Animal Cognition

Papers
(The H4-Index of Animal Cognition is 16. The table below lists those papers that are above that threshold based on CrossRef citation counts [max. 250 papers]. The publications cover those that have been published in the past four years, i.e., from 2021-11-01 to 2025-11-01.)
ArticleCitations
Nest sanitation as an effective defence against brood parasitism56
Correction to: If horses had toes: demonstrating mirror self recognition at group level in Equus caballus29
Learning to anticipate mate presence shapes individual sex roles in the hermaphroditic pond snail, Lymnaea stagnalis25
Does owner handedness influence paw preference in dogs?23
Assessment of predation risk through conspecific cues by anuran larvae23
House sparrows use learned information selectively based on whether reward is hidden or visible22
Spaced training enhances equine learning performance22
Thinking about order: a review of common processing of magnitude and learned orders in animals22
“Cognition in marine mammals: the strength of flexibility in adapting to marine life”20
Life is in motion (through a chick’s eye)18
Pet dogs (Canis familiaris) re-engage humans after joint activity18
Disentangling help-seeking and giving up: differential human-directed gazing by dogs in a modified unsolvable task paradigm18
Mutual mother–pup vocal recognition in the highly colonial Cape fur seal: evidence of discrimination of calls with a high acoustic similarity17
Grouping rule in tadpole: is quantity more or size assortment more important?16
Horses discriminate between human facial and vocal expressions of sadness and joy16
Cognitive flexibility in a Tanganyikan bower-building cichlid, Aulonocranus dewindti16
Spot the odd one out: do snake pictures capture macaques’ attention more than other predators?16
Injury shortens life expectancy in ants and affects some risk-related decisions of workers16
Sex differences in social buffering and social contagion of alarm responses in zebrafish16
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