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Ecology and Evolution

D-Index
55
Citations
11841
World Ranking
2972
National Ranking
227

Culum Brown 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 Culum Brown sits on this spectrum.

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37 publications 531+

This scientist: 172 publications — 63rd percentile

63% of scientists in this discipline score the same or lower.

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

Culum Brown 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 Culum Brown sits on this spectrum.

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30 D-Index 121+

This scientist: 55 D-Index — 66th percentile

66% of scientists in this discipline score the same or lower.

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

Overview

Culum Brown is affiliated with Macquarie University in Australia and works primarily in the fields of Environmental Science and Agricultural and Biological Sciences. Their research encompasses several subfields, including Nature and Landscape Conservation, Ecology, Ecology, Evolution, Behavior and Systematics, Aquatic Science, and Cognitive Neuroscience.

The scientist's research interests focus on topics related to Ichthyology and Marine Biology, Fish Ecology and Management Studies, Animal Behavior and Reproduction, Marine animal studies overview, Hemispheric Asymmetry in Neuroscience, Marine and fisheries research, and Primate Behavior and Ecology.

Frequent co-authors in their work include Nathan A. Knott, Charlie Huveneers, Tristan L. Guttridge, Michael P. Hammer, and Peter J. Unmack.

Publication venues in which Culum Brown has contributed regularly include:

  • Animal Behaviour
  • Animal Cognition
  • Journal of Fish Biology
  • Marine and Freshwater Research
  • Animal Sentience

Recent papers provide insight into the scope of their academic work. These include:

  • Fine-tuning the criteria for inferring sentience (2022), published in Animal Sentience
  • Understanding fish cognition: a review and appraisal of current practices (2021), published in Animal Cognition
  • Laterality and fish welfare - A review (2021), published in Applied Animal Behaviour Science
  • Big trouble for little fish: identifying Australian freshwater fishes in imminent risk of extinction (2020), published in Pacific Conservation Biology
  • Behavioural lateralization in a detour test is not repeatable in fishes (2020), published in Animal Behaviour

Best Publications

  • Social learning in fishes : a review

    Culum Brown;Kevin N Laland

  • The future of stock enhancements: lessons for hatchery practice from conservation biology

    Culum Brown;Rachel L Day

  • Social learning and life skills training for hatchery reared fish

    Culum Brown;Kevin N. Laland

  • Fish Intelligence, Sentience and Ethics

    Culum Brown

  • In situ examination of boldness-shyness traits in the tropical poeciliid, Brachyraphis episcopi

    Culum Brown;Felicity Jones;Victoria Braithwaite

  • Fish Cognition and Behavior

    Culum Brown;Kevin N. Laland;Jens Krause

  • Familiarity Facilitates Social Learning of Foraging Behaviour in the Guppy

    Will Swaney;Jeremy Kendal;Hannah Capon;Culum Brown

  • Size matters: a test of boldness in eight populations of the poeciliid Brachyraphis episcopi

    Culum Brown;Victoria A. Braithwaite

  • Heritable and experiential effects on boldness in a tropical poeciliid

    Culum Brown;Fiona Burgess;Victoria A. Braithwaite

  • Environmental enrichment and prior experience of live prey improve foraging behaviour in hatchery-reared Atlantic salmon

    C. Brown;C. Brown;T. Davidson;K. Laland;K. Laland

  • Interactions Between Shoal Size and Conformity in Guppy Social Foraging

    Rachel L. Day;Tom MacDonald;Culum Brown;Kevin N. Laland

  • Laterality enhances cognition in Australian parrots

    Maria Magat;Culum Brown

  • Effects of predation pressure on the cognitive ability of the poeciliid Brachyraphis episcopi

    Culum L. Brown;Victoria A. Braithwaite

  • Personality traits predict hierarchy rank in male rainbowfish social groups

    Mathieu Colléter;Culum Brown

  • Correlation between boldness and body mass in natural populations of the poeciliid Brachyrhaphis episcopi

    C. Brown;F. Jones;V. A. Braithwaite

  • Individual personality traits influence group exploration in a feral guppy population

    Culum Brown;Eleanor Irving

  • Population variation in lateralized eye use in the poeciliid Brachyraphis episcopi.

    Culum L. Brown;C. Gardner;Victoria A. Braithwaite

  • Differential Stress Responses in Fish from Areas of High- and Low-Predation Pressure

    Culum Brown;Carolyn Gardner;Victoria A. Braithwaite

  • Personality affects learning and trade-offs between private and social information in guppies, Poecilia reticulata

    Larissa Trompf;Culum Brown

  • Fish Cognition and Behavior: Brown/Fish Cognition and Behavior

    Culum Brown;Kevin Laland;Jens Krause

  • The influence of early experience on, and inheritance of, cerebral lateralization

    Culum Brown;Culum Brown;Jac Western;Victoria A. Braithwaite

Frequent Co-Authors

Kevin N. Laland
Kevin N. Laland University of St Andrews
Jane E. Williamson
Jane E. Williamson Macquarie University
Victoria A. Braithwaite
Victoria A. Braithwaite Pennsylvania State University
Jens Krause
Jens Krause Technical University of Berlin
Charlie Huveneers
Charlie Huveneers Flinders University
Donald M. Broom
Donald M. Broom University of Cambridge
Matthew C. Leach
Matthew C. Leach Newcastle University
Peter J. Unmack
Peter J. Unmack University of Canberra
Michael R. Gillings
Michael R. Gillings Macquarie University
Christian Agrillo
Christian Agrillo University of Padua

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