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Carol R. Ember publication distribution in Social Sciences and Humanities in 2026

The chart shows the distribution of publications by all Research.com ranked scientists in the field of Social Sciences and Humanities in 2026. The highlighted bar marks where Carol R. Ember sits on this spectrum.

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44 publications 570+

This scientist: 142 publications — 37th percentile

37% of scientists in this discipline score the same or lower.

The last bar groups every scientist with 570 publications or more.

Carol R. Ember D-index placement in Social Sciences and Humanities in 2026

The chart shows the D-index (discipline H-index) distribution of Social Sciences and Humanities scientists ranked by Research.com in 2026. The highlighted bar marks where Carol R. Ember sits on this spectrum.

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This scientist: 43 D-Index — 46th percentile

46% of scientists in this discipline score the same or lower.

The last bar groups every scientist with 100 D-Index or more.

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

  • Intergroup aggression in chimpanzees and humans

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

  • Myths about Hunter-Gatherers

    Carol R. Ember

  • Resource Unpredictability, Mistrust, and War A Cross-Cultural Study

    Carol R. Ember;Melvin Ember

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

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

  • Cross-Cultural Research Methods

    Carol R. Ember;Melvin Ember

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

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

  • The Conditions Favoring Matrilocal Versus Patrilocal Residence

    Melvin Ember;Carol R. Ember

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

    Carol R. Ember;Melvin Ember

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

    Carol R. Ember

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

    Carol R. Ember;Melvin Ember;Bruce Russett

  • The Construction of Primary Data in Cultural Anthropology

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

  • Sex, Gender, and Kinship: A Cross-Cultural Perspective

    Burton Pasternak;Carol R. Ember;Melvin Ember

  • Feminine Task Assignment and the Social Behavior of Boys

    Carol R. Ember

  • 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

  • Residential variation among hunter-gatherers

    Carol R. Ember

  • Encyclopedia of world cultures

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

  • Warfare, Aggression, and Resource Problems: Cross-Cultural Codes:

    Carol R. Ember;Melvin Ember

  • Ecological and cultural factors underlying the global distribution of prejudice

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

  • Encyclopedia of diasporas : immigrant and refugee cultures around the world

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

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

    Carol R. Ember;Melvin Ember

Frequent Co-Authors

Bobbi S. Low
Bobbi S. Low University of Michigan–Ann Arbor
Michele J. Gelfand
Michele J. Gelfand Stanford University
Bruce Russett
Bruce Russett Yale University
Simon J. Greenhill
Simon J. Greenhill Max Planck Society
Joseph H. Manson
Joseph H. Manson University of California, Los Angeles
Gerben A. van Kleef
Gerben A. van Kleef University of Amsterdam
Robin I. M. Dunbar
Robin I. M. Dunbar University of Oxford
Ronald Fischer
Ronald Fischer Victoria University of Wellington
Colleen Ward
Colleen Ward Victoria University of Wellington
Jamin Halberstadt
Jamin Halberstadt University of Otago

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