Donald Ludwig

12.7k total citations · 4 hit papers
86 papers, 9.3k citations indexed

About

Donald Ludwig is a scholar working on Nature and Landscape Conservation, Global and Planetary Change and Mathematical Physics. According to data from OpenAlex, Donald Ludwig has authored 86 papers receiving a total of 9.3k indexed citations (citations by other indexed papers that have themselves been cited), including 18 papers in Nature and Landscape Conservation, 15 papers in Global and Planetary Change and 13 papers in Mathematical Physics. Recurrent topics in Donald Ludwig's work include Ecology and Vegetation Dynamics Studies (10 papers), Stochastic processes and statistical mechanics (9 papers) and Electromagnetic Scattering and Analysis (8 papers). Donald Ludwig is often cited by papers focused on Ecology and Vegetation Dynamics Studies (10 papers), Stochastic processes and statistical mechanics (9 papers) and Electromagnetic Scattering and Analysis (8 papers). Donald Ludwig collaborates with scholars based in Canada, United States and United Kingdom. Donald Ludwig's co-authors include Carl J. Walters, Ray Hilborn, Locke Rowe, Dolph Schluter, William A. Brock, S. R. Carpenter, C. S. Holling, Dixon D. Jones, Arne Ø. Mooers and Trevor D. Price and has published in prestigious journals such as Science, Ecology and The American Naturalist.

In The Last Decade

Donald Ludwig

85 papers receiving 7.8k citations

Hit Papers

Uncertainty, Resource Exploitation, and Conservation: Les... 1978 2026 1994 2010 1993 1997 1999 1978 250 500 750 1000
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. Uncertainty, Resource Exploitation, and Conservation: Lessons from History
    1993 1.0k citations Donald Ludwig, Ray Hilborn et al. Science profile →
  2. LIKELIHOOD OF ANCESTOR STATES IN ADAPTIVE RADIATION
    1997 803 citations Donald Ludwig et al. profile →
  3. MANAGEMENT OF EUTROPHICATION FOR LAKES SUBJECT TO POTENTIALLY IRREVERSIBLE CHANGE
    1999 677 citations Donald Ludwig et al. Ecological Applications profile →
  4. Qualitative Analysis of Insect Outbreak Systems: The Spruce Budworm and Forest
    1978 649 citations Donald Ludwig et al. profile →

Peers — A (Enhanced Table)

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

Name h Career Trend Papers Cites
Donald Ludwig Canada 42 3.2k 2.8k 2.3k 1.5k 1.1k 86 9.3k
R. V. O’Neill United States 36 4.5k 1.4× 3.9k 1.4× 3.2k 1.4× 774 0.5× 1.2k 1.1× 78 10.1k
John G. Robinson United States 48 2.3k 0.7× 4.4k 1.6× 1.7k 0.7× 1.7k 1.1× 442 0.4× 89 8.4k
Marc Mangel United States 49 5.3k 1.6× 5.3k 1.9× 3.3k 1.5× 2.3k 1.5× 1.2k 1.1× 178 11.2k
Stephen E. Fienberg United States 34 1.7k 0.5× 3.2k 1.1× 1.9k 0.8× 1.8k 1.2× 1.2k 1.1× 151 14.9k
Marc Mangel United States 47 2.5k 0.8× 3.0k 1.1× 2.9k 1.3× 2.7k 1.8× 1.4k 1.3× 164 8.4k
Christian Wissel Germany 37 1.6k 0.5× 1.8k 0.6× 1.9k 0.8× 1.0k 0.7× 648 0.6× 86 4.7k
E. C. Pielou Canada 30 2.9k 0.9× 5.3k 1.9× 4.3k 1.9× 2.6k 1.7× 1.5k 1.3× 71 13.3k
William W. Murdoch United States 56 2.4k 0.7× 5.0k 1.8× 3.9k 1.7× 3.4k 2.2× 2.6k 2.3× 113 11.8k
Amos Maritan Italy 65 1.4k 0.4× 2.1k 0.7× 1.4k 0.6× 1.5k 1.0× 988 0.9× 382 15.7k
Veijo Kaitala Finland 45 1.5k 0.5× 3.4k 1.2× 2.1k 0.9× 2.3k 1.6× 1.9k 1.7× 215 6.7k

Countries citing papers authored by Donald Ludwig

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Fields of papers citing papers by Donald Ludwig

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Physical SciencesHealth SciencesLife SciencesSocial Sciences

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Co-authorship network of co-authors of Donald Ludwig

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All Works

20 of 20 papers shown
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Ellner, Stephen P., John Fieberg, Donald Ludwig, & Chris Wilcox. (2002). Precision of Population Viability Analysis. Conservation Biology. 16(1). 258–261. 143 indexed citations
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Ludwig, Donald. (2001). The Era of Management Is Over. Ecosystems. 4(8). 758–764. 305 indexed citations
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Ludwig, Donald. (1996). Uncertainty and the Assessment of Extinction Probabilities. Ecological Applications. 6(4). 1067–1076. 94 indexed citations
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Ludwig, Donald. (1994). MISSED OPPORTUNITIES IN NATURAL RESOURCE MANAGEMENT. Natural Resource Modeling. 8(2). 111–117. 1 indexed citations
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Adamson, Martin L. & Donald Ludwig. (1993). Oedipal mating as a factor in sex allocation in haplodiploids. Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society B Biological Sciences. 341(1296). 195–202. 20 indexed citations
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Ludwig, Donald, Ray Hilborn, & Carl J. Walters. (1993). Uncertainty, Resource Exploitation, and Conservation: Lessons from History. Science. 260(5104). 17–36. 1038 indexed citations breakdown →
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Ludwig, Donald & Locke Rowe. (1990). Life-History Strategies for Energy Gain and Predator Avoidance Under Time Constraints. The American Naturalist. 135(5). 686–707. 262 indexed citations
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Ludwig, Donald. (1990). Perspectives In Ecological Theory. Mathematical Biosciences. 98(2). 309–310. 26 indexed citations
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Ludwig, Donald & Carl J. Walters. (1985). Are Age-Structured Models Appropriate for Catch-Effort Data?. Canadian Journal of Fisheries and Aquatic Sciences. 42(6). 1066–1072. 159 indexed citations
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Ludwig, Donald. (1983). Parsimonious Asymptotics. SIAM Journal on Applied Mathematics. 43(4). 664–672. 5 indexed citations
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Ludwig, Donald & J. M. Varah. (1979). Optimal Harvesting of a Randomly Fluctuating Resource. II: Numerical Methods and Results. SIAM Journal on Applied Mathematics. 37(1). 185–205. 37 indexed citations
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Ludwig, Donald. (1975). Final size distribution for epidemics. Mathematical Biosciences. 23(1-2). 33–46. 87 indexed citations
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Potmĕsil, M, Donald Ludwig, & Anna Goldfeder. (1975). CELL KINETICS OF IRRADIATED EXPERIMENTAL TUMORS: RELATIONSHIP BETWEEN THE PROLIFERATING AND THE NONPROLIFERATING POOL. Cell Proliferation. 8(4). 369–385. 8 indexed citations
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Ludwig, Donald. (1975). Qualitative behavior of stochastic epidemics. Mathematical Biosciences. 23(1-2). 47–73. 10 indexed citations
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Gautesen, A. K. & Donald Ludwig. (1972). Tangential characteristics and coupling of waves. Journal of Mathematical Analysis and Applications. 38(2). 430–446. 4 indexed citations
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Ludwig, Donald. (1970). Modified W.K.B. method for coupled ionospheric equations. Journal of Atmospheric and Terrestrial Physics. 32(6). 991–998. 7 indexed citations
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Morawetz, Cathleen S. & Donald Ludwig. (1969). The generalized huyghens' principle for reflecting bodies. Communications on Pure and Applied Mathematics. 22(2). 189–205. 20 indexed citations
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Ludwig, Donald, et al.. (1968). Propagation of singularities along characteristics with nonuniform multiplicity. Journal of Mathematical Analysis and Applications. 21(3). 556–574. 26 indexed citations
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Ludwig, Donald. (1968). Strength of Caustics. The Journal of the Acoustical Society of America. 43(5). 1179–1180. 3 indexed citations
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Ludwig, Donald. (1961). Conical refraction in crystal optics and hydromagnetics. Communications on Pure and Applied Mathematics. 14(2). 113–124. 20 indexed citations

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