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Caroline Isaksson

Caroline Isaksson

D-Index & Metrics

Ecology and Evolution

D-Index
37
Citations
4226
World Ranking
6962
National Ranking
174

Caroline Isaksson 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 Caroline Isaksson sits on this spectrum.

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37 publications 531+

This scientist: 81 publications — 7th percentile

7% of scientists in this discipline score the same or lower.

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

Caroline Isaksson 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 Caroline Isaksson sits on this spectrum.

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30 D-Index 121+

This scientist: 37 D-Index — 20th percentile

20% of scientists in this discipline score the same or lower.

The last bar groups every scientist with 121 D-Index or more.

Overview

Caroline Isaksson is affiliated with Lund University in Sweden and focuses on research in environmental science and agricultural and biological sciences. Their work spans several subfields, prominently including ecology, ecology, evolution, behavior and systematics, parasitology, health, toxicology and mutagenesis, and global and planetary change.

Isaksson's research primarily covers topics related to avian ecology and behavior, animal behavior and reproduction, bird parasitology and diseases, air quality and health impacts, wildlife ecology and conservation, physiological and biochemical adaptations, as well as animal nutrition and physiology.

Frequent publication venues for their work include the Journal of Animal Ecology, The Science of The Total Environment, bioRxiv (Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory), Journal of Experimental Biology, and Functional Ecology.

They have collaborated extensively with several researchers, with frequent co-authors including Hannah Watson, Johan Kjellberg Jensen, Pablo Salmón, Petra Sumasgutner, and Martin N. Andersson.

The following papers illustrate recent contributions from Caroline Isaksson:

  • Continent-wide genomic signatures of adaptation to urbanisation in a songbird across Europe (2021), published in Nature Communications
  • Connecting the data landscape of long-term ecological studies: The SPI-Birds data hub (2020), published in Journal of Animal Ecology
  • Urbanization is associated with modifications in DNA methylation in a small passerine bird (2020), published in Evolutionary Applications
  • Interactive effects of rising temperatures and urbanisation on birds across different climate zones: A mechanistic perspective (2023), published in Global Change Biology
  • Exposure to artificial light at night alters innate immune response in wild great tit nestlings (2021), published in Journal of Experimental Biology

Best Publications

  • Urbanization, oxidative stress and inflammation: a question of evolving, acclimatizing or coping with urban environmental stress

    Caroline Isaksson

  • Oxidative stress and life histories: unresolved issues and current needs

    John R. Speakman;John R. Speakman;Jonathan D. Blount;Anne M. Bronikowski;Rochelle Buffenstein

  • Pollution and its impact on wild animals: a meta-analysis on oxidative stress.

    Caroline Isaksson

  • Carotenoid diet and nestling provisioning in urban and rural great tits Parus major

    Caroline Isaksson;Staffan Andersson

  • Plasma glutathione and carotenoid coloration as potential biomarkers of environmental stress in great tits

    Caroline Isaksson;Jonas Örnborg;Eiríkur Stephensen;Staffan Andersson

  • Impact of Urbanization on Birds

    Caroline Isaksson

  • The Challenges of Integrating Oxidative Stress into Life-history Biology

    Caroline Isaksson;Ben C. Sheldon;Tobias Uller

  • Immune challenge reduces reproductive output and growth in a lizard

    Tobias Uller;Caroline Isaksson;Mats Olsson

  • Transcriptome analysis of a wild bird reveals physiological responses to the urban environment

    Hannah Watson;Elin Videvall;Martin N Andersson;Caroline Isaksson

  • Urban environment shortens telomere length in nestling great tits, Parus major

    Pablo Salmon;Johan Nilsson;Andreas Nord;Staffan Bensch

  • Oxidative stress does not influence carotenoid mobilization and plumage pigmentation.

    Caroline Isaksson;Staffan Andersson

  • Explaining variance of avian malaria infection in the wild: the importance of host density, habitat, individual life-history and oxidative stress

    Caroline Isaksson;Caroline Isaksson;Irem Sepil;Vladimer Baramidze;Ben C Sheldon

  • Carotenoid-Based Colours Reflect the Stress Response in the Common Lizard

    Patrick S. Fitze;Julien Cote;Julien Cote;Luis Martin San-Jose;Sandrine Meylan

  • Composition of physiologically important fatty acids in great tits differs between urban and rural populations on a seasonal basis

    Martin N Andersson;Hong-Lei Wang;Andreas Nord;Pablo Salmon

  • Repeatable intra-individual variation in plasma testosterone concentration and its sex-specific link to aggression in a social lizard.

    Geoffrey M. While;Caroline Isaksson;Caroline Isaksson;Jo McEvoy;David L. Sinn

  • Selective disappearance of great tits with short telomeres in urban areas.

    Pablo Salmón;Johan F Nilsson;Hannah Watson;Staffan Bensch

  • Continent-wide genomic signatures of adaptation to urbanisation in a songbird across Europe

    Pablo Salmón;Arne Jacobs;Dag Ahrén;Clotilde Biard

  • The impact of urban environment on oxidative damage (TBARS) and antioxidant systems in lungs and liver of great tits, Parus major.

    Caroline Isaksson;Joachim Sturve;Bethanie Carney Almroth;Staffan Andersson

  • Carotenoid pigmentation does not reflect total non-enzymatic antioxidant activity in plasma of adult and nestling great tits, Parus major

    Caroline Isaksson;Patricia McLAUGHLIN;Pat Monaghan;Staffan Andersson

  • A New Framework for Urban Ecology: An Integration of Proximate and Ultimate Responses to Anthropogenic Change

    Jenny Q Ouyang;Caroline Isaksson;Chloé Schmidt;Pierce Hutton

  • Connecting the data landscape of long-term ecological studies : The SPI-Birds data hub

    Antica Culina;Frank Adriaensen;Liam D. Bailey;Malcolm D. Burgess;Malcolm D. Burgess

  • Carotenoid intake does not mediate a relationship between reactive oxygen species and bright colouration: experimental test in a lizard

    Mats Olsson;Mark Wilson;Caroline Isaksson;Tobias Uller;Tobias Uller

  • Free Radicals run in lizard families

    Mark R Wilson;Mats M Olsson;Tobias O Uller;Caroline Isaksson

Frequent Co-Authors

Tobias Uller
Tobias Uller Lund University
Mats Olsson
Mats Olsson University of Gothenburg
Staffan Andersson
Staffan Andersson University of Gothenburg
Mark R. Wilson
Mark R. Wilson University of Wollongong
Michaela Hau
Michaela Hau University of Konstanz
Arne Hegemann
Arne Hegemann Lund University
Jan Komdeur
Jan Komdeur University of Groningen
Niels Jeroen Dingemanse
Niels Jeroen Dingemanse Ludwig-Maximilians-Universität München
Juan Carlos Senar
Juan Carlos Senar Museum of Natural Sciences of Barcelona
Geoffrey M. While
Geoffrey M. While University of Tasmania

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