Alex James

4.8k total citations · 1 hit paper
89 papers, 2.9k citations indexed

About

Alex James is a scholar working on Ecology, Public Health, Environmental and Occupational Health and Modeling and Simulation. According to data from OpenAlex, Alex James has authored 89 papers receiving a total of 2.9k indexed citations (citations by other indexed papers that have themselves been cited), including 21 papers in Ecology, 16 papers in Public Health, Environmental and Occupational Health and 16 papers in Modeling and Simulation. Recurrent topics in Alex James's work include Animal Ecology and Behavior Studies (12 papers), Mathematical and Theoretical Epidemiology and Ecology Models (12 papers) and Evolution and Genetic Dynamics (10 papers). Alex James is often cited by papers focused on Animal Ecology and Behavior Studies (12 papers), Mathematical and Theoretical Epidemiology and Ecology Models (12 papers) and Evolution and Genetic Dynamics (10 papers). Alex James collaborates with scholars based in New Zealand, United Kingdom and United States. Alex James's co-authors include Michael J. Plank, Jonathan W. Pitchford, David Aadland, S.C. Blyth, Andrew Balmford, Kevin J. Gaston, Valerie Kapos, Rachelle N. Binny, Mark A. Hindell and David Righton and has published in prestigious journals such as Nature, Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences and PLoS ONE.

In The Last Decade

Alex James

82 papers receiving 2.8k 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.

Scaling laws of marine predator search behaviour

2008 727 citations David Sims, Emily J. Southall et al. Nature profile →

Peers — A (Enhanced Table)

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

Name	h						Papers	Cites
Alex James New Zealand	24	785	735	589	493	463	89	2.9k
Bernd Blasius Germany	35	789 1.0×	1.5k 2.0×	961 1.6×	657 1.3×	839 1.8×	118	6.2k
Michael J. Plank New Zealand	32	1.2k 1.5×	997 1.4×	723 1.2×	635 1.3×	692 1.5×	152	4.3k
Jonathan W. Pitchford United Kingdom	27	855 1.1×	745 1.0×	503 0.9×	613 1.2×	485 1.0×	60	2.8k
Sahotra Sarkar United States	40	572 0.7×	1.3k 1.8×	1.1k 1.8×	480 1.0×	1.4k 3.0×	188	5.4k
Louis J. Gross United States	27	233 0.3×	582 0.8×	1.0k 1.7×	243 0.5×	561 1.2×	98	2.6k
Thilo Groß Germany	32	653 0.8×	321 0.4×	460 0.8×	396 0.8×	198 0.4×	91	4.1k
Susanna C. Manrubia Spain	36	1.2k 1.5×	442 0.6×	399 0.7×	319 0.6×	202 0.4×	131	4.1k
Rolf Turner New Zealand	17	304 0.4×	927 1.3×	849 1.4×	434 0.9×	1.0k 2.2×	41	4.8k
Melanie E. Moses United States	24	340 0.4×	775 1.1×	357 0.6×	380 0.8×	244 0.5×	84	2.4k
Vishwesha Guttal India	23	186 0.2×	586 0.8×	1.8k 3.1×	466 0.9×	516 1.1×	48	3.0k

Countries citing papers authored by Alex James

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Fields of papers citing papers by Alex James

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Co-authorship network of co-authors of Alex James

This figure shows the co-authorship network connecting the top 25 collaborators of Alex James. A scholar is included among the top collaborators of Alex James 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 Alex James. Alex James is excluded from the visualization to improve readability, since they are connected to all nodes in the network.

All Works

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20 of 20 papers shown

James, Alex, Reuben McGregor, Natalie Lorenz, Nicole J. Moreland, & Miguel Moyers-González. (2025). Modelling immunity gaps to quantify infection resurgences. Royal Society Open Science. 12(7). 250030–250030. 1 indexed citations

Lorenz, Natalie, Alex James, Prachi Sharma, et al.. (2024). Decline of Antibodies to Major Viral and Bacterial Respiratory Pathogens During the COVID-19 Pandemic. The Journal of Infectious Diseases. 231(1). e77–e81. 6 indexed citations

James, Alex, et al.. (2024). Female-dominated disciplines have lower evaluated research quality and funding success rates, for men and women. eLife. 13.

James, Alex, et al.. (2024). Descriptor: Pixel Sampling to Generate Database of Radiation Pattern Images of Antenna (PSGDRPIA). 1. 139–145.

James, Alex, Alexander Hann, & E. Penelope Holland. (2023). Brood size in an uncertain world. Royal Society Open Science. 10(6). 221362–221362.

Lustig, Audrey, et al.. (2022). Estimating decay curves of neutralizing antibodies to SARS-CoV-2 infection. Mathematical Medicine and Biology A Journal of the IMA. 39(4). 368–381. 2 indexed citations

Plank, Michael J., Alex James, Audrey Lustig, et al.. (2022). Potential reduction in transmission of COVID-19 by digital contact tracing systems: a modelling study. Mathematical Medicine and Biology A Journal of the IMA. 39(2). 156–168. 8 indexed citations

James, Alex, Michael J. Plank, Rachelle N. Binny, et al.. (2021). A structured model for COVID-19 spread: modelling age and healthcare inequities. Mathematical Medicine and Biology A Journal of the IMA. 38(3). 299–313. 12 indexed citations

Whitcombe, Alana L., Reuben McGregor, Alex James, et al.. (2021). Comprehensive analysis of SARS‐CoV‐2 antibody dynamics in New Zealand. Clinical & Translational Immunology. 10(3). e1261–e1261. 33 indexed citations

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Fitzgerald, Neil, Rachelle N. Binny, John Innes, et al.. (2021). Long‐Term Biodiversity Benefits from Invasive Mammalian Pest Control in Ecological Restorations. Bulletin of the Ecological Society of America. 102(2). 2 indexed citations

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Turner, Rebecca M., Eckehard G. Brockerhoff, Cléo Bertelsmeier, et al.. (2021). Worldwide border interceptions provide a window into human‐mediated global insect movement. Ecological Applications. 31(7). e02412–e02412. 73 indexed citations

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Binny, Rachelle N., John Innes, Neil Fitzgerald, et al.. (2020). Long‐term biodiversity trajectories for pest‐managed ecological restorations: eradication vs. suppression. Ecological Monographs. 91(2). 24 indexed citations

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Brower, Ann & Alex James. (2020). Research performance and age explain less than half of the gender pay gap in New Zealand universities. PLoS ONE. 15(1). e0226392–e0226392. 52 indexed citations

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James, Alex, et al.. (2019). Using family network data in child protection services. PLoS ONE. 14(10). e0224554–e0224554. 10 indexed citations

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Holland, E. Penelope, Alex James, Wendy A. Ruscoe, Roger P. Pech, & Andrea E. Byrom. (2015). Climate-Based Models for Pulsed Resources Improve Predictability of Consumer Population Dynamics: Outbreaks of House Mice in Forest Ecosystems. PLoS ONE. 10(3). e0119139–e0119139. 15 indexed citations

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James, Alex, Michael J. Plank, Axel G. Rossberg, et al.. (2015). Constructing Random Matrices to Represent Real Ecosystems. The American Naturalist. 185(5). 680–692. 24 indexed citations

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James, Alex, et al.. (2012). Modelling the growth and population dynamics of the exiled Stockton coal plateau landsnail, Powelliphanta augusta. New Zealand Journal of Zoology. 40(3). 175–185.

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James, Alex, Jonathan W. Pitchford, & Michael J. Plank. (2012). Disentangling nestedness from models of ecological complexity. Nature. 487(7406). 227–230. 167 indexed citations

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Hannah, John, et al.. (2011). Meeting the needs of our best and brightest: curriculum acceleration in tertiary mathematics. International Journal of Mathematical Education in Science and Technology. 42(3). 299–312. 4 indexed citations

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Sims, David, Emily J. Southall, Nicolas E. Humphries, et al.. (2008). Scaling laws of marine predator search behaviour. Nature. 451(7182). 1098–1102. 727 indexed citations breakdown →

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