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D-Index
59
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11504
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2455
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Tim Guilford 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 Tim Guilford sits on this spectrum.

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37 publications 531+

This scientist: 209 publications — 76th percentile

76% of scientists in this discipline score the same or lower.

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

Tim Guilford 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 Tim Guilford sits on this spectrum.

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30 D-Index 121+

This scientist: 59 D-Index — 72nd percentile

72% of scientists in this discipline score the same or lower.

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

Overview

Tim Guilford is affiliated with the University of Oxford in the United Kingdom. Their research primarily focuses on environmental science, with a specialization in avian ecology and behavior as well as marine animal studies. The scientist's work encompasses a range of topics related to ecology, animal behavior, conservation, and the impact of environmental factors on wildlife.

Their recent publications contribute to several key areas of study and include the following papers:

  • Multispecies tracking reveals a major seabird hotspot in the North Atlantic, 2021, Conservation Letters
  • Global assessment of marine plastic exposure risk for oceanic birds, 2023, Nature Communications
  • Natal imprinting to the Earth's magnetic field in a pelagic seabird, 2020, Current Biology
  • Magnetic stop signs signal a European songbird's arrival at the breeding site after migration, 2022, Science
  • Avoidance of different durations, colours and intensities of artificial light by adult seabirds, 2021, Scientific Reports

Tim Guilford frequently collaborates with several researchers, including:

  • Oliver Padget
  • Annette L. Fayet
  • Joe Wynn
  • Natasha Gillies
  • Martyna Syposz

Their work is often published in established journals such as:

  • Current Biology
  • Scientific Reports
  • Ibis
  • Animal Behaviour
  • Proceedings of the Royal Society B Biological Sciences

Tim Guilford's research spans several subfields, including ecology, evolution and behavior, global and planetary change, nature and landscape conservation, and ecological modeling. The main scientific topics covered in their publications include:

  • Avian ecology and behavior
  • Marine animal studies overview
  • Animal behavior and reproduction
  • Wildlife ecology and conservation
  • Fish ecology and management studies
  • Species distribution and climate change
  • Marine and fisheries research

Best Publications

  • Receiver psychology and the evolution of animal signals

    Tim Guilford;Marian Stamp Dawkins

  • Migration and stopover in a small pelagic seabird, the Manx shearwater Puffinus puffinus: insights from machine learning.

    T. Guilford;J. Meade;J. Willis;Richard A. Phillips

  • The corruption of honest signalling

    Marian Stamp Dawkins;Tim Guilford

  • From compromise to leadership in pigeon homing.

    Dora Biro;David J.T. Sumpter;Jessica Meade;Tim Guilford

  • Multicolony tracking reveals the winter distribution of a pelagic seabird on an ocean basin scale

    Morten Frederiksen;Børge Moe;Francis Daunt;Richard A. Phillips

  • The Evolution of Conspicuous Coloration

    Tim Guilford

  • Hidden colour aversions in domestic chicks triggered by pyrazine odours of insect warning displays

    Candy Rowe;Tim Guilford

  • The Evolution of Multimodal Warning Displays

    Candy Rowe;Tim Guilford

  • A dispersive migration in the Atlantic Puffin and its implications for migratory navigation.

    Tim Guilford;Robin Freeman;Robin Freeman;Dave Boyle;Ben Dean

  • Search images not proven: A reappraisal of recent evidence

    Tim Guilford;Marian Stamp Dawkins

  • Familiar route loyalty implies visual pilotage in the homing pigeon.

    Dora Biro;Jessica Meade;Tim Guilford

  • Receiver psychology and the design of animal signals

    Tim Guilford;Marian Stamp Dawkins

  • Sensory Bias and the Adaptiveness of Female Choice

    Marian Stamp Dawkins;Tim Guilford

  • The biological roles of pyrazines: evidence for a warning odour function

    Tim Guilford;Christine Nicol;Miriam Rothschild;Barry P. Moore

  • What are conventional signals

    Tim Guilford;Marian Stamp Dawkins

  • GPS tracking of the foraging movements of Manx Shearwaters Puffinus puffinus breeding on Skomer Island, Wales

    T. C. Guilford;J. Meade;R. Freeman;R. Freeman;D. Biro

  • How do ‘warning colours’ work? Conspicuousness may reduce recognition errors in experienced predators

    Tim Guilford

  • Positional entropy during pigeon homing II: navigational interpretation of Bayesian latent state models.

    Tim Guilford;Stephen Roberts;Dora Biro;Iead Rezek

  • Olfactory-bulb size and nocturnality in birds

    Sue Healy;Tim Guilford

  • Mate choice in the polymorphic African swallowtail butterfly, Papilio dardanus : male-like females may avoid sexual harassment

    S.E. Cook;Jennifer G. Vernon;Melissa Bateson;Tim Guilford

  • Effects of age and reproductive status on individual foraging site fidelity in a long-lived marine predator.

    Stephen C. Votier;Annette L. Fayet;Stuart Bearhop;Thomas W. Bodey

  • Behavioural mapping of a pelagic seabird: combining multiple sensors and a hidden Markov model reveals the distribution of at-sea behaviour

    Ben Dean;Robin Freeman;Holly Kirk;Kerry Leonard

  • What are leaders made of? The role of individual experience in determining leader-follower relations in homing pigeons

    Andrea Flack;Benjamin Pettit;Robin Freeman;Robin Freeman;Tim Guilford

  • Go-slow signalling and the problem of automimicry

    Tim Guilford

Frequent Co-Authors

Robin Freeman
Robin Freeman Zoological Society of London
Dora Biro
Dora Biro University of Rochester
Christopher M. Perrins
Christopher M. Perrins University of Oxford
Marian Stamp Dawkins
Marian Stamp Dawkins University of Oxford
Stephen J. Roberts
Stephen J. Roberts University of Oxford
Richard A. Phillips
Richard A. Phillips British Antarctic Survey
Russell B. Wynn
Russell B. Wynn National Oceanography Centre
David Grémillet
David Grémillet Centre national de la recherche scientifique, CNRS
Stephen C. Votier
Stephen C. Votier Heriot-Watt University
Jacob González-Solís
Jacob González-Solís University of Barcelona

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