Luke Rendell

Luke Rendell publication distribution in Ecology and Evolution in 2026

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Luke Rendell 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 Luke Rendell sits on this spectrum.

Best Publications

• Culture in whales and dolphins

  Luke Rendell;Hal Whitehead

  1225
  Citations

• Experimental evidence for the co-evolution of hominin tool-making teaching and language

  T.J.H. Morgan;T.J.H. Morgan;Natali Uomini;L.E. Rendell;L. Chouinard-Thuly;L. Chouinard-Thuly

  623
  Citations

• The Cultural Lives of Whales and Dolphins

  Hal Whitehead;Luke Rendell

  525
  Citations

• Network-based diffusion analysis reveals cultural transmission of lobtail feeding in humpback whales

  Jenny Allen;Mason Weinrich;Will Hoppitt;Luke Rendell

  470
  Citations

• Cetaceans Have Complex Brains for Complex Cognition

  Lori Marino;Richard C Connor;R. Ewan Fordyce;Louis M Herman

  441
  Citations

• The evolutionary basis of human social learning

  T. J. H. Morgan;L. E. Rendell;Micael Ehn;W. Hoppitt

  430
  Citations

• Vocal clans in sperm whales (Physeter macrocephalus).

  L. E. Rendell;H. Whitehead

  331
  Citations

• Lessons from animal teaching.

  William J.E. Hoppitt;Gillian R. Brown;Rachel Kendal;Luke Rendell

  312
  Citations

• Culture and conservation of non-humans with reference to whales and dolphins: review and new directions

  Hal Whitehead;Luke Rendell;Richard W Osborne;Bernd Würsig

  281
  Citations

• Animal cultures matter for conservation.

  Philippa Brakes;Sasha R. X. Dall;Lucy M. Aplin;Stuart Bearhop

  253
  Citations

• Modelling sperm whale habitat preference: a novel approach combining transect and follow data

  Enrico Pirotta;Jason Matthiopoulos;Monique MacKenzie;Lindesay Scott-Hayward

  197
  Citations

• Female philopatry in coastal basins and male dispersion across the North Atlantic in a highly mobile marine species, the sperm whale (Physeter macrocephalus).

  Daniel Engelhaupt;A. Rus Hoelzel;Colin Nicholson;Alexandros Frantzis

  178
  Citations

• The reach of gene-culture coevolution in animals.

  Hal Whitehead;Kevin N. Laland;Luke Rendell;Rose Thorogood;Rose Thorogood

  176
  Citations

• Movements, habitat use and feeding success of cultural clans of South Pacific sperm whales

  Hal Whitehead;Luke Rendell

  172
  Citations

• Rogers' paradox recast and resolved: population structure and the evolution of social learning strategies.

  Luke Rendell;Laurel Fogarty;Kevin N. Laland

  154
  Citations

• Multilevel Societies of Female Sperm Whales (Physeter macrocephalus) in the Atlantic and Pacific: Why Are They So Different?

  Hal Whitehead;Ricardo Antunes;Shane Gero;Sarah N. P. Wong

  151
  Citations

• A deepening understanding of animal culture suggests lessons for conservation.

  Philippa Brakes;Emma L. Carroll;Emma L. Carroll;Sasha R. X. Dall;Sally A. Keith

  146
  Citations

• Estimating the impact of interactions between bottlenose dolphins and artisanal fisheries around the Balearic Islands

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  145
  Citations

• Who Cares? Between-group variation in alloparental caregiving in sperm whales

  Shane Gero;Dan Engelhaupt;Luke Rendell;Hal Whitehead

  133
  Citations

• Individual, unit and vocal clan level identity cues in sperm whale codas.

  Shane Gero;Hal Whitehead;Luke Rendell

  129
  Citations