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Guy Cowlishaw

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Ecology and Evolution

D-Index
68
Citations
16175
World Ranking
1528
National Ranking
191

Guy Cowlishaw publication distribution in Ecology and Evolution in 2026

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37 publications 531+

This scientist: 156 publications — 56th percentile

56% of scientists in this discipline score the same or lower.

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

Guy Cowlishaw 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 Guy Cowlishaw sits on this spectrum.

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This scientist: 68 D-Index — 82nd percentile

82% of scientists in this discipline score the same or lower.

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Overview

Guy Cowlishaw is affiliated with the Zoological Society of London in the United Kingdom. Their research primarily focuses on the fields of psychology and agricultural and biological sciences, with significant contributions to social psychology, ecology, evolution, behavior and systematics, developmental biology, and experimental and cognitive psychology.

The scientist's work broadly covers topics including primate behavior and ecology, animal behavior and reproduction, animal vocal communication and behavior, wildlife ecology and conservation, evolutionary psychology and human behavior, animal behavior and welfare studies, and evolutionary game theory and cooperation.

Guy Cowlishaw has published numerous papers across various academic venues. Frequent publication platforms include:

  • bioRxiv (Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory)
  • Royal Society Open Science
  • Animal Behaviour
  • BioScience
  • Proceedings of the Royal Society B Biological Sciences

Selected recent papers by Guy Cowlishaw are:

  • Wild Meat Is Still on the Menu: Progress in Wild Meat Research, Policy, and Practice from 2002 to 2020, 2021, Annual Review of Environment and Resources
  • A Severe Lack of Evidence Limits Effective Conservation of the World's Primates, 2020, BioScience
  • Baboon thanatology: responses of filial and non-filial group members to infants' corpses, 2020, Royal Society Open Science
  • Potential applications of personality assessments to the management of non-human primates: a review of 10 years of study, 2021, PeerJ
  • Immigrant males' knowledge influences baboon troop movements to reduce home range overlap and mating competition, 2021, Behavioral Ecology

Frequent co-authors in their research include Alecia J. Carter, Élise Huchard, Alice Baniel, Jules Dezeure, and Bernard Godelle. These collaborations support research in various aspects of animal behavior and ecology.

Best Publications

  • Predicting extinction risk in declining species

    Andy Purvis;John L. Gittleman;Guy Cowlishaw;Georgina M. Mace

  • Primate Conservation Biology

    Guy Cowlishaw;Robin I. M. Dunbar

  • Animal personality: what are behavioural ecologists measuring?

    Alecia J. Carter;Alecia J. Carter;William E. Feeney;Harry H. Marshall;Harry H. Marshall;Guy Cowlishaw

  • Dominance rank and mating success in male primates

    Guy Cowlishaw;R.I.M. Dunbar

  • The value of bushmeat and other wild foods to rural households living in extreme poverty in Democratic Republic of Congo

    Emmanuel de Merode;Katherine Homewood;Guy Cowlishaw

  • Spontaneous emergence of leaders and followers in foraging pairs

    Sean A. Rands;Sean A. Rands;Guy Cowlishaw;Richard A. Pettifor;J. Marcus Rowcliffe

  • Trade-offs between foraging and predation risk determine habitat use in a desert baboon population

    Guy Cowlishaw

  • Dominance and affiliation mediate despotism in a social primate

    Andrew J. King;Andrew J. King;Caitlin M. S. Douglas;Elise Huchard;Elise Huchard;Nicholas J. B. Isaac

  • Hunting for Consensus: Reconciling Bushmeat Harvest, Conservation, and Development Policy in West and Central Africa

    Elizabeth L. Bennett;Eric Blencowe;Katrina Brandon;David Brown

  • How species respond to multiple extinction threats.

    Nick J. B. Isaac;Guy Cowlishaw

  • How far do animals go? Determinants of day range in mammals.

    Chris Carbone;Guy Cowlishaw;Nick J. B. Isaac;J. Marcus Rowcliffe

  • How not to measure boldness: novel object and antipredator responses are not the same in wild baboons

    Alecia J. Carter;Alecia J. Carter;Harry H. Marshall;Harry H. Marshall;Robert Heinsohn;Guy Cowlishaw

  • Vulnerability to predation in baboon populations

    Guy Cowlishaw

  • Predicting the Pattern of Decline of African Primate Diversity: an Extinction Debt from Historical Deforestation

    Guy Cowlishaw

  • Evidence for post-depletion sustainability in a mature bushmeat market

    Guy Cowlishaw;Samantha Mendelson;J. Marcus Rowcliffe

  • Song Function in Gibbons

    Guy Cowlishaw

  • When to use social information: the advantage of large group size in individual decision making.

    Andrew J King;Andrew J King;Guy Cowlishaw

  • A model of human hunting impacts in multi-prey communities

    J. Marcus Rowcliffe;Guy Cowlishaw;Janice Long

  • It's time to work together and stop duplicating conservation efforts

    Georgina M. Mace;Andrew Balmford;L. Boitani;G. Cowlishaw

  • Does the matrix matter? A forest primate in a complex agricultural landscape

    Julie Anderson;J. Marcus Rowcliffe;Guy Cowlishaw

  • Hunter reporting of catch per unit effort as a monitoring tool in a bushmeat-harvesting system.

    Janna Rist;E.J. Milner-Gulland;Guy Cowlishaw;Marcus Rowcliffe

  • Do wildlife laws work? Species protection and the application of a prey choice model to poaching decisions

    J. Marcus Rowcliffe;Emmanuel de Merode;Guy Cowlishaw

Frequent Co-Authors

J. Marcus Rowcliffe
J. Marcus Rowcliffe Zoological Society of London
E. J. Milner-Gulland
E. J. Milner-Gulland University of Oxford
Michel Raymond
Michel Raymond University of Montpellier
Nick J. B. Isaac
Nick J. B. Isaac University College London
Robin I. M. Dunbar
Robin I. M. Dunbar University of Oxford
Robert Heinsohn
Robert Heinsohn Australian National University
Joanna M. Setchell
Joanna M. Setchell Durham University
Chris Carbone
Chris Carbone Zoological Society of London
Marie J. E. Charpentier
Marie J. E. Charpentier University of Montpellier
Nathalie Pettorelli
Nathalie Pettorelli Zoological Society of London

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