2026 Virpi Lummaa: Ecology and Evolution Researcher – H-Index, Publications & Awards

Discipline name	D-Index	World Ranking	Current World Ranking	National Ranking	Current National Ranking	Publications	Citations
Ecology and Evolution	47	4452	4295	66	61	173	7985

Virpi Lummaa publication distribution in Ecology and Evolution in 2026

The chart shows the distribution of publications by all Research.com ranked scientists in the field of Ecology and Evolution in 2026. The highlighted bar marks where Virpi Lummaa sits on this spectrum.

37 publications 531+

This scientist: 173 publications — 63rd percentile

63% of scientists in this discipline score the same or lower.

The last bar groups every scientist with 531 publications or more.

Virpi Lummaa D-index placement in Ecology and Evolution in 2026

The chart shows the D-index (discipline H-index) distribution of Ecology and Evolution scientists ranked by Research.com in 2026. The highlighted bar marks where Virpi Lummaa sits on this spectrum.

30 D-Index 121+

This scientist: 47 D-Index — 49th percentile

49% of scientists in this discipline score the same or lower.

The last bar groups every scientist with 121 D-Index or more.

Overview

Virpi Lummaa is affiliated with the University of Turku in Finland and specializes in research within the social sciences. Their work spans multiple subfields including genetics, small animals, gender studies, ecology, and experimental and cognitive psychology.

Their research addresses a range of topics such as animal behavior and welfare studies, demographic trends and gender preferences, wildlife ecology and conservation, evolutionary psychology and human behavior, human-animal interaction studies, primate behavior and ecology, and family dynamics and relationships.

Frequent collaborators in Lummaa's work include Mirkka Lahdenperä, Win Htut, Jenni E. Pettay, Michael Briga, and U Kyaw Nyein.

Lummaa has published extensively with repeated contributions to several scientific venues. These include bioRxiv (Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory), Scientific Reports, Proceedings of the Royal Society B Biological Sciences, Conservation Physiology, and Nature Communications.

Among recent papers authored or co-authored by Lummaa are:

Offspring fertility and grandchild survival enhanced by maternal grandmothers in a pre-industrial human society (2021, Scientific Reports)
Intention to have a second child, family support and actual fertility behavior in current China: An evolutionary perspective (2021, American Journal of Human Biology)
Reproductive inequality in humans and other mammals (2023, Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences)
Taming age mortality in semi-captive Asian elephants (2020, Scientific Reports)
The Long-Term Success of Mandatory Vaccination Laws After Implementing the First Vaccination Campaign in 19th Century Rural Finland (2022, American Journal of Epidemiology)

Best Publications

Fitness benefits of prolonged post-reproductive lifespan in women

Mirkka Lahdenperä;Virpi Lummaa;Virpi Lummaa;Samuli Helle;Marc Tremblay

740
Citations
Early development, survival and reproduction in humans

Virpi Lummaa;Tim Clutton-Brock

370
Citations
Evolution of sex differences in lifespan and aging: causes and constraints.

Alexei A. Maklakov;Virpi Lummaa

259
Citations
Heritability and genetic constraints of life-history trait evolution in preindustrial humans

Jenni E. Pettay;Loeske E. B. Kruuk;Jukka Jokela;Virpi Lummaa

195
Citations
Does the contraceptive pill alter mate choice in humans

Alexandra Alvergne;Virpi Lummaa

193
Citations
Influence of early-life nutrition on mortality and reproductive success during a subsequent famine in a preindustrial population

Adam D. Hayward;Ian J. Rickard;Ian J. Rickard;Virpi Lummaa

190
Citations
Reproductive behavior and personality traits of the Five Factor Model

Markus Jokela;Alexandra Alvergne;Thomas V. Pollet;Virpi Lummaa

181
Citations
Why Cry? Adaptive Significance of Intensive Crying in Human Infants

Virpi Lummaa;Timo Vuorisalo;Ronald G. Barr;Liisa Lehtonen

170
Citations
Sons reduced maternal longevity in preindustrial humans.

Samuli Helle;Virpi Lummaa;Jukka Jokela

168
Citations
Personality and reproductive success in a high-fertility human population.

Alexandra Alvergne;Markus Jokela;Virpi Lummaa

167
Citations
The predictive adaptive response and metabolic syndrome: challenges for the hypothesis.

Ian J. Rickard;Virpi Lummaa

162
Citations
When fecundity does not equal fitness: evidence of an offspring quantity versus quality trade-off in pre-industrial humans

Duncan O.S Gillespie;Andrew F Russell;Virpi Lummaa

156
Citations
Severe intergenerational reproductive conflict and the evolution of menopause.

Mirkka Lahdenperä;Duncan O. S. Gillespie;Virpi Lummaa;Andrew F. Russell;Andrew F. Russell

154
Citations
The transition to modernity and chronic disease: mismatch and natural selection

Stephen Corbett;Alexandre Courtiol;Virpi Lummaa;Jacob Moorad

151
Citations
Maternal effects in cooperative breeders: from hymenopterans to humans

Andrew F Russell;Virpi Lummaa

138
Citations
Natural and sexual selection in a monogamous historical human population

Alexandre Courtiol;Jenni E. Pettay;Markus Jokela;Anna Rotkirch

131
Citations
Are reproductive and somatic senescence coupled in humans? Late, but not early, reproduction correlated with longevity in historical Sami women

Samuli Helle;Virpi Lummaa;Jukka Jokela

126
Citations
Male twins reduce fitness of female co-twins in humans

Virpi Lummaa;Jenni E. Pettay;Andrew F. Russell

116
Citations
Reproductive cessation and post-reproductive lifespan in Asian elephants and pre-industrial humans

Mirkka Lahdenperä;Khyne U Mar;Virpi Lummaa

113
Citations
Nearby grandmother enhances calf survival and reproduction in Asian elephants.

Mirkka Lahdenperä;Khyne U. Mar;Virpi Lummaa

108
Citations
Natural selection on human twinning

Virpi Lummaa;Erkki Haukioja;Risto Lemmetyinen;Mirja Pikkola

100
Citations

Frequent Co-Authors

Andrew F. Russell University of Exeter

Jukka Jokela Swiss Federal Institute of Aquatic Science and Technology

Anna Rotkirch Väestöliitto

Markus Jokela University of Helsinki

Andrew M. Prentice London School of Hygiene & Tropical Medicine

Alexei A. Maklakov University of East Anglia

Erkki Haukioja University of Turku

Stephen C. Stearns Yale University

Juha S. Tapanainen University of Helsinki

Janine L. Brown Smithsonian Conservation Biology Institute

External Links

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