Dennis Chitty

2.8k total citations · 1 hit paper
29 papers, 1.6k citations indexed

About

Dennis Chitty is a scholar working on Ecology, Statistics and Probability and Nature and Landscape Conservation. According to data from OpenAlex, Dennis Chitty has authored 29 papers receiving a total of 1.6k indexed citations (citations by other indexed papers that have themselves been cited), including 18 papers in Ecology, 3 papers in Statistics and Probability and 2 papers in Nature and Landscape Conservation. Recurrent topics in Dennis Chitty's work include Animal Ecology and Behavior Studies (13 papers), Wildlife Ecology and Conservation (9 papers) and Census and Population Estimation (3 papers). Dennis Chitty is often cited by papers focused on Animal Ecology and Behavior Studies (13 papers), Wildlife Ecology and Conservation (9 papers) and Census and Population Estimation (3 papers). Dennis Chitty collaborates with scholars based in United Kingdom and Canada. Dennis Chitty's co-authors include Paula Leslie, H. N. Southern, William Z. Lidicker, Charles J. Krebs, Janet Newson, David Pimentel, A. R. E. Sinclair, John Baker, Rudy Boonstra and Grant R. Singleton and has published in prestigious journals such as Nature, Ecology and Journal of Animal Ecology.

In The Last Decade

Dennis Chitty

28 papers receiving 1.1k citations

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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.

POPULATION PROCESSES IN THE VOLE AND THEIR RELEVANCE TO GENERAL THEORY

1960 370 citations Dennis Chitty Canadian Journal of Zoology profile →

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Name	h						Papers	Cites
Dennis Chitty United Kingdom	21	1.1k	426	423	288	153	29	1.6k
R. K. Murton Canada	26	1.4k 1.2×	417 1.0×	974 2.3×	188 0.7×	118 0.8×	62	2.2k
Walter E. Howard United States	20	1.3k 1.1×	401 0.9×	404 1.0×	230 0.8×	156 1.0×	93	1.7k
Barry L. Keller United States	11	960 0.9×	418 1.0×	268 0.6×	201 0.7×	105 0.7×	25	1.1k
John A. Gibb New Zealand	16	870 0.8×	470 1.1×	536 1.3×	116 0.4×	130 0.8×	24	1.3k
John E. C. Flux New Zealand	15	1.1k 1.0×	312 0.7×	565 1.3×	495 1.7×	133 0.9×	52	1.9k
Richard H. Manville United States	14	792 0.7×	374 0.9×	371 0.9×	203 0.7×	157 1.0×	59	1.5k
Robert H. Tamarin United States	23	1.9k 1.8×	716 1.7×	863 2.0×	484 1.7×	132 0.9×	61	2.5k
Albert W. Franzmann United States	24	1.4k 1.3×	264 0.6×	255 0.6×	424 1.5×	148 1.0×	62	2.1k
J. R. Flowerdew United Kingdom	17	1.2k 1.1×	479 1.1×	388 0.9×	129 0.4×	93 0.6×	26	1.4k
Elmer C. Birney United States	18	776 0.7×	323 0.8×	351 0.8×	220 0.8×	114 0.7×	54	1.4k

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Chitty, Dennis, et al.. (2002). Comparison of 210Pb chronology with 238,239-240Pu, 241Am and 137Cs sedimentary record capacity in a lake system. 213–222. 1 indexed citations

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Lidicker, William Z. & Dennis Chitty. (1997). Do Lemmings Commit Suicide? Beautiful Hypotheses and Ugly Facts.. Ecology. 78(6). 1934–1934. 60 indexed citations

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Chitty, Dennis. (1996). Do Lemmings Commit Suicide?. 64 indexed citations

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Krebs, Charles J., Dennis Chitty, Grant R. Singleton, & Rudy Boonstra. (1995). Can Changes in Social Behaviour Help to Explain House Mouse Plagues in Australia?. Oikos. 73(3). 429–429. 28 indexed citations

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Chitty, Dennis. (1970). VARIATION AND POPULATION DENSITY. Mammal Review. 1(2). 31–31. 47 indexed citations

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Chitty, Dennis, et al.. (1964). The Handbook of British Mammals. Journal of Animal Ecology. 33(3). 533–533. 133 indexed citations

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Baker, John, et al.. (1963). Blood parasites of wild voles,Microtus agrestis, in England. Parasitology. 53(1-2). 297–301. 25 indexed citations

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Chitty, Dennis. (1960). POPULATION PROCESSES IN THE VOLE AND THEIR RELEVANCE TO GENERAL THEORY. Canadian Journal of Zoology. 38(1). 99–113. 370 indexed citations breakdown →

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Chitty, Dennis. (1959). A Note on Shock Disease. Ecology. 40(4). 728–731. 11 indexed citations

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Chitty, Dennis. (1957). Self-Regulation of Numbers through Changers in Viability. Cold Spring Harbor Symposia on Quantitative Biology. 22(0). 277–280. 58 indexed citations

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Chitty, Dennis. (1957). POPULATION STUDIES AND SCIENTIFIC METHODOLOGY. The British Journal for the Philosophy of Science. 8(29). 64–66. 1 indexed citations

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Chitty, Dennis, et al.. (1956). Changes in the relative size of the nucleus in the intervertebral discs of stressed orkney voles (Microtus orcadensis). The Journal of Pathology and Bacteriology. 72(2). 459–470. 5 indexed citations

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Chitty, Dennis, et al.. (1956). Predator-Prey Relations. Journal of Animal Ecology. 25(2). 434–434. 3 indexed citations

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Chitty, Dennis & H. N. Southern. (1954). Control of rats and mice. Clarendon Press eBooks. 88 indexed citations

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Chitty, Dennis. (1954). Control of rats and mice. Vols. I.. 36 indexed citations

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Chitty, Dennis. (1954). Tuberculosis among Wild Voles: with a Discussion of Other Pathological Conditions among Certan Mammals and Birds. Ecology. 35(2). 227–237. 24 indexed citations

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Chitty, Dennis. (1954). Control of rats and mice. II. Rats.. 1 indexed citations

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Chitty, Dennis, et al.. (1953). The Estimation of Population Parameters from Data Obtained by Means of the Capture-Recapture Method: III. An Example of the Practical Applications of the Method. Biometrika. 40(1/2). 137–137. 29 indexed citations

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Chitty, Dennis. (1952). Mortality among voles ( Microtus agrestis ) at Lake Vyrnwy, Montgomeryshire in 1936–9. Philosophical transactions of the Royal Society of London. Series B, Biological sciences. 236(638). 505–552. 194 indexed citations

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Leslie, Paula & Dennis Chitty. (1951). THE ESTIMATION OF POPULATION PARAMETERS FROM DATA OBTAINED BY MEANS OF THE CAPTURE-RECAPTUTRE METHOD. Biometrika. 38(3-4). 269–292. 48 indexed citations

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