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Elisabetta Visalberghi

Elisabetta Visalberghi

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Animal Science and Veterinary
Italy
2026
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Ecology and Evolution
Italy
2026

D-Index & Metrics

Animal Science and Veterinary

D-Index
73
Citations
15762
World Ranking
136
National Ranking
6

Ecology and Evolution

D-Index
71
Citations
14525
World Ranking
1328
National Ranking
10

Elisabetta Visalberghi publication distribution in Animal Science and Veterinary in 2026

The chart shows the distribution of publications by all Research.com ranked scientists in the field of Animal Science and Veterinary in 2026. The highlighted bar marks where Elisabetta Visalberghi sits on this spectrum.

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29 publications 442+

This scientist: 200 publications — 74th percentile

74% of scientists in this discipline score the same or lower.

The last bar groups every scientist with 442 publications or more.

Elisabetta Visalberghi D-index placement in Animal Science and Veterinary in 2026

The chart shows the D-index (discipline H-index) distribution of Animal Science and Veterinary scientists ranked by Research.com in 2026. The highlighted bar marks where Elisabetta Visalberghi sits on this spectrum.

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20 D-Index 77+

This scientist: 73 D-Index — 96th percentile

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

The last bar groups every scientist with 77 D-Index or more.

Research.com Recognitions

  • 2026 - Research.com Animal Science and Veterinary in Italy Leader Award
  • 2026 - Research.com Ecology and Evolution in Italy Leader Award
  • 2025 - Research.com Animal Science and Veterinary in Italy Leader Award

Overview

Elisabetta Visalberghi is a researcher affiliated with the National Research Council (CNR) in Italy. Their academic output primarily focuses on psychology, with a considerable number of publications addressing various subfields such as social psychology, developmental biology, ecology, evolution, behavior and systematics, as well as developmental and educational psychology.

The main fields of study in Visalberghi's work include:

  • Psychology

Within these fields, their research spans several key topics, including:

  • Primate Behavior and Ecology
  • Animal Vocal Communication and Behavior
  • Child and Animal Learning Development
  • Animal Behavior and Reproduction
  • Wildlife Ecology and Conservation
  • Human-Animal Interaction Studies
  • Pleistocene-Era Hominins and Archaeology

The researcher has contributed to a range of scientific journals, with frequent publications appearing in:

  • American Journal of Primatology
  • American Journal of Biological Anthropology
  • Scientific Reports
  • Current Biology
  • International Journal of Primatology

Notable recent papers authored or co-authored by Visalberghi include:

  • "Ingestive behaviors in bearded capuchins (Sapajus libidinosus)" (2020), published in Scientific Reports
  • "Stone tools improve diet quality in wild monkeys" (2022), published in Current Biology
  • "Rare Bearded Capuchin (Sapajus libidinosus) Tool-Use Culture is Threatened by Land Use Changes in Northeastern Brazil" (2020), published in International Journal of Primatology
  • "Revisiting the fourth dimension of tool use: how objects become tools for capuchin monkeys" (2021), published in Evolutionary Human Sciences
  • "The development of expertise at cracking palm nuts by wild bearded capuchin monkeys, Sapajus libidinosus" (2023), published in Animal Behaviour

Frequent collaborators in Visalberghi's research include:

  • Patrícia Izar
  • Dorothy M. Fragaszy
  • Callum F. Ross
  • Andréa Presotto
  • Myra F. Laird

Best Publications

  • The Complete Capuchin: The Biology of the Genus Cebus

    Dorothy M. Fragaszy;Elisabetta Visalberghi;Linda Marie Fedigan

  • The evolution of self-control

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

  • Wild capuchin monkeys (Cebus libidinosus) use anvils and stone pounding tools

    Dorothy Fragaszy;Patrícia Izar;Elisabetta Visalberghi;Eduardo B. Ottoni

  • Lack of comprehension of cause-effect relations in tool-using capuchin monkeys (Cebus apella).

    Elisabetta Visalberghi;Luca Limongelli

  • Do monkeys ape

    Elisabetta Visalberghi;Dorothy Munkenbeck Fragaszy

  • Selection of effective stone tools by wild bearded capuchin monkeys.

    Elisabetta Visalberghi;Elsa Addessi;Valentina Truppa;Noemi Spagnoletti

  • Tool use in capuchin monkeys: Distinguishing between performing and understanding

    Elisabetta Visalberghi;Loredana Trinca

  • Capuchin monkeys display affiliation toward humans who imitate them

    Annika Paukner;Stephen J. Suomi;Elisabetta Visalberghi;Pier F. Ferrari;Pier F. Ferrari

  • Performance in a tool-using task by common chimpanzees (Pan troglodytes), bonobos (Pan paniscus), an orangutan (Pongo pygmaeus), and capuchin monkeys (Cebus apella).

    Elisabetta Visalberghi;Dorothy M. Fragaszy;Sue Savage-Rumbaugh

  • Wolf Depredation Trends and the Use of Fladry Barriers to Protect Livestock in Western North America

    Marco Musiani;Charles Mamo;Luigi Boitani;Carolyn Callaghan

  • Tool Use in Cebus

    Elisabetta Visalberghi

  • Characteristics of hammer stones and anvils used by wild bearded capuchin monkeys (Cebus libidinosus) to crack open palm nuts.

    E. Visalberghi;D. Fragaszy;Eduardo Benedicto Ottoni;P. Izar

  • Primate archaeology

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  • Do capuchin monkeys, Cebus apella, know what conspecifics do and do not see?

    Brian Hare;Brian Hare;Elsa Addessi;Josep Call;Michael Tomasello

  • The ecology of primate material culture.

    Kathelijne Koops;Kathelijne Koops;Elisabetta Visalberghi;Carel P. van Schaik

  • Comprehension of Cause-Effect Relations in a Tool-Using Task by Chimpanzees (Pan troglodytes)

    Luca Limongelli;Sarah T. Boysen;Elisabetta Visalberghi

  • Seeing group members eating a familiar food enhances the acceptance of novel foods in capuchin monkeys.

    Elisabetta Visalberghi;Elsa Addessi

  • Social influences on the acquisition of tool-using behaviors in tufted capuchin monkeys (Cebus apella).

    Dorothy M. Fragaszy;Elisabetta Visalberghi

  • Stone tool use by adult wild bearded capuchin monkeys (Cebus libidinosus). Frequency, efficiency and tool selectivity.

    Noemi Spagnoletti;Elisabetta Visalberghi;Eduardo Ottoni;Patricia Izar

  • The fourth dimension of tool use: temporally enduring artefacts aid primates learning to use tools.

    D.M. Fragaszy;Dora Biro;Y. Eshchar;Tatyana Humle

  • The behaviour of capuchin monkeys,Cebus apella, with novel food: the role of social context

    Elisabetta Visalberghi;Dorothy Fragaszy

  • Socially biased learning in monkeys

    D. Fragaszy;E. Visalberghi

  • Tool use in Cebus apella: a case study

    Francesco Antinucci;Elisabetta Visalberghi

  • Do monkeys ape?: ten years after

    Elisabetta Visalberghi;Dorothy Fragaszy

  • Stone tool use in wild bearded capuchin monkeys, Cebus libidinosus. Is it a strategy to overcome food scarcity?

    Noemi Spagnoletti;Elisabetta Visalberghi;Michele P. Verderane;Eduardo Ottoni

  • Distribution of potential suitable hammers and transport of hammer tools and nuts by wild capuchin monkeys.

    Elisabetta Visalberghi;Noemi Spagnoletti;Eduardo D. Ramos da Silva;Fabio R. D. Andrade

  • Display of proceptive behaviors in relation to urinary and fecal progestin levels over the ovarian cycle in female tufted capuchin monkeys.

    Monica Carosi;Michael Heistermann;Elisabetta Visalberghi

  • Percussive tool use by Taï Western chimpanzees and Fazenda Boa Vista bearded capuchin monkeys: a comparison.

    Elisabetta Visalberghi;Giulia Sirianni;Dorothy Fragaszy;Christophe Boesch

  • How wild bearded capuchin monkeys select stones and nuts to minimize the number of strikes per nut cracked

    Dorothy M. Fragaszy;Rebecca Greenberg;Elisabetta Visalberghi;Eduardo B. Ottoni

  • Bearded capuchin monkeys' and a human's efficiency at cracking palm nuts with stone tools: field experiments

    D Fragaszy;T Pickering;Q Liu;Patricia Izar

  • Capuchin monkeys, Cebus apella, fail to understand a cooperative task.

    Raphaël Chalmeau;Elisabetta Visalberghi;Alain Gallo

  • Fallback Foraging as a Way of Life: Using Dietary Toughness to Compare the Fallback Signal Among Capuchins and Implications For Interpreting

    Barth W. Wright;Kristin A. Wright;Janine Chalk;Michele P. Verderane

  • RESEARCH ARTICLE Wild Capuchin Monkeys (Cebus libidinosus) Use Anvils and Stone Pounding Tools

    Dorothy Fragaszy;Elisabetta Visalberghi;Eduardo B. Ottoni;Marino Gomes De Oliveira

Frequent Co-Authors

Dorothy M. Fragaszy
Dorothy M. Fragaszy University of Georgia
Eduardo B. Ottoni
Eduardo B. Ottoni Universidade de São Paulo
Josep Call
Josep Call University of St Andrews
Gabriele Schino
Gabriele Schino Sapienza University of Rome
Filippo Aureli
Filippo Aureli Liverpool John Moores University
James R. Anderson
James R. Anderson Kyoto University
Pier Francesco Ferrari
Pier Francesco Ferrari Centre national de la recherche scientifique, CNRS
Eugenio Guglielmelli
Eugenio Guglielmelli Università Campus Bio-Medico
Gianluca Baldassarre
Gianluca Baldassarre National Academies of Sciences, Engineering, and Medicine
Brian Hare
Brian Hare Duke University

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