Rufus A. Johnstone

14.9k total citations · 2 hit papers
145 papers, 10.6k citations indexed

About

Rufus A. Johnstone is a scholar working on Ecology, Evolution, Behavior and Systematics, Sociology and Political Science and Genetics. According to data from OpenAlex, Rufus A. Johnstone has authored 145 papers receiving a total of 10.6k indexed citations (citations by other indexed papers that have themselves been cited), including 93 papers in Ecology, Evolution, Behavior and Systematics, 59 papers in Sociology and Political Science and 42 papers in Genetics. Recurrent topics in Rufus A. Johnstone's work include Animal Behavior and Reproduction (78 papers), Evolutionary Game Theory and Cooperation (57 papers) and Plant and animal studies (53 papers). Rufus A. Johnstone is often cited by papers focused on Animal Behavior and Reproduction (78 papers), Evolutionary Game Theory and Cooperation (57 papers) and Plant and animal studies (53 papers). Rufus A. Johnstone collaborates with scholars based in United Kingdom, United States and Germany. Rufus A. Johnstone's co-authors include Hanna Kokko, Michael A. Cant, Rebecca M. Kilner, Andrea Manica, Alan Grafen, James C. Deutsch, John D. Reynolds, Camilla A. Hinde, Redouan Bshary and Tim Clutton‐Brock and has published in prestigious journals such as Nature, Science and Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences.

In The Last Decade

Rufus A. Johnstone

144 papers receiving 10.3k 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.

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1995 519 citations Rufus A. Johnstone profile →
Multiple displays in animal communication: ‘backup signals’ and ‘multiple messages’

1996 473 citations Rufus A. Johnstone Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society B Biological Sciences profile →

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

Name	h						Papers	Cites
Rufus A. Johnstone United Kingdom	56	7.6k	2.9k	2.7k	2.2k	1.7k	145	10.6k
Michael Taborsky Switzerland	59	7.5k 1.0×	2.5k 0.9×	3.8k 1.4×	2.3k 1.1×	1.2k 0.7×	219	11.3k
Alan Grafen United Kingdom	47	5.7k 0.7×	3.8k 1.3×	2.1k 0.8×	2.8k 1.3×	1.2k 0.7×	92	10.3k
Richard D. Alexander United States	48	4.7k 0.6×	2.5k 0.9×	1.5k 0.6×	2.3k 1.1×	1.9k 1.1×	156	11.7k
Paul W. Sherman United States	57	7.3k 1.0×	3.0k 1.0×	5.4k 2.0×	1.3k 0.6×	1.2k 0.7×	128	12.7k
Stephen T. Emlen United States	37	7.4k 1.0×	2.0k 0.7×	5.0k 1.8×	1.1k 0.5×	1.2k 0.7×	81	10.8k
Gerald S. Wilkinson United States	53	5.9k 0.8×	2.9k 1.0×	2.7k 1.0×	1.0k 0.5×	560 0.3×	155	8.8k
Olof Leimar Sweden	48	5.2k 0.7×	2.9k 1.0×	2.2k 0.8×	2.0k 0.9×	818 0.5×	121	8.7k
Amotz Zahavi Israel	19	4.8k 0.6×	1.3k 0.5×	2.5k 0.9×	1.4k 0.6×	1.2k 0.8×	34	7.6k
J. R. Krebs United Kingdom	36	5.3k 0.7×	1.8k 0.6×	3.9k 1.4×	1.2k 0.5×	705 0.4×	57	10.3k
Franz J. Weissing Netherlands	51	5.1k 0.7×	3.3k 1.2×	3.5k 1.3×	1.9k 0.8×	779 0.5×	174	11.6k

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Esau, Travis J., et al.. (2025). Enhanced Image Annotation in Wild Blueberry (Vaccinium angustifolium Ait.) Fields Using Sequential Zero-Shot Detection and Segmentation Models. Sensors. 25(23). 7325–7325.

Thompson, Faye J., Harry H. Marshall, Hazel J. Nichols, et al.. (2022). Untangling the oxidative cost of reproduction: An analysis in wild banded mongooses. Ecology and Evolution. 12(3). e8644–e8644. 6 indexed citations

Marshall, Harry H., Rufus A. Johnstone, Faye J. Thompson, et al.. (2021). A veil of ignorance can promote fairness in a mammal society. Nature Communications. 12(1). 3717–3717. 8 indexed citations

Johnstone, Rufus A., Michael A. Cant, Dominic L. Cram, & Faye J. Thompson. (2020). Exploitative leaders incite intergroup warfare in a social mammal. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences. 117(47). 29759–29766. 29 indexed citations

Kuijper, Bram & Rufus A. Johnstone. (2019). The evolution of early-life effects on social behaviour—why should social adversity carry over to the future?. Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society B Biological Sciences. 374(1770). 20180111–20180111. 16 indexed citations

Horswill, Catharine, et al.. (2019). Coping with strangers: how familiarity and active interactions shape group coordination in Corydoras aeneus. Royal Society Open Science. 6(9). 190587–190587. 4 indexed citations

Johnstone, Rufus A. & Michael A. Cant. (2019). Evolution of menopause. Current Biology. 29(4). R112–R115. 17 indexed citations

Holen, Øistein Haugsten & Rufus A. Johnstone. (2018). Reciprocal mimicry: kin selection can drive defended prey to resemble their Batesian mimics. Proceedings of the Royal Society B Biological Sciences. 285(1890). 20181149–20181149. 2 indexed citations

Thompson, Faye J., Michael A. Cant, Harry H. Marshall, et al.. (2017). Explaining negative kin discrimination in a cooperative mammal society. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences. 114(20). 5207–5212. 51 indexed citations

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Kuijper, Bram & Rufus A. Johnstone. (2017). Maternal effects and parent–offspring conflict. Evolution. 72(2). 220–233. 22 indexed citations

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Nakayama, Shinnosuke, Jennifer L. Harcourt, Rufus A. Johnstone, & Andrea Manica. (2016). Who directs group movement? Leader effort versus follower preference in stickleback fish of different personality. Biology Letters. 12(5). 20160207–20160207. 19 indexed citations

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Kuijper, Bram & Rufus A. Johnstone. (2015). Parental effects and the evolution of phenotypic memory. Journal of Evolutionary Biology. 29(2). 265–276. 23 indexed citations

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Cant, Michael A., Hazel J. Nichols, Rufus A. Johnstone, & Sarah J. Hodge. (2013). Policing of reproduction by hidden threats in a cooperative mammal. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences. 111(1). 326–330. 38 indexed citations

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Hinde, Camilla A., Rufus A. Johnstone, & Rebecca M. Kilner. (2010). Parent-Offspring Conflict and Coadaptation. Science. 327(5971). 1373–1376. 113 indexed citations

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Harcourt, Jennifer L., et al.. (2009). Social Feedback and the Emergence of Leaders and Followers. Current Biology. 19(3). 248–252. 220 indexed citations

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Bro‐Jørgensen, Jakob, Rufus A. Johnstone, & Matthew R. Evans. (2007). Uninformative Exaggeration of Male Sexual Ornaments in Barn Swallows. Current Biology. 17(10). 850–855. 37 indexed citations

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Kokko, Hanna & Rufus A. Johnstone. (2002). Why is mutual mate choice not the norm? Operational sex ratios, sex roles and the evolution of sexually dimorphic and monomorphic signalling. Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society B Biological Sciences. 357(1419). 319–330. 269 indexed citations

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Kilner, Rebecca M. & Rufus A. Johnstone. (1997). Begging the question: are offspring solicitation behaviours signals of need?. Trends in Ecology & Evolution. 12(1). 11–15. 401 indexed citations

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Johnstone, Rufus A., et al.. (1996). ANNOUNCEMENTS. Evolution. 50(5). 2119–2121. 1 indexed citations

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Hurst, Gregory D. D., Laurence D. Hurst, & Rufus A. Johnstone. (1992). Intranuclear conflict and its role in evolution. Trends in Ecology & Evolution. 7(11). 373–378. 21 indexed citations

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