Jolyon Troscianko

3.6k total citations · 1 hit paper
74 papers, 2.3k citations indexed

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Jolyon Troscianko is a scholar working on Ecology, Evolution, Behavior and Systematics, Ecology and Social Psychology. According to data from OpenAlex, Jolyon Troscianko has authored 74 papers receiving a total of 2.3k indexed citations (citations by other indexed papers that have themselves been cited), including 49 papers in Ecology, Evolution, Behavior and Systematics, 30 papers in Ecology and 18 papers in Social Psychology. Recurrent topics in Jolyon Troscianko's work include Animal Behavior and Reproduction (44 papers), Plant and animal studies (22 papers) and Primate Behavior and Ecology (17 papers). Jolyon Troscianko is often cited by papers focused on Animal Behavior and Reproduction (44 papers), Plant and animal studies (22 papers) and Primate Behavior and Ecology (17 papers). Jolyon Troscianko collaborates with scholars based in United Kingdom, United States and South Africa. Jolyon Troscianko's co-authors include Martin Stevens, Claire N. Spottiswoode, Christian Rutz, Jared K. Wilson‐Aggarwal, John Skelhorn, Anna E. Hughes, Lucas A. Bluff, Karen L. Cheney, John A. Endler and N. Justin Marshall and has published in prestigious journals such as Science, Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences and Nature Communications.

In The Last Decade

Jolyon Troscianko

72 papers receiving 2.3k citations

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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.

Image calibration and analysis toolbox – a free software suite for objectively measuring reflectance, colour and pattern

2015 368 citations Jolyon Troscianko, Martin Stevens Methods in Ecology and Evolution profile →

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Name	h						Papers	Cites
Jolyon Troscianko United Kingdom	26	1.5k	801	463	380	302	74	2.3k
Johan Lind Sweden	26	1.2k 0.8×	1.0k 1.3×	218 0.5×	261 0.7×	244 0.8×	51	2.0k
Mary Caswell Stoddard United States	24	1.6k 1.0×	936 1.2×	188 0.4×	234 0.6×	269 0.9×	48	2.2k
Thomas W. Pike United Kingdom	29	1.4k 0.9×	740 0.9×	340 0.7×	245 0.6×	416 1.4×	75	2.3k
Timothy C. Roth United States	31	1.3k 0.9×	911 1.1×	839 1.8×	370 1.0×	253 0.8×	81	2.7k
Kim L. Hoke United States	21	735 0.5×	407 0.5×	208 0.4×	332 0.9×	313 1.0×	49	1.5k
James Dale New Zealand	25	2.3k 1.5×	1.1k 1.4×	329 0.7×	444 1.2×	575 1.9×	56	3.0k
Lara D. LaDage United States	22	860 0.6×	528 0.7×	678 1.5×	227 0.6×	221 0.7×	48	1.7k
Marc Théry France	28	2.0k 1.3×	798 1.0×	175 0.4×	709 1.9×	489 1.6×	63	2.6k
Theodore Stankowich United States	25	1.7k 1.1×	1.6k 2.0×	411 0.9×	627 1.6×	299 1.0×	50	2.7k
Nicholas I. Mundy United Kingdom	37	1.7k 1.1×	798 1.0×	977 2.1×	343 0.9×	1.2k 4.0×	102	4.7k

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Hughes, Anna E., et al.. (2026). Recent breeding experience improves egg ejection behaviour. Biology Letters. 22(1).

Troscianko, Jolyon, et al.. (2025). Stealth and deception: Adaptive motion camouflage in hunting broadclub cuttlefish. Science Advances. 11(13). eadr3686–eadr3686. 2 indexed citations

Cant, Michael A., et al.. (2025). Flap-necked chameleons change colour to match their background. Biology Letters. 21(8). 20250134–20250134. 1 indexed citations

Troscianko, Jolyon, et al.. (2025). Enhanced conspicuousness of prey in warmer water mitigates the constraint of turbidity for predators. Behavioral Ecology. 36(4). araf079–araf079. 1 indexed citations

Meier, Joana I., et al.. (2025). Mutualisms within light microhabitats are associated with sensory convergence in a mimetic butterfly community. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences. 122(29). e2422397122–e2422397122. 2 indexed citations

Gaston, Kevin J., et al.. (2023). Artificial light at night causes conflicting behavioural and morphological defence responses in a marine isopod. Proceedings of the Royal Society B Biological Sciences. 290(2000). 20230725–20230725. 6 indexed citations

Troscianko, Jolyon & Daniel Osorio. (2023). A model of colour appearance based on efficient coding of natural images. PLoS Computational Biology. 19(6). e1011117–e1011117. 4 indexed citations

Kelley, Jennifer L., et al.. (2023). The role of pictorial cues and contrast for camouflage. Evolutionary Ecology. 37(6). 909–925. 3 indexed citations

Cuthill, Innes C., et al.. (2023). Habitat geometry rather than visual acuity limits the visibility of a ground‐nesting bird's clutch to terrestrial predators. Ecology and Evolution. 13(9). e10471–e10471. 5 indexed citations

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Troscianko, Jolyon, et al.. (2022). CamoEvo: An open access toolbox for artificial camouflage evolution experiments. Evolution. 76(5). 870–882. 2 indexed citations

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Yong, Lengxob, Darren P. Croft, Jolyon Troscianko, Indar W. Ramnarine, & Alastair J. Wilson. (2021). Sensory‐based quantification of male colour patterns in Trinidadian guppies reveals no support for parallel phenotypic evolution in multivariate trait space. Molecular Ecology. 31(5). 1337–1357. 7 indexed citations

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Šulc, Michal, Anna E. Hughes, Jolyon Troscianko, et al.. (2021). Automatic identification of bird females using egg phenotype. Zoological Journal of the Linnean Society. 195(1). 33–44. 12 indexed citations

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Caves, Eleanor M., Jolyon Troscianko, & Laura A. Kelley. (2020). A customizable, low‐cost optomotor apparatus: A powerful tool for behaviourally measuring visual capability. Methods in Ecology and Evolution. 11(10). 1319–1324. 12 indexed citations

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Berg, Cedric P. van den, Jolyon Troscianko, John A. Endler, N. Justin Marshall, & Karen L. Cheney. (2019). Quantitative Colour Pattern Analysis (QCPA): A comprehensive framework for the analysis of colour patterns in nature. Methods in Ecology and Evolution. 11(2). 316–332. 123 indexed citations

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Radwan, Jacek, et al.. (2019). Sexual selection drives the evolution of male wing interference patterns. Proceedings of the Royal Society B Biological Sciences. 286(1903). 20182850–20182850. 25 indexed citations

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Duarte, Ana, et al.. (2016). Fitness costs associated with building and maintaining the burying beetle’s carrion nest. Scientific Reports. 6(1). 35293–35293. 22 indexed citations

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Troscianko, Jolyon & Christian Rutz. (2015). Activity profiles and hook-tool use of New Caledonian crows recorded by bird-borne video cameras. Biology Letters. 11(12). 20150777–20150777. 18 indexed citations

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Troscianko, Jolyon, Auguste M. P. von Bayern, Jackie Chappell, Christian Rutz, & Graham R. Martin. (2012). Extreme binocular vision and a straight bill facilitate tool use in New Caledonian crows. Nature Communications. 3(1). 1110–1110. 86 indexed citations

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Rutz, Christian, Lucas A. Bluff, Jolyon Troscianko, et al.. (2010). The Ecological Significance of Tool Use in New Caledonian Crows. Science. 329(5998). 1523–1526. 82 indexed citations

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Párraga, C. Alejandro, et al.. (2005). Opponent channel responses to changes in the illuminant of natural scenes for primates and birds. Perception. 34. 0–0. 1 indexed citations

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