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BMC Zoology
H-index 9

BMC Zoology

Ranking & Metrics

Discipline name Position Best Scientists Publications D-Index
Animal Science and Veterinary 234 7 8 4
Ecology and Evolution 496 23 20 7

Additional Metrics

Number of Best Scientists*: 47
Documents by Best Scientists*: 35
Top 100 Ranked Scientists*: 1
SCIMAGO H-index: 19
SCIMAGO SJR: 0.513
Impact Factor: 1.7

Top Publications

  • What wild dogs want: Habitat selection differs across life stages and orders of selection in a wide-ranging carnivore

    Helen M. K. O’Neill;Helen M. K. O’Neill;Sarah M. Durant;Rosie Woodroffe

    (2020)
    27 Citations
  • White-nose syndrome-related changes to Mid-Atlantic bat communities across an urban-to-rural gradient

    Sabrina Deeley;Joshua B. Johnson;W. Mark Ford;J. Edward Gates

    (2021)
    12 Citations
  • The dark-ventral-patch of male red deer, a sexual signal that conveys the degree of involvement in rutting behavior

    Eva de la Peña;Javier Pérez-González;Javier Pérez-González;José Martín;Giovanni Vedel

    (2021)
    10 Citations
  • Taxonomic reassessment of Rhodnius zeledoni Jurberg, Rocha & Galvão: a morphological and morphometric analysis comparing its taxonomic relationship with Rhodnius domesticus Neiva & Pinto

    (2024)
    9 Citations
  • Phylogeography of the parasitic mite Laelaps agilis in Western Palearctic shows lineages lacking host specificity but possessing different demographic histories

    (2022)
    8 Citations
  • Indication of lethal interactions between a solitary bottlenose dolphin (Tursiops truncatus) and harbor porpoises (Phocoena phocoena) in the German Baltic Sea

    Stephanie Gross;Philip Claus;Peter Wohlsein;Tina Kesselring

    (2020)
    8 Citations
  • Personality matters: exploring the relationship between personality and stress physiology in captive African lions

    (2021)
    8 Citations
  • Chemical and behavioural strategies along the spectrum of host specificity in ant-associated silverfish

    (2022)
    8 Citations

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