| # | Title | Journal | Year | Citations |
|---|
| 1 | A farewell to Bonferroni: the problems of low statistical power and publication bias | Behavioral Ecology | 2004 | 1,707 |
| 2 | The unequal variance t-test is an underused alternative to Student's t-test and the Mann–Whitney U test | Behavioral Ecology | 2006 | 1,296 |
| 3 | Fitness consequences of personality: a meta-analysis | Behavioral Ecology | 2008 | 1,180 |
| 4 | Ecological immunology: life history trade-offs and immune defense in birds | Behavioral Ecology | 2000 | 719 |
| 5 | Conclusions beyond support: overconfident estimates in mixed models | Behavioral Ecology | 2009 | 704 |
| 6 | Behavioral responses to changing environments | Behavioral Ecology | 2015 | 653 |
| 7 | Contest and scramble competition: patterns of female aggression and ranging behavior among primates | Behavioral Ecology | 1991 | 568 |
| 8 | Parasitism and group size in social animals: a meta-analysis | Behavioral Ecology | 1995 | 453 |
| 9 | Antipredator behavior and the asset-protection principle | Behavioral Ecology | 1994 | 437 |
| 10 | Predicting group size in primates: foraging costs and predation risks | Behavioral Ecology | 1995 | 423 |
| 11 | Time for some a priori thinking about post hoc testing | Behavioral Ecology | 2008 | 400 |
| 12 | Parentage and the evolution of parental behavior | Behavioral Ecology | 1993 | 394 |
| 13 | Extrapair paternity in the blue tit (Parus caeruleus) : female choice, male characteristics, and offspring quality | Behavioral Ecology | 1997 | 355 |
| 14 | A theory of mate choice based on heterozygosity | Behavioral Ecology | 1997 | 343 |
| 15 | The dynamics of animal social networks: analytical, conceptual, and theoretical advances | Behavioral Ecology | 2014 | 340 |
| 16 | Reproductive sharing in animal societies: reproductive incentives or incomplete control by dominant breeders? | Behavioral Ecology | 1998 | 339 |
| 17 | Female reproductive success in bottlenose dolphins (Tursiops sp.): life history, habitat, provisioning, and group-size effects | Behavioral Ecology | 2000 | 332 |
| 18 | Effect of parasitic infection on male color pattern and female choice in guppies | Behavioral Ecology | 1992 | 330 |
| 19 | The definition of eusociality | Behavioral Ecology | 1995 | 329 |
| 20 | Determining the fitness consequences of antipredation behavior | Behavioral Ecology | 2005 | 318 |
| 21 | Intrasexual competition in females: evidence for sexual selection? | Behavioral Ecology | 2011 | 317 |
| 22 | Vocal performance influences female response to male bird song: an experimental test | Behavioral Ecology | 2004 | 310 |
| 23 | Rank and reproduction in cooperatively breeding African wild dogs: behavioral and endocrine correlates | Behavioral Ecology | 1997 | 301 |
| 24 | Corticosterone facilitates begging and affects resource allocation in the black-legged kittiwake | Behavioral Ecology | 2001 | 298 |
| 25 | Major histocompatibility complex genes, symmetry, and body scent attractiveness in men and women | Behavioral Ecology | 2003 | 294 |
| 26 | Dying young and living fast: variation in life history across English neighborhoods | Behavioral Ecology | 2010 | 293 |
| 27 | Boldness behavior and stress physiology in a novel urban environment suggest rapid correlated evolutionary adaptation | Behavioral Ecology | 2012 | 285 |
| 28 | The costs of autotomy and regeneration in animals: a review and framework for future research | Behavioral Ecology | 2006 | 282 |
| 29 | Rodent foraging is affected by indirect, but not by direct, cues of predation risk | Behavioral Ecology | 2004 | 279 |
| 30 | Paying to stay or paying to breed? Field evidence for direct benefits of helping behavior in a cooperatively breeding fish | Behavioral Ecology | 1998 | 269 |
| 31 | Protein content of diets dictates the daily energy intake of a free-ranging primate | Behavioral Ecology | 2009 | 266 |
| 32 | Grooming and agonistic support: a meta-analysis of primate reciprocal altruism | Behavioral Ecology | 2007 | 257 |
| 33 | Rejection of cuckoo eggs in relation to host age: a possible evolutionary equilibrium | Behavioral Ecology | 1992 | 254 |
| 34 | Measuring variation in cognition | Behavioral Ecology | 2014 | 253 |
| 35 | Behavioral syndromes and the evolution of correlated behavior in zebrafish | Behavioral Ecology | 2007 | 249 |
| 36 | Female mate copying in the guppy {Poecilia reticulata): age-dependent effects | Behavioral Ecology | 1993 | 242 |
| 37 | The role of behavioral dominance in structuring patterns of habitat occupancy in a migrant bird during the nonbreeding season | Behavioral Ecology | 2000 | 241 |
| 38 | Foraging behavior of egg parasitoids exploiting chemical information | Behavioral Ecology | 2008 | 237 |
| 39 | Effects of ambient temperature on avian incubation behavior | Behavioral Ecology | 2000 | 234 |
| 40 | The optimal allocation of time during the diving cycle | Behavioral Ecology | 1992 | 233 |
| 41 | The relation between dominance and exploratory behavior is context-dependent in wild great tits | Behavioral Ecology | 2004 | 233 |
| 42 | Polygyny and extrapair fertilizations in eastern red-winged blackbirds (Agelaius phoeniceus) | Behavioral Ecology | 1993 | 230 |
| 43 | Winner and loser effects and the structure of dominance hierarchies | Behavioral Ecology | 1997 | 228 |
| 44 | Food-associated calls in rhesus macaques (Macaca mulatta): I. Socioecological factors | Behavioral Ecology | 1993 | 224 |
| 45 | Foraging dynamics of bumble bees: correlates of movements within and between plant species | Behavioral Ecology | 1997 | 224 |
| 46 | The cost of dispersal: predation as a function of movement and site familiarity in ruffed grouse | Behavioral Ecology | 2004 | 224 |
| 47 | Integrating animal behavior and conservation biology: a conceptual framework | Behavioral Ecology | 2011 | 223 |
| 48 | Natal philopatry in passerine birds: genetic or ecological influences? | Behavioral Ecology | 1994 | 221 |
| 49 | Avoiding the misuse of BLUP in behavioural ecology | Behavioral Ecology | 2017 | 221 |
| 50 | Life-history analysis of the Trivers and Willard sex-ratio problem | Behavioral Ecology | 1996 | 220 |
