Subfield · Ecological Modeling
Top Ecological Modeling Researchers
Deborah Estrin ranks first, out of 4,069 ranked researchers.
Composite score: field-normalised excellence, output and total citations weighted 50 / 30 / 20, each as a percentile so no single heavy-tailed measure dominates. Floor: 15 works, and an institution the snapshot can resolve.
The ranking
- 1 Deborah Estrin United States · #60 worldwide 5.9k citations · 183 works
- 2 Rob Knight United States · #97 worldwide 4.9k citations · 202 works
- 3 Pietro Perona United States · #223 worldwide 11k citations · 109 works
- 4 Markus Reichstein Germany · #1,232 worldwide 3.2k citations · 155 works
- 5 Peter B. Reich United States · #1,283 worldwide 4.1k citations · 157 works
- 6 Daniel Simberloff United States · #1,360 worldwide 2.9k citations · 130 works
- 7 A.G. Evans United States · #1,647 worldwide 3.2k citations · 161 works
- 8 Shilong Piao China · #1,710 worldwide 2.6k citations · 94 works
- 9 Wilfried Thuiller France · #1,864 worldwide 1.9k citations · 96 works
- 10 Daniel H. Janzen United States · #1,965 worldwide 2.1k citations · 131 works
- 11 Robert J. Scholes South Africa · #1,985 worldwide 1.7k citations · 134 works
- 12 Dennis Baldocchi United States · #2,533 worldwide 3.5k citations · 156 works
- 13 Alan H. Strahler United States · #2,909 worldwide 2.4k citations · 93 works
- 14 John H. Lawton United Kingdom · #2,939 worldwide 2.1k citations · 70 works
- 15 Annette Menzel Germany · #2,970 worldwide 2.7k citations · 69 works
- 16 James D. Nichols United States · #3,015 worldwide 1.6k citations · 90 works
- 17 Lesley Hughes Australia · #3,137 worldwide 1.5k citations · 70 works
- 18 Niklaus E. Zimmermann Switzerland · #3,177 worldwide 1.7k citations · 88 works
- 19 Sandra Lavorel France · #3,229 worldwide 1.7k citations · 84 works
- 20 Brian Huntley United Kingdom · #3,429 worldwide 1.8k citations · 79 works
- 21 Subhransu Maji United States · #3,477 worldwide 2.7k citations · 71 works
- 22 Peter M. Vitousek United States · #3,571 worldwide 1.7k citations · 71 works
- 23 David M. Richardson South Africa · #3,615 worldwide 2.3k citations · 131 works
- 24 Chris D. Thomas United Kingdom · #3,682 worldwide 2k citations · 68 works
- 25 Nancy B. Grimm United States · #3,691 worldwide 1.8k citations · 70 works
- 26 Crystal Schaaf United States · #3,756 worldwide 2.1k citations · 89 works
- 27 G. C. Hurtt United States · #3,855 worldwide 1.7k citations · 70 works
- 28 William F. Laurance Australia · #3,871 worldwide 1.6k citations · 90 works
- 29 Kevin J. Gaston United Kingdom · #3,910 worldwide 2.5k citations · 154 works
- 30 Alan Leviton United States · #4,097 worldwide 1k citations · 97 works
- 31 Steven W. Running United States · #4,235 worldwide 2.3k citations · 70 works
- 32 Giles M. Foody United Kingdom · #4,675 worldwide 1.8k citations · 109 works
- 33 Tom Fenchel Denmark · #4,731 worldwide 1.3k citations · 78 works
- 34 David Dudgeon Hong Kong · #5,014 worldwide 1.4k citations · 86 works
- 35 Oliver L. Phillips United Kingdom · #5,068 worldwide 2.3k citations · 69 works
- 36 Paul R. Ehrlich United States · #5,163 worldwide 1.7k citations · 153 works
- 37 Ruth DeFries United States · #5,247 worldwide 1.6k citations · 70 works
- 38 Michael F. Goodchild United States · #5,349 worldwide 1.4k citations · 98 works
- 39 Robert D. Holt United States · #5,579 worldwide 1.8k citations · 89 works
- 40 Guy F. Midgley South Africa · #5,582 worldwide 1.8k citations · 60 works
- 41 Peter Convey United Kingdom · #5,802 worldwide 2k citations · 105 works
- 42 Pierre Taberlet France · #5,861 worldwide 1.3k citations · 70 works
- 43 Michael K. Schwartz United States · #5,922 worldwide 932 citations · 70 works
- 44 Ingolf Kühn Germany · #5,956 worldwide 1.7k citations · 65 works
- 45 Benjamin S. Halpern United States · #6,315 worldwide 2k citations · 62 works
- 46 Paul D. N. Hebert Canada · #6,364 worldwide 1.6k citations · 118 works
- 47 M. A. Friedl United States · #6,398 worldwide 1.8k citations · 83 works
- 48 S. Joseph Wright Panama · #6,581 worldwide 1.1k citations · 64 works
- 49 Muki Haklay United Kingdom · #6,719 worldwide 1.1k citations · 77 works
- 50 Juli G. Pausas Spain · #6,761 worldwide 1.5k citations · 63 works
- 51 Georgina M. Mace United Kingdom · #6,762 worldwide 1.7k citations · 60 works
- 52 Guiwu Wei China · #6,922 worldwide 879 citations · 85 works
- 53 Rhys E. Green United Kingdom · #7,356 worldwide 1.5k citations · 55 works
- 54 Warren B. Cohen United States · #7,388 worldwide 1.7k citations · 60 works
- 55 Robert E. Ricklefs United States · #7,420 worldwide 1.5k citations · 96 works
- 56 Robert T. Paine United States · #7,434 worldwide 1.6k citations · 141 works
- 57 Lee Hannah United States · #7,885 worldwide 1.4k citations · 54 works
- 58 S. T. Buckland United Kingdom · #7,892 worldwide 1.4k citations · 60 works
- 59 David M. Lodge United States · #8,076 worldwide 1.4k citations · 55 works
- 60 Ranga B. Myneni United States · #8,118 worldwide 2.2k citations · 121 works
- 61 Carsten F. Dormann Germany · #8,254 worldwide 1.3k citations · 58 works
- 62 Wolfgang Crämer France · #8,266 worldwide 969 citations · 69 works
- 63 David Mouillot France · #8,331 worldwide 1.1k citations · 61 works
- 64 David A. Wardle Sweden · #8,479 worldwide 1.7k citations · 93 works
- 65 Philip W. Hedrick United States · #8,643 worldwide 1.3k citations · 62 works
- 66 Harini Nagendra India · #8,899 worldwide 850 citations · 67 works
- 67 Matthias C. Rillig Germany · #9,023 worldwide 2k citations · 103 works
- 68 Rasmus Fensholt Denmark · #9,273 worldwide 1.1k citations · 73 works
- 69 S. Blair Hedges United States · #9,411 worldwide 1.2k citations · 64 works
- 70 A. Townsend Peterson United States · #9,437 worldwide 2.1k citations · 148 works
- 71 Antoine Guisan Switzerland · #9,531 worldwide 1.4k citations · 91 works
- 72 Ben Shneiderman United States · #9,541 worldwide 1.9k citations · 205 works
- 73 Hans ter Steege Netherlands · #9,543 worldwide 1.2k citations · 54 works
- 74 Lawrence M. Page United States · #9,585 worldwide 3.7k citations · 48 works
- 75 Miska Luoto Finland · #9,620 worldwide 1k citations · 63 works
- 76 Fernando Valladares Spain · #9,683 worldwide 1.4k citations · 77 works
- 77 Miguel B. Araújo Portugal · #9,802 worldwide 2.1k citations · 51 works
- 78 Simon L. Lewis United Kingdom · #10,425 worldwide 1.5k citations · 70 works
- 79 Mark S. Boyce Canada · #10,428 worldwide 1k citations · 66 works
- 80 John A. Gamon Canada · #10,782 worldwide 1.2k citations · 52 works
- 81 Regino Zamora Spain · #10,831 worldwide 655 citations · 53 works
- 82 J. Andrew Royle United States · #10,965 worldwide 965 citations · 54 works
- 83 J.A.B. Fortes United States · #11,051 worldwide 615 citations · 82 works
- 84 Jared M. Diamond United States · #11,478 worldwide 1.2k citations · 122 works
- 85 James H. Brown United States · #11,704 worldwide 1.5k citations · 119 works
- 86 Feng Li United Kingdom · #12,050 worldwide 681 citations · 92 works
- 87 John F. Bruno United States · #12,060 worldwide 1.3k citations · 59 works
- 88 J. Whitfield Gibbons United States · #12,404 worldwide 814 citations · 80 works
- 89 Jérôme Chave France · #12,801 worldwide 1.3k citations · 65 works
- 90 Petr Pyšek Czechia · #12,934 worldwide 1.4k citations · 113 works
- 91 Franck Courchamp France · #13,203 worldwide 857 citations · 47 works
- 92 Alistair J. Hobday Australia · #13,290 worldwide 1.2k citations · 92 works
- 93 Michael R. Willig United States · #13,589 worldwide 1k citations · 56 works
- 94 William J. Bond South Africa · #14,279 worldwide 1.3k citations · 85 works
- 95 Peter H. Raven United States · #14,440 worldwide 1.3k citations · 183 works
- 96 Marc Dufrêne Belgium · #14,633 worldwide 777 citations · 127 works
- 97 Nicolas Viovy France · #14,866 worldwide 1.1k citations · 89 works
- 98 Zhe Zhu United States · #15,129 worldwide 1.5k citations · 46 works
- 99 V. K. Brown United Kingdom · #15,267 worldwide 767 citations · 64 works
- 100 Josef Settele Germany · #15,526 worldwide 1.1k citations · 82 works
authors from the 6,000 highest-output in Ecological Modeling, re-ranked on the composite score. Author identities come from OpenAlex disambiguation and inherit its errors: a merged record can put one name over two people’s work, and a split one can halve a career. Every row links out to the OpenAlex record so the underlying claim is checkable, and anything that looks wrong can be reported from the row. That report files a correction against the bibliographic record for a human to review — it is not a removal or delisting request, and no such route exists yet.