William Irons

4.8k total citations · 2 hit papers
32 papers, 2.7k citations indexed

About

William Irons is a scholar working on Sociology and Political Science, Experimental and Cognitive Psychology and Management, Monitoring, Policy and Law. According to data from OpenAlex, William Irons has authored 32 papers receiving a total of 2.7k indexed citations (citations by other indexed papers that have themselves been cited), including 13 papers in Sociology and Political Science, 10 papers in Experimental and Cognitive Psychology and 5 papers in Management, Monitoring, Policy and Law. Recurrent topics in William Irons's work include Evolutionary Psychology and Human Behavior (10 papers), Evolutionary Game Theory and Cooperation (8 papers) and Rangeland Management and Livestock Ecology (5 papers). William Irons is often cited by papers focused on Evolutionary Psychology and Human Behavior (10 papers), Evolutionary Game Theory and Cooperation (8 papers) and Rangeland Management and Livestock Ecology (5 papers). William Irons collaborates with scholars based in United States, Italy and Canada. William Irons's co-authors include Napoleon A. Chagnon, Peter J. Wilson, Monique Borgerhoff Mulder, Joseph H. Manson, Bernard Chapais, Carol R. Ember, Craig B. Stanford, Robin Dunbar, Toshisada Nishida and Richard W. Wrangham and has published in prestigious journals such as Behavioral and Brain Sciences, American Anthropologist and Current Anthropology.

In The Last Decade

William Irons

29 papers receiving 2.4k citations

Hit Papers

Evolutionary Biology and Human Social Behavior: An Anthro... 1979 2026 1994 2010 1980 1979 250 500 750
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.

  1. Evolutionary Biology and Human Social Behavior: An Anthropological Perspective.
    1980 864 citations Napoleon A. Chagnon, William Irons et al. profile →
  2. Evolutionary Biology and Human Social Behavior
    1979 574 citations Napoleon A. Chagnon, William Irons profile →

Peers — A (Enhanced Table)

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

Name h Career Trend Papers Cites
William Irons United States 15 1.4k 1.3k 669 424 352 32 2.7k
Napoleon A. Chagnon United States 23 1.6k 1.1× 1.5k 1.1× 793 1.2× 501 1.2× 350 1.0× 50 3.9k
Jane B. Lancaster United States 22 931 0.7× 1.4k 1.0× 1.1k 1.6× 576 1.4× 246 0.7× 36 3.0k
Mark V. Flinn United States 29 1.1k 0.8× 1.4k 1.1× 1.2k 1.9× 502 1.2× 443 1.3× 62 3.5k
Laura Betzig United States 23 1.5k 1.1× 1.5k 1.1× 530 0.8× 627 1.5× 164 0.5× 51 2.5k
Carol R. Ember United States 32 1.5k 1.1× 705 0.5× 749 1.1× 257 0.6× 174 0.5× 104 3.4k
Donald Symons United States 17 1.6k 1.1× 2.6k 2.0× 922 1.4× 530 1.3× 362 1.0× 25 3.8k
A. Magdalena Hurtado United States 15 1.1k 0.8× 1.5k 1.1× 1.2k 1.7× 293 0.7× 221 0.6× 31 3.3k
Eckart Voland Germany 25 656 0.5× 989 0.7× 487 0.7× 769 1.8× 250 0.7× 65 2.2k
Karen L. Kramer United States 30 943 0.7× 1.2k 0.9× 866 1.3× 552 1.3× 185 0.5× 89 3.0k
Elizabeth Cashdan United States 28 898 0.6× 908 0.7× 748 1.1× 152 0.4× 140 0.4× 49 3.2k

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Fields of papers citing papers by William Irons

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Physical SciencesHealth SciencesLife SciencesSocial Sciences

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Co-authorship network of co-authors of William Irons

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All Works

20 of 20 papers shown
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Cronk, Lee, Napoleon A. Chagnon, & William Irons. (2017). Adaptation and Human Behavior: An Anthropological Perspective. 8 indexed citations
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Shenk, Mary K., Monique Borgerhoff Mulder, Jan Beise, et al.. (2010). Intergenerational Wealth Transmission among Agriculturalists. Current Anthropology. 51(1). 65–83. 74 indexed citations
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Cronk, Lee, Drew Gerkey, & William Irons. (2009). Interviews as Experiments: Using Audience Effects to Examine Social Relationships. Field Methods. 21(4). 331–346. 7 indexed citations
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Irons, William. (2004). Evolutionary Anthropology Society. Anthropology News. 45(7). 48–48. 2 indexed citations
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Irons, William. (2004). AN EVOLUTIONARY CRITIQUE OF THE CREATED CO‐CREATOR CONCEPT. Zygon®. 39(4). 12 indexed citations
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Irons, William. (2003). Cultural capital, livestock raiding, and the military advantage of traditional pastoralists. 63–72. 1 indexed citations
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Irons, William. (1999). Annual Meeting of the Human Behavior and Evolution Society. Evolutionary Anthropology Issues News and Reviews. 7(6). 191–192. 9 indexed citations
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Irons, William. (1998). Adaptively relevant environments versus the environment of evolutionary adaptedness. Evolutionary Anthropology Issues News and Reviews. 6(6). 194–204. 127 indexed citations
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Irons, William. (1993). Monogamy, contraception and the cultural and reproductive success hypothesis. Behavioral and Brain Sciences. 16(2). 295–296. 11 indexed citations
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Manson, Joseph H., Richard W. Wrangham, James L. Boone, et al.. (1991). Intergroup Aggression in Chimpanzees and Humans [and Comments and Replies]. Current Anthropology. 32(4). 369–390. 344 indexed citations
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Irons, William. (1991). HOW DID MORALITY EVOLVE?. Zygon®. 26(1). 80 indexed citations
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Irons, William. (1989). Mating preferences surveys: Ethnographic follow-up would be a good next step. Behavioral and Brain Sciences. 12(1). 24–24. 31 indexed citations
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Irons, William. (1986). Social and reproductive success: Useful data but rethink the theory. Behavioral and Brain Sciences. 9(1). 197–198. 5 indexed citations
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Irons, William. (1981). Sociobiology and Levels of Explanation. American Anthropologist. 83(1). 147–149. 4 indexed citations
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Cohen, Ronald, Attila Ágh, Eugene Cooper, et al.. (1981). Evolutionary Epistemology and Human Values [and Comments and Reply]. Current Anthropology. 22(3). 201–218. 7 indexed citations
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Barkow, Jerome H., Kenneth L. Beals, Martin Daly, et al.. (1978). Social Norms, the Self, and Sociobiology: Building on the Ideas of A. I. Hallowell [and Comments and Reply]. Current Anthropology. 19(1). 99–118. 22 indexed citations
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Irons, William. (1975). The Yomut Turkmen. 52 indexed citations
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Irons, William. (1975). The Yomut Turkmen: A Study of Social Organization among a Central Asian Turkic-Speaking Population. Project Muse (Johns Hopkins University). 32 indexed citations
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Irons, William. (1969). The Yomut Turkmen: A Study Of Kinship In A Pastoral Society.. Deep Blue (University of Michigan). 3 indexed citations

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