Bob B. M. Wong

11.0k total citations · 3 hit papers
219 papers, 8.0k citations indexed

About

Bob B. M. Wong is a scholar working on Ecology, Evolution, Behavior and Systematics, Nature and Landscape Conservation and Ecology. According to data from OpenAlex, Bob B. M. Wong has authored 219 papers receiving a total of 8.0k indexed citations (citations by other indexed papers that have themselves been cited), including 136 papers in Ecology, Evolution, Behavior and Systematics, 72 papers in Nature and Landscape Conservation and 63 papers in Ecology. Recurrent topics in Bob B. M. Wong's work include Animal Behavior and Reproduction (124 papers), Fish Ecology and Management Studies (63 papers) and Plant and animal studies (60 papers). Bob B. M. Wong is often cited by papers focused on Animal Behavior and Reproduction (124 papers), Fish Ecology and Management Studies (63 papers) and Plant and animal studies (60 papers). Bob B. M. Wong collaborates with scholars based in Australia, Finland and Sweden. Bob B. M. Wong's co-authors include Ulrika Candolin, David G. Chapple, Hélène Lowry, Alan Lill, P. Andreas Svensson, Michael G. Bertram, Gil G. Rosenthal, Topi K. Lehtonen, Marcus Michelangeli and Minna Saaristo and has published in prestigious journals such as Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, Nature Communications and SHILAP Revista de lepidopterología.

In The Last Decade

Bob B. M. Wong

214 papers receiving 7.8k citations

Hit Papers

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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.

Behavioral responses to changing environments

2014 709 citations Bob B. M. Wong, Ulrika Candolin Behavioral Ecology profile →
Behavioural responses of wildlife to urban environments

2012 671 citations Bob B. M. Wong et al. Biological reviews/Biological reviews of the Cambridge Philosophical Society profile →
Direct and indirect effects of chemical contaminants on the behaviour, ecology and evolution of wildlife

2018 297 citations Minna Saaristo, Tomas Brodin et al. Proceedings of the Royal Society B Biological Sciences profile →

Peers — A (Enhanced Table)

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

Name	h						Papers	Cites
Bob B. M. Wong Australia	45	4.3k	2.8k	1.9k	1.7k	1.2k	219	8.0k
Sigal Balshine Canada	45	3.6k 0.9×	2.2k 0.8×	2.0k 1.1×	1.2k 0.7×	765 0.6×	186	6.4k
Robert W. Elwood United Kingdom	57	4.7k 1.1×	4.6k 1.6×	1.5k 0.8×	1.8k 1.0×	1.9k 1.6×	216	10.3k
William H. Karasov United States	55	2.9k 0.7×	4.8k 1.7×	1.4k 0.7×	1.3k 0.8×	848 0.7×	266	10.3k
Maud C. O. Ferrari Canada	49	5.1k 1.2×	4.2k 1.5×	2.4k 1.3×	3.7k 2.2×	596 0.5×	211	9.3k
Tony D. Williams Canada	55	5.8k 1.4×	7.3k 2.6×	1.3k 0.7×	1.3k 0.7×	836 0.7×	348	11.2k
Alison M. Bell United States	40	8.2k 1.9×	3.5k 1.2×	1.7k 0.9×	2.1k 1.2×	2.4k 2.0×	108	11.1k
Tomas Brodin Sweden	40	2.1k 0.5×	1.8k 0.6×	1.6k 0.9×	1.2k 0.7×	460 0.4×	137	6.7k
Simon P. Blomberg Australia	37	5.5k 1.3×	5.5k 2.0×	4.7k 2.5×	2.3k 1.3×	2.0k 1.7×	109	13.7k
Pat Monaghan United Kingdom	69	9.6k 2.3×	10.8k 3.8×	2.4k 1.3×	2.1k 1.2×	1.9k 1.6×	284	20.1k
Olivier Chastel France	60	5.8k 1.3×	7.2k 2.6×	701 0.4×	1.3k 0.8×	689 0.6×	260	11.4k

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20 of 20 papers shown

Wong, Bob B. M., et al.. (2025). Exploring the Factors Driving the Success of Urban-Exploiting Spiders. The Quarterly Review of Biology. 100(1). 5–28. 2 indexed citations

Eastwood, Justin R., et al.. (2024). No effect of testosterone or sexual ornamentation on telomere dynamics: A case study and meta‐analyses. Ecology and Evolution. 14(3). e11088–e11088. 2 indexed citations

Polverino, Giovanni, et al.. (2024). Size dependent antipredator responses in a fish–shrimp mutualism. Biology Letters. 20(3). 20230285–20230285. 4 indexed citations

Brodin, Tomas, Michael G. Bertram, Kathryn E. Arnold, et al.. (2024). The urgent need for designing greener drugs. Nature Sustainability. 7(8). 949–951. 28 indexed citations

Wong, Bob B. M., et al.. (2024). Pharmaceutical pollution alters the cost of bacterial infection and its relationship to pathogen load. Proceedings of the Royal Society B Biological Sciences. 291(2014). 20231273–20231273. 2 indexed citations

Polverino, Giovanni, Jack A. Brand, Michael G. Bertram, et al.. (2023). Sex-specific effects of psychoactive pollution on behavioral individuality and plasticity in fish. Behavioral Ecology. 34(6). 969–978. 7 indexed citations

Wong, Bob B. M., et al.. (2023). The roles of sexual selection and sexual conflict in shaping patterns of genome and transcriptome variation. Nature Ecology & Evolution. 7(7). 981–993. 20 indexed citations

Brand, Jack A., Francisco García–González, Damian K. Dowling, & Bob B. M. Wong. (2023). Mitochondrial genetic variation as a potential mediator of intraspecific behavioural diversity. Trends in Ecology & Evolution. 39(2). 199–212. 4 indexed citations

Tan, Hung, Jack A. Brand, Bradley O. Clarke, et al.. (2023). No evidence that the widespread environmental contaminant caffeine alters energy balance or stress responses in fish. Ethology. 129(12). 666–678. 1 indexed citations

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Brand, Jack A., Marcus Michelangeli, Jake M. Martin, et al.. (2022). Social context mediates the expression of a personality trait in a gregarious lizard. Oecologia. 200(3-4). 359–369. 7 indexed citations

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Wong, Bob B. M., et al.. (2022). Warmer temperatures limit the effects of antidepressant pollution on life-history traits. Proceedings of the Royal Society B Biological Sciences. 289(1968). 20212701–20212701. 16 indexed citations

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Bertram, Michael G., Jake M. Martin, Erin S. McCallum, et al.. (2022). Frontiers in quantifying wildlife behavioural responses to chemical pollution. Biological reviews/Biological reviews of the Cambridge Philosophical Society. 97(4). 1346–1364. 86 indexed citations

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Polverino, Giovanni, Jake M. Martin, Michael G. Bertram, et al.. (2021). Psychoactive pollution suppresses individual differences in fish behaviour. Proceedings of the Royal Society B Biological Sciences. 288(1944). 20202294–20202294. 42 indexed citations

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Brand, Jack A., Marcus Michelangeli, Jake M. Martin, et al.. (2021). Population differences in the effect of context on personality in an invasive lizard. Behavioral Ecology. 32(6). 1363–1371. 9 indexed citations

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Martin, Jake M., Michael G. Bertram, Paul J. Blanchfield, et al.. (2021). Evidence of the impacts of pharmaceuticals on aquatic animal behaviour: a systematic map protocol. Environmental Evidence. 10(1). 12 indexed citations

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Vardi, Reut, et al.. (2020). Spatial learning in captive and wild-born lizards: heritability and environmental effects. Behavioral Ecology and Sociobiology. 74(2). 18 indexed citations

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Wong, Bob B. M., et al.. (2019). What is the available evidence that artificial light at night affects animal behaviour? A systematic map protocol. Environmental Evidence. 8(S1). 2 indexed citations

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Berger‐Tal, Oded, Alison L. Greggor, Biljana Macura, et al.. (2018). Systematic reviews and maps as tools for applying behavioral ecology to management and policy. Behavioral Ecology. 30(1). 1–8. 55 indexed citations

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Bertram, Michael G., John B. Baumgartner, Christopher P. Johnstone, et al.. (2015). Sex in troubled waters: Widespread agricultural contaminant disrupts reproductive behaviour in fish. Hormones and Behavior. 70. 85–91. 52 indexed citations

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Head, Megan L., Bob B. M. Wong, & Robert C. Brooks. (2010). Sexual Display and Mate Choice in an Energetically Costly Environment. PLoS ONE. 5(12). e15279–e15279. 27 indexed citations

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