Rebecca Bliege Bird

7.8k total citations · 2 hit papers
68 papers, 4.9k citations indexed

About

Rebecca Bliege Bird is a scholar working on Ecology, Sociology and Political Science and Experimental and Cognitive Psychology. According to data from OpenAlex, Rebecca Bliege Bird has authored 68 papers receiving a total of 4.9k indexed citations (citations by other indexed papers that have themselves been cited), including 35 papers in Ecology, 19 papers in Sociology and Political Science and 18 papers in Experimental and Cognitive Psychology. Recurrent topics in Rebecca Bliege Bird's work include Wildlife Ecology and Conservation (27 papers), Evolutionary Psychology and Human Behavior (18 papers) and Evolutionary Game Theory and Cooperation (16 papers). Rebecca Bliege Bird is often cited by papers focused on Wildlife Ecology and Conservation (27 papers), Evolutionary Psychology and Human Behavior (18 papers) and Evolutionary Game Theory and Cooperation (16 papers). Rebecca Bliege Bird collaborates with scholars based in United States, Australia and United Kingdom. Rebecca Bliege Bird's co-authors include Douglas W. Bird, Eric Alden Smith, Brian F. Codding, Kristen Hawkes, Christopher H. Parker, James H. Jones, Eleanor A. Power, Dale G. Nimmo, Diane K. Brockman and David Zeanah and has published in prestigious journals such as Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, Nature Communications and Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society B Biological Sciences.

In The Last Decade

Rebecca Bliege Bird

68 papers receiving 4.6k citations

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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.

Signaling Theory, Strategic Interaction, and Symbolic Capital

2005 581 citations Rebecca Bliege Bird, Eric Alden Smith profile →
People have shaped most of terrestrial nature for at least 12,000 years

2021 475 citations Erle C. Ellis, Nicolas Gauthier et al. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences profile →

Peers — A (Enhanced Table)

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

Name	h						Papers	Cites
Rebecca Bliege Bird United States	34	1.4k	1.3k	1.0k	953	935	68	4.9k
Douglas W. Bird United States	30	1.2k 0.9×	719 0.6×	697 0.7×	1.1k 1.2×	513 0.5×	61	3.6k
Eric Alden Smith United States	41	1.1k 0.8×	3.1k 2.4×	464 0.4×	1.2k 1.2×	2.1k 2.3×	103	7.6k
Monique Borgerhoff Mulder United States	46	915 0.7×	2.1k 1.6×	868 0.8×	250 0.3×	1.7k 1.8×	141	5.9k
Bruce Winterhalder United States	32	751 0.5×	777 0.6×	253 0.2×	957 1.0×	413 0.4×	78	3.4k
Brian Hayden Canada	30	1.6k 1.2×	410 0.3×	561 0.5×	600 0.6×	240 0.3×	94	3.5k
Tim Ingold United Kingdom	50	598 0.4×	3.1k 2.4×	441 0.4×	3.2k 3.4×	707 0.8×	247	12.5k
Brian F. Codding United States	30	928 0.7×	401 0.3×	544 0.5×	851 0.9×	148 0.2×	92	2.5k
Kristen Hawkes United States	44	1.5k 1.1×	2.1k 1.6×	139 0.1×	2.1k 2.2×	2.9k 3.1×	104	8.7k
Marcus J. Hamilton United States	28	866 0.6×	423 0.3×	374 0.4×	757 0.8×	152 0.2×	75	3.0k
Kim Hill United States	49	1.1k 0.8×	4.2k 3.3×	181 0.2×	1.2k 1.3×	4.6k 4.9×	132	11.9k

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Co-authorship network of co-authors of Rebecca Bliege Bird

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Bird, Rebecca Bliege, et al.. (2024). Haemodynamic response to pre-hospital emergency anaesthesia in trauma patients within an urban helicopter emergency medical service. European Journal of Trauma and Emergency Surgery. 50(3). 987–994. 1 indexed citations

Lake, Frank K., et al.. (2021). Revitalized Karuk and Yurok cultural burning to enhance California hazelnut for basketweaving in northwestern California, USA. Fire Ecology. 17(1). 37 indexed citations

Ellis, Erle C., Nicolas Gauthier, Kees Klein Goldewijk, et al.. (2021). People have shaped most of terrestrial nature for at least 12,000 years. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences. 118(17). 475 indexed citations breakdown →

Jones, James H., Anne C. Pisor, Kristina Douglass, et al.. (2021). How can evolutionary and biological anthropologists engage broader audiences?. American Journal of Human Biology. 33(4). e23592–e23592. 8 indexed citations

Bird, Rebecca Bliege, et al.. (2021). Indigenous burning shapes the structure of visible and invisible fire mosaics. Landscape Ecology. 37(3). 811–827. 24 indexed citations

Crabtree, Stefani A., Douglas W. Bird, & Rebecca Bliege Bird. (2019). Subsistence Transitions and the Simplification of Ecological Networks in the Western Desert of Australia. Human Ecology. 47(2). 165–177. 31 indexed citations

Bird, Rebecca Bliege, Elspeth Ready, & Eleanor A. Power. (2018). The social significance of subtle signals. Nature Human Behaviour. 2(7). 452–457. 64 indexed citations

Zeanah, David, Brian F. Codding, Rebecca Bliege Bird, & Douglas W. Bird. (2017). Mosaics of fire and water: the co-emergence of anthropogenic landscapes and intensive seed exploitation in the Australian arid zone. Australian Archaeology. 83(1-2). 2–19. 17 indexed citations

Roos, Christopher I., Andrew C. Scott, Claire M. Belcher, et al.. (2016). Living on a flammable planet: interdisciplinary, cross-scalar and varied cultural lessons, prospects and challenges. Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society B Biological Sciences. 371(1696). 20150469–20150469. 45 indexed citations

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Codding, Brian F., David Zeanah, Rebecca Bliege Bird, Christopher H. Parker, & Douglas W. Bird. (2016). Martu ethnoarchaeology: Foraging ecology and the marginal value of site structure. Journal of Anthropological Archaeology. 44. 166–176. 15 indexed citations

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Scelza, Brooke A., Douglas W. Bird, & Rebecca Bliege Bird. (2014). Bush Tucker, Shop Tucker: Production, Consumption, and Diet at an Aboriginal Outstation. Ecology of Food and Nutrition. 53(1). 98–117. 20 indexed citations

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Bird, Rebecca Bliege, Douglas W. Bird, Brian F. Codding, Christopher H. Parker, & James H. Jones. (2008). The “fire stick farming” hypothesis: Australian Aboriginal foraging strategies, biodiversity, and anthropogenic fire mosaics. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences. 105(39). 14796–14801. 332 indexed citations

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Bird, Douglas W., Rebecca Bliege Bird, & Jennifer L. Richardson. (2004). Meriam ethnoarchaeology: Shellfishing and shellmiddens. Memoirs of the Queensland Museum - Nature. 3(1). 183. 16 indexed citations

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Bird, Douglas W., Rebecca Bliege Bird, & Christopher H. Parker. (2004). Women Who Hunt with Fire: Aboriginal Resource Use and Fire Regimes in Australia's Western Desert. Australian aboriginal studies. 2004(1). 90. 11 indexed citations

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Bird, Douglas W. & Rebecca Bliege Bird. (2002). Children on the reef. Human Nature. 13(2). 269–297. 79 indexed citations

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Bird, Rebecca Bliege & Douglas W. Bird. (2002). Constraints of knowing or constraints of growing?. Human Nature. 13(2). 239–267. 90 indexed citations

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Bird, Rebecca Bliege, Douglas W. Bird, Eric Alden Smith, & Geoff Kushnick. (2002). Risk and reciprocity in Meriam food sharing. Evolution and Human Behavior. 23(4). 297–321. 82 indexed citations

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Bird, Rebecca Bliege, Eric Alden Smith, & Douglas W. Bird. (2001). The hunting handicap: costly signaling in human foraging strategies. Behavioral Ecology and Sociobiology. 50(1). 96–96. 13 indexed citations

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Bird, Rebecca Bliege, et al.. (1996). The pursuit of quality : how organisations in the United Kingdom are attaining excellence through quality certification & total quality management systems. Prentice Hall eBooks. 4 indexed citations

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Bird, Rebecca Bliege & Douglas W. Bird. (1995). Children and traditional subsistence on Mer (Murray Island), Torres Strait. Australian aboriginal studies. 2. 22 indexed citations

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