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59
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2410
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56

Olof Leimar publication distribution in Ecology and Evolution in 2026

The chart shows the distribution of publications by all Research.com ranked scientists in the field of Ecology and Evolution in 2026. The highlighted bar marks where Olof Leimar sits on this spectrum.

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37 publications 533+

This scientist: 147 publications — 50th percentile

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

The last bar groups every scientist with 533 publications or more.

Olof Leimar 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 Olof Leimar sits on this spectrum.

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30 D-Index 122+

This scientist: 59 D-Index — 72nd percentile

72% of scientists in this discipline score the same or lower.

The last bar groups every scientist with 122 D-Index or more.

Overview

Olof Leimar is affiliated with Stockholm University in Sweden. Their research work spans across multiple domains within the social and biological sciences, focusing notably on evolutionary game theory, animal behavior, and genetic dynamics.

The main fields of study in Leimar's work include:

  • Social Sciences
  • Agricultural and Biological Sciences

The subfields engaged include:

  • Sociology and Political Science
  • Ecology, Evolution, Behavior and Systematics
  • Genetics
  • Safety Research
  • Experimental and Cognitive Psychology

Key topics covered by their research are:

  • Evolutionary Game Theory and Cooperation
  • Animal Behavior and Reproduction
  • Plant and animal studies
  • Evolution and Genetic Dynamics
  • Experimental Behavioral Economics Studies
  • Evolutionary Psychology and Human Behavior
  • Language and cultural evolution

Olof Leimar has published in a variety of scientific venues. Frequent publication platforms include:

  • bioRxiv (Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory)
  • Proceedings of the Royal Society B Biological Sciences
  • Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society B Biological Sciences
  • Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences
  • Trends in Ecology & Evolution

Selected recent papers authored or co-authored by Leimar include:

  • "Game theory in biology: 50 years and onwards," 2023, Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society B Biological Sciences
  • "The Evolution of Social Dominance through Reinforcement Learning," 2021, The American Naturalist
  • "Reproductive skew, fighting costs and winner-loser effects in social dominance evolution," 2022, Journal of Animal Ecology

Leimar has also collaborated frequently with other researchers. Notable co-authors include:

  • John M. McNamara
  • Redouan Bshary
  • Bram Kuijper
  • Sasha R. X. Dall

In addition to journal articles, Leimar has contributed to book publications. One example is a book published by Oxford University Press titled Game Theory in Biology (2020).

Best Publications

  • Life-history trade-offs favour the evolution of animal personalities

    Max Wolf;G. Sander van Doorn;G. Sander van Doorn;Olof Leimar;Franz J. Weissing

  • Evolution of Fighting Behaviour: Decision Rules and Assessment of Relative Strength

    Magnus Enquist;Olof Leimar

  • Evolution of Cooperation Through Indirect Reciprocity

    Olof Leimar;Peter Hammerstein

  • Evolution of fighting behaviour: The effect of variation in resource value

    Magnus Enquist;Olof Leimar

  • The Effect of Flexible Growth Rates on Optimal Sizes and Development Times in a Seasonal Environment

    Peter A. Abrams;Olof Leimar;Soren Nylin;Christer Wiklund

  • A test of the sequential assessment game: fighting in the cichlid fish Nannacara anomala

    Magnus Enquist;Olof Leimar;Tomas Ljungberg;Ylva Mallner

  • The evolution of fatal fighting

    Magnus Enquist;Olof Leimar

  • The evolution of cooperation in mobile organisms.

    Magnus Enquist;Olof Leimar

  • Disruptive selection and then what

    Claus Rueffler;Claus Rueffler;Tom J.M. Van Dooren;Olof Leimar;Peter A. Abrams

  • Life-history analysis of the Trivers and Willard sex-ratio problem

    Olof Leimar

  • Effects of asymmetries in owner-intruder conflicts

    Olof Leimar;Magnus Enquist

  • Sex-biased dispersal in sperm whales: contrasting mitochondrial and nuclear genetic structure of global populations.

    Thomas Lyrholm;Thomas Lyrholm;Olof Leimar;Bo Johanneson;Ulf Gyllensten

  • Genes as leaders and followers in evolution

    Tanja Schwander;Olof Leimar

  • Multidimensional convergence stability

    Olof Leimar

  • Evolutionary stability of aposematic coloration and prey unprofitability a theoretical analysis

    Olof Leimar;Magnus Enquist;Birgitta Sillen-Tullberg

  • The Evolution of Phenotypic Polymorphism: Randomized Strategies versus Evolutionary Branching

    Olof Leimar

  • The evolution of transgenerational integration of information in heterogeneous environments.

    Olof Leimar;John M. McNamara

  • GST is still a useful measure of genetic differentation - a comment on Jost's D

    Nils Ryman;Olof Leimar

  • Variation and the response to variation as a basis for successful cooperation.

    John M. McNamara;Olof Leimar

  • Associational effects of plant defences in relation to within- and between-patch food choice by a mammalian herbivore: neighbour contrast susceptibility and defence

    Ulrika Alm Bergvall;Pasi Rautio;Kari Kesti;Juha Tuomi

  • The Evolution of Gregariousness in Distasteful Insects as a Defense Against Predators

    Birgitta Sillen-Tullberg;Olof Leimar

Frequent Co-Authors

Pasi Rautio
Pasi Rautio Finnish Forest Research Institute
Christer Wiklund
Christer Wiklund Stockholm University
Juha Tuomi
Juha Tuomi University of Oulu
Sasha R. X. Dall
Sasha R. X. Dall University of Exeter
John M. McNamara
John M. McNamara University of Bristol
Franz J. Weissing
Franz J. Weissing University of Groningen
Karl Gotthard
Karl Gotthard Stockholm University
Ulf Dieckmann
Ulf Dieckmann International Institute for Applied Systems Analysis
Michael Doebeli
Michael Doebeli University of British Columbia
Redouan Bshary
Redouan Bshary University of Neuchâtel

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