Flavio Quintana

7.1k total citations · 1 hit paper
142 papers, 4.8k citations indexed

About

Flavio Quintana is a scholar working on Ecology, Nature and Landscape Conservation and Ecology, Evolution, Behavior and Systematics. According to data from OpenAlex, Flavio Quintana has authored 142 papers receiving a total of 4.8k indexed citations (citations by other indexed papers that have themselves been cited), including 126 papers in Ecology, 44 papers in Nature and Landscape Conservation and 40 papers in Ecology, Evolution, Behavior and Systematics. Recurrent topics in Flavio Quintana's work include Avian ecology and behavior (105 papers), Marine animal studies overview (39 papers) and Animal Behavior and Reproduction (36 papers). Flavio Quintana is often cited by papers focused on Avian ecology and behavior (105 papers), Marine animal studies overview (39 papers) and Animal Behavior and Reproduction (36 papers). Flavio Quintana collaborates with scholars based in Argentina, United Kingdom and United States. Flavio Quintana's co-authors include Rory P. Wilson, Emily L. C. Shepard, Lewis G. Halsey, Pablo Yorio, Nikolai Liebsch, Agustina Gómez Laich, RP Wilson, Esteban Frere, Walter S. Svagelj and P. J. Butler and has published in prestigious journals such as Nature Communications, SHILAP Revista de lepidopterología and PLoS ONE.

In The Last Decade

Flavio Quintana

140 papers receiving 4.7k citations

Hit Papers

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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. Moving towards acceleration for estimates of activity‐specific metabolic rate in free‐living animals: the case of the cormorant
    2006 552 citations Rory P. Wilson, Craig R. White et al. Journal of Animal Ecology profile →

Peers — A (Enhanced Table)

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

Name h Career Trend Papers Cites
Flavio Quintana Argentina 35 3.9k 1.4k 1.3k 1.1k 345 142 4.8k
Yan Ropert‐Coudert France 47 5.4k 1.4× 2.0k 1.4× 1.4k 1.1× 1.8k 1.7× 249 0.7× 176 6.7k
John P. Y. Arnould Australia 47 5.5k 1.4× 1.2k 0.9× 1.0k 0.8× 1.9k 1.8× 149 0.4× 239 6.8k
Bart A. Nolet Netherlands 41 4.1k 1.0× 1.3k 1.0× 1.5k 1.2× 697 0.7× 122 0.4× 166 5.8k
Katsufumi Sato Japan 46 4.5k 1.1× 1.2k 0.8× 2.9k 2.3× 1.7k 1.7× 128 0.4× 196 6.3k
Jonathan A. Green United Kingdom 31 2.7k 0.7× 1.2k 0.9× 724 0.6× 588 0.6× 165 0.5× 116 3.4k
Francis Daunt United Kingdom 41 4.4k 1.1× 1.6k 1.2× 1.1k 0.9× 1.6k 1.6× 96 0.3× 163 5.6k
Emily L. C. Shepard United Kingdom 34 3.4k 0.9× 1.7k 1.2× 1.3k 1.0× 819 0.8× 525 1.5× 76 5.1k
Yasuhiko Naito Japan 48 4.8k 1.2× 1.2k 0.9× 2.1k 1.7× 1.6k 1.5× 139 0.4× 153 6.0k
C. Patrick Doncaster United Kingdom 43 3.9k 1.0× 1.3k 0.9× 1.1k 0.9× 817 0.8× 568 1.6× 139 5.9k
Clément Calenge France 23 4.0k 1.0× 1.1k 0.8× 1.1k 0.9× 840 0.8× 535 1.6× 63 5.0k

Countries citing papers authored by Flavio Quintana

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Fields of papers citing papers by Flavio Quintana

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Physical SciencesHealth SciencesLife SciencesSocial Sciences

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Co-authorship network of co-authors of Flavio Quintana

This figure shows the co-authorship network connecting the top 25 collaborators of Flavio Quintana. A scholar is included among the top collaborators of Flavio Quintana 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 Flavio Quintana. Flavio Quintana is excluded from the visualization to improve readability, since they are connected to all nodes in the network.

All Works

20 of 20 papers shown
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Uhart, Marcela, Ralph Eric Thijl Vanstreels, Flavio Quintana, et al.. (2025). Four unusual mortality events of seabirds in the Patagonian Sea, 2000–2006: species affected and possible causes. Polar Biology. 48(3).
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Quintana, Flavio, et al.. (2024). Tri-axial accelerometry allows to determine parental food provisioning behaviour in a marine bird. Avian Research. 15. 100194–100194. 1 indexed citations
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Quintana, Flavio, Rory Wilson, & Agustina Gómez‐Laich. (2024). Síntesis y revisión crítica del uso de bio-registradores para aves marinas en Sudamérica. El Hornero. 39(2). 65–94.
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Quintana, Flavio, et al.. (2022). Long walk home: Magellanic penguins have strategies that lead them to areas where they can navigate most efficiently. Proceedings of the Royal Society B Biological Sciences. 289(1977). 20220535–20220535. 3 indexed citations
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Quintana, Flavio, et al.. (2022). Heat-related massive chick mortality in an Imperial Cormorant Leucocarbo atriceps colony from Patagonia, Argentina. Polar Biology. 45(2). 275–284. 17 indexed citations
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Wilson, Rory P., Luca Börger, Mark D. Holton, et al.. (2019). Estimates for energy expenditure in free‐living animals using acceleration proxies: A reappraisal. Journal of Animal Ecology. 89(1). 161–172. 154 indexed citations
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Wilson, Rory P., Mark D. Holton, Agustina di Virgilio, et al.. (2018). Give the machine a hand: A Boolean time‐based decision‐tree template for rapidly finding animal behaviours in multisensor data. Methods in Ecology and Evolution. 9(11). 2206–2215. 29 indexed citations
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Wilson, Rory P., Agustina Gómez‐Laich, Juan Emilio Sala, et al.. (2017). Long necks enhance and constrain foraging capacity in aquatic vertebrates. Proceedings of the Royal Society B Biological Sciences. 284(1867). 20172072–20172072. 9 indexed citations
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Leonardi, María Soledad, Walter S. Svagelj, Agustina Gómez‐Laich, & Flavio Quintana. (2017). The eldest sibling is the lousiest in an obligate brood-reducer seabird. Emu - Austral Ornithology. 118(2). 212–217. 5 indexed citations
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Wilson, Rory P., Flavio Quintana, & Victoria J. Hobson. (2011). Construction of energy landscapes can clarify the movement and distribution of foraging animals. Proceedings of the Royal Society B Biological Sciences. 279(1730). 975–980. 147 indexed citations
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Copello, Sofía, et al.. (2009). Post-fledging dispersal of southern giant petrels "Macronectes giganteus" from north Patagonian colonies. Ardeola. 56(1). 103–112. 5 indexed citations
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Halsey, Lewis G., Emily L. C. Shepard, Flavio Quintana, et al.. (2008). The relationship between oxygen consumption and body acceleration in a range of species. Comparative Biochemistry and Physiology Part A Molecular & Integrative Physiology. 152(2). 197–202. 187 indexed citations
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Wilson, Rory P., Craig R. White, Flavio Quintana, et al.. (2006). Moving towards acceleration for estimates of activity‐specific metabolic rate in free‐living animals: the case of the cormorant. Journal of Animal Ecology. 75(5). 1081–1090. 552 indexed citations breakdown →
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Quintana, Flavio, Adrián Schiavini, & Sofía Copello. (2005). Estado poblacional, ecología y conservación del Petrel Gigante del Sur (<i>Macronectes giganteus</i>) en Argentina. El Hornero. 20(1). 25–34. 13 indexed citations
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Quintana, Flavio, Pablo Yorio, & Pablo García Borboroglu. (2002). Aspects of the Breeding Biology of the Neotropic Cormorant Phalacrocorax Olivaceus at Golfo San Jorge, Argentina. Marine ornithology. 30(1). 15 indexed citations
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Frere, Esteban, Flavio Quintana, & Patricia Gandini. (2002). Diving Behavior of the Red-Legged Cormorant in Southeastern Patagonia, Argentina. Ornithological Applications. 104(2). 440–444. 10 indexed citations
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Campagna, Claudio, et al.. (1994). Elefantes Marinos de la Patagonia. Ciencia hoy. 5(26). 25–33. 1 indexed citations

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