Ben Weinstein

2.5k total citations · 1 hit paper
37 papers, 1.5k citations indexed

About

Ben Weinstein is a scholar working on Ecology, Ecological Modeling and Nature and Landscape Conservation. According to data from OpenAlex, Ben Weinstein has authored 37 papers receiving a total of 1.5k indexed citations (citations by other indexed papers that have themselves been cited), including 24 papers in Ecology, 21 papers in Ecological Modeling and 13 papers in Nature and Landscape Conservation. Recurrent topics in Ben Weinstein's work include Species Distribution and Climate Change (21 papers), Remote Sensing in Agriculture (14 papers) and Remote Sensing and LiDAR Applications (13 papers). Ben Weinstein is often cited by papers focused on Species Distribution and Climate Change (21 papers), Remote Sensing in Agriculture (14 papers) and Remote Sensing and LiDAR Applications (13 papers). Ben Weinstein collaborates with scholars based in United States, Switzerland and Colombia. Ben Weinstein's co-authors include Catherine H. Graham, Ethan P. White, Sergio Marconi, Stephanie Bohlman, Alina Zare, Juan L. Parra, Mitchell B. Cruzan, Brendan F. Kohrn, Jimmy A. McGuire and Mélaine Aubry‐Kientz and has published in prestigious journals such as SHILAP Revista de lepidopterología, PLoS ONE and Ecology.

In The Last Decade

Ben Weinstein

36 papers receiving 1.5k citations

Hit Papers

A computer vision for animal ecology 2017 2026 2020 2023 2017 50 100 150 200 250
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. A computer vision for animal ecology
    2017 285 citations Ben Weinstein profile →

Peers — A (Enhanced Table)

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

Name h Career Trend Papers Cites
Ben Weinstein United States 19 809 456 437 385 320 37 1.5k
Tae‐Soo Chon South Korea 27 1.0k 1.3× 827 1.8× 299 0.7× 194 0.5× 182 0.6× 116 2.5k
Jana Müllerová Czechia 28 832 1.0× 752 1.6× 339 0.8× 368 1.0× 323 1.0× 49 2.0k
Andrej Kobler Slovenia 16 595 0.7× 375 0.8× 318 0.7× 355 0.9× 125 0.4× 32 1.2k
Päivi Lyytikäinen‐Saarenmaa Finland 22 884 1.1× 340 0.7× 518 1.2× 86 0.2× 203 0.6× 56 1.4k
Hannes Feilhauer Germany 33 1.7k 2.0× 556 1.2× 569 1.3× 861 2.2× 221 0.7× 84 2.6k
Ellen E. Freeman United States 16 911 1.1× 734 1.6× 364 0.8× 618 1.6× 195 0.6× 27 1.9k
Juyu Lian China 18 412 0.5× 724 1.6× 158 0.4× 229 0.6× 366 1.1× 63 1.3k
Jean‐François Molino France 18 431 0.5× 1.1k 2.3× 143 0.3× 351 0.9× 628 2.0× 42 1.8k
Cédric Vermeulen Belgium 16 868 1.1× 180 0.4× 156 0.4× 248 0.6× 189 0.6× 55 1.3k
Cédric Gaucherel France 23 505 0.6× 497 1.1× 124 0.3× 179 0.5× 451 1.4× 77 1.9k

Countries citing papers authored by Ben Weinstein

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Fields of papers citing papers by Ben Weinstein

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Physical SciencesHealth SciencesLife SciencesSocial Sciences

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Co-authorship network of co-authors of Ben Weinstein

This figure shows the co-authorship network connecting the top 25 collaborators of Ben Weinstein. A scholar is included among the top collaborators of Ben Weinstein 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 Ben Weinstein. Ben Weinstein 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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Weinstein, Ben, et al.. (2024). A Neuro-Symbolic Framework for Tree Crown Delineation and Tree Species Classification. Remote Sensing. 16(23). 4365–4365. 1 indexed citations
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Weinstein, Ben, Sergio Marconi, Alina Zare, et al.. (2024). Individual canopy tree species maps for the National Ecological Observatory Network. PLoS Biology. 22(7). e3002700–e3002700. 4 indexed citations
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Graves, Sarah, Sergio Marconi, Ben Weinstein, et al.. (2023). Data science competition for cross-site individual tree species identification from airborne remote sensing data. PeerJ. 11. e16578–e16578. 2 indexed citations
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Weinstein, Ben, Sergio Marconi, Sarah Graves, et al.. (2023). Capturing long‐tailed individual tree diversity using an airborne imaging and a multi‐temporal hierarchical model. Remote Sensing in Ecology and Conservation. 9(5). 656–670. 8 indexed citations
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Marconi, Sergio, Sarah Graves, Ben Weinstein, Stephanie Bohlman, & Ethan P. White. (2021). Estimating individual‐level plant traits at scale. Ecological Applications. 31(4). e02300–e02300. 9 indexed citations
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Weinstein, Ben, Sarah Graves, Sergio Marconi, et al.. (2021). A benchmark dataset for canopy crown detection and delineation in co-registered airborne RGB, LiDAR and hyperspectral imagery from the National Ecological Observation Network. PLoS Computational Biology. 17(7). e1009180–e1009180. 28 indexed citations
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Weinstein, Ben, et al.. (2020). DeepForest: A Python package for RGB deep learning tree crown delineation. Methods in Ecology and Evolution. 11(12). 1743–1751. 67 indexed citations
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Graham, Catherine H. & Ben Weinstein. (2018). Towards a predictive model of species interaction beta diversity. Ecology Letters. 21(9). 1299–1310. 29 indexed citations
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Weinstein, Ben, Ladd M. Irvine, & Ari S. Friedlaender. (2018). Capturing foraging and resting behavior using nested multivariate Markov models in an air-breathing marine vertebrate. Movement Ecology. 6(1). 16–16. 8 indexed citations
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Weinstein, Ben, Catherine H. Graham, & Juan L. Parra. (2017). The role of environment, dispersal and competition in explaining reduced co-occurrence among related species. PLoS ONE. 12(11). e0185493–e0185493. 11 indexed citations
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Weinstein, Ben & Ari S. Friedlaender. (2017). Dynamic foraging of a top predator in a seasonal polar marine environment. Oecologia. 185(3). 427–435. 26 indexed citations
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Davidson, Ana D., Kevin T. Shoemaker, Ben Weinstein, et al.. (2017). Geography of current and future global mammal extinction risk. PLoS ONE. 12(11). e0186934–e0186934. 41 indexed citations
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Weinstein, Ben, Michael C. Double, Nick Gales, David W. Johnston, & Ari S. Friedlaender. (2017). Identifying overlap between humpback whale foraging grounds and the Antarctic krill fishery. Biological Conservation. 210. 184–191. 49 indexed citations
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Tsay, Calvin, et al.. (2017). A superstructure-based design of experiments framework for simultaneous domain-restricted model identification and parameter estimation. Computers & Chemical Engineering. 107. 408–426. 12 indexed citations
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Cruzan, Mitchell B., et al.. (2016). Small unmanned aerial vehicles (micro‐UAVs, drones) in plant ecology. Applications in Plant Sciences. 4(9). 136 indexed citations
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Weinstein, Ben & Catherine H. Graham. (2016). Evaluating broad scale patterns among related species using resource experiments in tropical hummingbirds. Ecology. 97(8). 2085–2093. 5 indexed citations
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Penone, Caterina, Ben Weinstein, Catherine H. Graham, et al.. (2016). Global mammal beta diversity shows parallel assemblage structure in similar but isolated environments. Proceedings of the Royal Society B Biological Sciences. 283(1837). 20161028–20161028. 37 indexed citations
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Li, Xin, et al.. (2015). Dynamics of water transport and swelling in human stratum corneum. Chemical Engineering Science. 138. 164–172. 28 indexed citations
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Weinstein, Ben, Boris A. Tinoco, Juan L. Parra, et al.. (2014). Taxonomic, Phylogenetic, and Trait Beta Diversity in South American Hummingbirds. The American Naturalist. 184(2). 211–224. 81 indexed citations
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Weinstein, Ben. (2014). MotionMeerkat: integrating motion video detection and ecological monitoring. Methods in Ecology and Evolution. 6(3). 357–362. 76 indexed citations

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