Simone Pika

4.1k total citations · 1 hit paper
85 papers, 2.4k citations indexed

About

Simone Pika is a scholar working on Social Psychology, Developmental and Educational Psychology and Developmental Biology. According to data from OpenAlex, Simone Pika has authored 85 papers receiving a total of 2.4k indexed citations (citations by other indexed papers that have themselves been cited), including 61 papers in Social Psychology, 51 papers in Developmental and Educational Psychology and 45 papers in Developmental Biology. Recurrent topics in Simone Pika's work include Primate Behavior and Ecology (56 papers), Animal Vocal Communication and Behavior (45 papers) and Child and Animal Learning Development (37 papers). Simone Pika is often cited by papers focused on Primate Behavior and Ecology (56 papers), Animal Vocal Communication and Behavior (45 papers) and Child and Animal Learning Development (37 papers). Simone Pika collaborates with scholars based in Germany, United Kingdom and Canada. Simone Pika's co-authors include Katja Liebal, Michael Tomasello, Marlen Fröhlich, Roman M. Wittig, Elena Nicoladis, Paula Marentette, Michael A. Arbib, Josep Call, Thomas Bugnyar and Ray Wilkinson and has published in prestigious journals such as Nature Communications, PLoS ONE and Current Biology.

In The Last Decade

Simone Pika

83 papers receiving 2.3k citations

Hit Papers

Taking turns: bridging the gap between human and animal c... 2018 2026 2020 2023 2018 40 80 120
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.

  1. Taking turns: bridging the gap between human and animal communication
    2018 126 citations Simone Pika et al. Proceedings of the Royal Society B Biological Sciences profile →

Peers — A (Enhanced Table)

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

Name h Career Trend Papers Cites
Simone Pika Germany 25 1.6k 1.3k 1.1k 414 369 85 2.4k
Katja Liebal Germany 25 1.9k 1.2× 1.2k 1.0× 1.2k 1.1× 474 1.1× 496 1.3× 98 2.7k
Catherine Hobaiter United Kingdom 25 1.7k 1.1× 985 0.8× 1.2k 1.1× 271 0.7× 187 0.5× 89 2.4k
David A. Leavens United Kingdom 28 1.9k 1.2× 1.7k 1.3× 840 0.8× 327 0.8× 731 2.0× 66 2.7k
Katie E. Slocombe United Kingdom 29 1.6k 1.1× 755 0.6× 1.6k 1.5× 392 0.9× 293 0.8× 73 2.7k
Anne E. Russon Canada 20 1.5k 0.9× 942 0.7× 393 0.4× 285 0.7× 391 1.1× 49 2.3k
Sue Taylor Parker United States 14 1.4k 0.9× 1.0k 0.8× 431 0.4× 343 0.8× 473 1.3× 31 2.2k
Victoria Horner United States 14 1.8k 1.1× 1.1k 0.9× 541 0.5× 313 0.8× 372 1.0× 16 2.5k
Sue Savage‐Rumbaugh United States 23 1.1k 0.7× 1.4k 1.1× 414 0.4× 356 0.9× 429 1.2× 48 2.4k
William D. Hopkins United States 32 2.3k 1.5× 2.0k 1.5× 889 0.8× 356 0.9× 1.2k 3.3× 60 3.4k
Horst D. Steklis United States 21 1.1k 0.7× 430 0.3× 350 0.3× 538 1.3× 518 1.4× 49 2.0k

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Fields of papers citing papers by Simone Pika

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Co-authorship network of co-authors of Simone Pika

This figure shows the co-authorship network connecting the top 25 collaborators of Simone Pika. A scholar is included among the top collaborators of Simone Pika 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 Simone Pika. Simone Pika 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
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Pika, Simone, et al.. (2025). Infrastructure of mother-infant interactions across development in chimpanzees (Pan troglodytes) in the wild. Evolution and Human Behavior. 46(2). 106671–106671. 1 indexed citations
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Pika, Simone, et al.. (2025). Sequence organization of mother–infant interactions in chimpanzees ( Pan troglodytes schweinfurthii ) in the wild. Proceedings of the Royal Society B Biological Sciences. 292(2059). 20252271–20252271.
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Lee, Kevin, et al.. (2024). Idiosyncratic gesture use in a mother-infant dyad in chimpanzees (Pan troglodytes schweinfurthii) in the wild. Animal Cognition. 27(1). 64–64. 2 indexed citations
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Liebal, Katja, et al.. (2024). Social negotiation and “accents” in Western lowland gorillas’ gestural communication. Scientific Reports. 14(1). 25699–25699. 1 indexed citations
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Wilke, Claudia, Ed Donnellan, Catherine Hobaiter, et al.. (2022). Referential gestures are not ubiquitous in wild chimpanzees: alternative functions for exaggerated loud scratch gestures. Animal Behaviour. 189. 23–45. 12 indexed citations
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Pika, Simone, et al.. (2021). Home range size in central chimpanzees (Pan troglodytes troglodytes) from Loango National Park, Gabon. Primates. 62(5). 723–734. 7 indexed citations
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Deschner, Tobias, et al.. (2021). Lethal coalitionary attacks of chimpanzees (Pan troglodytes troglodytes) on gorillas (Gorilla gorilla gorilla) in the wild. Scientific Reports. 11(1). 14673–14673. 12 indexed citations
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Bocksberger, Gaëlle, et al.. (2021). Hunting of mammals by central chimpanzees (Pan troglodytes troglodytes) in the Loango National Park, Gabon. Primates. 62(2). 267–278. 6 indexed citations
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Pika, Simone, et al.. (2020). Ravens parallel great apes in physical and social cognitive skills. Scientific Reports. 10(1). 20617–20617. 28 indexed citations
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Pika, Simone, et al.. (2019). Social relationships and greetings in wild chimpanzees (Pan troglodytes): use of signal combinations. Primates. 60(6). 507–515. 10 indexed citations
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Pika, Simone & Marlen Fröhlich. (2018). Gestural acquisition in great apes: the Social Negotiation Hypothesis. Animal Cognition. 22(4). 551–565. 46 indexed citations
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Nicoladis, Elena, Paula Marentette, & Simone Pika. (2018). How many fingers am I holding up? The answer depends on children's language background. Developmental Science. 22(4). e12781–e12781. 2 indexed citations
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Pika, Simone, et al.. (2018). Captive chimpanzees’ manual laterality in tool use context: Influence of communication and of sociodemographic factors. Behavioural Processes. 157. 610–624. 5 indexed citations
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Pika, Simone, et al.. (2013). Gorilla Mothers Also Matter! New Insights on Social Transmission in Gorillas (Gorilla gorilla gorilla) in Captivity. PLoS ONE. 8(11). e79600–e79600. 3 indexed citations
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Leudar, Ivan, et al.. (2012). Requesting behaviors within episodes of active sharing. MPG.PuRe (Max Planck Society). 3 indexed citations
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Pika, Simone. (2012). The case of referential gestural signaling. Communicative & Integrative Biology. 5(6). 578–582. 17 indexed citations
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Pika, Simone, Katja Liebal, & Michael Tomasello. (2005). Gestural communication in subadult bonobos (Pan paniscus): Repertoire and use. American Journal of Primatology. 65(1). 39–61. 142 indexed citations

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