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2026

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Social Sciences and Humanities

D-Index
91
Citations
68806
World Ranking
169
National Ranking
80

Robert Boyd publication distribution in Social Sciences and Humanities in 2026

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 Robert Boyd sits on this spectrum.

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44 publications 570+

This scientist: 226 publications — 73rd percentile

73% of scientists in this discipline score the same or lower.

The last bar groups every scientist with 570 publications or more.

Robert Boyd D-index placement in Social Sciences and Humanities in 2026

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 Robert Boyd sits on this spectrum.

30 D-Index: 177 scientists 31 D-Index: 210 scientists 32 D-Index: 222 scientists 33 D-Index: 188 scientists 34 D-Index: 181 scientists 35 D-Index: 243 scientists 36 D-Index: 261 scientists 37 D-Index: 272 scientists 38 D-Index: 278 scientists 39 D-Index: 300 scientists 40 D-Index: 297 scientists 41 D-Index: 308 scientists 42 D-Index: 313 scientists 43 D-Index: 300 scientists 44 D-Index: 269 scientists 45 D-Index: 260 scientists 46 D-Index: 228 scientists 47 D-Index: 251 scientists 48 D-Index: 203 scientists 49 D-Index: 186 scientists 50 D-Index: 187 scientists 51 D-Index: 166 scientists 52 D-Index: 138 scientists 53 D-Index: 141 scientists 54 D-Index: 131 scientists 55 D-Index: 137 scientists 56 D-Index: 109 scientists 57 D-Index: 129 scientists 58 D-Index: 95 scientists 59 D-Index: 105 scientists 60 D-Index: 106 scientists 61 D-Index: 86 scientists 62 D-Index: 94 scientists 63 D-Index: 77 scientists 64 D-Index: 79 scientists 65 D-Index: 59 scientists 66 D-Index: 68 scientists 67 D-Index: 51 scientists 68 D-Index: 49 scientists 69 D-Index: 40 scientists 70 D-Index: 43 scientists 71 D-Index: 40 scientists 72 D-Index: 50 scientists 73 D-Index: 46 scientists 74 D-Index: 43 scientists 75 D-Index: 45 scientists 76 D-Index: 45 scientists 77 D-Index: 30 scientists 78 D-Index: 25 scientists 79 D-Index: 31 scientists 80 D-Index: 29 scientists 81 D-Index: 18 scientists 82 D-Index: 21 scientists 83 D-Index: 26 scientists 84 D-Index: 15 scientists 85 D-Index: 15 scientists 86 D-Index: 19 scientists 87 D-Index: 19 scientists 88 D-Index: 12 scientists 89 D-Index: 7 scientists 90 D-Index: 19 scientists 91 D-Index: 20 scientists 92 D-Index: 13 scientists 93 D-Index: 9 scientists 94 D-Index: 13 scientists 95 D-Index: 8 scientists 96 D-Index: 7 scientists 97 D-Index: 6 scientists 98 D-Index: 6 scientists 99 D-Index: 6 scientists 100+ D-Index: 97 scientists
30 D-Index 100+

This scientist: 91 D-Index — 98th percentile

98% of scientists in this discipline score the same or lower.

The last bar groups every scientist with 100 D-Index or more.

Research.com Recognitions

  • 2026 - Research.com Social Sciences and Humanities in United States Leader Award
  • 2025 - Research.com Social Sciences and Humanities in United States Leader Award

Overview

Robert Boyd is affiliated with Arizona State University in the United States. Their research primarily spans the social sciences and psychology, with a focus on evolutionary processes and human behavior.

Their work encompasses several subfields, including sociology and political science, cultural studies, experimental and cognitive psychology, safety research, and social psychology. Key research topics involve evolutionary game theory and cooperation, language and cultural evolution, evolutionary psychology and human behavior, experimental behavioral economics studies, primate behavior and ecology, child and animal learning development, and culture, economy, and development studies.

Robert Boyd's notable recent papers include:

  • Large-scale cooperation in small-scale foraging societies (2022), published in Evolutionary Anthropology Issues News and Reviews
  • Arbitration supports reciprocity when there are frequent perception errors (2021), published in Nature Human Behaviour

They have frequently collaborated with other researchers, such as:

  • Peter J. Richerson
  • Sarah Mathew
  • Minhua Yan
  • Maxime Derex
  • Jacob A. Harris

Robert Boyd has contributed to several distinguished publication venues, including:

  • Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society B Biological Sciences
  • Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences
  • Science
  • Proceedings of the Royal Society B Biological Sciences
  • Behavioral and Brain Sciences

Their book publication record includes a title with Oregon State University Press eBooks:

  • Indians, Fire, and the Land in the Pacific Northwest (2021)

Overall, the body of work by Robert Boyd encompasses extensive research on cooperation, cultural evolution, and behavioral studies through interdisciplinary approaches across social sciences and psychology.

Best Publications

  • Culture and the evolutionary process

    Robert Boyd;Peter J. Richerson

  • Not by genes alone: How culture transformed human evolution.

    Peter J. Richerson;Robert Boyd

  • In search of homo economicus: Behavioral experiments in 15 small-scale societies

    Joseph Henrich;Robert Boyd;Samuel Bowles;Colin F. Camerer

  • “Economic man” in cross-cultural perspective: Behavioral experiments in 15 small-scale societies

    Joseph Henrich;Robert Boyd;Samuel Bowles;Colin Camerer

  • The evolution of altruistic punishment

    Robert Boyd;Herbert Gintis;Samuel Bowles;Peter J. Richerson

  • Foundations of Human Sociality - Economic Experiments and Ethnographic: Evidence From Fifteen Small-Scale Societies

    Joseph Henrich;Robert Boyd;Samuel Bowles;Samuel Bowles;Colin F. Camerer

  • The Origin and Evolution of Cultures

    Peter Richerson;Robert Boyd

  • Punishment allows the evolution of cooperation (or anything else) in sizable groups

    Robert Boyd;Peter J. Richerson

  • The cultural niche: Why social learning is essential for human adaptation

    Robert Boyd;Peter J. Richerson;Joseph Henrich

  • Explaining altruistic behavior in humans

    Herbert Gintis;Herbert Gintis;Samuel Bowles;Samuel Bowles;Robert Boyd;Ernst Fehr

  • The evolution of conformist transmission and the emergence of between-group differences.

    Joe Henrich;Robert Boyd

  • Moral sentiments and material interests : the foundations of cooperation in economic life

    Herbert Gintis;Samuel Bowles;Robert Boyd

  • Culture and the evolution of human cooperation

    Robert Boyd;Peter J. Richerson

  • Why people punish defectors : weak conformist transmission can stabilize costly enforcement of norms in cooperative dilemmas

    Joseph Henrich;Robert Boyd

  • Indirect reciprocity can stabilize cooperation without the second-order free rider problem

    Karthik Panchanathan;Robert Boyd

  • Why Copy Others? Insights from the Social Learning Strategies Tournament

    Luke Rendell;R Boyd;D Cownden;Magnus Enquist

  • The evolution of reciprocity in sizable groups

    Robert Boyd;Peter J. Richerson

  • Shared norms and the evolution of ethnic markers

    Richard Mcelreath;Richard Mcelreath;Robert Boyd;Peter J. Richerson

  • Why Culture is Common, but Cultural Evolution is Rare

    Robert Boyd;Peter J. Richerson

  • WAS AGRICULTURE IMPOSSIBLE DURING THE PLEISTOCENE BUT MANDATORY DURING THE HOLOCENE? A CLIMATE CHANGE HYPOTHESIS

    Peter J. Richerson;Robert Boyd;Robert L. Bettinger

  • The evolution of indirect reciprocity

    Robert Boyd;Peter J. Richerson

  • Culture and the Evolutionary Process.

    Christopher Badcock;Robert Boyd;Peter J. Richerson

Frequent Co-Authors

Peter J. Richerson
Peter J. Richerson University of California, Davis
Samuel Bowles
Samuel Bowles Santa Fe Institute
Herbert Gintis
Herbert Gintis Santa Fe Institute
Ernst Fehr
Ernst Fehr University of Zurich
Richard McElreath
Richard McElreath Max Planck Society
Colin F. Camerer
Colin F. Camerer California Institute of Technology
Robert L. Bettinger
Robert L. Bettinger University of California, Davis
Joan B. Silk
Joan B. Silk Arizona State University
Roberto H. Schonmann
Roberto H. Schonmann University of California, Los Angeles
Eric Alden Smith
Eric Alden Smith University of Washington

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