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Carel P. van Schaik

Carel P. van Schaik

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Ecology and Evolution
Switzerland
2026

D-Index & Metrics

Ecology and Evolution

D-Index
122
Citations
47073
World Ranking
97
National Ranking
4

Carel P. van Schaik publication distribution in Ecology and Evolution in 2026

The chart shows the distribution of publications by all Research.com ranked scientists in the field of Ecology and Evolution in 2026. The highlighted bar marks where Carel P. van Schaik sits on this spectrum.

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37 publications 531+

This scientist: 378 publications — 96th percentile

96% of scientists in this discipline score the same or lower.

The last bar groups every scientist with 531 publications or more.

Carel P. van Schaik D-index placement in Ecology and Evolution in 2026

The chart shows the D-index (discipline H-index) distribution of Ecology and Evolution scientists ranked by Research.com in 2026. The highlighted bar marks where Carel P. van Schaik sits on this spectrum.

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30 D-Index 121+

This scientist: 122 D-Index — 99th percentile

99% of scientists in this discipline score the same or lower.

The last bar groups every scientist with 121 D-Index or more.

Research.com Recognitions

  • 2026 - Research.com Ecology and Evolution in Switzerland Leader Award
  • 2025 - Research.com Ecology and Evolution in Switzerland Leader Award
  • 2022 - Research.com Ecology and Evolution in Switzerland Leader Award
  • 2007 - Royal Netherlands Academy of Arts and Sciences

Overview

Carel P. van Schaik is affiliated with the University of Zurich in Switzerland. Their research primarily spans the field of Psychology, with a focus on Social Psychology, Ecology, Evolution, Behavior and Systematics, Developmental Biology, Developmental and Educational Psychology, and Ecology as subfields.

The scientist's work is concentrated on several key topics, including:

  • Primate Behavior and Ecology
  • Animal Behavior and Reproduction
  • Animal Vocal Communication and Behavior
  • Child and Animal Learning Development
  • Evolutionary Game Theory and Cooperation
  • Wildlife Ecology and Conservation
  • Evolutionary Psychology and Human Behavior

Among the recent publications associated with this researcher are:

  • "The zone of latent solutions and its relevance to understanding ape cultures" (2020) published in Biology & Philosophy
  • "The economics of brain size evolution in vertebrates" (2022) published in Current Biology
  • "A Farewell to the Encephalization Quotient: A New Brain Size Measure for Comparative Primate Cognition" (2021) published in Brain Behavior and Evolution
  • "Marmoset prosociality is intentional" (2020) published in Animal Cognition
  • "Reproductive seasonality in primates: patterns, concepts and unsolved questions" (2020) published in Biological reviews/Biological reviews of the Cambridge Philosophical Society

Frequent collaborators who have coauthored multiple works with van Schaik include:

  • Caroline Schuppli (22 publications)
  • Maria A. van Noordwijk (20 publications)
  • Judith M. Burkart (12 publications)
  • Marlen Fröhlich (11 publications)
  • Erik P. Willems (11 publications)

The primary publication venues for van Schaik illustrate where their research has been disseminated most often:

  • bioRxiv (Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory) with 11 publications
  • Behavioral Ecology and Sociobiology with 5 publications
  • Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society B Biological Sciences with 5 publications
  • Communications Biology with 4 publications
  • Biological reviews/Biological reviews of the Cambridge Philosophical Society with 3 publications

Carel P. van Schaik received an award from the Royal Netherlands Academy of Arts and Sciences in 2007.

Best Publications

  • The Phenology of Tropical Forests: Adaptive Significance and Consequences for Primary Consumers*

    Carel P. van Schaik;John W. Terborgh;S. Joseph Wright

  • The evolution of female social relationships in nonhuman primates

    E.H.M. Sterck;David P. Watts;C.P. van Schaik

  • Orangutan Cultures and the Evolution of Material Culture

    Carel P. van Schaik;Marc Ancrenaz;Gwendolyn Borgen;Birute Galdikas;Birute Galdikas

  • Fission-fusion dynamics: new research frameworks

    Filippo Aureli;Colleen M Schaffner;Christophe Boesch;Simon K Bearder

  • Evolution of primate social systems

    Peter M. Kappeler;Carel P. van Schaik

  • The evolution of self-control

    Evan L. MacLean;Brian Hare;Charles L. Nunn;Elsa Addessi

  • Overall Brain Size, and Not Encephalization Quotient, Best Predicts Cognitive Ability across Non-Human Primates

    Robert O. Deaner;Karin Isler;Judith Maria Burkart;Carel van Schaik

  • The evolution of animal 'cultures' and social intelligence.

    Andrew Whiten;Carel P van Schaik

  • The conditions for tool use in primates: implications for the evolution of material culture.

    Carel P. van Schaik;Robert O. Deaner;Michelle Y. Merrill

  • Energetics and the evolution of human brain size

    Ana Navarrete;Carel P. van Schaik;Karin Isler

  • Other-regarding preferences in a non-human primate: Common marmosets provision food altruistically

    Judith M. Burkart;Ernst Fehr;Charles Efferson;Carel P. van Schaik

  • Conflict resolution following aggression in gregarious animals: a predictive framework

    Filippo Aureli;Marina Cords;Carel P. van Schaik

  • The Expensive Brain: a framework for explaining evolutionary changes in brain size.

    Karin Isler;Carel P. van Schaik

  • The evolutionary origin of human hyper-cooperation

    J. M. Burkart;O. Allon;Federica Amici;C. Fichtel

  • Animal social complexity : intelligence, culture, and individualized societies

    F. B. M. de Waal;Peter L. Tyack

  • Intrasexual competition and canine dimorphism in anthropoid primates.

    J. Michael Plavcan;Carel P. van Schaik

  • The socioecology of fission-fusion sociality in Orangutans

    Carel P. van Schaik

  • Infanticide by Males and its Implications

    Carel van Schaik;Charles Helmar Janson

  • Intrasexual competition and body weight dimorphism in anthropoid primates

    J. Michael Plavcan;Carel P. van Schaik

  • Social learning and evolution: the cultural intelligence hypothesis.

    Carel P. van Schaik;Judith M. Burkart

  • Infanticide risk and the evolution of male–female association in primates

    Carel P. Van Schaik;Peter M. Kappeler

  • Orangutans : geographic variation in behavioral ecology and conservation

    Serge A Wich;S. Suci Utami Atmoko;Tatang Mitra Setia;Carel P. van Schaik

Frequent Co-Authors

Maria A. van Noordwijk
Maria A. van Noordwijk Max Planck Society
Judith M. Burkart
Judith M. Burkart University of Zurich
Serge A. Wich
Serge A. Wich Liverpool John Moores University
Benoit Goossens
Benoit Goossens Cardiff University
Peter M. Kappeler
Peter M. Kappeler German Primate Center
Michael Krützen
Michael Krützen University of Zurich
Filippo Aureli
Filippo Aureli Liverpool John Moores University
Charles L. Nunn
Charles L. Nunn Duke University
Cyril C. Grueter
Cyril C. Grueter University of Western Australia
Charles H. Janson
Charles H. Janson University of Montana

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