William Hoppitt

7.7k total citations · 2 hit papers
63 papers, 4.6k citations indexed

About

William Hoppitt is a scholar working on Ecology, Evolution, Behavior and Systematics, Social Psychology and Developmental Biology. According to data from OpenAlex, William Hoppitt has authored 63 papers receiving a total of 4.6k indexed citations (citations by other indexed papers that have themselves been cited), including 33 papers in Ecology, Evolution, Behavior and Systematics, 32 papers in Social Psychology and 25 papers in Developmental Biology. Recurrent topics in William Hoppitt's work include Primate Behavior and Ecology (31 papers), Animal Behavior and Reproduction (27 papers) and Animal Vocal Communication and Behavior (25 papers). William Hoppitt is often cited by papers focused on Primate Behavior and Ecology (31 papers), Animal Behavior and Reproduction (27 papers) and Animal Vocal Communication and Behavior (25 papers). William Hoppitt collaborates with scholars based in United Kingdom, United States and Switzerland. William Hoppitt's co-authors include Kevin N. Laland, Luke Rendell, Mike Webster, Thomas J. H. Morgan, Damien R. Farine, Tobias Uller, John Odling‐Smee, Neeltje J. Boogert, Kim Sterelny and Jenny Allen and has published in prestigious journals such as Nature, Science and Nature Communications.

In The Last Decade

William Hoppitt

62 papers receiving 4.4k citations

Hit Papers

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What are hit papers?

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.

Cognitive culture: theoretical and empirical insights into social learning strategies

2011 380 citations Luke Rendell, Laurel Fogarty et al. Trends in Cognitive Sciences profile →
Cause and Effect in Biology Revisited: Is Mayr’s Proximate-Ultimate Dichotomy Still Useful?

2011 331 citations Kevin N. Laland, William Hoppitt et al. profile →

Peers — A (Enhanced Table)

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

Name	h						Papers	Cites
William Hoppitt United Kingdom	33	2.0k	1.8k	1.5k	1.2k	904	63	4.6k
Alex Thornton United Kingdom	38	2.1k 1.1×	2.6k 1.4×	1.0k 0.7×	1.1k 1.0×	549 0.6×	113	5.3k
Luke Rendell United Kingdom	37	1.5k 0.8×	1.5k 0.8×	1.5k 1.0×	1.8k 1.6×	1.2k 1.3×	114	6.1k
Magnus Enquist Sweden	39	1.0k 0.5×	3.3k 1.9×	1.9k 1.3×	675 0.6×	857 0.9×	99	6.6k
Mike Webster United Kingdom	31	883 0.4×	1.9k 1.1×	800 0.5×	479 0.4×	395 0.4×	101	4.0k
Russell D. Gray New Zealand	56	2.4k 1.2×	1.6k 0.9×	1.7k 1.1×	964 0.8×	3.1k 3.4×	187	9.7k
Susanne Shultz United Kingdom	34	2.5k 1.3×	1.7k 1.0×	665 0.4×	676 0.6×	204 0.2×	96	5.6k
Luc‐Alain Giraldeau Canada	41	1.5k 0.7×	5.3k 3.0×	1.7k 1.1×	1.6k 1.3×	390 0.4×	115	7.5k
Simon M. Reader United Kingdom	37	3.0k 1.5×	4.7k 2.7×	743 0.5×	1.1k 0.9×	393 0.4×	123	8.7k
Louise Barrett Canada	41	3.5k 1.8×	2.2k 1.3×	1.1k 0.7×	1.2k 1.0×	185 0.2×	182	5.8k
Neeltje J. Boogert United Kingdom	30	1.2k 0.6×	2.1k 1.2×	500 0.3×	818 0.7×	214 0.2×	70	3.5k

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20 of 20 papers shown

Leeuwen, Edwin J. C. van & William Hoppitt. (2023). Biased cultural transmission of a social custom in chimpanzees. Science Advances. 9(7). eade5675–eade5675. 7 indexed citations

Hoppitt, William, et al.. (2023). Coupled information networks drive honeybee (Apis mellifera) collective foraging. Journal of Animal Ecology. 93(1). 71–82. 4 indexed citations

Hoppitt, William, et al.. (2021). Social transmission in the wild can reduce predation pressure on novel prey signals. Nature Communications. 12(1). 3978–3978. 17 indexed citations

Canteloup, Charlotte, William Hoppitt, & Erica van de Waal. (2020). Wild primates copy higher-ranked individuals in a social transmission experiment. Nature Communications. 11(1). 459–459. 52 indexed citations

Hoppitt, William, et al.. (2020). Learning strategies and long-term memory in Asian short-clawed otters (Aonyx cinereus). Royal Society Open Science. 7(11). 201215–201215. 6 indexed citations

Hoppitt, William, et al.. (2020). Network-based diffusion analysis reveals context-specific dominance of dance communication in foraging honeybees. Nature Communications. 11(1). 625–625. 11 indexed citations

Wild, Sonja, William Hoppitt, Simon J. Allen, & Michael Krützen. (2020). Integrating Genetic, Environmental, and Social Networks to Reveal Transmission Pathways of a Dolphin Foraging Innovation. Current Biology. 30(15). 3024–3030.e4. 32 indexed citations

Syposz, Martyna, et al.. (2018). Factors influencing Manx Shearwater grounding on the west coast of Scotland. Ibis. 160(4). 846–854. 21 indexed citations

Wild, Sonja & William Hoppitt. (2018). Choosing a sensible cut-off point: assessing the impact of uncertainty in a social network on the performance of NBDA. Primates. 60(3). 307–315. 9 indexed citations

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Hoppitt, William. (2017). The conceptual foundations of network-based diffusion analysis: choosing networks and interpreting results. Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society B Biological Sciences. 372(1735). 20160418–20160418. 32 indexed citations

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Whalen, Andrew & William Hoppitt. (2016). Bayesian Model Selection with Network Based Diffusion Analysis. Frontiers in Psychology. 7. 409–409. 9 indexed citations

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Logan, Corina, et al.. (2015). How New Caledonian crows solve novel foraging problems and what it means for cumulative culture. Learning & Behavior. 44(1). 18–28. 32 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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Kendal, Rachel L., Lydia M. Hopper, Andrew Whiten, et al.. (2014). Chimpanzees copy dominant and knowledgeable individuals: implications for cultural diversity. Evolution and Human Behavior. 36(1). 65–72. 165 indexed citations

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Hoppitt, William, Jamie Samson, Kevin N. Laland, & Alex Thornton. (2012). Identification of Learning Mechanisms in a Wild Meerkat Population. PLoS ONE. 7(8). e42044–e42044. 39 indexed citations

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Dean, Lewis, William Hoppitt, Kevin N. Laland, & Rachel L. Kendal. (2011). Sex ratio affects sex‐specific innovation and learning in captive ruffed lemurs (Varecia variegataandVarecia rubra). American Journal of Primatology. 73(12). 1210–1221. 14 indexed citations

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Hoppitt, William & Kevin N. Laland. (2011). Detecting social learning using networks: a users guide. American Journal of Primatology. 73(8). 834–844. 38 indexed citations

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Rendell, Luke, Laurel Fogarty, William Hoppitt, et al.. (2011). Cognitive culture: theoretical and empirical insights into social learning strategies. Trends in Cognitive Sciences. 15(2). 68–76. 380 indexed citations breakdown →

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Kendal, Rachel L., Jeremy Kendal, William Hoppitt, & Kevin N. Laland. (2009). Identifying Social Learning in Animal Populations: A New ‘Option-Bias’ Method. PLoS ONE. 4(8). e6541–e6541. 66 indexed citations

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Hoppitt, William, Gillian R. Brown, Rachel L. Kendal, et al.. (2008). Lessons from animal teaching. Trends in Ecology & Evolution. 23(9). 486–493. 138 indexed citations

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