Ruth Mace

15.1k total citations · 1 hit paper
183 papers, 8.7k citations indexed

About

Ruth Mace is a scholar working on Sociology and Political Science, Experimental and Cognitive Psychology and Gender Studies. According to data from OpenAlex, Ruth Mace has authored 183 papers receiving a total of 8.7k indexed citations (citations by other indexed papers that have themselves been cited), including 79 papers in Sociology and Political Science, 65 papers in Experimental and Cognitive Psychology and 58 papers in Gender Studies. Recurrent topics in Ruth Mace's work include Evolutionary Game Theory and Cooperation (66 papers), Evolutionary Psychology and Human Behavior (62 papers) and Demographic Trends and Gender Preferences (58 papers). Ruth Mace is often cited by papers focused on Evolutionary Game Theory and Cooperation (66 papers), Evolutionary Psychology and Human Behavior (62 papers) and Demographic Trends and Gender Preferences (58 papers). Ruth Mace collaborates with scholars based in United Kingdom, China and United States. Ruth Mace's co-authors include Rebecca Sear, Clare Holden, Mhairi A. Gibson, David W. Lawson, Ian A. McGregor, Thomas E. Currie, Mark Pagel, Shakti Lamba, Andrea Bamberg Migliano and Alasdair I. Houston and has published in prestigious journals such as Nature, Science and Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences.

In The Last Decade

Ruth Mace

178 papers receiving 8.2k 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.

Who keeps children alive? A review of the effects of kin on child survival

2007 674 citations Rebecca Sear, Ruth Mace Evolution and Human Behavior profile →

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Name	h						Papers	Cites
Ruth Mace United Kingdom	53	3.1k	2.8k	1.9k	1.4k	1.3k	183	8.7k
Daniel Nettle United Kingdom	61	3.6k 1.2×	4.1k 1.5×	933 0.5×	3.1k 2.3×	786 0.6×	241	13.0k
Hillard Kaplan United States	70	4.0k 1.3×	5.2k 1.9×	1.5k 0.8×	3.3k 2.4×	1.2k 0.9×	289	17.1k
Kim Hill United States	49	4.2k 1.4×	4.6k 1.6×	914 0.5×	3.3k 2.4×	823 0.6×	132	11.9k
Michael Gurven United States	61	5.5k 1.8×	5.1k 1.8×	807 0.4×	3.4k 2.5×	1.3k 1.0×	224	14.1k
Monique Borgerhoff Mulder United States	46	2.1k 0.7×	1.7k 0.6×	989 0.5×	930 0.7×	721 0.5×	141	5.9k
Kristen Hawkes United States	44	2.1k 0.7×	2.9k 1.1×	593 0.3×	2.4k 1.8×	384 0.3×	104	8.7k
Frank W. Marlowe United States	50	4.1k 1.3×	3.9k 1.4×	650 0.3×	2.6k 1.9×	936 0.7×	83	11.0k
Martin Daly Canada	47	5.3k 1.7×	3.7k 1.3×	2.0k 1.0×	2.0k 1.5×	912 0.7×	173	10.9k
Robert Trivers United States	34	5.9k 1.9×	3.8k 1.3×	1.6k 0.8×	3.3k 2.4×	729 0.6×	67	17.4k
David Rowe United States	58	4.5k 1.4×	3.3k 1.2×	2.4k 1.3×	1.5k 1.1×	814 0.6×	302	11.4k

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Co-authorship network of co-authors of Ruth Mace

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20 of 20 papers shown

Campbell, Olympia L K, et al.. (2025). Skewed sex ratios and violence against women in Pakistan. Evolutionary Human Sciences. 7. e18–e18.

Mace, Ruth. (2025). Human behavioural ecology is cultural ecology. Evolution and Human Behavior. 46(6). 106744–106744.

Mace, Ruth, et al.. (2024). Religiosity and gender bias structure social networks. Evolutionary Human Sciences. 6. e23–e23. 1 indexed citations

Mace, Ruth, et al.. (2024). Alcohol consumption, life history and extinction risk among Raute hunter–gatherers from Nepal. Evolutionary Human Sciences. 6. e45–e45. 1 indexed citations

He, Qiao-Qiao, Jieru Yu, Songhua Tang, et al.. (2024). Jeans and language: kin networks and reproductive success are associated with the adoption of outgroup norms. Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society B Biological Sciences. 379(1897). 20230031–20230031. 5 indexed citations

Brandl, Eva, Emily H Emmott, & Ruth Mace. (2023). Development of teaching in ni-Vanuatu children. Child Development. 94(6). 1713–1729. 2 indexed citations

He, Qiao-Qiao, et al.. (2022). Communal breeding by women is associated with lower investment from husbands. Evolutionary Human Sciences. 4. e50–e50. 8 indexed citations

Emmott, Emily H & Ruth Mace. (2020). Why the Son-bias in Caregiving? Testing Sex-differences in the Associations Between Paternal Caregiving and Child Outcomes in England. Journal of Family Issues. 42(6). 1354–1383. 9 indexed citations

Page, Abigail E., Daniel Major‐Smith, Mark Dyble, et al.. (2019). Testing adaptive hypotheses of alloparenting in Agta foragers. Nature Human Behaviour. 3(11). 1154–1163. 41 indexed citations

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Mace, Ruth, et al.. (2018). Population structured by witchcraft beliefs. Nature Human Behaviour. 2(1). 39–44. 21 indexed citations

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Montalva, Nicolás, Kaustubh Adhikari, Anke Liebert, et al.. (2018). Adaptation to milking agropastoralism in Chilean goat herders and nutritional benefit of lactase persistence. Annals of Human Genetics. 83(1). 11–22. 7 indexed citations

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Migliano, Andrea Bamberg, Abigail E. Page, Jesús Gómez‐Gardeñes, et al.. (2017). Characterization of hunter-gatherer networks and implications for cumulative culture. Nature Human Behaviour. 1(2). 90 indexed citations

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Gurmu, Eshetu & Ruth Mace. (2013). Determinants of Age at First Marriage in Addis Ababa, Ethiopia. Journal of Social Development in Africa. 28(1). 87–109. 2 indexed citations

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Alvergne, Alexandra, Mhairi A. Gibson, Eshetu Gurmu, & Ruth Mace. (2011). Social Transmission and the Spread of Modern Contraception in Rural Ethiopia. PLoS ONE. 6(7). e22515–e22515. 48 indexed citations

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Bentley, Gillian R. & Ruth Mace. (2009). Substitute parents: Biological and social perspectives on alloparenting across human societies. UCL Discovery (University College London). 17 indexed citations

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Jordan, Fiona M., Russell D. Gray, Simon J. Greenhill, & Ruth Mace. (2009). Matrilocal residence is ancestral in Austronesian societies. Proceedings of the Royal Society B Biological Sciences. 276(1664). 1957–1964. 134 indexed citations

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Holden, Clare & Ruth Mace. (2009). Phylogenetic Analysis of the Evolution of Lactose Digestion in Adults. Human Biology. 81(5-6). 597–619. 52 indexed citations

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Sear, Rebecca & Ruth Mace. (2007). Who keeps children alive? A review of the effects of kin on child survival. Evolution and Human Behavior. 29(1). 1–18. 674 indexed citations breakdown →

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Mace, Ruth, et al.. (1997). Fertility and model of subsistence: A phylogenetic analysis. UCL Discovery (University College London). 1 indexed citations

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Mace, Ruth & Mark Pagel. (1994). THE COMPARATIVE METHOD IN ANTHROPOLOGY. UCL Discovery (University College London). 4 indexed citations

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