Holger Schielzeth

28.8k total citations · 10 hit papers
109 papers, 20.9k citations indexed

About

Holger Schielzeth is a scholar working on Ecology, Evolution, Behavior and Systematics, Genetics and Ecology. According to data from OpenAlex, Holger Schielzeth has authored 109 papers receiving a total of 20.9k indexed citations (citations by other indexed papers that have themselves been cited), including 76 papers in Ecology, Evolution, Behavior and Systematics, 36 papers in Genetics and 33 papers in Ecology. Recurrent topics in Holger Schielzeth's work include Animal Behavior and Reproduction (59 papers), Plant and animal studies (44 papers) and Genetic diversity and population structure (23 papers). Holger Schielzeth is often cited by papers focused on Animal Behavior and Reproduction (59 papers), Plant and animal studies (44 papers) and Genetic diversity and population structure (23 papers). Holger Schielzeth collaborates with scholars based in Germany, Sweden and United Kingdom. Holger Schielzeth's co-authors include Shinichi Nakagawa, Wolfgang Forstmeier, P. Johnson, Martin A. Stoffel, Elisabeth Bolund, Bart Kempenaers, Ned A. Dochtermann, László Zsolt Garamszegi, Niels J. Dingemanse and Hassen Allegue and has published in prestigious journals such as Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, Nature reviews. Neuroscience and PLoS ONE.

In The Last Decade

Holger Schielzeth

103 papers receiving 20.7k citations

Hit Papers

5 papers align trajectories

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.

A general and simple method for obtaining R ² from generalized linear mixed‐effects models

2012 7.9k citations Shinichi Nakagawa, Holger Schielzeth Methods in Ecology and Evolution profile →
Simple means to improve the interpretability of regression coefficients

2010 2.2k citations Holger Schielzeth Methods in Ecology and Evolution profile →
Repeatability for Gaussian and non‐Gaussian data: a practical guide for biologists

2010 2.0k citations Shinichi Nakagawa, Holger Schielzeth Biological reviews/Biological reviews of the Cambridge Philosophical Society profile →
The coefficient of determination R ² and intra-class correlation coefficient from generalized linear mixed-effects models revisited and expanded

2017 1.9k citations Shinichi Nakagawa, P. Johnson et al. Journal of The Royal Society Interface profile →
rptR: repeatability estimation and variance decomposition by generalized linear mixed‐effects models

2017 1.2k citations Martin A. Stoffel, Shinichi Nakagawa et al. Methods in Ecology and Evolution profile →
Cryptic multiple hypotheses testing in linear models: overestimated effect sizes and the winner's curse

2010 841 citations Holger Schielzeth et al. profile →
Robustness of linear mixed‐effects models to violations of distributional assumptions

2020 784 citations Holger Schielzeth, Niels J. Dingemanse et al. Methods in Ecology and Evolution profile →
Conclusions beyond support: overconfident estimates in mixed models

2008 698 citations Holger Schielzeth et al. Behavioral Ecology profile →
Reproducibility of animal research in light of biological variation

2020 224 citations Holger Schielzeth et al. profile →
partR2 : partitioning R ² in generalized linear mixed models

2021 187 citations Martin A. Stoffel, Shinichi Nakagawa et al. profile →

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#	Work	Indexed citations
1	Repeatability and intraclass correlations from time-to-event data: towards a standardized approach 2025 ·Animal Behaviour ·(unknown), (unknown), Ned A. Dochtermann, Holger Schielzeth, Shinichi Nakagawa	2
2	Testing the reproducibility of ecological studies on insect behavior in a multi-laboratory setting identifies opportunities for improving experimental rigor 2025 ·PLoS Biology ·(unknown), (unknown), Pragya Singh, (unknown), (unknown), (unknown), Joachim Kurtz, Caroline Müller, Holger Schielzeth, Vanessa Tabea von Kortzfleisch, S. Helene Richter	0
3	Enhanced stability of grassland soil temperature by plant diversity 2023 ·Nature Geoscience ·Yuanyuan Huang, Gideon Stein, Olaf Kolle, (unknown), Ernst‐Detlef Schulze, Hui Dong, David Eichenberg, Gerd Gleixner, Anke Hildebrandt, Markus Lange, Christiane Roscher, Holger Schielzeth, Bernhard Schmid, Alexandra Weigelt, Wolfgang W. Weisser, Maha Shadaydeh, Joachim Denzler, Anne Ebeling, Nico Eisenhauer	31
4	Relationships between ecosystem functions vary among years and plots and are driven by plant species richness 2023 ·Oikos ·(unknown), Wolfgang W. Weisser, Anne Ebeling, Nico Eisenhauer, Markus Lange, Yvonne Oelmann, Christiane Roscher, Holger Schielzeth, Bernhard Schmid, Wolfgang Wilcke, Sebastian T. Meyer	4
5	State dependency of behavioural traits is a function of the life stage in a holometabolous insect 2023 ·Animal Behaviour ·Pragya Singh, (unknown), Holger Schielzeth, Caroline Müller	5
6	Ontogeny of color development in two green–brown polymorphic grasshopper species 2023 ·Ecology and Evolution ·(unknown), (unknown), Hannah M. Rowland, Holger Schielzeth	2
7	Conditional repeatability and the variance explained by reaction norm variation in random slope models 2022 ·Methods in Ecology and Evolution ·Holger Schielzeth, Shinichi Nakagawa	14
8	Once an optimist, always an optimist? Studying cognitive judgment bias in mice 2022 ·Behavioral Ecology ·(unknown), Lena Böhn, (unknown), Vanessa Tabea von Kortzfleisch, Holger Schielzeth, Sylvia Kaiser, Norbert Sachser, S. Helene Richter	15
9	How Individualized Niches Arise: Defining Mechanisms of Niche Construction, Niche Choice, and Niche Conformance 2022 ·BioScience ·(unknown), (unknown), Marie I. Kaiser, Ulrich Krohs, Koen J. van Benthem, Uli Ernst, Jürgen Gadau, Peter Korsten, Joachim Kurtz, Holger Schielzeth, Tim Schmoll, (unknown)	44
10	partR2: partitioning R in generalized linear mixed models 2021 ·PUB – Publications at Bielefeld University (Bielefeld University) ·Martin A. Stoffel, Shinichi Nakagawa, Holger Schielzeth	13
11	Poor nutritional condition promotes high‐risk behaviours: a systematic review and meta‐analysis 2020 ·Biological reviews/Biological reviews of the Cambridge Philosophical Society ·Nicholas P. Moran, Alfredo Sánchez‐Tójar, Holger Schielzeth, Klaus Reinhold	84
12	Linked‐read sequencing enables haplotype‐resolved resequencing at population scale 2020 ·Molecular Ecology Resources ·(unknown), (unknown), Remi‐André Olsen, Holger Schielzeth, (unknown), Philip Ewels, Jesús T. García, Hadoram Shirihai, Manuel Schweizer, Alexander Suh, Reto Burri	17
13	Robustness of linear mixed‐effects models to violations of distributional assumptions breakdown → 2020 ·Methods in Ecology and Evolution ·Holger Schielzeth, Niels J. Dingemanse, Shinichi Nakagawa, David F. Westneat, Hassen Allegue, Céline Teplitsky, Denis Réale, Ned A. Dochtermann, László Zsolt Garamszegi, Yimen G. Araya‐Ajoy	784
14	Materials for "Poor nutritional condition promotes high-risk behaviours: A systematic review and meta-analysis" 2018 ·OSF Preprints (OSF Preprints) ·Holger Schielzeth, Alfredo Sánchez‐Tójar, Klaus Reinhold, Nicholas P. Moran	1
15	The coefficient of determination R ² and intra-class correlation coefficient from generalized linear mixed-effects models revisited and expanded breakdown → 2017 ·Journal of The Royal Society Interface ·Shinichi Nakagawa, P. Johnson, Holger Schielzeth	1862
16	Fixed-effect variance and the estimation of repeatabilities and heritabilities: issues and solutions 2017 ·Journal of Evolutionary Biology ·Pierre de Villemereuil, Michael B. Morrissey, Shinichi Nakagawa, Holger Schielzeth	72
17	General Methods for Evolutionary Quantitative Genetic Inference from Generalized Mixed Models 2016 ·Genetics ·Pierre de Villemereuil, Holger Schielzeth, Shinichi Nakagawa, Michael B. Morrissey	142
18	Genome size variation affects song attractiveness in grasshoppers: Evidence for sexual selection against large genomes 2014 ·Evolution ·Holger Schielzeth, Corinna Streitner, (unknown), (unknown), Klaus Reinhold	11
19	Simple means to improve the interpretability of regression coefficients breakdown → 2010 ·Methods in Ecology and Evolution ·Holger Schielzeth	2239
20	Notes on migration dynamics and biometry of the Wood Sandpiper (Tringa glareola) at the sewage farm of Münster (NW-Germany) 2002 ·PUB – Publications at Bielefeld University (Bielefeld University) ·Nils Anthes, (unknown), (unknown), (unknown), Holger Schielzeth, Johannes Wahl	11

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