Thibaud Gruber

3.6k total citations
59 papers, 1.9k citations indexed

About

Thibaud Gruber is a scholar working on Social Psychology, Developmental Biology and Ecology, Evolution, Behavior and Systematics. According to data from OpenAlex, Thibaud Gruber has authored 59 papers receiving a total of 1.9k indexed citations (citations by other indexed papers that have themselves been cited), including 39 papers in Social Psychology, 28 papers in Developmental Biology and 16 papers in Ecology, Evolution, Behavior and Systematics. Recurrent topics in Thibaud Gruber's work include Primate Behavior and Ecology (34 papers), Animal Vocal Communication and Behavior (28 papers) and Animal Behavior and Reproduction (16 papers). Thibaud Gruber is often cited by papers focused on Primate Behavior and Ecology (34 papers), Animal Vocal Communication and Behavior (28 papers) and Animal Behavior and Reproduction (16 papers). Thibaud Gruber collaborates with scholars based in Switzerland, United Kingdom and Germany. Thibaud Gruber's co-authors include Klaus Zuberbühler, Zanna Clay, Catherine Hobaiter, William Hoppitt, Timothée Poisot, Richard W. Wrangham, Martin N. Muller, Carel P. van Schaik, Christof Neumann and Pontus Strimling and has published in prestigious journals such as SHILAP Revista de lepidopterología, PLoS ONE and NeuroImage.

In The Last Decade

Thibaud Gruber

53 papers receiving 1.9k citations

Peers — A (Enhanced Table)

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

Name h Career Trend Papers Cites
Thibaud Gruber Switzerland 24 988 633 541 405 346 59 1.9k
Alex H. Taylor New Zealand 25 1.1k 1.1× 289 0.5× 442 0.8× 476 1.2× 635 1.8× 88 1.9k
Amanda M. Seed United Kingdom 18 1.4k 1.4× 372 0.6× 514 1.0× 641 1.6× 759 2.2× 45 2.0k
Jackie Chappell United Kingdom 22 877 0.9× 335 0.5× 356 0.7× 540 1.3× 479 1.4× 39 1.5k
Anne E. Russon Canada 20 1.5k 1.5× 391 0.6× 393 0.7× 942 2.3× 300 0.9× 49 2.3k
Gavin R. Hunt New Zealand 25 1.7k 1.8× 390 0.6× 890 1.6× 588 1.5× 916 2.6× 49 2.4k
Lydia M. Hopper United States 28 1.7k 1.7× 356 0.6× 418 0.8× 716 1.8× 454 1.3× 80 2.4k
Horst D. Steklis United States 21 1.1k 1.2× 518 0.8× 350 0.6× 430 1.1× 501 1.4× 49 2.0k
Zanna Clay United Kingdom 19 892 0.9× 151 0.2× 620 1.1× 314 0.8× 357 1.0× 40 1.3k
Ben Kenward United Kingdom 20 814 0.8× 397 0.6× 191 0.4× 736 1.8× 223 0.6× 41 1.4k
Fumihiro Kano Japan 21 988 1.0× 631 1.0× 182 0.3× 588 1.5× 165 0.5× 56 1.6k

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Fields of papers citing papers by Thibaud Gruber

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Physical SciencesHealth SciencesLife SciencesSocial Sciences

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Co-authorship network of co-authors of Thibaud Gruber

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

All Works

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Matsuzawa, Tetsuro, et al.. (2025). Old age variably impacts chimpanzee engagement and efficiency in stone tool use. eLife. 14. 1 indexed citations
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Westra, Evan, Simon Fitzpatrick, Sarah F. Brosnan, et al.. (2024). In search of animal normativity: a framework for studying social norms in non‐human animals. Biological reviews/Biological reviews of the Cambridge Philosophical Society. 99(3). 1058–1074. 6 indexed citations
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Mundry, Roger, Marek Konarzewski, Mary Namaganda, et al.. (2023). Decay rates of arboreal and terrestrial nests of Eastern chimpanzees (Pan troglodytes schweinfurthii) in the Bugoma Central Forest Reserve, Uganda: Implications for population size estimates. American Journal of Primatology. 85(9). e23536–e23536. 2 indexed citations
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Ceravolo, Léonardo, et al.. (2023). Frontal mechanisms underlying primate calls recognition by humans. Cerebral Cortex Communications. 4(4). tgad019–tgad019. 2 indexed citations
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Gruber, Thibaud. (2023). Can chimpanzees (and other animals) ever escape the Zone of Unworthy Sagacity?. Physics of Life Reviews. 46. 185–186. 1 indexed citations
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Gruber, Thibaud, et al.. (2021). The ABC of social learning: Affect, behavior, and cognition.. Psychological Review. 129(6). 1296–1318. 22 indexed citations
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Biro, Dora, et al.. (2021). Efficiency fosters cumulative culture across species. Oxford University Research Archive (ORA) (University of Oxford). 31 indexed citations
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Gruber, Thibaud, et al.. (2021). Validating the use of functional Near-Infrared Spectroscopy in monkeys: The case of brain activation lateralization in Papio anubis. Behavioural Brain Research. 403. 113133–113133. 1 indexed citations
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Pebsworth, Paula A., Thibaud Gruber, Joshua D. Miller, Klaus Zuberbühler, & Sera L. Young. (2020). Selecting between iron-rich and clay-rich soils: a geophagy field experiment with black-and-white colobus monkeys in the Budongo Forest Reserve, Uganda. Primates. 62(1). 133–142. 2 indexed citations
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Gruber, Thibaud, et al.. (2019). Cultural change in animals: a flexible behavioural adaptation to human disturbance. Palgrave Communications. 5(1). 59 indexed citations
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Gruber, Thibaud, et al.. (2019). Spontaneous categorization of tools based on observation in children and chimpanzees. Scientific Reports. 9(1). 18256–18256. 3 indexed citations
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Gruber, Thibaud, et al.. (2016). Reference in human and non-human primate communication: What does it take to refer?. Animal Cognition. 19(4). 759–768. 24 indexed citations
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Gruber, Thibaud, et al.. (2015). Apes have culture but may not know that they do. Frontiers in Psychology. 6. 91–91. 31 indexed citations
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Gruber, Thibaud, Timothée Poisot, Klaus Zuberbühler, William Hoppitt, & Catherine Hobaiter. (2015). The spread of a novel behavior in wild chimpanzees: New insights into the ape cultural mind. Communicative & Integrative Biology. 8(2). e1017164–e1017164. 16 indexed citations
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Gruber, Thibaud & Klaus Zuberbühler. (2013). Vocal Recruitment for Joint Travel in Wild Chimpanzees. PLoS ONE. 8(9). e76073–e76073. 57 indexed citations
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Gruber, Thibaud & Klaus Zuberbühler. (2012). Evolutionary origins of the human cultural mind. Psychologist. 25(5). 364–369. 4 indexed citations
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Gruber, Thibaud, Martin N. Muller, Pontus Strimling, Richard W. Wrangham, & Klaus Zuberbühler. (2009). Wild Chimpanzees Rely on Cultural Knowledge to Solve an Experimental Honey Acquisition Task. Current Biology. 19(21). 1806–1810. 105 indexed citations
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Trujillo‐Barreto, Nelson J., et al.. (2006). Sustained spatial attention to vibration is mediated in primary somatosensory cortex. NeuroImage. 35(1). 255–262. 60 indexed citations
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Gruber, Thibaud. (2004). Oscillatory Brain Activity Dissociates between Associative Stimulus Content in a Repetition Priming Task in the Human EEG. Cerebral Cortex. 15(1). 109–116. 211 indexed citations

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