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91
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34453
World Ranking
442
National Ranking
33

Jens Krause 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 Jens Krause sits on this spectrum.

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37 publications 531+

This scientist: 247 publications — 84th percentile

84% of scientists in this discipline score the same or lower.

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

Jens Krause 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 Jens Krause sits on this spectrum.

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This scientist: 91 D-Index — 95th percentile

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

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

Overview

Jens Krause is affiliated with the Technical University of Berlin in Germany and specializes in research situated at the intersection of Environmental Science and Agricultural and Biological Sciences. The scientist's work extensively covers the study of animal behavior, ecology, and environmental interactions.

The main fields of study for Jens Krause include:

  • Environmental Science
  • Agricultural and Biological Sciences

Within these broader areas, the scientist also focuses on several subfields such as:

  • Ecology, Evolution, Behavior and Systematics
  • Nature and Landscape Conservation
  • Global and Planetary Change
  • Ecology
  • Sociology and Political Science

The research topics most frequently addressed by Jens Krause involve:

  • Animal Behavior and Reproduction
  • Fish Ecology and Management Studies
  • Marine and fisheries research
  • Evolutionary Game Theory and Cooperation
  • Plant and animal studies
  • Marine animal studies overview
  • Amphibian and Reptile Biology

Jens Krause's recent papers reflect a focus on the behavior and ecology of animal groups, particularly fish and predators. Notable publications include:

  • "Fish waves as emergent collective antipredator behavior," 2021, Current Biology
  • "Personality-driven life history trade-offs differ in two subpopulations of free-ranging predators," 2020, Journal of Animal Ecology
  • "Fish shoals resemble a stochastic excitable system driven by environmental perturbations," 2023, Nature Physics
  • "Comparing behavioural syndromes across time and ecological conditions in a free-ranging predator," 2020, Animal Behaviour
  • "Animal-in-the-Loop: Using Interactive Robotic Conspecifics to Study Social Behavior in Animal Groups," 2020, Annual Review of Control Robotics and Autonomous Systems

The scientist has published extensively in certain venues, indicating a consistent contribution to specific academic communities. These publication venues include:

  • bioRxiv (Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory)
  • Proceedings of the Royal Society B Biological Sciences
  • Communications Biology
  • arXiv (Cornell University)
  • Current Biology

Frequent collaborators in Jens Krause's research network include:

  • David Bierbach
  • Paweł Romańczuk
  • Juliane Lukas
  • Lenin Arias-Rodríguez
  • Stefan Krause

Best Publications

  • Living in groups

    Jens Krause;Graeme D. Ruxton

  • Effective leadership and decision-making in animal groups on the move

    Iain D. Couzin;Jens Krause;Nigel R. Franks;Simon Asher Levin

  • Collective memory and spatial sorting in animal groups.

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

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

    Iain Barber;Iain Barber;Daniel Hoare;Jens Krause

  • Social network theory in the behavioural sciences: potential applications

    J Krause;D P Croft;Richard James

  • Quorum decision-making facilitates information transfer in fish shoals

    Ashley J. W. Ward;David J. T. Sumpter;Iain D. Couzin;Paul J. B. Hart

  • Swarm intelligence in animals and humans.

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

  • Context-dependent group size choice in fish

    Derek J. Hoare;Iain D. Couzin;J.-G.J Godin;Jens Krause

  • Correlates of boldness in three-spined sticklebacks (Gasterosteus aculeatus)

    Ashley J. W. Ward;Philip Thomas;Paul J. B. Hart;Jens Krause

  • Fast and accurate decisions through collective vigilance in fish shoals

    Ashley J. W. Ward;James E. Herbert-Read;David J. T. Sumpter;Jens Krause

  • Leadership, consensus decision making and collective behaviour in humans.

    John R.G Dyer;Anders Johansson;Dirk Helbing;Iain D Couzin

  • Fish Cognition and Behavior

    Culum Brown;Kevin N. Laland;Jens Krause

  • Animal social networks: an introduction

    Jens Krause;David Lusseau;Richard James

  • Social networks in the guppy (Poecilia reticulata).

    Darren P. Croft;Jens Krause;Richard James

  • Assortative interactions and social networks in fish.

    D P Croft;R James;A J W Ward;M S Botham

  • Behavioural trait assortment in a social network: patterns and implications

    Darren P. Croft;Darren P. Croft;Jens Krause;Safi K. Darden;Safi K. Darden;Indar W. Ramnarine

  • Consensus Decision Making by Fish

    David J. T. Sumpter;Jens Krause;Richard James;Iain D. Couzin

  • DIFFERENTIAL FITNESS RETURNS IN RELATION TO SPATIAL POSITION IN GROUPS

    Jens Krause

  • Reality mining of animal social systems.

    Jens Krause;Stefan Krause;Robert Arlinghaus;Robert Arlinghaus;Ioannis Psorakis

  • Predator preferences for attacking particular prey group sizes: Consequences for predator hunting success and prey predation risk

    Jens Krause;Jean-Guy J. Godin

  • "Leading According to Need" in Self-Organizing Groups

    Larissa Conradt;J. Krause;Iain D. Couzin;Timothy J. Roper

  • Social structure and co-operative interactions in a wild population of guppies (Poecilia reticulata)

    D P Croft;Richard James;P O R Thomas;C Hathaway

  • Mechanisms underlying shoal composition in the Trinidadian guppy, Poecilia reticulata

    Darren P. Croft;Bethany. J. Arrowsmith;Jon Bielby;K. Skinner

Frequent Co-Authors

Darren P. Croft
Darren P. Croft University of Exeter
Ashley J. W. Ward
Ashley J. W. Ward University of Sydney
Alexander D. M. Wilson
Alexander D. M. Wilson Plymouth University
Graeme D. Ruxton
Graeme D. Ruxton University of St Andrews
Indar W. Ramnarine
Indar W. Ramnarine University of the West Indies
Christos C. Ioannou
Christos C. Ioannou University of Bristol
Marc S. Botham
Marc S. Botham University of Leeds
John F. Steffensen
John F. Steffensen University of Copenhagen
Paolo Domenici
Paolo Domenici National Research Council (CNR)
Samuel H. Gruber
Samuel H. Gruber University of Miami

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