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D-Index
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17740
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3943
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1379

Alison M. Bell 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 Alison M. Bell sits on this spectrum.

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37 publications 531+

This scientist: 124 publications — 35th percentile

35% of scientists in this discipline score the same or lower.

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

Alison M. Bell 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 Alison M. Bell sits on this spectrum.

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This scientist: 49 D-Index — 53rd percentile

53% of scientists in this discipline score the same or lower.

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Overview

Alison M. Bell is affiliated with the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign in the United States. Their research spans multiple fields, primarily within Agricultural and Biological Sciences, Psychology, and Biochemistry, Genetics, and Molecular Biology. These areas encompass 35, 27, and 27 publications respectively.

Their subfields of study include Ecology, Evolution, Behavior and Systematics with 33 publications, Genetics with 15, Ecology with 14, Social Psychology with 13, and Experimental and Cognitive Psychology with 11. This range reflects a focus on both ecological and psychological aspects of behavior and genetics.

Key research topics associated with Alison M. Bell involve Animal Behavior and Reproduction, Neuroendocrine Regulation and Behavior, Evolutionary Psychology and Human Behavior, Physiological and Biochemical Adaptations, Fish Ecology and Management Studies, Plant and Animal Studies, and Evolutionary Game Theory and Cooperation. The publications count in these topics are 54, 22, 22, 14, 10, 10, and 8 respectively.

Selected recent papers illustrate the scientist's contributions across these topics and fields:

  • "Sex-specific plasticity across generations I: Maternal and paternal effects on sons and daughters" (2020) published in Journal of Animal Ecology
  • "Back to the basics? Transcriptomics offers integrative insights into the role of space, time and the environment for gene expression and behaviour" (2021) published in Biology Letters
  • "Sex-specific plasticity across generations II: Grandpaternal effects are lineage specific and sex specific" (2020) published in Journal of Animal Ecology
  • "Predictors of individual variation in reversal learning performance in three-spined sticklebacks" (2020) published in Animal Cognition
  • "Predator-induced transgenerational plasticity in animals: a meta-analysis" (2022) published in Oecologia

Frequent collaborators in their research include Meghan F. Maciejewski, Jennifer K. Hellmann, Colby Behrens, Miles K. Bensky, and Judy A. Stamps.

Alison M. Bell has published extensively in several venues, notably including bioRxiv (Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory) with 9 publications, Proceedings of the Royal Society B Biological Sciences with 4, Journal of Animal Ecology and Biology Letters each with 2, and Oecologia with 2 publications.

Best Publications

  • Behavioral syndromes: an ecological and evolutionary overview.

    Andrew Sih;Alison Marie Bell;J. Chadwick Johnson

  • Behavioral syndromes: An integrative overview

    Andrew Sih;Alison M. Bell;Alison M. Bell;J. Chadwick Johnson;J. Chadwick Johnson;Robert E. Ziemba

  • The repeatability of behaviour: a meta-analysis.

    Alison M. Bell;Shala J. Hankison;Kate L. Laskowski

  • Exposure to predation generates personality in threespined sticklebacks (Gasterosteus aculeatus).

    Alison Marie Bell;Andrew Sih

  • Behavioural differences between individuals and two populations of stickleback (Gasterosteus aculeatus).

    Alison Marie Bell

  • Future directions in behavioural syndromes research

    Alison Marie Bell

  • Insights for Behavioral Ecology from Behavioral Syndromes

    Andrew Sih;Alison M. Bell

  • An evolutionary ecology of individual differences

    Sasha R. X. Dall;Alison M. Bell;Daniel I. Bolnick;Francis L. W. Ratnieks

  • Development of behavioural differences between individuals and populations of sticklebacks, Gasterosteus aculeatus

    Alison M. Bell;Judy A. Stamps

  • The role of animal behaviour in the study of endocrine-disrupting chemicals

    Ethan D. Clotfelter;Alison M. Bell;Kate R. Levering

  • Two stressors are far deadlier than one

    Andrew Sih;Alison Marie Bell;Jacob L. Kerby

  • Female sticklebacks transfer information via eggs: effects of maternal experience with predators on offspring

    Eric R. Giesing;Cory D. Suski;Richard E. Warner;Alison M. Bell

  • An Integrative Framework for Understanding the Mechanisms and Multigenerational Consequences of Transgenerational Plasticity

    Alison M. Bell;Jennifer K. Hellmann

  • Effects of an endocrine disrupter on courtship and aggressive behaviour of male three-spined stickleback,Gasterosteus aculeatus

    Alison M. Bell

  • Neuromolecular responses to social challenge: Common mechanisms across mouse, stickleback fish, and honey bee

    Clare C. Rittschof;Syed Abbas Bukhari;Laura G. Sloofman;Joseph M. Troy

  • Transgenerational Plasticity in Human-Altered Environments.

    Sarah C. Donelan;Jennifer K. Hellmann;Alison M. Bell;Barney Luttbeg

  • Evolutionary biology: animal personalities.

    Alison M. Bell

  • Randomized or fixed order for studies of behavioral syndromes

    Alison Marie Bell

  • Why does the magnitude of genotype-by-environment interaction vary?

    Julia B. Saltz;Alison Marie Bell;Jonathan Flint;Richard Gomulkiewicz

  • Variable neuroendocrine responses to ecologically-relevant challenges in sticklebacks

    Alison M. Bell;Tobias Backström;Felicity A. Huntingford;Tom G. Pottinger

  • What can whole genome expression data tell us about the ecology and evolution of personality

    Alison M. Bell;Nadia Aubin-Horth

Frequent Co-Authors

Andrew Sih
Andrew Sih University of California, Davis
Saurabh Sinha
Saurabh Sinha University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
Lisa Stubbs
Lisa Stubbs University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
Gene E. Robinson
Gene E. Robinson University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
Felicity A. Huntingford
Felicity A. Huntingford University of Glasgow
Judy A. Stamps
Judy A. Stamps University of California, Davis
Colin E. Adams
Colin E. Adams University of Glasgow
Michael J. Sheriff
Michael J. Sheriff University of Massachusetts Dartmouth
Lynne D. Houck
Lynne D. Houck Oregon State University
Ethan D. Clotfelter
Ethan D. Clotfelter Amherst College

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