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Researcher · Princeton University · United States

Iain D. Couzin

Iain D. Couzin publishes mostly in Ecology, Evolution, Behavior and Systematics, Sociology and Political Science and Genetics, on topics such as Animal Behavior and Reproduction, Evolutionary Game Theory and Cooperation and Insect and Arachnid Ecology and Behavior.

ORCID 0000-0001-8556-4558 OpenAlex
World rank
#3,726
of 7,710,434 ranked researchers
Rank in United States
#1,282
of 1,627,098
Works
298
Citations
32k
Citations per work
107.3
h-index
79
i10-index 159Top 0.2% in Ecology, Evolution, Behavior and Systematics
Iain D. Couzin

What does Iain D. Couzin research?

Iain D. Couzin's work is mostly in Agricultural and Biological Sciences (18%), Social Sciences (11%), Biochemistry, Genetics and Molecular Biology (9%).

Everything else: 142 works · 47.5% of their workLife Sciences: 81 works · 27.2% of their workAgricultural and Biological Sciences: 55 works · 18.5% of their workEcology, Evolution, Behavior and Systematics: 55 works · 18.5% of their workBiochemistry, Genetics and Molecular Biology: 26 works · 8.7% of their workGenetics: 26 works · 8.7% of their workPhysical Sciences: 43 works · 14.3% of their workPhysics and Astronomy: 15 works · 5.0% of their workStatistical and Nonlinear Physics: 15 works · 5.0% of their workEnvironmental Science: 15 works · 4.9% of their workEcology: 15 works · 4.9% of their workComputer Science: 13 works · 4.4% of their workComputer Networks and Communications: 13 works · 4.4% of their workSocial Sciences: 33 works · 11.0% of their workSocial Sciences: 33 works · 11.0% of their workSociology and Political Science: 33 works · 11.0% of their workTHEIR WORKIain D. Couzin298works
Life Sciences27%Physical Sciences14%Social Sciences11%

Their six largest subfields, inside their fields and domains; the grey slice is everything else they publish. The interactive view splits every one of their works down to single topics.

The fields and subfields, with their numbers
  1. Everything else14247.5%
    1. Agricultural and Biological Sciences5518.5%
    2. Biochemistry, Genetics and Molecular Biology268.7%
    1. Physics and Astronomy155.0%
    2. Environmental Science154.9%
    3. Computer Science134.4%
    1. Social Sciences3311.0%
  1. 1Ecology, Evolution, Behavior and Systematics18% of their works
  2. 2Sociology and Political Science11% of their works
  3. 3Genetics9% of their works
  4. 4Statistical and Nonlinear Physics5% of their works
  5. 5Ecology5% of their works
  6. 6Computer Networks and Communications4% of their works

Research topics

Which keywords describe Iain D. Couzin's research?

The keywords of their largest research topics: Natural Selection, Phenotypic Plasticity, Altruism, Cooperation, Evolutionary Games, Social Networks, Genomics and Social Insects.

Size is their works in the topics tagged with each word, from their 8 largest topics. Each links to the topic it comes from most. The words come from the keyword list OpenAlex gives each topic, not from the text of the papers, so a word can appear that none of the papers uses.

All 20 words, with their numbers
  1. Natural Selection931 topic
  2. Phenotypic Plasticity931 topic
  3. Altruism862 topics
  4. Cooperation862 topics
  5. Evolutionary Games661 topic
  6. Social Networks661 topic
  7. Genomics471 topic
  8. Social Insects471 topic
  9. Habitat Fragmentation452 topics
  10. Invasive Species452 topics
  11. Ecosystem Services261 topic
  12. Pollinator Decline261 topic
  13. Consensus251 topic
  14. Multi-Agent Systems251 topic
  15. Opinion Dynamics251 topic
  16. Social Influence251 topic
  17. Primates201 topic
  18. Social Behavior201 topic
  19. Conservation Challenges191 topic
  20. Freshwater Biodiversity191 topic

Where does Iain D. Couzin work?

Iain D. Couzin's main affiliation in the publication record is Princeton University, United States.

How many publications and citations does Iain D. Couzin have?

OpenAlex counts 298 works and 31,971 citations for Iain D. Couzin, an h-index of 79, ranking #3,726 of 7,710,434 researchers worldwide on the quality score.

Ranked on field-normalised citation excellence (50%), output (30%) and citations (20%). Counts come from OpenAlex author records, which occasionally merge different people who share a name or split one person into several.

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