Elli J. Theobald

4.0k total citations · 1 hit paper
34 papers, 1.9k citations indexed

About

Elli J. Theobald is a scholar working on Education, Ecological Modeling and Nature and Landscape Conservation. According to data from OpenAlex, Elli J. Theobald has authored 34 papers receiving a total of 1.9k indexed citations (citations by other indexed papers that have themselves been cited), including 17 papers in Education, 11 papers in Ecological Modeling and 7 papers in Nature and Landscape Conservation. Recurrent topics in Elli J. Theobald's work include Innovative Teaching Methods (11 papers), Species Distribution and Climate Change (11 papers) and Plant and animal studies (6 papers). Elli J. Theobald is often cited by papers focused on Innovative Teaching Methods (11 papers), Species Distribution and Climate Change (11 papers) and Plant and animal studies (6 papers). Elli J. Theobald collaborates with scholars based in United States and Switzerland. Elli J. Theobald's co-authors include Janneke HilleRisLambers, Ailene K. Ettinger, Melanie A. Harsch, Halley E. Froehlich, Hillary K. Burgess, Joshua J. Tewksbury, Lauren Berg DeBey, Julia K. Parrish, Kevin R. Ford and Scott Freeman and has published in prestigious journals such as Science, SHILAP Revista de lepidopterología and PLoS ONE.

In The Last Decade

Elli J. Theobald

30 papers receiving 1.8k 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.

Global change and local solutions: Tapping the unrealized potential of citizen science for biodiversity research

2014 544 citations Elli J. Theobald, Ailene K. Ettinger et al. Biological Conservation profile →

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Name	h						Papers	Cites
Elli J. Theobald United States	17	740	424	420	410	346	34	1.9k
Timothy Parker United States	26	304 0.4×	469 1.1×	137 0.3×	805 2.0×	156 0.5×	73	2.7k
Alycia Crall United States	22	1.5k 2.0×	434 1.0×	107 0.3×	819 2.0×	625 1.8×	34	2.6k
Gena C. Sbeglia United States	11	451 0.6×	279 0.7×	72 0.2×	413 1.0×	141 0.4×	17	981
Peter A. Cotton United Kingdom	30	365 0.5×	616 1.5×	152 0.4×	1.4k 3.5×	172 0.5×	52	3.6k
Adam Butler United Kingdom	29	229 0.3×	273 0.6×	143 0.3×	874 2.1×	473 1.4×	74	3.1k
Rhiannon Crain United States	9	647 0.9×	148 0.3×	73 0.2×	417 1.0×	343 1.0×	11	1.3k
Emma Burns Australia	18	147 0.2×	223 0.5×	309 0.7×	300 0.7×	255 0.7×	54	1.1k
Petra Lindemann‐Matthies Germany	25	205 0.3×	196 0.5×	183 0.4×	128 0.3×	1.2k 3.6×	52	2.4k
Wendy K. Gram United States	15	358 0.5×	501 1.2×	49 0.1×	616 1.5×	148 0.4×	24	1.5k
Rose E. O’Dea Australia	19	225 0.3×	382 0.9×	62 0.1×	480 1.2×	115 0.3×	30	2.0k

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Co-authorship network of co-authors of Elli J. Theobald

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Theobald, Elli J., et al.. (2025). Exploring how course social and cultural environmental features influence student engagement in STEM active learning courses: a control–value theory approach. International Journal of STEM Education. 12(1). 1 indexed citations

Theobald, Elli J., et al.. (2025). Conceptualization and Enactment of Equity in Active Learning: STEM Instructors’ Perspectives. 8(4). 585–615. 1 indexed citations

Theobald, Elli J., et al.. (2025). Harnessing harm: Artificial intelligence’s role in the amplification of malevolent creativity and innovation.. Psychology of Aesthetics Creativity and the Arts.

John, Aji, Elli J. Theobald, Nicoleta Cristea, Amanda Tan, & Janneke Hille Ris Lambers. (2024). Using photographs and deep neural networks to understand flowering phenology and diversity in mountain meadows. Remote Sensing in Ecology and Conservation. 10(4). 480–499. 5 indexed citations

Potter, Rachel Augustine, et al.. (2024). Visualizing Inequities: A Step Toward Equitable Student Outcomes. CBE—Life Sciences Education. 23(4). es9–es9. 1 indexed citations

Donovan, Deborah A., et al.. (2023). Forming Groups in a Large-Enrollment Biology Class: Group Permanence Matters More than Group Size. CBE—Life Sciences Education. 22(4). ar37–ar37. 2 indexed citations

Theobald, Elli J., et al.. (2023). Measuring undergraduates’ understanding of the culture of scientific research as an outcome variable in research on CUREs. Journal of Microbiology and Biology Education. 24(3).

McFarland, Jenny, et al.. (2023). Assessing Community College Biology Student Perceptions of Being Called on in Class. CBE—Life Sciences Education. 22(4). ar51–ar51.

Theobald, Elli J., et al.. (2023). Biology in a social context: a comprehensive analysis of humanization in introductory biology textbooks. Frontiers in Education. 8.

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Freeman, Scott, et al.. (2023). A CURE on the Evolution of Antibiotic Resistance in Escherichia coli Improves Student Conceptual Understanding. CBE—Life Sciences Education. 22(1). ar7–ar7. 3 indexed citations

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Theobald, Elli J.. (2022). Active Learning Increases Equity for Underrepresented Students in Undergraduate STEM. 2 indexed citations

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Manzanedo, Rubén D., et al.. (2022). MeadoWatch: a long-term community-science database of wildflower phenology in Mount Rainier National Park. Scientific Data. 9(1). 151–151. 3 indexed citations

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Theobald, Elli J., et al.. (2020). Early snowmelt and warmer, drier summers shrink postflowering transition times in subalpine wildflowers. Ecology. 101(12). e03171–e03171. 8 indexed citations

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John, Aji, et al.. (2020). Detecting Montane Flowering Phenology with CubeSat Imagery. Remote Sensing. 12(18). 2894–2894. 16 indexed citations

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Harris, Rebecca B., Michael R. Mack, Jasmine R. Bryant, Elli J. Theobald, & Scott Freeman. (2020). Reducing achievement gaps in undergraduate general chemistry could lift underrepresented students into a “hyperpersistent zone”. Science Advances. 6(24). eaaz5687–eaaz5687. 129 indexed citations

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Theobald, Elli J.. (2018). Students Are Rarely Independent: When, Why, and How to Use Random Effects in Discipline-Based Education Research. CBE—Life Sciences Education. 17(3). rm2–rm2. 81 indexed citations

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Theobald, Elli J., et al.. (2017). Student perception of group dynamics predicts individual performance: Comfort and equity matter. PLoS ONE. 12(7). e0181336–e0181336. 101 indexed citations

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Ford, Kevin R., Ian Breckheimer, Jerry F. Franklin, et al.. (2016). Competition alters tree growth responses to climate at individual and stand scales. Canadian Journal of Forest Research. 47(1). 53–62. 93 indexed citations

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Burgess, Hillary K., Lauren Berg DeBey, Halley E. Froehlich, et al.. (2016). The science of citizen science: Exploring barriers to use as a primary research tool. Biological Conservation. 208. 113–120. 267 indexed citations

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Theobald, Elli J., et al.. (2016). Lilies at the limit: Variation in plant‐pollinator interactions across an elevational range. American Journal of Botany. 103(2). 189–197. 20 indexed citations

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