James I. Watling

5.0k total citations
49 papers, 1.8k citations indexed

About

James I. Watling is a scholar working on Nature and Landscape Conservation, Ecological Modeling and Global and Planetary Change. According to data from OpenAlex, James I. Watling has authored 49 papers receiving a total of 1.8k indexed citations (citations by other indexed papers that have themselves been cited), including 28 papers in Nature and Landscape Conservation, 25 papers in Ecological Modeling and 21 papers in Global and Planetary Change. Recurrent topics in James I. Watling's work include Ecology and Vegetation Dynamics Studies (26 papers), Species Distribution and Climate Change (25 papers) and Amphibian and Reptile Biology (17 papers). James I. Watling is often cited by papers focused on Ecology and Vegetation Dynamics Studies (26 papers), Species Distribution and Climate Change (25 papers) and Amphibian and Reptile Biology (17 papers). James I. Watling collaborates with scholars based in United States, Colombia and United Kingdom. James I. Watling's co-authors include Maureen A. Donnelly, John L. Orrock, A. Justin Nowakowski, Frank J. Mazzotti, Stephanie S. Romañach, Laura A. Brandt, David N. Bucklin, Caleb R. Hickman, Brian D. Todd and Allison M. Benscoter and has published in prestigious journals such as Nature, SHILAP Revista de lepidopterología and PLoS ONE.

In The Last Decade

James I. Watling

45 papers receiving 1.7k citations

Peers

James I. Watling

ECOLO

NLC

GPC

EEBS

Romain Bertrand France

Christine A. Howell United States

Xingfeng Si China

Georgina Magin United Kingdom

Nicolas Casajus France

Glenn Manion Australia

Chase D. Mendenhall United States

Erica M. Sampaio Brazil

James Q. Radford Australia

Jayme Augusto Prevedello Brazil

Romain Bertrand France

James I. Watling

742 ×0.8

ECOLO

907 ×1.1

NLC

978 ×1.3

587 ×0.8

GPC

488 ×0.9

EEBS

Citations per year, relative to James I. Watling James I. Watling (= 1×) peers Romain Bertrand

Countries citing papers authored by James I. Watling

Since Specialization

Citations

This map shows the geographic impact of James I. Watling's research. It shows the number of citations coming from papers published by authors working in each country. You can also color the map by specialization and compare the number of citations received by James I. Watling with the expected number of citations based on a country's size and research output (numbers larger than one mean the country cites James I. Watling more than expected).

Fields of papers citing papers by James I. Watling

Since Specialization

Physical SciencesHealth SciencesLife SciencesSocial Sciences

This network shows the impact of papers produced by James I. Watling. Nodes represent research fields, and links connect fields that are likely to share authors. Colored nodes show fields that tend to cite the papers produced by James I. Watling. The network helps show where James I. Watling may publish in the future.

Co-authorship network of co-authors of James I. Watling

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

All Works

Sort: Min cites: Since: Top N: Style:

20 of 20 papers shown

Flinn, Kathryn M., et al.. (2025). Presettlement Tree Distributions and Forest Types of Northeast Ohio, USA, Mapped With Species Distribution Models. Journal of Vegetation Science. 36(1). 1 indexed citations

Ryan, Jessica, Shawn R. Kuchta, James I. Watling, Cari‐Ann M. Hickerson, & Carl D. Anthony. (2024). Color Polymorphism and Phylogeographic Variation of Agonistic Behavior in the Eastern Red-backed Salamander (Plethodon cinereus). Herpetologica. 80(2). 1 indexed citations

Brown, Sally, et al.. (2023). Pathways to sustain atolls under rising sea levels through land claim and island raising. SHILAP Revista de lepidopterología. 2(1). 15005–15005. 7 indexed citations

Nowakowski, A. Justin, James I. Watling, Jessica L. Deichmann, et al.. (2023). Protected areas slow declines unevenly across the tetrapod tree of life. Nature. 622(7981). 101–106. 27 indexed citations

Arroyo‐Rodríguez, Víctor, Lenore Fahrig, James I. Watling, et al.. (2021). Preserving 40% forest cover is a valuable and well‐supported conservation guideline: reply to Banks‐Leite et al. Ecology Letters. 24(5). 1114–1116. 13 indexed citations

Cherkiss, Michael S., James I. Watling, Laura A. Brandt, et al.. (2020). Shifts in hatching date of American crocodile (Crocodylus acutus) in southern Florida. Journal of Thermal Biology. 88. 102521–102521. 6 indexed citations

Page, Robert B., et al.. (2019). Using a comparative approach to investigate the relationship between landscape and genetic connectivity among woodland salamander populations. Conservation Genetics. 20(6). 1265–1280. 19 indexed citations

Nowakowski, A. Justin, James I. Watling, Michelle E. Thompson, et al.. (2018). Thermal biology mediates responses of amphibians and reptiles to habitat modification. Ecology Letters. 21(3). 345–355. 108 indexed citations

Bucklin, David N., et al.. (2016). Considerations for Building Climate-based Species Distribution Models. SHILAP Revista de lepidopterología. 2016(8). 8–8. 3 indexed citations

10.

Fujisaki, Ikuko, et al.. (2015). Geographic risk assessment reveals spatial variation in invasion potential of exotic reptiles in an invasive species hotspot.. Herpetological conservation and biology. 10(2). 621–632. 7 indexed citations

11.

Watling, James I., Robert J. Fletcher, David N. Bucklin, et al.. (2014). Assessing Effects of Variation in Global Climate Data Sets on Spatial Predictions from Climate Envelope Models. Journal of Fish and Wildlife Management. 5(1). 14–25. 13 indexed citations

12.

Bucklin, David N., Mathieu Basille, Allison M. Benscoter, et al.. (2014). Comparing species distribution models constructed with different subsets of environmental predictors. Diversity and Distributions. 21(1). 23–35. 151 indexed citations

13.

Benscoter, Allison M., Joshua S. Reece, Reed F. Noss, et al.. (2013). Threatened and Endangered Subspecies with Vulnerable Ecological Traits Also Have High Susceptibility to Sea Level Rise and Habitat Fragmentation. PLoS ONE. 8(8). e70647–e70647. 21 indexed citations

14.

Watling, James I., et al.. (2013). Validating Predictions from Climate Envelope Models. PLoS ONE. 8(5). e63600–e63600. 21 indexed citations

15.

Watling, James I., Stephanie S. Romañach, David N. Bucklin, et al.. (2012). Do bioclimate variables improve performance of climate envelope models?. Ecological Modelling. 246. 79–85. 39 indexed citations

16.

Watling, James I., et al.. (2011). Invasive plant alters ability to predict disease vector distribution. Ecological Applications. 21(2). 329–334. 18 indexed citations

17.

Watling, James I., Caleb R. Hickman, & John L. Orrock. (2011). Invasive shrub alters native forest amphibian communities. Biological Conservation. 144(11). 2597–2601. 57 indexed citations

18.

Watling, James I., et al.. (2010). Extracts of the invasive shrub Lonicera maackii increase mortality and alter behavior of amphibian larvae. Oecologia. 165(1). 153–159. 75 indexed citations

19.

Watling, James I. & Maureen A. Donnelly. (2007). Multivariate correlates of extinction proneness in a naturally fragmented landscape. Diversity and Distributions. 13(4). 372–378. 16 indexed citations

20.

Watling, James I. & Maureen A. Donnelly. (2006). Fragments as Islands: a Synthesis of Faunal Responses to Habitat Patchiness. Conservation Biology. 20(4). 1016–1025. 229 indexed citations

Rankless uses publication and citation data sourced from OpenAlex, an open and comprehensive bibliographic database. While OpenAlex provides broad and valuable coverage of the global research landscape, it—like all bibliographic datasets—has inherent limitations. These include incomplete records, variations in author disambiguation, differences in journal indexing, and delays in data updates. As a result, some metrics and network relationships displayed in Rankless may not fully capture the entirety of a scholar's output or impact.

Explore authors with similar magnitude of impact