2026 Robert M. Seyfarth: 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	102	79	67	43	40	206	41243

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
2017 - Member of the National Academy of Sciences
2012 - Fellow of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences
1995 - Fellow of John Simon Guggenheim Memorial Foundation

Overview

Robert M. Seyfarth is affiliated with the University of Pennsylvania in the United States and conducts research primarily within the social sciences. Their work spans several subfields including demography, aging, experimental and cognitive psychology, pediatrics, perinatology, child health, and social psychology.

The research topics undertaken encompass a range of areas such as insurance, mortality, demography, risk management, genetics, aging, longevity in model organisms, evolutionary psychology, human behavior, birth, development, health, primate behavior and ecology, animal behavior and reproduction, as well as evolutionary game theory and cooperation.

Among the recent papers associated with their work are:

The long lives of primates and the 'invariant rate of ageing' hypothesis, 2021, Nature Communications
Dorothy Leavitt Cheney, 2020, Resonance
The evolutionary landscape of primate longevity, 2020, Research Square (Research Square)
Disparate social structures are underpinned by distinct social rules across a primate radiation, 2025, bioRxiv (Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory)

Frequent collaborators in their research include Elizabeth A. Archie, Catherine Crockford, Jenny Tung, Roman M. Wittig, and Susan C. Alberts.

Publications by Robert M. Seyfarth have appeared in venues such as Nature Communications, Resonance, Research Square (Research Square), and bioRxiv (Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory).

Throughout their career, Robert M. Seyfarth has received several professional recognitions including:

Member of the National Academy of Sciences, 2017
Fellow of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences, 2012
Fellow of John Simon Guggenheim Memorial Foundation, 1995

Best Publications

How Monkeys See the World: Inside the Mind of Another Species

Dorothy L. Cheney;Robert M. Seyfarth

4162
Citations
How monkeys see the world

Dorothy L. Cheney;Robert M. Seyfarth

1964
Citations
Monkey responses to three different alarm calls: evidence of predator classification and semantic communication

Robert M. Seyfarth;Dorothy L. Cheney;Peter Marler

1881
Citations
Vervet monkey alarm calls: Semantic communication in a free-ranging primate

Robert M. Seyfarth;Dorothy L. Cheney;Peter Marler

1394
Citations
Baboon Metaphysics: The Evolution of a Social Mind

Dorothy L. Cheney;Robert M. Seyfarth

1009
Citations
Strong and Consistent Social Bonds Enhance the Longevity of Female Baboons

Joan B. Silk;Jacinta C. Beehner;Thore J. Bergman;Catherine Crockford

869
Citations
A model of social grooming among adult female monkeys

Robert M. Seyfarth

830
Citations
Grooming, alliances and reciprocal altruism in vervet monkeys

Robert M. Seyfarth;Dorothy L. Cheney

823
Citations
The benefits of social capital: close social bonds among female baboons enhance offspring survival

Joan B. Silk;Jacinta C. Beehner;Thore J. Bergman;Catherine Crockford

774
Citations
Signalers and Receivers in Animal Communication

Robert M. Seyfarth;Dorothy L. Cheney

724
Citations
Hierarchical Classification by Rank and Kinship in Baboons

Thore J. Bergman;Jacinta C. Beehner;Dorothy L. Cheney;Robert M. Seyfarth

622
Citations
Vocal recognition in free-ranging vervet monkeys

D.L. Cheney;R.M. Seyfarth

609
Citations
The Evolutionary Origins of Friendship

Robert M. Seyfarth;Dorothy L. Cheney

568
Citations
Social relationships and social cognition in nonhuman primates.

Dorothy Cheney;Robert Seyfarth;Barbara Smuts

563
Citations
Vocal development in vervet monkeys

Robert M. Seyfarth;Dorothy L. Cheney

540
Citations
Animal social complexity : intelligence, culture, and individualized societies

F. B. M. de Waal;Peter L. Tyack

485
Citations
Diana monkey long-distance calls : messages for conspecifics and predators

Klaus Zuberbühler;Ronald Noë;Robert M Seyfarth

473
Citations
Assessment of meaning and the detection of unreliable signals by vervet monkeys

Dorothy L. Cheney;Robert M. Seyfarth

458
Citations
The adaptive value of 'friendships' to female baboons: experimental and observational evidence

Ryne A Palombit;Robert M Seyfarth;Dorothy L Cheney

456
Citations
Social relationships among adult female baboons

Robert M. Seyfarth

438
Citations
The distribution of grooming and related behaviours among adult female vervet monkeys

Robert M. Seyfarth

424
Citations

Frequent Co-Authors

Dorothy L. Cheney University of Pennsylvania

Roman M. Wittig Max Planck Society

Michael J. Owren Georgia State University

Jeffrey Rogers Baylor College of Medicine

Joël Fagot Aix-Marseille University

Louise Barrett University of Lethbridge

James A. Serpell University of Pennsylvania

Richard W. Wrangham Harvard University

Peter Marler University of California, Davis

William A. Searcy University of Miami

External Links

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