2026 George B. Schaller: Ecology and Evolution Researcher – H-Index, Publications & Awards

Discipline name	D-Index	World Ranking	Current World Ranking	National Ranking	Current National Ranking	Publications	Citations
Ecology and Evolution	47	4366	4212	1518	1454	124	11290

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

1402
Citations
THE MOUNTAIN GORILLA - Ecology and Behavior

George B. Schaller

985
Citations
The deer and the tiger

George B. Schaller

665
Citations
Wildlife of the Tibetan steppe

George B. Schaller

626
Citations
The Giant Pandas of Wolong

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

563
Citations
Mountain Monarchs: Wild Sheep and Goats of the Himalaya

George B. Schaller

469
Citations
The Deer and the Tiger: a Study of Wildlife in India

George B. Schaller

344
Citations
Preliminary study of some vegetation types of the pantanal, mato grosso, Brazil

Ghillean T. Prance;George B. Schaller

304
Citations
Movement Patterns of Jaguar

George B. Schaller;Peter Gransden Crawshaw

299
Citations
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

256
Citations
Mammals and their biomass on a Brazilian ranch

George B. Schaller

240
Citations
A Cladistic Analysis of Mitochondrial Ribosomal DNA from the Bovidae

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

209
Citations
Mountain Monarchs--Wild Sheep and Goats of the Himalaya

John A. Bissonette;George B. Schaller

156
Citations
The last panda

George B. Schaller

152
Citations
HUNTING BEHAVIOUR OF THE CHEETAH IN THE SERENGETI NATIONAL PARK, TANZANIA

George B. Schaller

146
Citations
Role of Tibetan Buddhist Monasteries in Snow Leopard Conservation

Juan Li;Dajun Wang;Hang Yin;Duojie Zhaxi

139
Citations
Status of the snow Leopard Panthera uncia in Qinghai and Gansu Provinces, China

George B. Schaller;Ren Junrang;Qiu Mingjiang

138
Citations
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

132
Citations
Climate refugia of snow leopards in High Asia

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

130
Citations
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

123
Citations
Antelopes, Deer, and Relatives: Fossil Record, Behavioral Ecology, Systematics and Conservation

Elisabeth S. Vrba;George B. Schaller

119
Citations
The Deer and the Tiger: A Study of Wildlife in India

Douglas H. Pimlott;George B. Schaller

61
Citations
Giant pandas of Wolong

George B. Schaller

32
Citations

Frequent Co-Authors

Todd K. Fuller University of Massachusetts Amherst

Thomas Mueller Goethe University Frankfurt

George Amato American Museum of Natural History

Peter Leimgruber Smithsonian Conservation Biology Institute

Luke T. B. Hunter Wildlife Conservation Society

Richard Baker University of Leicester

Hao Wang Tianjin University

John Gatesy American Museum of Natural History

Rob DeSalle American Museum of Natural History

Colin P. Groves Australian National University

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