Russell D. Gray

21.0k total citations · 5 hit papers
187 papers, 9.7k citations indexed

About

Russell D. Gray is a scholar working on Cultural Studies, Social Psychology and Ecology, Evolution, Behavior and Systematics. According to data from OpenAlex, Russell D. Gray has authored 187 papers receiving a total of 9.7k indexed citations (citations by other indexed papers that have themselves been cited), including 64 papers in Cultural Studies, 62 papers in Social Psychology and 32 papers in Ecology, Evolution, Behavior and Systematics. Recurrent topics in Russell D. Gray's work include Language and cultural evolution (64 papers), Primate Behavior and Ecology (58 papers) and Animal Vocal Communication and Behavior (29 papers). Russell D. Gray is often cited by papers focused on Language and cultural evolution (64 papers), Primate Behavior and Ecology (58 papers) and Animal Vocal Communication and Behavior (29 papers). Russell D. Gray collaborates with scholars based in New Zealand, Germany and United States. Russell D. Gray's co-authors include Simon J. Greenhill, Quentin D. Atkinson, Gavin R. Hunt, Paul E. Griffiths, Alex H. Taylor, Martyn Kennedy, Alexei J. Drummond, Fiona M. Jordan, Michael Dunn and Stephen C. Levinson and has published in prestigious journals such as Nature, Science and Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences.

In The Last Decade

Russell D. Gray

179 papers receiving 9.1k 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 profile →
Language Phylogenies Reveal Expansion Pulses and Pauses in Pacific Settlement

2009 435 citations Russell D. Gray, Simon J. Greenhill et al. Science profile →
Mapping the Origins and Expansion of the Indo-European Language Family

2012 347 citations Remco Bouckaert, Simon J. Greenhill et al. Science profile →
Evolved structure of language shows lineage-specific trends in word-order universals

2011 300 citations Simon J. Greenhill, Russell D. Gray et al. profile →
Emotion semantics show both cultural variation and universal structure

2019 229 citations Joshua Conrad Jackson, Joseph Watts et al. Science profile →

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Author						Papers	Cites
Russell D. Gray	3.1k	2.4k	1.7k	1.6k	1.6k	187	9.7k
W. Tecumseh Fitch	2.9k 0.9×	2.7k 1.1×	408 0.2×	2.3k 1.5×	744 0.5×	211	14.0k
Michael A. Hauser	2.7k 0.9×	8.1k 3.4×	2.7k 1.6×	2.8k 1.8×	857 0.6×	273	22.3k
Mark Pagel	1.4k 0.4×	2.4k 1.0×	1.6k 0.9×	10.5k 6.7×	5.5k 3.5×	173	25.1k
Klaus Zuberbühler	1.9k 0.6×	6.7k 2.8×	577 0.3×	4.2k 2.7×	949 0.6×	294	11.5k
Quentin D. Atkinson	1.7k 0.5×	1.0k 0.4×	1.5k 0.9×	263 0.2×	485 0.3×	85	4.5k
Ruth Mace	1.0k 0.3×	1.4k 0.6×	3.1k 1.8×	652 0.4×	900 0.6×	183	8.7k
Andrew Whiten	4.2k 1.4×	12.4k 5.2×	4.3k 2.6×	3.9k 2.5×	1.8k 1.1×	252	20.0k
Robert Foley	631 0.2×	1.5k 0.6×	740 0.4×	610 0.4×	1.2k 0.7×	116	6.6k
Richard Dawkins	1.2k 0.4×	1.7k 0.7×	5.1k 3.0×	2.9k 1.9×	3.0k 2.0×	75	14.6k
Richard McElreath	1.3k 0.4×	2.6k 1.1×	5.6k 3.3×	910 0.6×	649 0.4×	113	12.4k

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Tresoldi, Tiago, et al.. (2023). Variation in phoneme inventories: quantifying the problem and improving comparability. KTH Publication Database DiVA (KTH Royal Institute of Technology). 8(2). 149–168. 2 indexed citations

Michaelis, Susanne Maria, Hannah J. Haynie, Sam Passmore, et al.. (2023). Societies of strangers do not speak less complex languages. Science Advances. 9(33). eadf7704–eadf7704. 19 indexed citations

Zariquiey, Roberto, et al.. (2022). Untangling the evolution of body-part terminology in Pano: conservative versus innovative traits in body-part lexicalization. Interface Focus. 13(1). 20220053–20220053. 5 indexed citations

Barbieri, Chiara, Damián E. Blasí, Alexandros G. Sotiropoulos, et al.. (2022). A global analysis of matches and mismatches between human genetic and linguistic histories. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences. 119(47). e2122084119–e2122084119. 14 indexed citations

Koile, Ezequiel, Simon J. Greenhill, Damián E. Blasí, Remco Bouckaert, & Russell D. Gray. (2022). Phylogeographic analysis of the Bantu language expansion supports a rainforest route. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences. 119(32). e2112853119–e2112853119. 25 indexed citations

List, Johann‐Mattis, et al.. (2022). Lexibank, a public repository of standardized wordlists with computed phonological and lexical features. Scientific Data. 9(1). 33 indexed citations

Evans, Cara L., Simon J. Greenhill, Joseph Watts, et al.. (2021). The uses and abuses of tree thinking in cultural evolution. Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society B Biological Sciences. 376(1828). 20200056–20200056. 28 indexed citations

Uomini, Natalie, et al.. (2020). Extended parenting and the evolution of cognition. Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society B Biological Sciences. 375(1803). 20190495–20190495. 41 indexed citations

Boeckle, Markus, Martina Schiestl, Anna Frohnwieser, et al.. (2020). New Caledonian crows plan for specific future tool use. Proceedings of the Royal Society B Biological Sciences. 287(1938). 20201490–20201490. 34 indexed citations

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Dussex, Nicolás, Verena E. Kutschera, R. Axel W. Wiberg, et al.. (2020). A genome‐wide investigation of adaptive signatures in protein‐coding genes related to tool behaviour in New Caledonian and Hawaiian crows. Molecular Ecology. 30(4). 973–986. 6 indexed citations

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Jelbert, Sarah A., Rachael Miller, Martina Schiestl, et al.. (2019). New Caledonian crows infer the weight of objects from observing their movements in a breeze. Proceedings of the Royal Society B Biological Sciences. 286(1894). 20182332–20182332. 27 indexed citations

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Jackson, Joshua Conrad, Joseph Watts, Teague R. Henry, et al.. (2019). Emotion semantics show both cultural variation and universal structure. Science. 366(6472). 1517–1522. 229 indexed citations breakdown →

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Gray, Russell D., et al.. (2019). Are kea prosocial?. Ethology. 126(2). 176–184. 11 indexed citations

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Sheehan, Oliver, Joseph Watts, Russell D. Gray, & Quentin D. Atkinson. (2018). Coevolution of landesque capital intensive agriculture and sociopolitical hierarchy. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences. 115(14). 3628–3633. 32 indexed citations

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Forkel, Robert, Johann‐Mattis List, Simon J. Greenhill, et al.. (2018). Cross-Linguistic Data Formats, advancing data sharing and re-use in comparative linguistics. Scientific Data. 5(1). 180205–180205. 89 indexed citations

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Gray, Russell D. & Joseph Watts. (2017). Cultural macroevolution matters. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences. 114(30). 7846–7852. 44 indexed citations

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Watts, Joseph, Simon J. Greenhill, Quentin D. Atkinson, et al.. (2015). Broad supernatural punishment but not moralizing high gods precede the evolution of political complexity in Austronesia. Proceedings of the Royal Society B Biological Sciences. 282(1804). 20142556–20142556. 129 indexed citations

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Taylor, Alex H., et al.. (2008). Do New Caledonian crows solve physical problems through causal reasoning?. Proceedings of the Royal Society B Biological Sciences. 276(1655). 247–254. 129 indexed citations

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Hunt, Gavin R., et al.. (2007). Cognitive requirements for tool use by New Caledonian crows ( Corvus moneduloides ). New Zealand Journal of Zoology. 34(1). 1–7. 18 indexed citations

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Gray, Russell D.. (1989). Oppositions in panbiogeography: Can the conflicts between selection, constraint, ecology, and history be resolved?. New Zealand Journal of Zoology. 16(4). 787–806. 19 indexed citations

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