James T. Thorson

11.3k total citations · 2 hit papers
208 papers, 7.8k citations indexed

About

James T. Thorson is a scholar working on Global and Planetary Change, Nature and Landscape Conservation and Ecology. According to data from OpenAlex, James T. Thorson has authored 208 papers receiving a total of 7.8k indexed citations (citations by other indexed papers that have themselves been cited), including 169 papers in Global and Planetary Change, 124 papers in Nature and Landscape Conservation and 98 papers in Ecology. Recurrent topics in James T. Thorson's work include Marine and fisheries research (163 papers), Fish Ecology and Management Studies (114 papers) and Marine Bivalve and Aquaculture Studies (78 papers). James T. Thorson is often cited by papers focused on Marine and fisheries research (163 papers), Fish Ecology and Management Studies (114 papers) and Marine Bivalve and Aquaculture Studies (78 papers). James T. Thorson collaborates with scholars based in United States, Canada and Denmark. James T. Thorson's co-authors include Eric J. Ward, Andrew O. Shelton, Jason M. Cope, Olaf P. Jensen, Rodolfo B. Reyes, Rainer Froese, Malin L. Pinsky, Trevor A. Branch, André E. Punt and Lewis A. K. Barnett and has published in prestigious journals such as Nature, Science and PLoS ONE.

In The Last Decade

James T. Thorson

197 papers receiving 7.7k citations

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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 Bayesian approach for estimating length-weight relationships in fishes

2013 390 citations James T. Thorson et al. profile →
Impacts of historical warming on marine fisheries production

2019 384 citations Christopher M. Free, James T. Thorson et al. Science profile →

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#	Work	Indexed citations
1	Impacts of different types of data integration on the predictions of spatio-temporal models: A fishery application and simulation experiment 2025 ·Fisheries Research ·Arnaud Grüss, Richard L. O’Driscoll, James T. Thorson, (unknown), (unknown), (unknown)	1
2	tinyVAST : R Package With an Expressive Interface to Specify Lagged and Simultaneous Effects in Multivariate Spatio‐Temporal Models 2025 ·Global Ecology and Biogeography ·James T. Thorson, (unknown), (unknown), Christopher N. Rooper	4
3	No species left behind: borrowing strength to map data-deficient species 2025 ·Trends in Ecology & Evolution ·Shubhi Sharma, Kevin Winner, Laura J. Pollock, James T. Thorson, (unknown), Cory Merow, Eric J. Pedersen, (unknown), (unknown), Fabiola Iannarilli, Sara Beery, (unknown), Walter Jetz	0
4	Toward ecological forecasting of West Nile virus in Florida: Insights from two decades of sentinel chicken surveillance 2025 ·The Science of The Total Environment ·(unknown), (unknown), Robert Guralnick, (unknown), (unknown), (unknown), James T. Thorson, Lindsay P. Campbell	0
5	Evaluating the performance of a system model in predicting zooplankton dynamics: Insights from the Bering Sea ecosystem 2024 ·Fisheries Oceanography ·(unknown), Curry J. Cunningham, David G. Kimmel, Darren Pilcher, James T. Thorson	0
6	The Benefits of Hierarchical Ecosystem Models: Demonstration Using EcoState, a New State‐Space Mass‐Balance Model 2024 ·Fish and Fisheries ·James T. Thorson, Kasper Kristensen, Kerim Aydin, Sarah Gaichas, David G. Kimmel, Elizabeth A. McHuron, Jens M. Nielsen, Howard Townsend, George A. Whitehouse	0
7	Catch per unit effort modelling for stock assessment: A summary of good practices 2023 ·Fisheries Research ·Simon Hoyle, Robert A. Campbell, (unknown), Arnaud Grüss, Bradley R. Moore, James T. Thorson, Laura Tremblay-Boyer, Henning Winker, Shijie Zhou, Mark N. Maunder	38
8	Incorporating distribution shifts and spatio-temporal variation when estimating weight-at-age for stock assessments: a case study involving the Bering Sea pollock (Gadus chalcogrammus) 2023 ·ICES Journal of Marine Science ·(unknown), Timothy E. Essington, James N. Ianelli, James T. Thorson	4
9	Data weighting: An iterative process linking surveys, data synthesis, and population models to evaluate mis-specification 2023 ·Fisheries Research ·James T. Thorson, Cole C. Monnahan, (unknown)	8
10	Joint spatiotemporal models to predict seabird densities at sea 2023 ·Frontiers in Marine Science ·Mayumi L. Arimitsu, John F. Piatt, James T. Thorson, Katherine J. Kuletz, Gary S. Drew, Sarah K. Schoen, Daniel Cushing, (unknown), William J. Sydeman	5
11	Titmice are a better indicator of bird density in Northern European than in Western European forests 2022 ·Ecology and Evolution ·(unknown), Jukka T. Forsman, Maximilian G. R. Vollstädt, Vincent Devictor, Merja Elo, Aleksi Lehikoinen, Mikko Mönkkönen, James T. Thorson, Sami M. Kivelä	1
12	Oceans of plenty? Challenges, advancements, and future directions for the provision of evidence-based fisheries management advice 2022 ·Reviews in Fish Biology and Fisheries ·Daniel R. Goethel, (unknown), André E. Punt, Patrick D. Lynch, Aaron M. Berger, Carryn L De Moor, Éva E. Plagányi, Jason M. Cope, Natalie Dowling, Richard McGarvey, (unknown), James T. Thorson, Milani Chaloupka, Sarah Gaichas, Eric Gilman, S. Alex Hesp, Catherine Longo, (unknown), Richard D. Methot	28
13	Do large‐scale associations in birds imply biotic interactions or environmental filtering? 2022 ·Journal of Biogeography ·Merja Elo, (unknown), (unknown), Vincent Devictor, Jukka T. Forsman, Aleksi Lehikoinen, Mikko Mönkkönen, James T. Thorson, Maximilian G. R. Vollstädt, Sami M. Kivelä	7
14	A spatial statistical approach for identifying population structuring of marine fish species: European sprat as a case study 2022 ·ICES Journal of Marine Science ·Martin Lindegren, Mikael van Deurs, Aurore Maureaud, James T. Thorson, Dorte Bekkevold	13
15	The surprising sensitivity of index scale to delta-model assumptions: Recommendations for model-based index standardization 2020 ·Fisheries Research ·James T. Thorson, Curry J. Cunningham, (unknown), (unknown), (unknown), Cole C. Monnahan, (unknown)	29
16	Impacts of historical warming on marine fisheries production breakdown → 2019 ·Science ·Christopher M. Free, James T. Thorson, Malin L. Pinsky, Kiva L. Oken, John Wiedenmann, Olaf P. Jensen	384
17	JABBA-Select: Incorporating life history and fisheries’ selectivity into surplus production models 2019 ·Fisheries Research ·Henning Winker, Felipe Carvalho, James T. Thorson, (unknown), D. Stott Parker, Maia Kapur, Rishi Sharma, Anthony J. Booth, Sven Kerwath	27
18	A novel spatiotemporal stock assessment framework to better address fine‐scale species distributions: Development and simulation testing 2019 ·Fish and Fisheries ·Jie Cao, James T. Thorson, André E. Punt, Cody Szuwalski	27
19	Paulik revisited: Statistical framework and estimation performance of multistage recruitment functions 2018 ·Fisheries Research ·Elizabeth N. Brooks, James T. Thorson, Kyle W. Shertzer, Richard D.M. Nash, Jon Brodziak, Kelli F. Johnson, (unknown), Brian K. Wells, Jonathan M. White	13
20	Model-based estimates of effective sample size in stock assessment models using the Dirichlet-multinomial distribution 2016 ·Fisheries Research ·James T. Thorson, Kelli F. Johnson, Richard D. Methot, Ian Taylor	50

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