Carl Boettiger

5.6k total citations · 3 hit papers
77 papers, 2.8k citations indexed

About

Carl Boettiger is a scholar working on Global and Planetary Change, Information Systems and Management and Artificial Intelligence. According to data from OpenAlex, Carl Boettiger has authored 77 papers receiving a total of 2.8k indexed citations (citations by other indexed papers that have themselves been cited), including 27 papers in Global and Planetary Change, 16 papers in Information Systems and Management and 14 papers in Artificial Intelligence. Recurrent topics in Carl Boettiger's work include Scientific Computing and Data Management (16 papers), Species Distribution and Climate Change (13 papers) and Ecosystem dynamics and resilience (11 papers). Carl Boettiger is often cited by papers focused on Scientific Computing and Data Management (16 papers), Species Distribution and Climate Change (13 papers) and Ecosystem dynamics and resilience (11 papers). Carl Boettiger collaborates with scholars based in United States, Australia and Canada. Carl Boettiger's co-authors include Alan Hastings, Jeremy M. Beaulieu, Dwueng-Chwuan Jhwueng, Brian C. O’Meara, Duncan Temple Lang, Peter C. Wainwright, Graham Coop, Peter L. Ralph, Ben Marwick and Lincoln Mullen and has published in prestigious journals such as Nature, Science and Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences.

In The Last Decade

Carl Boettiger

68 papers receiving 2.8k citations

Hit Papers

An introduction to Docker for reproducible research 2012 2026 2016 2021 2015 2012 2024 100 200 300 400 500
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. An introduction to Docker for reproducible research
    2015 559 citations Carl Boettiger profile →
  2. MODELING STABILIZING SELECTION: EXPANDING THE ORNSTEIN-UHLENBECK MODEL OF ADAPTIVE EVOLUTION
    2012 491 citations Carl Boettiger et al. profile →
  3. Pathways to reduce global plastic waste mismanagement and greenhouse gas emissions by 2050
    2024 109 citations Roland Geyer, Ciera Martinez et al. Science profile →

Peers

Carl Boettiger
William K. Michener United States
Ian Wang United States
Mark Schildhauer United States
Tim W. Clark United States
John Wieczorek United States
Ethan P. White United States
Lyubomir Penev Bulgaria
Christine Parent United States
Steven H. D. Haddock United States
Joshua S. Madin Australia
William K. Michener United States
Carl Boettiger
Citations per year, relative to Carl Boettiger Carl Boettiger (= 1×) peers William K. Michener

Countries citing papers authored by Carl Boettiger

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Fields of papers citing papers by Carl Boettiger

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Physical SciencesHealth SciencesLife SciencesSocial Sciences

This network shows the impact of papers produced by Carl Boettiger. Nodes represent research fields, and links connect fields that are likely to share authors. Colored nodes show fields that tend to cite the papers produced by Carl Boettiger. The network helps show where Carl Boettiger may publish in the future.

Co-authorship network of co-authors of Carl Boettiger

This figure shows the co-authorship network connecting the top 25 collaborators of Carl Boettiger. A scholar is included among the top collaborators of Carl Boettiger 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 Carl Boettiger. Carl Boettiger 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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Warne, David J., et al.. (2024). Revisiting Fishery Sustainability Targets. Bulletin of Mathematical Biology. 86(11). 127–127.
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Geyer, Roland, Ciera Martinez, Chao Liu, et al.. (2024). Pathways to reduce global plastic waste mismanagement and greenhouse gas emissions by 2050. Science. 386(6726). 1168–1173. 109 indexed citations breakdown →
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Boettiger, Carl, et al.. (2024). Can you predict the future? A tutorial for the National Ecological Observatory Network Ecological Forecasting Challenge. VTechWorks (Virginia Tech). 7(82). 259–259. 1 indexed citations
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Thomas, R. Quinn, Ryan P. McClure, Tadhg N. Moore, et al.. (2023). Near‐term forecasts of NEON lakes reveal gradients of environmental predictability across the US. Frontiers in Ecology and the Environment. 21(5). 220–226. 9 indexed citations
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Moreau, David, Kristina Wiebels, & Carl Boettiger. (2023). Containers for computational reproducibility. Nature Reviews Methods Primers. 3(1). 29 indexed citations
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Chapman, Melissa, et al.. (2023). Pretty Darn Good Control: When are Approximate Solutions Better than Approximate Models. Bulletin of Mathematical Biology. 85(10). 95–95. 1 indexed citations
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Record, Sydne, Carl Boettiger, & Christine R. Rollinson. (2023). Synthesizing forecasts to inform decision‐making and advance ecological theory. Methods in Ecology and Evolution. 14(3). 728–731. 3 indexed citations
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Chapman, Melissa, et al.. (2022). Deep reinforcement learning for conservation decisions. Methods in Ecology and Evolution. 13(11). 2649–2662. 14 indexed citations
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Boettiger, Carl, et al.. (2022). Limits to ecological forecasting: Estimating uncertainty for critical transitions with deep learning. Methods in Ecology and Evolution. 14(3). 785–798. 12 indexed citations
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Reimer, Jody R., Junjie Jiang, Henry R. Scharf, et al.. (2021). Noise can create or erase long transient dynamics. Theoretical Ecology. 14(4). 685–695. 8 indexed citations
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Chapman, Melissa, et al.. (2021). Algorithmic conservation in a changing climate. Current Opinion in Environmental Sustainability. 51. 30–35. 20 indexed citations
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Memarzadeh, Milad, Gregory L. Britten, Boris Worm, & Carl Boettiger. (2019). Rebuilding global fisheries under uncertainty. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences. 116(32). 15985–15990. 39 indexed citations
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Boettiger, Carl. (2019). Ecological Metadata as Linked Data. The Journal of Open Source Software. 4(34). 1276–1276. 4 indexed citations
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Nüst, Daniel, Carl Boettiger, & Dirk Eddelbuettel. (2018). rocker/geospatial : a flexible runtime environment for geoscientific data analysis. EGUGA. 8500. 1 indexed citations
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Boettiger, Carl. (2017). Generating CodeMeta Metadata for R Packages. The Journal of Open Source Software. 2(19). 454–454. 4 indexed citations
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Getz, Wayne M., Charles R. Marshall, Colin J. Carlson, et al.. (2017). Making ecological models adequate. Ecology Letters. 21(2). 153–166. 99 indexed citations
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Katz, Daniel S., Kyle E. Niemeyer, Arfon M. Smith, et al.. (2016). Software vs. data in the context of citation. 15 indexed citations
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Boettiger, Carl. (2013). Semantic Citations For The Notebook And Knitr.
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Boettiger, Carl. (2012). Welcome to my Lab Notebook - Reloaded. 1 indexed citations

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