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ArticleRoyal Society open science2020

Urban herring gulls use human behavioural cues to locate food.

Madeleine Goumas, Neeltje J Boogert, Laura A Kelley

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Article in Royal Society open science, 2020. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 13 papers.

0numbers the graph read from it
0cells of the map it votes in
13citing papers in PubMed
4.3field-weighted citation impact, top 6% of its field
1 · What the graph read from it

What it found

Each row is one number read from the abstract, on the scale the paper reported it, with its interval. Left of the dashed line favours the treatment, right favours the comparator. Under each row is the sentence it came from. New to these charts? A ten-minute tutorial.

The abstract states no effect estimate the extractor could read, or names no intervention and outcome on the map, so this paper lights no cell and moves no belief. It is still indexed, cited and linked below.

2 · The registry

The trial behind it

Trials whose registry record cites this paper, or whose number appears in the abstract. A trial that started after this paper was published is citing it as background, not reporting it.

Neither the registry nor the abstract names a trial number. If this is a trial report, that itself is worth knowing.

3 · Its place in the literature

Who cites it

13 citing papers in PubMed, 42 citations in OpenAlex.

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  5. The flexibility of social learning and its conservation implications in mammals and beyond.Philosophical transactions of the Royal Society of London. Series B, Biological sciences · 2025
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  12. Animal cognition in an urbanised world.Frontiers in ecology and evolution · 2021
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4 · The record

Corrections and comments

PubMed lists nothing against this paper. Absence here is not a guarantee, only a check that was made.

5 · Who and what money

Authors and funding

3 authors at 1 institution in 1 country.

Madeleine GoumasCentre for Ecology and Conservation, University of Exeter, Penryn, Cornwall, UK.ORCID 0000-0001-9338-2412
Neeltje J BoogertCentre for Ecology and Conservation, University of Exeter, Penryn, Cornwall, UK.ORCID 0000-0002-1337-4365
Laura A KelleyCentre for Ecology and Conservation, University of Exeter, Penryn, Cornwall, UK.ORCID 0000-0003-0700-1471
University of Exeter · GB

Funding

No grant is acknowledged in the PubMed record.

6 · The paper itself

Abstract

While many animals are negatively affected by urbanization, some species appear to thrive in urban environments. Herring gulls (

Indexed as

herring gullshuman–wildlife interactionsinterspecific social learningneophobiaobject choicesocial enhancement

Identifiers

PMID32257348
PMCPMC7062050
OpenAlexW3005843928

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Registered trials

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