Raphaela Heesen

583 total citations
19 papers, 315 citations indexed

About

Raphaela Heesen is a scholar working on Social Psychology, Developmental and Educational Psychology and Experimental and Cognitive Psychology. According to data from OpenAlex, Raphaela Heesen has authored 19 papers receiving a total of 315 indexed citations (citations by other indexed papers that have themselves been cited), including 13 papers in Social Psychology, 10 papers in Developmental and Educational Psychology and 7 papers in Experimental and Cognitive Psychology. Recurrent topics in Raphaela Heesen's work include Primate Behavior and Ecology (11 papers), Child and Animal Learning Development (10 papers) and Animal Vocal Communication and Behavior (6 papers). Raphaela Heesen is often cited by papers focused on Primate Behavior and Ecology (11 papers), Child and Animal Learning Development (10 papers) and Animal Vocal Communication and Behavior (6 papers). Raphaela Heesen collaborates with scholars based in United Kingdom, Switzerland and United States. Raphaela Heesen's co-authors include Émilie Genty, Klaus Zuberbühler, Federico Rossano, Adrian Bangerter, Ramon Ferrer‐i‐Cancho, Catherine Hobaiter, Jean‐Pascal Guéry, Stuart Semple, Marlen Fröhlich and Katia Iglesias and has published in prestigious journals such as PLoS ONE, Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society B Biological Sciences and Proceedings of the Royal Society B Biological Sciences.

In The Last Decade

Raphaela Heesen

19 papers receiving 308 citations

Peers — A (Enhanced Table)

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

Name h Career Trend Papers Cites
Raphaela Heesen United Kingdom 12 173 127 102 87 52 19 315
Amy Pollick United States 3 206 1.2× 130 1.0× 141 1.4× 62 0.7× 62 1.2× 7 310
Kirsty E. Graham United Kingdom 12 314 1.8× 229 1.8× 245 2.4× 65 0.7× 69 1.3× 28 480
Geertrui M. Spaepen United States 7 136 0.8× 217 1.7× 76 0.7× 131 1.5× 44 0.8× 7 422
Joanne E. Tanner United Kingdom 8 191 1.1× 169 1.3× 120 1.2× 55 0.6× 27 0.5× 8 262
Claudia Wilke United Kingdom 10 265 1.5× 109 0.9× 266 2.6× 56 0.6× 123 2.4× 18 425
Richard Moore Germany 15 242 1.4× 304 2.4× 86 0.8× 109 1.3× 17 0.3× 36 529
Constantina Theofanopoulou Spain 9 180 1.0× 36 0.3× 53 0.5× 88 1.0× 35 0.7× 20 341
Matthias Allritz United Kingdom 10 212 1.2× 74 0.6× 45 0.4× 43 0.5× 33 0.6× 18 308
Sonia Ragir United States 8 186 1.1× 187 1.5× 40 0.4× 71 0.8× 33 0.6× 12 422
Darshana Z. Narayanan United States 5 138 0.8× 87 0.7× 251 2.5× 41 0.5× 100 1.9× 7 369

Countries citing papers authored by Raphaela Heesen

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Fields of papers citing papers by Raphaela Heesen

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Physical SciencesHealth SciencesLife SciencesSocial Sciences

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Co-authorship network of co-authors of Raphaela Heesen

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

All Works

19 of 19 papers shown
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Heesen, Raphaela, Adrian Bangerter, Klaus Zuberbühler, et al.. (2025). Potential evidence of reengagement attempts following interruptions of a triadic social game in bonobos and chimpanzees. PLoS ONE. 20(3). e0292984–e0292984. 1 indexed citations
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Heesen, Raphaela, et al.. (2024). Perceptual integration of bodily and facial emotion cues in chimpanzees and humans. PNAS Nexus. 3(2). pgae012–pgae012. 1 indexed citations
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Heesen, Raphaela, et al.. (2024). Impact of social context on human facial and gestural emotion expressions. iScience. 27(11). 110663–110663. 2 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, et al.. (2022). Bared‐teeth displays in bonobos (Pan paniscus): An assessment of the power asymmetry hypothesis. American Journal of Primatology. 84(9). e23419–e23419. 6 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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Heesen, Raphaela, et al.. (2022). Flexible signalling strategies by victims mediate post-conflict interactions in bonobos. Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society B Biological Sciences. 377(1860). 20210310–20210310. 16 indexed citations
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Heesen, Raphaela, et al.. (2022). The Association Between the Bared-Teeth Display and Social Dominance in Captive Chimpanzees (Pan troglodytes). Affective Science. 3(4). 749–760. 8 indexed citations
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Bangerter, Adrian, Émilie Genty, Raphaela Heesen, Federico Rossano, & Klaus Zuberbühler. (2022). Every product needs a process: unpacking joint commitment as a process across species. Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society B Biological Sciences. 377(1859). 20210095–20210095. 13 indexed citations
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Rossano, Federico, Jack Terwilliger, Adrian Bangerter, et al.. (2022). How 2- and 4-year-old children coordinate social interactions with peers. Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society B Biological Sciences. 377(1859). 20210100–20210100. 11 indexed citations
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Cross, Catharine, et al.. (2022). Variable expression of linguistic laws in ape gesture: a case study from chimpanzee sexual solicitation. Royal Society Open Science. 9(11). 220849–220849. 7 indexed citations
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Heesen, Raphaela, Adrian Bangerter, Klaus Zuberbühler, et al.. (2021). Assessing joint commitment as a process in great apes. iScience. 24(8). 102872–102872. 33 indexed citations
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Heesen, Raphaela, Klaus Zuberbühler, Adrian Bangerter, et al.. (2021). Evidence of joint commitment in great apes' natural joint actions. Royal Society Open Science. 8(12). 211121–211121. 21 indexed citations
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Heesen, Raphaela, Adrian Bangerter, Klaus Zuberbühler, et al.. (2020). Bonobos engage in joint commitment. Science Advances. 6(51). 25 indexed citations
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Watson, Stuart K., Raphaela Heesen, Daniela Hedwig, Martha M. Robbins, & Simon W. Townsend. (2020). An exploration of Menzerath's law in wild mountain gorilla vocal sequences. Biology Letters. 16(10). 20200380–20200380. 14 indexed citations
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Genty, Émilie, Raphaela Heesen, Jean‐Pascal Guéry, et al.. (2020). How apes get into and out of joint actions. Interaction Studies Social Behaviour and Communication in Biological and Artificial Systems. 21(3). 353–386. 25 indexed citations
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Heesen, Raphaela, Catherine Hobaiter, Ramon Ferrer‐i‐Cancho, & Stuart Semple. (2019). Linguistic laws in chimpanzee gestural communication. Proceedings of the Royal Society B Biological Sciences. 286(1896). 20182900–20182900. 47 indexed citations
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Heesen, Raphaela, Catherine Hobaiter, Ramon Ferrer‐i‐Cancho, & Stuart Semple. (2018). Linguistic laws in chimpanzee gestural communication. 10 indexed citations
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Heesen, Raphaela, Émilie Genty, Federico Rossano, Klaus Zuberbühler, & Adrian Bangerter. (2017). Social play as joint action: A framework to study the evolution of shared intentionality as an interactional achievement. Learning & Behavior. 45(4). 390–405. 41 indexed citations

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