Barbara Class

477 total citations
22 papers, 299 citations indexed

About

Barbara Class is a scholar working on Ecology, Evolution, Behavior and Systematics, Ecology and Experimental and Cognitive Psychology. According to data from OpenAlex, Barbara Class has authored 22 papers receiving a total of 299 indexed citations (citations by other indexed papers that have themselves been cited), including 20 papers in Ecology, Evolution, Behavior and Systematics, 11 papers in Ecology and 5 papers in Experimental and Cognitive Psychology. Recurrent topics in Barbara Class's work include Animal Behavior and Reproduction (19 papers), Plant and animal studies (8 papers) and Wildlife Ecology and Conservation (6 papers). Barbara Class is often cited by papers focused on Animal Behavior and Reproduction (19 papers), Plant and animal studies (8 papers) and Wildlife Ecology and Conservation (6 papers). Barbara Class collaborates with scholars based in Finland, Australia and Germany. Barbara Class's co-authors include Jon E. Brommer, Yimen G. Araya‐Ajoy, Edward Kluen, Niels J. Dingemanse, Marie Pelé, Cédric Sueur, Kees van Oers, Hassen Allegue, Holger Schielzeth and Julien G. A. Martin and has published in prestigious journals such as Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society B Biological Sciences, Evolution and Proceedings of the Royal Society B Biological Sciences.

In The Last Decade

Barbara Class

21 papers receiving 298 citations

Peers — A (Enhanced Table)

Peers by citation overlap · career bar shows stage (early→late) cites · hero ref

Name h Career Trend Papers Cites
Barbara Class Finland 11 236 120 51 34 33 22 299
Benedikt Holtmann New Zealand 6 203 0.9× 134 1.1× 40 0.8× 28 0.8× 38 1.2× 11 253
N. Thavarajah United Kingdom 7 184 0.8× 137 1.1× 77 1.5× 53 1.6× 31 0.9× 9 284
Charlotte E. Regan United Kingdom 9 124 0.5× 147 1.2× 47 0.9× 39 1.1× 25 0.8× 21 267
Francesca Santostefano Canada 9 257 1.1× 85 0.7× 100 2.0× 23 0.7× 48 1.5× 17 307
Kristina B. Beck Germany 9 196 0.8× 93 0.8× 41 0.8× 68 2.0× 65 2.0× 17 281
Grant C. McDonald United Kingdom 12 325 1.4× 90 0.8× 154 3.0× 26 0.8× 24 0.7× 25 380
Peyton M. West United States 6 167 0.7× 143 1.2× 65 1.3× 58 1.7× 26 0.8× 8 317
Niki Teunissen Australia 11 191 0.8× 131 1.1× 33 0.6× 22 0.6× 23 0.7× 19 301
Daiping Wang Germany 11 201 0.9× 115 1.0× 84 1.6× 23 0.7× 14 0.4× 23 272
Kasha Strickland Australia 11 176 0.7× 153 1.3× 49 1.0× 38 1.1× 103 3.1× 24 290

Countries citing papers authored by Barbara Class

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Fields of papers citing papers by Barbara Class

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Physical SciencesHealth SciencesLife SciencesSocial Sciences

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Co-authorship network of co-authors of Barbara Class

This figure shows the co-authorship network connecting the top 25 collaborators of Barbara Class. A scholar is included among the top collaborators of Barbara Class based on the total number of citations received by their joint publications. Widths of edges represent the number of papers authors have co-authored together. Node borders signify the number of papers an author published with Barbara Class. Barbara Class is excluded from the visualization to improve readability, since they are connected to all nodes in the network.

All Works

20 of 20 papers shown
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Thompson, M. J., Pierre de Villemereuil, Céline Teplitsky, et al.. (2025). Behavioral DiverCity: individual differences in behavior change along an urbanization gradient. Behavioral Ecology. 36(4). araf035–araf035. 1 indexed citations
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Class, Barbara, Yimen G. Araya‐Ajoy, Ned A. Dochtermann, et al.. (2025). Disentangling nonrandom assortment, indirect effects, and joint plasticity as causes of phenotypic (dis)similarity between social partners. Journal of Evolutionary Biology. 38(8). 1082–1092. 1 indexed citations
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Class, Barbara, et al.. (2024). Active crocodiles are less sociable. Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society B Biological Sciences. 379(1912). 20220528–20220528. 2 indexed citations
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Frère, Céline, Barbara Class, Dominique A. Potvin, & Amiyaal Ilany. (2023). Social inheritance of avoidances shapes the structure of animal social networks. Behavioral Ecology. 35(1). arad088–arad088. 1 indexed citations
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Ball, Sarah, Dominique A. Potvin, Barbara Class, & Céline Frère. (2023). Agonism does not covary with territoriality in a gregarious reptile. Behavioral Ecology and Sociobiology. 77(6).
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Jackson, Nicola, et al.. (2023). Adaptive significance of affiliative behaviour differs between sexes in a wild reptile population. Proceedings of the Royal Society B Biological Sciences. 290(2001). 20230805–20230805. 3 indexed citations
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Class, Barbara, et al.. (2023). Impacts of fungal disease on dyadic social interactions in a wild agamid lizard. Animal Behaviour. 200. 125–136. 2 indexed citations
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Jackson, Nicola, Bethan L. Littleford‐Colquhoun, Kasha Strickland, Barbara Class, & Céline Frère. (2022). Selection in the city: Rapid and fine‐scale evolution of urban eastern water dragons. Evolution. 76(10). 2302–2314. 1 indexed citations
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Class, Barbara, et al.. (2021). Estimating the long-term repeatability of food-hoarding behaviours in an avian predator. Biology Letters. 17(7). 20210286–20210286. 2 indexed citations
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Westneat, David F., Yimen G. Araya‐Ajoy, Hassen Allegue, et al.. (2020). Collision between biological process and statistical analysis revealed by mean centring. Journal of Animal Ecology. 89(12). 2813–2824. 28 indexed citations
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Class, Barbara & Jon E. Brommer. (2020). Can dominance genetic variance be ignored in evolutionary quantitative genetic analyses of wild populations?. Evolution. 74(7). 1540–1550. 13 indexed citations
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Class, Barbara & Jon E. Brommer. (2020). Contrasting multilevel relationships between behavior and body mass in blue tit nestlings. Behavioral Ecology. 31(3). 702–710. 2 indexed citations
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Class, Barbara, Jon E. Brommer, & Kees van Oers. (2019). Exploratory behavior undergoes genotype–age interactions in a wild bird. Ecology and Evolution. 9(16). 8987–8994. 14 indexed citations
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Class, Barbara, Edward Kluen, & Jon E. Brommer. (2019). Tail colour signals performance in blue tit nestlings. Journal of Evolutionary Biology. 32(9). 913–920. 6 indexed citations
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Class, Barbara & Jon E. Brommer. (2018). Shared environmental effects bias phenotypic estimates of assortative mating in a wild bird. Biology Letters. 14(7). 20180106–20180106. 14 indexed citations
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Class, Barbara & Jon E. Brommer. (2016). Senescence of personality in a wild bird. Behavioral Ecology and Sociobiology. 70(5). 733–744. 33 indexed citations
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Brommer, Jon E. & Barbara Class. (2015). The importance of genotype-by-age interactions for the development of repeatable behavior and correlated behaviors over lifetime. Frontiers in Zoology. 12(Suppl 1). S2–S2. 34 indexed citations
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Class, Barbara & Jon E. Brommer. (2015). A strong genetic correlation underlying a behavioural syndrome disappears during development because of genotype–age interactions. Proceedings of the Royal Society B Biological Sciences. 282(1809). 20142777–20142777. 31 indexed citations
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Class, Barbara, Edward Kluen, & Jon E. Brommer. (2014). Evolutionary quantitative genetics of behavioral responses to handling in a wild passerine. Ecology and Evolution. 4(4). 427–440. 22 indexed citations
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Sueur, Cédric, et al.. (2013). Different risk thresholds in pedestrian road crossing behaviour: A comparison of French and Japanese approaches. Accident Analysis & Prevention. 58. 59–63. 42 indexed citations

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