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90
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36693
World Ranking
463
National Ranking
64

Graeme D. Ruxton 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 Graeme D. Ruxton sits on this spectrum.

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37 publications 531+

This scientist: 496 publications — 98th percentile

98% of scientists in this discipline score the same or lower.

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

Graeme D. Ruxton 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 Graeme D. Ruxton sits on this spectrum.

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This scientist: 90 D-Index — 95th percentile

95% of scientists in this discipline score the same or lower.

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Research.com Recognitions

  • 2012 - Fellow of the Royal Society of Edinburgh

Overview

Graeme D. Ruxton is affiliated with the University of St Andrews in the United Kingdom. Their research spans multiple fields with a focus on Agricultural and Biological Sciences as well as Environmental Science. Within these domains, they have contributed extensively to the subfields of Ecology, Evolution, Behavior and Systematics, Ecology, Statistics and Probability, Global and Planetary Change, and Nature and Landscape Conservation.

The main topics of their work include Animal Behavior and Reproduction, Plant and Animal Studies, Ecology and Vegetation Dynamics Studies, Evolutionary Game Theory and Cooperation, Wildlife Ecology and Conservation, Ecosystem Dynamics and Resilience, and Statistical Methods and Bayesian Inference.

Graeme D. Ruxton has published in a variety of scientific journals and venues. Frequent publication venues include:

  • bioRxiv (Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory)
  • Biological reviews/Biological reviews of the Cambridge Philosophical Society
  • Scientific Reports
  • Ibis
  • Behavioral Ecology and Sociobiology

Among recent papers they contributed to are:

  • Effective use of the McNemar test, 2020, Behavioral Ecology and Sociobiology
  • Fear of Killer Whales Drives Extreme Synchrony in Deep Diving Beaked Whales, 2020, Scientific Reports
  • Camouflage in predators, 2020, Biological reviews/Biological reviews of the Cambridge Philosophical Society
  • Advice on comparing two independent samples of circular data in biology, 2021, Scientific Reports
  • A synthesis of deimatic behaviour, 2022, Biological reviews/Biological reviews of the Cambridge Philosophical Society

They frequently collaborate with other researchers including Rosalind K. Humphreys, Nick Colegrave, Markus Neuhäuser, Lukas Landler, and E. Pascal Malkemper.

In addition to journal articles, Graeme D. Ruxton has authored books published by Oxford University Press. These include:

  • Power Analysis: An Introduction for the Life Sciences (2020)
  • Presenting Scientific Data in R (2022)

The scientist was awarded the title of Fellow of the Royal Society of Edinburgh in 2012.

Best Publications

  • Living in groups

    Jens Krause;Graeme D. Ruxton

  • Collective memory and spatial sorting in animal groups.

    Iain D. Couzin;Jens Krause;Richard James;Graeme D. Ruxton

  • The unequal variance t-test is an underused alternative to Student's t-test and the Mann–Whitney U test

    Graeme D. Ruxton

  • Avoiding Attack: The Evolutionary Ecology of Crypsis, Aposematism, and Mimicry

    Graeme Ruxton;William Allen;Thomas Sherratt;Michael Speed

  • Avoiding Attack: The Evolutionary Ecology of Crypsis, Warning Signals and Mimicry

    Graeme D. Ruxton;Thomas N. Sherratt;Michael Patrick Speed

  • Time for some a priori thinking about post hoc testing

    Graeme D. Ruxton;Guy Beauchamp

  • Swarm intelligence in animals and humans.

    Jens Krause;Jens Krause;Graeme D. Ruxton;Stefan Krause

  • Effective use of Pearson's product–moment correlation coefficient

    Marie-Therese Puth;Markus Neuhäuser;Graeme D. Ruxton

  • Avoiding Attack

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  • Effective use of Spearman's and Kendall's correlation coefficients for association between two measured traits

    Marie-Therese Puth;Markus Neuhäuser;Graeme D. Ruxton

  • Interspecific information transfer influences animal community structure

    Eben Goodale;Guy Beauchamp;Robert D. Magrath;James C. Nieh

  • Linking the evolution and form of warning coloration in nature

    Martin Stevens;Graeme D. Ruxton

  • Obligate vertebrate scavengers must be large soaring fliers

    Graeme D. Ruxton;David C. Houston

  • Confidence intervals are a more useful complement to nonsignificant tests than are power calculations

    Nick Colegrave;Graeme D. Ruxton

  • Sampling animal association networks with the gambit of the group

    Daniel W. Franks;Graeme D. Ruxton;Richard James

  • A review of thanatosis (death feigning) as an anti-predator behaviour

    Rosalind Kay Humphreys;Graeme D. Ruxton

  • When should we use one-tailed hypothesis testing?

    Graeme D. Ruxton;Markus Neuhäuser

  • Refuge use by fish as a function of body length-related metabolic expenditure and predation risks

    Jens Krause;Simon P. Loader;John McDermott;Graeme D. Ruxton

  • Resource allocation between reproductive phases: the importance of thermal conditions in determining the cost of incubation.

    J.M Reid;P Monaghan;G.D Ruxton

  • Masquerade: Camouflage Without Crypsis

    John Skelhorn;Hannah M. Rowland;Michael P. Speed;Graeme D. Ruxton

  • Plant-Animal Communication

    H. Martin Schaefer;Graeme D. Ruxton

  • Deception in plants: mimicry or perceptual exploitation?

    H. Martin Schaefer;Graeme D. Ruxton

Frequent Co-Authors

Michael P. Speed
Michael P. Speed University of Liverpool
Jens Krause
Jens Krause Technical University of Berlin
Guy Beauchamp
Guy Beauchamp University of Montreal
H. Martin Schaefer
H. Martin Schaefer University of Freiburg
John Skelhorn
John Skelhorn Newcastle University
David M. Wilkinson
David M. Wilkinson University of Lincoln
Eben Goodale
Eben Goodale Guangxi University
Innes C. Cuthill
Innes C. Cuthill University of Bristol
Thomas N. Sherratt
Thomas N. Sherratt Carleton University
Will Cresswell
Will Cresswell University of St Andrews

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