Thomas E. Currie

4.4k total citations · 1 hit paper
41 papers, 1.6k citations indexed

About

Thomas E. Currie is a scholar working on Sociology and Political Science, Cultural Studies and Demography. According to data from OpenAlex, Thomas E. Currie has authored 41 papers receiving a total of 1.6k indexed citations (citations by other indexed papers that have themselves been cited), including 23 papers in Sociology and Political Science, 15 papers in Cultural Studies and 13 papers in Demography. Recurrent topics in Thomas E. Currie's work include Evolutionary Game Theory and Cooperation (19 papers), Language and cultural evolution (15 papers) and Culture, Economy, and Development Studies (13 papers). Thomas E. Currie is often cited by papers focused on Evolutionary Game Theory and Cooperation (19 papers), Language and cultural evolution (15 papers) and Culture, Economy, and Development Studies (13 papers). Thomas E. Currie collaborates with scholars based in United Kingdom, United States and Japan. Thomas E. Currie's co-authors include Ruth Mace, Simon J. Greenhill, Russell D. Gray, Patrick E. Savage, Steven Brown, Emi Sakai, Peter Turchin, Edward Turner, Sergey Gavrilets and Quentin D. Atkinson and has published in prestigious journals such as Nature, Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences and SHILAP Revista de lepidopterología.

In The Last Decade

Thomas E. Currie

38 papers receiving 1.5k citations

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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.

Statistical universals reveal the structures and functions of human music

2015 296 citations Patrick E. Savage, Steven Brown et al. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences profile →

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Name	h						Papers	Cites
Thomas E. Currie United Kingdom	19	598	506	261	256	231	41	1.6k
Luke Glowacki United States	19	795 1.3×	135 0.3×	487 1.9×	509 2.0×	467 2.0×	36	1.6k
Steven Feld United States	23	580 1.0×	241 0.5×	246 0.9×	148 0.6×	235 1.0×	68	2.5k
Simon J. Greenhill Germany	32	886 1.5×	2.2k 4.4×	176 0.7×	421 1.6×	645 2.8×	85	4.1k
Nicole Creanza United States	20	430 0.7×	401 0.8×	54 0.2×	189 0.7×	116 0.5×	46	1.1k
Laurel Fogarty United States	16	925 1.5×	635 1.3×	95 0.4×	397 1.6×	168 0.7×	28	1.6k
Quentin D. Atkinson New Zealand	31	1.5k 2.6×	1.7k 3.3×	282 1.1×	1.0k 3.9×	692 3.0×	85	4.5k
Jamshid J. Tehrani United Kingdom	18	493 0.8×	525 1.0×	77 0.3×	243 0.9×	91 0.4×	37	1.3k
Alberto Acerbi United Kingdom	25	847 1.4×	430 0.8×	121 0.5×	304 1.2×	121 0.5×	73	1.6k
Damián E. Blasí United States	17	137 0.2×	495 1.0×	239 0.9×	173 0.7×	705 3.1×	43	1.6k
Søren Wichmann Germany	26	174 0.3×	906 1.8×	88 0.3×	77 0.3×	467 2.0×	125	2.1k

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Currie, Thomas E., Monique Borgerhoff Mulder, Maja Schlüter‬, et al.. (2023). Integrating evolutionary theory and social–ecological systems research to address the sustainability challenges of the Anthropocene. Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society B Biological Sciences. 379(1893). 20220262–20220262. 16 indexed citations

Powers, Simon T., Cédric Perret, & Thomas E. Currie. (2023). Playing the political game: the coevolution of institutions with group size and political inequality. Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society B Biological Sciences. 378(1883). 20220303–20220303. 4 indexed citations

Rabinovich, Anna, et al.. (2023). Willingness to cooperate in shared natural resource management is linked to group identification through perceived efficacy and group norms. Environmental Research Letters. 18(5). 54003–54003. 1 indexed citations

Savage, Patrick E., et al.. (2022). Sequence alignment of folk song melodies reveals cross-cultural regularities of musical evolution. Current Biology. 32(6). 1395–1402.e8. 18 indexed citations

Turchin, Peter, Thomas E. Currie, Christina Collins, et al.. (2021). An integrative approach to estimating productivity in past societies using Seshat: Global History Databank. The Holocene. 31(6). 1055–1065. 6 indexed citations

Currie, Thomas E., et al.. (2021). The cultural evolution and ecology of institutions. Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society B Biological Sciences. 376(1828). 20200047–20200047. 24 indexed citations

Matsumae, Hiromi, Peter Ranacher, Patrick E. Savage, et al.. (2021). Exploring correlations in genetic and cultural variation across language families in northeast Asia. Science Advances. 7(34). 26 indexed citations

Flitton, Adam & Thomas E. Currie. (2021). Assessing different historical pathways in the cultural evolution of economic development. Evolution and Human Behavior. 43(1). 71–82. 1 indexed citations

Whitehouse, Harvey, Peter Turchin, Pieter François, et al.. (2020). New Era in the Study of Global History Is Born but It Needs to Be Nurtured. 5(1-2). 142–158. 4 indexed citations

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Mullins, Daniel, Daniel Hoyer, Christina Collins, et al.. (2018). A Systematic Assessment of “Axial Age” Proposals Using Global Comparative Historical Evidence. American Sociological Review. 83(3). 596–626. 21 indexed citations

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Ellis, Samuel, Daniel W. Franks, Stuart Nattrass, et al.. (2018). Analyses of ovarian activity reveal repeated evolution of post-reproductive lifespans in toothed whales. Scientific Reports. 8(1). 12833–12833. 59 indexed citations

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Plummer, Kate E., et al.. (2018). Effects of supplementary feeding on interspecific dominance hierarchies in garden birds. PLoS ONE. 13(9). e0202152–e0202152. 33 indexed citations

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François, Pieter, J. G. Manning, Harvey Whitehouse, et al.. (2016). A Macroscope for Global History: Seshat Global History Databank, a methodological overview. Digital humanities quarterly. 10(4). 14 indexed citations

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Watts, Joseph, Simon J. Greenhill, Quentin D. Atkinson, et al.. (2015). Broad supernatural punishment but not moralizing high gods precede the evolution of political complexity in Austronesia. Proceedings of the Royal Society B Biological Sciences. 282(1804). 20142556–20142556. 129 indexed citations

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Bell, Adrian V., et al.. (2015). Driving Factors in the Colonization of Oceania: Developing Island-Level Statistical Models to Test Competing Hypotheses. American Antiquity. 80(2). 397–407. 12 indexed citations

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Turchin, Peter, Thomas E. Currie, Edward Turner, & Sergey Gavrilets. (2013). War, space, and the evolution of Old World complex societies. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences. 110(41). 16384–16389. 191 indexed citations

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Currie, Thomas E.. (2013). Inequality and Institutions: A Review Essay on Why Nations Fail by Daron Acemoglu and James A. Robinson. 4(1). 1 indexed citations

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Currie, Thomas E.. (2013). Cultural Evolution Branches Out. Cross-Cultural Research. 47(2). 102–130. 12 indexed citations

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Currie, Thomas E., Simon J. Greenhill, Russell D. Gray, Toshikazu Hasegawa, & Ruth Mace. (2010). Rise and fall of political complexity in island South-East Asia and the Pacific. Nature. 467(7317). 801–804. 135 indexed citations

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Currie, Thomas E. & Anthony C. Little. (2009). The relative importance of the face and body in judgments of human physical attractiveness. Evolution and Human Behavior. 30(6). 409–416. 12 indexed citations

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