2026 Carol R. Ember: Social Sciences and Humanities Researcher – H-Index, Publications & Awards

Discipline name	D-Index	World Ranking	Current World Ranking	National Ranking	Current National Ranking	Publications	Citations
Social Sciences and Humanities	43	4336	4004	2073	1878	142	10180

Research.com Recognitions

2008 - Fellow of the American Association for the Advancement of Science (AAAS)

Overview

Carol R. Ember is affiliated with Yale University in the United States. Their research spans several areas within sociology, political science, and social psychology, with additional contributions to demography, cultural studies, and health.

Their recent published papers include:

A global analysis of cultural tightness in non-industrial societies (2020) in Proceedings of the Royal Society B Biological Sciences
Coding culture: challenges and recommendations for comparative cultural databases (2020) in Evolutionary Human Sciences
The Global Jukebox: A public database of performing arts and culture (2022) in PLoS ONE
Resource Stress Predicts Changes in Religious Belief and Increases in Sharing Behavior (2020) in Human Nature
Resource stress and subsistence diversification across societies (2020) in Nature Sustainability

Frequent co-authors working alongside Carol R. Ember include:

Stella Silbert
Sam Passmore
Hideo Daikoku
J. Michael McBride
Forrestine Paulay

Publications regularly appear in venues such as:

Zenodo (CERN European Organization for Nuclear Research)
Evolutionary Human Sciences
Human Nature
International Journal of Disaster Risk Reduction
Proceedings of the Royal Society B Biological Sciences

The primary subfields of study for Carol R. Ember are:

Sociology and Political Science
Social Psychology
Demography
Cultural Studies
Health

The main research topics explored include:

Evolutionary Game Theory and Cooperation
Primate Behavior and Ecology
Culture, Economy, and Development Studies
Language and cultural evolution
Religion, Spirituality, and Psychology
Rangeland Management and Livestock Ecology
Cultural Differences and Values

Carol R. Ember was recognized as a Fellow of the American Association for the Advancement of Science (AAAS) in 2008.

Best Publications

Children of Different Worlds: The Formation of Social Behavior

Beatrice Blyth Whiting;Carolyn Pope Edwards;Carol R. Ember;Gerald M. Erchak

2001
Citations
Intergroup aggression in chimpanzees and humans

Joseph H. Manson;Richard W. Wrangham;James L. Boone;Bernard Chapais

671
Citations
Myths about Hunter-Gatherers

Carol R. Ember

528
Citations
Resource Unpredictability, Mistrust, and War A Cross-Cultural Study

Carol R. Ember;Melvin Ember

472
Citations
Beyond "The Original Affluent Society": A Culturalist Reformulation [and Comments and Reply]

Nurit Bird-David;Allen Abramson;Jon Altman;M. G. Bicchieri

467
Citations
Cross-Cultural Research Methods

Carol R. Ember;Melvin Ember

441
Citations
D-PLACE: A global database of cultural, linguistic and environmental diversity

Kathryn R. Kirby;Russell D. Gray;Simon J. Greenhill;Fiona M. Jordan

369
Citations
The Conditions Favoring Matrilocal Versus Patrilocal Residence

Melvin Ember;Carol R. Ember

357
Citations
War, Socialization, and Interpersonal Violence: A Cross-Cultural Study

Carol R. Ember;Melvin Ember

254
Citations
The Relative Decline in Women's Contribution to Agriculture with Intensification

Carol R. Ember

240
Citations
Peace Between Participatory Polities: A Cross-Cultural Test of the “Democracies Rarely Fight Each Other” Hypothesis

Carol R. Ember;Melvin Ember;Bruce Russett

226
Citations
The Construction of Primary Data in Cultural Anthropology

H. Russell Bernard;Pertti J. Pelto;Oswald Werner;James Boster

222
Citations
Sex, Gender, and Kinship: A Cross-Cultural Perspective

Burton Pasternak;Carol R. Ember;Melvin Ember

209
Citations
Feminine Task Assignment and the Social Behavior of Boys

Carol R. Ember

200
Citations
Practice and Political Centralisation: A New Approach to Political Evolution [and Comments and Reply]

Paul B. Roscoe;Christopher Boehm;Henri J. M. Claessen;Carol R. Ember

154
Citations
Residential variation among hunter-gatherers

Carol R. Ember

148
Citations
Encyclopedia of world cultures

David Levinson;Melvin Ember;Carol R. Ember;Ian Skoggard

125
Citations
Warfare, Aggression, and Resource Problems: Cross-Cultural Codes:

Carol R. Ember;Melvin Ember

125
Citations
Ecological and cultural factors underlying the global distribution of prejudice

Joshua Conrad Jackson;Marieke Van Egmond;Virginia K. Choi;Carol R Ember

125
Citations
Encyclopedia of diasporas : immigrant and refugee cultures around the world

Melvin Ember;Carol R. Ember;Ian Skoggard;Human Relation Area Files

121
Citations
Encyclopedia of medical anthropology : health and illness in the world's cultures

Carol R. Ember;Melvin Ember

109
Citations

Frequent Co-Authors

Bobbi S. Low University of Michigan–Ann Arbor

Michele J. Gelfand Stanford University

Simon J. Greenhill Max Planck Society

Joseph H. Manson University of California, Los Angeles

Robin I. M. Dunbar University of Oxford

Gerben A. van Kleef University of Amsterdam

Astrid C. Homan University of Amsterdam

Ronald Fischer Victoria University of Wellington

Colleen Ward Victoria University of Wellington

Jamin Halberstadt University of Otago

External Links

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