Barbara König

7.3k total citations
129 papers, 4.2k citations indexed

About

Barbara König is a scholar working on Ecology, Evolution, Behavior and Systematics, Social Psychology and Ecology. According to data from OpenAlex, Barbara König has authored 129 papers receiving a total of 4.2k indexed citations (citations by other indexed papers that have themselves been cited), including 56 papers in Ecology, Evolution, Behavior and Systematics, 42 papers in Social Psychology and 42 papers in Ecology. Recurrent topics in Barbara König's work include Animal Behavior and Reproduction (50 papers), Neuroendocrine regulation and behavior (32 papers) and Wildlife Ecology and Conservation (24 papers). Barbara König is often cited by papers focused on Animal Behavior and Reproduction (50 papers), Neuroendocrine regulation and behavior (32 papers) and Wildlife Ecology and Conservation (24 papers). Barbara König collaborates with scholars based in Switzerland, Germany and United States. Barbara König's co-authors include Gerald Kerth, Anna K. Lindholm, Carsten Schradin, Neville Pillay, Patrícia C. Lopes, Kamran Safi, Christian Simhandl, Per Block, Frieder Mayer and Ivana Schoepf and has published in prestigious journals such as Nucleic Acids Research, Nature Communications and Physical review. B, Condensed matter.

In The Last Decade

Barbara König

126 papers receiving 4.1k 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 König Switzerland 39 2.0k 1.5k 1.0k 688 433 129 4.2k
W. J. Hamilton United States 38 1.4k 0.7× 1.9k 1.2× 1.1k 1.1× 628 0.9× 607 1.4× 141 4.5k
Laurence G. Frank United States 39 1.1k 0.5× 3.0k 1.9× 1.4k 1.4× 827 1.2× 305 0.7× 83 4.7k
Osamu Takenaka Japan 38 978 0.5× 502 0.3× 1.0k 1.0× 1.0k 1.5× 425 1.0× 265 5.7k
Geoffrey E. Hill United States 75 11.5k 5.7× 7.3k 4.7× 511 0.5× 2.4k 3.4× 855 2.0× 385 17.1k
Nathaniel J. Dominy United States 41 1.1k 0.5× 1.1k 0.7× 1.8k 1.8× 967 1.4× 413 1.0× 120 4.9k
R. Robin Baker United Kingdom 30 1.6k 0.8× 1.0k 0.7× 322 0.3× 759 1.1× 95 0.2× 55 3.7k
Christopher C. Smith United States 27 2.5k 1.2× 2.4k 1.6× 206 0.2× 607 0.9× 65 0.2× 69 5.3k
Gabriele Sorci France 55 5.3k 2.6× 4.1k 2.6× 421 0.4× 1.4k 2.0× 257 0.6× 163 9.1k
S. A. Barnett United Kingdom 33 687 0.3× 956 0.6× 1.2k 1.1× 342 0.5× 39 0.1× 137 3.9k
Kevin J. McGraw United States 55 7.2k 3.6× 4.2k 2.7× 326 0.3× 1.0k 1.5× 386 0.9× 264 9.9k

Countries citing papers authored by Barbara König

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Fields of papers citing papers by Barbara König

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Physical SciencesHealth SciencesLife SciencesSocial Sciences

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Co-authorship network of co-authors of Barbara König

This figure shows the co-authorship network connecting the top 25 collaborators of Barbara König. A scholar is included among the top collaborators of Barbara König 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 König. Barbara König 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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König, Barbara, et al.. (2025). Vocal communication is seasonal in social groups of wild, free-living house mice. Proceedings of the Royal Society B Biological Sciences. 292(2049). 20250995–20250995. 2 indexed citations
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König, Barbara, et al.. (2022). Parent‐offspring inference in inbred populations. Molecular Ecology Resources. 22(8). 2981–2993. 2 indexed citations
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Gapp, Katharina, Rebecca M. Kilner, Joris M. Koene, et al.. (2022). Socially transferred materials: why and how to study them. Trends in Ecology & Evolution. 38(5). 446–458. 9 indexed citations
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Pfeiffer, Steffi, Barbara König, Christian Simhandl, et al.. (2022). The big five model in bipolar disorder: a latent profile analysis and its impact on longterm illness severity. International Journal of Bipolar Disorders. 10(1). 1–1. 5 indexed citations
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Evans, Julian, Anna K. Lindholm, & Barbara König. (2021). Family dynamics reveal that female house mice preferentially breed in their maternal community. Behavioral Ecology. 33(1). 222–232. 4 indexed citations
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König, Barbara, et al.. (2021). Plant protection in private gardens in Germany: between growing environmental awareness, knowledge and actual behaviour. European Journal of Horticultural Science. 86(1). 59–68. 2 indexed citations
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Auclair, Yannick, et al.. (2021). Population Density and Temperature Influence the Return on Maternal Investment in Wild House Mice. Frontiers in Ecology and Evolution. 8. 6 indexed citations
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Evans, Julian, et al.. (2020). A natural catastrophic turnover event: individual sociality matters despite community resilience in wild house mice. Proceedings of the Royal Society B Biological Sciences. 287(1926). 20192880–20192880. 19 indexed citations
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Manser, Andri, Barbara König, & Anna K. Lindholm. (2020). Polyandry blocks gene drive in a wild house mouse population. Nature Communications. 11(1). 5590–5590. 23 indexed citations
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Lopes, Patrícia C. & Barbara König. (2020). Wild mice with different social network sizes vary in brain gene expression. BMC Genomics. 21(1). 506–506. 6 indexed citations
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Lopes, Patrícia C., Per Block, & Barbara König. (2016). Infection-induced behavioural changes reduce connectivity and the potential for disease spread in wild mice contact networks. Scientific Reports. 6(1). 31790–31790. 134 indexed citations
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Lindholm, Anna K., et al.. (2016). A reduced propensity to cooperate under enhanced exploitation risk in a social mammal. Proceedings of the Royal Society B Biological Sciences. 283(1830). 20160068–20160068. 11 indexed citations
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Dobay, Akos, Paola Pilo, Anna K. Lindholm, et al.. (2015). Dynamics of a Tularemia Outbreak in a Closely Monitored Free-Roaming Population of Wild House Mice. PLoS ONE. 10(11). e0141103–e0141103. 10 indexed citations
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Simhandl, Christian, Barbara König, & Benedikt L. Amann. (2014). A Prospective 4-Year Naturalistic Follow-Up of Treatment and Outcome of 300 Bipolar I and II Patients. The Journal of Clinical Psychiatry. 75(3). 254–263. 46 indexed citations
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Manser, Andri, Anna K. Lindholm, Barbara König, & Homayoun C. Bagheri. (2012). The effect of polyandry on a distorter system with differential viabilities in the sexes. Communicative & Integrative Biology. 5(6). 550–552. 1 indexed citations
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Kistler, Claudia, Daniel Hegglin, Hanno Würbel, & Barbara König. (2010). Structural enrichment and enclosure use in an opportunistic carnivore: the red fox(Vulpes vulpes). Animal Welfare. 19(4). 391–400. 6 indexed citations
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Zaı̆tsev, S. V., H. Schömig, G. Bacher, et al.. (2001). Buried CdTe/CdMgTe single quantum dots using selective thermal interdiffusion. Semiconductor Science and Technology. 16(7). 631–634. 11 indexed citations
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Bacher, G., H. Schömig, S. V. Zaı̆tsev, et al.. (2001). Optical spectroscopy on individual CdSe/ZnMnSe quantum dots. Applied Physics Letters. 79(4). 524–526. 45 indexed citations
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König, Barbara, et al.. (2000). Living together, feeding apart: How to measure individual food consumption in social house mice. Behavior Research Methods, Instruments, & Computers. 32(1). 169–172. 1 indexed citations

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