Richard Dawkins

23.3k total citations · 6 hit papers
75 papers, 14.6k citations indexed

About

Richard Dawkins is a scholar working on Sociology and Political Science, Genetics and Ecology, Evolution, Behavior and Systematics. According to data from OpenAlex, Richard Dawkins has authored 75 papers receiving a total of 14.6k indexed citations (citations by other indexed papers that have themselves been cited), including 11 papers in Sociology and Political Science, 10 papers in Genetics and 9 papers in Ecology, Evolution, Behavior and Systematics. Recurrent topics in Richard Dawkins's work include Evolutionary Game Theory and Cooperation (9 papers), Plant and animal studies (7 papers) and Evolutionary Psychology and Human Behavior (5 papers). Richard Dawkins is often cited by papers focused on Evolutionary Game Theory and Cooperation (9 papers), Plant and animal studies (7 papers) and Evolutionary Psychology and Human Behavior (5 papers). Richard Dawkins collaborates with scholars based in United Kingdom, United States and Australia. Richard Dawkins's co-authors include John R. Krebs, Mark Ridley, Fred W. Allendorf, Daniel C. Dennett, H. Jane Brockmann, James N. Smith, Noel T. Boaz, Alan Grafen, Stephen Jay Gould and Gunther S. Stent and has published in prestigious journals such as Nature, Science and Contemporary Sociology A Journal of Reviews.

In The Last Decade

Richard Dawkins

69 papers receiving 12.3k citations

Hit Papers

The Selfish Gene 1976 2026 1992 2009 1976 1982 1979 1989 1983 2.0k 4.0k 6.0k

Peers — A (Enhanced Table)

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

Name h Career Trend Papers Cites
Richard Dawkins United Kingdom 27 5.1k 3.0k 2.9k 2.1k 1.7k 75 14.6k
Richard C Lewontin United States 69 4.5k 0.9× 11.3k 3.7× 5.0k 1.7× 1.9k 0.9× 1.4k 0.8× 269 27.5k
Stephen Jay Gould United States 83 6.0k 1.2× 6.2k 2.1× 6.1k 2.1× 2.4k 1.2× 3.5k 2.0× 540 44.7k
Robert Trivers United States 34 5.9k 1.2× 4.1k 1.4× 4.8k 1.6× 3.8k 1.8× 3.3k 1.9× 67 17.4k
George C. Williams United States 33 2.1k 0.4× 3.9k 1.3× 4.9k 1.7× 1.5k 0.7× 933 0.5× 91 14.3k
Russell D. Gray New Zealand 56 1.7k 0.3× 1.6k 0.5× 1.6k 0.5× 985 0.5× 2.4k 1.4× 187 9.7k
Michael T. Ghiselin United States 39 1.5k 0.3× 1.3k 0.4× 1.8k 0.6× 935 0.4× 639 0.4× 169 8.8k
Peter J. Richerson United States 55 11.2k 2.2× 1.8k 0.6× 1.3k 0.4× 3.8k 1.8× 4.2k 2.4× 178 19.7k
Patrick Bateson United Kingdom 52 1.1k 0.2× 2.2k 0.7× 3.3k 1.1× 1.3k 0.6× 3.7k 2.1× 179 12.7k
Kevin N. Laland United Kingdom 88 8.7k 1.7× 4.1k 1.4× 7.6k 2.6× 2.5k 1.2× 7.7k 4.5× 237 25.3k
David Sloan Wilson United States 60 3.9k 0.8× 4.4k 1.4× 5.6k 1.9× 1.4k 0.7× 1.3k 0.8× 135 17.0k

Countries citing papers authored by Richard Dawkins

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Fields of papers citing papers by Richard Dawkins

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Physical SciencesHealth SciencesLife SciencesSocial Sciences

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Co-authorship network of co-authors of Richard Dawkins

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

All Works

20 of 20 papers shown
1.
Dawkins, Richard. (2024). The Genetic Book of the Dead. Yale University Press eBooks. 1 indexed citations
2.
Dawkins, Richard. (2016). The Extended Selfish Gene. 2 indexed citations
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Dawkins, Richard & Latha R. Menon. (2003). A Devil's Chaplain Selected Essays. 12 indexed citations
4.
Blakemore, Colin, Richard Dawkins, Denis Noble, & Michael D. Yudkin. (2003). Is a scientific boycott ever justified?. Nature. 421(6921). 314–314. 1 indexed citations
5.
Hamilton, W D & Richard Dawkins. (2001). The evolution of sex. Oxford University Press eBooks. 4 indexed citations
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Dawkins, Richard. (1997). HUMAN CHAUVINISM. Evolution. 51(3). 1015–1020. 12 indexed citations
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Dawkins, Richard & Robin Holliday. (1997). Religion and science. BioEssays. 19(8). 743–743. 1 indexed citations
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Dawkins, Richard, et al.. (1996). A Darwinian view of life : selections from "River out of Eden". 1 indexed citations
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Dawkins, Richard. (1996). The blind watchmaker : why the evidence of evolution reveals a universe without design. CERN Document Server (European Organization for Nuclear Research). 440 indexed citations
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Dawkins, Richard. (1995). Reply to Lucy Sullivan. Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society B Biological Sciences. 349(1328). 219–224. 4 indexed citations
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Dawkins, Richard. (1994). The eye in a twinkling. Nature. 368(6473). 690–691. 11 indexed citations
12.
Dawkins, Richard. (1990). Der blinde Uhrmacher : ein neues Plädoyer für den Darwinismus. Deutscher Taschenbuch Verlag eBooks. 1 indexed citations
13.
Dawkins, Richard. (1989). The selfish gene / Richard Dawkins. 1989(1989). 1–99. 3 indexed citations
14.
Dawkins, Richard. (1985). What was all the fuss about?. Nature. 316(6030). 683–684. 11 indexed citations
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Dawkins, Richard. (1983). The extended phenotype : the gene as the unit of selection. CERN Document Server (European Organization for Nuclear Research). 567 indexed citations breakdown →
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Dawkins, Richard & H. Jane Brockmann. (1980). Do digger wasps commit the concorde fallacy?. Animal Behaviour. 28(3). 892–896. 68 indexed citations
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Boaz, Noel T. & Richard Dawkins. (1979). The Selfish Gene. Anthropological Quarterly. 52(2). 124–124. 134 indexed citations
18.
Dawkins, Richard, et al.. (1978). From Genes to Memes?. Contemporary Sociology A Journal of Reviews. 7(6). 706–706. 1 indexed citations
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Dawkins, Richard. (1971). A Cheap Method of Recording Behavioural Events, for Direct Computer-Access. Behaviour. 40(1-2). 162–172. 42 indexed citations
20.
Dawkins, Richard. (1966). Selective pecking in the domestic chick. Oxford University Research Archive (ORA) (University of Oxford). 2 indexed citations

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