Benjamin J. Ashton

886 total citations · 1 hit paper
27 papers, 555 citations indexed

About

Benjamin J. Ashton is a scholar working on Ecology, Evolution, Behavior and Systematics, Social Psychology and Ecology. According to data from OpenAlex, Benjamin J. Ashton has authored 27 papers receiving a total of 555 indexed citations (citations by other indexed papers that have themselves been cited), including 24 papers in Ecology, Evolution, Behavior and Systematics, 14 papers in Social Psychology and 12 papers in Ecology. Recurrent topics in Benjamin J. Ashton's work include Animal Behavior and Reproduction (22 papers), Primate Behavior and Ecology (13 papers) and Bat Biology and Ecology Studies (6 papers). Benjamin J. Ashton is often cited by papers focused on Animal Behavior and Reproduction (22 papers), Primate Behavior and Ecology (13 papers) and Bat Biology and Ecology Studies (6 papers). Benjamin J. Ashton collaborates with scholars based in Australia, United Kingdom and South Africa. Benjamin J. Ashton's co-authors include Amanda R. Ridley, Alex Thornton, Andrew N. Radford, Kate V. Morgan, Maxime Cauchoix, Leigh W. Simmons, Martin J. Whiting, Birgit Szabo, Yong Zhi Foo and Stefan Fischer and has published in prestigious journals such as Nature, Nature Communications and The Science of The Total Environment.

In The Last Decade

Benjamin J. Ashton

27 papers receiving 546 citations

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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.

Cognitive performance is linked to group size and affects fitness in Australian magpies

2018 210 citations Benjamin J. Ashton, Amanda R. Ridley et al. Nature profile →

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Name	h						Papers	Cites
Benjamin J. Ashton Australia	11	407	261	194	144	68	27	555
Ellis Langley United Kingdom	13	390 1.0×	294 1.1×	112 0.6×	97 0.7×	61 0.9×	22	549
Corina Logan United States	12	273 0.7×	265 1.0×	110 0.6×	89 0.6×	78 1.1×	39	490
Urs Kalbitzer Canada	15	279 0.7×	425 1.6×	162 0.8×	162 1.1×	40 0.6×	33	646
Winnie Eckardt United States	13	230 0.6×	346 1.3×	157 0.8×	127 0.9×	50 0.7×	46	505
Claudia Mettke‐Hofmann Germany	8	426 1.0×	190 0.7×	255 1.3×	103 0.7×	58 0.9×	12	587
A. Catherine Markham United States	14	284 0.7×	437 1.7×	191 1.0×	179 1.2×	78 1.1×	26	633
Rachael C. Shaw New Zealand	16	495 1.2×	422 1.6×	227 1.2×	163 1.1×	116 1.7×	37	819
Shelly Masi France	12	236 0.6×	512 2.0×	168 0.9×	210 1.5×	88 1.3×	34	669
Christine E. Beardsworth United Kingdom	13	292 0.7×	194 0.7×	185 1.0×	68 0.5×	61 0.9×	24	476
Tara R. Harris United States	15	373 0.9×	433 1.7×	318 1.6×	275 1.9×	57 0.8×	18	739

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20 of 20 papers shown

Ashton, Benjamin J., et al.. (2025). Response to intruder number is related to spontaneous quantity discrimination performance in a wild bird. Behavioral Ecology. 36(5). araf093–araf093. 1 indexed citations

Ashton, Benjamin J., et al.. (2025). Group size affects spontaneous quantity discrimination performance in wild Western Australian magpies (Gymnorhina tibicen dorsalis). Animal Cognition. 28(1). 41–41. 2 indexed citations

Ashton, Benjamin J., et al.. (2024). Heritability of cognitive performance in wild Western Australian magpies. Royal Society Open Science. 11(3). 231399–231399. 8 indexed citations

Ashton, Benjamin J., et al.. (2024). Meta‐analyses reveal support for the Social Intelligence Hypothesis. Biological reviews/Biological reviews of the Cambridge Philosophical Society. 99(5). 1889–1908. 5 indexed citations

Ashton, Benjamin J., et al.. (2024). Aggressive interactions influence cognitive performance in Western Australian magpies. Proceedings of the Royal Society B Biological Sciences. 291(2024). 20240435–20240435. 2 indexed citations

Ashton, Benjamin J., et al.. (2024). Investigating the relationship between physical cognitive tasks and a social cognitive task in a wild bird. Animal Cognition. 27(1). 52–52. 3 indexed citations

Gonçalves, Inês Braga, Benjamin J. Ashton, & Stefan Fischer. (2023). Causes and Consequences of Cognitive Variation in Fishes. Fishes. 8(6). 277–277. 2 indexed citations

Ashton, Benjamin J., et al.. (2023). Cognition mediates response to anthropogenic noise in wild Western Australian magpies (Gmynorhina tibicen dorsalis). Global Change Biology. 29(24). 6912–6930. 7 indexed citations

Szabo, Birgit, et al.. (2023). Spontaneous quantity discrimination in the Australian sleepy lizard (Tiliqua rugosa). Behavioral Ecology. 35(1). 6 indexed citations

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Ashton, Benjamin J., et al.. (2023). High temperatures during early development reduce adult cognitive performance and reproductive success in a wild animal population. The Science of The Total Environment. 912. 169111–169111. 6 indexed citations

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Ashton, Benjamin J., et al.. (2023). High temperatures are associated with reduced cognitive performance in wild southern pied babblers. Proceedings of the Royal Society B Biological Sciences. 290(2011). 20231077–20231077. 10 indexed citations

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Ashton, Benjamin J., et al.. (2022). General cognitive performance declines with female age and is negatively related to fledging success in a wild bird. Proceedings of the Royal Society B Biological Sciences. 289(1989). 20221748–20221748. 19 indexed citations

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Ashton, Benjamin J., et al.. (2022). Does trappability and self-selection influence cognitive performance?. Royal Society Open Science. 9(9). 220473–220473. 4 indexed citations

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Ashton, Benjamin J., et al.. (2022). Repeated testing does not confound cognitive performance in the Western Australian magpie (Cracticus tibicen dorsalis). Animal Cognition. 26(2). 579–588. 10 indexed citations

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Ashton, Benjamin J., et al.. (2022). Periorbital temperature responses to natural air temperature variation in wild birds. Journal of Thermal Biology. 109. 103323–103323. 4 indexed citations

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Ashton, Benjamin J., et al.. (2020). Interactions with conspecific outsiders as drivers of cognitive evolution. Nature Communications. 11(1). 4937–4937. 34 indexed citations

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Ashton, Benjamin J., Alex Thornton, & Amanda R. Ridley. (2019). Larger group sizes facilitate the emergence and spread of innovations in a group-living bird. Animal Behaviour. 158. 1–7. 32 indexed citations

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Ashton, Benjamin J., et al.. (2019). Social and Individual Factors Influence Variation in Offspring Care in the Cooperatively Breeding Western Australian Magpie. Frontiers in Ecology and Evolution. 7. 29 indexed citations

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Ashton, Benjamin J., Amanda R. Ridley, & Alex Thornton. (2018). Smarter through group living: A response to Smulders. Learning & Behavior. 47(4). 277–279. 4 indexed citations

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Ashton, Benjamin J., et al.. (2018). Cognitive performance is linked to group size and affects fitness in Australian magpies. Nature. 554(7692). 364–367. 210 indexed citations breakdown →

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