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3455
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Robert Heinsohn 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 Robert Heinsohn sits on this spectrum.

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37 publications 531+

This scientist: 203 publications — 75th percentile

75% of scientists in this discipline score the same or lower.

The last bar groups every scientist with 531 publications or more.

Robert Heinsohn 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 Robert Heinsohn sits on this spectrum.

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This scientist: 52 D-Index — 60th percentile

60% of scientists in this discipline score the same or lower.

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Research.com Recognitions

  • 1999 - Fellow of the American Society of Mechanical Engineers

Overview

Robert Heinsohn is a researcher affiliated with the Australian National University in Australia. Their research predominantly focuses on Environmental Science and covers multiple subfields such as Ecology, Nature and Landscape Conservation, Ecology, Evolution, Behavior and Systematics, Genetics, and Developmental Biology.

The main topics of Heinsohn's work include:

  • Wildlife Ecology and Conservation
  • Avian ecology and behavior
  • Wildlife Conservation and Criminology Analyses
  • Animal Behavior and Reproduction
  • Animal Vocal Communication and Behavior
  • Genetic diversity and population structure
  • Species Distribution and Climate Change

The scientist has contributed extensively to academic literature with notable papers such as:

  • The phenotypic costs of captivity, 2022, published in Biological Reviews/Biological Reviews of the Cambridge Philosophical Society
  • Loss of vocal culture and fitness costs in a critically endangered songbird, 2021, published in Proceedings of the Royal Society B Biological Sciences
  • What drives the illegal parrot trade? Applying a criminological model to market and seizure data in Indonesia, 2021, published in Biological Conservation
  • Do nest boxes breed the target species or its competitors? A case study of a critically endangered bird, 2020, published in Restoration Ecology
  • Using conservation genetics to prioritise management options for an endangered songbird, 2023, published in Heredity

Frequent co-authors with whom Heinsohn has collaborated include:

  • Dejan Stojanović
  • Ross Crates
  • Laura Rayner
  • Fernanda Alves
  • Naomi E. Langmore

The researcher has published multiple articles in venues such as:

  • Emu - Austral Ornithology
  • Austral Ecology
  • Proceedings of the Royal Society B Biological Sciences
  • Biological Conservation
  • Animal Conservation

In terms of recognition, Robert Heinsohn was named a Fellow of the American Society of Mechanical Engineers in 1999.

Best Publications

  • Declining body size: a third universal response to warming?

    Janet L. Gardner;Anne Peters;Michael R. Kearney;Leo Joseph

  • Animal personality: what are behavioural ecologists measuring?

    Alecia J. Carter;Alecia J. Carter;William E. Feeney;Harry H. Marshall;Harry H. Marshall;Guy Cowlishaw

  • Complex Cooperative Strategies in Group-Territorial African Lions

    Robert Heinsohn;Craig Packer

  • Online localization of radio-tagged wildlife with an autonomous aerial robot system

    Oliver M. Cliff;Robert Fitch;Salah Sukkarieh;Debbie Saunders

  • Mind the sustainability gap

    Joern Fischer;Adrian D. Manning;Will Steffen;Deborah B. Rose

  • The cost of helping.

    Robert Heinsohn;Sarah Legge

  • How not to measure boldness: novel object and antipredator responses are not the same in wild baboons

    Alecia J. Carter;Alecia J. Carter;Harry H. Marshall;Harry H. Marshall;Robert Heinsohn;Guy Cowlishaw

  • Ecological and socio-economic factors affecting extinction risk in parrots

    George Olah;Stuart H. M. Butchart;Stuart H. M. Butchart;Andy Symes;Iliana Medina Guzmán

  • Extreme reversed sexual dichromatism in a bird without sex role reversal.

    Robert Heinsohn;Sarah Legge;John A. Endler

  • Boldness, trappability and sampling bias in wild lizards

    Alecia J. Carter;Alecia J. Carter;Robert Heinsohn;Anne W. Goldizen;Peter A. Biro

  • Slow Learning of Foraging Skills and Extended Parental Care in Cooperatively Breeding White-Winged Choughs

    Robert G. Heinsohn

  • Social networks created with different techniques are not comparable

    Madelaine Castles;Robert Heinsohn;Harry H. Marshall;Harry H. Marshall;Alexander E.G. Lee;Alexander E.G. Lee

  • Visual mimicry of host nestlings by cuckoos

    Naomi E. Langmore;Martin Stevens;Golo Maurer;Robert Heinsohn

  • Shifting latitudinal clines in avian body size correlate with global warming in Australian passerines

    Janet Gardner;Robert Heinsohn;Leo George Joseph

  • Helping is Costly to Young Birds in Cooperatively Breeding White-Winged Choughs

    Robert Heinsohn;Andrew Cockburn

  • Group territoriality in two populations of African lions

    Robert Heinsohn

  • The trajectory of dispersal research in conservation biology. Systematic review

    Don A. Driscoll;Sam C. Banks;Philip S. Barton;Karen Ikin

  • Brood Parasitism and the Evolution of Cooperative Breeding in Birds

    William Feeney;Iliana Medina;M. Somveille;Robert Heinsohn

  • Extreme bias in sex allocation in Eclectus parrots

    Robert Heinsohn;Sarah Legge;Simon Barry

  • Parental care, load-lightening, and costs

    Robert G. Heinsohn

  • Cooperative enhancement of reproductive success in white-winged choughs

    Robert G. Heinsohn

  • Experimental manipulation of brood reduction and parental care in cooperatively breeding white-winged choughs

    Christopher R.J. Boland;Robert Heinsohn;Andrew Cockburn

Frequent Co-Authors

Naomi E. Langmore
Naomi E. Langmore Australian National University
Sarah Legge
Sarah Legge Australian National University
Aleks Terauds
Aleks Terauds Australian Antarctic Division
Andrew Cockburn
Andrew Cockburn Australian National University
Leo Joseph
Leo Joseph Commonwealth Scientific and Industrial Research Organisation
Guy Cowlishaw
Guy Cowlishaw Zoological Society of London
Rod Peakall
Rod Peakall Australian National University
David Wilson
David Wilson Binghamton University
Ross B. Cunningham
Ross B. Cunningham Australian National University
Rebecca M. Kilner
Rebecca M. Kilner University of Cambridge

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