2026 Zsófia Virányi: Psychology Researcher – H-Index, Publications & Awards

Discipline name	D-Index	World Ranking	Current World Ranking	National Ranking	Current National Ranking	Publications	Citations
Psychology	43	7225	6738	35	34	143	8359

Overview

Zsófia Virányi is affiliated with the University of Veterinary Medicine Vienna in Austria. Their research spans several fields, primarily focusing on Biochemistry, Genetics and Molecular Biology, and Psychology.

The scientist has contributed extensively to subfields including Genetics, Social Psychology, Small Animals, Developmental and Educational Psychology, and Developmental Biology. Their work addresses key topics such as Human-Animal Interaction Studies, Animal Behavior and Welfare Studies, Neuroendocrine regulation and behavior, Primate Behavior and Ecology, Child and Animal Learning Development, Animal Vocal Communication and Behavior, and Evolutionary Psychology and Human Behavior.

Zsófia Virányi's recent research papers include:

Behavioural and cognitive changes in aged pet dogs: No effects of an enriched diet and lifelong training (2020, PLoS ONE)
Wolves, dogs and humans in regular contact can mutually impact each other's skin microbiota (2021, Scientific Reports)
Dogs wait longer for better rewards than wolves in a delay of gratification task: but why? (2020, Animal Cognition)
Individual and group level personality change across the lifespan in dogs (2020, Scientific Reports)
Relationship quality affects social stress buffering in dogs and wolves (2021, Animal Behaviour)

The frequent co-authors collaborating with Zsófia Virányi include:

Friederike Range
Ludwig Huber
Giulia Cimarelli
Soon Young Park
Diederick C. Niehorster

Publications have appeared repeatedly in key venues such as:

PLoS ONE
Scientific Reports
Animal Cognition
Animal Behaviour
Animals

Best Publications

A Simple Reason for a Big Difference: Wolves Do Not Look Back at Humans, but Dogs Do.

Ádám Miklósi;Enikö Kubinyi;József Topál;Márta Gácsi

947
Citations
The evolution of self-control

Evan L. MacLean;Brian Hare;Charles L. Nunn;Elsa Addessi

856
Citations
The absence of reward induces inequity aversion in dogs.

Friederike Range;Lisa Horn;Zsófia Viranyi;Ludwig Huber

417
Citations
Attachment to humans: a comparative study on hand-reared wolves and differently socialized dog puppies

József Topál;Márta Gácsi;Ádám Miklósi;Zsófia Virányi

373
Citations
Comprehension of human pointing gestures in young human-reared wolves (Canis lupus) and dogs (Canis familiaris)

Zsófia Virányi;Márta Gácsi;Enikő Kubinyi;József Topál

356
Citations
Dogs respond appropriately to cues of humans’ attentional focus

Zsófia Virányi;József Topál;Márta Gácsi;Ádám Miklósi

328
Citations
Selective Imitation in Domestic Dogs

Friederike Range;Zsófia Viranyi;Zsófia Viranyi;Ludwig Huber

274
Citations
Species-specific differences and similarities in the behavior of hand-raised dog and wolf pups in social situations with humans

Márta Gácsi;Borbála Gyori;Adám Miklósi;Zsófia Virányi

263
Citations
Explaining dog wolf differences in utilizing human pointing gestures: selection for synergistic shifts in the development of some social skills.

Márta Gácsi;Borbála Gyoöri;Zsófia Virányi;Zsófia Virányi;Enikö Kubinyi

244
Citations
Chapter 3 The Dog as a Model for Understanding Human Social Behavior

József Topál;Ádám Miklósi;Márta Gácsi;Antal Dóka

234
Citations
The evolution of imitation: what do the capacities of non-human animals tell us about the mechanisms of imitation?

Ludwig Huber;Friederike Range;Bernhard Voelkl;Andrea Szucsich

174
Citations
Dog-logic: inferential reasoning in a two-way choice task and its restricted use

Ágnes Erdőhegyi;József Topál;Zsófia Virányi;Ádám Miklósi

171
Citations
Importance of a species’ socioecology: Wolves outperform dogs in a conspecific cooperation task

Sarah Marshall-Pescini;Jonas F. L. Schwarz;Inga Kostelnik;Zsófia Virányi

159
Citations
Tracking the evolutionary origins of dog-human cooperation: the "Canine Cooperation Hypothesis"

Friederike Range;Zsófia Virányi

150
Citations
The Effect of Domestication on Inhibitory Control: Wolves and Dogs Compared

Sarah Marshall-Pescini;Zsófia Virányi;Friederike Range

144
Citations
Development of Gaze Following Abilities in Wolves (Canis Lupus)

Friederike Range;Zsófia Virányi

128
Citations
Birds of a feather flock together? Perceived personality matching in owner-dog dyads

Borbála Turcsán;Friederike Range;Zsófia Virányi;Ádám Miklósi

126
Citations
Cognitive Aging in Dogs.

Durga Chapagain;Friederike Range;Ludwig Huber;Zsófia Virányi

121
Citations
A nonverbal test of knowledge attribution: A comparative study on dogs and children

Zsófia Virányi;József Topál;Ádám Miklósi;Vilmos Csányi

120
Citations
Discrimination of familiar human faces in dogs (Canis familiaris).

Ludwig Huber;Anaïs Racca;Billy Scaf;Zsófia Virányi

118
Citations
‘The bone is mine’: affective and referential aspects of dog growls

Tamás Faragó;Péter Pongrácz;Friederike Range;Zsófia Virányi

115
Citations
Wolves are better imitators of conspecifics than dogs.

Friederike Range;Zsófia Virányi

103
Citations

Frequent Co-Authors

Friederike Range University of Veterinary Medicine Vienna

Ludwig Huber University of Veterinary Medicine Vienna

Ádám Miklósi Eötvös Loránd University

József Topál Hungarian Academy of Sciences

Daniel S. Mills University of Lincoln

Claus Lamm University of Vienna

Brian Hare Duke University

Josep Call University of St Andrews

Elisabetta Visalberghi National Research Council (CNR)

Erich Möstl University of Veterinary Medicine Vienna

External Links

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