Tim Clutton‐Brock

53.3k total citations · 13 hit papers
340 papers, 35.4k citations indexed

About

Tim Clutton‐Brock is a scholar working on Ecology, Ecology, Evolution, Behavior and Systematics and Genetics. According to data from OpenAlex, Tim Clutton‐Brock has authored 340 papers receiving a total of 35.4k indexed citations (citations by other indexed papers that have themselves been cited), including 222 papers in Ecology, 200 papers in Ecology, Evolution, Behavior and Systematics and 86 papers in Genetics. Recurrent topics in Tim Clutton‐Brock's work include Wildlife Ecology and Conservation (195 papers), Animal Behavior and Reproduction (182 papers) and Plant and animal studies (64 papers). Tim Clutton‐Brock is often cited by papers focused on Wildlife Ecology and Conservation (195 papers), Animal Behavior and Reproduction (182 papers) and Plant and animal studies (64 papers). Tim Clutton‐Brock collaborates with scholars based in United Kingdom, South Africa and Switzerland. Tim Clutton‐Brock's co-authors include S. D. Albon, F. E. Guinness, Josephine M. Pemberton, Paul Harvey, Bryan T. Grenfell, Tim Coulson, Loeske E. B. Kruuk, Franck Courchamp, Adam Watson and Ben C. Sheldon and has published in prestigious journals such as Nature, Science and Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences.

In The Last Decade

Tim Clutton‐Brock

337 papers receiving 33.3k citations

Hit Papers

Red Deer. Behavior and Ec... 1977 2026 1993 2009 1983 1999 1984 1995 2010 500 1000 1.5k 2.0k
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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.

  1. Red Deer. Behavior and Ecology of Two Sexes
    1983 2.1k citations Tim Clutton‐Brock et al. Journal of Animal Ecology profile →
  2. Inverse density dependence and the Allee effect
    1999 1.4k citations Tim Clutton‐Brock, Tim Clutton‐Brock et al. profile →
  3. Reproductive Effort and Terminal Investment in Iteroparous Animals
    1984 750 citations Tim Clutton‐Brock profile →
  4. Punishment in animal societies
    1995 717 citations Tim Clutton‐Brock et al. profile →
  5. Individuals and populations: the role of long-term, individual-based studies of animals in ecology and evolutionary biology
    2010 703 citations Tim Clutton‐Brock et al. profile →
  6. Primate ecology and social organization
    1977 696 citations Tim Clutton‐Brock et al. profile →
  7. The Roaring of Red Deer and the Evolution of Honest Advertisement
    1979 689 citations Tim Clutton‐Brock et al. profile →
  8. Breeding Together: Kin Selection and Mutualism in Cooperative Vertebrates
    2002 670 citations Tim Clutton‐Brock profile →
  9. The logical stag: Adaptive aspects of fighting in red deer (Cervus elaphus L.)
    1979 654 citations Tim Clutton‐Brock et al. profile →
  10. Sexual Selection in Males and Females
    2007 646 citations Tim Clutton‐Brock profile →
  11. Cooperation between non-kin in animal societies
    2009 600 citations Tim Clutton‐Brock profile →
  12. Sex Ratio Variation in Mammals
    1986 535 citations Tim Clutton‐Brock et al. profile →
  13. Sexual selection in females
    2008 475 citations Tim Clutton‐Brock profile →

Author Peers

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Author Last Decade Papers Cites
Tim Clutton‐Brock 18.3k 17.5k 9.4k 7.1k 3.7k 340 35.4k
Paul Harvey 13.7k 0.7× 14.3k 0.8× 7.7k 0.8× 4.8k 0.7× 6.7k 1.8× 338 33.3k
George A. Parker 7.5k 0.4× 20.3k 1.2× 9.8k 1.0× 2.3k 0.3× 3.6k 1.0× 309 30.6k
Andrew Sih 14.9k 0.8× 20.8k 1.2× 6.5k 0.7× 3.1k 0.4× 9.3k 2.5× 277 35.0k
Anders Pape Møller 28.6k 1.6× 31.3k 1.8× 7.2k 0.8× 2.4k 0.3× 6.2k 1.7× 863 52.4k
Daniel T. Blumstein 13.3k 0.7× 14.1k 0.8× 2.8k 0.3× 4.8k 0.7× 2.8k 0.8× 495 24.4k
John C. Wingfield 21.1k 1.2× 28.7k 1.6× 3.6k 0.4× 5.3k 0.8× 2.3k 0.6× 480 42.3k
Ben C. Sheldon 12.9k 0.7× 16.6k 1.0× 6.8k 0.7× 2.0k 0.3× 2.5k 0.7× 294 26.5k
David W. Macdonald 33.5k 1.8× 9.1k 0.5× 9.3k 1.0× 6.6k 0.9× 7.1k 1.9× 1.1k 47.7k
Jeanne Altmann 7.4k 0.4× 11.2k 0.6× 2.8k 0.3× 14.2k 2.0× 1.1k 0.3× 145 23.9k
Niels J. Dingemanse 6.7k 0.4× 13.3k 0.8× 3.1k 0.3× 2.6k 0.4× 1.8k 0.5× 166 17.3k

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All Works

20 of 20 papers shown
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Risely, Alice, et al.. (2025). Twenty years of tuberculosis-driven selection shaped the evolution of the meerkat major histocompatibility complex. Nature Ecology & Evolution. 9(11). 2161–2172.
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Thorley, Jack, et al.. (2025). Disentangling the effects of temperature and rainfall on the population dynamics of Kalahari meerkats. Oikos. 2025(5). 3 indexed citations
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Davies, Charli S., Lydia K. Greene, Jessica Mitchell, et al.. (2024). Androgen-mediated maternal effects and trade-offs: postnatal hormone development, growth, and survivorship in wild meerkats. Frontiers in Endocrinology. 15. 1418056–1418056. 2 indexed citations
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Campbell, C. Ryan, Marta B. Manser, Mari Shiratori, et al.. (2024). A female‐biased gene expression signature of dominance in cooperatively breeding meerkats. Molecular Ecology. 33(21). e17467–e17467. 1 indexed citations
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Leedale, Amy E., et al.. (2024). Kin recognition for incest avoidance in Damaraland mole-rats, Fukomys damarensis. Proceedings of the Royal Society B Biological Sciences. 291(2033). 20241138–20241138. 1 indexed citations
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Rotics, Shay, Frank Groenewoud, Marta B. Manser, & Tim Clutton‐Brock. (2023). Pregnancy reduces concurrent pup care behaviour in meerkats, generating differences between dominant and subordinate females. Journal of Animal Ecology. 92(7). 1431–1441. 2 indexed citations
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Thorley, Jack, et al.. (2023). Dominance loss and tenure maintenance in Kalahari meerkats. Behavioral Ecology. 34(6). 979–991. 4 indexed citations
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Risely, Alice, et al.. (2022). Two decades of tuberculosis surveillance reveal disease spread, high levels of exposure and mortality and marked variation in disease progression in wild meerkats. Transboundary and Emerging Diseases. 69(6). 3274–3284. 4 indexed citations
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Albery, Gregory F., Alison Morris, Seán Morris, et al.. (2021). Multiple spatial behaviours govern social network positions in a wild ungulate. Ecology Letters. 24(4). 676–686. 40 indexed citations
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Thorley, Jack, et al.. (2020). Breeders are less active foragers than non-breeders in wild Damaraland mole-rats. Biology Letters. 16(10). 20200475–20200475. 26 indexed citations
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Thorley, Jack, et al.. (2020). Sex‐independent senescence in a cooperatively breeding mammal. Journal of Animal Ecology. 89(4). 1080–1093. 15 indexed citations
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Dantzer, Ben, Constance Dubuc, Inês Braga Gonçalves, et al.. (2019). The development of individual differences in cooperative behaviour: maternal glucocorticoid hormones alter helping behaviour of offspring in wild meerkats. Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society B Biological Sciences. 374(1770). 20180117–20180117. 17 indexed citations
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Rauber, R., Tim Clutton‐Brock, & Marta B. Manser. (2019). Drought decreases cooperative sentinel behavior and affects vocal coordination in meerkats. Behavioral Ecology. 30(6). 1558–1566. 10 indexed citations
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Kappeler, Peter M., Tim Clutton‐Brock, Susanne Shultz, & Dieter Lukas. (2019). Social complexity: patterns, processes, and evolution. Behavioral Ecology and Sociobiology. 73(1). 43 indexed citations
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Thorley, Jack & Tim Clutton‐Brock. (2019). A unified-models analysis of the development of sexual size dimorphism in Damaraland mole-rats, Fukomys damarensis. Journal of Mammalogy. 100(4). 1374–1386. 6 indexed citations
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Kranstauber, Bart, et al.. (2019). Long‐term movements and home‐range changes: Rapid territory shifts in meerkats. Journal of Animal Ecology. 89(3). 772–783. 11 indexed citations
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Dubuc, Constance, Sinéad English, N. Thavarajah, et al.. (2017). Increased food availability raises eviction rate in a cooperative breeding mammal. Biology Letters. 13(4). 12 indexed citations
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Dantzer, Ben, Inês Braga Gonçalves, Nigel C. Bennett, et al.. (2017). The influence of stress hormones and aggression on cooperative behaviour in subordinate meerkats. Proceedings of the Royal Society B Biological Sciences. 284(1863). 20171248–20171248. 29 indexed citations
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Zöttl, Markus, Jack Thorley, David Gaynor, Nigel C. Bennett, & Tim Clutton‐Brock. (2016). Variation in growth of Damaraland mole-rats is explained by competition rather than by functional specialization for different tasks. Biology Letters. 12(12). 20160820–20160820. 19 indexed citations
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Thorley, Jack & Tim Clutton‐Brock. (2016). Kalahari vulture declines, through the eyes of meerkats. Ostrich. 88(2). 177–181. 9 indexed citations

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