Daniel Fink

12.4k total citations · 2 hit papers
144 papers, 7.0k citations indexed

About

Daniel Fink is a scholar working on Ecological Modeling, Ecology and Nature and Landscape Conservation. According to data from OpenAlex, Daniel Fink has authored 144 papers receiving a total of 7.0k indexed citations (citations by other indexed papers that have themselves been cited), including 63 papers in Ecological Modeling, 58 papers in Ecology and 27 papers in Nature and Landscape Conservation. Recurrent topics in Daniel Fink's work include Species Distribution and Climate Change (63 papers), Wildlife Ecology and Conservation (41 papers) and Ecology and Vegetation Dynamics Studies (27 papers). Daniel Fink is often cited by papers focused on Species Distribution and Climate Change (63 papers), Wildlife Ecology and Conservation (41 papers) and Ecology and Vegetation Dynamics Studies (27 papers). Daniel Fink collaborates with scholars based in United States, United Kingdom and Canada. Daniel Fink's co-authors include Steve Kelling, Wesley M. Hochachka, Brian L. Sullivan, Marshall J. Iliff, Rick Bonney, Christopher Wood, Frank A. La Sorte, Alison Johnston, Viviana Ruiz‐Gutiérrez and Orin J. Robinson and has published in prestigious journals such as Science, JAMA and Nature Communications.

In The Last Decade

Daniel Fink

130 papers receiving 6.7k 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.

eBird: A citizen-based bird observation network in the biological sciences

2009 1.3k citations Marshall J. Iliff, Daniel Fink et al. profile →
Analytical guidelines to increase the value of community science data: An example using eBird data to estimate species distributions

2021 181 citations Alison Johnston, Wesley M. Hochachka et al. Diversity and Distributions profile →

Peers — A (Enhanced Table)

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

Name	h						Papers	Cites
Daniel Fink United States	44	3.4k	3.3k	1.6k	1.1k	822	144	7.0k
Raimundo Real Spain	39	4.1k 1.2×	4.0k 1.2×	2.8k 1.8×	1.4k 1.2×	1.3k 1.6×	201	8.4k
Carsten M. Buchmann Germany	13	3.5k 1.0×	2.4k 0.7×	2.4k 1.5×	2.2k 1.9×	1.5k 1.8×	22	8.7k
Pedro J. Leitão Germany	25	4.2k 1.2×	2.7k 0.8×	2.5k 1.6×	2.7k 2.3×	1.4k 1.8×	57	9.5k
Jaime Márquez United States	26	3.2k 0.9×	2.4k 0.7×	2.2k 1.4×	1.9k 1.7×	1.4k 1.7×	103	9.7k
Gabriel Carré United Kingdom	6	3.1k 0.9×	2.3k 0.7×	2.4k 1.5×	1.8k 1.6×	2.0k 2.5×	6	8.2k
Florian Härtig Germany	42	2.5k 0.7×	2.0k 0.6×	2.6k 1.7×	1.8k 1.5×	1.1k 1.3×	116	6.9k
Patrick E. Osborne United Kingdom	27	4.9k 1.4×	3.5k 1.1×	3.4k 2.2×	2.4k 2.1×	1.7k 2.1×	97	10.5k
Gudrun Carl Germany	9	4.7k 1.4×	3.4k 1.0×	3.6k 2.3×	2.7k 2.4×	2.0k 2.5×	12	10.9k
Damaris Zurell Germany	29	4.8k 1.4×	3.7k 1.1×	3.3k 2.1×	2.3k 2.0×	2.0k 2.5×	66	10.1k
Thomas C. Edwards United States	23	3.2k 0.9×	2.2k 0.7×	2.2k 1.4×	1.7k 1.5×	875 1.1×	53	6.4k

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Stillman, Andrew N., Courtney L. Davis, Viviana Ruiz‐Gutiérrez, et al.. (2025). A Framework for Assessing the Habitat Correlates of Spatially Explicit Population Trends. Diversity and Distributions. 31(5).

Cohen, Jeremy M., Daniel Fink, & Benjamin Zuckerberg. (2023). Spatial and seasonal variation in thermal sensitivity within North American bird species. Proceedings of the Royal Society B Biological Sciences. 290(2010). 20231398–20231398. 2 indexed citations

Fink, Daniel, Alison Johnston, Matthew Strimas‐Mackey, et al.. (2023). A Double machine learning trend model for citizen science data. Methods in Ecology and Evolution. 14(9). 2435–2448. 29 indexed citations

Stillman, Andrew N., Paige E. Howell, Guthrie S. Zimmerman, et al.. (2023). Leveraging the strengths of citizen science and structured surveys to achieve scalable inference on population size. Journal of Applied Ecology. 60(11). 2389–2399. 12 indexed citations

Sorte, Frank A. La, Kyle G. Horton, Alison Johnston, Daniel Fink, & Tom Auer. (2022). Seasonal associations with light pollution trends for nocturnally migrating bird populations. Ecosphere. 13(3). 13 indexed citations

Sorte, Frank A. La, Alison Johnston, Amanda D. Rodewald, et al.. (2022). The role of artificial light at night and road density in predicting the seasonal occurrence of nocturnally migrating birds. Diversity and Distributions. 28(5). 992–1009. 13 indexed citations

Fink, Daniel, et al.. (2021). Too loud! Non-occupational noise exposure causes hearing loss. Proceedings of meetings on acoustics. 43. 40002–40002. 10 indexed citations

Fink, Daniel, et al.. (2021). Die Covid-19 Pandemie ist bisher erfolgreich gemeistert worden. SERVAL (Université de Lausanne).

Ruiz‐Gutiérrez, Viviana, Mark C. Otto, Guthrie S. Zimmerman, et al.. (2021). A pathway for citizen science data to inform policy: A case study using eBird data for defining low‐risk collision areas for wind energy development. Journal of Applied Ecology. 58(6). 1104–1111. 25 indexed citations

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Johnston, Alison, Wesley M. Hochachka, Matthew Strimas‐Mackey, et al.. (2021). Analytical guidelines to increase the value of community science data: An example using eBird data to estimate species distributions. Diversity and Distributions. 27(7). 1265–1277. 181 indexed citations breakdown →

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Robinson, Orin J., Viviana Ruiz‐Gutiérrez, Mark Reynolds, et al.. (2020). Integrating citizen science data with expert surveys increases accuracy and spatial extent of species distribution models. Diversity and Distributions. 26(8). 976–986. 88 indexed citations

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Johnston, Alison, et al.. (2020). Estimating species distributions from spatially biased citizen science data. Ecological Modelling. 422. 108927–108927. 115 indexed citations

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Sorte, Frank A. La, Daniel Fink, & Alison Johnston. (2019). Time of emergence of novel climates for North American migratory bird populations. Ecography. 42(6). 1079–1091. 14 indexed citations

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Johnston, Alison, Tom Auer, Daniel Fink, et al.. (2019). Comparing abundance distributions and range maps in spatial conservation planning for migratory species. Ecological Applications. 30(3). 24 indexed citations

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Horton, Kyle G., Benjamin M. Van Doren, Frank A. La Sorte, et al.. (2019). Holding steady: Little change in intensity or timing of bird migration over the Gulf of Mexico. Global Change Biology. 25(3). 1106–1118. 70 indexed citations

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Dokter, Adriaan M., Andrew Farnsworth, Daniel Fink, et al.. (2018). Seasonal abundance and survival of North America’s migratory avifauna determined by weather radar. Nature Ecology & Evolution. 2(10). 1603–1609. 136 indexed citations

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Sorte, Frank A. La, Daniel Fink, Jeffrey J. Buler, Andrew Farnsworth, & Sergio A. Cabrera‐Cruz. (2017). Seasonal associations with urban light pollution for nocturnally migrating bird populations. Global Change Biology. 23(11). 4609–4619. 98 indexed citations

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Johnston, Alison, Daniel Fink, Wesley M. Hochachka, & Steve Kelling. (2017). Estimates of observer expertise improve species distributions from citizen science data. Methods in Ecology and Evolution. 9(1). 88–97. 138 indexed citations

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Baumgart, Sandra, Jin‐San Zhang, Daniel D. Billadeau, et al.. (2016). GSK-3β Governs Inflammation-Induced NFATc2 Signaling Hubs to Promote Pancreatic Cancer Progression. Molecular Cancer Therapeutics. 15(3). 491–502. 37 indexed citations

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Fink, Daniel, et al.. (1967). Moveout averaging experiments. Geophysics. 32(3). 494–498. 2 indexed citations

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