2026 Dorothy L. Cheney: Social Sciences and Humanities Researcher – H-Index, Publications & Awards

Discipline name	D-Index	World Ranking	National Ranking	Publications	Citations
Social Sciences and Humanities	102	80	44	192	40278

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Social Sciences and Humanities

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Research.com Recognitions

2015 - Member of the National Academy of Sciences
1995 - Fellow of John Simon Guggenheim Memorial Foundation

Overview

Dorothy L. Cheney was associated with the University of Pennsylvania in the United States. Throughout their career, they contributed to academic research, although no specific recent papers, frequent co-authors, publication venues, or book publications are detailed in the available data.

The specific fields of study, subfields, and main topics of work connected to their research are not provided, leaving an incomplete record of their precise academic focus areas.

Awards and honors received during their lifetime include membership in the National Academy of Sciences, awarded in 2015, and fellowship at the John Simon Guggenheim Memorial Foundation, awarded in 1995. These recognitions mark notable moments in their professional timeline.

Details such as published papers, collaboration networks, and thematic concentrations in research remain unspecified within the accessible information.

Best Publications

How Monkeys See the World: Inside the Mind of Another Species

Dorothy L. Cheney;Robert M. Seyfarth

4162
Citations
How monkeys see the world

Dorothy L. Cheney;Robert M. Seyfarth

1964
Citations
Monkey responses to three different alarm calls: evidence of predator classification and semantic communication

Robert M. Seyfarth;Dorothy L. Cheney;Peter Marler

1881
Citations
Vervet monkey alarm calls: Semantic communication in a free-ranging primate

Robert M. Seyfarth;Dorothy L. Cheney;Peter Marler

1394
Citations
Baboon Metaphysics: The Evolution of a Social Mind

Dorothy L. Cheney;Robert M. Seyfarth

1009
Citations
Strong and Consistent Social Bonds Enhance the Longevity of Female Baboons

Joan B. Silk;Jacinta C. Beehner;Thore J. Bergman;Catherine Crockford

869
Citations
Grooming, alliances and reciprocal altruism in vervet monkeys

Robert M. Seyfarth;Dorothy L. Cheney

823
Citations
The benefits of social capital: close social bonds among female baboons enhance offspring survival

Joan B. Silk;Jacinta C. Beehner;Thore J. Bergman;Catherine Crockford

774
Citations
Signalers and Receivers in Animal Communication

Robert M. Seyfarth;Dorothy L. Cheney

724
Citations
Hierarchical Classification by Rank and Kinship in Baboons

Thore J. Bergman;Jacinta C. Beehner;Dorothy L. Cheney;Robert M. Seyfarth

622
Citations
Vocal recognition in free-ranging vervet monkeys

D.L. Cheney;R.M. Seyfarth

609
Citations
The Evolutionary Origins of Friendship

Robert M. Seyfarth;Dorothy L. Cheney

568
Citations
Social relationships and social cognition in nonhuman primates.

Dorothy Cheney;Robert Seyfarth;Barbara Smuts

563
Citations
Vocal development in vervet monkeys

Robert M. Seyfarth;Dorothy L. Cheney

540
Citations
Assessment of meaning and the detection of unreliable signals by vervet monkeys

Dorothy L. Cheney;Robert M. Seyfarth

458
Citations
The adaptive value of 'friendships' to female baboons: experimental and observational evidence

Ryne A Palombit;Robert M Seyfarth;Dorothy L Cheney

456
Citations
The acquisition of rank and the development of reciprocal alliances among free-ranging immature baboons

Dorothy L. Cheney

425
Citations
Vervet monkey alarm calls: Manipulation through shared information?

Dorothy L. Cheney;Robert M. Seyfarth

423
Citations
How vervet monkeys perceive their grunts: Field playback experiments

Dorothy L. Cheney;Robert M. Seyfarth

403
Citations
Nonrandom Dispersal in Free-Ranging Vervet Monkeys: Social and Genetic Consequences

Dorothy L. Cheney;Robert M. Seyfarth

387
Citations
Baboon mothers and infants

Dorothy L. Cheney

53
Citations

Frequent Co-Authors

Robert M. Seyfarth University of Pennsylvania

Roman M. Wittig Max Planck Society

Michael J. Owren Georgia State University

James A. Serpell University of Pennsylvania

Peter Marler University of California, Davis

Richard W. Wrangham Harvard University

Steven A. Goldman University of Rochester Medical Center

Guy M. McKhann Johns Hopkins University

Michael L. Platt University of Pennsylvania

Daniel C. Dennett Tufts University

External Links

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