Kees van Oers

Kees van Oers publication distribution in Ecology and Evolution in 2026

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Kees van Oers 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 Kees van Oers sits on this spectrum.

Best Publications

• Repeatability and heritability of exploratory behaviour in great tits from the wild

  Niels Jeroen Dingemanse;Christiaan Both;Piet J. Drent;Kees van Oers

  996
  Citations

• Realized heritability of personalities in the great tit (Parus major)

  Unknown

  647
  Citations

• Realized heritability and repeatability of risk-taking behaviour in relation to avian personalities

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  546
  Citations

• Contribution of genetics to the study of animal personalities: a review of case studies

  K. van Oers;G. de Jong;A. J. van Noordwijk;B. Kempenaers

  467
  Citations

• Phenology, seasonal timing and circannual rhythms: towards a unified framework

  Marcel E. Visser;Samuel P. Caro;Kees van Oers;Sonja von Schaper

  416
  Citations

• Shy and bold great tits (Parus major): body temperature and breath rate in response to handling stress

  Claudio Carere;Kees van Oers

  325
  Citations

• Context dependence of personalities: risk-taking behavior in a social and a nonsocial situation

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  314
  Citations

• Drd4 gene polymorphisms are associated with personality variation in a passerine bird.

  Andrew E Fidler;Kees van Oers;Piet J Drent;Sylvia Kuhn

  268
  Citations

• The effect of personality on social foraging: shy barnacle geese scrounge more

  Ralf H. J. M. Kurvers;Herbert H. T. Prins;Sipke E. van Wieren;Kees van Oers

  244
  Citations

• Evolutionary signals of selection on cognition from the great tit genome and methylome

  Veronika N. Laine;Toni I. Gossmann;Kyle M. Schachtschneider;Kyle M. Schachtschneider;Colin J. Garroway

  228
  Citations

• Personality differences explain leadership in barnacle geese

  Ralf H.J.M. Kurvers;Babette Eijkelenkamp;Kees van Oers;Bart van Lith

  224
  Citations

• Recent natural selection causes adaptive evolution of an avian polygenic trait

  Mirte Bosse;Lewis G. Spurgin;Lewis G. Spurgin;Veronika N. Laine;Ella F. Cole

  219
  Citations

• Personality is associated with extrapair paternity in great tits, Parus major

  Kees Van Oers;Pieter Jan Drent;Niels Jeroen Dingemanse;Bart Kempenaers

  187
  Citations

• Dose-dependent responses of avian daily rhythms to artificial light at night

  Maaike de Jong;Lizanne Jeninga;Jenny Q Ouyang;Kees van Oers

  182
  Citations

• Personality predicts the use of social information

  Ralf H. J. M. Kurvers;Kees Van Oers;Bart A. Nolet;Rudy M. Jonker

  178
  Citations

• Association between DRD4 gene polymorphism and personality variation in great tits: a test across four wild populations

  Peter Korsten;Jakob C. Mueller;Christine Hermannstädter;Karen M. Bouwman

  169
  Citations

• Evolutionary genomics of animal personality

  Unknown

  164
  Citations

• Personality affects learning performance in difficult tasks in a sex-dependent way

  Mieke Titulaer;Kees van Oers;Marc Naguib

  157
  Citations

• A genetic analysis of avian personality traits: correlated, response to artificial selection.

  Unknown

  154
  Citations

• Corticosterone responses differ between lines of great tits (Parus major) selected for divergent personalities.

  Alexander T. Baugh;Sonja V. Schaper;Michaela Hau;John F. Cockrem

  147
  Citations