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Christina D. Buesching

Christina D. Buesching

D-Index & Metrics

Discipline name D-Index World Ranking Current World Ranking National Ranking Current National Ranking Publications Citations
Ecology and Evolution 44 5175 4996 561 539 149 5224

Christina D. Buesching publications per year

The chart shows the history of publications by Christina D. Buesching between 1998 and 2026, highlighting the no. of papers published in each year and offering an overview of the publication velocity of this scholar. Christina D. Buesching published across 29 years, from 1998 to 2026, averaging 6 papers a year. Output peaked at 26 publications in 2020. 10 of the 175 publications appeared in the last two years.

No. of publications
5 10 15 20 25
Bar chart. Horizontal axis: year, 1998 to 2026. Vertical axis: number of publications, 0 to 26. Peak 26 publications in 2020. 1998: 1 publication 1999: 0 publications 2000: 0 publications 2001: 1 publication 2002: 4 publications 2003: 1 publication 2004: 4 publications 2005: 3 publications 2006: 1 publication 2007: 0 publications 2008: 2 publications 2009: 3 publications 2010: 2 publications 2011: 8 publications 2012: 2 publications 2013: 4 publications 2014: 4 publications 2015: 15 publications 2016: 6 publications 2017: 5 publications 2018: 16 publications 2019: 19 publications 2020: 26 publications 2021: 16 publications 2022: 9 publications 2023: 7 publications 2024: 6 publications 2025: 9 publications 2026: 1 publication
1998 2026

175 publications in total across all disciplines

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Christina D. Buesching: publications per year, 1998 to 2026
Year Publications
1998 1
1999 0
2000 0
2001 1
2002 4
2003 1
2004 4
2005 3
2006 1
2007 0
2008 2
2009 3
2010 2
2011 8
2012 2
2013 4
2014 4
2015 15
2016 6
2017 5
2018 16
2019 19
2020 26
2021 16
2022 9
2023 7
2024 6
2025 9
2026 1
Total 175
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Christina D. Buesching 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 Christina D. Buesching sits on this spectrum.

No. of scientists
100 200 300
Bar chart with 100 bars. Horizontal axis: publications, 37–41 to 531+. Vertical axis: number of scientists, 0 to 333. Most scientists, 333, have 97–101 publications. The last bar groups every scientist with 531 publications or more. The highlighted bar, 147–151 publications, is where this scientist sits. 37–41 publications: 2 scientists 42–46 publications: 9 scientists 47–51 publications: 10 scientists 52–56 publications: 31 scientists 57–61 publications: 56 scientists 62–66 publications: 91 scientists 67–71 publications: 92 scientists 72–76 publications: 127 scientists 77–81 publications: 173 scientists 82–86 publications: 236 scientists 87–91 publications: 227 scientists 92–96 publications: 240 scientists 97–101 publications: 333 scientists 102–106 publications: 280 scientists 107–111 publications: 300 scientists 112–116 publications: 285 scientists 117–121 publications: 305 scientists 122–126 publications: 287 scientists 127–131 publications: 278 scientists 132–136 publications: 289 scientists 137–141 publications: 273 scientists 142–146 publications: 262 scientists 147–151 publications: 246 scientists 152–156 publications: 235 scientists 157–161 publications: 205 scientists 162–166 publications: 199 scientists 167–171 publications: 174 scientists 172–176 publications: 164 scientists 177–181 publications: 173 scientists 182–186 publications: 189 scientists 187–191 publications: 170 scientists 192–196 publications: 139 scientists 197–201 publications: 128 scientists 202–206 publications: 117 scientists 207–211 publications: 115 scientists 212–216 publications: 107 scientists 217–221 publications: 124 scientists 222–226 publications: 81 scientists 227–231 publications: 82 scientists 232–236 publications: 85 scientists 237–241 publications: 75 scientists 242–246 publications: 66 scientists 247–251 publications: 81 scientists 252–256 publications: 69 scientists 257–261 publications: 70 scientists 262–266 publications: 55 scientists 267–271 publications: 64 scientists 272–276 publications: 49 scientists 277–281 publications: 48 scientists 282–286 publications: 44 scientists 287–291 publications: 45 scientists 292–296 publications: 36 scientists 297–301 publications: 39 scientists 302–306 publications: 38 scientists 307–311 publications: 30 scientists 312–316 publications: 34 scientists 317–321 publications: 25 scientists 322–326 publications: 22 scientists 327–331 publications: 28 scientists 332–336 publications: 30 scientists 337–341 publications: 22 scientists 342–346 publications: 30 scientists 347–351 publications: 26 scientists 352–356 publications: 22 scientists 357–361 publications: 29 scientists 362–366 publications: 21 scientists 367–371 publications: 12 scientists 372–376 publications: 18 scientists 377–381 publications: 17 scientists 382–386 publications: 13 scientists 387–391 publications: 21 scientists 392–396 publications: 13 scientists 397–401 publications: 10 scientists 402–406 publications: 15 scientists 407–411 publications: 8 scientists 412–416 publications: 9 scientists 417–421 publications: 8 scientists 422–426 publications: 4 scientists 427–431 publications: 10 scientists 432–436 publications: 10 scientists 437–441 publications: 5 scientists 442–446 publications: 4 scientists 447–451 publications: 10 scientists 452–456 publications: 2 scientists 457–461 publications: 4 scientists 462–466 publications: 7 scientists 467–471 publications: 7 scientists 472–476 publications: 6 scientists 477–481 publications: 6 scientists 482–486 publications: 3 scientists 487–491 publications: 3 scientists 492–496 publications: 4 scientists 497–501 publications: 4 scientists 502–506 publications: 8 scientists 507–511 publications: 5 scientists 512–516 publications: 4 scientists 517–521 publications: 5 scientists 522–526 publications: 4 scientists 527–530 publications: 5 scientists 531+ publications: 100 scientists
37–41 publications 531+

This scientist: 149 publications — 52nd percentile

52% of scientists in this discipline score the same or lower.

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

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Number of Ecology and Evolution scientists by publication count, Research.com 2026 ranking edition. Based on 8,381 ranked scientists.
Publications Scientists This scientist
37–41 2
42–46 9
47–51 10
52–56 31
57–61 56
62–66 91
67–71 92
72–76 127
77–81 173
82–86 236
87–91 227
92–96 240
97–101 333
102–106 280
107–111 300
112–116 285
117–121 305
122–126 287
127–131 278
132–136 289
137–141 273
142–146 262
147–151 246 149
152–156 235
157–161 205
162–166 199
167–171 174
172–176 164
177–181 173
182–186 189
187–191 170
192–196 139
197–201 128
202–206 117
207–211 115
212–216 107
217–221 124
222–226 81
227–231 82
232–236 85
237–241 75
242–246 66
247–251 81
252–256 69
257–261 70
262–266 55
267–271 64
272–276 49
277–281 48
282–286 44
287–291 45
292–296 36
297–301 39
302–306 38
307–311 30
312–316 34
317–321 25
322–326 22
327–331 28
332–336 30
337–341 22
342–346 30
347–351 26
352–356 22
357–361 29
362–366 21
367–371 12
372–376 18
377–381 17
382–386 13
387–391 21
392–396 13
397–401 10
402–406 15
407–411 8
412–416 9
417–421 8
422–426 4
427–431 10
432–436 10
437–441 5
442–446 4
447–451 10
452–456 2
457–461 4
462–466 7
467–471 7
472–476 6
477–481 6
482–486 3
487–491 3
492–496 4
497–501 4
502–506 8
507–511 5
512–516 4
517–521 5
522–526 4
527–530 5
531+ 100
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Christina D. Buesching 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 Christina D. Buesching sits on this spectrum.

No. of scientists
50 100 150 200 250
Bar chart with 92 bars. Horizontal axis: D-Index, 30 to 121+. Vertical axis: number of scientists, 0 to 280. Most scientists, 280, have 40 D-Index. The last bar groups every scientist with 121 D-Index or more. The highlighted bar, 44 D-Index, is where this scientist sits. 30 D-Index: 95 scientists 31 D-Index: 123 scientists 32 D-Index: 191 scientists 33 D-Index: 245 scientists 34 D-Index: 252 scientists 35 D-Index: 244 scientists 36 D-Index: 249 scientists 37 D-Index: 244 scientists 38 D-Index: 254 scientists 39 D-Index: 254 scientists 40 D-Index: 280 scientists 41 D-Index: 274 scientists 42 D-Index: 266 scientists 43 D-Index: 233 scientists 44 D-Index: 248 scientists 45 D-Index: 208 scientists 46 D-Index: 201 scientists 47 D-Index: 213 scientists 48 D-Index: 207 scientists 49 D-Index: 172 scientists 50 D-Index: 209 scientists 51 D-Index: 199 scientists 52 D-Index: 153 scientists 53 D-Index: 169 scientists 54 D-Index: 163 scientists 55 D-Index: 148 scientists 56 D-Index: 120 scientists 57 D-Index: 146 scientists 58 D-Index: 137 scientists 59 D-Index: 140 scientists 60 D-Index: 104 scientists 61 D-Index: 119 scientists 62 D-Index: 118 scientists 63 D-Index: 99 scientists 64 D-Index: 77 scientists 65 D-Index: 100 scientists 66 D-Index: 86 scientists 67 D-Index: 83 scientists 68 D-Index: 75 scientists 69 D-Index: 94 scientists 70 D-Index: 57 scientists 71 D-Index: 68 scientists 72 D-Index: 59 scientists 73 D-Index: 63 scientists 74 D-Index: 66 scientists 75 D-Index: 60 scientists 76 D-Index: 42 scientists 77 D-Index: 49 scientists 78 D-Index: 39 scientists 79 D-Index: 37 scientists 80 D-Index: 43 scientists 81 D-Index: 41 scientists 82 D-Index: 45 scientists 83 D-Index: 34 scientists 84 D-Index: 40 scientists 85 D-Index: 35 scientists 86 D-Index: 55 scientists 87 D-Index: 24 scientists 88 D-Index: 24 scientists 89 D-Index: 30 scientists 90 D-Index: 23 scientists 91 D-Index: 25 scientists 92 D-Index: 27 scientists 93 D-Index: 27 scientists 94 D-Index: 13 scientists 95 D-Index: 23 scientists 96 D-Index: 12 scientists 97 D-Index: 14 scientists 98 D-Index: 19 scientists 99 D-Index: 16 scientists 100 D-Index: 14 scientists 101 D-Index: 5 scientists 102 D-Index: 21 scientists 103 D-Index: 16 scientists 104 D-Index: 10 scientists 105 D-Index: 7 scientists 106 D-Index: 7 scientists 107 D-Index: 7 scientists 108 D-Index: 6 scientists 109 D-Index: 9 scientists 110 D-Index: 11 scientists 111 D-Index: 12 scientists 112 D-Index: 9 scientists 113 D-Index: 7 scientists 114 D-Index: 3 scientists 115 D-Index: 8 scientists 116 D-Index: 5 scientists 117 D-Index: 11 scientists 118 D-Index: 4 scientists 119 D-Index: 2 scientists 120 D-Index: 5 scientists 121+ D-Index: 100 scientists
30 D-Index 121+

This scientist: 44 D-Index — 41st percentile

41% of scientists in this discipline score the same or lower.

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

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Number of Ecology and Evolution scientists by D-index, Research.com 2026 ranking edition. Based on 8,381 ranked scientists.
D-Index Scientists This scientist
30 95
31 123
32 191
33 245
34 252
35 244
36 249
37 244
38 254
39 254
40 280
41 274
42 266
43 233
44 248 44
45 208
46 201
47 213
48 207
49 172
50 209
51 199
52 153
53 169
54 163
55 148
56 120
57 146
58 137
59 140
60 104
61 119
62 118
63 99
64 77
65 100
66 86
67 83
68 75
69 94
70 57
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73 63
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76 42
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83 34
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86 55
87 24
88 24
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93 27
94 13
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96 12
97 14
98 19
99 16
100 14
101 5
102 21
103 16
104 10
105 7
106 7
107 7
108 6
109 9
110 11
111 12
112 9
113 7
114 3
115 8
116 5
117 11
118 4
119 2
120 5
121+ 100
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Overview

Christina D. Buesching is affiliated with the University of Oxford in the United Kingdom. Their research primarily spans the field of Environmental Science, with a strong focus on Ecology and its related subfields.

The scientist's work covers a variety of topics within wildlife and animal studies. Key areas include Wildlife Ecology and Conservation, Animal Behavior and Welfare Studies, Animal Ecology and Behavior Studies, Animal Disease Management and Epidemiology, Primate Behavior and Ecology, Animal Behavior and Reproduction, and Species Distribution and Climate Change.

Frequent publication venues for their research include bioRxiv (Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory), Harvard Dataverse, Scientific Reports, Global Change Biology, and Zoology.

Selected recent papers authored or co-authored by Christina D. Buesching are:

  • "Animal sales from Wuhan wet markets immediately prior to the COVID-19 pandemic", 2021, Scientific Reports
  • "A fat chance of survival: Body condition provides life-history dependent buffering of environmental change in a wild mammal population", 2021, Climate Change Ecology
  • "What lies beneath? Population dynamics conceal pace-of-life and sex ratio variation, with implications for resilience to environmental change", 2020, Global Change Biology
  • "Spatio-temporal partitioning facilitates mesocarnivore sympatry in the Stara Planina Mountains, Bulgaria", 2020, Zoology
  • "Estimation of environmental, genetic and parental age at conception effects on telomere length in a wild mammal", 2020, Journal of Evolutionary Biology

Christina D. Buesching frequently collaborates with a group of co-authors, including:

  • Chris Newman
  • David W. Macdonald
  • Julius G. Bright Ross
  • Ming-shan Tsai
  • Zhao-Min Zhou

Their research output demonstrates an interdisciplinary approach that integrates ecological, behavioral, and epidemiological perspectives on animal populations and environmental interactions. The scientist's work on life-history traits, population dynamics, and environmental resilience contributes to understanding species adaptation to changing environments.

Best Publications

  • Validating mammal monitoring methods and assessing the performance of volunteers in wildlife conservation—“Sed quis custodiet ipsos custodies ?”

    Chris Newman;Christina D. Buesching;David W. Macdonald

  • Fear of the human “super predator” far exceeds the fear of large carnivores in a model mesocarnivore

    Michael Clinchy;Liana Y. Zanette;Devin Roberts;Justin P. Suraci

  • Animal sales from Wuhan wet markets immediately prior to the COVID-19 pandemic.

    Xiao Xiao;Xiao Xiao;Chris Newman;Christina D. Buesching;David W. Macdonald

  • Biogeographical variation in the diet of Holarctic martens (genus Martes, Mammalia: Carnivora: Mustelidae): adaptive foraging in generalists

    You-Bing Zhou;You-Bing Zhou;Chris Newman;Wen-Ting Xu;Christina D. Buesching

  • Balancing the benefits of ecotourism and development: The effects of visitor trail-use on mammals in a Protected Area in rapidly developing China

    Youbing Zhou;Youbing Zhou;Christina D. Buesching;Chris Newman;Yayoi Kaneko

  • Gas-chromatographic analyses of the subcaudal gland secretion of the European badger (Meles meles) part I: chemical differences related to individual parameters.

    C. D. Buesching;J. S. Waterhouse;D. W. Macdonald

  • The distribution of Eurasian badger, Meles meles, setts in a high‐density area: field observations contradict the sett dispersion hypothesis

    D. W. Macdonald;C. Newman;J. Dean;C. D. Buesching

  • Citizen science and nature conservation

    Jonathan Silvertown;Christina D. Buesching;Susan K. Jacobson;Tony Rebelo

  • Multimodal Oestrus Advertisement in a Small Nocturnal Prosimian, Microcebus murinus

    C.D. Buesching;M. Heistermann;J.K. Hodges;E. Zimmermann

  • Encounters between two sympatric carnivores: red foxes (Vulpes vulpes) and European badgers (Meles meles)

    D. W. Macdonald;C. D. Buesching;P. Stopka;J. Henderson

  • MALE-BIASED MOVEMENT IN A HIGH-DENSITY POPULATION OF THE EURASIAN BADGER (MELES MELES)

    David W. Macdonald;Christopher Newman;Christina D. Buesching;Paul J. Johnson

  • Individual variation in early-life telomere length and survival in a wild mammal

    Sil H J van Lieshout;Sil H J van Lieshout;Amanda Bretman;Chris Newman;Christina D Buesching

  • The Social Function of Allo-marking in the European Badger (Meles meles)

    C. D. Buesching;P. Stopka;D. W. Macdonald

  • Reasons for arboreality in wood mice Apodemus sylvaticus and Bank voles Myodes glareolus

    Christina D. Buesching;Christopher Newman;Rachael Twell;David W. Macdonald

  • AN ANALYSIS OF EURASIAN BADGER (MELES MELES) POPULATION DYNAMICS: IMPLICATIONS FOR REGULATORY MECHANISMS

    David W. Macdonald;Christopher Newman;Pierre M. Nouvellet;Christina D. Buesching

  • Negative density-dependent parasitism in a group-living carnivore.

    Gregory F Albery;Chris Newman;Julius Bright Ross;David W MacDonald

  • Are badgers ‘Under The Weather’? Direct and indirect impacts of climate variation on European badger (Meles meles) population dynamics

    David W. Macdonald;Christopher Newman;Christina D. Buesching;Pierre Nouvellet;Pierre Nouvellet

  • Gas-chromatographic analyses of the subcaudal gland secretion of the European badger (Meles meles) part II: time-related variation in the individual-specific composition.

    C. D. Buesching;J. S. Waterhouse;D. W. Macdonald

  • Variations in colour and volume of the subcaudal gland secretion of badgers (Meles meles) in relation to sex, season and individual-specific parameters

    Christina D. Buesching;C. Newman;D.W. Macdonald

  • The function of facial masks in "midguild" carnivores

    C. Newman;C. D. Buesching;J. O. Wolff

  • Coordinated Latrine Use by European Badgers, Meles meles: Potential Consequences for Territory Defense

    Kerry Kilshaw;Christopher Newman;Christina Buesching;James Bunyan

  • A new Magneto-Inductive tracking technique to uncover subterranean activity: what do animals do underground?

    Michael J. Noonan;Andrew Markham;Chris Newman;Niki Trigoni

Frequent Co-Authors

David W. Macdonald
David W. Macdonald University of Oxford
Chris Newman
Chris Newman University of Oxford
Terry Burke
Terry Burke University of Sheffield
Zongqiang Xie
Zongqiang Xie Chinese Academy of Sciences
Amanda Bretman
Amanda Bretman University of Leeds
Andrew Markham
Andrew Markham University of Oxford
Michael Heistermann
Michael Heistermann German Primate Center
Frank Rosell
Frank Rosell University of South-Eastern Norway
Niki Trigoni
Niki Trigoni University of Oxford
Richard J. Delahay
Richard J. Delahay Animal and Plant Health Agency

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