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D-Index
47
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11290
World Ranking
4362
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1519

George B. Schaller 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 George B. Schaller sits on this spectrum.

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37 publications 531+

This scientist: 124 publications — 35th percentile

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

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

George B. Schaller 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 George B. Schaller sits on this spectrum.

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30 D-Index 121+

This scientist: 47 D-Index — 49th percentile

49% of scientists in this discipline score the same or lower.

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

Overview

George B. Schaller is affiliated with the Wildlife Conservation Society in the United States. Their research primarily focuses on environmental science, with a strong emphasis on ecology and conservation.

The main fields of study for this scientist include:

  • Environmental Science

Within this broad field, their subfields cover:

  • Ecology
  • Management, Monitoring, Policy and Law
  • Global and Planetary Change
  • Genetics
  • Nature and Landscape Conservation

Their work addresses several major topics, including:

  • Wildlife Ecology and Conservation
  • Rangeland Management and Livestock Ecology
  • Conservation, Biodiversity, and Resource Management
  • Ecology and Vegetation Dynamics Studies
  • Genetic and phenotypic traits in livestock
  • Species Distribution and Climate Change
  • Primate Behavior and Ecology

George B. Schaller has published extensively in various scientific venues. Frequent publication venues include:

  • Science
  • bioRxiv (Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory)
  • BMC Genomics
  • Biological Conservation
  • Frontiers in Ecology and Evolution

Recent papers authored or co-authored by Schaller and colleagues are:

  • Mapping out a future for ungulate migrations, 2021, Science
  • Spatio-Temporal Changes in Wildlife Habitat Quality in the Greater Serengeti Ecosystem, 2020, Sustainability
  • Genomic prediction using machine learning: a comparison of the performance of regularized regression, ensemble, instance-based and deep learning methods on synthetic and empirical data, 2024, BMC Genomics
  • Moving through the mosaic: identifying critical linkage zones for large herbivores across a multiple-use African landscape, 2021, Landscape Ecology
  • Savannas are vital but overlooked carbon sinks, 2022, Science

Frequent collaborators include:

  • Hans-Peter Piepho
  • Jared A. Stabach
  • Gordon O. Ojwang
  • Mohammed Y. Said
  • J. Grant C. Hopcraft

Best Publications

  • The Serengeti Lion: A Study of Predator-Prey Relations

    George B. Schaller

  • THE MOUNTAIN GORILLA - Ecology and Behavior

    George B. Schaller

  • The deer and the tiger

    George B. Schaller

  • Wildlife of the Tibetan steppe

    George B. Schaller

  • The Giant Pandas of Wolong

    George B. Schaller;Hu Jinchu;Pan Wenshi;Zhu Jing

  • Mountain Monarchs: Wild Sheep and Goats of the Himalaya

    George B. Schaller

  • The Deer and the Tiger: a Study of Wildlife in India

    George B. Schaller

  • Preliminary study of some vegetation types of the pantanal, mato grosso, Brazil

    Ghillean T. Prance;George B. Schaller

  • Movement Patterns of Jaguar

    George B. Schaller;Peter Gransden Crawshaw

  • In search of forage: predicting dynamic habitats of Mongolian gazelles using satellite-based estimates of vegetation productivity

    Thomas Mueller;Thomas Mueller;Kirk A. Olson;Kirk A. Olson;Todd K. Fuller;George B. Schaller

  • Mammals and their biomass on a Brazilian ranch

    George B. Schaller

  • A Cladistic Analysis of Mitochondrial Ribosomal DNA from the Bovidae

    John Gatesy;John Gatesy;George Amato;Elisabeth Vrba;George Schaller

  • Mountain Monarchs--Wild Sheep and Goats of the Himalaya

    John A. Bissonette;George B. Schaller

  • The last panda

    George B. Schaller

  • HUNTING BEHAVIOUR OF THE CHEETAH IN THE SERENGETI NATIONAL PARK, TANZANIA

    George B. Schaller

  • Role of Tibetan Buddhist Monasteries in Snow Leopard Conservation

    Juan Li;Dajun Wang;Hang Yin;Duojie Zhaxi

  • Status of the snow Leopard Panthera uncia in Qinghai and Gansu Provinces, China

    George B. Schaller;Ren Junrang;Qiu Mingjiang

  • Phylogeography, genetic structure and population divergence time of cheetahs in Africa and Asia: evidence for long‐term geographic isolates

    P. Charruau;C. Fernandes;P. Orozco-Terwengel;Jochen Peters

  • Climate refugia of snow leopards in High Asia

    Juan Li;Juan Li;Juan Li;Thomas M. McCarthy;Hao Wang;Byron V. Weckworth

  • Feeding success of African wild dogs (Lycaon pictus) in the Serengeti: the effects of group size and kleptoparasitism

    C. Carbone;L. Frame;G. Frame;J. Malcolm

  • Antelopes, Deer, and Relatives: Fossil Record, Behavioral Ecology, Systematics and Conservation

    Elisabeth S. Vrba;George B. Schaller

  • The Deer and the Tiger: A Study of Wildlife in India

    Douglas H. Pimlott;George B. Schaller

  • Giant pandas of Wolong

    George B. Schaller

Frequent Co-Authors

Todd K. Fuller
Todd K. Fuller University of Massachusetts Amherst
Thomas Mueller
Thomas Mueller Goethe University Frankfurt
George Amato
George Amato American Museum of Natural History
Peter Leimgruber
Peter Leimgruber Smithsonian Conservation Biology Institute
Luke T. B. Hunter
Luke T. B. Hunter Wildlife Conservation Society
Richard Baker
Richard Baker University of Leicester
Hao Wang
Hao Wang Tianjin University
John Gatesy
John Gatesy American Museum of Natural History
Rob DeSalle
Rob DeSalle American Museum of Natural History
Colin P. Groves
Colin P. Groves Australian National University

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