Vincent M. Janik

9.9k total citations · 1 hit paper
101 papers, 6.0k citations indexed

About

Vincent M. Janik is a scholar working on Ecology, Developmental Biology and Oceanography. According to data from OpenAlex, Vincent M. Janik has authored 101 papers receiving a total of 6.0k indexed citations (citations by other indexed papers that have themselves been cited), including 95 papers in Ecology, 70 papers in Developmental Biology and 53 papers in Oceanography. Recurrent topics in Vincent M. Janik's work include Marine animal studies overview (94 papers), Animal Vocal Communication and Behavior (70 papers) and Underwater Acoustics Research (52 papers). Vincent M. Janik is often cited by papers focused on Marine animal studies overview (94 papers), Animal Vocal Communication and Behavior (70 papers) and Underwater Acoustics Research (52 papers). Vincent M. Janik collaborates with scholars based in United Kingdom, United States and Netherlands. Vincent M. Janik's co-authors include P.J.B. Slater, Laela S. Sayigh, Randall S. Wells, Kevin N. Laland, Thomas Götz, Stephanie L. King, Nicola J. Quick, Paul M. Thompson, Volker B. Deecke and Peter K. McGregor and has published in prestigious journals such as Science, Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences and PLoS ONE.

In The Last Decade

Vincent M. Janik

99 papers receiving 5.7k 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
Vincent M. Janik United Kingdom	39	4.5k	4.1k	2.1k	1.7k	749	101	6.0k
Hal Whitehead Canada	35	3.8k 0.9×	1.7k 0.4×	1.4k 0.7×	1.6k 1.0×	881 1.2×	92	5.2k
Hal Whitehead Canada	50	6.1k 1.4×	3.2k 0.8×	1.9k 0.9×	2.1k 1.3×	1.1k 1.5×	137	7.7k
Janet Mann United States	42	5.3k 1.2×	3.2k 0.8×	650 0.3×	1.5k 0.9×	996 1.3×	100	6.6k
John K. B. Ford Canada	40	4.4k 1.0×	2.2k 0.5×	2.1k 1.0×	854 0.5×	259 0.3×	91	5.2k
Kurt M. Fristrup United States	33	3.3k 0.7×	2.5k 0.6×	853 0.4×	1.1k 0.7×	259 0.3×	88	4.9k
Louis M. Herman United States	43	3.7k 0.8×	2.0k 0.5×	1.9k 0.9×	722 0.4×	662 0.9×	131	5.4k
Richard C. Connor United States	44	5.7k 1.3×	3.9k 1.0×	783 0.4×	2.4k 1.5×	1.9k 2.5×	105	8.7k
Andrew N. Radford United Kingdom	48	4.3k 1.0×	3.2k 0.8×	1.1k 0.5×	3.0k 1.8×	907 1.2×	167	6.6k
Michael Krützen Switzerland	38	3.3k 0.7×	1.9k 0.5×	301 0.1×	1.1k 0.7×	1.2k 1.6×	108	4.8k
Anne W. Goldizen Australia	41	2.9k 0.7×	1.2k 0.3×	391 0.2×	2.3k 1.4×	1.3k 1.7×	140	4.7k

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Shearer, Jeanne M., et al.. (2024). Overwintering humpback whales adapt foraging strategies to shallow water environments at the mouth of the Chesapeake Bay, Virginia, USA. Marine Mammal Science. 41(2). 1 indexed citations

Sayigh, Laela S., et al.. (2023). Bottlenose dolphin mothers modify signature whistles in the presence of their own calves. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences. 120(27). e2300262120–e2300262120. 8 indexed citations

Janik, Vincent M., et al.. (2022). Cross-modal perception of identity by sound and taste in bottlenose dolphins. Science Advances. 8(20). eabm7684–eabm7684. 19 indexed citations

Güntürkün, Onur, et al.. (2022). Through the looking glass: how do marked dolphins use mirrors and what does it mean?. Animal Cognition. 25(5). 1151–1160. 9 indexed citations

Janik, Vincent M., et al.. (2021). The role of vocal learning in call acquisition of wild grey seal pups. Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society B Biological Sciences. 376(1836). 20200251–20200251. 11 indexed citations

Oswald, Julie N., et al.. (2021). Species information in whistle frequency modulation patterns of common dolphins. Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society B Biological Sciences. 376(1836). 20210046–20210046. 23 indexed citations

Marmontel, Miriam, et al.. (2020). Repeated downsweep vocalizations of the Araguaian river dolphin, Inia araguaiaensis. The Journal of the Acoustical Society of America. 147(2). 748–756. 6 indexed citations

Hazon, Neil, et al.. (2019). Bottlenose dolphin calves have multi-year elevations of plasma oxytocin compared to all other age classes. General and Comparative Endocrinology. 286. 113323–113323. 5 indexed citations

McHugh, Katherine, Randall S. Wells, Laela S. Sayigh, et al.. (2019). Signal-specific amplitude adjustment to noise in common bottlenose dolphins (Tursiops truncatus). Journal of Experimental Biology. 222(Pt 23). 28 indexed citations

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Friedlaender, Ari S., Vincent M. Janik, Douglas P. Nowacek, et al.. (2018). Selective reactions to different killer whale call categories in two delphinid species. Journal of Experimental Biology. 221(11). 15 indexed citations

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Janik, Vincent M.. (2014). Cetacean vocal learning and communication. Current Opinion in Neurobiology. 28. 60–65. 135 indexed citations

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Janik, Vincent M. & Laela S. Sayigh. (2013). Communication in bottlenose dolphins: 50 years of signature whistle research. Journal of Comparative Physiology A. 199(6). 479–489. 189 indexed citations

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Janik, Vincent M.. (2013). Cognitive skills in bottlenose dolphin communication. Trends in Cognitive Sciences. 17(4). 157–159. 34 indexed citations

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Kershenbaum, Arik, Laela S. Sayigh, & Vincent M. Janik. (2013). The Encoding of Individual Identity in Dolphin Signature Whistles: How Much Information Is Needed?. PLoS ONE. 8(10). e77671–e77671. 50 indexed citations

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Janik, Vincent M.. (2009). Whale song. Current Biology. 19(3). R109–R111. 17 indexed citations

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Quick, Nicola J. & Vincent M. Janik. (2008). Whistle rates of wild bottlenose dolphins (Tursiops truncatus): Influences of group size and behavior.. Journal of comparative psychology. 122(3). 305–311. 104 indexed citations

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Sayigh, Laela S., et al.. (2007). Facts about signature whistles of bottlenose dolphins, Tursiops truncatus. Animal Behaviour. 74(6). 1631–1642. 124 indexed citations

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Byrne, Richard W., Philip Barnard, Iain Davidson, et al.. (2004). Understanding culture across species. Trends in Cognitive Sciences. 8(8). 341–346. 53 indexed citations

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Janik, Vincent M.. (1997). Whistle matching in wild bottlenose dolphins. The Journal of the Acoustical Society of America. 101(5_Supplement). 3136–3136. 14 indexed citations

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Janik, Vincent M. & Paul M. Thompson. (1996). CHANGES IN SURFACING PATTERNS OF BOTTLENOSE DOLPHINS IN RESPONSE TO BOAT TRAFFIC. Marine Mammal Science. 12(4). 597–602. 134 indexed citations

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