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Dustin R. Rubenstein

Dustin R. Rubenstein

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Ecology and Evolution

D-Index
42
Citations
8491
World Ranking
5492
National Ranking
1882

Dustin R. Rubenstein 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 Dustin R. Rubenstein sits on this spectrum.

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37 publications 531+

This scientist: 178 publications — 65th percentile

65% of scientists in this discipline score the same or lower.

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

Dustin R. Rubenstein 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 Dustin R. Rubenstein sits on this spectrum.

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This scientist: 42 D-Index — 35th percentile

35% of scientists in this discipline score the same or lower.

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

Overview

Dustin R. Rubenstein is affiliated with Columbia University in the United States. Their research spans several interconnected fields, primarily focusing on Agricultural and Biological Sciences, Environmental Science, and Biochemistry, Genetics and Molecular Biology. Within these broad areas, Rubenstein's subfields of study include Ecology, Evolution, Behavior and Systematics, Ecology, Genetics, Ecological Modeling, and Molecular Biology.

Rubenstein has contributed to topics such as Plant and Animal Studies, Animal Behavior and Reproduction, Insect and Arachnid Ecology and Behavior, Species Distribution and Climate Change, Animal Ecology and Behavior Studies, Wildlife Ecology and Conservation, and Ecology and Vegetation Dynamics Studies.

The scientist has an extensive publication record in various academic venues. Frequent publication outlets include:

  • bioRxiv (Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory)
  • Proceedings of the Royal Society B Biological Sciences
  • Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences
  • The American Naturalist
  • Nature Communications

Notable recent published papers are:

  • "The effect of climate change on avian offspring production: A global meta-analysis" (2023), Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences
  • "Survival Benefits of Group Living in a Fluctuating Environment" (2020), The American Naturalist
  • "Extreme and Variable Climatic Conditions Drive the Evolution of Sociality in Australian Rodents" (2020), Current Biology
  • "Eusociality in snapping shrimps is associated with larger genomes and an accumulation of transposable elements" (2021), Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences
  • "Male-like ornamentation in female hummingbirds results from social harassment rather than sexual selection" (2021), Current Biology

Rubenstein frequently collaborates with other researchers. Their frequent co-authors include:

  • Sheng-Feng Shen
  • Mark Liu
  • Shih-Fan Chan
  • Bo-Fei Chen
  • Joseph Solomon

In addition to journal articles, Rubenstein has contributed to academic literature through book publications, including a title published by Oxford University Press named "Animal Behavior" in 2021.

Best Publications

  • From birds to butterflies: animal movement patterns and stable isotopes

    Dustin R. Rubenstein;Keith A. Hobson

  • The ecology of stress: effects of the social environment

    Scott Creel;Ben Dantzer;Wolfgang Goymann;Dustin R. Rubenstein

  • Evolutionary tipping points in the capacity to adapt to environmental change

    Carlos A. Botero;Carlos A. Botero;Franjo J. Weissing;Jonathan Wright;Dustin R. Rubenstein

  • Social Behavior

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  • Environmental Uncertainty and the Global Biogeography of Cooperative Breeding in Birds

    Walter Jetz;Dustin R. Rubenstein

  • Linking breeding and wintering ranges of a migratory songbird using stable isotopes

    D. R. Rubenstein;C. P. Chamberlain;Richard T. Holmes;M. P. Ayres

  • Temporal environmental variability drives the evolution of cooperative breeding in birds.

    Dustin R. Rubenstein;Dustin R. Rubenstein;Irby J. Lovette

  • Sexual selection accelerates signal evolution during speciation in birds

    Nathalie Seddon;Carlos A. Botero;Joseph A. Tobias;Peter O. Dunn

  • An evolutionary framework for studying mechanisms of social behavior

    Hans A. Hofmann;Annaliese K. Beery;Daniel T. Blumstein;Iain D. Couzin

  • The role of species abundance in determining breeding origins of migratory birds with stable isotopes

    J. Andrew Royle;Dustin Reid Rubenstein

  • Comparative Social Evolution

    Dustin R. Rubenstein;Patrick Abbot

  • Cooperation facilitates the colonization of harsh environments

    Charlie K. Cornwallis;Carlos A. Botero;Dustin R. Rubenstein;Philip A. Downing

  • Key ornamental innovations facilitate diversification in an avian radiation

    Rafael Maia;Dustin R. Rubenstein;Matthew D. Shawkey

  • Spatiotemporal environmental variation, risk aversion, and the evolution of cooperative breeding as a bet-hedging strategy

    Dustin R. Rubenstein

  • The ecology of cooperative breeding behaviour

    Sheng‐Feng Shen;Stephen T. Emlen;Walter D. Koenig;Dustin R. Rubenstein

  • Reproductive skew and selection on female ornamentation in social species.

    Dustin R. Rubenstein;Irby J. Lovette

  • Pleistocene Park: Does re-wilding North America represent sound conservation for the 21st century?

    Dustin R. Rubenstein;Daniel I. Rubenstein;Paul W. Sherman;Thomas A. Gavin

  • Fluctuating Environments, Sexual Selection and the Evolution of Flexible Mate Choice in Birds

    Carlos A. Botero;Dustin Reid Rubenstein

  • Toward an integrative understanding of social behavior: new models and new opportunities.

    Daniel T. Blumstein;Luis A. Ebensperger;Loren D. Hayes;Rodrigo A. Vásquez

  • Stress hormones and sociality: integrating social and environmental stressors.

    Dustin R Rubenstein

  • Female extrapair mate choice in a cooperative breeder: trading sex for help and increasing offspring heterozygosity.

    Dustin R Rubenstein

  • A comprehensive molecular phylogeny of the starlings (Aves: Sturnidae) and mockingbirds (Aves: Mimidae): Congruent mtDNA and nuclear trees for a cosmopolitan avian radiation

    Irby J. Lovette;Dustin R. Rubenstein

Frequent Co-Authors

J. Emmett Duffy
J. Emmett Duffy Smithsonian Institution
Hans A. Hofmann
Hans A. Hofmann The University of Texas at Austin
Irby J. Lovette
Irby J. Lovette Cornell University
Martin Wikelski
Martin Wikelski Max Planck Institute for Ornithology
Daniel T. Blumstein
Daniel T. Blumstein University of California, Los Angeles
Michael Taborsky
Michael Taborsky University of Bern
Daniel I. Rubenstein
Daniel I. Rubenstein Princeton University
Larry J. Young
Larry J. Young Emory University
Stephen T. Emlen
Stephen T. Emlen Cornell University
Hopi E. Hoekstra
Hopi E. Hoekstra Howard Hughes Medical Institute

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