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Nigel R Franks

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Top papers

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1 Effective leadership and decision-making in animal groups on the move. Nature 2005 13.67
2 Collective memory and spatial sorting in animal groups. J Theor Biol 2002 8.85
3 Stop signals provide cross inhibition in collective decision-making by honeybee swarms. Science 2011 2.58
4 On optimal decision-making in brains and social insect colonies. J R Soc Interface 2009 1.78
5 Noise, cost and speed-accuracy trade-offs: decision-making in a decentralized system. J R Soc Interface 2006 1.60
6 Do ants make direct comparisons? Proc Biol Sci 2009 1.52
7 Improving decision speed, accuracy and group cohesion through early information gathering in house-hunting ants. PLoS One 2010 1.49
8 Social insects: from selfish genes to self organisation and beyond. Trends Ecol Evol 2006 1.44
9 Chimpanzees and the mathematics of battle. Proc Biol Sci 2002 1.38
10 Teaching with evaluation in ants. Curr Biol 2007 1.38
11 Simple learning rules to cope with changing environments. J R Soc Interface 2008 1.28
12 Knowledgeable individuals lead collective decisions in ants. J Exp Biol 2011 1.27
13 A simple threshold rule is sufficient to explain sophisticated collective decision-making. PLoS One 2011 1.25
14 Flexible task allocation and the organization of work in ants. Proc Biol Sci 2009 1.25
15 The hidden cost of information in collective foraging. Proc Biol Sci 2005 1.22
16 Economic investment by ant colonies in searches for better homes. Biol Lett 2013 1.13
17 Landmarks and ant search strategies after interrupted tandem runs. J Exp Biol 2013 1.06
18 Morphogenesis of an extended phenotype: four-dimensional ant nest architecture. J R Soc Interface 2011 1.06
19 Exceptionally high levels of multiple mating in an army ant. Naturwissenschaften 2004 1.06
20 The adaptiveness of defence strategies against cuckoo parasitism. Bull Math Biol 2002 1.05
21 Caste evolution and ecology: a special worker for novel prey. Proc Biol Sci 2005 0.98
22 A reassessment of the mating system characteristics of the army ant Eciton burchellii. Naturwissenschaften 2006 0.97
23 Record dynamics in ants. PLoS One 2010 0.96
24 A mechanism for value-sensitive decision-making. PLoS One 2013 0.93
25 Colony-level cognition. Curr Biol 2009 0.90
26 Experience, corpulence and decision making in ant foraging. J Exp Biol 2012 0.86
27 Individual and collective choice: parallel prospecting and mining in ants. Naturwissenschaften 2007 0.85
28 Do ants need to be old and experienced to teach? J Exp Biol 2012 0.83
29 Trail laying during tandem-running recruitment in the ant Temnothorax albipennis. Naturwissenschaften 2014 0.83
30 Recruitment strategies and colony size in ants. PLoS One 2010 0.79
31 Effects of Lecanicillium longisporum infection on the behaviour of the green peach aphid Myzus persicae. J Insect Physiol 2007 0.77
32 The interplay between scent trails and group-mass recruitment systems in ants. Bull Math Biol 2013 0.75