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Melissa Bateson publication distribution in Psychology in 2026

The chart shows the distribution of publications by all Research.com ranked scientists in the field of Psychology in 2026. The highlighted bar marks where Melissa Bateson sits on this spectrum.

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31 publications 705+

This scientist: 110 publications — 26th percentile

26% of scientists in this discipline score the same or lower.

The last bar groups every scientist with 705 publications or more.

Melissa Bateson D-index placement in Psychology in 2026

The chart shows the D-index (discipline H-index) distribution of Psychology scientists ranked by Research.com in 2026. The highlighted bar marks where Melissa Bateson sits on this spectrum.

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30 D-Index 144+

This scientist: 53 D-Index — 59th percentile

59% of scientists in this discipline score the same or lower.

The last bar groups every scientist with 144 D-Index or more.

Overview

Melissa Bateson is affiliated with Newcastle University in the United Kingdom. Their research spans multiple fields including Animal Science and Zoology, Genetics, General Health Professions, Small Animals, and Molecular Biology.

The scientist has contributed extensively to topics such as Animal Behavior and Welfare Studies, Food Security and Health in Diverse Populations, Effects of Environmental Stressors on Livestock, Genetic Diversity and Population Structure, Human-Animal Interaction Studies, Animal Nutrition and Physiology, and Primate Behavior and Ecology.

Recent publications by Melissa Bateson include:

  • Food insecurity increases energetic efficiency, not food consumption: an exploratory study in European starlings, 2021, PeerJ
  • Food insecurity as a cause of adiposity: evolutionary and mechanistic hypotheses, 2023, Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society B Biological Sciences

Other notable papers relevant to their network of research, though not authored solely by Bateson, include:

  • Optimism, pessimism and judgement bias in animals: A systematic review and meta-analysis, 2020, Neuroscience & Biobehavioral Reviews
  • Measurement of Telomere Length for Longitudinal Analysis: Implications of Assay Precision, 2021, American Journal of Epidemiology
  • A consensus on the definition of positive animal welfare, 2025, Biology Letters

Melissa Bateson has frequently collaborated with several coauthors, including Daniel Nettle, Clare Andrews, Margit Bak Jensen, Gillian Pepper, and Jonathon Dunn. These collaborations span a diverse range of studies and enhance the multidisciplinary nature of the research.

The scientist's work has been published in various venues, with multiple publications in Zenodo hosted by CERN European Organization for Nuclear Research and bioRxiv managed by Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory. Other common publication venues include Royal Society Open Science, Molecular Ecology, and the Journal of Dairy Science.

Bateson has also contributed to scholarly books, notably publishing Measuring Behaviour in 2021 through Cambridge University Press.

Best Publications

  • Cues of being watched enhance cooperation in a real-world setting

    Melissa Bateson;Daniel Nettle;Gilbert Roberts

  • Risky Theories—The Effects of Variance on Foraging Decisions

    Alex Kacelnik;Melissa Bateson

  • Effects of eye images on everyday cooperative behavior: a field experiment

    Max Ernest-Jones;Daniel Nettle;Melissa Bateson

  • Agitated Honeybees Exhibit Pessimistic Cognitive Biases

    Melissa Bateson;Suzanne Desire;Sarah E. Gartside;Geraldine A. Wright

  • Adaptive developmental plasticity: what is it, how can we recognize it and when can it evolve?

    Daniel Nettle;Melissa Bateson

  • The watching eyes effect in the Dictator Game: it's not how much you give, it's being seen to give something

    Daniel Nettle;Zoe Harper;Adam Kidson;Rosie Stone

  • Food insecurity as a driver of obesity in humans: The insurance hypothesis.

    Daniel Nettle;Clare Andrews;Melissa Bateson

  • Environmental enrichment induces optimistic cognitive bias in rats

    Nichola M. Brydges;Matthew Leach;Katie Nicol;Rebecca Wright

  • Comparative evaluation and its implications for mate choice.

    Melissa Bateson;Susan D. Healy

  • Anxiety: an evolutionary approach.

    Melissa Bateson;Ben Brilot;Daniel Nettle

  • Larger, enriched cages are associated with 'optimistic' response biases in captive European starlings (Sturnus vulgaris)

    Stephanie M. Matheson;Lucy Asher;Melissa Bateson

  • Performance on a categorisation task suggests that removal of environmental enrichment induces 'pessimism' in captive European starlings ( Sturnus vulgaris )

    Melissa Bateson;Stephanie Matheson

  • The Evolutionary Origins of Mood and Its Disorders

    Daniel Nettle;Melissa Bateson

  • Risk-sensitivity: crossroads for theories of decision-making.

    Alex Kacelnik;Melissa Bateson

  • 'Cycle thieves, we are watching you': impact of a simple signage intervention against bicycle theft.

    Daniel Nettle;Kenneth Nott;Melissa Bateson

  • Do Marine Mammals Experience Stress Related to Anthropogenic Noise

    Andrew J Wright;Natacha Aguilar Soto;Ann Linda Baldwin;Melissa Bateson

  • Single-trials analyses demonstrate that increases in clock speed contribute to the methamphetamine-induced horizontal shifts in peak-interval timing functions

    Matthew S. Matell;Melissa Bateson;Warren H. Meck

  • Context-dependent foraging decisions in rufous hummingbirds

    M. Bateson;S. D. Healy;T. A. Hurly

  • Preferences for fixed and variable food sources: variability in amount and delay.

    Melissa Bateson;Alex Kacelnik

  • Anthropogenic Noise as a Stressor in Animals: A Multidisciplinary Perspective

    Andrew J Wright;Natacha Aguilar Soto;Ann Linda Baldwin;Melissa Bateson

  • Irrational choices in hummingbird foraging behaviour

    Melissa Bateson;Susan D. Healy;T.Andrew Hurly

Frequent Co-Authors

Daniel Nettle
Daniel Nettle Newcastle University
Pat Monaghan
Pat Monaghan University of Glasgow
Lucy Asher
Lucy Asher Newcastle University
Susan D. Healy
Susan D. Healy University of St Andrews
Piers L. Cornelissen
Piers L. Cornelissen Northumbria University
Martin J. Tovée
Martin J. Tovée Northumbria University
Oliver F. W. James
Oliver F. W. James Newcastle University
Michael Mendl
Michael Mendl University of Bristol
Shinichi Nakagawa
Shinichi Nakagawa University of New South Wales
Arne Moksnes
Arne Moksnes Norwegian University of Science and Technology

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