Birgit Szabo

723 total citations
27 papers, 293 citations indexed

About

Birgit Szabo is a scholar working on Ecology, Evolution, Behavior and Systematics, Global and Planetary Change and Social Psychology. According to data from OpenAlex, Birgit Szabo has authored 27 papers receiving a total of 293 indexed citations (citations by other indexed papers that have themselves been cited), including 25 papers in Ecology, Evolution, Behavior and Systematics, 18 papers in Global and Planetary Change and 11 papers in Social Psychology. Recurrent topics in Birgit Szabo's work include Animal Behavior and Reproduction (25 papers), Amphibian and Reptile Biology (18 papers) and Primate Behavior and Ecology (10 papers). Birgit Szabo is often cited by papers focused on Animal Behavior and Reproduction (25 papers), Amphibian and Reptile Biology (18 papers) and Primate Behavior and Ecology (10 papers). Birgit Szabo collaborates with scholars based in Switzerland, Australia and Austria. Birgit Szabo's co-authors include Martin J. Whiting, Daniel W. A. Noble, Eva Ringler, Isabel Damas‐Moreira, Alice M. I. Auersperg, Thomas Bugnyar, Auguste M. P. von Bayern, David S. Tait, Richard W. Byrne and Anyelet Valencia‐Aguilar and has published in prestigious journals such as Scientific Reports, Biological reviews/Biological reviews of the Cambridge Philosophical Society and Animal Behaviour.

In The Last Decade

Birgit Szabo

25 papers receiving 290 citations

Peers — A (Enhanced Table)

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

Name h Career Trend Papers Cites
Birgit Szabo Switzerland 11 212 144 122 45 31 27 293
Irmgard Teschke Germany 8 213 1.0× 163 1.1× 63 0.5× 69 1.5× 77 2.5× 8 304
Philippa R. Laker United Kingdom 10 202 1.0× 143 1.0× 31 0.3× 87 1.9× 49 1.6× 14 295
Laure Cauchard Canada 8 317 1.5× 188 1.3× 77 0.6× 120 2.7× 110 3.5× 13 391
Donna G. Layne United States 12 100 0.5× 177 1.2× 48 0.4× 55 1.2× 24 0.8× 15 357
Daniel Marques Almeida Pessoa Brazil 13 245 1.2× 221 1.5× 67 0.5× 75 1.7× 29 0.9× 36 427
Maria C. Tello-Ramos United Kingdom 8 240 1.1× 139 1.0× 30 0.2× 87 1.9× 80 2.6× 15 348
Sarah E. Overington Canada 6 321 1.5× 224 1.6× 83 0.7× 155 3.4× 83 2.7× 6 453
Simon Gingins Switzerland 8 147 0.7× 92 0.6× 32 0.3× 79 1.8× 12 0.4× 10 293
Patrick Michael Whittle New Zealand 5 287 1.4× 247 1.7× 60 0.5× 127 2.8× 91 2.9× 7 455
Laurel M. McQuoid Canada 6 274 1.3× 134 0.9× 69 0.6× 82 1.8× 92 3.0× 8 419

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Co-authorship network of co-authors of Birgit Szabo

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All Works

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Damas‐Moreira, Isabel, et al.. (2025). Tokay geckos adjust their behaviour based on handler familiarity but according to context. Scientific Reports. 15(1). 11364–11364. 1 indexed citations
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Ringler, Eva, et al.. (2024). Sex-specific discrimination of familiar and unfamiliar mates in the Tokay gecko. Animal Cognition. 27(1). 55–55. 1 indexed citations
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Damas‐Moreira, Isabel, et al.. (2024). Smarter in the city? Lizards from urban and semi-natural habitats do not differ in a cognitive task in two syntopic species. Current Zoology. 70(3). 361–370. 3 indexed citations
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Szabo, Birgit, et al.. (2024). Effects of the early social environment on behavioural flexibility in a cooperatively breeding cichlid fish. Animal Behaviour. 219. 123037–123037. 1 indexed citations
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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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Szabo, Birgit, et al.. (2023). Behavioural consistency across metamorphosis in a neotropical poison frog. Evolutionary Ecology. 38(1-2). 157–174. 8 indexed citations
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Ringler, Max, et al.. (2023). Regardless of personality, males show similar levels of plasticity in territory defense in a Neotropical poison frog. Scientific Reports. 13(1). 3435–3435. 3 indexed citations
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Szabo, Birgit & Eva Ringler. (2023). Geckos differentiate self from other using both skin and faecal chemicals: evidence towards self-recognition?. Animal Cognition. 26(3). 1011–1019. 7 indexed citations
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Szabo, Birgit, Anyelet Valencia‐Aguilar, Isabel Damas‐Moreira, & Eva Ringler. (2022). Wild cognition – linking form and function of cognitive abilities within a natural context. Current Opinion in Behavioral Sciences. 44. 101115–101115. 27 indexed citations
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Ringler, Eva, et al.. (2022). Lizards lack speed-accuracy trade-offs in a quantitative foraging task when unable to sample the reward. Behavioural Processes. 202. 104749–104749. 3 indexed citations
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Szabo, Birgit & Martin J. Whiting. (2022). A new protocol for investigating visual two-choice discrimination learning in lizards. Animal Cognition. 25(4). 935–950.
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Szabo, Birgit & Eva Ringler. (2022). Fear of the new? Geckos hesitate to attack novel prey, feed near objects and enter a novel space. Animal Cognition. 26(2). 537–549. 10 indexed citations
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Szabo, Birgit, Daniel W. A. Noble, & Martin J. Whiting. (2021). Learning simple and compound stimuli in a social lizard (Egernia stokesii).. Journal of comparative psychology. 135(2). 208–218. 3 indexed citations
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Szabo, Birgit & Martin J. Whiting. (2020). Do lizards have enhanced inhibition? A test in two species differing in ecology and sociobiology. Behavioural Processes. 172. 104043–104043. 12 indexed citations
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Szabo, Birgit, et al.. (2020). Are lizards capable of inhibitory control? Performance on a semi-transparent version of the cylinder task in five species of Australian skinks. Behavioral Ecology and Sociobiology. 74(10). 18 indexed citations
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Szabo, Birgit, Martin J. Whiting, & Daniel W. A. Noble. (2019). Sex-dependent discrimination learning in lizards: A meta-analysis. Behavioural Processes. 164. 10–16. 10 indexed citations
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Szabo, Birgit, Daniel W. A. Noble, & Martin J. Whiting. (2019). Context-specific response inhibition and differential impact of a learning bias in a lizard. Animal Cognition. 22(3). 317–329. 21 indexed citations
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Szabo, Birgit, Daniel W. A. Noble, Richard W. Byrne, David S. Tait, & Martin J. Whiting. (2019). Precocial juvenile lizards show adult level learning and behavioural flexibility. Animal Behaviour. 154. 75–84. 11 indexed citations
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Szabo, Birgit, Thomas Bugnyar, & Alice M. I. Auersperg. (2016). Within-group relationships and lack of social enhancement during object manipulation in captive Goffin’s cockatoos (Cacatua goffiniana). Learning & Behavior. 45(1). 7–19. 7 indexed citations
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Auersperg, Alice M. I., Birgit Szabo, Auguste M. P. von Bayern, & Thomas Bugnyar. (2013). Object permanence in the Goffin cockatoo (Cacatua goffini).. Journal of comparative psychology. 128(1). 88–98. 35 indexed citations

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