence times support the Anatolian theory of Indo-European origin

2003 519 citations Russell D. Gray, Quentin D. Atkinson Nature profile →
Mapping the Origins and Expansion of the Indo-European Language Family

2012 347 citations Simon J. Greenhill, Alexei J. Drummond et al. profile →
Frequency of word-use predicts rates of lexical evolution throughout Indo-European history

2007 298 citations Quentin D. Atkinson et al. Nature profile →

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#	Work	Indexed citations
1	Enduring constraints on grammar revealed by Bayesian spatiophylogenetic analyses 2025 ·Nature Human Behaviour ·Annemarie Verkerk, (unknown), Hannah J. Haynie, Hedvig Skirgård, Christoph Rzymski, Quentin D. Atkinson, Simon J. Greenhill, Russell D. Gray	0
2	A Brief History of Political Instability in Vanuatu 2024 ·Anthropological Forum ·(unknown), Quentin D. Atkinson	1
3	Global musical diversity is largely independent of linguistic and genetic histories 2024 ·Nature Communications ·Sam Passmore, (unknown), Chiara Barbieri, (unknown), (unknown), Quentin D. Atkinson, Patrick E. Savage	1
4	Validating the dual evolutionary foundations of political values in a US sample 2023 ·Frontiers in Psychology ·(unknown), Ananish Chaudhuri, Quentin D. Atkinson	1
5	Appealing to the minds of gods: religious beliefs and appeals correspond to features of local social ecologies 2023 ·Religion Brain & Behavior ·Theiss Bendixen, Coren L. Apicella, Quentin D. Atkinson, Emma Cohen, Joseph Henrich, Rita Anne McNamara, Ara Norenzayan, Aiyana K. Willard, Dimitris Xygalatas, Benjamin Grant Purzycki	5
6	Universal interpretations of vocal music 2023 ·Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences ·(unknown), Manvir Singh, Luke Glowacki, (unknown), Quentin D. Atkinson, Courtney B. Hilton, Disa Sauter, Max M. Krasnow, Samuel A. Mehr	13
7	Grambank’s Typological Advances Support Computational Research on Diverse Languages 2023 ·Hannah J. Haynie, Damián E. Blasí, Hedvig Skirgård, Simon J. Greenhill, Quentin D. Atkinson, Russell D. Gray	1
8	Dual Evolutionary Foundations of Political Ideology Predict Divergent Responses to COVID-19 2023 ·British Journal of Political Science ·(unknown), Ananish Chaudhuri, Quentin D. Atkinson	9
9	Cooperative and conformist behavioural preferences predict the dual dimensions of political ideology 2023 ·Scientific Reports ·Scott Claessens, Chris G. Sibley, Ananish Chaudhuri, Quentin D. Atkinson	5
10	Valence-dependent mutation in lexical evolution 2022 ·Nature Human Behaviour ·Joshua Conrad Jackson, Kristen A. Lindquist, (unknown), Quentin D. Atkinson, Joseph Watts	8
11	Sequence alignment of folk song melodies reveals cross-cultural regularities of musical evolution 2022 ·Current Biology ·Patrick E. Savage, Sam Passmore, (unknown), Thomas E. Currie, Haruo Suzuki, Quentin D. Atkinson	18
12	Moralistic and local god beliefs and the extent of prosocial preferences on Tanna Island, Vanuatu 2022 ·Religion Brain & Behavior ·(unknown), Quentin D. Atkinson	1
13	Predictors of voter support for the legalization of recreational cannabis use and supply via a national referendum 2021 ·International Journal of Drug Policy ·Chris Wilkins, James Tremewan, Marta Rychert, Quentin D. Atkinson, (unknown), (unknown)	6
14	The dual evolutionary foundations of political ideology 2020 ·Nature Human Behaviour ·Scott Claessens, (unknown), Ananish Chaudhuri, Chris G. Sibley, Quentin D. Atkinson	64
15	Property Damage and Exposure to Other People in Distress Differentially Predict Prosocial Behavior After a Natural Disaster 2019 ·Psychological Science ·(unknown), Quentin D. Atkinson	52
16	Coevolution of landesque capital intensive agriculture and sociopolitical hierarchy 2018 ·Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences ·Oliver Sheehan, Joseph Watts, Russell D. Gray, Quentin D. Atkinson	32
17	BEASTling: A software tool for linguistic phylogenetics using BEAST 2 2017 ·PLoS ONE ·Luke Maurits, Robert Forkel, Gereon A. Kaiping, Quentin D. Atkinson	10
18	Moralistic gods, supernatural punishment and the expansion of human sociality 2016 ·Nature ·Benjamin Grant Purzycki, Coren L. Apicella, Quentin D. Atkinson, Emma Cohen, Rita Anne McNamara, Aiyana K. Willard, Dimitris Xygalatas, Ara Norenzayan, Joseph Henrich	244
19	Broad supernatural punishment but not moralizing high gods precede the evolution of political complexity in Austronesia 2015 ·Proceedings of the Royal Society B Biological Sciences ·Joseph Watts, Simon J. Greenhill, Quentin D. Atkinson, Thomas E. Currie, Joseph Bulbulia, Russell D. Gray	129
20	mtDNA Variation Predicts Population Size in Humans and Reveals a Major Southern Asian Chapter in Human Prehistory 2007 ·Molecular Biology and Evolution ·Quentin D. Atkinson, Russell D. Gray, Alexei J. Drummond	190

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