Thore J. Bergman

8.0k total citations · 1 hit paper
94 papers, 5.1k citations indexed

About

Thore J. Bergman is a scholar working on Social Psychology, Ecology, Evolution, Behavior and Systematics and Developmental Biology. According to data from OpenAlex, Thore J. Bergman has authored 94 papers receiving a total of 5.1k indexed citations (citations by other indexed papers that have themselves been cited), including 75 papers in Social Psychology, 50 papers in Ecology, Evolution, Behavior and Systematics and 36 papers in Developmental Biology. Recurrent topics in Thore J. Bergman's work include Primate Behavior and Ecology (72 papers), Animal Behavior and Reproduction (47 papers) and Animal Vocal Communication and Behavior (36 papers). Thore J. Bergman is often cited by papers focused on Primate Behavior and Ecology (72 papers), Animal Behavior and Reproduction (47 papers) and Animal Vocal Communication and Behavior (36 papers). Thore J. Bergman collaborates with scholars based in United States, United Kingdom and Germany. Thore J. Bergman's co-authors include Jacinta C. Beehner, Dorothy L. Cheney, Robert M. Seyfarth, Anne L. Engh, Joan B. Silk, Noah Snyder‐Mackler, Liza R. Moscovice, Catherine Crockford, Roman M. Wittig and Patricia L. Whitten and has published in prestigious journals such as Science, Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences and Nature Communications.

In The Last Decade

Thore J. Bergman

91 papers receiving 5.0k 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.

Strong and Consistent Social Bonds Enhance the Longevity of Female Baboons

2010 541 citations Jacinta C. Beehner, Thore J. Bergman et al. Current Biology profile →

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Name	h						Papers	Cites
Thore J. Bergman United States	37	3.6k	2.6k	1.6k	1.1k	806	94	5.1k
Jacinta C. Beehner United States	34	3.5k 1.0×	2.4k 0.9×	1.2k 0.7×	1.1k 1.0×	728 0.9×	89	4.8k
Linda M. Fedigan Canada	47	4.4k 1.2×	3.1k 1.2×	1.8k 1.1×	726 0.7×	1.4k 1.7×	142	5.8k
S. Peter Henzi South Africa	43	4.4k 1.2×	3.3k 1.3×	2.0k 1.2×	1.8k 1.6×	1.2k 1.5×	158	7.1k
Catherine Crockford Germany	35	4.1k 1.1×	2.0k 0.7×	1.9k 1.1×	1.3k 1.2×	532 0.7×	98	5.3k
Karen B. Strier United States	40	3.8k 1.1×	2.6k 1.0×	1.4k 0.9×	641 0.6×	1.5k 1.9×	146	5.0k
Gottfried Hohmann Germany	40	3.2k 0.9×	1.7k 0.7×	1.1k 0.7×	672 0.6×	1.2k 1.5×	126	4.5k
Julia Lehmann United Kingdom	34	3.4k 0.9×	1.8k 0.7×	1.2k 0.8×	467 0.4×	692 0.9×	74	4.6k
Melissa Emery Thompson United States	39	2.9k 0.8×	1.6k 0.6×	751 0.5×	1.4k 1.3×	556 0.7×	140	5.0k
Roman M. Wittig Germany	43	5.0k 1.4×	2.3k 0.9×	2.0k 1.2×	1.5k 1.3×	775 1.0×	161	6.7k
Roger Mundry Germany	43	3.0k 0.8×	2.2k 0.8×	2.1k 1.3×	618 0.6×	1.8k 2.2×	163	5.8k

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Beehner, Jacinta C., et al.. (2025). Conditional benefits of social integration in wild female geladas. Proceedings of the Royal Society B Biological Sciences. 292(2050). 20250491–20250491. 1 indexed citations

Beehner, Jacinta C., et al.. (2025). Female reproductive ageing persists despite high infanticide risk in chacma baboons and geladas. Royal Society Open Science. 12(1). 241210–241210. 1 indexed citations

Ordóñez, Juan C., et al.. (2025). The Ontogeny of “Twitter” Calls in White‐Faced Capuchins (Cebus imitator): Usage, Context, and Acoustic Structure. American Journal of Primatology. 87(8). e70069–e70069.

Baniel, Alice, Eila K. Roberts, Thore J. Bergman, et al.. (2025). Evidence for deceptive fertility in a wild primate. Current Biology. 35(24). 5999–6009.e4.

Beehner, Jacinta C., et al.. (2024). High temperatures are associated with decreased immune system performance in a wild primate. Science Advances. 10(48). eadq6629–eadq6629. 2 indexed citations

Gustison, Morgan L., et al.. (2023). Acoustic variation and group level convergence of gelada, Theropithecus gelada, contact calls. Animal Behaviour. 207. 235–246. 2 indexed citations

Chiou, Kenneth L., Alemayehu Lemma, Amy Lu, et al.. (2023). Vascularization underlies differences in sexually selected skin coloration in a wild primate. Molecular Ecology. 32(15). 4401–4411. 3 indexed citations

Beehner, Jacinta C., et al.. (2022). Effects of climate variability on the demography of wild geladas. Ecology and Evolution. 12(3). e8759–e8759. 8 indexed citations

Bergman, Thore J., et al.. (2021). The Goldilocks effect: female geladas in mid-sized groups have higher fitness. Proceedings of the Royal Society B Biological Sciences. 288(1952). 20210820–20210820. 12 indexed citations

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Beehner, Jacinta C., et al.. (2020). Ecology eclipses phylogeny as a major driver of nematode parasite community structure in a graminivorous primate. Functional Ecology. 34(9). 1898–1906. 1 indexed citations

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Lu, Amy, et al.. (2020). Male-Mediated Maturation in Wild Geladas. Current Biology. 31(1). 214–219.e2. 16 indexed citations

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Lazow, Stefanie P. & Thore J. Bergman. (2020). The structural and motivational role of the unique lip‐flip movement in the gelada (Theropithecus gelada) facial display repertoire. American Journal of Physical Anthropology. 172(2). 280–290. 10 indexed citations

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Kitchen, Dawn M., Liliana Cortés‐Ortiz, Pedro Américo D. Dias, Domingo Canales‐Espinosa, & Thore J. Bergman. (2018). Alouatta pigra males ignore A. palliata loud calls: A case of failed rival recognition?. American Journal of Physical Anthropology. 166(2). 433–441. 6 indexed citations

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Ramos‐Fernández, Gabriel, Andrew J. King, Jacinta C. Beehner, et al.. (2018). Quantifying uncertainty due to fission–fusion dynamics as a component of social complexity. Proceedings of the Royal Society B Biological Sciences. 285(1879). 20180532–20180532. 41 indexed citations

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Reitsema, Laurie J., Noah Snyder‐Mackler, Jacinta C. Beehner, Thore J. Bergman, & Amy Lu. (2017). Elemental Ratios of Carbon and Nitrogen Track Weaning in a Graminivorous Primate (Theropithecus gelada). 2 indexed citations

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Low, Bobbi S., et al.. (2016). The roots of all evil: aggression and below-ground feeding in female geladas. 3 indexed citations

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Bergman, Thore J., et al.. (2015). Testosterone Mediates Loud Call Production in Gelada Males. 1 indexed citations

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Kitchen, Dawn M., et al.. (2010). Comparing responses of four ungulate species to playbacks of baboon alarm calls. Animal Cognition. 13(6). 861–870. 42 indexed citations

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Beehner, Jacinta C. & Thore J. Bergman. (2008). Infant mortality following male takeovers in wild geladas. American Journal of Primatology. 70(12). 1152–1159. 62 indexed citations

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Engh, Anne L., Jacinta C. Beehner, Thore J. Bergman, et al.. (2005). Behavioural and hormonal responses to predation in female chacma baboons (Papio hamadryas ursinus). Proceedings of the Royal Society B Biological Sciences. 273(1587). 707–712. 192 indexed citations

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