Gareth Arnott

4.5k total citations · 1 hit paper
107 papers, 3.3k citations indexed

About

Gareth Arnott is a scholar working on Small Animals, Ecology, Evolution, Behavior and Systematics and Genetics. According to data from OpenAlex, Gareth Arnott has authored 107 papers receiving a total of 3.3k indexed citations (citations by other indexed papers that have themselves been cited), including 50 papers in Small Animals, 38 papers in Ecology, Evolution, Behavior and Systematics and 33 papers in Genetics. Recurrent topics in Gareth Arnott's work include Animal Behavior and Welfare Studies (49 papers), Animal Behavior and Reproduction (37 papers) and Human-Animal Interaction Studies (22 papers). Gareth Arnott is often cited by papers focused on Animal Behavior and Welfare Studies (49 papers), Animal Behavior and Reproduction (37 papers) and Human-Animal Interaction Studies (22 papers). Gareth Arnott collaborates with scholars based in United Kingdom, United States and Poland. Gareth Arnott's co-authors include Robert W. Elwood, Simon P. Turner, Andrew Crump, Irene Camerlink, Marianne Farish, C.P. Ferris, A.B. Lawrence, Richard B. D’Eath, N.E. O’Connell and Emily Bethell and has published in prestigious journals such as The Lancet, SHILAP Revista de lepidopterología and PLoS ONE.

In The Last Decade

Gareth Arnott

100 papers receiving 3.3k 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.

Assessment of fighting ability in animal contests

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Name	h						Papers	Cites
Gareth Arnott United Kingdom	31	1.3k	1.2k	856	825	698	107	3.3k
H. Hopster Netherlands	25	1.1k 0.9×	2.0k 1.6×	1.1k 1.2×	1.3k 1.6×	705 1.0×	48	4.2k
Ben Dantzer United States	28	2.1k 1.6×	977 0.8×	479 0.6×	462 0.6×	1.8k 2.6×	96	4.1k
André Ganswindt South Africa	28	907 0.7×	1.5k 1.2×	529 0.6×	680 0.8×	1.4k 2.1×	203	2.9k
Morten Bakken Norway	32	921 0.7×	2.2k 1.8×	1.3k 1.6×	1.4k 1.7×	930 1.3×	92	3.9k
Steven L. Monfort United States	41	1.8k 1.4×	1.7k 1.4×	1.3k 1.5×	620 0.8×	2.6k 3.7×	116	5.7k
Alan G. McElligott United Kingdom	36	1.2k 0.9×	1.1k 0.9×	854 1.0×	357 0.4×	1.3k 1.9×	90	3.0k
Heiko G. Rödel France	30	787 0.6×	785 0.6×	418 0.5×	796 1.0×	1.2k 1.7×	102	2.5k
I.C. de Jong Netherlands	35	1.2k 0.9×	3.0k 2.4×	673 0.8×	3.5k 4.3×	796 1.1×	145	6.0k
Luděk Bartoš Czechia	27	452 0.4×	668 0.5×	639 0.7×	277 0.3×	1.0k 1.5×	156	2.4k
C.G. van Reenen Netherlands	38	1.3k 1.1×	3.7k 2.9×	1.6k 1.9×	2.6k 3.2×	821 1.2×	107	6.6k

Countries citing papers authored by Gareth Arnott

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Co-authorship network of co-authors of Gareth Arnott

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Donnelly, Paul, et al.. (2025). Gestational enrichment of commercial breeding dams (Canis familiaris) influences offspring behaviour. Applied Animal Behaviour Science. 292. 106779–106779.

Palaoro, Alexandre V., et al.. (2025). Do lifetime contest costs affect the evolution of assessment strategies? A meta‐analysis. Journal of Animal Ecology. 94(7). 1335–1345. 1 indexed citations

Tanke, Darren H., Gareth Arnott, Pascal Godefroit, et al.. (2025). Deciphering causes and behaviors: A recurrent pattern of tail injuries in hadrosaurid dinosaurs. iScience. 28(11). 113739–113739. 1 indexed citations

Dickey, James W. E., et al.. (2025). Food fight: Gammarus tigrinus demonstrate competitive advantage over native G. duebeni. NeoBiota. 97. 301–318.

Arnott, Gareth, et al.. (2024). Vibrating aggression: spider males perform an unusual assessment strategy during contest displays. Behavioral Ecology. 35(3). 1 indexed citations

Farish, Marianne, et al.. (2024). Does cognitive performance predict contest outcome in pigs?. Animal Behaviour. 214. 27–41. 2 indexed citations

Donnelly, Paul, et al.. (2023). The links between positive human interaction and maternal behaviour and welfare of commercial breeding dams (Canis familiaris). Applied Animal Behaviour Science. 270. 106147–106147. 2 indexed citations

Donnelly, Paul, et al.. (2023). Positive human interaction improves welfare in commercial breeding dogs: Evidence from attention bias and human sociability tests. Applied Animal Behaviour Science. 262. 105904–105904. 4 indexed citations

Turner, Simon P., et al.. (2023). Third-party intervention and post-conflict behaviour in agonistic encounters of pigs (Sus scrofa). Frontiers in Zoology. 20(1). 28–28. 4 indexed citations

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Hall, Nathaniel J., et al.. (2022). The effect of repeated testing on judgement bias in domestic dogs (Canis familiaris). Animal Cognition. 26(2). 477–489. 5 indexed citations

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Cunningham, Eoghan M., et al.. (2022). Does microplastic exposure and sex influence shell selection and motivation in the common European hermit crab, Pagurus bernhardus?. The Science of The Total Environment. 855. 158576–158576. 13 indexed citations

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Dickey, James W. E., et al.. (2022). Behavioural traits of rainbow trout and brown trout may help explain their differing invasion success and impacts. Scientific Reports. 12(1). 1757–1757. 20 indexed citations

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Arnott, Gareth, Irene Camerlink, Andrea Doeschl‐Wilson, et al.. (2021). Once bitten, twice shy: Aggressive and defeated pigs begin agonistic encounters with more negative emotions. Applied Animal Behaviour Science. 244. 105488–105488. 4 indexed citations

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Kunc, Hansjoerg P., et al.. (2021). Extrinsic stressors modulate resource evaluations: insights from territoriality under artificial noise. Frontiers in Zoology. 18(1). 12–12. 2 indexed citations

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Turner, Simon P., et al.. (2020). The influence of early life socialisation on cognition in the domestic pig (Sus scrofa domestica). Scientific Reports. 10(1). 19077–19077. 7 indexed citations

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Gordon, Alan, et al.. (2019). The Effect of Behaviour and Diet on the Rumen Temperature of Holstein Bulls. Animals. 9(11). 1000–1000. 10 indexed citations

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Camerlink, Irene, et al.. (2019). Socialisation and its effect on play behaviour and aggression in the domestic pig (Sus scrofa). Scientific Reports. 9(1). 4180–4180. 33 indexed citations

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Arnott, Gareth, et al.. (2019). Evaluation of rumen temperature as a novel indicator of meat quality: Rumen temperature and haematological indicators of stress during the pre-slaughter period as predictors of instrumental meat quality in bulls. Meat Science. 158. 107913–107913. 9 indexed citations

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Camerlink, Irene, Marianne Farish, Richard B. D’Eath, Gareth Arnott, & Simon P. Turner. (2018). Long Term Benefits on Social Behaviour after Early Life Socialization of Piglets. Animals. 8(11). 192–192. 42 indexed citations

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Wilson, Alastair J., et al.. (2011). Integrating Personality Research and Animal Contest Theory: Aggressiveness in the Green Swordtail Xiphophorus helleri. PLoS ONE. 6(11). e28024–e28024. 75 indexed citations

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