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.
Agricultural sustainability and intensive production practices
20025.5k citationsDavid Tilman, Stephen Polasky et al.profile →
Global food demand and the sustainable intensification of agriculture
20115.3k citationsDavid Tilman, Jason Hill et al.Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciencesprofile →
Biodiversity loss and its impact on humanity
20124.9k citationsAndrew Gonzalez, David Tilman et al.profile →
The metacommunity concept: a framework for multi‐scale community ecology
20043.9k citationsMathew A. Leibold, Marcel Holyoak et al.Ecology Lettersprofile →
This map shows the geographic impact of David Tilman's research. It shows the number of citations coming from papers published by authors working in each country. You can also color the map by specialization and compare the number of citations received by David Tilman with the expected number of citations based on a country's size and research output (numbers larger than one mean the country cites David Tilman more than expected).
This network shows the impact of papers produced by David Tilman. 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 David Tilman. The network helps show where David Tilman may publish in the future.
Co-authorship network of co-authors of David Tilman
This figure shows the co-authorship network connecting the top 25 collaborators of David Tilman.
A scholar is included among the top collaborators of David Tilman 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 David Tilman. David Tilman is excluded from
the visualization to improve readability, since they are connected to all nodes in the network.
Clark, Michael, Marco Springmann, Mike Rayner, et al.. (2022). Estimating the environmental impacts of 57,000 food products. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences. 119(33). e2120584119–e2120584119.189 indexed citations breakdown →
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Furey, George N. & David Tilman. (2021). Plant biodiversity and the regeneration of soil fertility. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences. 118(49).132 indexed citations breakdown →
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Clark, Michael, Sumil K Thakrar, David Tilman, et al.. (2020). Global food system emissions could preclude achieving the 1.5° and 2°C climate change targets. Science. 370(6517). 705–708.690 indexed citations breakdown →
Clark, Michael, Marco Springmann, Jason Hill, & David Tilman. (2019). Multiple health and environmental impacts of foods. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences. 116(46). 23357–23362.545 indexed citations breakdown →
Isbell, Forest, Peter B. Reich, David Tilman, et al.. (2013). Nutrient enrichment, biodiversity loss, and consequent declines in ecosystem productivity. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences. 110(29). 11911–11916.511 indexed citations breakdown →
Reich, Peter B., David Tilman, Forest Isbell, et al.. (2012). Impacts of Biodiversity Loss Escalate Through Time as Redundancy Fades. Science. 336(6081). 589–592.605 indexed citations breakdown →
Fargione, Joseph, Jason Hill, David Tilman, Stephen Polasky, & Peter Hawthorne. (2008). Land Clearing and the Biofuel Carbon Debt. Science. 319(5867). 1235–1238.2746 indexed citations breakdown →
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Hill, Jason, et al.. (2006). ethanol biofuels From the Cover: Environmental, economic, and energetic costs and benefits of biodiesel and.2 indexed citations
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Hill, Jason, Erik Nelson, David Tilman, Stephen Polasky, & Douglas G. Tiffany. (2006). Environmental, economic, and energetic costs and benefits of biodiesel and ethanol biofuels. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences. 103(30). 11206–11210.2017 indexed citations breakdown →
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Tilman, David, Jason Hill, & Clarence Lehman. (2006). Carbon-Negative Biofuels from Low-Input High-Diversity Grassland Biomass. Science. 314(5805). 1598–1600.1329 indexed citations breakdown →
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Leibold, Mathew A., Marcel Holyoak, Nicolas Mouquet, et al.. (2004). The metacommunity concept: a framework for multi‐scale community ecology. Ecology Letters. 7(7). 601–613.3866 indexed citations breakdown →
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