Alison M. Bell

15.2k total citations · 5 hit papers
108 papers, 11.1k citations indexed

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Alison M. Bell is a scholar working on Ecology, Evolution, Behavior and Systematics, Social Psychology and Ecology. According to data from OpenAlex, Alison M. Bell has authored 108 papers receiving a total of 11.1k indexed citations (citations by other indexed papers that have themselves been cited), including 77 papers in Ecology, Evolution, Behavior and Systematics, 27 papers in Social Psychology and 23 papers in Ecology. Recurrent topics in Alison M. Bell's work include Animal Behavior and Reproduction (77 papers), Amphibian and Reptile Biology (20 papers) and Neuroendocrine regulation and behavior (20 papers). Alison M. Bell is often cited by papers focused on Animal Behavior and Reproduction (77 papers), Amphibian and Reptile Biology (20 papers) and Neuroendocrine regulation and behavior (20 papers). Alison M. Bell collaborates with scholars based in United States, United Kingdom and Canada. Alison M. Bell's co-authors include Andrew Sih, J. Chadwick Johnson, Kate L. Laskowski, Robert Ziemba, Judy A. Stamps, Katie E. McGhee, Jennifer K. Hellmann, Francis L. W. Ratnieks, Daniel I. Bolnick and Sasha R. X. Dall and has published in prestigious journals such as Nature, Science and Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences.

In The Last Decade

Alison M. Bell

104 papers receiving 10.9k citations

Hit Papers

5 papers align trajectories

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Hit papers significantly outperform the citation benchmark for their cohort. A paper qualifies if it has ≥500 total citations, achieves ≥1.5× the top-1% citation threshold for papers in the same subfield and year (this is the minimum needed to enter the top 1%, not the average within it), or reaches the top citation threshold in at least one of its specific research topics.

Behavioral syndromes: an ecological and evolutionary overview

2004 2.5k citations Andrew Sih, Alison M. Bell et al. Trends in Ecology & Evolution profile →
The repeatability of behaviour: a meta-analysis

2009 1.6k citations Alison M. Bell et al. Animal Behaviour profile →
Behavioral Syndromes: An Integrative Overview

2004 1.5k citations Andrew Sih, Alison M. Bell et al. profile →
Exposure to predation generates personality in threespined sticklebacks (Gasterosteus aculeatus)

2007 602 citations Alison M. Bell, Andrew Sih profile →
An evolutionary ecology of individual differences

2012 382 citations Alison M. Bell et al. profile →

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Name	h						Papers	Cites
Alison M. Bell United States	40	8.2k	3.5k	2.4k	2.1k	1.9k	108	11.1k
Daniel Sol Spain	49	7.1k 0.9×	5.5k 1.6×	1.6k 0.7×	1.9k 0.9×	2.8k 1.5×	128	12.1k
Michael Taborsky Switzerland	59	7.5k 0.9×	3.8k 1.1×	2.5k 1.1×	1.4k 0.7×	2.7k 1.5×	219	11.3k
Denis Réale Canada	54	10.8k 1.3×	7.0k 2.0×	3.5k 1.5×	2.3k 1.1×	2.3k 1.2×	161	16.1k
Judy A. Stamps United States	61	8.2k 1.0×	5.2k 1.5×	2.0k 0.9×	3.4k 1.6×	1.2k 0.6×	126	11.8k
Niels J. Dingemanse Germany	57	13.3k 1.6×	6.7k 1.9×	3.1k 1.3×	2.9k 1.4×	2.6k 1.4×	166	17.3k
Robert W. Elwood United Kingdom	57	4.7k 0.6×	4.6k 1.3×	1.9k 0.8×	1.8k 0.8×	2.0k 1.1×	216	10.3k
Rui F. Oliveira Portugal	50	5.4k 0.7×	2.3k 0.7×	1.2k 0.5×	1.4k 0.7×	2.3k 1.2×	228	8.9k
Paul W. Sherman United States	57	7.3k 0.9×	5.4k 1.6×	3.0k 1.3×	972 0.5×	1.8k 1.0×	128	12.7k
Alastair J. Wilson United Kingdom	50	5.2k 0.6×	3.3k 1.0×	3.4k 1.4×	1.0k 0.5×	633 0.3×	164	8.8k
Ellen D. Ketterson United States	57	8.1k 1.0×	5.7k 1.6×	1.5k 0.6×	929 0.4×	1.1k 0.6×	186	10.9k

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Fischer, Eva K., et al.. (2025). An Evolutionary Loss of Parental Care in Stickleback Is Associated with Differences in the Activity, but Not the Number, of Neuropeptidergic Neurons in the Preoptic Area. Brain Behavior and Evolution. 100(3). 171–182.

Rubakhin, Stanislav S., et al.. (2025). Single-Cell Peptide Profiling to Distinguish Stickleback Ecotypes with Divergent Breeding Behavior. Journal of Proteome Research. 24(4). 1596–1605.

Behrens, Carmen, et al.. (2023). A distinct neurogenomic response to a trade-off between social challenge and opportunity in male sticklebacks ( Gasterosteus aculeatus ). Biology Letters. 19(11). 20230253–20230253. 2 indexed citations

Bell, Alison M., et al.. (2023). Bringing researchers to the consumer table: The process and outcomes of a consumer roundtable on telehealth. Journal of Telemedicine and Telecare. 31(3). 430–436. 1 indexed citations

Anderson, Samantha, et al.. (2022). Vertical transmission of horizontally acquired social information in sticklebacks: implications for transgenerational plasticity. Proceedings of the Royal Society B Biological Sciences. 289(1979). 20220571–20220571. 6 indexed citations

Bell, Alison M., et al.. (2022). Insights into Parental Care from Studies on Non-mammalian Vertebrates. Affective Science. 3(4). 792–798. 2 indexed citations

Hellmann, Jennifer K., et al.. (2020). Sex‐specific plasticity across generations II: Grandpaternal effects are lineage specific and sex specific. Journal of Animal Ecology. 89(12). 2800–2812. 29 indexed citations

Hellmann, Jennifer K., et al.. (2020). Sex‐specific plasticity across generations I: Maternal and paternal effects on sons and daughters. Journal of Animal Ecology. 89(12). 2788–2799. 43 indexed citations

Bukhari, Syed, et al.. (2019). Neurogenomic insights into paternal care and its relation to territorial aggression. Nature Communications. 10(1). 4437–4437. 29 indexed citations

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Donelan, Sarah C., Jennifer K. Hellmann, Alison M. Bell, et al.. (2019). Transgenerational Plasticity in Human-Altered Environments. Trends in Ecology & Evolution. 35(2). 115–124. 110 indexed citations

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Bell, Alison M., et al.. (2018). Parenting behaviour is highly heritable in male stickleback. Royal Society Open Science. 5(1). 171029–171029. 17 indexed citations

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Saul, Michael C., Charles Blatti, Wei Yang, et al.. (2018). Cross‐species systems analysis of evolutionary toolkits of neurogenomic response to social challenge. Genes Brain & Behavior. 18(1). e12502–e12502. 20 indexed citations

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Saltz, Julia B., Alison M. Bell, Jonathan Flint, et al.. (2018). Why does the magnitude of genotype‐by‐environment interaction vary?. Ecology and Evolution. 8(12). 6342–6353. 95 indexed citations

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Bengston, Sarah, Zoe R. Donaldson, Steven M. Phelps, et al.. (2018). Genomic tools for behavioural ecologists to understand repeatable individual differences in behaviour. Nature Ecology & Evolution. 2(6). 944–955. 53 indexed citations

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Stein, Laura R., et al.. (2016). Do reproduction and parenting influence personality traits? Insights from threespine stickleback. Animal Behaviour. 112. 247–254. 8 indexed citations

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Bell, Alison M. & Ned A. Dochtermann. (2015). Integrating molecular mechanisms into quantitative genetics to understand consistent individual differences in behavior. Current Opinion in Behavioral Sciences. 6. 111–114. 6 indexed citations

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Hodson, Martin J. & Alison M. Bell. (2013). THE MINERAL RELATIONS OF THE LEMMA OF PHALARIS CANARIENSIS L., WITH PARTICULAR REFERENCE TO ITS SILICIFIED MACROHAIRS. Israel journal of botany. Basic and applied plant sciences. 35. 241–253. 3 indexed citations

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Sih, Andrew & Alison M. Bell. (2008). Chapter 5 Insights for Behavioral Ecology from Behavioral Syndromes. PubMed. 38. 227–281. 443 indexed citations

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Sih, Andrew, Alison M. Bell, & Jacob L. Kerby. (2004). Two stressors are far deadlier than one. Trends in Ecology & Evolution. 19(6). 274–276. 157 indexed citations

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Reddy, A. Rama Mohan, Martin Yuille, Alice Sullivan, et al.. (2002). Analysis of CHK2 in vulval neoplasia. British Journal of Cancer. 86(5). 756–760. 30 indexed citations

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