Michael Briga

1.2k total citations
35 papers, 570 citations indexed

About

Michael Briga is a scholar working on Ecology, Evolution, Behavior and Systematics, Ecology and Health. According to data from OpenAlex, Michael Briga has authored 35 papers receiving a total of 570 indexed citations (citations by other indexed papers that have themselves been cited), including 17 papers in Ecology, Evolution, Behavior and Systematics, 14 papers in Ecology and 5 papers in Health. Recurrent topics in Michael Briga's work include Animal Behavior and Reproduction (14 papers), Avian ecology and behavior (8 papers) and Wildlife Ecology and Conservation (8 papers). Michael Briga is often cited by papers focused on Animal Behavior and Reproduction (14 papers), Avian ecology and behavior (8 papers) and Wildlife Ecology and Conservation (8 papers). Michael Briga collaborates with scholars based in Finland, Netherlands and Germany. Michael Briga's co-authors include Simon Verhulst, Blanca Jimeno, Mirre J. P. Simons, Ido Pen, Jonathan Wright, Jelle J. Boonekamp, Michaela Hau, Virpi Lummaa, Antoine Stier and G. Mulder and has published in prestigious journals such as Nature Communications, PLoS ONE and Scientific Reports.

In The Last Decade

Michael Briga

33 papers receiving 558 citations

Peers — A (Enhanced Table)

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

Name	h						Papers	Cites
Michael Briga Finland	16	310	235	82	60	53	35	570
Martijn Hammers Netherlands	17	653 2.1×	392 1.7×	214 2.6×	92 1.5×	184 3.5×	42	954
Susan C. Thomson United Kingdom	9	197 0.6×	228 1.0×	153 1.9×	14 0.2×	35 0.7×	14	456
Katrina G. Salvante Canada	20	605 2.0×	473 2.0×	42 0.5×	19 0.3×	49 0.9×	36	1.0k
Blanca Jimeno Netherlands	13	288 0.9×	225 1.0×	47 0.6×	13 0.2×	41 0.8×	26	452
Thomas Merkling France	15	336 1.1×	307 1.3×	48 0.6×	11 0.2×	58 1.1×	34	736
Amy Lu United States	16	400 1.3×	175 0.7×	61 0.7×	8 0.1×	94 1.8×	54	1.0k
Janske van de Crommenacker United Kingdom	12	270 0.9×	303 1.3×	37 0.5×	12 0.2×	49 0.9×	27	531
Coraline Bichet France	13	197 0.6×	285 1.2×	52 0.6×	34 0.6×	86 1.6×	31	563
Oscar Vedder Germany	21	883 2.8×	747 3.2×	138 1.7×	82 1.4×	186 3.5×	52	1.2k
Megan Phifer‐Rixey United States	13	135 0.4×	158 0.7×	55 0.7×	16 0.3×	275 5.2×	21	732

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Seltmann, Martin W., et al.. (2025). Tusks, testosterone and personality in male Asian elephants ( Elephas maximus ). Royal Society Open Science. 12(8). 250490–250490.

Lummaa, Virpi, et al.. (2025). The spatial distribution of pertussis, but not measles or smallpox, in pre-industrial Finland matches dialects. iScience. 28(6). 112530–112530.

Lummaa, Virpi, et al.. (2025). Socioeconomic Differences in Vaccination Coverage After a Mandatory Vaccination Law, 1855-1900. JAMA Network Open. 8(2). e2460558–e2460558. 1 indexed citations

Briga, Michael, et al.. (2024). Maternal pertussis immunization and the blunting of routine vaccine effectiveness: a meta-analysis and modeling study. Nature Communications. 15(1). 921–921. 15 indexed citations

Briga, Michael, et al.. (2024). Estimating the optimal age for infant measles vaccination. Nature Communications. 15(1). 9919–9919. 2 indexed citations

Briga, Michael, et al.. (2023). The interactions of SARS-CoV-2 with cocirculating pathogens: Epidemiological implications and current knowledge gaps. PLoS Pathogens. 19(3). e1011167–e1011167. 18 indexed citations

Lummaa, Virpi, et al.. (2022). The Long-Term Success of Mandatory Vaccination Laws After Implementing the First Vaccination Campaign in 19th Century Rural Finland. American Journal of Epidemiology. 191(7). 1180–1189. 9 indexed citations

Lummaa, Virpi, et al.. (2022). Sex‐specific body mass ageing trajectories in adult Asian elephants. Journal of Evolutionary Biology. 35(5). 752–762. 1 indexed citations

Nenko, Ilona, Michael Briga, Agnieszka Micek, & Grażyna Jasieńska. (2022). From January to June: Birth seasonality across two centuries in a rural Polish community. Scientific Reports. 12(1). 18579–18579. 4 indexed citations

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Briga, Michael & Simon Verhulst. (2021). Mosaic metabolic ageing: Basal and standard metabolic rates age in opposite directions and independent of environmental quality, sex and life span in a passerine. Functional Ecology. 35(5). 1055–1068. 9 indexed citations

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Lynch, Robert, Virpi Lummaa, Michael Briga, Simon N. Chapman, & John Loehr. (2020). Child volunteers in a women's paramilitary organization in World War II have accelerated reproductive schedules. Nature Communications. 11(1). 2377–2377. 8 indexed citations

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Briga, Michael, et al.. (2020). Glucose regulation is a repeatable trait affected by successive handling in zebra finches. Journal of Comparative Physiology B. 190(4). 455–464. 6 indexed citations

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Briga, Michael, Blanca Jimeno, & Simon Verhulst. (2019). Coupling lifespan and aging? The age at onset of body mass decline associates positively with sex-specific lifespan but negatively with environment-specific lifespan. Experimental Gerontology. 119. 111–119. 18 indexed citations

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Briga, Michael, et al.. (2017). Food availability affects adult survival trajectories depending on early developmental conditions. Proceedings of the Royal Society B Biological Sciences. 284(1846). 20162287–20162287. 56 indexed citations

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Jimeno, Blanca, Michael Briga, Simon Verhulst, & Michaela Hau. (2017). Effects of developmental conditions on glucocorticoid concentrations in adulthood depend on sex and foraging conditions. Hormones and Behavior. 93. 175–183. 20 indexed citations

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Briga, Michael & Simon Verhulst. (2015). What can long-lived mutants tell us about mechanisms causing aging and lifespan variation in natural environments?. Experimental Gerontology. 71. 21–26. 42 indexed citations

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Boonekamp, Jelle J., Michael Briga, & Simon Verhulst. (2015). The heuristic value of redundancy models of aging. Experimental Gerontology. 71. 95–102. 8 indexed citations

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Briga, Michael & Simon Verhulst. (2015). Large diurnal temperature range increases bird sensitivity to climate change. Scientific Reports. 5(1). 16600–16600. 51 indexed citations

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Simons, Mirre J. P., et al.. (2012). Bill Redness Is Positively Associated with Reproduction and Survival in Male and Female Zebra Finches. PLoS ONE. 7(7). e40721–e40721. 30 indexed citations

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Coster, Greet De, et al.. (2011). Effects of early developmental conditions on innate immunity are only evident under favourable adult conditions in zebra finches. Die Naturwissenschaften. 98(12). 1049–1056. 23 indexed citations

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