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44
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6688
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5119
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554

Iain Barber 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 Iain Barber sits on this spectrum.

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37 publications 531+

This scientist: 101 publications — 19th percentile

19% of scientists in this discipline score the same or lower.

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

Iain Barber 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 Iain Barber sits on this spectrum.

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30 D-Index 121+

This scientist: 44 D-Index — 41st percentile

41% of scientists in this discipline score the same or lower.

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

Overview

Iain Barber is affiliated with Aberystwyth University in the United Kingdom. Their research primarily focuses on environmental science, with a substantial emphasis on ecology and related subfields such as nature and landscape conservation, immunology, cell biology, and the broader scope of ecology, evolution, behavior, and systematics.

Their work explores topics including fish ecology and management studies, aquaculture disease management and microbiota, zebrafish biomedical research applications, avian ecology and behavior, animal behavior and reproduction, parasite biology and host interactions, and primate behavior and ecology.

Barber has contributed to several recent scientific papers. Notable publications include:

  • Skin swabbing is a refined technique to collect DNA from model fish species (2020, Scientific Reports)
  • The evolutionary ecology of nests: a cross-taxon approach (2023, Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society B Biological Sciences)
  • Host behaviour alteration by its parasite: from brain gene expression to functional test (2020, Proceedings of the Royal Society B Biological Sciences)
  • Long-term environmental stability does not erode plasticity in nest building responses to changing ambient conditions (2023, Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society B Biological Sciences)
  • Skin swabbing protocol to collect DNA samples from small-bodied fish species (2021, F1000Research)

Frequent coauthors collaborate with Barber on various projects. These include Ceinwen A. Tilley, William Norton, Lucie Grécias, François Hébert, and Verônica Angélica Alves. Such collaborations indicate interdisciplinary work across multiple facets of environmental and biological sciences.

Barber publishes predominantly in journals such as F1000Research, Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society B Biological Sciences, Scientific Reports, Proceedings of the Royal Society B Biological Sciences, and African Geographical Review.

Best Publications

  • Effects of parasites on fish behaviour: a review and evolutionary perspective

    Iain Barber;Iain Barber;Daniel Hoare;Jens Krause

  • Parasitism and the evolutionary ecology of animal personality

    Iain Barber;Niels Jeroen Dingemanse

  • Global change, parasite transmission and disease control: lessons from ecology

    Joanne Cable;Iain Barber;Brian Boag;Amy R. Ellison

  • Individual experience and evolutionary history of predation affect expression of heritable variation in fish personality and morphology

    Niels J Dingemanse;Fons Van der Plas;Jonathan Wright;Denis Réale

  • Indirect fitness consequences of mate choice in sticklebacks: offspring of brighter males grow slowly but resist parasitic infections

    Iain Barber;Stephen A. Arnott;Victoria A. Braithwaite;Jennifer Andrew

  • Some (worms) like it hot: fish parasites grow faster in warmer water, and alter host thermal preferences

    Vicki Macnab;Iain Barber

  • Communication in troubled waters: responses of fish communication systems to changing environments

    Inke van der Sluijs;Suzanne M. Gray;Maria Clara P. Amorim;Iain Barber

  • The three-spined stickleback-Schistocephalus solidus system: an experimental model for investigating host-parasite interactions in fish.

    Iain Barber;J. P. Scharsack

  • Climate change and nesting behaviour in vertebrates: a review of the ecological threats and potential for adaptive responses

    Mark Charles Mainwaring;Iain Barber;Denis Charles Deeming;David A. Pike

  • Parasite-associated growth enhancement in a fish-cestode system.

    Stephen A. Arnott;Iain Barber;Iain Barber;Felicity A. Huntingford

  • Low level infection by eye fluke, Diplostomum spp., affects the vision of three-spined sticklebacks, Gasterosteus aculeatus

    SF Owen;I Barber;Pjb Hart

  • DNA sex identification in the three-spined stickleback

    R. Griffiths;K. L. Orr;A. Adam;I. Barber

  • Nests as ornaments: revealing construction by male sticklebacks

    Iain Barber;David Nairn;Felicity A. Huntingford

  • Parasites, behaviour and welfare in fish

    Iain Barber

  • Quantitative genetics of behavioural reaction norms: genetic correlations between personality and behavioural plasticity vary across stickleback populations.

    Niels Jeroen Dingemanse;Iain Barber;Iain Barber;Jonathan Wright;J. E. Brommer

  • A receiver bias in the origin of three-spined stickleback mate choice.

    Carl Smith;Iain Barber;Robert J. Wootton;Lars Chittka

  • The effect of hunger and cestode parasitism on the shoaling decisions of small freshwater fish

    B Arber;F. A. Huntingford;D. W. T. Crompton

  • The Effect of Schistocephalus Solidus (Cestoda: Pseudophyllidea) On the Foraging and Shoaling Behaviour of Three-Spined Sticklebacks, Gasterosteus Aculeatus

    Iain Barber;Felicity A. Huntingford

  • Behavioural Responses to Simulated Avian Predation in Female Three Spined Sticklebacks: The Effect of Experimental Schistocephalus Solidus Infections

    Iain Barber;Peter Walker;P. Andreas Svensson

  • How strong are familiarity preferences in shoaling fish

    Iain Barber;Hazel A. Wright

  • Effects of experimental Schistocephalus solidus infections on growth, morphology and sexual development of female three-spined sticklebacks, Gasterosteus aculeatus.

    Iain Barber;Per Andreas Svensson

Frequent Co-Authors

Felicity A. Huntingford
Felicity A. Huntingford University of Glasgow
Victoria A. Braithwaite
Victoria A. Braithwaite Pennsylvania State University
Elisabet Forsgren
Elisabet Forsgren Norwegian University of Science and Technology
Niels Jeroen Dingemanse
Niels Jeroen Dingemanse Ludwig-Maximilians-Universität München
Christian R. Landry
Christian R. Landry Université Laval
Carl Smith
Carl Smith University of Łódź
Trond Amundsen
Trond Amundsen Norwegian University of Science and Technology
Joanne Cable
Joanne Cable Cardiff University
Graeme D. Ruxton
Graeme D. Ruxton University of St Andrews
Jens Krause
Jens Krause Technical University of Berlin

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