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

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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.

SEXUAL SELECTION AND THE EVOLUTION OF SONG

1986 540 citations William A. Searcy et al. profile →
The Evolution of Animal Communication: Reliability and Deception in Signaling Systems

2010 487 citations William A. Searcy, Stephen Nowicki profile →

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#	Title	Journal	Authors	Indexed citations
1	Long-distance dependencies in birdsong syntax	Proceedings of the Royal Society B Biological Sciences	William A. Searcy, Jill A. Soha et al.	10
2	Are song sequencing rules learned by song sparrows?	Animal Behaviour	Susan Peters, Jill A. Soha et al.	2
3	Variation in vocal production learning across songbirds	Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society B Biological Sciences	William A. Searcy, Jill A. Soha et al.	14
4	Female swamp sparrows do not show evidence of discriminating between the songs of peak‐aged and senescent males	Ethology	Matthew N. Zipple, Susan Peters et al.	1
5	Performance on tests of cognitive ability is not repeatable across years in a songbird	Animal Behaviour	Jill A. Soha, Susan Peters et al.	20
6	Sounds of senescence: male swamp sparrows respond less aggressively to the songs of older individuals	Behavioral Ecology	Matthew N. Zipple, Susan Peters et al.	9
7	Full life course analysis of birdsong reveals maturation and senescence of highly repeatable song characteristics	Behavioral Ecology	Matthew N. Zipple, Stephen Nowicki et al.	20
8	Developmental Stress, Song-Learning, and Cognition	Integrative and Comparative Biology	Susan Peters, William A. Searcy et al.	44
9	The evolution of vocal learning	Current Opinion in Neurobiology	Stephen Nowicki, William A. Searcy	89
10	Principles of Animal Communication. Second Edition. By Jack W. Bradbury and Sandra L. Vehrencamp. Sunderland (Massachusetts): Sinauer Associates. $99.95. xiv + 697 p.; ill. + C-1–C-6 (credits) + I-1–I-47 (index). ISBN: 978-0-87893-045-6. 2011.	The Quarterly Review of Biology	William A. Searcy	2
11	Signaling Aggression	Advances in genetics	Moira J. van Staaden, William A. Searcy et al.	36
12	Good neighbour, bad neighbour: song sparrows retaliate against aggressive rivals	Animal Behaviour	Çağlar Akçay, William E. Wood et al.	66
13	Song Function and the Evolution of Female Preferences: Why Birds Sing, Why Brains Matter	Annals of the New York Academy of Sciences	Stephen Nowicki, William A. Searcy	188
14	Brain development, song learning and mate choice in birds: a review and experimental test of the "nutritional stress hypothesis"	Journal of Comparative Physiology A	Stephen Nowicki, William A. Searcy et al.	360
15	Geographic Song Discrimination in Relation to Dispersal Distances in Song Sparrows	The American Naturalist	William A. Searcy, Stephen Nowicki et al.	97
16	Geographic Variation in the Organization of Song Sparrow Repertoires	The Auk	Susan Peters, William A. Searcy et al.	5
17	Polygyny and Sexual Selection in Red-Winged Blackbirds	Ecology	Michael S. Webster, William A. Searcy et al.	143
18	Response of sparrows to songs of deaf and isolation‐reared males: Further evidence for innate auditory templates	Developmental Psychobiology	William A. Searcy, Peter Marler	39
19	Sexual Selection in Redwinged Blackbirds	American Scientist	William A. Searcy, Ken Yasukawa	2
20	Response of Male Song and Swamp Sparrows To Neighbour, Stranger, and Self Songs	Behaviour	William A. Searcy, Patrick D. McArthur et al.	76

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