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Grant E. Brown

Grant E. Brown

D-Index & Metrics

Ecology and Evolution

D-Index
61
Citations
10794
World Ranking
2229
National Ranking
145

Grant E. Brown publication distribution in Ecology and Evolution in 2026

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37 publications 531+

This scientist: 228 publications — 81st percentile

81% of scientists in this discipline score the same or lower.

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

Grant E. 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 Grant E. Brown sits on this spectrum.

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30 D-Index 121+

This scientist: 61 D-Index — 75th percentile

75% of scientists in this discipline score the same or lower.

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Overview

Grant E. Brown is affiliated with Concordia University in Canada and has contributed extensively to research in the fields of Agricultural and Biological Sciences as well as Environmental Science. Their work spans several interconnected subfields, including Ecology, Evolution, Behavior and Systematics; Social Psychology; Nature and Landscape Conservation; and Global and Planetary Change.

The scientist's research mainly focuses on topics such as Animal Behavior and Reproduction, Plant and Animal Studies, Primate Behavior and Ecology, Amphibian and Reptile Biology, Wildlife Ecology and Conservation, Fish Ecology and Management Studies, and Neuroendocrine Regulation and Behavior.

Grant E. Brown has published in a range of venues with a notable frequency, including:

  • Behavioral Ecology
  • Current Zoology
  • ACM Transactions on Graphics
  • Behavioural Processes
  • Animal Cognition

The scientist's recent papers include:

  • Chemical disturbance cues in aquatic systems: a review and prospectus (2021), Ecological Monographs
  • Uncertainty about predation risk: a conceptual review (2023), Biological Reviews/Biological Reviews of the Cambridge Philosophical Society
  • Predation risk shapes the use of conflicting personal risk and social safety information in guppies (2021), Behavioral Ecology
  • Disturbance cues as a source of risk assessment information under natural conditions (2020), Freshwater Biology
  • Sex and background risk influence responses to acute predation risk in Trinidadian guppies (2023), Behavioral Ecology

Collaboration has been a significant aspect of Brown's career, frequently working with coauthors such as Adam L. Crane, Laurence E A Feyten, Indar W. Ramnarine, Maud C. O. Ferrari, and Alix J P Brusseau.

Best Publications

  • Learning about danger: chemical alarm cues and local risk assessment in prey fishes

    Grant E Brown

  • Acquired predator recognition in juvenile rainbow trout (Oncorhynchus mykiss): conditioning hatchery-reared fish to recognize chemical cues of a predator

    Grant E Brown;R Jan F. Smith

  • Phenotypically plastic neophobia: a response to variable predation risk

    Grant E. Brown;Maud C. O. Ferrari;Chris K. Elvidge;Indar Ramnarine

  • The role of learning in the development of threat-sensitive predator avoidance by fathead minnows

    Maud C.O. Ferrari;Jennifer J. Trowell;Grant E. Brown;Douglas P. Chivers

  • Familiarity and shoal cohesion in fathead minnows (Pimephales promelas): implications for antipredator behaviour

    Douglas P. Chivers;Grant E. Brown;R. Jan F. Smith

  • The Evolution of Chemical Alarm Signals: Attracting Predators Benefits Alarm Signal Senders

    Douglas P. Chivers;Grant E. Brown;R. Jan F. Smith

  • The dynamic nature of antipredator behavior: prey fish integrate threat-sensitive antipredator responses within background levels of predation risk

    Grant E. Brown;Alix C. Rive;Maud C. O. Ferrari;Douglas P. Chivers

  • Ostariophysan Alarm Pheromones: Laboratory and Field Tests of the Functional Significance of Nitrogen Oxides

    Grant E. Brown;James C. Adrian;Erin Smyth;Heather Leet

  • Epidermal ‘alarm substance’ cells of fishes maintained by non-alarm functions: possible defence against pathogens, parasites and UVB radiation

    Douglas P Chivers;Brian D Wisenden;Carrie J Hindman;Tracy A Michalak

  • Effects of acidification on olfactory-mediated behaviour in freshwater and marine ecosystems: a synthesis.

    Antoine O. H. C. Leduc;Philip L. Munday;Grant E. Brown;Maud C. O. Ferrari

  • Foraging Trade‐offs in Fathead Minnows (Pimephales promelas, Osteichthyes, Cyprinidae): Acquired Predator Recognition in the Absence of an Alarm Response

    Grant E. Brown;R. Jan F. Smith

  • Social dynamics in salmonid fishes : do kin make better neighbours ?

    Grant E. Brown;Joseph A. Brown

  • The effect of stocking density on the behaviour of Arctic charr (Salvelinus alpinus L.)

    G. E. Brown;J. A. Brown;R. K. Srivastava

  • Conspecific skin extracts elicit antipredator responses in juvenile rainbow trout (Oncorhynchus mykiss)

    Grant E. Brown;R. Jan F. Smith

  • Who dares, learns: chemical inspection behaviour and acquired predator recognition in a characin fish.

    Grant E. Brown;Jean-Guy J. Godin

  • Predator-induced changes in morphology of a prey fish: the effects of food level and temporal frequency of predation risk

    Douglas P. Chivers;Xiaoxia Zhao;Grant E. Brown;Tracy A. Marchant

  • Effects of group size on the threat-sensitive response to varying concentrations of chemical alarm cues by juvenile convict cichlids

    Grant E Brown;Tony Bongiorno;Daniel M DiCapua;Laura I Ivan

  • Fathead minnows avoid conspedfic and heterospedfic alarm pheromones in the faeces of northern pike

    G. E. Brown;D. P. Chivers;R. J. F. Smith

  • Chemical alarm signals in wild Trinidadian guppies (Poecilia reticulata)

    Grant E Brown;Jean-Guy J Godin

  • Kin discrimination in salmonids

    Grant E. Brown;Joseph A. Brown

Frequent Co-Authors

Douglas P. Chivers
Douglas P. Chivers University of Saskatchewan
Maud C. O. Ferrari
Maud C. O. Ferrari University of Saskatchewan
Indar W. Ramnarine
Indar W. Ramnarine University of the West Indies
R. Jan F. Smith
R. Jan F. Smith University of Saskatchewan
James W. A. Grant
James W. A. Grant Concordia University
Jean-Guy J. Godin
Jean-Guy J. Godin Carleton University
Joseph A. Brown
Joseph A. Brown Memorial University of Newfoundland
Reehan S. Mirza
Reehan S. Mirza Nipissing University
Brian D. Wisenden
Brian D. Wisenden Minnesota State University Moorhead
Alicia Mathis
Alicia Mathis Missouri State University

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