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 Peter J. Richerson sits on this spectrum.
This scientist: 238 publications — 76th percentile
76% of scientists in this discipline score the same or lower.
The last bar groups every scientist with 570 publications or more.
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 Peter J. Richerson sits on this spectrum.
This scientist: 82 D-Index — 96th percentile
96% of scientists in this discipline score the same or lower.
The last bar groups every scientist with 100 D-Index or more.
Peter J. Richerson is affiliated with the University of California, Davis in the United States. Their research spans primarily the social sciences, with significant contributions in the subfields of sociology and political science, cultural studies, social psychology, statistical and nonlinear physics, and experimental and cognitive psychology.
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Peter J. Richerson has been recognized as a Fellow of the American Association for the Advancement of Science (AAAS) since 2007 and as a Fellow of the John Simon Guggenheim Memorial Foundation since 1984.
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