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Animal Science and Veterinary

D-Index
69
Citations
17771
World Ranking
177
National Ranking
20

Social Sciences and Humanities

D-Index
69
Citations
17698
World Ranking
813
National Ranking
151

Michael Mendl publication distribution in Animal Science and Veterinary in 2026

The chart shows the distribution of publications by all Research.com ranked scientists in the field of Animal Science and Veterinary in 2026. The highlighted bar marks where Michael Mendl sits on this spectrum.

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29 publications 442+

This scientist: 312 publications — 91st percentile

91% of scientists in this discipline score the same or lower.

The last bar groups every scientist with 442 publications or more.

Michael Mendl D-index placement in Animal Science and Veterinary in 2026

The chart shows the D-index (discipline H-index) distribution of Animal Science and Veterinary scientists ranked by Research.com in 2026. The highlighted bar marks where Michael Mendl sits on this spectrum.

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20 D-Index 77+

This scientist: 69 D-Index — 94th percentile

94% of scientists in this discipline score the same or lower.

The last bar groups every scientist with 77 D-Index or more.

Overview

Michael Mendl is affiliated with the University of Bristol in the United Kingdom. Their research primarily focuses on veterinary science, with significant contributions to the subfields of small animals, genetics, social psychology, animal science and zoology, and ecology.

Their work extensively covers topics related to animal behavior and welfare studies, human-animal interaction studies, wildlife ecology and conservation, neuroendocrine regulation and behavior, primate behavior and ecology, animal behavior and reproduction, and animal nutrition and physiology.

Michael Mendl has published in various scientific venues, with frequent contributions to the following journals:

  • Applied Animal Behaviour Science
  • Animals
  • Scientific Reports
  • Animal Welfare
  • F1000Research

Among recent publications, their notable papers include:

  • "Optimism, pessimism and judgement bias in animals: A systematic review and meta-analysis" (2020) in Neuroscience & Biobehavioral Reviews
  • "Animal affect and decision-making" (2020) in Neuroscience & Biobehavioral Reviews
  • "Bridging the Gap: Human Emotions and Animal Emotions" (2022) in Affective Science
  • "Rat 50 kHz calls reflect graded tickling-induced positive emotion" (2020) in Current Biology
  • "Emotion in animal contests" (2020) in Proceedings of the Royal Society B Biological Sciences

Michael Mendl collaborates regularly with several researchers, including Elizabeth S. Paul, Vikki Neville, Suzanne Held, Carole Fureix, and Sérgio Luiz Gama Nogueira-Filho.

Best Publications

  • Animal behaviour: Cognitive bias and affective state

    Emma J. Harding;Elizabeth S. Paul;Michael Mendl

  • An integrative and functional framework for the study of animal emotion and mood

    Michael Mendl;Oliver H. P. Burman;Elizabeth S. Paul

  • Measuring emotional processes in animals: the utility of a cognitive approach

    Elizabeth S. Paul;Emma J. Harding;Michael Mendl

  • Cognitive bias as an indicator of animal emotion and welfare: Emerging evidence and underlying mechanisms

    Michael Mendl;Oliver H.P. Burman;Richard M.A. Parker;Elizabeth S. Paul

  • Revisiting translocation and reintroduction programmes: the importance of considering stress

    Camila P. Teixeira;Cristiano Schetini de Azevedo;Mike Mendl;Cynthia F. Cipreste

  • Performing under pressure: stress and cognitive function

    Michael Mendl

  • Assessing the 'whole animal': a free choice profiling approach

    Françoise Wemelsfelder;Tony E.A. Hunter;Michael T. Mendl;Alistair B. Lawrence

  • Why is there no simple way of measuring animal welfare

    G Mason;MT Mendl

  • Tail-biting: A new perspective

    Nina R Taylor;David C J Main;Michael T Mendl;Sandra A Edwards

  • Physiological and reproductive correlates of behavioural strategies in female domestic pigs

    Michael Mendl;Adroaldo J. Zanella;Donald M. Broom

  • The accumulation of skin lesions and their use as a predictor of individual aggressiveness in pigs

    Simon P. Turner;Mark J. Farnworth;Ian M.S. White;Sue Brotherstone

  • A case control study of on-farm risk factors for tail biting in pigs

    C Moinard;MT Mendl;CJ Nicol;LE Green

  • The spontaneous qualitative assessment of behavioural expressions in pigs: first explorations of a novel methodology for integrative animal welfare measurement

    F Wemelsfelder;EA Hunter;Michael T Mendl;AB Lawrence

  • Timing and causes of piglet mortality in alternative and conventional farrowing systems.

    J. N. Marchant;A. R. Rudd;M. T. Mendl;D. M. Broom

  • Dogs showing separation-related behaviour exhibit a ‘pessimistic’ cognitive bias

    Michael Mendl;Julie Brooks;Christine Basse;Oliver Burman;Oliver Burman

  • A method for rating the individual distinctiveness of domestic cats

    Julie Feaver;Michael Mendl;Patrick Bateson

  • Consciousness, emotion and animal welfare: insights from cognitive science

    M Mendl;ES Paul

  • A cohort study of preweaning piglet mortality and farrowing accommodation on 112 commercial pig farms in England

    A.L. KilBride;Michael T Mendl;Poppy T E Statham;Suzanne D E Held

  • To Group or Not to Group? Good Practice for Housing Male Laboratory Mice.

    Sarah Kappel;Penny Hawkins;Michael T. Mendl

  • A comparison of the welfare of sows in different housing conditions.

    D. M. Broom;M. T. Mendl;A. J. Zanella

  • Mammalian choices: combining fast-but-inaccurate and slow-but-accurate decision-making systems

    Pete C Trimmer;Alasdair I Houston;James A.R Marshall;Rafal Bogacz

Frequent Co-Authors

Christine J Nicol
Christine J Nicol Royal Veterinary College
Oliver H. P. Burman
Oliver H. P. Burman University of Lincoln
Alistair Lawrence
Alistair Lawrence Scotland's Rural College
Richard W. Byrne
Richard W. Byrne University of St Andrews
Donald M. Broom
Donald M. Broom University of Cambridge
Adroaldo J. Zanella
Adroaldo J. Zanella Universidade de São Paulo
Georgia Mason
Georgia Mason University of Guelph
Laura E. Green
Laura E. Green University of Birmingham
Peter Dayan
Peter Dayan Max Planck Institute for Biological Cybernetics
CM Sherwin
CM Sherwin University of Bristol

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