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Animal Science and Veterinary
South Africa
2023

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Animal Science and Veterinary

D-Index
41
Citations
5525
World Ranking
1108
National Ranking
42

Ecology and Evolution

D-Index
41
Citations
5521
World Ranking
5918
National Ranking
267

Carsten Schradin publication distribution in Animal Science and Veterinary in 2026

The chart shows the distribution of publications by all Research.com ranked scientists in the field of Animal Science and Veterinary in 2026. The highlighted bar marks where Carsten Schradin sits on this spectrum.

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29 publications 442+

This scientist: 143 publications — 53rd percentile

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

The last bar groups every scientist with 442 publications or more.

Carsten Schradin D-index placement in Animal Science and Veterinary in 2026

The chart shows the D-index (discipline H-index) distribution of Animal Science and Veterinary scientists ranked by Research.com in 2026. The highlighted bar marks where Carsten Schradin sits on this spectrum.

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20 D-Index 77+

This scientist: 41 D-Index — 67th percentile

67% of scientists in this discipline score the same or lower.

The last bar groups every scientist with 77 D-Index or more.

Research.com Recognitions

  • 2023 - Research.com Animal Science and Veterinary in South Africa Leader Award
  • 2022 - Research.com Animal Science and Veterinary in South Africa Leader Award

Overview

Carsten Schradin is affiliated with the Centre national de la recherche scientifique (CNRS) in France. Their research spans several interconnected fields, focusing primarily on environmental science, agricultural and biological sciences, and psychology.

Their work extensively addresses topics related to animal behavior and reproduction, primate behavior and ecology, wildlife ecology and conservation, animal ecology and behavior studies, neuroendocrine regulation and behavior, bat biology and ecology studies, and evolutionary game theory and cooperation.

Notable recent publications by Carsten Schradin include:

  • "Excessive red tape is strangling biodiversity research in South Africa" (2021) published in South African Journal of Science
  • "Costs and benefits of solitary living in mammals" (2024) published in Journal of Zoology
  • "Variable social organization is ubiquitous in Artiodactyla and probably evolved from pair-living ancestors" (2020) published in Proceedings of the Royal Society B Biological Sciences
  • "The fast and the curious II: performance, personality, and metabolism in Karoo bush rats" (2020) published in Behavioral Ecology and Sociobiology
  • "Seasonal variation in telomere dynamics in African striped mice" (2020) published in Oecologia

Frequent collaborators in Schradin's research include Neville Pillay, Lindelani Makuya, Charlotte-Anaïs Olivier, Loren D. Hayes, and Adrian V. Jaeggi.

Carsten Schradin has published regularly in several venues, including:

  • bioRxiv (Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory)
  • Behavioral Ecology and Sociobiology
  • Trends in Ecology & Evolution
  • Proceedings of the Royal Society B Biological Sciences
  • Journal of Zoology

Their contributions cover a broad spectrum of ecological and behavioral studies, reflecting an integration of field research and theoretical approaches. The research involves dissecting social organization in mammals, performance and personality traits in rodents, and challenges affecting biodiversity research.

Subfields emphasized in their work include ecology, social psychology, ecology, evolution, behavior and systematics, sociology and political science, and physiology.

Best Publications

  • Chronic inflammatory systemic diseases An evolutionary trade-off between acutely beneficial but chronically harmful programs

    Rainer H Straub;Carsten Schradin

  • INTRASPECIFIC VARIATION IN THE SPATIAL AND SOCIAL ORGANIZATION OF THE AFRICAN STRIPED MOUSE

    Carsten Schradin;Neville Pillay

  • The striped mouse (Rhabdomys pumilio) from the succulent karoo, South Africa: A territorial group-living solitary forager with communal breeding and helpers at the nest

    Carsten Schradin;Neville Pillay

  • Social flexibility and social evolution in mammals: a case study of the African striped mouse (Rhabdomys pumilio)

    Carsten Schradin;Anna K. Lindholm;Jes Johannesen;Ivana Schoepf;Ivana Schoepf

  • Prolactin, the Hormone of Paternity.

    Carsten Schradin;Gustl Anzenberger

  • Intraspecific variation in social organization by genetic variation, developmental plasticity, social flexibility or entirely extrinsic factors

    Carsten Schradin

  • Reproductive competition favours solitary living while ecological constraints impose group-living in African striped mice

    Carsten Schradin;Carsten Schradin;Barbara König;Neville Pillay

  • Developmental mechanisms of stripe patterns in rodents

    Ricardo Mallarino;Corneliu Henegar;Mercedes Mirasierra;Marie Manceau

  • Female striped mice (Rhabdomys pumilio) change their home ranges in response to seasonal variation in food availability

    Carsten Schradin;Neville Pillay

  • Female home range size is regulated by resource distribution and intraspecific competition: a long-term field study

    Carsten Schradin;Carsten Schradin;Gabriela Schmohl;Heiko G. Rödel;Ivana Schoepf;Ivana Schoepf

  • Huddling in groups leads to daily energy savings in free‐living African Four‐Striped Grass Mice, Rhabdomys pumilio

    Michael Scantlebury;N.C. Bennett;J.R. Speakman;N. Pillay

  • Paternal Care in the Social and Diurnal Striped Mouse (Rhabdomys pumilio): Laboratory and Field Evidence

    Carsten Schradin;Neville Pillay

  • Territorial defense in a group-living solitary forager: who, where, against whom?

    Carsten Schradin

  • Demography of the striped mouse (Rhabdomys pumilio) in the succulent karoo

    C. Schradin;N. Pillay

  • Testosterone levels in dominant sociable males are lower than in solitary roamers: physiological differences between three male reproductive tactics in a sociably flexible mammal.

    Carsten Schradin;Michael Scantlebury;Neville Pillay;Barbara König

  • Seasonal changes in testosterone and corticosterone levels in four social classes of a desert dwelling sociable rodent.

    Carsten Schradin

  • Whole-day follows of striped mice ( Rhabdomys pumilio ), a diurnal murid rodent

    Carsten Schradin

  • Better off alone! Reproductive competition and ecological constraints determine sociality in the African striped mouse (Rhabdomys pumilio)

    Ivana Schoepf;Ivana Schoepf;Carsten Schradin;Carsten Schradin

  • Prolactin and paternal care: comparison of three species of monogamous new world monkeys (Callicebus cupreus, Callithrix jacchus, and Callimico goeldii).

    Carsten Schradin;DeeAnn M. Reeder;Sally P. Mendoza;Gustl Anzenberger

  • Costs of infant carrying in common marmosets, Callithrix jacchus: an experimental analysis

    Carsten Schradin;Gustl Anzenberger

Frequent Co-Authors

Neville Pillay
Neville Pillay University of the Witwatersrand
Michael Scantlebury
Michael Scantlebury Queen's University Belfast
Heiko G. Rödel
Heiko G. Rödel Paris 13 University
Marco Festa-Bianchet
Marco Festa-Bianchet Université de Sherbrooke
Rainer H. Straub
Rainer H. Straub University of Regensburg
James F. Leckman
James F. Leckman Yale University
Hopi E. Hoekstra
Hopi E. Hoekstra Howard Hughes Medical Institute
Markus Heinrichs
Markus Heinrichs University of Freiburg
Nigel C. Bennett
Nigel C. Bennett University of Pretoria
Arpat Ozgul
Arpat Ozgul University of Zurich

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