Thomas C. Scott‐Phillips

3.3k total citations
36 papers, 1.8k citations indexed

About

Thomas C. Scott‐Phillips is a scholar working on Cultural Studies, Sociology and Political Science and Experimental and Cognitive Psychology. According to data from OpenAlex, Thomas C. Scott‐Phillips has authored 36 papers receiving a total of 1.8k indexed citations (citations by other indexed papers that have themselves been cited), including 19 papers in Cultural Studies, 16 papers in Sociology and Political Science and 6 papers in Experimental and Cognitive Psychology. Recurrent topics in Thomas C. Scott‐Phillips's work include Language and cultural evolution (19 papers), Evolutionary Game Theory and Cooperation (16 papers) and Child and Animal Learning Development (5 papers). Thomas C. Scott‐Phillips is often cited by papers focused on Language and cultural evolution (19 papers), Evolutionary Game Theory and Cooperation (16 papers) and Child and Animal Learning Development (5 papers). Thomas C. Scott‐Phillips collaborates with scholars based in United Kingdom, Germany and France. Thomas C. Scott‐Phillips's co-authors include Stuart A. West, Thomas E. Dickins, Simon Kirby, Dan Sperber, Nicolas Claidière, Graham R. S. Ritchie, Kevin N. Laland, David M. Shuker, Stephen P. Diggle and Roman Popat and has published in prestigious journals such as Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, PLoS ONE and Trends in Cognitive Sciences.

In The Last Decade

Thomas C. Scott‐Phillips

34 papers receiving 1.7k citations

Peers — A (Enhanced Table)

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

Name h Career Trend Papers Cites
Thomas C. Scott‐Phillips United Kingdom 19 599 526 440 395 321 36 1.8k
Christine A. Caldwell United Kingdom 23 585 1.0× 579 1.1× 282 0.6× 741 1.9× 349 1.1× 68 1.6k
Susan Oyama United States 15 248 0.4× 461 0.9× 552 1.3× 384 1.0× 724 2.3× 26 2.7k
Chris Knight United Kingdom 18 400 0.7× 206 0.4× 301 0.7× 254 0.6× 188 0.6× 64 1.7k
Ann Cale Kruger United States 13 542 0.9× 439 0.8× 356 0.8× 1.2k 3.0× 1.7k 5.2× 36 2.8k
Kathleen R. Gibson United States 16 739 1.2× 325 0.6× 540 1.2× 1.4k 3.5× 1.0k 3.2× 42 3.2k
Anne E. Russon Canada 20 347 0.6× 331 0.6× 285 0.6× 1.5k 3.7× 942 2.9× 49 2.3k
Thomas J. H. Morgan United States 17 572 1.0× 826 1.6× 262 0.6× 595 1.5× 272 0.8× 43 1.9k
Dwight Read United States 23 355 0.6× 370 0.7× 183 0.4× 417 1.1× 108 0.3× 113 1.9k
Thomas Wynn United States 31 789 1.3× 251 0.5× 462 1.1× 1.3k 3.3× 652 2.0× 77 3.0k
Ben G. Blount United States 22 299 0.5× 226 0.4× 403 0.9× 437 1.1× 629 2.0× 49 2.1k

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All Works

20 of 20 papers shown
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Scott‐Phillips, Thomas C.. (2017). A (Simple) Experimental Demonstration that Cultural Evolution is not Replicative, but Reconstructive — and an Explanation of Why this Difference Matters. Journal of Cognition and Culture. 17(1-2). 1–11. 18 indexed citations
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Scott‐Phillips, Thomas C.. (2016). Pragmatics and the aims of language evolution. Psychonomic Bulletin & Review. 24(1). 186–189. 28 indexed citations
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Scott‐Phillips, Thomas C.. (2015). Meaning in great ape communication: summarising the debate. Animal Cognition. 19(1). 233–238. 18 indexed citations
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Scott‐Phillips, Thomas C.. (2015). Meaning in animal and human communication. Animal Cognition. 18(3). 801–805. 55 indexed citations
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Blythe, Richard A. & Thomas C. Scott‐Phillips. (2014). Simulating the Real Origins of Communication. PLoS ONE. 9(11). e113636–e113636.
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Scott‐Phillips, Thomas C., James Gurney, Alasdair Ivens, Stephen P. Diggle, & Roman Popat. (2014). Combinatorial Communication in Bacteria: Implications for the Origins of Linguistic Generativity. PLoS ONE. 9(4). e95929–e95929. 13 indexed citations
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Scott‐Phillips, Thomas C.. (2014). Speaking Our Minds: Why human communication is different, and how language evolved to make it special. Durham Research Online (Durham University). 115 indexed citations
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Große, Gerlind, Thomas C. Scott‐Phillips, & Michael Tomasello. (2013). Three-year-olds hide their communicative intentions in appropriate contexts.. Developmental Psychology. 49(11). 2095–2101. 16 indexed citations
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Scott‐Phillips, Thomas C., Kevin N. Laland, David M. Shuker, Thomas E. Dickins, & Stuart A. West. (2013). THE NICHE CONSTRUCTION PERSPECTIVE: A CRITICAL APPRAISAL. Evolution. 68(5). 1231–1243. 152 indexed citations
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Scott‐Phillips, Thomas C., Mónica Tamariz, Erica A. Cartmill, & James R. Hurford. (2012). The Evolution of Language: Proceedings of the 9th International Conference - EVOLANG9. 12 indexed citations
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Scott‐Phillips, Thomas C.. (2012). The evolution of language : proceedings of the 9th International Conference (EVOLANG9), Kyoto, Japan, 13-16 March 2012. 1 indexed citations
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Skarabela, Barbora, Shanley Allen, & Thomas C. Scott‐Phillips. (2012). Joint attention helps explain why children omit new referents. Journal of Pragmatics. 56. 5–14. 23 indexed citations
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Scott‐Phillips, Thomas C., Mónica Tamariz, Erica A. Cartmill, & James R. Hurford. (2012). The evolution of language : proceedings of the 9th international conference on the evolution of language (EVOLANG 9) (2012). 5 indexed citations
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Scott‐Phillips, Thomas C.. (2010). The Evolution of Relevance. Cognitive Science. 34(4). 583–601. 9 indexed citations
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Scott‐Phillips, Thomas C., et al.. (2010). USING SOFTWARE AGENTS TO INVESTIGATE THE INTERACTIVE ORIGINS OF COMMUNICATION SYSTEMS. The Evolution of Language. 393–394. 2 indexed citations
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Scott‐Phillips, Thomas C. & Simon Kirby. (2010). Language evolution in the laboratory. Trends in Cognitive Sciences. 14(9). 411–417. 153 indexed citations
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Scott‐Phillips, Thomas C.. (2010). THE EVOLUTION OF COMMUNICATION AND RELEVANCE. The Evolution of Language. 489–490.
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Scott‐Phillips, Thomas C.. (2010). The evolution of communication: Humans may be exceptional. Interaction Studies Social Behaviour and Communication in Biological and Artificial Systems. 11(1). 78–99. 4 indexed citations
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Scott‐Phillips, Thomas C.. (2009). The quest for a general account of communication. 7(3). 245–249. 2 indexed citations
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Scott‐Phillips, Thomas C.. (2008). Defining biological communication. Journal of Evolutionary Biology. 21(2). 387–395. 161 indexed citations

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