Bernhard Voelkl

5.1k total citations · 1 hit paper
65 papers, 2.7k citations indexed

About

Bernhard Voelkl is a scholar working on Ecology, Evolution, Behavior and Systematics, Social Psychology and Small Animals. According to data from OpenAlex, Bernhard Voelkl has authored 65 papers receiving a total of 2.7k indexed citations (citations by other indexed papers that have themselves been cited), including 26 papers in Ecology, Evolution, Behavior and Systematics, 24 papers in Social Psychology and 17 papers in Small Animals. Recurrent topics in Bernhard Voelkl's work include Animal Behavior and Reproduction (23 papers), Primate Behavior and Ecology (16 papers) and Evolutionary Game Theory and Cooperation (12 papers). Bernhard Voelkl is often cited by papers focused on Animal Behavior and Reproduction (23 papers), Primate Behavior and Ecology (16 papers) and Evolutionary Game Theory and Cooperation (12 papers). Bernhard Voelkl collaborates with scholars based in Switzerland, United Kingdom and Austria. Bernhard Voelkl's co-authors include Ludwig Huber, Hanno Würbel, Claudia Kasper, Ronald Noë, Johannes Fritz, Ben C. Sheldon, Josh A. Firth, Alan M. Wilson, James R. Usherwood and Steven J. Portugal and has published in prestigious journals such as Nature, Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences and Nature reviews. Neuroscience.

In The Last Decade

Bernhard Voelkl

64 papers receiving 2.7k 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.

Reproducibility of animal research in light of biological variation

2020 224 citations Bernhard Voelkl, Naomi Altman et al. Nature reviews. Neuroscience profile →

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Name	h						Papers	Cites
Bernhard Voelkl Switzerland	26	1.0k	971	499	454	400	65	2.7k
Lauren J. N. Brent United Kingdom	30	1.2k 1.2×	1.7k 1.7×	599 1.2×	536 1.2×	359 0.9×	90	2.9k
Claudia Fichtel Germany	30	1.6k 1.6×	1.7k 1.8×	647 1.3×	1.2k 2.6×	255 0.6×	117	3.0k
Mike Webster United Kingdom	31	1.9k 1.9×	883 0.9×	942 1.9×	479 1.1×	800 2.0×	101	4.0k
Colleen M. Schaffner United Kingdom	29	1.6k 1.6×	2.1k 2.1×	630 1.3×	1.0k 2.2×	261 0.7×	71	2.9k
Jeroen M. G. Stevens Belgium	22	679 0.7×	1.2k 1.2×	205 0.4×	321 0.7×	202 0.5×	84	1.7k
Stuart Semple United Kingdom	36	1.2k 1.2×	1.8k 1.8×	510 1.0×	952 2.1×	176 0.4×	89	3.1k
Neeltje J. Boogert United Kingdom	30	2.1k 2.1×	1.2k 1.3×	970 1.9×	818 1.8×	500 1.3×	70	3.5k
Ann MacLarnon United Kingdom	31	1.2k 1.2×	1.5k 1.6×	586 1.2×	549 1.2×	93 0.2×	65	2.8k
Cédric Sueur France	36	2.0k 1.9×	1.9k 2.0×	761 1.5×	922 2.0×	753 1.9×	153	4.0k
Noah Snyder‐Mackler United States	30	774 0.8×	1.3k 1.4×	368 0.7×	346 0.8×	214 0.5×	112	2.8k

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Co-authorship network of co-authors of Bernhard Voelkl

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Voelkl, Bernhard, Sarah McCann, Leonhard Held, et al.. (2025). A scoping review on metrics to quantify reproducibility: a multitude of questions leads to a multitude of metrics. Royal Society Open Science. 12(7). 242076–242076. 1 indexed citations

Voelkl, Bernhard, et al.. (2024). Rattling the cage: Behaviour and resource use of mice in laboratory and pet cages. Applied Animal Behaviour Science. 278. 106381–106381. 1 indexed citations

Fritz, Johannes, Marco S. Nobile, Alexei L. Vyssotski, et al.. (2024). Small energy benefits of in-wake flying in long-duration migratory flights. Proceedings of the Royal Society B Biological Sciences. 291(2030). 20241173–20241173. 1 indexed citations

Würbel, Hanno, et al.. (2024). Evidence of HARKing in mouse behavioural tests of anxiety. Royal Society Open Science. 11(8). 231744–231744.

Voelkl, Bernhard, et al.. (2023). The impact of shape and attachment position of biologging devices in Northern Bald Ibises. Animal Biotelemetry. 11(1). 8–8. 9 indexed citations

Fritz, Johannes, et al.. (2023). Characterization of bird formations using fuzzy modelling. Journal of The Royal Society Interface. 20(199). 20220798–20220798. 5 indexed citations

Berezowski, John, et al.. (2022). Similarity in Temporal Movement Patterns in Laying Hens Increases with Time and Social Association. Animals. 12(5). 555–555. 18 indexed citations

Voelkl, Bernhard, Hanno Würbel, Martin Krzywinski, & Naomi Altman. (2021). The standardization fallacy. Nature Methods. 18(1). 5–7. 32 indexed citations

Varholick, Justin A., et al.. (2021). A Systematic Review and Meta-Analysis of the Relationship Between Social Dominance Status and Common Behavioral Phenotypes in Male Laboratory Mice. Frontiers in Behavioral Neuroscience. 14. 624036–624036. 19 indexed citations

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Würbel, Hanno, Bernhard Voelkl, Naomi Altman, et al.. (2020). Reply to ‘It is time for an empirically informed paradigm shift in animal research’. Nature reviews. Neuroscience. 21(11). 661–662. 3 indexed citations

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Voelkl, Bernhard, Naomi Altman, Anders Forsman, et al.. (2020). Reproducibility of animal research in light of biological variation. Nature reviews. Neuroscience. 21(7). 384–393. 224 indexed citations breakdown →

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Bailoo, Jeremy D., Eimear Murphy, Justin A. Varholick, et al.. (2018). Effects of Cage Enrichment on Behavior, Welfare and Outcome Variability in Female Mice. Frontiers in Behavioral Neuroscience. 12. 232–232. 78 indexed citations

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Firth, Josh A., Bernhard Voelkl, Ross Crates, et al.. (2017). Wild birds respond to flockmate loss by increasing their social network associations to others. Proceedings of the Royal Society B Biological Sciences. 284(1854). 20170299–20170299. 57 indexed citations

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Voelkl, Bernhard, Josh A. Firth, & Ben C. Sheldon. (2016). The socio-ecology of fear: Nonlethal predator effects on the social composition of wild bird flocks. Bern Open Repository and Information System (University of Bern). 14 indexed citations

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Aplin, Lucy M., Josh A. Firth, Damien R. Farine, et al.. (2015). Consistent individual differences in the social phenotypes of wild great tits, Parus major. Animal Behaviour. 108. 117–127. 119 indexed citations

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Voelkl, Bernhard. (2015). The evolution of generalized reciprocity in social interaction networks. Theoretical Population Biology. 104. 17–25. 9 indexed citations

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Portugal, Steven J., Tatjana Y. Hubel, Johannes Fritz, et al.. (2014). Upwash exploitation and downwash avoidance by flap phasing in ibis formation flight. Nature. 505(7483). 399–402. 257 indexed citations

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Tiddi, Barbara, Filippo Aureli, Gabriele Schino, & Bernhard Voelkl. (2011). Social relationships between adult females and the alpha male in wild tufted capuchin monkeys. American Journal of Primatology. 73(8). 812–820. 21 indexed citations

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Kasper, Claudia & Bernhard Voelkl. (2009). A social network analysis of primate groups. Primates. 50(4). 343–356. 126 indexed citations

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Voelkl, Bernhard & Ludwig Huber. (2007). Imitation as Faithful Copying of a Novel Technique in Marmoset Monkeys. PLoS ONE. 2(7). e611–e611. 75 indexed citations

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