James Rosindell

5.4k total citations · 2 hit papers
49 papers, 2.9k citations indexed

About

James Rosindell is a scholar working on Nature and Landscape Conservation, Ecology and Ecological Modeling. According to data from OpenAlex, James Rosindell has authored 49 papers receiving a total of 2.9k indexed citations (citations by other indexed papers that have themselves been cited), including 26 papers in Nature and Landscape Conservation, 21 papers in Ecology and 17 papers in Ecological Modeling. Recurrent topics in James Rosindell's work include Ecology and Vegetation Dynamics Studies (24 papers), Species Distribution and Climate Change (17 papers) and Plant and animal studies (14 papers). James Rosindell is often cited by papers focused on Ecology and Vegetation Dynamics Studies (24 papers), Species Distribution and Climate Change (17 papers) and Plant and animal studies (14 papers). James Rosindell collaborates with scholars based in United Kingdom, United States and Netherlands. James Rosindell's co-authors include Rampal S. Etienne, Stephen P. Hubbell, Stephen J. Cornell, Luke J. Harmon, Fangliang He, Robert D. Holt, Renata Pardini, Andrew Gonzalez, Teja Tscharntke and Jayme Augusto Prevedello and has published in prestigious journals such as Nature Communications, PLoS ONE and Trends in Ecology & Evolution.

In The Last Decade

James Rosindell

49 papers receiving 2.8k citations

Hit Papers

The Unified Neutral Theory of Biodiversity and Biogeograp... 2011 2026 2016 2021 2011 2018 200 400 600
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. The Unified Neutral Theory of Biodiversity and Biogeography at Age Ten
    2011 749 citations James Rosindell, Stephen P. Hubbell et al. Trends in Ecology & Evolution profile →
  2. Is habitat fragmentation good for biodiversity?
    2018 476 citations James Rosindell et al. profile →

Peers — A (Enhanced Table)

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

Name h Career Trend Papers Cites
James Rosindell United Kingdom 23 1.4k 1.2k 968 716 571 49 2.9k
Mathias M. Pires Brazil 27 1.4k 1.0× 1.3k 1.1× 1.5k 1.6× 606 0.8× 416 0.7× 77 3.3k
Albert B. Phillimore United Kingdom 34 1.1k 0.8× 1.4k 1.2× 1.4k 1.4× 1.0k 1.4× 1.3k 2.3× 55 3.6k
Jérôme Chave France 11 1.9k 1.4× 1.2k 1.0× 1.3k 1.4× 633 0.9× 299 0.5× 17 3.1k
Katja Schiffers Germany 22 1.5k 1.1× 1.1k 0.9× 1.1k 1.2× 1.1k 1.6× 468 0.8× 40 3.1k
Caroline M. Tucker Canada 18 1.6k 1.1× 1.0k 0.9× 1.1k 1.1× 821 1.1× 278 0.5× 27 2.6k
Annette Ostling United States 24 1.4k 1.0× 1.1k 0.9× 1.0k 1.1× 797 1.1× 353 0.6× 46 2.6k
Healy Hamilton United States 25 1.5k 1.1× 1.7k 1.5× 826 0.9× 1.7k 2.4× 448 0.8× 41 4.0k
David Štorch Czechia 40 2.3k 1.7× 2.1k 1.8× 1.3k 1.4× 1.6k 2.3× 403 0.7× 97 4.2k
Gunnar Keppel Australia 28 1.5k 1.1× 1.2k 1.1× 1.1k 1.2× 1.3k 1.8× 383 0.7× 98 3.3k
François Massol France 32 1.2k 0.9× 1.2k 1.1× 1.3k 1.4× 559 0.8× 723 1.3× 90 3.5k

Countries citing papers authored by James Rosindell

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Fields of papers citing papers by James Rosindell

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Physical SciencesHealth SciencesLife SciencesSocial Sciences

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Co-authorship network of co-authors of James Rosindell

This figure shows the co-authorship network connecting the top 25 collaborators of James Rosindell. A scholar is included among the top collaborators of James Rosindell 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 Rosindell. James Rosindell 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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Alzate, Adriana, Roberto Rozzi, Julián A. Velasco, et al.. (2025). Evolutionary age correlates with range size across plants and animals. Nature Communications. 16(1). 7894–7894. 2 indexed citations
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Gumbs, Rikki, Monika Böhm, Félix Forest, et al.. (2024). Global conservation status of the jawed vertebrate Tree of Life. Nature Communications. 15(1). 1101–1101. 9 indexed citations
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Overcast, Isaac, et al.. (2024). Detecting the ecological footprint of selection. PLoS ONE. 19(6). e0302794–e0302794. 1 indexed citations
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Rosindell, James, et al.. (2023). Phylogenetic Biodiversity Metrics Should Account for Both Accumulation and Attrition of Evolutionary Heritage. Systematic Biology. 73(1). 158–182. 3 indexed citations
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Dimitrov, Dimitar, Xiaoting Xu, Xiangyan Su, et al.. (2023). Diversification of flowering plants in space and time. Nature Communications. 14(1). 7609–7609. 22 indexed citations
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Gumbs, Rikki, Abhishek Chaudhary, Barnabas H. Daru, et al.. (2023). Indicators to monitor the status of the tree of life. Conservation Biology. 37(6). e14138–e14138. 9 indexed citations
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Dunne, Emma M., et al.. (2023). Mechanistic neutral models show that sampling biases drive the apparent explosion of early tetrapod diversity. Nature Ecology & Evolution. 7(9). 1480–1489. 6 indexed citations
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Wong, Yan & James Rosindell. (2021). Dynamic visualisation of million‐tip trees: The OneZoom project. Methods in Ecology and Evolution. 13(2). 303–313. 16 indexed citations
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Overcast, Isaac, Megan Ruffley, James Rosindell, et al.. (2021). A unified model of species abundance, genetic diversity, and functional diversity reveals the mechanisms structuring ecological communities. Molecular Ecology Resources. 21(8). 2782–2800. 29 indexed citations
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Alzate, Adriana, Thijs Janzen, Dries Bonte, James Rosindell, & Rampal S. Etienne. (2019). A simple spatially explicit neutral model explains the range size distribution of reef fishes. Global Ecology and Biogeography. 28(7). 875–890. 10 indexed citations
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Vila, Jean C. C., et al.. (2019). Uncovering the rules of microbial community invasions. Nature Ecology & Evolution. 3(8). 1162–1171. 53 indexed citations
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Etienne, Rampal S., et al.. (2012). Can clade age alone explain the relationship between body size and diversity?. Interface Focus. 2(2). 170–179. 21 indexed citations
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Rosindell, James, Patrick A. Jansen, & Rampal S. Etienne. (2012). Age structure in neutral theory resolves inconsistencies related to reproductive-size threshold. Journal of Plant Ecology. 5(1). 64–71. 2 indexed citations
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Rosindell, James, et al.. (2012). The Neutral—Niche Debate: A Philosophical Perspective. Acta Biotheoretica. 60(3). 257–271. 60 indexed citations
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Etienne, Rampal S. & James Rosindell. (2011). The Spatial Limitations of Current Neutral Models of Biodiversity. PLoS ONE. 6(3). e14717–e14717. 22 indexed citations
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Rosindell, James, Stephen P. Hubbell, & Rampal S. Etienne. (2011). The Unified Neutral Theory of Biodiversity and Biogeography at Age Ten. Trends in Ecology & Evolution. 26(7). 340–348. 749 indexed citations breakdown →
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Keil, Petr, Tomáš Herben, James Rosindell, & David Štorch. (2010). Predictions of Taylor's power law, density dependence and pink noise from a neutrally modeled time series. Journal of Theoretical Biology. 265(1). 78–86. 18 indexed citations
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Rosindell, James, Stephen J. Cornell, Stephen P. Hubbell, & Rampal S. Etienne. (2010). Protracted speciation revitalizes the neutral theory of biodiversity. Ecology Letters. 13(6). 716–727. 162 indexed citations
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Rosindell, James & Stephen J. Cornell. (2009). Species–area curves, neutral models, and long‐distance dispersal. Ecology. 90(7). 1743–1750. 72 indexed citations
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Kůrka, Petr, Arnošt L. Šizling, & James Rosindell. (2009). Analytical evidence for scale-invariance in the shape of species abundance distributions. Mathematical Biosciences. 223(2). 151–159. 14 indexed citations

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