Craig Packer

25.3k total citations · 6 hit papers
188 papers, 17.1k citations indexed

About

Craig Packer is a scholar working on Ecology, Ecology, Evolution, Behavior and Systematics and Social Psychology. According to data from OpenAlex, Craig Packer has authored 188 papers receiving a total of 17.1k indexed citations (citations by other indexed papers that have themselves been cited), including 121 papers in Ecology, 43 papers in Ecology, Evolution, Behavior and Systematics and 37 papers in Social Psychology. Recurrent topics in Craig Packer's work include Wildlife Ecology and Conservation (115 papers), Animal Behavior and Reproduction (36 papers) and Primate Behavior and Ecology (34 papers). Craig Packer is often cited by papers focused on Wildlife Ecology and Conservation (115 papers), Animal Behavior and Reproduction (36 papers) and Primate Behavior and Ecology (34 papers). Craig Packer collaborates with scholars based in United States, United Kingdom and Tanzania. Craig Packer's co-authors include Anne E. Pusey, Alexandra Swanson, Margaret Kosmala, David Scheel, A. R. E. Sinclair, Anna Mosser, Stephen J. O’Brien, Meredith S. Palmer, Lore M. Ruttan and J. Grant C. Hopcraft and has published in prestigious journals such as Nature, Science and Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences.

In The Last Decade

Craig Packer

184 papers receiving 16.2k citations

Hit Papers

5 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.

Future threats to biodiversity and pathways to their prevention

2017 858 citations Craig Packer et al. profile →
Automatically identifying, counting, and describing wild animals in camera-trap images with deep learning

2018 682 citations Mohammad Sadegh Norouzzadeh, Anh‐Tu Nguyen et al. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences profile →
A canine distemper virus epidemic in Serengeti lions (Panthera leo)

1996 584 citations Melody Roelke‐Parker, Craig Packer et al. profile →
Inter-troop transfer and inbreeding avoidance in Papio anubis

1979 453 citations Craig Packer profile →
Why Lions Form Groups: Food is Not Enough

1990 444 citations Craig Packer et al. profile →
Snapshot Serengeti, high-frequency annotated camera trap images of 40 mammalian species in an African savanna

2015 322 citations Alexandra Swanson, Margaret Kosmala et al. profile →

Peers — A (Enhanced Table)

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

Name	h						Papers	Cites
Craig Packer United States	72	8.3k	4.6k	3.8k	3.5k	1.7k	188	17.1k
Wayne M. Getz United States	64	7.3k 0.9×	3.5k 0.8×	3.6k 0.9×	1.2k 0.3×	872 0.5×	295	16.2k
Scott Creel United States	58	8.3k 1.0×	3.8k 0.8×	2.8k 0.7×	2.0k 0.6×	572 0.3×	142	11.8k
Graeme D. Ruxton United Kingdom	70	7.4k 0.9×	12.6k 2.7×	4.9k 1.3×	2.2k 0.6×	2.4k 1.4×	445	23.9k
John M. McNamara United Kingdom	76	6.3k 0.8×	8.7k 1.9×	3.6k 1.0×	1.5k 0.4×	2.9k 1.7×	254	18.6k
Alasdair I. Houston United Kingdom	78	7.9k 0.9×	10.1k 2.2×	3.8k 1.0×	1.5k 0.4×	2.8k 1.7×	282	19.3k
Holger Schielzeth Germany	34	7.3k 0.9×	7.8k 1.7×	2.8k 0.7×	2.4k 0.7×	646 0.4×	109	20.9k
John L. Gittleman United States	66	12.7k 1.5×	7.2k 1.6×	5.0k 1.3×	2.9k 0.8×	792 0.5×	121	28.2k
Kate E. Jones United Kingdom	52	6.0k 0.7×	3.9k 0.9×	2.5k 0.7×	1.5k 0.4×	581 0.4×	146	18.5k
T. H. Clutton‐Brock United Kingdom	55	7.5k 0.9×	7.1k 1.5×	3.4k 0.9×	3.0k 0.8×	881 0.5×	91	14.8k
Mark Pagel United Kingdom	66	7.0k 0.8×	10.5k 2.3×	5.5k 1.4×	2.4k 0.7×	1.6k 1.0×	173	25.1k

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Co-authorship network of co-authors of Craig Packer

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20 of 20 papers shown

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Parsons, Arielle W., et al.. (2025). The benefits of inclusive conservation for connectivity of lions across the Ngorongoro Conservation Area, Tanzania. Conservation Science and Practice. 7(3). 1 indexed citations

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Packer, Craig, et al.. (2024). Sex-specific social aging in wild African lions. Current Biology. 34(17). 4039–4046.e2. 3 indexed citations

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Paniw, Maria, et al.. (2024). Multifaceted density dependence: Social structure and seasonality effects on Serengeti lion demography. Journal of Animal Ecology. 93(10). 1493–1509. 1 indexed citations

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Anderson, T. Michael, Ricardo M. Holdø, Jason E. Donaldson, et al.. (2024). Interplay of competition and facilitation in grazing succession by migrant Serengeti herbivores. Science. 383(6684). 782–788. 8 indexed citations

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Gopalaswamy, Arjun M., Nicholas B. Elliot, Shadrack Ngene, et al.. (2022). How “science” can facilitate the politicization of charismatic megafauna counts. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences. 119(20). e2203244119–e2203244119. 7 indexed citations

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Minin, Enrico Di, Rob Slotow, Christoph Fink, Hans Bauer, & Craig Packer. (2021). A pan-African spatial assessment of human conflicts with lions and elephants. Nature Communications. 12(1). 2978–2978. 43 indexed citations

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Palmer, Meredith S., et al.. (2021). Citizen science, computing, and conservation: How can “Crowd AI” change the way we tackle large-scale ecological challenges?. 8(2). 54–75. 13 indexed citations

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Davis, Brian W., Melody Roelke‐Parker, Rebecca P. Wilkes, et al.. (2020). Identifying Candidate Genetic Markers of CDV Cross-Species Pathogenicity in African Lions. Pathogens. 9(11). 872–872. 17 indexed citations

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Fountain‐Jones, Nicholas M., Gustavo Machado, Scott Carver, et al.. (2019). How to make more from exposure data? An integrated machine learning pipeline to predict pathogen exposure. Journal of Animal Ecology. 88(10). 1447–1461. 26 indexed citations

10.

Özgül, Arpat, et al.. (2018). Lion population dynamics: do nomadic males matter?. Behavioral Ecology. 29(3). 660–666. 8 indexed citations

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Norouzzadeh, Mohammad Sadegh, et al.. (2017). Automatically identifying wild animals in camera trap images with deep learning.. arXiv (Cornell University). 17 indexed citations

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Packer, Craig, Alexandra Swanson, Dennis Ikanda, & Hadas Kushnir. (2011). Fear of Darkness, the Full Moon and the Nocturnal Ecology of African Lions. PLoS ONE. 6(7). e22285–e22285. 96 indexed citations

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Craft, Meggan E., Erik Volz, Craig Packer, & Lauren Ancel Meyers. (2010). Disease transmission in territorial populations: the small-world network of Serengeti lions. Journal of The Royal Society Interface. 8(59). 776–786. 110 indexed citations

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Packer, Craig. (2010). Lions. Current Biology. 20(14). R590–R591. 3 indexed citations

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Antunes, Agostinho, Jennifer L. Troyer, Melody E. Roelke, et al.. (2008). The Evolutionary Dynamics of the Lion Panthera leo Revealed by Host and Viral Population Genomics. PLoS ONE. 4. 1–11. 21 indexed citations

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Antunes, Agostinho, Jennifer L. Troyer, Melody E. Roelke, et al.. (2008). The Evolutionary Dynamics of the Lion Panthera leo Revealed by Host and Viral Population Genomics. PLoS Genetics. 4(11). e1000251–e1000251. 84 indexed citations

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Welburn, Susan C., Kim Picozzi, P. G. Coleman, & Craig Packer. (2008). Patterns in Age-Seroprevalence Consistent with Acquired Immunity against Trypanosoma brucei in Serengeti Lions. PLoS neglected tropical diseases. 2(12). e347–e347. 16 indexed citations

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Craft, Meggan E., Peter Hawthorne, Craig Packer, & Andrew P. Dobson. (2008). Dynamics of a multihost pathogen in a carnivore community. Journal of Animal Ecology. 77(6). 1257–1264. 73 indexed citations

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Packer, Craig & Jean Clottes. (2000). When Lions Ruled France: At Chauvet Cave, 32,000-year-old painting tell of extinct big cats and the artists with whom they shared their domain.. Natural history. 109(9). 52–57. 8 indexed citations

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Packer, Craig. (1992). Captives in the wild. National geographic/The complete National geographic/The National geographic magazine. 181(4). 122–136. 3 indexed citations

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