William A. Searcy

10.9k total citations · 2 hit papers
142 papers, 8.1k citations indexed

About

William A. Searcy is a scholar working on Ecology, Evolution, Behavior and Systematics, Developmental Biology and Ecology. According to data from OpenAlex, William A. Searcy has authored 142 papers receiving a total of 8.1k indexed citations (citations by other indexed papers that have themselves been cited), including 121 papers in Ecology, Evolution, Behavior and Systematics, 95 papers in Developmental Biology and 65 papers in Ecology. Recurrent topics in William A. Searcy's work include Animal Behavior and Reproduction (118 papers), Animal Vocal Communication and Behavior (95 papers) and Plant and animal studies (77 papers). William A. Searcy is often cited by papers focused on Animal Behavior and Reproduction (118 papers), Animal Vocal Communication and Behavior (95 papers) and Plant and animal studies (77 papers). William A. Searcy collaborates with scholars based in United States, Costa Rica and Germany. William A. Searcy's co-authors include Stephen Nowicki, Susan Peters, Ken Yasukawa, Peter Marler, Malte Andersson, Rindy C. Anderson, Michael D. Beecher, Melissa Hughes, Eliot A. Brenowitz and Michael S. Webster and has published in prestigious journals such as Nature, Science and Ecology.

In The Last Decade

William A. Searcy

138 papers receiving 7.6k citations

Hit Papers

SEXUAL SELECTION AND THE EVOLUTION OF SONG 1986 2026 1999 2012 1986 2010 100 200 300 400 500
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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. SEXUAL SELECTION AND THE EVOLUTION OF SONG
    1986 540 citations William A. Searcy et al. profile →
  2. The Evolution of Animal Communication: Reliability and Deception in Signaling Systems
    2010 487 citations William A. Searcy, Stephen Nowicki profile →

Peers

William A. Searcy
Peter K. McGregor United Kingdom
Sandra L. Vehrencamp United States
Carel ten Cate Netherlands
R. Haven Wiley United States
Eugene S. Morton United States
Robert D. Magrath Australia
Marc Naguib Netherlands
Jack W. Bradbury United States
Laurene M. Ratcliffe Canada
Jeffrey Podos United States
Peter K. McGregor United Kingdom
William A. Searcy
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All Works

20 of 20 papers shown
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Searcy, William A., Jill A. Soha, Susan Peters, & Stephen Nowicki. (2022). Long-distance dependencies in birdsong syntax. Proceedings of the Royal Society B Biological Sciences. 289(1967). 20212473–20212473. 10 indexed citations
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Peters, Susan, Jill A. Soha, William A. Searcy, & Stephen Nowicki. (2022). Are song sequencing rules learned by song sparrows?. Animal Behaviour. 192. 75–84. 2 indexed citations
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Searcy, William A., Jill A. Soha, Susan Peters, & Stephen Nowicki. (2021). Variation in vocal production learning across songbirds. Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society B Biological Sciences. 376(1836). 20200257–20200257. 14 indexed citations
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Zipple, Matthew N., Susan Peters, William A. Searcy, & Stephen Nowicki. (2020). Female swamp sparrows do not show evidence of discriminating between the songs of peak‐aged and senescent males. Ethology. 127(1). 91–97. 1 indexed citations
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Soha, Jill A., Susan Peters, Rindy C. Anderson, William A. Searcy, & Stephen Nowicki. (2019). Performance on tests of cognitive ability is not repeatable across years in a songbird. Animal Behaviour. 158. 281–288. 20 indexed citations
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Zipple, Matthew N., Susan Peters, William A. Searcy, & Stephen Nowicki. (2019). Sounds of senescence: male swamp sparrows respond less aggressively to the songs of older individuals. Behavioral Ecology. 31(2). 533–539. 9 indexed citations
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Zipple, Matthew N., Stephen Nowicki, William A. Searcy, & Susan Peters. (2019). Full life course analysis of birdsong reveals maturation and senescence of highly repeatable song characteristics. Behavioral Ecology. 30(6). 1761–1768. 20 indexed citations
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Peters, Susan, William A. Searcy, & Stephen Nowicki. (2014). Developmental Stress, Song-Learning, and Cognition. Integrative and Comparative Biology. 54(4). 555–567. 44 indexed citations
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Nowicki, Stephen & William A. Searcy. (2014). The evolution of vocal learning. Current Opinion in Neurobiology. 28. 48–53. 89 indexed citations
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Staaden, Moira J. van, William A. Searcy, & Roger T. Hanlon. (2011). Signaling Aggression. Advances in genetics. 75. 23–49. 36 indexed citations
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Akçay, Çağlar, William E. Wood, William A. Searcy, et al.. (2009). Good neighbour, bad neighbour: song sparrows retaliate against aggressive rivals. Animal Behaviour. 78(1). 97–102. 66 indexed citations
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Nowicki, Stephen & William A. Searcy. (2004). Song Function and the Evolution of Female Preferences: Why Birds Sing, Why Brains Matter. Annals of the New York Academy of Sciences. 1016(1). 704–723. 188 indexed citations
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Nowicki, Stephen, William A. Searcy, & Susan Peters. (2002). Brain development, song learning and mate choice in birds: a review and experimental test of the "nutritional stress hypothesis". Journal of Comparative Physiology A. 188(11-12). 1003–1014. 360 indexed citations
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Searcy, William A., Stephen Nowicki, Melissa Hughes, & Susan Peters. (2002). Geographic Song Discrimination in Relation to Dispersal Distances in Song Sparrows. The American Naturalist. 159(3). 221–230. 97 indexed citations
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Peters, Susan, William A. Searcy, Michael D. Beecher, & Stephen Nowicki. (2000). Geographic Variation in the Organization of Song Sparrow Repertoires. The Auk. 117(4). 936–942. 5 indexed citations
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Webster, Michael S., William A. Searcy, & Ken Yasukawa. (1996). Polygyny and Sexual Selection in Red-Winged Blackbirds. Ecology. 77(1). 327–327. 143 indexed citations
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Searcy, William A. & Peter Marler. (1987). Response of sparrows to songs of deaf and isolation‐reared males: Further evidence for innate auditory templates. Developmental Psychobiology. 20(5). 509–519. 39 indexed citations
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Searcy, William A. & Ken Yasukawa. (1985). Sexual Selection in Redwinged Blackbirds. American Scientist. 73(2). 166–174. 2 indexed citations
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Searcy, William A., Patrick D. McArthur, Susan Peters, & Peter Marler. (1981). Response of Male Song and Swamp Sparrows To Neighbour, Stranger, and Self Songs. Behaviour. 77(3). 152–163. 76 indexed citations

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