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 Richard McElreath sits on this spectrum.
This scientist: 166 publications — 50th percentile
50% 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 Richard McElreath sits on this spectrum.
This scientist: 60 D-Index — 82nd percentile
82% of scientists in this discipline score the same or lower.
The last bar groups every scientist with 100 D-Index or more.
Richard McElreath is affiliated with the Max Planck Society in Germany. Their research spans multiple areas within the social sciences and psychology, with significant contributions to subfields including sociology and political science, social psychology, cultural studies, experimental and cognitive psychology, and ecology, evolution, behavior, and systematics.
The main topics of their work cover evolutionary game theory and cooperation, primate behavior and ecology, language and cultural evolution, animal behavior and reproduction, cultural differences and values, evolutionary psychology and human behavior, and child and animal learning development.
Frequent publication venues for Richard McElreath include Royal Society Open Science, bioRxiv (Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory), Evolutionary Human Sciences, Proceedings of the Royal Society B Biological Sciences, and Science Advances.
They have collaborated extensively with several researchers, including Cody T. Ross (13 coauthored papers), Daniel Redhead (12), Jeremy Koster (9), Bret Beheim (7), and Brooke A. Scelza (7).
Notable recent papers by Richard McElreath cover a range of topics and publication years:
Richard McElreath has published one book titled Human Behavioral Ecology, released in 2024 by Cambridge University Press.
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