2026 Tetsuro Matsuzawa: Psychology Researcher – H-Index, Publications & Awards

Discipline name	D-Index	World Ranking	Current World Ranking	National Ranking	Current National Ranking	Publications	Citations
Psychology	82	1342	1194	806	698	367	21768

Tetsuro Matsuzawa publication distribution in Psychology in 2026

The chart shows the distribution of publications by all Research.com ranked scientists in the field of Psychology in 2026. The highlighted bar marks where Tetsuro Matsuzawa sits on this spectrum.

31 publications 705+

This scientist: 367 publications — 92nd percentile

92% of scientists in this discipline score the same or lower.

The last bar groups every scientist with 705 publications or more.

Tetsuro Matsuzawa D-index placement in Psychology in 2026

The chart shows the D-index (discipline H-index) distribution of Psychology scientists ranked by Research.com in 2026. The highlighted bar marks where Tetsuro Matsuzawa sits on this spectrum.

30 D-Index 144+

This scientist: 82 D-Index — 89th percentile

89% of scientists in this discipline score the same or lower.

The last bar groups every scientist with 144 D-Index or more.

Research.com Recognitions

2023 - Research.com Psychology in Japan Leader Award
2022 - Research.com Psychology in Japan Leader Award

Overview

Tetsuro Matsuzawa is affiliated with the California Institute of Technology in the United States. Their research spans multiple fields, primarily within psychology and biochemistry, genetics, and molecular biology.

The scientist has contributed extensively to topics including:

Primate Behavior and Ecology
Animal Vocal Communication and Behavior
Human-Animal Interaction Studies
Child and Animal Learning Development
Animal Behavior and Reproduction
Wildlife Ecology and Conservation
Evolutionary Psychology and Human Behavior

The main fields of study covered by their work are:

Psychology
Biochemistry, Genetics and Molecular Biology

Subfields within these areas include:

Social Psychology
Developmental Biology
Genetics
Ecology, Evolution, Behavior and Systematics
Developmental and Educational Psychology

Their publication record features research in a variety of scientific journals with frequent appearances in:

Primates
bioRxiv (Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory)
Scientific Reports
Animals
American Journal of Primatology

Some of their recent papers include:

Automated audiovisual behavior recognition in wild primates, 2021, Science Advances
Joint Attention in Human and Chimpanzee Infants in Varied Socio-Ecological Contexts, 2021, Monographs of the Society for Research in Child Development
DeepWild: Application of the pose estimation tool DeepLabCut for behaviour tracking in wild chimpanzees and bonobos, 2023, Journal of Animal Ecology
Field experiments find no evidence that chimpanzee nut cracking can be independently innovated, 2022, Nature Human Behaviour
Exploring greetings and leave-takings: communication during arrivals and departures by chimpanzees of the Bossou community, Guinea, 2021, Primates

Matsuzawa has collaborated frequently with several co-authors, including:

Susana Carvalho
Misato Hayashi
Dora Biro
Catherine Hobaiter
Cédric Sueur

They have also contributed to book publications, notably:

Perceptions of Human-Animal Relationships and their Impacts on Animal Ethics, Law and Research, published by Frontiers Media in 2021

Best Publications

Use of numbers by a chimpanzee.

Tetsuro Matsuzawa

720
Citations
Cultural innovation and transmission of tool use in wild chimpanzees: evidence from field experiments

Dora Biro;Dora Biro;Noriko Inoue-Nakamura;Rikako Tonooka;Gen Yamakoshi

642
Citations
Development of stone tool use by wild chimpanzees (Pan troglodytes).

Noriko Inoue-Nakamura;Tetsuro Matsuzawa

595
Citations
Lethal aggression in Pan is better explained by adaptive strategies than human impacts

Micahel L. Wilson;Christophe Boesch;Barbara Fruth;Takeshi Furuichi

563
Citations
Primate Origins of Human Cognition and Behavior

Tetsuro Matsuzawa

510
Citations
Working memory of numerals in chimpanzees

Sana Inoue;Tetsuro Matsuzawa

506
Citations
Animal social complexity : intelligence, culture, and individualized societies

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

485
Citations
Field experiments on use of stone tools by chimpanzees in the wild.

Tetsuro Matsuzawa

465
Citations
Cognitive Development in Chimpanzees

Tetsuro Matsuzawa

393
Citations
Emergence of culture in wild chimpanzees: Education by master-apprenticeship.

Tetsuro Matsuzawa;Dora Biro;Tatyana Humle;Noriko Inoue-Nakamura

350
Citations
Contagious yawning in chimpanzees.

James R. Anderson;Masako MyowaYamakoshi;Tetsuro Matsuzawa

332
Citations
Ant-dipping among the chimpanzees of Bossou, Guinea, and some comparisons with other sites

Tatyana Humle;Tetsuro Matsuzawa

312
Citations
Aging and Fertility Patterns in Wild Chimpanzees Provide Insights into the Evolution of Menopause

Melissa Emery Thompson;James H. Jones;Anne E. Pusey;Stella Brewer-Marsden

309
Citations
Imitation in neonatal chimpanzees (Pan troglodytes)

Masako Myowa-Yamakoshi;Masaki Tomonaga;Masayuki Tanaka;Tetsuro Matsuzawa

284
Citations
Numerical memory span in a chimpanzee.

Nobuyuki Kawai;Tetsuro Matsuzawa

272
Citations
Apes in the Anthropocene: flexibility and survival

Kimberley J. Hockings;Matthew R. McLennan;Susana Carvalho;Susana Carvalho;Marc Ancrenaz

247
Citations
NUMERICAL ORDERING IN A CHIMPANZEE (PAN TROGLODYTES) : PLANNING, EXECUTING, AND MONITORING

Dora Biro;Tetsuro Matsuzawa

239
Citations
Development of social cognition in infant chimpanzees (Pan troglodytes): face recognition, smiling, gaze, and the lack of triadic interactions

Masaki Tomonaga;Masayuki Tanaka;Tetsuro Matsuzawa;Masako Myowa-Yamakoshi

235
Citations
Chaînes opératoires and resource-exploitation strategies in chimpanzee (Pan troglodytes) nut cracking

Susana Carvalho;Eugénia Cunha;Cláudia Sousa;Tetsuro Matsuzawa

233
Citations
Chimpanzee face recognition from videos in the wild using deep learning

Daniel Schofield;Arsha Nagrani;Andrew Zisserman;Misato Hayashi

221
Citations
Primate archaeology

Unknown

221
Citations
Spontaneous synchronized tapping to an auditory rhythm in a chimpanzee

Yuko Hattori;Masaki Tomonaga;Tetsuro Matsuzawa

212
Citations
The Ai project: historical and ecological contexts

Tetsuro Matsuzawa

206
Citations
Use of wild and cultivated foods by chimpanzees at Bossou, Republic of Guinea: feeding dynamics in a human-influenced environment.

Kimberley J. Hockings;Kimberley J. Hockings;James R. Anderson;Tetsuro Matsuzawa

204
Citations
Visuoauditory mappings between high luminance and high pitch are shared by chimpanzees (Pan troglodytes) and humans

Vera U. Ludwig;Ikuma Adachi;Tetsuro Matsuzawa

201
Citations
Assessing chimpanzee personality and subjective well-being in Japan.

Alexander Weiss;Miho Inoue-Murayama;Kyung-Won Hong;Eiji Inoue

192
Citations
Factors influencing imitation of manipulatory actions in chimpanzees (Pan troglodytes).

Masako Myowa-Yamakoshi;Tetsuro Matsuzawa

184
Citations

Frequent Co-Authors

Masaki Tomonaga University of Human Environments

Dora Biro University of Rochester

Alexander Weiss University of Edinburgh

William C. McGrew University of St Andrews

James R. Anderson Kyoto University

Kazuo Fujita Kyoto University

William D. Hopkins University of Wisconsin–Madison

Kim A. Bard University of Portsmouth

Cédric Sueur University of Strasbourg

Christophe Boesch Max Planck Institute for Evolutionary Anthropology

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