Altruism in science: A sociobiological model of co-operative behaviour among scientists

The genetical evolution of social behaviour. I

1964 • 15,639 citations

The Evolution of Reciprocal Altruism

1971 • 10,660 citations

Animal Species and Evolution

1963 • 9,988 citations

Parent-Offspring Conflict

1974 • 4,102 citations

Adaptation and Natural Selection

2008 • 4,032 citations

Objective Knowledge, an Evolutionary Approach.

1973 • 3,921 citations

The Evolution of Social Behavior

1974 • 3,803 citations

Systematics and the Origin of Species

2005 • 3,593 citations

Sex and evolution.

1975 • 2,162 citations

The Units of Selection

1970 • 1,857 citations

Progress and its problems towards a theory of scientific growth

1977 • 906 citations

The Material Basis of Evolution

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The Economy of Nature and the Evolution of Sex

1976 • 699 citations

Aggressiveness, Territoriality, and Sexual Behavior in Field Crickets (Orthoptera: Gryllidae)

1961 • 602 citations

Productivity Differences Among Scientists: Evidence for Accumulative Advantage

1974 • 550 citations

Norms and Counter-Norms in a Select Group of the Apollo Moon Scientists: A Case Study of the Ambivalence of Scientists

1974 • 490 citations

Some mathematical questions in biology

1970 • 408 citations

The Ortega Hypothesis

1972 • 387 citations

Competition in Science

1974 • 259 citations

Coherent Social Groups in Scientific Change

1972 • 185 citations

Central Subjects and Historical Narratives

1975 • 173 citations

Toward a Theory of Medical Fallibility

1976 • 173 citations

The politics of pure science

1967 • 158 citations

On the Genetics of Altruism and the Counter‐Hedonic Components in Human Culture¹

1972 • 133 citations

Teaching Effectiveness and Government Awards

1968 • 75 citations

The hope of progress

1972 • 61 citations

The Drosophila group: The transition from the mendelian unit to the individual gene

1974 • 20 citations

Advantages of Surface Mining

1974 • 14 citations