Michael Mendl

13.9k citations
245 papers · 10.5k · 5 hit papers · h-index 52

Impact in

  • Small Animals top 0.01%
    • Animal Behavior and Welfare Studies
    • Animal Nutrition and Physiology
    • Meat and Animal Product Quality
    • Effects of Environmental Stressors on Livestock

Papers in

    • Animal Behavior and Welfare Studies 146
    • Neuroendocrine regulation and behavior 46
    • Primate Behavior and Ecology 38

Michael Mendl

227 papers receiving 9.9k citations

Michael Mendl's Hit Papers

A consensus on the definition of positive animal welfare 2025 · 35 citations
350+7+14Years since publication200400600

Peers

Michael Mendl
Comparison fields: 5 of 163
  • Small Animals 7.1k
  • Animal Science and Zoology 3.5k
  • Equine 395
  • Behavioral Neuroscience 716
  • Developmental Biology 392
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The 25 scholars most cited alongside Michael Mendl, linked wherever they have co-authored with each other. Click a name or a connecting line to browse the papers they share.

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All Works

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An integrative and functional framework for the study of animal emotion and mood
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2010713
2
Cognitive bias and affective state
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2004644
3
Measuring emotional processes in animals: the utility of a cognitive approach
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2005612
4
Cognitive bias as an indicator of animal emotion and welfare: Emerging evidence and underlying mechanisms
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2009593
5 1999335
6 2001296
7 2000236
8 1992223
9 2003219
10 2000209
11 1986177
12 2004158
13
Coping with Challenge: Welfare in Animals including Humans
2001156
14 2008154
15 2017144
16 2011134
17 1995123
18 2011122
19 2020106
20 1997105

About Michael Mendl

Michael Mendl is a scholar working on Small Animals, Social Psychology, Genetics, Animal Science and Zoology and Ecology, Evolution, Behavior and Systematics, having authored 245 papers that have together received 10.5k indexed citations. Recurring topics across this work include Animal Behavior and Welfare Studies (146 papers), Human-Animal Interaction Studies (57 papers), Neuroendocrine regulation and behavior (46 papers), Animal Nutrition and Physiology (41 papers), Primate Behavior and Ecology (38 papers), Animal Behavior and Reproduction (25 papers), Meat and Animal Product Quality (23 papers) and Olfactory and Sensory Function Studies (22 papers). The work is most often cited by research in Small Animals (7.1k citations), Animal Science and Zoology (3.5k citations), Equine (395 citations), Behavioral Neuroscience (716 citations) and Developmental Biology (392 citations). Michael Mendl has collaborated with scholars based in United Kingdom, United States and Brazil. Frequent co-authors include Elizabeth S. Paul, Oliver H. P. Burman, Randall M. Parker, Suzanne Held, A.B. Lawrence, Françoise Wemelsfelder, Donald M. Broom, Laura Green, Patrick Bateson and K. F. Laughlin. Their work appears in journals such as Applied Animal Behaviour Science, Animal Behaviour, Animal Welfare, PLoS ONE and Behavioural Processes.

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