2026 Louise Barrett: 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	59	1582	1417	89	82	208	12182

Overview

Louise Barrett is affiliated with the University of Lethbridge in Canada. Their research primarily spans the field of Psychology, with a focus on several subfields including Social Psychology, Ecology, Evolution, Behavior and Systematics, Developmental Biology, Cognitive Neuroscience, and Developmental and Educational Psychology.

The scientist's work addresses a variety of main topics, particularly relating to animal behavior and ecology. These include:

Primate Behavior and Ecology
Animal Behavior and Reproduction
Animal Vocal Communication and Behavior
Neuroendocrine Regulation and Behavior
Bat Biology and Ecology Studies
Child and Animal Learning Development
Human-Animal Interaction Studies

Louise Barrett has contributed to multiple journals, frequently publishing in:

Faculty Opinions - Post-Publication Peer Review of the Biomedical Literature
Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society B Biological Sciences
Animal Behaviour
Zenodo (CERN European Organization for Nuclear Research)
American Journal of Primatology

Selected recent papers authored or co-authored by Louise Barrett include:

Experts in action: why we need an embodied social brain hypothesis (2021), Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society B Biological Sciences
Comparing dominance hierarchy methods using a data-splitting approach with real-world data (2020), Behavioral Ecology
Fevers and the social costs of acute infection in wild vervet monkeys (2021), Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences
Field data confirm the ability of a biophysical model to predict wild primate body temperature (2020), Journal of Thermal Biology
Tropical field stations yield high conservation return on investment (2024), Conservation Letters

Their frequent collaborators include:

S. Peter Henzi
Tyler R. Bonnell
Chloé Vilette
Christopher Young
Richard McFarland

Best Publications

Human Evolutionary Psychology

Louise Barrett;Robin Dunbar;John Lycett

1061
Citations
Beyond the Brain: How Body and Environment Shape Animal and Human Minds

Louise Barrett

463
Citations
Market forces predict grooming reciprocity in female baboons

L. Barrett;L. Barrett;S. P. Henzi;T. Weingrill;T. Weingrill;J. E. Lycett;J. E. Lycett

429
Citations
Oxford Handbook of Evolutionary Psychology

Louise Barrett;Robin Dunbar

429
Citations
The value of grooming to female primates.

S. Peter Henazi;Louise Barrett;Louise Barrett

387
Citations
Primate cognition: from 'what now?' to 'what if?'

Louise Barrett;Peter Henzi;Robin Dunbar

273
Citations
Social brains, simple minds: does social complexity really require cognitive complexity?

Louise Barrett;Peter Henzi;Drew Rendall

262
Citations
Evolutionary perspectives on human height variation

Gert Stulp;Gert Stulp;Louise Barrett;Louise Barrett

255
Citations
Fecal cortisol levels in free-ranging female chacma baboons: relationship to dominance, reproductive state and environmental factors

Tony Weingrill;David A Gray;Louise Barrett;Louise Barrett;S.Peter Henzi

237
Citations
Taking sociality seriously: the structure of multi-dimensional social networks as a source of information for individuals

Louise Barrett;Louise Barrett;S. Peter Henzi;S. Peter Henzi;David Lusseau

235
Citations
Cyclicity in the structure of female baboon social networks

S. P. Henzi;S. P. Henzi;D. Lusseau;T. Weingrill;T. Weingrill;C. P. van Schaik

234
Citations
Infants as a commodity in a baboon market

S.P. Henzi;L. Barrett;L. Barrett

232
Citations
The social nature of primate cognition

Louise Barrett;Peter Henzi

224
Citations
A dynamic interaction between aggression and grooming reciprocity among female chacma baboons

Louise Barrett;Louise Barrett;David Gaynor;S.Peter Henzi

222
Citations
Facial attractiveness judgements reflect learning of parental age characteristics

David I. Perrett;Ian S. Penton-Voak;Anthony C. Little;Bernard P. Tiddeman

205
Citations
Evolutionary ecology, sexual conflict, and behavioral differentiation among baboon populations

Peter Henzi;Louise Barrett

198
Citations
Constraints and flexibility in mammalian social behaviour: introduction and synthesis

Peter M. Kappeler;Louise Barrett;Louise Barrett;Daniel T. Blumstein;Tim H. Clutton-Brock

195
Citations
Indigenous representations of illness and AIDS in Sub-Saharan Africa.

Christine Liddell;Louise Barrett;Moya Bydawell

193
Citations
Maternal investment in mountain baboons and the hypothesis of reduced care

John E. Lycett;S. Peter Henzi;Louise Barrett

183
Citations
Day length, latitude and behavioural (in)flexibility in baboons (Papio cynocephalus ursinus )

R. A. Hill;R. A. Hill;L. Barrett;D. Gaynor;T. Weingrill

179
Citations
Advances in the Study of Behaviour

M. Naguib;J.C. Mitani;L.W. Simmons;L.W. Barrett

24
Citations

Frequent Co-Authors

Robin I. M. Dunbar University of Oxford

Shane K. Maloney University of Western Australia

Melinda Mills University of Oxford

Thomas V. Pollet Northumbria University

Pamela Qualter University of Manchester

Joël Fagot Aix-Marseille University

Jeffrey Rogers Baylor College of Medicine

Sonja A. Kotz Maastricht University

S. Craig Roberts University of Stirling

Jan Havlíček Charles University

External Links

Personal website of Louise Barrett Google Scholar page

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