Jack Major

3.6k total citations · 3 hit papers
59 papers, 2.7k citations indexed

About

Jack Major is a scholar working on Plant Science, Ecology, Evolution, Behavior and Systematics and Ecology. According to data from OpenAlex, Jack Major has authored 59 papers receiving a total of 2.7k indexed citations (citations by other indexed papers that have themselves been cited), including 30 papers in Plant Science, 18 papers in Ecology, Evolution, Behavior and Systematics and 14 papers in Ecology. Recurrent topics in Jack Major's work include Botany and Plant Ecology Studies (20 papers), Botany, Ecology, and Taxonomy Studies (19 papers) and Rangeland and Wildlife Management (12 papers). Jack Major is often cited by papers focused on Botany and Plant Ecology Studies (20 papers), Botany, Ecology, and Taxonomy Studies (19 papers) and Rangeland and Wildlife Management (12 papers). Jack Major collaborates with scholars based in United States, Sweden and Canada. Jack Major's co-authors include Robert L. Crocker, Michael G. Barbour, Robert Ornduff, G. Ledyard Stebbins, John L. Vankat, Věra Komárková, R. Knapp, Jerry Brown, Leif Kullman and Robert Lucas and has published in prestigious journals such as Nature, Ecology and Journal of Ecology.

In The Last Decade

Jack Major

51 papers receiving 2.1k 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.

Terrestrial Vegetation of California.

1977 621 citations Michael G. Barbour, Jack Major et al. profile →
Soil Development in Relation to Vegetation and Surface Age at Glacier Bay, Alaska

1955 496 citations Jack Major et al. profile →
Endemism and Speciation in the California Flora

1965 335 citations Jack Major et al. Ecological Monographs profile →

Peers — A (Enhanced Table)

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

Name	h						Papers	Cites
Jack Major United States	17	1.1k	1.1k	953	663	596	59	2.7k
Heinrich Walter Germany	18	1.1k 1.0×	607 0.5×	765 0.8×	700 1.1×	563 0.9×	51	2.4k
William A. Niering United States	32	1.7k 1.5×	2.4k 2.2×	1.0k 1.1×	659 1.0×	502 0.8×	71	3.9k
C. H. Gimingham United Kingdom	32	1.9k 1.7×	1.7k 1.5×	1.4k 1.5×	921 1.4×	340 0.6×	95	3.9k
John Tallis United Kingdom	34	778 0.7×	1.8k 1.6×	922 1.0×	906 1.4×	1.6k 2.7×	81	3.9k
A. F. Mark New Zealand	34	1.7k 1.5×	1.3k 1.2×	1.1k 1.2×	1.1k 1.7×	710 1.2×	127	3.5k
W. K. Lauenroth United States	18	1.8k 1.6×	1.5k 1.3×	738 0.8×	701 1.1×	262 0.4×	43	3.0k
S. R. J. Woodell United Kingdom	28	1.1k 0.9×	913 0.8×	1.3k 1.4×	1.2k 1.8×	176 0.3×	83	3.1k
Hazel R. Delcourt United States	34	1.3k 1.1×	1.1k 1.0×	694 0.7×	638 1.0×	1.4k 2.3×	50	3.4k
J. Pojar Canada	14	980 0.9×	808 0.7×	473 0.5×	457 0.7×	367 0.6×	23	2.2k
J. Stan Rowe Canada	16	1.2k 1.0×	935 0.8×	424 0.4×	318 0.5×	446 0.7×	25	2.4k

Countries citing papers authored by Jack Major

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Fields of papers citing papers by Jack Major

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Co-authorship network of co-authors of Jack Major

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

All Works

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20 of 20 papers shown

1.

Major, Jack, et al.. (1981). An Arctic Ecosystem: The Coastal Tundra at Barrow, Alaska. Arctic and Alpine Research. 13(4). 453–453. 124 indexed citations

2.

Major, Jack. (1980). Overlapping tolerance curves of plant species. Phytocoenologia. 7(1-4). 26–34. 1 indexed citations

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Major, Jack & Leif Kullman. (1979). Change and Stability in the Altitude of the Birch Tree-Limit in the Southern Swedish Scandes 1915-75. Arctic and Alpine Research. 11(4). 477–477. 37 indexed citations

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Holmgren, Noel H., Michael G. Barbour, & Jack Major. (1979). Terrestrial Vegetation of California.. Brittonia. 31(3). 432–432. 16 indexed citations

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Barbour, Michael G., et al.. (1978). Terrestrial Vegetation of California. Journal of Range Management. 31(5). 400–400. 16 indexed citations

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Major, Jack. (1978). Industrial Pollution and Conservation in the USSR. Ecology. 59(1). 201–202. 2 indexed citations

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Major, Jack. (1975). Plant Communities of Wet Sites in the Alps. Ecology. 56(1). 257–257. 1 indexed citations

8.

Major, Jack. (1975). Quantitiative Study of Vegetation. Ecology. 56(1). 255–256. 1 indexed citations

9.

Major, Jack. (1975). Moss Taxonomy and Ecology for Utah. Ecology. 56(4). 1019–1020. 1 indexed citations

10.

Major, Jack. (1975). Climatic Reltions of a Toposequence of Vegetation in the Swiss Jura. Ecology. 56(1). 258–259. 2 indexed citations

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Major, Jack, et al.. (1975). Contribution à l'étude phytosociologique et écologique des marais de la Sierra Nevada (Californie). Phytocoenologia. 2(3-4). 349–367. 4 indexed citations

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Major, Jack. (1974). Weathering in Tropical Soils. Ecology. 55(4). 917–918. 1 indexed citations

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Major, Jack. (1971). Carex for the Ecologist. Ecology. 52(3). 539–539. 2 indexed citations

14.

Major, Jack. (1970). Essay Review of Rodin and Bazilevich: The Illusive Mineral Equilibrium. Ecology. 51(1). 160–163. 2 indexed citations

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Major, Jack, et al.. (1968). Ecology of the Vegetation and Soils Associated with Calcareous Parent Materials in Three Alpine Regions of Montana. Ecological Monographs. 38(2). 127–167. 52 indexed citations

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Major, Jack, et al.. (1964). Arctostaphylos Myrtifolia, Its Biology and Relationship to the Problem of Endemism. Ecology. 45(4). 792–808. 74 indexed citations

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Major, Jack. (1964). A Floristic Manual for The Alaskan Arctic Slope. Ecology. 45(1). 207–208. 1 indexed citations

18.

Major, Jack, et al.. (1962). Weed Control Handbook. The American Midland Naturalist. 67(2). 509–509. 1 indexed citations

19.

Major, Jack. (1961). Use in Plant Ecology of Causation, Physiology and a Definition of Vegetation. Ecology. 42(1). 167–169. 2 indexed citations

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Major, Jack. (1957). Biology of Flowering Plant Distribution. Ecology. 38(1). 180–181. 1 indexed citations

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