Diego Gil

5.7k total citations · 1 hit paper
96 papers, 4.2k citations indexed

About

Diego Gil is a scholar working on Ecology, Evolution, Behavior and Systematics, Ecology and Developmental Biology. According to data from OpenAlex, Diego Gil has authored 96 papers receiving a total of 4.2k indexed citations (citations by other indexed papers that have themselves been cited), including 83 papers in Ecology, Evolution, Behavior and Systematics, 65 papers in Ecology and 31 papers in Developmental Biology. Recurrent topics in Diego Gil's work include Animal Behavior and Reproduction (80 papers), Avian ecology and behavior (49 papers) and Animal Vocal Communication and Behavior (31 papers). Diego Gil is often cited by papers focused on Animal Behavior and Reproduction (80 papers), Avian ecology and behavior (49 papers) and Animal Vocal Communication and Behavior (31 papers). Diego Gil collaborates with scholars based in Spain, France and United Kingdom. Diego Gil's co-authors include Manfred Gahr, Jeff A. Graves, Marc Naguib, Peter J. B. Slater, Isabel López‐Rull, Alan W. Wells, Neil Hazon, Constantino Macı́as Garcı́a, Alejandro A. Ríos-Chelén and Marisa Puerta and has published in prestigious journals such as Science, PLoS ONE and Trends in Ecology & Evolution.

In The Last Decade

Diego Gil

93 papers receiving 4.1k citations

Hit Papers

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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.

The honesty of bird song: multiple constraints for multiple traits

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Name	h						Papers	Cites
Diego Gil Spain	35	3.4k	2.6k	1.7k	549	289	96	4.2k
Marty L. Leonard Canada	33	2.0k 0.6×	2.2k 0.9×	1.1k 0.6×	212 0.4×	194 0.7×	95	3.0k
Herbert Hoi Austria	33	2.6k 0.8×	2.1k 0.8×	581 0.3×	588 1.1×	406 1.4×	150	3.4k
Marcel M. Lambrechts France	43	3.6k 1.1×	3.6k 1.4×	787 0.5×	1.0k 1.8×	552 1.9×	112	5.1k
János Török Hungary	39	3.0k 0.9×	2.3k 0.9×	509 0.3×	504 0.9×	704 2.4×	155	4.2k
Richard Zann Australia	29	2.3k 0.7×	1.9k 0.7×	1.3k 0.8×	207 0.4×	215 0.7×	54	2.9k
Laurene M. Ratcliffe Canada	42	3.7k 1.1×	3.5k 1.3×	2.3k 1.4×	158 0.3×	502 1.7×	136	5.3k
Stephan J. Schoech United States	34	2.5k 0.7×	2.3k 0.9×	298 0.2×	426 0.8×	393 1.4×	78	3.7k
Clive K. Catchpole United Kingdom	38	4.3k 1.3×	2.7k 1.0×	3.6k 2.1×	134 0.2×	306 1.1×	70	5.2k
Frances Bonier Canada	25	2.1k 0.6×	1.9k 0.7×	335 0.2×	353 0.6×	296 1.0×	62	3.3k
Bengt Silverin Sweden	33	2.7k 0.8×	2.0k 0.8×	417 0.2×	715 1.3×	251 0.9×	74	3.5k

Countries citing papers authored by Diego Gil

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Co-authorship network of co-authors of Diego Gil

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Gil, Diego, et al.. (2025). Hosts eject conspecific parasitic eggs according to the egg size in a passerine. Biology Letters. 21(3). 20240655–20240655. 1 indexed citations

Pérez‐Rodríguez, Lorenzo, et al.. (2024). Male starling floaters preferentially visit nests of males with reduced resource holding potential. Biology Letters. 20(3). 20230376–20230376. 2 indexed citations

Muriel, Jaime, et al.. (2024). Parasite Shedding is Highly Influenced by Age, Time of Day, and Sampling Date in Spotless Starling Sturnus unicolor Nestlings. Ardeola. 71(2). 2 indexed citations

Pérez‐Rodríguez, Lorenzo, et al.. (2024). Corticosterone and glucose are correlated and show similar response patterns to temperature and stress in a free-living bird. Journal of Experimental Biology. 227(14). 3 indexed citations

Arregui, Lucía, et al.. (2023). Birds living near airports do not show consistently higher levels of feather corticosterone. Conservation Physiology. 11(1). coad079–coad079.

Muriel, Jaime, et al.. (2021). Influence of growing up in the city or near an airport on the physiological stress of tree sparrow nestlings (Passer montanus). European Journal of Wildlife Research. 67(4). 6 indexed citations

Gil, Diego, et al.. (2020). Avian biotic homogenization driven by airport-affected environments. Urban Ecosystems. 23(3). 507–517. 19 indexed citations

Macedo, Regina H., et al.. (2020). Lack of consistent responses to aircraft noise in dawn song timing of bird populations near tropical airports. Behavioral Ecology and Sociobiology. 74(7). 13 indexed citations

Ibáñez‐Álamo, Juan Diego, Blanca Jimeno, Diego Gil, et al.. (2020). Physiological stress does not increase with urbanization in European blackbirds: Evidence from hormonal, immunological and cellular indicators. The Science of The Total Environment. 721. 137332–137332. 25 indexed citations

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Cantarero, Alejandro, et al.. (2019). Experimentally flight-impaired females show higher levels of extra-pair paternity in the pied flycatcher Ficedula hypoleuca. Biology Letters. 15(8). 20190360–20190360. 8 indexed citations

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Monclús, Raquel, Jaime Muriel, Lorenzo Pérez‐Rodríguez, A. P. Møller, & Diego Gil. (2017). The role of the mating system and intraspecific brood parasitism in the costs of reproduction in a passerine bird. Oecologia. 185(4). 629–639. 11 indexed citations

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Pérez‐Rodríguez, Lorenzo, Ana Á. Romero‐Haro, Jaime Muriel, et al.. (2015). Measuring Oxidative Stress: The Confounding Effect of Lipid Concentration in Measures of Lipid Peroxidation. Physiological and Biochemical Zoology. 88(3). 345–351. 78 indexed citations

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Muriel, Jaime, et al.. (2013). The PHA Test as an Indicator of Phagocytic Activity in a Passerine Bird. PLoS ONE. 8(12). e84108–e84108. 32 indexed citations

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Gil, Diego, et al.. (2010). INCREASE IN SONG FREQUENCY IN RESPONSE TO URBAN NOISE IN THE GREAT TIT PARUS MAJO R AS SHOWN BY DATA FROM THE MADRID (SPAIN) CITY NOISE MAP. Ardeola. 57(1). 3–11. 28 indexed citations

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Garcı́a, Constantino Macı́as, et al.. (2009). Strategies of song adaptation to urban noise in the house finch: syllable pitch plasticity or differential syllable use?. Behaviour. 146(9). 1269–1286. 91 indexed citations

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López‐Rull, Isabel & Diego Gil. (2009). Elevated testosterone levels affect female breeding success and yolk androgen deposition in a passerine bird. Behavioural Processes. 82(3). 312–318. 31 indexed citations

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Gil, Diego, et al.. (2006). Correlated response in yolk testosterone levels following divergent genetic selection for social behaviour in Japanese quail. Journal of Experimental Zoology Part A Ecological Genetics and Physiology. 307A(2). 91–94. 33 indexed citations

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Gil, Diego, Marc Naguib, Katharina Riebel, Alison N. Rutstein, & Manfred Gahr. (2006). Early condition, song learning, and the volume of song brain nuclei in the zebra finch (Taeniopygia guttata). Journal of Neurobiology. 66(14). 1602–1612. 88 indexed citations

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Naguib, Marc & Diego Gil. (2005). Transgenerational body size effects caused by early developmental stress in zebra finches. Biology Letters. 1(1). 95–97. 91 indexed citations

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Gil, Diego, Gérard Leboucher, André Lacroix, R.I. Cue, & Michel Kreutzer. (2003). Female canaries produce eggs with greater amounts of testosterone when exposed to preferred male song. Hormones and Behavior. 45(1). 64–70. 122 indexed citations

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