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D-Index
42
Citations
11398
World Ranking
5434
National Ranking
1850

Thomas Caraco 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 Thomas Caraco sits on this spectrum.

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37 publications 531+

This scientist: 112 publications — 27th percentile

27% of scientists in this discipline score the same or lower.

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

Thomas Caraco 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 Thomas Caraco sits on this spectrum.

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30 D-Index 121+

This scientist: 42 D-Index — 35th percentile

35% of scientists in this discipline score the same or lower.

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

Overview

Thomas Caraco is affiliated with the University at Albany, State University of New York in the United States. Their research spans multiple fields primarily within Agricultural and Biological Sciences as well as Biochemistry, Genetics, and Molecular Biology.

The scientist's work focuses on several main topics:

  • Evolution and Genetic Dynamics
  • Plant and animal studies
  • Insect and Pesticide Research
  • Mathematical and Theoretical Epidemiology and Ecology Models

Subfields of study linked to their research include Genetics, Ecology, Evolution, Behavior and Systematics, Insect Science, and Public Health, Environmental and Occupational Health.

The publication record includes papers featured predominantly in arXiv (Cornell University) and the Journal of Environmental Science and Public Health. Notable recent papers are:

  • Antibiotics, duration of infectiousness, and transmission of disease, published in 2020 in arXiv (Cornell University)
  • Antibiotic Treatment, Duration of Infectiousness, and Disease Transmission, published in 2021 in Journal of Environmental Science and Public Health
  • Antibiotic treatment, duration of infectiousness, and disease transmission, published in 2020 in arXiv (Cornell University)

The publications reveal a consistent research interest in infectiousness duration, antibiotic treatment, and disease transmission as emergent themes within current work. The number of citations for these papers is currently zero.

Frequent co-authors are not listed, which may indicate that this scientist often publishes independently or that available data does not capture collaborative patterns.

Overall, Thomas Caraco's academic contributions reflect an integration of theoretical and applied approaches to epidemiology, genetics, and ecological systems with specific attention to the dynamics of infectious diseases and their treatment.

Best Publications

  • Social Foraging Theory

    Luc-Alain Giraldeau;Thomas Caraco

  • An empirical demonstration of risk-sensitive foraging preferences

    Thomas Caraco;Steven Martindale;Thomas S. Whittam

  • Time Budgeting and Group Size: A Test of Theory

    Thomas Caraco

  • RISK AND FORAGING IN STOCHASTIC ENVIRONMENTS

    Leslie Real;Thomas Caraco

  • ON FORAGING TIME ALLOCATION IN A STOCHASTIC ENVIRONMENT

    Thomas Caraco

  • Foraging-efficiency-predation-risk trade-off in the grey squirrel

    Steven L. Lima;Thomas J. Valone;Thomas Caraco

  • Avian flocking in the presence of a predator

    Thomas Caraco;Thomas Caraco;Steven Martindale;H. Ronald Pulliam;H. Ronald Pulliam

  • Energy budgets, risk and foraging preferences in dark-eyed juncos (Junco hyemalis)

    Thomas Caraco

  • Ecological Determinants of Group Sizes of Foraging Lions

    Thomas Caraco;Larry L. Wolf

  • Time Budgeting and Group Size: A Theory

    Thomas Caraco

  • When foragers discount the future: constraint or adaptation?

    John H. Kagel;Leonard Green;Thomas Caraco

  • The scanning behavior of juncos: A game-theoretical approach

    H.Ronald Pulliam;Graham H. Pyke;Thomas Caraco

  • Risk-Sensitivity and Foraging Groups

    Thomas Caraco

  • White-crowned sparrows (Zonotrichia leucophrys): foraging preferences in a risky environment

    Thomas Caraco

  • Risk-sensitivity: ambient temperature affects foraging choice

    Thomas Caraco;Wolf U. Blanckenhorn;Gina M. Gregory;Jonathan A. Newman

  • On the Adaptive Value of Physiological Integraton in Colonal Plants

    Thomas Caraco;Colleen K. Kelly

  • Avian Time Budgets and Distance to Cover

    Thomas Caraco;Steven Martindale;H. Ronald Pulliam

  • Social foraging: Producing and scrounging in a stochastic environment*

    Thomas Caraco;Luc-Alain Giraldea

  • Risk‐Sensitive Foraging Strategies of Two Spider Populations

    Rosemary G. Gillespie;Thomas Caraco

  • Foraging preferences: Response to reward skew

    Thomas Caraco;Mitchell Chasin

  • Aspects of risk-aversion in foraging white-crowned sparrows

    Thomas Caraco

  • Behavioural ecology: Ecological consequences of adaptive behaviour: edited by R.M. Sibly and R.H. Smith, Blackwell, 1985. £48 hbk, £19.50 pbk (ix + 620 pages) ISBN 0 632 01359 1

    Unknown

Frequent Co-Authors

Boleslaw K. Szymanski
Boleslaw K. Szymanski Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute
Luc-Alain Giraldeau
Luc-Alain Giraldeau University of Quebec at Montreal
Jonathan A. Newman
Jonathan A. Newman Wilfrid Laurier University
Wolf U. Blanckenhorn
Wolf U. Blanckenhorn University of Zurich
Ewa Deelman
Ewa Deelman University of Southern California
Thomas J. Valone
Thomas J. Valone Saint Louis University
Rosemary G. Gillespie
Rosemary G. Gillespie University of California, Berkeley
Thomas S. Whittam
Thomas S. Whittam Michigan State University
Leonard Green
Leonard Green Washington University in St. Louis
Alejandro Kacelnik
Alejandro Kacelnik University of Oxford

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