Colin R. Twomey

1.5k total citations · 1 hit paper
13 papers, 682 citations indexed

About

Colin R. Twomey is a scholar working on Ecology, Evolution, Behavior and Systematics, Sociology and Political Science and Cognitive Neuroscience. According to data from OpenAlex, Colin R. Twomey has authored 13 papers receiving a total of 682 indexed citations (citations by other indexed papers that have themselves been cited), including 5 papers in Ecology, Evolution, Behavior and Systematics, 3 papers in Sociology and Political Science and 3 papers in Cognitive Neuroscience. Recurrent topics in Colin R. Twomey's work include Animal Behavior and Reproduction (4 papers), Neural dynamics and brain function (3 papers) and Insect and Arachnid Ecology and Behavior (3 papers). Colin R. Twomey is often cited by papers focused on Animal Behavior and Reproduction (4 papers), Neural dynamics and brain function (3 papers) and Insect and Arachnid Ecology and Behavior (3 papers). Colin R. Twomey collaborates with scholars based in United States, Germany and Hungary. Colin R. Twomey's co-authors include Iain D. Couzin, Sara Brin Rosenthal, Hai Shan Wu, Andrew T. Hartnett, Bryan C. Daniels, Paweł Romańczuk, Joseph B. Bak-Coleman, Simon Leblanc, Frank M. Frey and Lynda F. Delph and has published in prestigious journals such as Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, Neuron and Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society B Biological Sciences.

In The Last Decade

Colin R. Twomey

13 papers receiving 675 citations

Hit 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.

Revealing the hidden networks of interaction in mobile animal groups allows prediction of complex behavioral contagion

2015 328 citations Sara Brin Rosenthal, Colin R. Twomey et al. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences profile →

Peers — A (Enhanced Table)

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

Name	h						Papers	Cites
Colin R. Twomey United States	10	229	132	110	106	105	13	682
Vivek H. Sridhar Germany	7	237 1.0×	67 0.5×	47 0.4×	94 0.9×	95 0.9×	10	462
Alfonso Pérez‐Escudero Spain	15	468 2.0×	166 1.3×	84 0.8×	254 2.4×	249 2.4×	34	1.6k
John R.G. Dyer United Kingdom	10	502 2.2×	238 1.8×	80 0.7×	133 1.3×	186 1.8×	11	970
Grégory Sempo Belgium	13	386 1.7×	105 0.8×	108 1.0×	97 0.9×	358 3.4×	20	791
Yael Katz United States	9	279 1.2×	136 1.0×	293 2.7×	110 1.0×	151 1.4×	15	1.5k
Robert C. Hinz Portugal	5	259 1.1×	37 0.3×	70 0.6×	138 1.3×	129 1.2×	6	926
Steven V. Viscido United States	10	310 1.4×	147 1.1×	292 2.7×	200 1.9×	160 1.5×	12	948
Ryan Lukeman Canada	8	135 0.6×	58 0.4×	196 1.8×	48 0.5×	84 0.8×	11	493
Chris R. Reid Australia	17	524 2.3×	74 0.6×	45 0.4×	61 0.6×	228 2.2×	39	1.1k

Countries citing papers authored by Colin R. Twomey

Since Specialization

Citations

This map shows the geographic impact of Colin R. Twomey's research. It shows the number of citations coming from papers published by authors working in each country. You can also color the map by specialization and compare the number of citations received by Colin R. Twomey with the expected number of citations based on a country's size and research output (numbers larger than one mean the country cites Colin R. Twomey more than expected).

Fields of papers citing papers by Colin R. Twomey

Since Specialization

Physical SciencesHealth SciencesLife SciencesSocial Sciences

This network shows the impact of papers produced by Colin R. Twomey. Nodes represent research fields, and links connect fields that are likely to share authors. Colored nodes show fields that tend to cite the papers produced by Colin R. Twomey. The network helps show where Colin R. Twomey may publish in the future.

Co-authorship network of co-authors of Colin R. Twomey

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

All Works

Sort: Min cites: Since: Top N: Style:

13 of 13 papers shown

Twomey, Colin R., David H. Brainard, & Joshua B. Plotkin. (2024). History constrains the evolution of efficient color naming, enabling historical inference. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences. 121(10). e2313603121–e2313603121. 2 indexed citations

Pattison, Luke A., Heather L. Rossi, Joshua K. Thackray, et al.. (2023). Mapping the neuroethological signatures of pain, analgesia, and recovery in mice. Neuron. 111(18). 2811–2830.e8. 26 indexed citations

Sridhar, Vivek H., et al.. (2023). Inferring social influence in animal groups across multiple timescales. Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society B Biological Sciences. 378(1874). 20220062–20220062. 7 indexed citations

Daniels, Bryan C., et al.. (2022). Subcritical escape waves in schooling fish. Science Advances. 8(25). eabm6385–eabm6385. 39 indexed citations

Jolles, Jolle W., et al.. (2022). Both prey and predator features predict the individual predation risk and survival of schooling prey. eLife. 11. 14 indexed citations

Davidson, Jacob D., et al.. (2021). Collective detection based on visual information in animal groups. Journal of The Royal Society Interface. 18(180). 20210142–20210142. 40 indexed citations

Twomey, Colin R., Gareth Roberts, David H. Brainard, & Joshua B. Plotkin. (2021). What we talk about when we talk about colors. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences. 118(39). 20 indexed citations

Twomey, Colin R., et al.. (2020). Searching for structure in collective systems. Theory in Biosciences. 140(4). 361–377. 1 indexed citations

Jones, Jessica, William Foster, Colin R. Twomey, et al.. (2020). A machine-vision approach for automated pain measurement at millisecond timescales. eLife. 9. 39 indexed citations

10.

Twomey, Colin R., et al.. (2019). Individual and collective encoding of risk in animal groups. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences. 116(41). 20556–20561. 77 indexed citations

11.

Hein, Andrew M., Michael A. Gil, Colin R. Twomey, Iain D. Couzin, & Simon A. Levin. (2018). Conserved behavioral circuits govern high-speed decision-making in wild fish shoals. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences. 115(48). 12224–12228. 47 indexed citations

12.

Rosenthal, Sara Brin, Colin R. Twomey, Andrew T. Hartnett, Hai Shan Wu, & Iain D. Couzin. (2015). Revealing the hidden networks of interaction in mobile animal groups allows prediction of complex behavioral contagion. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences. 112(15). 4690–4695. 328 indexed citations breakdown →

13.

Frey, Frank M., et al.. (2007). Evolution of sexually dimorphic flower production under sexual, fertility, and viability selection. Evolutionary ecology research. 9(1). 1–19. 42 indexed citations

Rankless uses publication and citation data sourced from OpenAlex, an open and comprehensive bibliographic database. While OpenAlex provides broad and valuable coverage of the global research landscape, it—like all bibliographic datasets—has inherent limitations. These include incomplete records, variations in author disambiguation, differences in journal indexing, and delays in data updates. As a result, some metrics and network relationships displayed in Rankless may not fully capture the entirety of a scholar's output or impact.

Explore authors with similar magnitude of impact