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Animal Vocal Communication and Behavior

Animal Vocal Communication and Behavior is a research topic within Developmental Biology. Science Explorer counts 23k research works in it since 1950. 10.0% of them reached the world's top 10% most cited for their field and year.

This cluster of papers explores avian vocal communication, including the neural pathways underlying vocal control, the impact of urban noise on birdsong, the evolutionary implications of bird vocalizations, and the role of social learning in avian communication. It also delves into the genomic aspects of songbirds and the effects of noise pollution on avian communities.

  • Avian Vocal Communication
  • Birdsong
  • Neural Pathways
  • Acoustic Communication
  • Noise Impact
  • Vocal Learning
  • Songbird Genome
  • Social Learning
  • Urban Noise
  • Evolutionary Biology
Research works
23k
fractional, since 1950
In the world top 10%
2.3k
per year above
Top-10% rate
10.0%
share of its works in the world top 10%
Growth, 2018-21 → 2022-25
+8%
the tick is no change
Largest producer
United States
36% of the 10 largest, 2022-now
Animal Vocal Communication and Behavior

Which countries lead Animal Vocal Communication and Behavior research?

By volume, the United States and China publish the most (1k and 357 works in 2022-now).

By volume, 2022-now

  1. 1 United States 1k works
  2. 2 China 357 works
  3. 3 United Kingdom 261 works
  4. 4 Germany 217 works
  5. 5 India 212 works
  6. 6 France 192 works
  7. 7 Canada 174 works
  8. 8 Australia 148 works
  9. 9 Japan 141 works
  10. 10 Brazil 127 works

How concentrated that is

The same countries as shares of everything the list above accounts for. A node where two countries do two thirds of the work and one spread evenly across twelve read alike as a ranking and not at all alike here.

United States: 35.5%China: 12.6%United Kingdom: 9.2%Germany: 7.7%6 others listed: 35.0%36%largest
United States1,009 · 35.5%China357 · 12.6%United Kingdom261 · 9.2%Germany217 · 7.7%6 others listed994 · 35.0%

Shares of the rows listed above, not of the whole node.

Which institutions lead Animal Vocal Communication and Behavior research?

By volume in 2022-now, Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique publishes the most Animal Vocal Communication and Behavior research, followed by Max Planck Society and Cornell University.

By volume, 2022-now

  1. 1 Centre National de la Recherche ScientifiqueFrance 85 works
  2. 2 Max Planck SocietyGermany 45 works
  3. 3 Cornell UniversityUnited States 32 works
  4. 4 Chinese Academy of SciencesChina 31 works
  5. 5 University of St AndrewsUnited Kingdom 27 works
  6. 6 Russian Academy of SciencesRussia 23 works
  7. 7 Leibniz AssociationGermany 21 works
  8. 8 Consejo Superior de Investigaciones CientíficasSpain 19 works
  9. 9 Consejo Nacional de Investigaciones Científicas y TécnicasArgentina 18 works
  10. 10 University of ZurichSwitzerland 17 works

Who are the leading researchers in Animal Vocal Communication and Behavior?

The most-cited researchers publishing on Animal Vocal Communication and Behavior include Karl John Friston, Yann LeCun and Bruce S. McEwen.

  1. 1 Karl John Friston United Kingdom 310k citations
  2. 2 Yann LeCun United States 256k citations
  3. 3 Bruce S. McEwen United States 216k citations
  4. 4 Paul M. Thompson United States 196k citations

Ranked by citations received across their whole record, among researchers with at least three works on this topic.

What are the most cited papers in Animal Vocal Communication and Behavior?

The most cited paper in Animal Vocal Communication and Behavior is "BORIS : a free, versatile open‐source event‐logging software for video/audio coding and live observations" (Olivier Friard, Marco Gamba, 2016), with 3,591 citations. Next come "The motor theory of speech perception revised" (2,864) and "Natural language and natural selection" (2,478).

Most cited papers
#PaperReleasedCitations
1 BORIS : a free, versatile open‐source event‐logging software for video/audio coding and live observations Olivier Friard, Marco Gamba · Methods in Ecology and Evolution Open access 4 May 2016 3,591
2 The motor theory of speech perception revised Alvin M. Liberman, Ignatius G. Mattingly · Cognition Oct 1985 2,864
3 Natural language and natural selection Steven A. Pinker, Paul Bloom · Behavioral and Brain Sciences Dec 1990 2,478
4 Cultures in chimpanzees Andrew Whiten, J. R. Goodall, William C. McGrew et al. · Nature Jun 1999 2,351
5 The bottlenose dolphin community of Doubtful Sound features a large proportion of long-lasting associations David Lusseau, Karsten Schneider, Oliver J. Boisseau et al. · Behavioral Ecology and Sociobiology Sep 2003 2,310
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Where is Animal Vocal Communication and Behavior research done?

The largest centres of Animal Vocal Communication and Behavior research in 2022-now are Beijing (China), Paris (France), New York (United States) and Tokyo (Japan). Among places with at least 20 works in it, it is an unusually large share of all research in St Andrews.

Largest cities, 2022-now

  1. 1 BeijingChina 75 works
  2. 2 ParisFrance 74 works
  3. 3 New YorkUnited States 50 works
  4. 4 TokyoJapan 44 works
  5. 5 LondonUnited Kingdom 35 works
  6. 6 ViennaAustria 34 works
  7. 7 Washington D.C.United States 31 works
  8. 8 MoscowRussia 31 works
  9. 9 IthacaUnited States 31 works
  10. 10 St AndrewsUnited Kingdom 27 works

Where it is the local speciality

  1. St AndrewsGB · 26.7 works32×
← less than its size predicts1×more →

Location quotient: how much more of its research is in Animal Vocal Communication and Behavior than the world average.

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Where is the best place to study Animal Vocal Communication and Behavior?

Among universities, judged by research, University of St Andrews, University of Zurich and Dalhousie University score highest, combining excellence, specialisation, size, growth and international reach. Research strength is one signal when choosing where to study; it does not measure teaching.

0%10%20%30%mean 17.12%fractional works in this field (log) →share of work in the world top 10% →Dalhousie UniversityUniversity of St And…University of ZurichCornell University
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One dot per university in the first ten of the table below, at the default weights. The upper left is the interesting corner: small places doing unusually strong work.

Excellenceshare of its work in the world top 10%, 2022-now and all time averaged
40%
Specialisationhow much of its work is in this field, counted up to 10× the world share
10%
Sizeits output in this field, on a log scale
30%
Growthoutput growth, counted from -20% to +20%
10%
Internationalshare of its work with a co-author abroad
10%
Each slider sets a weight; the share it gets of the score is beside it.
#UniversityScoreTop 10%SpecialisationWorksGrowth
1University of St AndrewsUnited Kingdom 82.623.2%36.1×27 -12.9%
2University of ZurichSwitzerland 73.316.9%6.8×16 +18.5%
3Dalhousie UniversityCanada 72.426.9%9.7×12 +95.7%
4Cornell UniversityUnited States 70.415.8%7.1×32 -15.9%
5University of California San DiegoUnited States 64.215.3%4.7×16 +19.0%
6University of TübingenGermany 59.517.6%8.1×12 -12.6%
7University of ViennaAustria 58.210.7%9.4×16 +2.9%
8Aarhus UniversityDenmark 57.917.4%4.3×13 +1.3%
9Australian National UniversityAustralia 56.616.7%5.9×10 +31.6%
10University of OxfordUnited Kingdom 55.710.7%3.0×15 -10.3%

Universities only. The score blends excellence (40%), size (30%), specialisation (10%), growth (10%), international reach (10%), 2022-now; growth compares 2018-21 with 2022-25 and counts up to +20%, since a jump from a small base is mostly noise.

Every institution in Animal Vocal Communication and Behavior, country by country

Is Animal Vocal Communication and Behavior research growing?

Output in 2022-2025 was 8% higher than in 2018-2021, peaking in 2025. The fastest-growing topics are Animal Vocal Communication and Behavior.

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The same series as a ribbon: one cell per year, darker for more. The line above answers how much; this answers when.

Its share of all research

Growing output can still be a shrinking share: all of science grows. This is Animal Vocal Communication and Behavior as a percentage of every work published that year, 0.015% in 2024.

still counting0.020%0.040%Animal Vocal Communication and Behavior0.016% in 202519801990200020102020

Fractional works of Animal Vocal Communication and Behavior over all fractional works that year. How the balance of science has shifted.

How much of it reaches the world top 10%

Year by year.

still counting5%10%15%Animal Vocal Communication and Behavior10.3% in 2025200020102020

Of each year's works in it, the share that reached the world's 10% most cited for their field and year. A field is the world for its own topics, so there is no other line to hold it against.

Which topics inside it are moving

Growth and decline on one axis around a shared zero. Two lists side by side hide the thing that matters: whether the growth dwarfs the decline, or the other way round.

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