OOIR: Observatory of International Research

Papers

(The median citation count of Human Nature-An Interdisciplinary Biosocial Perspective is 2. The table below lists those papers that are above that threshold based on CrossRef citation counts [max. 250 papers]. The publications cover those that have been published in the past four years, i.e., from 2021-06-01 to 2025-06-01.)

Article	Citations
Maternal Grandmothers’ Household Residency, Children’s Growth, and Body Composition Are Not Related in Urban Maya Families from Yucatan	27
Ecological Threats and Cultural Systems	21
Honor in the Wild	13
Perceptions of Income Inequality and Women’s Intrasexual Competition	13
The Cultural Evolution of Epistemic Practices	13
Human Male Body Size Predicts Increased Knockout Power, Which Is Accurately Tracked by Conspecific Judgments of Male Dominance	13
From the Ground Up: A Multidisciplinary Approach to Past Fertility and Population Narratives	12
Does Group Contact Shape Styles of Pictorial Representation? A Case Study of Australian Rock Art	11
Hearing Prosocial Stories Increases Hadza Hunter-Gatherers’ Generosity in an Economic Game	11
Voices as Cues to Children’s Needs for Caregiving	11
Handsome or Rugged?	10
Iban Kinship and Cooperation	10
The Cultural Evolution of Games of Chance	10
Exploratory Analysis of the Relationship between Social Identification and Testosterone Reactivity to Vicarious Combat	8
Political Alliance Formation and Cooperation Networks in the Utah State Legislature	7
Core Moral Concepts and the Sense of Fairness in Human Infants	7
The Nature and Motivation of Human Cooperation from Variant Public Goods Games	6
The Use of Wooden Clubs and Throwing Sticks among Recent Foragers	6
Being More Educated and Earning More Increases Romantic Interest: Data from 1.8 M Online Daters from 24 Nations	6
Correction: Death from Failed Protection? An Evolutionary-Developmental Theory of Sudden Infant Death Syndrome	5
Being in the Know	5
Religion, Fetal Protection, and Fasting during Pregnancy in Three Subcultures	5
Discriminative Grandparental Investment in China	5
Testing Environmental Effects on Age at Menarche and Sexual Debut within a Genetically Informative Twin Design	5
Fertility Dynamics and Life History Tactics Vary by Socioeconomic Position in a Transitioning Cohort of Postreproductive Chilean Women	5

The (Co)Evolution of Language and Music Under Human Self-Domestication	4
Let’s Play at Digging	4
Adoption, Fostering, and Parental Absence in Vanuatu	4
Differences in the Social Motivations and Emotions of Humans and Other Great Apes	4
Persistence of Matrilocal Postmarital Residence Across Multiple Generations in Southern Africa	4
The Agential View of Misfortune	4
Witchcraft, Envy, and Norm Enforcement in Mauritius	3
Nine Levels of Explanation	3
The Collector Hypothesis	3
Making Drawings Speak Through Mathematical Metrics	3
Evidence for Greater Marking along Ethnic Boundaries	3
Social Isolation Affects the Mimicry Response in the Use of Smartphones	3
Ethnic Markers and How to Find Them	3
The Early Expression of Blatant Dehumanization in Children and Its Association with Outgroup Negativity	2
Is it a Match? Yawn Contagion and Smile Mimicry in Toddlers	2
Grocery Shopping Under Simplified Marginal Value Theorem Predictions	2
Ghosts, Divination, and Magic among the Nuosu: An Ethnographic Examination from Cognitive and Cultural Evolutionary Perspectives	2
The Relative Importance of “Cooperative Context” and Kinship in Structuring Cooperative Behavior	2
Deriving Features of Religions in the Wild	2
Hadza Landscape Burning	2
Intra- and Intersexual Mate Competition in Two Cultures	2
The Nature, Taxonomy, and Contingencies of Intimate Relationship Problems	2
Relationship of Estradiol and Progesterone with Partnership and Parity Among Bangladeshi and British Women of European Origin	2
Parental Investment Is Biased toward Children Named for Their Fathers	2