Ryan Baldini

907 total citations · 1 hit paper
7 papers, 439 citations indexed

About

Ryan Baldini is a scholar working on Sociology and Political Science, Cultural Studies and Demography. According to data from OpenAlex, Ryan Baldini has authored 7 papers receiving a total of 439 indexed citations (citations by other indexed papers that have themselves been cited), including 6 papers in Sociology and Political Science, 4 papers in Cultural Studies and 4 papers in Demography. Recurrent topics in Ryan Baldini's work include Evolutionary Game Theory and Cooperation (6 papers), Culture, Economy, and Development Studies (4 papers) and Language and cultural evolution (4 papers). Ryan Baldini is often cited by papers focused on Evolutionary Game Theory and Cooperation (6 papers), Culture, Economy, and Development Studies (4 papers) and Language and cultural evolution (4 papers). Ryan Baldini collaborates with scholars based in United States, United Kingdom and Germany. Ryan Baldini's co-authors include Timothy M. Waring, Matthew Zefferman, Peter J. Richerson, Adrian V. Bell, Lesley Newson, Paul E. Smaldino, Sarah Mathew, Emily K. Newton, Kathryn Demps and Karl Frost and has published in prestigious journals such as PLoS ONE, Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society B Biological Sciences and Behavioral and Brain Sciences.

In The Last Decade

Ryan Baldini

7 papers receiving 429 citations

Hit Papers

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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.

Cultural group selection plays an essential role in explaining human cooperation: A sketch of the evidence

2014 354 citations Peter J. Richerson, Ryan Baldini et al. Behavioral and Brain Sciences profile →

Peers — A (Enhanced Table)

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

Name	h						Papers	Cites
Ryan Baldini United States	6	333	128	125	108	96	7	439
Matthew Zefferman United States	6	355 1.1×	145 1.1×	97 0.8×	123 1.1×	116 1.2×	9	470
Nicole Naar United States	3	277 0.8×	112 0.9×	84 0.7×	93 0.9×	91 0.9×	5	378
Brian Paciotti United States	8	274 0.8×	92 0.7×	166 1.3×	53 0.5×	86 0.9×	13	408
Lesley Newson United States	10	471 1.4×	200 1.6×	150 1.2×	219 2.0×	119 1.2×	18	745
Daisuke Nakanishi Japan	6	248 0.7×	93 0.7×	119 1.0×	45 0.4×	84 0.9×	25	397
Laura Fortunato United Kingdom	12	256 0.8×	84 0.7×	92 0.7×	178 1.6×	54 0.6×	23	468
Zachary H. Garfield United States	11	231 0.7×	128 1.0×	42 0.3×	140 1.3×	58 0.6×	21	359
Alexandra Maryanski United States	11	262 0.8×	132 1.0×	62 0.5×	103 1.0×	18 0.2×	43	418
Wataru Nakahashi Japan	11	221 0.7×	109 0.9×	117 0.9×	83 0.8×	22 0.2×	17	352
Geoff Kushnick United States	12	134 0.4×	106 0.8×	38 0.3×	113 1.0×	35 0.4×	26	377

Countries citing papers authored by Ryan Baldini

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Fields of papers citing papers by Ryan Baldini

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Physical SciencesHealth SciencesLife SciencesSocial Sciences

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Co-authorship network of co-authors of Ryan Baldini

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

All Works

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7 of 7 papers shown

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Mulder, Monique Borgerhoff, Mary C. Towner, Ryan Baldini, et al.. (2019). Differences between sons and daughters in the intergenerational transmission of wealth. Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society B Biological Sciences. 374(1780). 20180076–20180076. 10 indexed citations

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Baldini, Ryan. (2015). The Importance of Population Growth and Regulation in Human Life History Evolution. PLoS ONE. 10(4). e0119789–e0119789. 15 indexed citations

3.

Baldini, Ryan. (2015). Revisiting the Effect of Population Size on Cumulative Cultural Evolution. Journal of Cognition and Culture. 15(3-4). 320–336. 18 indexed citations

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Richerson, Peter J., Ryan Baldini, Adrian V. Bell, et al.. (2014). Cultural group selection plays an essential role in explaining human cooperation: A sketch of the evidence. Behavioral and Brain Sciences. 39. e30–e30. 354 indexed citations breakdown →

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Baldini, Ryan. (2013). Two success-biased social learning strategies. Theoretical Population Biology. 86. 43–49. 18 indexed citations

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Baldini, Ryan. (2012). Success-biased social learning: Cultural and evolutionary dynamics. Theoretical Population Biology. 82(3). 222–228. 21 indexed citations

7.

Beheim, Bret & Ryan Baldini. (2012). Evolutionary Decomposition and the Mechanisms of Cultural Change. 3(2). 3 indexed citations

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