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Animal Science and Veterinary
Austria
2026

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Animal Science and Veterinary

D-Index
81
Citations
28926
World Ranking
67
National Ranking
1

Research.com Recognitions

  • 2026 - Research.com Animal Science and Veterinary in Austria Leader Award
  • 2025 - Research.com Animal Science and Veterinary in Austria Leader Award
  • 2023 - Research.com Animal Science and Veterinary in Austria Leader Award

Overview

Rupert Palme is affiliated with the University of Veterinary Medicine Vienna in Austria. Their research primarily focuses on veterinary sciences and agricultural and biological sciences, with significant work in subfields such as small animals, animal science and zoology, ecology, ecology, evolution, behavior and systematics, and social psychology.

Their scholarly contributions cover a range of topics related to animal behavior and welfare studies, effects of environmental stressors on livestock, stress responses and cortisol, animal behavior and reproduction, wildlife ecology and conservation, human-animal interaction studies, and neuroendocrine regulation and behavior.

Among their recent publications are:

  • Improving reproducibility in animal research by splitting the study population into several 'mini-experiments', 2020, Scientific Reports
  • The impact of handling technique and handling frequency on laboratory mouse welfare is sex-specific, 2020, Scientific Reports
  • Effects of weaning age and housing conditions on phenotypic differences in mice, 2020, Scientific Reports
  • The stress of being alone: Removal from the colony, but not social subordination, increases fecal cortisol metabolite levels in eusocial naked mole-rats, 2020, Hormones and Behavior
  • Do multiple experimenters improve the reproducibility of animal studies?, 2022, PLoS Biology

Rupert Palme frequently collaborates with several researchers, including Steven R. Talbot, Rudy Boonstra, René H. Tolba, Sabine Macho-Maschler, and Sylvia Kaiser.

Key publication venues for Rupert Palme's work include:

  • Animals
  • Scientific Reports
  • bioRxiv (Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory)
  • Hormones and Behavior
  • General and Comparative Endocrinology

Best Publications

  • Hormones as indicators of stress.

    E Möstl;R Palme

  • Measuring fecal glucocorticoid metabolites in mammals and birds: the importance of validation.

    Chadi Touma;Rupert Palme

  • Measuring stress in wildlife: techniques for quantifying glucocorticoids

    Michael J. Sheriff;Michael J. Sheriff;Ben Dantzer;Brendan Delehanty;Rupert Palme

  • Effects of sex and time of day on metabolism and excretion of corticosterone in urine and feces of mice.

    Chadi Touma;Norbert Sachser;Erich Möstl;Rupert Palme

  • Stress Hormones in Mammals and Birds: Comparative Aspects Regarding Metabolism, Excretion, and Noninvasive Measurement in Fecal Samples

    R. Palme;S. Rettenbacher;C. Touma;S. M. El-Bahr

  • Measurement of cortisol metabolites in faeces of sheep as a parameter of cortisol concentration in blood

    R. Palme;E. Moestl

  • Measuring fecal steroids: guidelines for practical application.

    Rupert Palme

  • Non-invasive measurement of glucocorticoids: Advances and problems

    Rupert Palme

  • Excretion of infused 14C-steroid hormones via faeces and urine in domestic livestock

    R. Palme;P. Fischer;H. Schildorfer;M.N. Ismail

  • Faecal steroid analysis for non-invasive monitoring of reproductive status in farm, wild and zoo animals

    Franz Schwarzenberger;Erich Möstl;Rupert Palme;Elmar Bamberg

  • Antidepressants recruit new neurons to improve stress response regulation

    A Surget;A Tanti;A Tanti;E D Leonardo;A Laugeray;A Laugeray

  • Analyzing corticosterone metabolites in fecal samples of mice: a noninvasive technique to monitor stress hormones

    Chadi Touma;Rupert Palme;Norbert Sachser

  • Measurement of cortisol metabolites in faeces of ruminants.

    E. Möstl;J.L. Maggs;G. Schrötter;U. Besenfelder

  • Density triggers maternal hormones that increase adaptive offspring growth in a wild mammal.

    Ben Dantzer;Amy E. M. Newman;Rudy Boonstra;Rupert Palme

  • Comparative aspects of the metabolism and excretion of cortisol in three individual nonhuman primates.

    N.I. Bahr;R. Palme;U. Möhle;J.K. Hodges

  • Measurement of Corticosterone Metabolites in Birds' Droppings: An Analytical Approach

    Erich Möstl;Sophie Rettenbacher;Rupert Palme

  • Steroid extraction: Get the best out of faecal samples

    R. Palme;C. Touma;N. Arias;Maria Florencia Dominchin

  • Ski tourism affects habitat use and evokes a physiological stress response in capercaillie Tetrao urogallus: a new methodological approach

    Dominik Thiel;Dominik Thiel;Susanne Jenni-Eiermann;Veronika Braunisch;Rupert Palme

  • Measurement of faecal cortisol metabolites in cats and dogs: a non-invasive method for evaluating adrenocortical function.

    S Schatz;R Palme

  • Comparison of different enzymeimmunoassays for assessment of adrenocortical activity in primates based on fecal analysis

    M. Heistermann;R. Palme;A. Ganswindt

  • Measurement of glucocorticoid metabolite concentrations in faeces of domestic livestock.

    Möstl E;Messmann S;Bagu E;Robia C

  • Spreading free-riding snow sports represent a novel serious threat for wildlife

    Raphaël Arlettaz;Patrick Patthey;Marjana Baltic;Thomas Leu

  • Effects of season, sex, and sample collection on concentrations of fecal cortisol metabolites in red deer (Cervus elaphus).

    S Huber;R Palme;W Arnold

  • Monitoring stress hormone metabolites as a useful, non-invasive tool for welfare assessment in farm animals

    R. Palme

Frequent Co-Authors

Rudy Boonstra
Rudy Boonstra University of Toronto
Erich Möstl
Erich Möstl University of Veterinary Medicine Vienna
Norbert Sachser
Norbert Sachser University of Münster
Susanne Waiblinger
Susanne Waiblinger University of Veterinary Medicine Vienna
Andrew G. McAdam
Andrew G. McAdam University of Colorado Boulder
Klaus-Peter Lesch
Klaus-Peter Lesch University of Würzburg
Georgia Mason
Georgia Mason University of Guelph
Peter Gass
Peter Gass Heidelberg University
Andre Ganswindt
Andre Ganswindt University of Pretoria
Michael J. Sheriff
Michael J. Sheriff University of Massachusetts Dartmouth

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