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Charles L. Nunn

Charles L. Nunn

D-Index & Metrics

Ecology and Evolution

D-Index
76
Citations
20364
World Ranking
998
National Ranking
375

Charles L. Nunn 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 Charles L. Nunn sits on this spectrum.

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37 publications 531+

This scientist: 219 publications — 79th percentile

79% of scientists in this discipline score the same or lower.

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

Charles L. Nunn 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 Charles L. Nunn sits on this spectrum.

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30 D-Index 121+

This scientist: 76 D-Index — 88th percentile

88% of scientists in this discipline score the same or lower.

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

Overview

Charles L. Nunn is affiliated with Duke University in the United States and focuses their research primarily within the field of Medicine. Their work spans various subfields, including Public Health, Environmental and Occupational Health, Social Psychology, Infectious Diseases, Ecology, and Modeling and Simulation.

Their research broadly covers topics such as zoonotic diseases and public health, primate behavior and ecology, COVID-19 epidemiological studies, wildlife ecology and conservation, viral infections and vectors, animal vocal communication and behavior, and viral infections and outbreaks research.

Charles L. Nunn has contributed to several recent papers, including:

  • Effect of urban habitat use on parasitism in mammals: a meta-analysis, 2020, Proceedings of the Royal Society B Biological Sciences
  • Food insecurity related to agricultural practices and household characteristics in rural communities of northeast Madagascar, 2021, Food Security
  • Mitigating Future Respiratory Virus Pandemics: New Threats and Approaches to Consider, 2021, Viruses
  • Comparing transmission potential networks based on social network surveys, close contacts and environmental overlap in rural Madagascar, 2022, Journal of The Royal Society Interface
  • Predictions of primate-parasite coextinction, 2021, Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society B Biological Sciences

The venues where Charles L. Nunn frequently publishes include:

  • bioRxiv (Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory)
  • Evolution Medicine and Public Health
  • PLoS ONE
  • Proceedings of the Royal Society B Biological Sciences
  • PLoS neglected tropical diseases

Collaboration is evident in their work with multiple frequent co-authors, which include:

  • Voahangy Soarimalala
  • James P. Herrera
  • Michelle Pender
  • Pablo Tortosa
  • James Moody

Best Publications

  • Social Organization and Parasite Risk in Mammals: Integrating Theory and Empirical Studies

    Sonia Altizer;Charles L. Nunn;Peter H. Thrall;John L. Gittleman

  • The evolution of self-control

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

  • The 10kTrees Website: A New Online Resource for Primate Phylogeny

    Christian Arnold;Luke J. Matthews;Charles Lindsay Nunn

  • Infectious diseases in primates: behavior, ecology and evolution.

    Charles L. Nunn;Sonia M. Altizer

  • Stepwise Model Fitting and Statistical Inference: Turning Noise into Signal Pollution

    Roger Mundry;Charles Lindsay Nunn

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

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

  • The evolution of exaggerated sexual swellings in primates and the graded-signal hypothesis

    Charles L. Nunn

  • Comparative tests of parasite species richness in primates.

    Charles L. Nunn;Sonia Altizer;Kate E. Jones;Wes Sechrest

  • Infectious Diseases in Primates

    Charles Nunn;Sonia Altizer

  • The Comparative Approach in Evolutionary Anthropology and Biology

    Charles L. Nunn

  • Infectious Diseases and Extinction Risk in Wild Mammals

    Amy B. Pedersen;Kate E. Jones;Charles L. Nunn;Sonia M. Altizer

  • On sexual dimorphism in immune function

    Charles L. Nunn;Patrik Lindenfors;E. Rhiannon Pursall;Jens Rolff

  • Promiscuity and the Primate Immune System

    Charles L. Nunn;John L. Gittleman;Janis Antonovics

  • How does cognition evolve? Phylogenetic comparative psychology

    Evan L. MacLean;Luke J. Matthews;Brian A. Hare;Charles L. Nunn

  • Pathogens as drivers of population declines: The importance of systematic monitoring in great apes and other threatened mammals

    Fabian H. Leendertz;Georg Pauli;Kerstin Mätz-Rensing;Wayne Boardman

  • Parasite species richness in carnivores: effects of host body mass, latitude, geographical range and population density

    Patrik Lindenfors;Charles L Nunn;Kate E Jones;Andrew Cunningham

  • Network-based diffusion analysis: a new method for detecting social learning

    Mathias Franz;Charles L. Nunn

  • Community structure and the spread of infectious disease in primate social networks

    Randi Heesoo Griffin;Charles Lindsay Nunn

  • Comparative Primate Socioecology: Sex and social evolution in primates

    Carel P. Van Schaik;Maria A. Van Noordwijk;Charles L. Nunn

  • Comparative Methods for Studying Primate Adaptation and Allometry

    Charles L. Nunn;Robert A. Barton

  • Infectious Diseases in Primates: Behavior, Ecology and Evolution (Oxford Series in Ecology and Evolution)

    Sonia Altizer;Charles Nunn

Frequent Co-Authors

Sonia Altizer
Sonia Altizer University of Georgia
Robert A. Barton
Robert A. Barton Durham University
Peter M. Kappeler
Peter M. Kappeler German Primate Center
Patrick J. McNamara
Patrick J. McNamara University of Iowa
Carel P. van Schaik
Carel P. van Schaik University of Zurich
Fabian H. Leendertz
Fabian H. Leendertz Robert Koch Institute
Hillary S. Young
Hillary S. Young University of California, Santa Barbara
Vanessa O. Ezenwa
Vanessa O. Ezenwa Yale University
John L. Gittleman
John L. Gittleman University of Georgia
Peter H. Thrall
Peter H. Thrall Commonwealth Scientific and Industrial Research Organisation

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