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Zsófia Virányi 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 Zsófia Virányi sits on this spectrum.

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31 publications 705+

This scientist: 143 publications — 45th percentile

45% of scientists in this discipline score the same or lower.

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

Zsófia Virányi 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 Zsófia Virányi sits on this spectrum.

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30 D-Index 144+

This scientist: 43 D-Index — 38th percentile

38% of scientists in this discipline score the same or lower.

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

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

  • The evolution of self-control

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

  • The absence of reward induces inequity aversion in dogs.

    Friederike Range;Lisa Horn;Zsófia Viranyi;Ludwig Huber

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

    József Topál;Márta Gácsi;Ádám Miklósi;Zsófia Virányi

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

    Zsófia Virányi;Márta Gácsi;Enikő Kubinyi;József Topál

  • Dogs respond appropriately to cues of humans’ attentional focus

    Zsófia Virányi;József Topál;Márta Gácsi;Ádám Miklósi

  • Selective Imitation in Domestic Dogs

    Friederike Range;Zsófia Viranyi;Zsófia Viranyi;Ludwig Huber

  • 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

  • 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

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

    József Topál;Ádám Miklósi;Márta Gácsi;Antal Dóka

  • 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

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

    Ágnes Erdőhegyi;József Topál;Zsófia Virányi;Ádám Miklósi

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

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

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

    Friederike Range;Zsófia Virányi

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

    Sarah Marshall-Pescini;Zsófia Virányi;Friederike Range

  • Development of Gaze Following Abilities in Wolves (Canis Lupus)

    Friederike Range;Zsófia Virányi

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

    Borbála Turcsán;Friederike Range;Zsófia Virányi;Ádám Miklósi

  • Cognitive Aging in Dogs.

    Durga Chapagain;Friederike Range;Ludwig Huber;Zsófia Virányi

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

    Zsófia Virányi;József Topál;Ádám Miklósi;Vilmos Csányi

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

    Ludwig Huber;Anaïs Racca;Billy Scaf;Zsófia Virányi

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

    Tamás Faragó;Péter Pongrácz;Friederike Range;Zsófia Virányi

  • Wolves are better imitators of conspecifics than dogs.

    Friederike Range;Zsófia Virányi

Frequent Co-Authors

Friederike Range
Friederike Range University of Veterinary Medicine Vienna
Ludwig Huber
Ludwig Huber University of Veterinary Medicine Vienna
Sarah Marshall-Pescini
Sarah Marshall-Pescini University of Veterinary Medicine Vienna
Ádám Miklósi
Ádám Miklósi Eötvös Loránd University
József Topál
József Topál Hungarian Academy of Sciences
Kurt Kotrschal
Kurt Kotrschal University of Vienna
Márta Gácsi
Márta Gácsi Eötvös Loránd University
Filippo Aureli
Filippo Aureli Liverpool John Moores University
Elisabetta Visalberghi
Elisabetta Visalberghi National Research Council (CNR)
Erich Möstl
Erich Möstl University of Veterinary Medicine Vienna

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