Sara J. Shettleworth

9.0k total citations · 1 hit paper
113 papers, 5.8k citations indexed

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Sara J. Shettleworth is a scholar working on Social Psychology, Developmental and Educational Psychology and Cognitive Neuroscience. According to data from OpenAlex, Sara J. Shettleworth has authored 113 papers receiving a total of 5.8k indexed citations (citations by other indexed papers that have themselves been cited), including 36 papers in Social Psychology, 34 papers in Developmental and Educational Psychology and 30 papers in Cognitive Neuroscience. Recurrent topics in Sara J. Shettleworth's work include Animal Behavior and Reproduction (24 papers), Primate Behavior and Ecology (24 papers) and Child and Animal Learning Development (21 papers). Sara J. Shettleworth is often cited by papers focused on Animal Behavior and Reproduction (24 papers), Primate Behavior and Ecology (24 papers) and Child and Animal Learning Development (21 papers). Sara J. Shettleworth collaborates with scholars based in Canada, United States and United Kingdom. Sara J. Shettleworth's co-authors include Robert R. Hampton, John R. Krebs, Noam Miller, John A. Nevin, Jennifer E. Sutton, David R. Brodbeck, Ken Cheng, John J. Rieser, Janellen Huttenlocher and Alastair J. Inman and has published in prestigious journals such as Nature, Psychological Bulletin and Trends in Ecology & Evolution.

In The Last Decade

Sara J. Shettleworth

111 papers receiving 5.5k 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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Name	h						Papers	Cites
Sara J. Shettleworth Canada	44	2.0k	2.0k	1.9k	1.5k	826	113	5.8k
Alan C. Kamil United States	39	1.5k 0.8×	2.7k 1.4×	1.9k 1.0×	1.2k 0.8×	1.2k 1.5×	111	6.2k
Richard Andrew United Kingdom	43	3.3k 1.6×	1.4k 0.7×	1.9k 1.0×	821 0.5×	567 0.7×	112	6.0k
David F. Sherry Canada	42	2.0k 1.0×	2.6k 1.3×	2.3k 1.2×	551 0.4×	1.7k 2.1×	101	6.6k
Alex Kacelnik United Kingdom	49	1.5k 0.7×	2.9k 1.4×	2.3k 1.2×	1.2k 0.8×	1.4k 1.7×	127	7.1k
James R. Anderson United Kingdom	48	1.5k 0.8×	884 0.4×	3.5k 1.8×	1.6k 1.0×	384 0.5×	194	6.2k
Nathan J. Emery United Kingdom	39	2.2k 1.1×	2.4k 1.2×	3.9k 2.1×	1.3k 0.9×	876 1.1×	98	7.3k
Angelo Bisazza Italy	64	4.2k 2.1×	4.6k 2.3×	1.8k 0.9×	1.0k 0.7×	1.3k 1.6×	178	10.6k
Sergio M. Pellis Canada	56	2.1k 1.1×	1.9k 0.9×	5.8k 3.0×	656 0.4×	1.0k 1.3×	249	10.2k
Gordon G. Gallup United States	58	3.2k 1.6×	1.4k 0.7×	4.3k 2.3×	1.7k 1.1×	435 0.5×	223	11.1k
Gilbert Gottlieb United States	42	912 0.5×	1.1k 0.5×	1.5k 0.8×	1.6k 1.1×	661 0.8×	120	6.0k

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Miller, Noam & Sara J. Shettleworth. (2013). Associative models of instrumental learning: A response to Dupuis and Dawson.. Journal of Experimental Psychology Animal Behavior Processes. 39(3). 287–293. 4 indexed citations

Shettleworth, Sara J.. (2010). Sara J. Shettleworth. Current Biology. 20(21). R910–R911. 3 indexed citations

Sutton, Jennifer E. & Sara J. Shettleworth. (2008). Memory without awareness: Pigeons do not show metamemory in delayed matching to sample.. Journal of Experimental Psychology Animal Behavior Processes. 34(2). 266–282. 76 indexed citations

Shettleworth, Sara J. & Jennifer E. Sutton. (2003). Animal metacognition? It's all in the methods. Behavioral and Brain Sciences. 26(3). 353–354. 6 indexed citations

Jones, Juli E., Elena Antoniadis, Sara J. Shettleworth, & Alan C. Kamil. (2002). A comparative study of geometric rule learning by nutcrackers (Nucifraga columbiana), pigeons (Columba livia) and jackdaws (Corvus monedula).. Journal of comparative psychology. 116(4). 350–356. 47 indexed citations

Shettleworth, Sara J.. (2000). Cognitive ecology: field or label?. Trends in Ecology & Evolution. 15(4). 161–161. 3 indexed citations

Hampton, Robert R. & Sara J. Shettleworth. (1996). Hippocampus and memory in a food-storing and in a nonstoring bird species.. Behavioral Neuroscience. 110(5). 946–964. 65 indexed citations

Hampton, Robert R. & Sara J. Shettleworth. (1996). Hippocampal lesions impair memory for location but not color in passerine birds.. Behavioral Neuroscience. 110(4). 831–835. 177 indexed citations

Hampton, Robert R., David F. Sherry, Sara J. Shettleworth, Moshe Khurgel, & Gwen O. Ivy. (1995). Hippocampal Volume and Food-Storing Behavior Are Related in Parids. Brain Behavior and Evolution. 45(1). 54–61. 96 indexed citations

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Brodbeck, David R. & Sara J. Shettleworth. (1995). Matching location and color of a compound stimulus: Comparison of a food-storing and a nonstoring bird species.. Journal of Experimental Psychology Animal Behavior Processes. 21(1). 64–77. 14 indexed citations

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Krebs, J. R., Nicola S. Clayton, Robert R. Hampton, & Sara J. Shettleworth. (1995). Effects of photoperiod on food-storing and the hippocampus in birds. Neuroreport. 6(12). 1701–1704. 43 indexed citations

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Brodbeck, David R., Orah R. Burack, & Sara J. Shettleworth. (1992). One-trial associative memory in black-capped chickadees.. Journal of Experimental Psychology Animal Behavior Processes. 18(1). 12–21. 30 indexed citations

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Shettleworth, Sara J.. (1991). Where is the comparison in comparative cognition?. PsycEXTRA Dataset. 29(6). 7 indexed citations

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Shettleworth, Sara J.. (1990). Spatial memory in food-storing birds. Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society B Biological Sciences. 329(1253). 143–151. 94 indexed citations

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Shettleworth, Sara J., John R. Krebs, Susan D. Healy, & Cynthia M. Thomas. (1990). Spatial memory of food-storing tits (Parus ater and P. atricapillus): Comparison of storing and nonstoring tasks.. Journal of comparative psychology. 104(1). 71–81. 32 indexed citations

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Shettleworth, Sara J.. (1985). Questions about foraging. Behavioral and Brain Sciences. 8(2). 347–348. 2 indexed citations

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Shettleworth, Sara J.. (1984). Two types of learning. Nature. 310(5980). 801–802. 2 indexed citations

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Shettleworth, Sara J. & John R. Krebs. (1982). How marsh tits find their hoards: The roles of site preference and spatial memory.. Journal of Experimental Psychology Animal Behavior Processes. 8(4). 354–375. 230 indexed citations

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Shettleworth, Sara J., et al.. (1977). BEHAVIORAL ADAPTATION TO FIXED‐INTERVAL AND FIXED‐TIME FOOD DELIVERY IN GOLDEN HAMSTERS¹. Journal of the Experimental Analysis of Behavior. 27(1). 33–49. 70 indexed citations

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Shettleworth, Sara J.. (1975). Reinforcement and the organization of behavior in golden hamsters: Hunger, environment, and food reinforcement.. Journal of Experimental Psychology Animal Behavior Processes. 1(1). 56–87. 166 indexed citations

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