Simon W. Townsend

4.1k total citations
64 papers, 2.2k citations indexed

About

Simon W. Townsend is a scholar working on Developmental Biology, Social Psychology and Ecology, Evolution, Behavior and Systematics. According to data from OpenAlex, Simon W. Townsend has authored 64 papers receiving a total of 2.2k indexed citations (citations by other indexed papers that have themselves been cited), including 58 papers in Developmental Biology, 28 papers in Social Psychology and 28 papers in Ecology, Evolution, Behavior and Systematics. Recurrent topics in Simon W. Townsend's work include Animal Vocal Communication and Behavior (58 papers), Animal Behavior and Reproduction (28 papers) and Primate Behavior and Ecology (27 papers). Simon W. Townsend is often cited by papers focused on Animal Vocal Communication and Behavior (58 papers), Animal Behavior and Reproduction (28 papers) and Primate Behavior and Ecology (27 papers). Simon W. Townsend collaborates with scholars based in Switzerland, United Kingdom and United States. Simon W. Townsend's co-authors include Marta B. Manser, Klaus Zuberbühler, Katie E. Slocombe, Sabrina Engesser, Anne Marijke Schel, Zarin Machanda, Amanda R. Ridley, Tobias Deschner, Stuart K. Watson and Balthasar Bickel and has published in prestigious journals such as Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, Nature Communications and SHILAP Revista de lepidopterología.

In The Last Decade

Simon W. Townsend

62 papers receiving 2.2k citations

Peers — A (Enhanced Table)

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

Name h Career Trend Papers Cites
Simon W. Townsend Switzerland 26 1.6k 984 930 522 393 64 2.2k
Katie E. Slocombe United Kingdom 29 1.6k 1.0× 1.6k 1.7× 754 0.8× 364 0.7× 397 1.0× 73 2.7k
Alban Lemasson France 33 2.1k 1.3× 1.5k 1.5× 1.1k 1.2× 684 1.3× 513 1.3× 143 3.2k
Julie Gros‐Louis United States 25 1.1k 0.7× 1.3k 1.4× 1.0k 1.1× 460 0.9× 122 0.3× 47 2.3k
Catherine Hobaiter United Kingdom 25 1.2k 0.7× 1.7k 1.7× 449 0.5× 204 0.4× 309 0.8× 89 2.4k
Drew Rendall Canada 33 2.3k 1.4× 1.6k 1.6× 1.5k 1.6× 863 1.7× 299 0.8× 71 4.0k
Zanna Clay United Kingdom 19 620 0.4× 892 0.9× 357 0.4× 145 0.3× 191 0.5× 40 1.3k
Anne Marijke Schel United Kingdom 18 725 0.5× 671 0.7× 322 0.3× 168 0.3× 215 0.5× 23 1.0k
Adriano R. Lameira United Kingdom 20 849 0.5× 580 0.6× 257 0.3× 235 0.5× 311 0.8× 45 1.1k
J. Goodall United States 9 695 0.4× 1.6k 1.6× 637 0.7× 287 0.5× 243 0.6× 11 2.0k
Dietmar Todt Germany 36 2.5k 1.6× 707 0.7× 2.1k 2.3× 1.2k 2.2× 166 0.4× 87 3.4k

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Physical SciencesHealth SciencesLife SciencesSocial Sciences

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Co-authorship network of co-authors of Simon W. Townsend

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All Works

20 of 20 papers shown
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Surbeck, Martin, et al.. (2024). Cross-population variation in usage of a call combination: evidence of signal usage flexibility in wild bonobos. Animal Cognition. 27(1). 58–58. 4 indexed citations
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Burkart, Judith M., et al.. (2024). Beyond bigrams: call sequencing in the common marmoset ( Callithrix jacchus ) vocal system. Royal Society Open Science. 11(11). 240218–240218. 4 indexed citations
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Engesser, Sabrina, Amanda R. Ridley, Stuart K. Watson, Sotaro Kita, & Simon W. Townsend. (2024). Seeds of language-like generativity in bird call combinations. Proceedings of the Royal Society B Biological Sciences. 291(2033). 20240922–20240922. 1 indexed citations
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Wilke, Claudia, Sabine Stoll, Zarin Machanda, et al.. (2024). Vocal-visual combinations in wild chimpanzees. Behavioral Ecology and Sociobiology. 78(10). 3 indexed citations
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Leroux, Maël, Anne Marijke Schel, Claudia Wilke, et al.. (2023). Call combinations and compositional processing in wild chimpanzees. Nature Communications. 14(1). 2225–2225. 25 indexed citations
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Watson, Stuart K., et al.. (2023). Cognitive constraints on vocal combinatoriality in a social bird. iScience. 26(7). 106977–106977. 1 indexed citations
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Clay, Zanna, et al.. (2023). Between-group variation in production of pant-grunt vocalizations by wild bonobos (Pan paniscus). Behavioral Ecology and Sociobiology. 77(1). 3 indexed citations
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Andics, Attila, Arik Kershenbaum, Enikő Kubinyi, et al.. (2023). Genetic distance from wolves affects family dogs’ reactions towards howls. Communications Biology. 6(1). 129–129. 7 indexed citations
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Leroux, Maël, et al.. (2022). Call combinations in chimpanzees: a social tool?. Behavioral Ecology. 33(5). 1036–1043. 16 indexed citations
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Slocombe, Katie E., Erik P. Willems, Ian C. Gilby, et al.. (2022). Vocal signals facilitate cooperative hunting in wild chimpanzees. Science Advances. 8(30). eabo5553–eabo5553. 15 indexed citations
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Slocombe, Katie E., et al.. (2022). Degraded and computer-generated speech processing in a bonobo. Animal Cognition. 25(6). 1393–1398. 3 indexed citations
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Townsend, Simon W., Linilson Rodrigues Padovese, Nicole Klein, et al.. (2022). Common evolutionary origin of acoustic communication in choanate vertebrates. Nature Communications. 13(1). 6089–6089. 28 indexed citations
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Leroux, Maël, et al.. (2021). Chimpanzees combine pant hoots with food calls into larger structures. Animal Behaviour. 179. 41–50. 42 indexed citations
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Leroux, Maël, Klaus Zuberbühler, Catherine Hobaiter, et al.. (2021). First observation of a chimpanzee with albinism in the wild: Social interactions and subsequent infanticide. American Journal of Primatology. 84(6). e23305–e23305. 13 indexed citations
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Watson, Stuart K., Judith M. Burkart, Steven J. Schapiro, et al.. (2020). Nonadjacent dependency processing in monkeys, apes, and humans. Science Advances. 6(43). 25 indexed citations
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Leroux, Maël & Simon W. Townsend. (2020). Call combinations in great apes and the evolution of syntax. SHILAP Revista de lepidopterología. 7(2). 131–139. 24 indexed citations
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Watson, Stuart K., Simon W. Townsend, Anne Marijke Schel, et al.. (2015). Vocal Learning in the Functionally Referential Food Grunts of Chimpanzees. Current Biology. 25(4). 495–499. 140 indexed citations
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Schel, Anne Marijke, Simon W. Townsend, Zarin Machanda, Klaus Zuberbühler, & Katie E. Slocombe. (2013). Chimpanzee Alarm Call Production Meets Key Criteria for Intentionality. PLoS ONE. 8(10). e76674–e76674. 205 indexed citations
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Townsend, Simon W. & Klaus Zuberbühler. (2009). Audience effects in chimpanzee copulation calls. Communicative & Integrative Biology. 2(3). 282–284. 39 indexed citations
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Slocombe, Katie E., Simon W. Townsend, & Klaus Zuberbühler. (2008). Wild chimpanzees (Pan troglodytes schweinfurthii) distinguish between different scream types: evidence from a playback study. Animal Cognition. 12(3). 441–449. 68 indexed citations

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