Richard C. Connor

Richard C. Connor publication distribution in Ecology and Evolution in 2026

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Richard C. Connor 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 Richard C. Connor sits on this spectrum.

Best Publications

• Fission-fusion dynamics: new research frameworks

  Filippo Aureli;Colleen M Schaffner;Christophe Boesch;Simon K Bearder

  1215
  Citations

• Decline in Relative Abundance of Bottlenose Dolphins Exposed to Long-Term Disturbance

  Lars Bejder;Amy Samuels;Hal Whitehead;Nick Gales

  903
  Citations

• Cultural transmission of tool use in bottlenose dolphins

  Michael Krützen;Janet Mann;Michael R. Heithaus;Richard C. Connor

  719
  Citations

• Two levels of alliance formation among male bottlenose dolphins (Tursiops sp.).

  Richard C. Connor;Rachel A. Smolker;Andrew F. Richards

  709
  Citations

• Sex Differences in Patterns of Association Among Indian Ocean Bottlenose Dolphins

  Unknown

  704
  Citations

• The bottlenose dolphin: social relationships in a fission-fusion society

  Rc Connor;RS Wells;J. Mann;AJ Read

  701
  Citations

• Cetacean Societies: Field Studies of Dolphins and Whales

  Mason T. Weinrich;J. Mann;R. C. Connor;P. L. Tyack

  562
  Citations

• WHY DO BALEEN WHALES MIGRATE?1

  Peter J. Corkeron;Richard C. Connor

  452
  Citations

• Cetaceans Have Complex Brains for Complex Cognition

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

  441
  Citations

• Dolphin social intelligence: complex alliance relationships in bottlenose dolphins and a consideration of selective environments for extreme brain size evolution in mammals.

  Unknown

  366
  Citations

• Social evolution in toothed whales

  Richard C Connor;Janet Mann;Peter L Tyack;Hal Whitehead

  358
  Citations

• Complex social structure, alliance stability and mating access in a bottlenose dolphin ‘super-alliance’

  Richard C. Connor;Michael R. Heithaus;Lynne M. Barre

  348
  Citations

• The Benefits of Mutualism: A Conceptual Framework

  Unknown

  344
  Citations

• A Division of Labour With Role Specialization in Group-Hunting Bottlenose Dolphins (Tursiops Truncatus) Off Cedar Key, Florida

  Unknown

  329
  Citations

• Aggression in bottlenose dolphins: Evidence for sexual coercion, male-male competition, and female tolerance through analysis of tooth-rake marks and behaviour

  Erin M. Scott;Janet Mann;Jana J. Watson-Capps;Brooke L. Sargeant

  291
  Citations

• Social and genetic interactions drive fitness variation in a free-living dolphin population

  Celine H. Frère;Michael Krützen;Janet Mann;Richard C. Connor

  282
  Citations

• Habituated Dolphins (Tursiops sp.) in Western Australia

  Unknown

  279
  Citations

• Superalliance of bottlenose dolphins

  Richard C. Connor;Michael R. Heithaus;Lynne M. Barre

  271
  Citations

• Synchrony, social behaviour and alliance affiliation in Indian Ocean bottlenose dolphins, Tursiops aduncus

  Richard C. Connor;Rachel Smolker;Lars Bejder

  264
  Citations

• Sponge Carrying by Dolphins (Delphinidae, Tursiops sp.): A Foraging Specialization Involving Tool Use?

  Rachel A. Smolker;Andrew Richards;Richard Connor;Janet Mann

  237
  Citations