Alan Roberts

2.2k total citations · 1 hit paper
36 papers, 1.7k citations indexed

About

Alan Roberts is a scholar working on Sociology and Political Science, Genetics and Molecular Biology. According to data from OpenAlex, Alan Roberts has authored 36 papers receiving a total of 1.7k indexed citations (citations by other indexed papers that have themselves been cited), including 7 papers in Sociology and Political Science, 6 papers in Genetics and 4 papers in Molecular Biology. Recurrent topics in Alan Roberts's work include Evolutionary Game Theory and Cooperation (6 papers), Plant and animal studies (4 papers) and Animal Ecology and Behavior Studies (3 papers). Alan Roberts is often cited by papers focused on Evolutionary Game Theory and Cooperation (6 papers), Plant and animal studies (4 papers) and Animal Ecology and Behavior Studies (3 papers). Alan Roberts collaborates with scholars based in Australia, United Kingdom and United States. Alan Roberts's co-authors include Lewi Stone, Christopher Nobes, Margaret Lamb, Gareth Appleby-Thomas, Michael Russo, Charles A. Linke, Paul J. Hazell, Ahmad Elbadawi, David Wood and Abraham T.�K. Cockett and has published in prestigious journals such as Nature, Journal of Applied Physics and Ecology.

In The Last Decade

Alan Roberts

33 papers receiving 1.5k citations

Hit Papers

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What are hit papers?

Hit papers significantly outperform the citation benchmark for their cohort. A paper qualifies if it has ≥500 total citations, achieves ≥1.5× the top-1% citation threshold for papers in the same subfield and year (this is the minimum needed to enter the top 1%, not the average within it), or reaches the top citation threshold in at least one of its specific research topics.

  1. The checkerboard score and species distributions
    1990 858 citations Lewi Stone, Alan Roberts Oecologia profile →

Peers — A (Enhanced Table)

Peers by citation overlap · career bar shows stage (early→late) cites · hero ref

Name h Career Trend Papers Cites
Alan Roberts Australia 14 646 586 522 282 181 36 1.7k
György Barabás Hungary 21 818 1.3× 676 1.2× 580 1.1× 490 1.7× 220 1.2× 86 2.1k
Gordon A. Fox United States 26 1.0k 1.6× 1.4k 2.3× 951 1.8× 425 1.5× 260 1.4× 64 2.5k
David B. McDonald United States 32 1.6k 2.4× 348 0.6× 1.2k 2.3× 1.1k 3.8× 143 0.8× 83 3.5k
David Kahle United States 6 220 0.3× 194 0.3× 428 0.8× 150 0.5× 93 0.5× 22 1.6k
Ana F. Militino Spain 20 292 0.5× 472 0.8× 644 1.2× 132 0.5× 105 0.6× 65 2.4k
Rachel M. Fewster New Zealand 21 247 0.4× 708 1.2× 1.8k 3.5× 279 1.0× 520 2.9× 58 2.5k
Thierry Duchesne Canada 19 269 0.4× 422 0.7× 1.5k 3.0× 221 0.8× 213 1.2× 65 2.3k
Shurong Zhou China 23 550 0.9× 658 1.1× 464 0.9× 452 1.6× 178 1.0× 84 1.8k
Rudolf P. Rohr Switzerland 29 1.5k 2.3× 1.1k 1.9× 664 1.3× 499 1.8× 336 1.9× 56 2.5k
Kung‐Sik Chan United States 16 370 0.6× 502 0.9× 1.2k 2.3× 456 1.6× 382 2.1× 33 3.1k

Countries citing papers authored by Alan Roberts

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Fields of papers citing papers by Alan Roberts

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Physical SciencesHealth SciencesLife SciencesSocial Sciences

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Co-authorship network of co-authors of Alan Roberts

This figure shows the co-authorship network connecting the top 25 collaborators of Alan Roberts. A scholar is included among the top collaborators of Alan Roberts based on the total number of citations received by their joint publications. Widths of edges represent the number of papers authors have co-authored together. Node borders signify the number of papers an author published with Alan Roberts. Alan Roberts is excluded from the visualization to improve readability, since they are connected to all nodes in the network.

All Works

20 of 20 papers shown
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Dulay, Katrina May, et al.. (2023). See and Eat! The impact of repeated exposure to vegetable ebooks on young children's vegetable acceptance. Appetite. 182. 106447–106447.
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Roberts, Alan, et al.. (2021). VeggieSense: A non-taste multisensory exposure technique for increasing vegetable acceptance in young children. Appetite. 168. 105784–105784. 11 indexed citations
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Roberts, Alan, Claire P. Monks, & Stella Tsermentseli. (2020). The Influence of Gender and Resource Holding Potential on Aggressive and Prosocial Resource Control Strategy Choice in Early Childhood. Frontiers in Education. 5. 3 indexed citations
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Roberts, Alan & Lewi Stone. (2004). Advantageous indirect interactions in systems of competition. Journal of Theoretical Biology. 228(3). 367–375. 12 indexed citations
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Roberts, Alan, et al.. (2002). A method for calculating the radiation pattern of a non-planar conformal array. 111–118. 3 indexed citations
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Dragomir, Nicoleta, Peter M. Farrell, G. W. Baxter, & Alan Roberts. (2000). Estimation of the refractive index profile of an optical fibre using DIC images. Australian Conference on Optical Fibre Technology. 126–128.
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Nobes, Christopher & Alan Roberts. (2000). Towards a Unifying Model of Systems of Law, Corporate Financing, Accounting and Corporate Governance. Australian Accounting Review. 10(20). 26–34. 8 indexed citations
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Roberts, Alan. (1996). Rhythm in Prose and the Serial Correlation of Sentence Lengths: a Joyce Cary Case Study. Literary and Linguistic Computing. 11(1). 33–39. 3 indexed citations
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Bolton, H. C. & Alan Roberts. (1995). On the comparison of literary and scientific styles: the letters and articles of Max Born, F. R. S. Notes and Records the Royal Society Journal of the History of Science. 49(2). 295–302. 2 indexed citations
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Stone, Lewi & Alan Roberts. (1992). Competitive exclusion, or species aggregation?. Oecologia. 91(3). 419–424. 114 indexed citations
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Stone, Lewi & Alan Roberts. (1992). Can there be a war of all against all?. 15(3). 315–318. 2 indexed citations
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Stone, Lewi & Alan Roberts. (1990). The checkerboard score and species distributions. Oecologia. 85(1). 74–79. 858 indexed citations breakdown →
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Roberts, Alan & Lewi Stone. (1990). Island-sharing by archipelago species. Oecologia. 83(4). 560–567. 48 indexed citations
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Roberts, Alan. (1982). Automatic topology generation and generalised B spline mapping. Applied Mathematics and Computation. 10-11. 465–486. 3 indexed citations
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Roberts, Alan. (1980). The treatment of shocks in fast solving methods. 387. 1 indexed citations
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Roberts, Alan, et al.. (1979). Complex systems which evolve towards homeostasis. Nature. 281(5732). 563–564. 58 indexed citations
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Roberts, Alan, et al.. (1978). Ecosystem-like behavior of a random-interaction model I. Bulletin of Mathematical Biology. 40(4). 513–524. 12 indexed citations
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Koutsaimanis, K. G., et al.. (1975). THE EFFECT OF MAINTENANCE HAEMODIALYSIS AND RENAL TRANSPLANTATION ON THE PLASMA TESTOSTERONE LEVELS OF MALE PATIENTS IN CHRONIC RENAL FAILURE. European Journal of Endocrinology. 80(3). 577–582. 15 indexed citations
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Linke, Charles A., et al.. (1972). Effect of Marked Hyperthermia Upon the Canine Bladder. The Journal of Urology. 107(4). 599–602. 23 indexed citations
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Roberts, Alan. (1970). La teoría en la historia empresarial. Revista Empresa y Humanismo. 147–173. 1 indexed citations

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