Kees van Oers

9.8k total citations · 1 hit paper
134 papers, 6.5k citations indexed

About

Kees van Oers is a scholar working on Ecology, Evolution, Behavior and Systematics, Ecology and Genetics. According to data from OpenAlex, Kees van Oers has authored 134 papers receiving a total of 6.5k indexed citations (citations by other indexed papers that have themselves been cited), including 95 papers in Ecology, Evolution, Behavior and Systematics, 44 papers in Ecology and 40 papers in Genetics. Recurrent topics in Kees van Oers's work include Animal Behavior and Reproduction (91 papers), Plant and animal studies (43 papers) and Avian ecology and behavior (37 papers). Kees van Oers is often cited by papers focused on Animal Behavior and Reproduction (91 papers), Plant and animal studies (43 papers) and Avian ecology and behavior (37 papers). Kees van Oers collaborates with scholars based in Netherlands, Germany and United Kingdom. Kees van Oers's co-authors include Arie J. van Noordwijk, Piet J. Drent, P.J. Drent, Marcel E. Visser, Niels J. Dingemanse, Marc Naguib, Bart Kempenaers, Christiaan Both, Piet de Goede and Claudio Carere and has published in prestigious journals such as Science, Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences and Environmental Science & Technology.

In The Last Decade

Kees van Oers

131 papers receiving 6.4k 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.

Repeatability and heritability of exploratory behaviour in great tits from the wild

2002 639 citations Piet J. Drent, Kees van Oers et al. Animal Behaviour profile →

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Name	h						Papers	Cites
Kees van Oers Netherlands	41	4.6k	2.5k	1.3k	1.0k	983	134	6.5k
Donna L. Maney United States	35	2.9k 0.6×	2.0k 0.8×	691 0.5×	1.2k 1.2×	782 0.8×	83	5.3k
Ton G. G. Groothuis Netherlands	48	5.1k 1.1×	3.4k 1.4×	1.0k 0.8×	531 0.5×	985 1.0×	205	7.8k
Alexandre Roulin Switzerland	55	6.6k 1.4×	4.3k 1.8×	1.4k 1.0×	524 0.5×	596 0.6×	268	9.6k
Ignacio T. Moore United States	44	4.7k 1.0×	3.0k 1.2×	742 0.6×	660 0.7×	736 0.7×	143	6.5k
Michaela Hau Germany	48	4.3k 1.0×	3.1k 1.3×	587 0.4×	705 0.7×	676 0.7×	111	6.3k
Katherine L. Buchanan Australia	42	4.5k 1.0×	3.0k 1.2×	599 0.4×	1.7k 1.7×	610 0.6×	150	6.3k
Ellen D. Ketterson United States	57	8.1k 1.8×	5.7k 2.3×	1.5k 1.1×	1.3k 1.3×	1.1k 1.1×	186	10.9k
Simon C. Griffith Australia	49	7.4k 1.6×	5.4k 2.2×	2.1k 1.6×	1.4k 1.4×	618 0.6×	249	9.5k
Simon M. Reader United Kingdom	37	4.7k 1.0×	1.9k 0.8×	1.2k 0.9×	1.1k 1.1×	3.0k 3.1×	123	8.7k
David F. Westneat United States	42	6.2k 1.3×	4.1k 1.7×	1.8k 1.4×	642 0.6×	458 0.5×	134	8.2k

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Co-authorship network of co-authors of Kees van Oers

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Visser, Marcel E., Kees van Oers, Anne Charmantier, et al.. (2025). Geographic differences in the phenology of gonadal development and moult, but not of egg laying, are genetically based in a small songbird. Proceedings of the Royal Society B Biological Sciences. 292(2039). 20242286–20242286. 3 indexed citations

Soulsbury, Carl D., et al.. (2025). Predicted deleterious mutations reveal the genetic architecture of male reproductive success in a lekking bird. Nature Ecology & Evolution. 9(10). 1924–1937. 2 indexed citations

Verhoeven, Koen J. F., et al.. (2024). Early developmental carry‐over effects on exploratory behaviour and DNA methylation in wild great tits (Parus major). Evolutionary Applications. 17(3). e13664–e13664. 3 indexed citations

Muriel, Jaime, Jesús Martínez‐Padilla, Andreas Nord, et al.. (2024). Seasonal and environmental factors contribute to the variation in the gut microbiome: A large‐scale study of a small bird. Journal of Animal Ecology. 93(10). 1475–1492. 7 indexed citations

Oers, Kees van, et al.. (2023). Female great tits (Parus major) reproduce earlier when paired with a male they prefer. Ethology. 129(9). 461–471. 4 indexed citations

Mennill, Daniel J., et al.. (2023). Song overlapping and matching during low‐arousal singing and their relation to visual ornaments, parental care and breeding success in the great tit (Parus major). Ethology. 129(7). 322–333. 1 indexed citations

Quinn, John L., et al.. (2023). Artificial selection for reversal learning reveals limited repeatability and no heritability of cognitive flexibility in great tits ( Parus major ). Proceedings of the Royal Society B Biological Sciences. 290(2003). 20231067–20231067. 4 indexed citations

Oers, Kees van, et al.. (2021). Anyone listening? No evidence for eavesdropping on male singing interactions in the great tit, Parus major. Animal Behaviour. 176. 67–76. 4 indexed citations

Cooke, Amy C., Gabrielle L. Davidson, Kees van Oers, & John L. Quinn. (2021). Motivation, accuracy and positive feedback through experience explain innovative problem solving and its repeatability. Animal Behaviour. 174. 249–261. 21 indexed citations

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Silva, Vinicius Henrique da, Veronika N. Laine, Mirte Bosse, et al.. (2019). The Genomic Complexity of a Large Inversion in Great Tits. Genome Biology and Evolution. 11(7). 1870–1881. 12 indexed citations

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Laine, Veronika N., Irene Verhagen, A. Christa Mateman, et al.. (2019). Exploration of tissue-specific gene expression patterns underlying timing of breeding in contrasting temperature environments in a song bird. BMC Genomics. 20(1). 693–693. 16 indexed citations

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Samuel, P., Charlotte A. Cornil, Kees van Oers, & Marcel E. Visser. (2019). Personality and gonadal development as sources of individual variation in response to GnRH challenge in female great tits. Proceedings of the Royal Society B Biological Sciences. 286(1902). 20190142–20190142. 9 indexed citations

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Lindner, Melanie, et al.. (2019). Avian ecological epigenetics: pitfalls and promises. Journal für Ornithologie. 160(4). 1183–1203. 39 indexed citations

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Silva, Vinicius Henrique da, Veronika N. Laine, Mirte Bosse, et al.. (2018). CNVs are associated with genomic architecture in a songbird. BMC Genomics. 19(1). 195–195. 11 indexed citations

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Kim, Jun‐Mo, Anna W. Santure, John L. Quinn, et al.. (2018). A high‐density SNP chip for genotyping great tit (Parus major) populations and its application to studying the genetic architecture of exploration behaviour. Molecular Ecology Resources. 18(4). 877–891. 29 indexed citations

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Bosse, Mirte, Lewis G. Spurgin, Veronika N. Laine, et al.. (2017). Recent natural selection causes adaptive evolution of an avian polygenic trait. Science. 358(6361). 365–368. 137 indexed citations

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Baugh, Alexander T., Sarah C. Davidson, Michaela Hau, & Kees van Oers. (2017). Temporal dynamics of the HPA axis linked to exploratory behavior in a wild European songbird (Parus major). General and Comparative Endocrinology. 250. 104–112. 21 indexed citations

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Brommer, Jon E., Jussi Alho, Clotilde Biard, et al.. (2010). Passerine extra-pair mating dynamics: A model-based comparison of four species.. Oral Surgery Oral Medicine Oral Pathology and Oral Radiology. 116(5). e303–10. 1 indexed citations

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Oers, Kees van. (2008). Animal personality, behaviour or traits: What are we measuring?. European Journal of Personality. 22(5). 470–472. 5 indexed citations

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Oers, Kees van, et al.. (2005). Context dependence of personalities: risk-taking behavior in a social and a nonsocial situation. Behavioral Ecology. 16(4). 716–723. 208 indexed citations

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