Sonja Windhager

1.6k total citations · 1 hit paper
37 papers, 1.0k citations indexed

About

Sonja Windhager is a scholar working on Experimental and Cognitive Psychology, Geometry and Topology and Cognitive Neuroscience. According to data from OpenAlex, Sonja Windhager has authored 37 papers receiving a total of 1.0k indexed citations (citations by other indexed papers that have themselves been cited), including 27 papers in Experimental and Cognitive Psychology, 12 papers in Geometry and Topology and 11 papers in Cognitive Neuroscience. Recurrent topics in Sonja Windhager's work include Evolutionary Psychology and Human Behavior (26 papers), Morphological variations and asymmetry (12 papers) and Sexual Differentiation and Disorders (7 papers). Sonja Windhager is often cited by papers focused on Evolutionary Psychology and Human Behavior (26 papers), Morphological variations and asymmetry (12 papers) and Sexual Differentiation and Disorders (7 papers). Sonja Windhager collaborates with scholars based in Austria, United States and Russia. Sonja Windhager's co-authors include Katrin Schæfer, Philipp Mitterœcker, Philipp Gunz, Bernhard Fink, Bernard Wallner, Karl Grammer, Elisabeth Oberzaucher, Fred L. Bookstein, Gerd B. Müller and Dennis E. Slice and has published in prestigious journals such as Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, SHILAP Revista de lepidopterología and PLoS ONE.

In The Last Decade

Sonja Windhager

33 papers receiving 986 citations

Hit Papers

A brief review of shape, form, and allometry in geometric... 2013 2026 2017 2021 2013 50 100 150 200 250
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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.

  1. A brief review of shape, form, and allometry in geometric morphometrics, with applications to human facial morphology
    2013 287 citations Philipp Mitterœcker, Philipp Gunz et al. Bollettino del CILEA (CILEA) profile →

Peers — A (Enhanced Table)

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

Name h Career Trend Papers Cites
Sonja Windhager Austria 15 396 294 194 160 115 37 1.0k
Martin Fieder Austria 16 281 0.7× 168 0.6× 70 0.4× 150 0.9× 65 0.6× 71 1.1k
Katrin Schæfer Austria 25 584 1.5× 1.1k 3.9× 252 1.3× 279 1.7× 397 3.5× 53 2.4k
Eleanor Weston United Kingdom 8 172 0.4× 75 0.3× 71 0.4× 121 0.8× 26 0.2× 11 564
Charlotte Faurie France 23 716 1.8× 117 0.4× 568 2.9× 420 2.6× 24 0.2× 40 1.4k
Karel Kleisner Czechia 21 731 1.8× 96 0.3× 302 1.6× 201 1.3× 24 0.2× 84 1.2k
Helen J. Chatterjee United Kingdom 24 120 0.3× 46 0.2× 145 0.7× 521 3.3× 105 0.9× 72 2.0k
Seth D. Dobson United States 16 117 0.3× 64 0.2× 155 0.8× 335 2.1× 135 1.2× 18 698
Alexandra A. de Sousa United Kingdom 12 79 0.2× 43 0.1× 295 1.5× 180 1.1× 64 0.6× 36 752
Lynn Copes United States 12 32 0.1× 67 0.2× 48 0.2× 119 0.7× 43 0.4× 23 733
Adrienne L. Zihlman United States 22 149 0.4× 118 0.4× 62 0.3× 777 4.9× 170 1.5× 58 1.5k

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Co-authorship network of co-authors of Sonja Windhager

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All Works

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Ertuğrul, Berna, et al.. (2024). Associations of Facial Shape With Physical Strength and 2D:4D in a Turkish Male and Female Sample. American Journal of Human Biology. 36(11). e24155–e24155.
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Schæfer, Katrin, et al.. (2024). Male facial cues to physical strength in Europe: Medium‐strength preference and higher aggressiveness attribution to the weakest. American Journal of Human Biology. 36(6). e24040–e24040. 3 indexed citations
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Windhager, Sonja, et al.. (2023). Perception of strength, attractiveness and aggressiveness of Maasai male faces calibrated to handgrip strength: Evidence from a European sample. American Journal of Human Biology. 35(6). e23869–e23869. 4 indexed citations
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Schæfer, Katrin, et al.. (2021). Handgrip strength and 2D : 4D in women: homogeneous samples challenge the (apparent) gender paradox. Proceedings of the Royal Society B Biological Sciences. 288(1964). 20212328–20212328. 6 indexed citations
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Windhager, Sonja, et al.. (2020). Second-to-fourth digit ratio and facial shape in Buryats of Southern Siberia. Early Human Development. 149. 105138–105138. 7 indexed citations
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Butovskaya, Marina, et al.. (2018). Associations of physical strength with facial shape in an African pastoralist society, the Maasai of Northern Tanzania. PLoS ONE. 13(5). e0197738–e0197738. 29 indexed citations
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Windhager, Sonja, et al.. (2018). Calibrating facial morphs for use as stimuli in biological studies of social perception. 8.
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Wallner, Bernard, Sonja Windhager, Katrin Schæfer, & Martin Fieder. (2017). Creativity in Higher Education: Comparative Genetic Analyses on the Dopaminergic System in Relation to Creativity, Addiction, Schizophrenia in Humans and Non-Human Primates. SHILAP Revista de lepidopterología. 1 indexed citations
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Windhager, Sonja, Fred L. Bookstein, Eva Millesi, Bernard Wallner, & Katrin Schæfer. (2017). Patterns of correlation of facial shape with physiological measurements are more integrated than patterns of correlation with ratings. Scientific Reports. 7(1). 45340–45340. 12 indexed citations
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Mayer, Christine, Sonja Windhager, Katrin Schæfer, & Philipp Mitterœcker. (2017). BMI and WHR Are Reflected in Female Facial Shape and Texture: A Geometric Morphometric Image Analysis. PLoS ONE. 12(1). e0169336–e0169336. 33 indexed citations
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Schaschl, Helmut, Susanne Huber, Katrin Schæfer, et al.. (2015). Signatures of positive selection in the cis-regulatory sequences of the human oxytocin receptor (OXTR) and arginine vasopressin receptor 1a (AVPR1A) genes. BMC Evolutionary Biology. 15(1). 85–85. 20 indexed citations
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Mitterœcker, Philipp, Sonja Windhager, Gerd B. Müller, & Katrin Schæfer. (2015). The Morphometrics of “Masculinity” in Human Faces. PLoS ONE. 10(2). e0118374–e0118374. 62 indexed citations
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Windhager, Sonja, Helmut Schaschl, Katrin Schæfer, et al.. (2014). Variation at Genes Influencing Facial Morphology Are Not Associated with Developmental Imprecision in Human Faces. PLoS ONE. 9(6). e99009–e99009. 9 indexed citations
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Mitterœcker, Philipp, Philipp Gunz, Sonja Windhager, & Katrin Schæfer. (2013). A brief review of shape, form, and allometry in geometric morphometrics, with applications to human facial morphology. Bollettino del CILEA (CILEA). 287 indexed citations breakdown →
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Windhager, Sonja, Fred L. Bookstein, Karl Grammer, et al.. (2011). “Cars have their own faces”: cross-cultural ratings of car shapes in biological (stereotypical) terms. Evolution and Human Behavior. 33(2). 109–120. 33 indexed citations
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Windhager, Sonja, et al.. (2008). Face to Face. Human Nature. 19(4). 331–346. 67 indexed citations

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