Elizabeth A. Tibbetts

6.2k total citations · 2 hit papers
96 papers, 3.7k citations indexed

About

Elizabeth A. Tibbetts is a scholar working on Ecology, Evolution, Behavior and Systematics, Genetics and Insect Science. According to data from OpenAlex, Elizabeth A. Tibbetts has authored 96 papers receiving a total of 3.7k indexed citations (citations by other indexed papers that have themselves been cited), including 88 papers in Ecology, Evolution, Behavior and Systematics, 79 papers in Genetics and 11 papers in Insect Science. Recurrent topics in Elizabeth A. Tibbetts's work include Plant and animal studies (79 papers), Insect and Arachnid Ecology and Behavior (76 papers) and Animal Behavior and Reproduction (73 papers). Elizabeth A. Tibbetts is often cited by papers focused on Plant and animal studies (79 papers), Insect and Arachnid Ecology and Behavior (76 papers) and Animal Behavior and Reproduction (73 papers). Elizabeth A. Tibbetts collaborates with scholars based in United States, France and Canada. Elizabeth A. Tibbetts's co-authors include James Dale, Michael J. Sheehan, Amanda Izzo, Zhi Huang, Amy L. Toth, John Shorter, Rebecca Lindsay, Jennifer M. Jandt, Stéphanie Lévy and Allison Injaian and has published in prestigious journals such as Nature, Science and Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences.

In The Last Decade

Elizabeth A. Tibbetts

93 papers receiving 3.6k 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.

Individual recognition: it is good to be different

2007 525 citations Elizabeth A. Tibbetts, James Dale profile →
The establishment and maintenance of dominance hierarchies

2022 111 citations Elizabeth A. Tibbetts et al. Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society B Biological Sciences profile →

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Name	h						Papers	Cites
Elizabeth A. Tibbetts United States	34	2.9k	2.0k	614	534	483	96	3.7k
Candy Rowe United Kingdom	34	2.9k 1.0×	920 0.5×	678 1.1×	503 0.9×	726 1.5×	66	3.8k
Reuven Dukas Canada	43	4.4k 1.5×	2.5k 1.2×	556 0.9×	1.9k 3.6×	787 1.6×	117	5.7k
J. Chadwick Johnson United States	18	4.0k 1.4×	1.4k 0.7×	756 1.2×	244 0.5×	1.5k 3.2×	36	5.0k
Jonathan N. Pruitt United States	30	3.0k 1.0×	1.8k 0.9×	265 0.4×	372 0.7×	818 1.7×	133	3.7k
Tommaso Pizzari United Kingdom	40	4.0k 1.4×	2.3k 1.2×	233 0.4×	461 0.9×	817 1.7×	88	5.0k
Michael P. Speed United Kingdom	35	4.3k 1.4×	1.7k 0.9×	363 0.6×	811 1.5×	965 2.0×	80	5.2k
Eileen A. Hebets United States	38	4.1k 1.4×	2.7k 1.3×	303 0.5×	221 0.4×	587 1.2×	145	5.1k
Indriķis Krams Latvia	41	2.3k 0.8×	551 0.3×	412 0.7×	578 1.1×	1.5k 3.2×	153	4.3k
Michael D. Greenfield United States	37	3.8k 1.3×	2.0k 1.0×	162 0.3×	585 1.1×	500 1.0×	131	4.5k
Maria R. Servedio United States	39	4.0k 1.3×	3.2k 1.6×	160 0.3×	357 0.7×	1.2k 2.5×	106	5.7k

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Ewing, M. A., et al.. (2025). Nest-founding paper wasps aggregate in “social leks” and decrease aggression during partner selection. Current Zoology.

Moon, So Young, et al.. (2025). Geographic differences in individual recognition linked with social but not nonsocial cognition. Behavioral Ecology. 36(4). araf042–araf042. 1 indexed citations

Tibbetts, Elizabeth A., et al.. (2024). The Evolution of Simplifying Heuristics in Visual Cognition: Categorization, Specialization, and Visual Illusions. Annual Review of Vision Science. 10(1). 123–144. 4 indexed citations

Pinter‐Wollman, Noa, et al.. (2024). Personality and body mass impact social group formation and function in paper wasps. Animal Behaviour. 213. 207–218. 3 indexed citations

Tibbetts, Elizabeth A., et al.. (2023). Field-realistic exposure to neonicotinoid and sulfoximine insecticides impairs visual and olfactory learning and memory in Polistes paper wasps. Journal of Experimental Biology. 226(22). 2 indexed citations

Tibbetts, Elizabeth A., et al.. (2022). Type and amount of social experience influences individual face learning in paper wasps. Behavioral Ecology and Sociobiology. 76(11). 6 indexed citations

Tibbetts, Elizabeth A., et al.. (2022). The establishment and maintenance of dominance hierarchies. Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society B Biological Sciences. 377(1845). 20200450–20200450. 111 indexed citations breakdown →

Tibbetts, Elizabeth A., et al.. (2022). Paper wasps form abstract concept of ‘same and different’. Proceedings of the Royal Society B Biological Sciences. 289(1979). 20221156–20221156. 12 indexed citations

Tibbetts, Elizabeth A. & Emilie C. Snell‐Rood. (2021). Reciprocal plasticity and the diversification of communication systems. Animal Behaviour. 179. 297–306. 8 indexed citations

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Tibbetts, Elizabeth A., et al.. (2021). Individual recognition is associated with holistic face processing in Polistes paper wasps in a species-specific way. Proceedings of the Royal Society B Biological Sciences. 288(1943). 20203010–20203010. 17 indexed citations

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Tibbetts, Elizabeth A., et al.. (2020). Complex signals alter recognition accuracy and conspecific acceptance thresholds. Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society B Biological Sciences. 375(1802). 20190482–20190482. 10 indexed citations

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Tibbetts, Elizabeth A., et al.. (2020). Visual and chemical signals provide different information in Polistes fuscatus wasps. Ethology. 127(3). 231–237. 5 indexed citations

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Tibbetts, Elizabeth A., et al.. (2019). Transitive inference in Polistes paper wasps. Biology Letters. 15(5). 20190015–20190015. 36 indexed citations

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Tibbetts, Elizabeth A., et al.. (2019). Social isolation prevents the development of individual face recognition in paper wasps. Animal Behaviour. 152. 71–77. 27 indexed citations

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Tibbetts, Elizabeth A., et al.. (2018). Rapid juvenile hormone downregulation in subordinate wasp queens facilitates stable cooperation. Proceedings of the Royal Society B Biological Sciences. 285(1872). 20172645–20172645. 15 indexed citations

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Tibbetts, Elizabeth A., et al.. (2018). Sex differences in face but not colour learning in Polistes fuscatus paper wasps. Animal Behaviour. 140. 1–6. 14 indexed citations

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Sheehan, Michael J., et al.. (2017). Heritable variation in colour patterns mediating individual recognition. Royal Society Open Science. 4(2). 161008–161008. 15 indexed citations

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Tibbetts, Elizabeth A., Sean P. Mullen, & James Dale. (2017). Signal function drives phenotypic and genetic diversity: the effects of signalling individual identity, quality or behavioural strategy. Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society B Biological Sciences. 372(1724). 20160347–20160347. 38 indexed citations

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Sheehan, Michael J., Carlos A. Botero, Tory A. Hendry, et al.. (2015). Different axes of environmental variation explain the presence vs. extent of cooperative nest founding associations in Polistes paper wasps. Iowa State University Digital Repository (Iowa State University). 3 indexed citations

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Tibbetts, Elizabeth A.. (2006). Badges of status in worker and gyne Polistes dominulus wasps. Annales Zoologici Fennici. 43. 575–582. 33 indexed citations

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