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Animal Science and Veterinary

D-Index
36
Citations
7873
World Ranking
1569
National Ranking
454

Ecology and Evolution

D-Index
37
Citations
7944
World Ranking
6770
National Ranking
2284

Nancy Tyler Burley 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 Nancy Tyler Burley sits on this spectrum.

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29 publications 442+

This scientist: 66 publications — 7th percentile

7% of scientists in this discipline score the same or lower.

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

Nancy Tyler Burley 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 Nancy Tyler Burley sits on this spectrum.

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20 D-Index 77+

This scientist: 36 D-Index — 50th percentile

50% of scientists in this discipline score the same or lower.

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

Overview

Nancy Tyler Burley is affiliated with the University of California, Irvine in the United States. Their research primarily spans the fields of Agricultural and Biological Sciences and Environmental Science, with a focus on Ecology, Evolution, Behavior and Systematics, as well as Ecology. Their work also touches on subfields such as Education, Parasitology, and Molecular Biology.

The scientist's research addresses topics including Animal Behavior and Reproduction, Plant and Animal Studies, Avian Ecology and Behavior, Innovative Teaching Methods, Evaluation of Teaching Practices, Online and Blended Learning, and Bird Parasitology and Diseases.

Frequent co-authors collaborating with Nancy Tyler Burley include Kerianne M. Wilson, Michelle M. Nguyen, Elizabeth S. Park, Ashley Harlow, and Amir AghaKouchak.

Notable publication venues for this scientist include Animal Behaviour, PLoS ONE, Ecology and Evolution, The Auk, and Behavioral Ecology.

Some of the recent papers authored or co-authored by Nancy Tyler Burley are:

  • Instructor facilitation mediates students' negative perceptions of active learning instruction, 2021, PLoS ONE
  • Divorce rate varies with fluidity of passerine social environment, 2021, Animal Behaviour
  • Female differential allocation in response to extrapair offspring and social mate attractiveness, 2021, Ecology and Evolution
  • Experimentally reduced feather microbial loads improve reproductive performance in captive Zebra Finches, 2022, The Auk
  • Elucidating mutual mate choice: effects of trial design on preferences of male zebra finches, 2021, Behavioral Ecology

Nancy Tyler Burley has contributed to book publications as well, including a book published by Princeton University Press titled Mate Choice in Plants (MPB-19), Volume 19 released in 2020.

Best Publications

  • Sexual Selection for Aesthetic Traits in Species with Biparental Care

    Nancy Burley

  • THE DIFFERENTIAL-ALLOCATION HYPOTHESIS: AN EXPERIMENTAL TEST

    Nancy Burley

  • Inclusive fitness theory and eusociality

    Patrick Abbot;Jun Abe;John Alcock;Samuel Alizon

  • Influence of colour-banding on the conspecific preferences of zebra finches

    Nancy Burley;Nancy Burley;Gail Krantzberg;Gail Krantzberg;Peter Radman;Peter Radman

  • Sex ratio manipulation and selection for attractiveness.

    Nancy Burley

  • The meaning of assortative mating

    Nancy Burley

  • Bill Color Preferences of Zebra Finches

    Nancy Burley;Carol B. Coopersmith

  • The Evolution of Concealed Ovulation

    Nancy Burley

  • SEX-RATIO MANIPULATION IN COLOR-BANDED POPULATIONS OF ZEBRA FINCHES.

    Nancy Burley

  • The Timing of Breeding by Zebra Finches in Relation to Rainfall in Central Australia

    Richard A. Zann;Stephen R. Morton;Kevin R. Jones;Nancy T. Burley

  • Parental investment, mate choice, and mate quality

    Nancy Burley

  • Mate Choice by Multiple Criteria in a Monogamous Species

    Nancy Burley

  • Human fertility, evolutionary biology, and the demographic transition

    J.H. Barkow;N. Burley

  • Clutch overlap and clutch size: alternative and complementary reproductive tactics.

    Nancy Burley

  • Variation in female choice of mates: condition influences selectivity

    Nancy Tyler Burley;Valerie S. Foster

  • Digit ratio varies with sex, egg order and strength of mate preference in zebra finches.

    Nancy Tyler Burley;Valerie Suzanne Foster

  • "A taste for the beautiful": latent aesthetic mate preferences for white crests in two species of Australian grassfinches.

    Nancy Tyler Burley;Richard Symanski

  • Sexual selection and extrapair fertilization in a socially monogamous passerine, the zebra finch (Taeniopygia gullata)

    Nancy Tyler Burley;Patricia G. Parker;Kimberly Lundy

  • Comparison of the band-colour preferences of two species of estrildid finches

    Nancy Burley

  • Bill color, reproduction and condition effects in wild and domesticated Zebra Finches

    Nancy Tyler Burley;Donald K. Price;Richard A. Zann

  • Constraints on the Evolution of Attractive Traits: Selection in Male and Female Zebra Finches

    Donald K. Price;Nancy Tyler Burley

Frequent Co-Authors

Georg F. Striedter
Georg F. Striedter University of California, Irvine
Patricia G. Parker
Patricia G. Parker University of Missouri–St. Louis
Sam P. Brown
Sam P. Brown Georgia Institute of Technology
Leo W. Beukeboom
Leo W. Beukeboom University of Groningen
Richard E. Michod
Richard E. Michod University of Arizona
Pierre-Henri Gouyon
Pierre-Henri Gouyon French National Museum of Natural History
Leda Cosmides
Leda Cosmides University of California, Santa Barbara
John Tooby
John Tooby University of California, Santa Barbara
Jerry A. Coyne
Jerry A. Coyne University of Chicago
Jay D. Evans
Jay D. Evans Agricultural Research Service

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