F. W. Preston

7.6k total citations · 3 hit papers
23 papers, 3.2k citations indexed

About

F. W. Preston is a scholar working on Nature and Landscape Conservation, Ecology, Evolution, Behavior and Systematics and Ecology. According to data from OpenAlex, F. W. Preston has authored 23 papers receiving a total of 3.2k indexed citations (citations by other indexed papers that have themselves been cited), including 4 papers in Nature and Landscape Conservation, 4 papers in Ecology, Evolution, Behavior and Systematics and 4 papers in Ecology. Recurrent topics in F. W. Preston's work include Plant and animal studies (4 papers), Ecology and Vegetation Dynamics Studies (3 papers) and Avian ecology and behavior (2 papers). F. W. Preston is often cited by papers focused on Plant and animal studies (4 papers), Ecology and Vegetation Dynamics Studies (3 papers) and Avian ecology and behavior (2 papers). F. W. Preston collaborates with scholars based in United States and United Kingdom. F. W. Preston's co-authors include and has published in prestigious journals such as Ecology, Journal of the American Ceramic Society and SAE technical papers on CD-ROM/SAE technical paper series.

In The Last Decade

F. W. Preston

22 papers receiving 2.5k 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.

The Canonical Distribution of Commonness and Rarity: Part I

1962 1.4k citations F. W. Preston Ecology profile →
The canonical distribution of commonness and rarity

1962 872 citations F. W. Preston Ecology profile →
Time and Space and the Variation of Species

1960 482 citations F. W. Preston Ecology profile →

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#	Work	Indexed citations
1	Plastic Waste: A Key Issue to a Processor 1989 ·SAE technical papers on CD-ROM/SAE technical paper series ·F. W. Preston, (unknown)	1
2	Pseudo‐Lognormal Distributions 1981 ·Ecology ·F. W. Preston	29
3	Noncanonical Distributions of Commonness and Rarity 1980 ·Ecology ·F. W. Preston	58
4	The Invisible Birds 1979 ·Ecology ·F. W. Preston	31
5	The Surface Area of an Egg 1975 ·Ornithological Applications ·(unknown), F. W. Preston	6
6	Shapes of Birds' Eggs: Extant North American Families 1969 ·The Auk ·F. W. Preston	29
7	The Shapes of Birds' Eggs: Mathematical Aspects 1968 ·The Auk ·F. W. Preston	42
8	On Modeling Islands 1968 ·Ecology ·F. W. Preston	4
9	The Mathematical Representation of Migration 1966 ·Ecology ·F. W. Preston	10
10	The canonical distribution of commonness and rarity breakdown → 1962 ·Ecology ·F. W. Preston	872
11	The Canonical Distribution of Commonness and Rarity: Part I breakdown → 1962 ·Ecology ·F. W. Preston	1393
12	The Gloss of Eggs 1958 ·The Auk ·(unknown), (unknown), F. W. Preston	5
13	Variation of Egg Size with Age of Parent 1958 ·The Auk ·F. W. Preston	14
14	Analysis of the Audubon Christmas Counts in Terms of the Lognormal Curve 1958 ·Ecology ·F. W. Preston	6
15	Two New Devices for Measuring the Shapes of Birds' Eggs 1957 ·The Auk ·F. W. Preston	2
16	The Migrant Loons of Western Pennsylvania 1956 ·The Auk ·F. W. Preston	2
17	Variation of Shape in the Eggs of the Common Tern in the Clutch-Sequence 1955 ·The Auk ·F. W. Preston	24
18	The Shapes of Birds' Eggs 1953 ·The Auk ·F. W. Preston	79
19	Annealing as a Problem in Genetics 1953 ·Journal of the American Ceramic Society ·F. W. Preston	1
20	Flight Speed of Common Loon (Gavia immer) 1951 ·Biodiversity Heritage Library (Smithsonian Institution) ·F. W. Preston	2

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