Benjamin G. Freeman

4.4k total citations · 3 hit papers
56 papers, 2.1k citations indexed

About

Benjamin G. Freeman is a scholar working on Ecology, Evolution, Behavior and Systematics, Ecology and Ecological Modeling. According to data from OpenAlex, Benjamin G. Freeman has authored 56 papers receiving a total of 2.1k indexed citations (citations by other indexed papers that have themselves been cited), including 28 papers in Ecology, Evolution, Behavior and Systematics, 25 papers in Ecology and 23 papers in Ecological Modeling. Recurrent topics in Benjamin G. Freeman's work include Species Distribution and Climate Change (23 papers), Plant and animal studies (22 papers) and Ecology and Vegetation Dynamics Studies (20 papers). Benjamin G. Freeman is often cited by papers focused on Species Distribution and Climate Change (23 papers), Plant and animal studies (22 papers) and Ecology and Vegetation Dynamics Studies (20 papers). Benjamin G. Freeman collaborates with scholars based in United States, Canada and United Kingdom. Benjamin G. Freeman's co-authors include Micah N. Scholer, John W. Fitzpatrick, Viviana Ruiz‐Gutiérrez, Eliot T. Miller, Graham A. Montgomery, Julie A. Lee‐Yaw, Anna L. Hargreaves, Jennifer M. Sunday, Joseph A. Tobias and Dolph Schluter and has published in prestigious journals such as Science, Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences and Nature Communications.

In The Last Decade

Benjamin G. Freeman

52 papers receiving 2.0k citations

Hit Papers

Macroevolutionary convergence connects morphological form... 2018 2026 2020 2023 2020 2018 2018 100 200 300
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. Macroevolutionary convergence connects morphological form to ecological function in birds
    2020 333 citations Alex L. Pigot, Eliot T. Miller et al. profile →
  2. Climate change causes upslope shifts and mountaintop extirpations in a tropical bird community
    2018 315 citations Benjamin G. Freeman, Micah N. Scholer et al. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences profile →
  3. Expanding, shifting and shrinking: The impact of global warming on species’ elevational distributions
    2018 223 citations Benjamin G. Freeman, Julie A. Lee‐Yaw et al. Global Ecology and Biogeography profile →

Peers — A (Enhanced Table)

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

Name h Career Trend Papers Cites
Benjamin G. Freeman United States 22 1.1k 1.1k 872 816 374 56 2.1k
Steven J. Presley United States 30 1.3k 1.2× 780 0.7× 762 0.9× 1.3k 1.6× 312 0.8× 72 2.4k
Malcolm D. Burgess United Kingdom 18 1.1k 1.0× 798 0.7× 757 0.9× 685 0.8× 198 0.5× 57 1.8k
Michael A. Patten United States 32 2.3k 2.1× 760 0.7× 915 1.0× 954 1.2× 751 2.0× 161 3.3k
Octavio Rojas‐Soto Mexico 23 775 0.7× 909 0.9× 594 0.7× 541 0.7× 321 0.9× 113 1.7k
Manuela González‐Suárez United Kingdom 23 1.2k 1.1× 562 0.5× 604 0.7× 437 0.5× 172 0.5× 75 1.8k
Jill E. Jankowski Canada 16 993 0.9× 693 0.6× 760 0.9× 753 0.9× 164 0.4× 32 1.7k
Carlos Daniel Cadena Colombia 28 1.3k 1.2× 1.1k 1.0× 980 1.1× 1.2k 1.5× 1.1k 3.0× 132 3.1k
Jean‐Philippe Lessard Canada 16 695 0.6× 620 0.6× 760 0.9× 891 1.1× 474 1.3× 23 1.9k
Michelle S. Koo United States 18 799 0.7× 941 0.9× 543 0.6× 444 0.5× 477 1.3× 39 1.8k
Andrés M. Cuervo United States 20 506 0.5× 446 0.4× 457 0.5× 559 0.7× 761 2.0× 59 1.6k

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All Works

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MacPherson, Maggie, Kevin R. Burgio, Benjamin G. Freeman, et al.. (2025). An introduction to predictive distribution modelling for conservation to encourage novel perspectives. Animal Biodiversity and Conservation. e0001–e0001.
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Brodie, Jedediah F., Benjamin G. Freeman, Philip D. Mannion, & Anna L. Hargreaves. (2025). Shifting, expanding, or contracting? Range movement consequences for biodiversity. Trends in Ecology & Evolution. 40(5). 439–448. 5 indexed citations
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Freeman, Benjamin G., Eliot T. Miller, & Matthew Strimas‐Mackey. (2024). Interspecific competition shapes bird species' distributions along tropical precipitation gradients. Ecology Letters. 27(8). e14487–e14487. 2 indexed citations
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Freeman, Benjamin G.. (2024). Shazam for birds. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences. 121(36). e2414224121–e2414224121.
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Feeley, Kenneth J. & Benjamin G. Freeman. (2023). Global Warming: Plants and Animals on the Move. Frontiers for Young Minds. 11. 1 indexed citations
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Freeman, Benjamin G., et al.. (2023). Disentangling the historical routes to community assembly in the global epicentre of biodiversity. Global Ecology and Biogeography. 32(10). 1748–1759. 2 indexed citations
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Freeman, Benjamin G., Thomas Weeks, Dolph Schluter, & Joseph A. Tobias. (2022). The latitudinal gradient in rates of evolution for bird beaks, a species interaction trait. Ecology Letters. 25(3). 635–646. 15 indexed citations
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Goltsman, Daniela S. Aliaga, Lisa Alexander, Jyun‐Liang Lin, et al.. (2022). Compact Cas9d and HEARO enzymes for genome editing discovered from uncultivated microbes. Nature Communications. 13(1). 7602–7602. 20 indexed citations
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Pujolar, José Martín, Mozes P. K. Blom, Andrew Hart Reeve, et al.. (2022). The formation of avian montane diversity across barriers and along elevational gradients. Nature Communications. 13(1). 268–268. 27 indexed citations
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Freeman, Benjamin G., Yiluan Song, Kenneth J. Feeley, & Kai Zhu. (2021). Montane species track rising temperatures better in the tropics than in the temperate zone. Ecology Letters. 24(8). 1697–1708. 69 indexed citations
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Freeman, Benjamin G. & Jesus Arango. (2021). The nest of the Gold-ringed Tanager (Bangsia aureocincta), a colombian endemic. 71–75.
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Linck, Ethan, Benjamin G. Freeman, & John P. Dumbacher. (2020). Speciation and gene flow across an elevational gradient in New Guinea kingfishers. Journal of Evolutionary Biology. 33(11). 1643–1652. 31 indexed citations
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Roesti, Marius, Daniel N. Anstett, Benjamin G. Freeman, et al.. (2020). Pelagic fish predation is stronger at temperate latitudes than near the equator. Nature Communications. 11(1). 1527–1527. 19 indexed citations
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Freeman, Benjamin G.. (2019). Lower elevation animal species do not tend to be better competitors than their higher elevation relatives. Global Ecology and Biogeography. 29(1). 171–181. 16 indexed citations
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Miller, Eliot T., Gavin M. Leighton, Benjamin G. Freeman, Alexander Charles Lees, & Russell A. Ligon. (2019). Ecological and geographical overlap drive plumage evolution and mimicry in woodpeckers. Nature Communications. 10(1). 1602–1602. 56 indexed citations
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Freeman, Benjamin G., Micah N. Scholer, Viviana Ruiz‐Gutiérrez, & John W. Fitzpatrick. (2018). Climate change causes upslope shifts and mountaintop extirpations in a tropical bird community. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences. 115(47). 11982–11987. 315 indexed citations breakdown →
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Freeman, Benjamin G.. (2015). Thermal tolerances to cold do not predict upper elevational limits in New Guinean montane birds. Diversity and Distributions. 22(3). 309–317. 29 indexed citations

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