Alice S. A. Johnston

2.1k total citations · 1 hit paper
21 papers, 1.4k citations indexed

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Alice S. A. Johnston is a scholar working on Soil Science, Ecology and Ecological Modeling. According to data from OpenAlex, Alice S. A. Johnston has authored 21 papers receiving a total of 1.4k indexed citations (citations by other indexed papers that have themselves been cited), including 7 papers in Soil Science, 6 papers in Ecology and 6 papers in Ecological Modeling. Recurrent topics in Alice S. A. Johnston's work include Soil Carbon and Nitrogen Dynamics (7 papers), Species Distribution and Climate Change (6 papers) and Invertebrate Taxonomy and Ecology (4 papers). Alice S. A. Johnston is often cited by papers focused on Soil Carbon and Nitrogen Dynamics (7 papers), Species Distribution and Climate Change (6 papers) and Invertebrate Taxonomy and Ecology (4 papers). Alice S. A. Johnston collaborates with scholars based in United Kingdom, United States and Denmark. Alice S. A. Johnston's co-authors include Richard M. Sibly, Pernille Thorbek, Volker Grimm, Viktoriia Radchuk, Steven F. Railsback, Donald L. DeAngelis, Jacob Nabe‐Nielsen, Benjamin T. Martin, Daniel Ayllón and Bruce Edmonds and has published in prestigious journals such as Nature Communications, The Science of The Total Environment and Global Change Biology.

In The Last Decade

Alice S. A. Johnston

19 papers receiving 1.3k citations

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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.

The ODD Protocol for Describing Agent-Based and Other Simulation Models: A Second Update to Improve Clarity, Replication, and Structural Realism

2020 502 citations Volker Grimm, Steven F. Railsback et al. Journal of Artificial Societies and Social Simulation profile →

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Name	h						Papers	Cites
Alice S. A. Johnston United Kingdom	14	385	351	246	224	186	21	1.4k
Ana F. Militino Spain	20	644 1.7×	547 1.6×	472 1.9×	292 1.3×	105 0.6×	65	2.4k
Christophe Dutang France	9	342 0.9×	277 0.8×	240 1.0×	247 1.1×	51 0.3×	23	1.7k
Christian E. Vincenot Japan	15	304 0.8×	239 0.7×	154 0.6×	253 1.1×	146 0.8×	29	1.2k
Hongbo Yang China	28	611 1.6×	730 2.1×	206 0.8×	108 0.5×	362 1.9×	85	2.0k
Nicola Randall United Kingdom	16	204 0.5×	269 0.8×	162 0.7×	146 0.7×	106 0.6×	43	1.2k
Marcia L. Gumpertz United States	26	280 0.7×	365 1.0×	184 0.7×	146 0.7×	42 0.2×	67	2.2k
Edward J. Rykiel United States	13	635 1.6×	724 2.1×	480 2.0×	186 0.8×	195 1.0×	21	2.2k
Ralf Wieland Germany	21	299 0.8×	435 1.2×	103 0.4×	227 1.0×	144 0.8×	61	1.6k
Garrett Grolemund United States	8	317 0.8×	201 0.6×	130 0.5×	149 0.7×	89 0.5×	9	1.6k
Yohay Carmel Israel	24	909 2.4×	943 2.7×	651 2.6×	339 1.5×	327 1.8×	81	2.3k

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Walthall, C. L., Nicholas T. Girkin, Zoltán Kevei, & Alice S. A. Johnston. (2025). A global synthesis of genotypic variation in crop greenhouse gas emissions under variable nitrogen fertilisation. Frontiers in Agronomy. 7.

Johnston, Alice S. A., et al.. (2025). Widespread influence of artificial light at night on ecosystem metabolism. Nature Climate Change. 15(12). 1371–1377.

Johnston, Alice S. A.. (2024). Predicting emergent animal biodiversity patterns across multiple scales. Global Change Biology. 30(7). e17397–e17397. 6 indexed citations

Kim, Jiyoung, Abdou Khouakhi, Ron Corstanje, & Alice S. A. Johnston. (2023). Greater local cooling effects of trees across globally distributed urban green spaces. The Science of The Total Environment. 911. 168494–168494. 31 indexed citations

Johnston, Alice S. A. & Richard M. Sibly. (2020). Multiple environmental controls explain global patterns in soil animal communities. Oecologia. 192(4). 1047–1056. 22 indexed citations

Brown, A. Ross, Robin J. Boyd, Alice S. A. Johnston, et al.. (2020). Applying a mechanistic model to predict interacting effects of chemical exposure and food availability on fish populations. Aquatic Toxicology. 224. 105483–105483. 7 indexed citations

Grimm, Volker, Alice S. A. Johnston, Hans‐Hermann Thulke, Valery E. Forbes, & Pernille Thorbek. (2020). Three questions to ask before using model outputs for decision support. Nature Communications. 11(1). 4959–4959. 47 indexed citations

Grimm, Volker, Steven F. Railsback, Christian E. Vincenot, et al.. (2020). The ODD Protocol for Describing Agent-Based and Other Simulation Models: A Second Update to Improve Clarity, Replication, and Structural Realism. Journal of Artificial Societies and Social Simulation. 23(2). 502 indexed citations breakdown →

Johnston, Alice S. A.. (2019). Land management modulates the environmental controls on global earthworm communities. Global Ecology and Biogeography. 28(12). 1787–1795. 8 indexed citations

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Johnston, Alice S. A., et al.. (2019). Predicting population responses to environmental change from individual-level mechanisms: towards a standardized mechanistic approach. Proceedings of the Royal Society B Biological Sciences. 286(1913). 20191916–20191916. 55 indexed citations

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Johnston, Alice S. A. & Richard M. Sibly. (2018). The influence of soil communities on the temperature sensitivity of soil respiration. Nature Ecology & Evolution. 2(10). 1597–1602. 62 indexed citations

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Johnston, Alice S. A., Richard M. Sibly, & Pernille Thorbek. (2018). Forecasting tillage and soil warming effects on earthworm populations. Journal of Applied Ecology. 55(3). 1498–1509. 20 indexed citations

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Johnston, Alice S. A.. (2017). Netlogo code for the EEEworm (Energy - Environment - Earthworm) model of Lumbricus terrestris populations. Figshare. 1 indexed citations

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Beaumont, Mark, et al.. (2015). Calibration and evaluation of individual-based models using Approximate Bayesian Computation. Ecological Modelling. 312. 182–190. 97 indexed citations

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Reed, Melissa, Sónia Chelinho, Valery E. Forbes, et al.. (2015). A risk assessment example for soil invertebrates using spatially explicit agent-based models. Integrated Environmental Assessment and Management. 12(1). 58–66. 9 indexed citations

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Johnston, Alice S. A., et al.. (2015). Predicting how many animals will be where: How to build, calibrate and evaluate individual-based models. Ecological Modelling. 326. 113–123. 40 indexed citations

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Johnston, Alice S. A., et al.. (2014). Earthworm distribution and abundance predicted by a process-based model. Applied Soil Ecology. 84. 112–123. 27 indexed citations

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Grimm, Volker, Andreas Focks, Béatrice Frank, et al.. (2014). Towards better modelling and decision support: Documenting model development, testing, and analysis using TRACE. Ecological Modelling. 280. 129–139. 208 indexed citations

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Johnston, Alice S. A., et al.. (2013). An energy budget agent-based model of earthworm populations and its application to study the effects of pesticides. Ecological Modelling. 280. 5–17. 56 indexed citations

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Sibly, Richard M., Volker Grimm, Benjamin T. Martin, et al.. (2012). Representing the acquisition and use of energy by individuals in agent‐based models of animal populations. Methods in Ecology and Evolution. 4(2). 151–161. 131 indexed citations

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