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Scott A. MacDougall-Shackleton

Scott A. MacDougall-Shackleton

University of Western Ontario
Canada

D-Index & Metrics

Ecology and Evolution

D-Index
45
Citations
6190
World Ranking
4918
National Ranking
319

Scott A. MacDougall-Shackleton publication distribution in Ecology and Evolution in 2026

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37 publications 531+

This scientist: 142 publications — 47th percentile

47% of scientists in this discipline score the same or lower.

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

Scott A. MacDougall-Shackleton 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 Scott A. MacDougall-Shackleton sits on this spectrum.

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30 D-Index 121+

This scientist: 45 D-Index — 44th percentile

44% of scientists in this discipline score the same or lower.

The last bar groups every scientist with 121 D-Index or more.

Overview

Scott A. MacDougall-Shackleton is affiliated with the University of Western Ontario in Canada. Their research spans several interconnected fields within environmental science, biochemistry, genetics, molecular biology, and agricultural and biological sciences.

Their work primarily focuses on areas including:

  • Avian ecology and behavior
  • Animal vocal communication and behavior
  • Animal behavior and reproduction
  • Marine animal studies overview
  • Mercury impact and mitigation studies
  • Bird parasitology and diseases
  • Animal nutrition and physiology

MacDougall-Shackleton's publications encompass subfields such as ecology, developmental biology, ecology, evolution, behavior and systematics, health, toxicology and mutagenesis, and parasitology.

Recent notable papers include:

  • "Feathers accurately reflect blood mercury at time of feather growth in a songbird," 2021, The Science of The Total Environment
  • "Neurogenesis and the development of neural sex differences in vocal control regions of songbirds," 2021, The Journal of Comparative Neurology
  • "Experimental ghrelin administration affects migratory behaviour in a songbird," 2022, Hormones and Behavior
  • "Food stress, but not experimental exposure to mercury, affects songbird preen oil composition," 2020, Ecotoxicology
  • "European starlings (sturnus vulgaris) discriminate rhythms by rate, not temporal patterns," 2021, The Journal of the Acoustical Society of America

Frequent coauthors with whom they have collaborated include:

  • Claire Bottini
  • Brian A. Branfireun
  • Adriana Diez
  • Thomas P. Hahn
  • Nicole Carfagnini

MacDougall-Shackleton has published regularly in several scientific journals and venues, with repetition in:

  • Hormones and Behavior
  • PeerJ
  • Birds of the World
  • Journal of Neuroendocrinology
  • The Science of The Total Environment

Best Publications

  • Glucocorticoids and "Stress" Are Not Synonymous

    S A MacDougall-Shackleton;F Bonier;L M Romero;I T Moore

  • CULTURAL AND GENETIC EVOLUTION IN MOUNTAIN WHITE-CROWNED SPARROWS: SONG DIALECTS ARE ASSOCIATED WITH POPULATION STRUCTURE

    Elizabeth A. MacDougall-Shackleton;Scott A. MacDougall-Shackleton

  • Indicators of development as sexually selected traits: the developmental stress hypothesis in context

    Karen A. Spencer;Scott A. MacDougall-Shackleton

  • Comparative studies of sex differences in the song-control system of songbirds

    Scott A. MacDougall-Shackleton;Gregory F. Ball

  • Auditory scene analysis by songbirds: stream segregation of birdsong by European starlings (Sturnus vulgaris).

    Stewart H. Hulse;Scott A. MacDougall-Shackleton;Amy B. Wisniewski

  • Neural bases of song preferences in female zebra finches (Taeniopygia guttata).

    Scott A. MacDougall-Shackleton;Stewart H. Hulse;Gregory F. Ball

  • Do stable isotopes reflect nutritional stress? Results from a laboratory experiment on song sparrows.

    Bethany Kempster;Liana Zanette;Fred J. Longstaffe;Scott A. MacDougall-Shackleton

  • Song repertoire size varies with HVC volume and is indicative of male quality in song sparrows (Melospiza melodia)

    Jeremy A Pfaff;Liana Zanette;Scott A MacDougall-Shackleton;Elizabeth A MacDougall-Shackleton

  • Auditory scene analysis by European starlings (Sturnus vulgaris): perceptual segregation of tone sequences.

    Scott A. MacDougall-Shackleton;Stewart H. Hulse;Timothy Q. Gentner;Wesley White

  • Sexual Selection and the Evolution of Song Repertoires

    Scott A. Macdougall-Shackleton

  • Early nutritional stress impairs development of a song-control brain region in both male and female juvenile song sparrows (Melospiza melodia) at the onset of song learning.

    Ian F MacDonald;Bethany Kempster;Liana Zanette;Scott A MacDougall-Shackleton

  • Adaptive specialization, conditional plasticity and phylogenetic history in the reproductive cue response systems of birds

    Thomas P Hahn;Scott A MacDougall-Shackleton

  • Immediate early gene response to hearing song correlates with receptive behavior and depends on dialect in a female songbird.

    D. L. Maney;D. L. Maney;E. A. MacDougall-Shackleton;S. A. MacDougall-Shackleton;G. F. Ball

  • Female cowbirds have more accurate spatial memory than males

    Mélanie F. Guigueno;Danielle A. Snow;Scott A. MacDougall-Shackleton;David F. Sherry

  • The levels of analysis revisited.

    Scott A. MacDougall-Shackleton

  • Stress, song and survival in sparrows

    S A MacDougall-Shackleton;L Dindia;A E M Newman;Dominique A Potvin

  • Developmental stress has sex-specific effects on nestling growth and adult metabolic rates but no effect on adult body size or body composition in song sparrows

    Kim L. Schmidt;Elizabeth A. MacDougall-Shackleton;Scott A. MacDougall-Shackleton

  • Immediate early gene expression following exposure to acoustic and visual components of courtship in zebra finches

    Marc T. Avey;Leslie S. Phillmore;Scott A. MacDougall-Shackleton

  • Traffic noise affects embryo mortality and nestling growth rates in captive zebra finches

    Dominique A. Potvin;Scott A. MacDougall-Shackleton

  • Developmental stress and birdsong: current evidence and future directions

    Scott A. MacDougall-Shackleton;Karen A. Spencer

  • Early-life stress affects song complexity, song learning and volume of the brain nucleus RA in adult male song sparrows

    Kim L. Schmidt;S. Drew Moore;Elizabeth A. MacDougall-Shackleton;Scott A. MacDougall-Shackleton

  • Physiological and behavioural responses of female mountain white-crowned sparrows to natal- and foreign-dialect songs

    Scott A MacDougall-Shackleton;Elizabeth A MacDougall-Shackleton;Thomas P Hahn

  • Animal Signals: Signalling and Signal Design in Animal Communication

    Scott A. MacDougall-Shackleton

Frequent Co-Authors

Thomas P. Hahn
Thomas P. Hahn University of California, Davis
Gregory F. Ball
Gregory F. Ball University of Maryland, College Park
Stewart H. Hulse
Stewart H. Hulse Johns Hopkins University
Keith A. Hobson
Keith A. Hobson University of Western Ontario
Liana Zanette
Liana Zanette University of Western Ontario
George E. Bentley
George E. Bentley University of California, Berkeley
Lutgarde Arckens
Lutgarde Arckens KU Leuven
Andrew N. Iwaniuk
Andrew N. Iwaniuk University of Lethbridge
Elizabeth Hampson
Elizabeth Hampson University of Western Ontario
Nicholas J. Strausfeld
Nicholas J. Strausfeld University of Arizona

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