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72
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Andrew Cockburn 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 Andrew Cockburn sits on this spectrum.

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37 publications 531+

This scientist: 199 publications — 73rd percentile

73% of scientists in this discipline score the same or lower.

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

Andrew Cockburn 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 Andrew Cockburn sits on this spectrum.

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30 D-Index 121+

This scientist: 72 D-Index — 86th percentile

86% of scientists in this discipline score the same or lower.

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Overview

Andrew Cockburn is affiliated with the Australian National University in Australia. The research primarily focuses on fields within Agricultural and Biological Sciences and Environmental Science. Their publications extensively cover the subfields of Ecology, Evolution, Behavior and Systematics, Ecology, Genetics, Ecological Modeling, and Global and Planetary Change.

The main topics explored in their work include Animal Behavior and Reproduction, Plant and animal studies, Avian ecology and behavior, Wildlife Ecology and Conservation, Species Distribution and Climate Change, Genetic diversity and population structure, and Evolution and Genetic Dynamics.

Recent papers authored or co-authored by Andrew Cockburn include the following:

  • Genetic variance in fitness indicates rapid contemporary adaptive evolution in wild animals (2022), published in Science
  • Fluctuating optimum and temporally variable selection on breeding date in birds and mammals (2020), published in Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences
  • Aging and Senescence across Reproductive Traits and Survival in Superb Fairy-Wrens (Malurus cyaneus) (2020), published in The American Naturalist
  • Winter mortality of a passerine bird increases following hotter summers and during winters with higher maximum temperatures (2023), published in Science Advances
  • When does early-life telomere length predict survival? A case study and meta-analysis (2023), published in Molecular Ecology

Frequent co-authors include:

  • Loeske E. B. Kruuk
  • Helen L. Osmond
  • Timothée Bonnet
  • Lyanne Brouwer
  • Martijn van de Pol

Common publication venues are:

  • Molecular Ecology
  • Science
  • Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences
  • The American Naturalist
  • Science Advances

Best Publications

  • EVOLUTION OF HELPING BEHAVIOR IN COOPERATIVELY BREEDING BIRDS

    Andrew Cockburn

  • Prevalence of different modes of parental care in birds

    Andrew Cockburn

  • Experimentally induced innovations lead to persistent culture via conformity in wild birds

    Lucy M. Aplin;Damien R. Farine;Julie Morand-Ferron;Andrew Cockburn

  • Inclusive fitness theory and eusociality

    Patrick Abbot;Jun Abe;John Alcock;Samuel Alizon

  • Evolutionary Ecology of Marsupials

    Anthony K. Lee;Andrew Cockburn

  • Helpers liberate female fairy-wrens from constraints on extra-pair mate choice

    Raoul A. Mulder;Peter O. Dunn;Andrew Cockburn;Katherine A. Lazenby-Cohen

  • Individual personalities predict social behaviour in wild networks of great tits (Parus major)

    Lucy M. Aplin;Lucy M. Aplin;Damien R. Farine;Julie Morand-Ferron;Julie Morand-Ferron;Ella F. Cole

  • Sex ratios in birds and mammals: can the hypotheses be disentangled?

    Andrew Cockburn;Sarah Legge;Michael C. Double

  • Pre-dawn infidelity: females control extra-pair mating in superb fairy-wrens.

    Michael Double;Andrew Cockburn

  • Life-history Change in Disease-Ravaged Tasmanian Devil Populations

    Menna E. Jones;Andrew Cockburn;Rodrigo Hamede;Clare Hawkins

  • Inbreeding avoidance and male-biased natal dispersal in Antechinus spp. (Marsupialia: Dasyuridae)

    Andrew Cockburn;Michelle P. Scott;David J. Scotts

  • DISPERSAL, PHILOPATRY, AND INFIDELITY: DISSECTING LOCAL GENETIC STRUCTURE IN SUPERB FAIRY-WRENS (MALURUS CYANEUS)

    Michael Double;Rodney Peakall;Nadeena Beck;Andrew Cockburn

  • Reduced Egg Investment Can Conceal Helper Effects in Cooperatively Breeding Birds

    A.F. Russell;Naomi Langmore;Andrew Cockburn;Lee B Astheimer

  • Genetic variance in fitness indicates rapid contemporary adaptive evolution in wild animals

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  • Post-mating sexual selection increases lifetime fitness of polyandrous females in the wild

    Diana O. Fisher;Michael C. Double;Simon P. Blomberg;Michael D. Jennions

  • Sequence analysis of the ribosomal DNA internal transcribed spacer 2 from populations of Anopheles nuneztovari (Diptera: Culicidae).

    G N Fritz;J Conn;A Cockburn;J Seawright

  • An Introduction to Evolutionary Ecology

    Andrew Cockburn

  • Fairy-wren helpers often care for young to which they are unrelated

    Peter O. Dunn;Andrew Cockburn;Raoul A. Mulder

  • Finding the fathers in the least faithful bird: a microsatellite-based genotyping system for the superb fairy-wren Malurus cyaneus

    M. C. Double;D. Dawson;T. Burke;A. Cockburn

  • Swingin' in the rain: condition dependence and sexual selection in a capricious world

    Andrew Cockburn;Helen L Osmond;Michael C Double

  • Extrapair mate choice and honest signaling in cooperatively breeding superb fairy-wrens

    Peter O. Dunn;Andrew Cockburn

  • Subordinate superb fairy-wrens (Malurus cyaneus) parasitize the reproductive success of attractive dominant males

    Michael C. Double;Andrew Cockburn

Frequent Co-Authors

Michael C. Double
Michael C. Double Australian National University
Loeske E. B. Kruuk
Loeske E. B. Kruuk University of Edinburgh
Robert Heinsohn
Robert Heinsohn Australian National University
Naomi E. Langmore
Naomi E. Langmore Australian National University
Sarah Legge
Sarah Legge Australian National University
Anne Peters
Anne Peters Monash University
Peter O. Dunn
Peter O. Dunn University of Wisconsin–Milwaukee
Niels Jeroen Dingemanse
Niels Jeroen Dingemanse Ludwig-Maximilians-Universität München
Steeve D. Côté
Steeve D. Côté Université Laval
Michelle L. Hall
Michelle L. Hall University of Melbourne

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