Ben Dantzer

6.3k total citations · 5 hit papers
96 papers, 4.1k citations indexed

About

Ben Dantzer is a scholar working on Ecology, Evolution, Behavior and Systematics, Ecology and Social Psychology. According to data from OpenAlex, Ben Dantzer has authored 96 papers receiving a total of 4.1k indexed citations (citations by other indexed papers that have themselves been cited), including 73 papers in Ecology, Evolution, Behavior and Systematics, 54 papers in Ecology and 25 papers in Social Psychology. Recurrent topics in Ben Dantzer's work include Animal Behavior and Reproduction (54 papers), Animal Ecology and Behavior Studies (46 papers) and Bat Biology and Ecology Studies (30 papers). Ben Dantzer is often cited by papers focused on Animal Behavior and Reproduction (54 papers), Animal Ecology and Behavior Studies (46 papers) and Bat Biology and Ecology Studies (30 papers). Ben Dantzer collaborates with scholars based in United States, Canada and Austria. Ben Dantzer's co-authors include Rudy Boonstra, Rupert Palme, Michael J. Sheriff, Stan Boutin, Andrew G. McAdam, Murray M. Humphries, Brendan Delehanty, Quinn E. Fletcher, Eli M. Swanson and Dustin R. Rubenstein and has published in prestigious journals such as Science, Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences and PLoS ONE.

In The Last Decade

Ben Dantzer

89 papers receiving 4.1k citations

Hit Papers

5 papers align trajectories

What are hit papers?

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.

Measuring stress in wildlife: techniques for quantifying glucocorticoids

2011 696 citations Michael J. Sheriff, Ben Dantzer et al. profile →
The ecology of stress: effects of the social environment

2012 371 citations Ben Dantzer et al. Functional Ecology profile →
Seasonal, spatial, and maternal effects on gut microbiome in wild red squirrels

2017 335 citations Stan Boutin, Murray M. Humphries et al. profile →
Measures of physiological stress: a transparent or opaque window into the status, management and conservation of species?

2014 331 citations Ben Dantzer, Rudy Boonstra et al. profile →
Brain size predicts problem-solving ability in mammalian carnivores

2016 241 citations Ben Dantzer et al. profile →

Peers — A (Enhanced Table)

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

Name	h						Papers	Cites
Ben Dantzer United States	28	2.1k	1.8k	1.0k	977	479	96	4.1k
Michael J. Sheriff United States	33	2.2k 1.1×	2.5k 1.4×	822 0.8×	1.0k 1.1×	552 1.2×	72	4.8k
Claudio Carere Italy	33	3.4k 1.6×	2.0k 1.1×	885 0.9×	624 0.6×	798 1.7×	99	5.0k
Donna L. Maney United States	35	2.9k 1.4×	2.0k 1.1×	782 0.8×	359 0.4×	691 1.4×	83	5.3k
Wolfgang Goymann Germany	41	4.1k 2.0×	2.6k 1.4×	1.1k 1.1×	935 1.0×	703 1.5×	145	5.9k
Steven L. Monfort United States	41	1.8k 0.9×	2.6k 1.4×	1.3k 1.3×	1.7k 1.8×	1.3k 2.7×	116	5.7k
Katherine L. Buchanan Australia	42	4.5k 2.2×	3.0k 1.6×	610 0.6×	290 0.3×	599 1.3×	150	6.3k
John F. Cockrem New Zealand	35	2.0k 1.0×	1.4k 0.8×	445 0.4×	682 0.7×	289 0.6×	110	3.7k
Oliver P. Love Canada	36	2.3k 1.1×	2.7k 1.5×	487 0.5×	312 0.3×	273 0.6×	133	4.4k
Creagh W. Breuner United States	38	4.1k 2.0×	3.1k 1.7×	630 0.6×	671 0.7×	407 0.8×	76	5.8k
Michaela Hau Germany	48	4.3k 2.1×	3.1k 1.7×	676 0.7×	332 0.3×	587 1.2×	111	6.3k

Countries citing papers authored by Ben Dantzer

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Citations

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Fields of papers citing papers by Ben Dantzer

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Physical SciencesHealth SciencesLife SciencesSocial Sciences

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Co-authorship network of co-authors of Ben Dantzer

This figure shows the co-authorship network connecting the top 25 collaborators of Ben Dantzer. A scholar is included among the top collaborators of Ben Dantzer 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 Ben Dantzer. Ben Dantzer is excluded from the visualization to improve readability, since they are connected to all nodes in the network.

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Petrullo, Lauren, et al.. (2025). Harbingers of change: Towards a mechanistic understanding of anticipatory plasticity in animal systems. Functional Ecology. 39(11). 2999–3020. 1 indexed citations

Dantzer, Ben, et al.. (2024). Behavioral variation among Fox Squirrel (Sciurus niger) populations in urban environments. Journal of Mammalogy. 105(6). 1289–1299. 1 indexed citations

McAdam, Andrew G., et al.. (2024). Reproductive state alters vocal characteristics of female North American red squirrels (Tamiasciurus hudsonicus). Journal of Mammalogy. 105(2). 358–371.

Dantzer, Ben. (2023). Frank Beach Award Winner: The centrality of the hypothalamic-pituitary-adrenal axis in dealing with environmental change across temporal scales. Hormones and Behavior. 150. 105311–105311. 11 indexed citations

Petrullo, Lauren, Stan Boutin, Jeffrey E. Lane, Andrew G. McAdam, & Ben Dantzer. (2023). Phenotype–environment mismatch errors enhance lifetime fitness in wild red squirrels. Science. 379(6629). 269–272. 11 indexed citations

Dantzer, Ben, Karen E. Mabry, Joey R. Bernhardt, et al.. (2023). Understanding Organisms Using Ecological Observatory Networks. Integrative Organismal Biology. 5(1). obad036–obad036. 2 indexed citations

Martinig, April Robin, Erin R. Siracusa, Emily K. Studd, et al.. (2022). Animal personality: a comparison of standardized assays and focal observations in North American red squirrels. Animal Behaviour. 190. 221–232. 10 indexed citations

Dantzer, Ben, et al.. (2021). Urban fox squirrels exhibit tolerance to humans but respond to stimuli from natural predators. Ethology. 127(9). 697–709. 11 indexed citations

Kesteren, Freya van, et al.. (2021). Maternal glucocorticoids have minimal effects on HPA axis activity and behavior of juvenile wild North American red squirrels. Journal of Experimental Biology. 224(10). 7 indexed citations

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Gaidica, Matt & Ben Dantzer. (2020). Quantifying the Autonomic Response to Stressors—One Way to Expand the Definition of “Stress” in Animals. Integrative and Comparative Biology. 60(1). 113–125. 17 indexed citations

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Martinig, April Robin, Kimberley J. Mathot, Jeffrey E. Lane, Ben Dantzer, & Stan Boutin. (2020). Selective disappearance does not underlie age-related changes in trait repeatability in red squirrels. Behavioral Ecology. 32(2). 306–315. 7 indexed citations

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Fisher, David N., Alastair J. Wilson, Stan Boutin, et al.. (2019). Social effects of territorial neighbours on the timing of spring breeding in North American red squirrels. Journal of Evolutionary Biology. 32(6). 559–571. 21 indexed citations

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Guindre‐Parker, Sarah, Andrew G. McAdam, Freya van Kesteren, et al.. (2019). Individual variation in phenotypic plasticity of the stress axis. Biology Letters. 15(7). 20190260–20190260. 21 indexed citations

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Dantzer, Ben, Constance Dubuc, Inês Braga Gonçalves, et al.. (2019). The development of individual differences in cooperative behaviour: maternal glucocorticoid hormones alter helping behaviour of offspring in wild meerkats. Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society B Biological Sciences. 374(1770). 20180117–20180117. 17 indexed citations

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Boutin, Stan, et al.. (2018). Individual variation in the dear enemy phenomenon via territorial vocalizations in red squirrels. Behaviour. 155(13-15). 1073–1096. 5 indexed citations

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Sheriff, Michael J., Ben Dantzer, Oliver P. Love, & John L. Orrock. (2018). Error management theory and the adaptive significance of transgenerational maternal‐stress effects on offspring phenotype. Ecology and Evolution. 8(13). 6473–6482. 32 indexed citations

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Santicchia, Francesca, Ben Dantzer, Freya van Kesteren, et al.. (2018). Stress in biological invasions: Introduced invasive grey squirrels increase physiological stress in native Eurasian red squirrels. Journal of Animal Ecology. 87(5). 1342–1352. 38 indexed citations

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Siracusa, Erin R., Stan Boutin, Murray M. Humphries, et al.. (2017). Red squirrel territorial vocalizations deter intrusions by conspecific rivals. Behaviour. 154(13-15). 1259–1273. 21 indexed citations

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Dubuc, Constance, Sinéad English, N. Thavarajah, et al.. (2017). Increased food availability raises eviction rate in a cooperative breeding mammal. Biology Letters. 13(4). 12 indexed citations

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Hämäläinen, Anni, Andrew G. McAdam, Ben Dantzer, et al.. (2017). Fitness consequences of peak reproductive effort in a resource pulse system. Scientific Reports. 7(1). 9335–9335. 15 indexed citations

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