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Jean-Louis Deneubourg

Jean-Louis Deneubourg

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Ecology and Evolution
Belgium
2023

D-Index & Metrics

Ecology and Evolution

D-Index
79
Citations
25800
World Ranking
867
National Ranking
11

Jean-Louis Deneubourg 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 Jean-Louis Deneubourg sits on this spectrum.

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37 publications 531+

This scientist: 450 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.

Jean-Louis Deneubourg 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 Jean-Louis Deneubourg sits on this spectrum.

30 D-Index: 95 scientists 31 D-Index: 123 scientists 32 D-Index: 191 scientists 33 D-Index: 245 scientists 34 D-Index: 252 scientists 35 D-Index: 244 scientists 36 D-Index: 249 scientists 37 D-Index: 244 scientists 38 D-Index: 254 scientists 39 D-Index: 254 scientists 40 D-Index: 280 scientists 41 D-Index: 274 scientists 42 D-Index: 266 scientists 43 D-Index: 233 scientists 44 D-Index: 248 scientists 45 D-Index: 208 scientists 46 D-Index: 201 scientists 47 D-Index: 213 scientists 48 D-Index: 207 scientists 49 D-Index: 172 scientists 50 D-Index: 209 scientists 51 D-Index: 199 scientists 52 D-Index: 153 scientists 53 D-Index: 169 scientists 54 D-Index: 163 scientists 55 D-Index: 148 scientists 56 D-Index: 120 scientists 57 D-Index: 146 scientists 58 D-Index: 137 scientists 59 D-Index: 140 scientists 60 D-Index: 104 scientists 61 D-Index: 119 scientists 62 D-Index: 118 scientists 63 D-Index: 99 scientists 64 D-Index: 77 scientists 65 D-Index: 100 scientists 66 D-Index: 86 scientists 67 D-Index: 83 scientists 68 D-Index: 75 scientists 69 D-Index: 94 scientists 70 D-Index: 57 scientists 71 D-Index: 68 scientists 72 D-Index: 59 scientists 73 D-Index: 63 scientists 74 D-Index: 66 scientists 75 D-Index: 60 scientists 76 D-Index: 42 scientists 77 D-Index: 49 scientists 78 D-Index: 39 scientists 79 D-Index: 37 scientists 80 D-Index: 43 scientists 81 D-Index: 41 scientists 82 D-Index: 45 scientists 83 D-Index: 34 scientists 84 D-Index: 40 scientists 85 D-Index: 35 scientists 86 D-Index: 55 scientists 87 D-Index: 24 scientists 88 D-Index: 24 scientists 89 D-Index: 30 scientists 90 D-Index: 23 scientists 91 D-Index: 25 scientists 92 D-Index: 27 scientists 93 D-Index: 27 scientists 94 D-Index: 13 scientists 95 D-Index: 23 scientists 96 D-Index: 12 scientists 97 D-Index: 14 scientists 98 D-Index: 19 scientists 99 D-Index: 16 scientists 100 D-Index: 14 scientists 101 D-Index: 5 scientists 102 D-Index: 21 scientists 103 D-Index: 16 scientists 104 D-Index: 10 scientists 105 D-Index: 7 scientists 106 D-Index: 7 scientists 107 D-Index: 7 scientists 108 D-Index: 6 scientists 109 D-Index: 9 scientists 110 D-Index: 11 scientists 111 D-Index: 12 scientists 112 D-Index: 9 scientists 113 D-Index: 7 scientists 114 D-Index: 3 scientists 115 D-Index: 8 scientists 116 D-Index: 5 scientists 117 D-Index: 11 scientists 118 D-Index: 4 scientists 119 D-Index: 2 scientists 120 D-Index: 5 scientists 121+ D-Index: 100 scientists
30 D-Index 121+

This scientist: 79 D-Index — 90th percentile

90% of scientists in this discipline score the same or lower.

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

Research.com Recognitions

  • 2023 - Research.com Ecology and Evolution in Belgium Leader Award
  • 2022 - Research.com Ecology and Evolution in Belgium Leader Award

Overview

Jean-Louis Deneubourg is affiliated with the Université Libre de Bruxelles in Belgium. Their research primarily spans the fields of Agricultural and Biological Sciences, Environmental Science, and Biochemistry, Genetics, and Molecular Biology. Within these domains, they have contributed extensively to subfields such as Ecology, Evolution, Behavior and Systematics, Genetics, Ecology, Sociology and Political Science, and Global and Planetary Change.

The scientist's research topics include Insect and Arachnid Ecology and Behavior, Plant and Animal Studies, Animal Behavior and Reproduction, Evolutionary Game Theory and Cooperation, Marine and Fisheries Research, Coral and Marine Ecosystem Studies, and Fish Ecology and Management Studies.

Frequent co-authors with whom Jean-Louis Deneubourg has collaborated include:

  • Stamatios C. Nicolis
  • Laurent Dagorn
  • Manuela Capello
  • Amaël Dupaix
  • Cédric Sueur

Key recent publications by Jean-Louis Deneubourg are as follows:

  • Effects of habitat modifications on the movement behavior of animals: the case study of Fish Aggregating Devices (FADs) and tropical tunas, 2020, Movement Ecology
  • The modes of action of Mentha arvensis essential oil on the granary weevil Sitophilus granarius revealed by a label-free quantitative proteomic analysis, 2021, Journal of Pest Science
  • Hierarchical networks of food exchange in the black garden ant Lasius niger, 2020, Insect Science
  • Schooling in habitats with aggregative sites: The case of tropical tuna and floating objects, 2022, Journal of Theoretical Biology
  • The challenge of assessing the effects of drifting fish aggregating devices on the behaviour and biology of tropical tuna, 2024, Fish and Fisheries

Jean-Louis Deneubourg has regularly published research in venues such as HAL (Le Centre pour la Communication Scientifique Directe), Zenodo (CERN European Organization for Nuclear Research), Journal of Theoretical Biology, Animals, and Movement Ecology.

Best Publications

  • Self-organized Shortcuts in the Argentine Ant

    Simon Goss;Serge Aron;Jean-Louis Deneubourg;Jacques Pasteels

  • The self-organizing exploratory pattern of the argentine ant

    Jean-Louis Deneubourg;Serge Aron;Simon Goss;Jacques Pasteels

  • Collective patterns and decision-making

    Jean-Louis Deneubourg;Simon Goss

  • Trails and U-turns in the Selection of a Path by the Ant Lasius niger

    Ralph Beckers;Jean-Louis Deneubourg;Simon Goss

  • Social Integration of Robots into Groups of Cockroaches to Control Self-Organized Choices

    José Halloy;Grégory Sempo;Gilles Caprari;Colette Rivault

  • Response threshold reinforcements and division of labour in insect societies

    Guy Theraulaz;Eric Bonabeau;Jean-Louis Deneubourg

  • Probabilistic behaviour in ants: A strategy of errors?

    Jean-Louis Deneubourg;Jacques Pasteels;Jean-Claude Verhaeghe

  • Collective decision making through food recruitment

    Ralph Beckers;Jean-Louis Deneubourg;Simon Goss;Jacques Pasteels

  • Colony size, communication and ant foraging strategy

    Ralph Beckers;Simon Goss;Jean-Louis Deneubourg;Jacques Pasteels

  • Modulation of trail laying in the ant Lasius niger (Hymenoptera: Formicidae) and its role in the collective selection of a food source

    Ralph Beckers;Jean-Louis Deneubourg;Simon Goss

  • Optimal traffic organization in ants under crowded conditions

    Audrey Dussutour;Audrey Dussutour;Vincent Fourcassié;Dirk Helbing;Jean-Louis Deneubourg

  • FIXED RESPONSE THRESHOLDS AND THE REGULATION OF DIVISION OF LABOR IN INSECT SOCIETIES

    Eric Bonabeau;Guy Theraulaz;Jean-Louis Deneubourg

  • The blind leading the blind: Modeling chemically mediated army ant raid patterns

    Jean-Louis Deneubourg;Simon Goss;Nigel Franks;Jacques Pasteels

  • Self-organized aggregation in cockroaches

    Raphael Jeanson;Colette Rivault;Jean-Louis Deneubourg;Stephane Blanco

  • Information Processing in Social Insects

    Claire Detrain;Jean Louis Deneubourg;Jacques M. Pasteels

  • Self-assemblages in insect societies

    Carl Anderson;Guy Theraulaz;Jean-Louis Deneubourg

  • Self-organized structures in a superorganism: do ants "behave" like molecules?

    Claire Detrain;Jean-Louis Deneubourg

  • Collegial decision making based on social amplification leads to optimal group formation.

    Jean-Marc Amé;José Halloy;Colette Rivault;Claire Detrain

  • Adaptive Task Allocation Inspired by a Model of Division of Labor in Social Insects

    Eric Bonabeau;Andrej Sobkowski;Guy Theraulaz;Jean-Louis Deneubourg

  • Self-organization mechanisms in ant societies. I: Trail recruitment to newly discovered food sources

    Jacques Pasteels;Jean-Louis Deneubourg;Simon Goss

  • Division of labor in a group of robots inspired by ants' foraging behavior

    Thomas H. Labella;Marco Dorigo;Jean-Louis Deneubourg

  • Spatial patterns in ant colonies

    Guy Theraulaz;Eric Bonabeau;Stamatios C. Nicolis;Ricard V. Solé

  • Information processing social insects

    C. Detrain;J. L. Deneubourg;Jacques M. Pasteels

  • Self-Organization in Social Insects

    Eric Bonabeau;Guy Theraulza;Jean-Louis Deneubourg;Serge Aron

Frequent Co-Authors

Claire Detrain
Claire Detrain Université Libre de Bruxelles
Eric Bonabeau
Eric Bonabeau Icosystem (United States)
Odile Petit
Odile Petit Centre national de la recherche scientifique, CNRS
Nigel R. Franks
Nigel R. Franks University of Bristol
Cédric Sueur
Cédric Sueur University of Strasbourg
Audrey Dussutour
Audrey Dussutour Federal University of Toulouse Midi-Pyrénées
Jacques Pasteels
Jacques Pasteels Université Libre de Bruxelles
Serge Aron
Serge Aron Université Libre de Bruxelles
Francesco Mondada
Francesco Mondada École Polytechnique Fédérale de Lausanne
Marco Dorigo
Marco Dorigo Université Libre de Bruxelles

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