James E. Herbert‐Read

3.4k total citations · 1 hit paper
61 papers, 2.2k citations indexed

About

James E. Herbert‐Read is a scholar working on Ecology, Evolution, Behavior and Systematics, Ecology and Nature and Landscape Conservation. According to data from OpenAlex, James E. Herbert‐Read has authored 61 papers receiving a total of 2.2k indexed citations (citations by other indexed papers that have themselves been cited), including 42 papers in Ecology, Evolution, Behavior and Systematics, 22 papers in Ecology and 17 papers in Nature and Landscape Conservation. Recurrent topics in James E. Herbert‐Read's work include Animal Behavior and Reproduction (37 papers), Evolutionary Game Theory and Cooperation (16 papers) and Marine animal studies overview (14 papers). James E. Herbert‐Read is often cited by papers focused on Animal Behavior and Reproduction (37 papers), Evolutionary Game Theory and Cooperation (16 papers) and Marine animal studies overview (14 papers). James E. Herbert‐Read collaborates with scholars based in Sweden, United Kingdom and Australia. James E. Herbert‐Read's co-authors include Ashley J. W. Ward, David J. T. Sumpter, Jens Krause, T. M. Schaerf, Andréa Perna, Richard P. Mann, Christos C. Ioannou, Lesley J. Morrell, Stefan Krause and Alexander D. M. Wilson and has published in prestigious journals such as Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, Nature Communications and PLoS ONE.

In The Last Decade

James E. Herbert‐Read

58 papers receiving 2.1k citations

Hit Papers

Inferring the rules of interaction of shoaling fish 2011 2026 2016 2021 2011 100 200 300 400
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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.

  1. Inferring the rules of interaction of shoaling fish
    2011 416 citations James E. Herbert‐Read, T. M. Schaerf et al. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences profile →

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

Name h Career Trend Papers Cites
James E. Herbert‐Read Sweden 23 1.2k 599 497 449 376 61 2.2k
Lesley J. Morrell United Kingdom 31 1.8k 1.5× 940 1.6× 511 1.0× 492 1.1× 355 0.9× 62 2.7k
Christos C. Ioannou United Kingdom 33 2.1k 1.8× 1.0k 1.7× 845 1.7× 906 2.0× 695 1.8× 80 4.3k
Hanno Hildenbrandt Netherlands 24 563 0.5× 590 1.0× 401 0.8× 388 0.9× 176 0.5× 40 1.9k
Daniel W. Franks United Kingdom 31 1.4k 1.2× 1.0k 1.7× 191 0.4× 246 0.5× 507 1.3× 80 3.0k
Jolle W. Jolles Germany 23 761 0.7× 332 0.6× 205 0.4× 261 0.6× 152 0.4× 33 1.5k
Daniel Grünbaum United States 29 615 0.5× 855 1.4× 377 0.8× 826 1.8× 318 0.8× 65 3.4k
Andrew M. Berdahl United States 19 451 0.4× 407 0.7× 222 0.4× 195 0.4× 271 0.7× 28 1.3k
Stefan Krause Germany 19 650 0.6× 339 0.6× 224 0.5× 156 0.3× 331 0.9× 33 1.5k
Emma Despland Canada 28 1.3k 1.2× 508 0.8× 423 0.9× 372 0.8× 190 0.5× 81 2.8k
Charlotte K. Hemelrijk Netherlands 35 2.1k 1.8× 712 1.2× 302 0.6× 434 1.0× 982 2.6× 113 4.4k

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All Works

20 of 20 papers shown
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Keith, Inti, et al.. (2025). Territory Size but Not Territorial Defence Varies With Habitat Quality and Competitor Density in a Farming Species. Ethology. 131(9). 65–76. 1 indexed citations
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Herbert‐Read, James E., Matthew J. Hansen, Félicie Dhellemmes, et al.. (2024). Collective anti-predator escape manoeuvres through optimal attack and avoidance strategies. Communications Biology. 7(1). 2 indexed citations
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Ellison, Amy, et al.. (2023). The presence of territorial damselfish predicts choosy client species richness at cleaning stations. Behavioral Ecology. 34(2). 269–277. 5 indexed citations
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Keith, Inti, et al.. (2023). A low‐cost, long‐running, open‐source stereo camera for tracking aquatic species and their behaviours. Methods in Ecology and Evolution. 14(10). 2549–2556. 8 indexed citations
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Corral‐López, Alberto, Alexander Kotrschal, James E. Herbert‐Read, et al.. (2023). Evolution of schooling drives changes in neuroanatomy and motion characteristics across predation contexts in guppies. Nature Communications. 14(1). 6027–6027. 4 indexed citations
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Simpson, Stephen D., et al.. (2023). Predatory trumpetfish conceal themselves from their prey by swimming alongside other fish. Current Biology. 33(15). R801–R802. 3 indexed citations
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Powell, Samuel B., et al.. (2022). Polarization vision mitigates visual noise from flickering light underwater. Science Advances. 8(36). eabq2770–eabq2770. 18 indexed citations
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Herbert‐Read, James E., et al.. (2021). The measure of spatial position within groups that best predicts predation risk depends on group movement. Proceedings of the Royal Society B Biological Sciences. 288(1959). 20211286–20211286. 9 indexed citations
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Schaerf, T. M., James E. Herbert‐Read, & Ashley J. W. Ward. (2021). A statistical method for identifying different rules of interaction between individuals in moving animal groups. Journal of The Royal Society Interface. 18(176). 20200925–20200925. 14 indexed citations
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Herbert‐Read, James E., et al.. (2020). Maternal predation risk increases offspring’s exploration but does not affect schooling behavior. Behavioral Ecology. 31(5). 1207–1217. 18 indexed citations
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Kotrschal, Alexander, James E. Herbert‐Read, Natasha I. Bloch, et al.. (2020). Rapid evolution of coordinated and collective movement in response to artificial selection. Science Advances. 6(49). 21 indexed citations
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MacGregor, Hannah E. A., James E. Herbert‐Read, & Christos C. Ioannou. (2020). Information can explain the dynamics of group order in animal collective behaviour. Nature Communications. 11(1). 2737–2737. 44 indexed citations
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Negro, Juan J., Jorge Doña, M. Carmen Blázquez, et al.. (2020). Contrasting stripes are a widespread feature of group living in birds, mammals and fishes. Proceedings of the Royal Society B Biological Sciences. 287(1936). 20202021–20202021. 16 indexed citations
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Ioannou, Christos C., et al.. (2019). Predators attacking virtual prey reveal the costs and benefits of leadership. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences. 116(18). 8925–8930. 50 indexed citations
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Herbert‐Read, James E., Amy Wade, Indar W. Ramnarine, & Christos C. Ioannou. (2019). Collective decision-making appears more egalitarian in populations where group fission costs are higher. Biology Letters. 15(12). 20190556–20190556. 18 indexed citations
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Herbert‐Read, James E., et al.. (2019). Quantifying the structure and dynamics of fish shoals under predation threat in three dimensions. Behavioral Ecology. 31(2). 311–321. 34 indexed citations
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Herbert‐Read, James E., et al.. (2019). Fine-scale behavioural adjustments of prey on a continuum of risk. Proceedings of the Royal Society B Biological Sciences. 286(1903). 20190448–20190448. 11 indexed citations
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Herbert‐Read, James E., et al.. (2017). Body size affects the strength of social interactions and spatial organization of a schooling fish ( Pseudomugil signifer ). Royal Society Open Science. 4(4). 161056–161056. 23 indexed citations
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Ward, Ashley J. W., T. M. Schaerf, James E. Herbert‐Read, et al.. (2017). Local interactions and global properties of wild, free-ranging stickleback shoals. Royal Society Open Science. 4(7). 170043–170043. 25 indexed citations
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Herbert‐Read, James E., et al.. (2017). Anthropogenic noise pollution from pile-driving disrupts the structure and dynamics of fish shoals. Proceedings of the Royal Society B Biological Sciences. 284(1863). 20171627–20171627. 102 indexed citations

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