Joan Roughgarden

10.7k total citations · 3 hit papers
63 papers, 7.4k citations indexed

About

Joan Roughgarden is a scholar working on Sociology and Political Science, Ecology, Evolution, Behavior and Systematics and Ecology. According to data from OpenAlex, Joan Roughgarden has authored 63 papers receiving a total of 7.4k indexed citations (citations by other indexed papers that have themselves been cited), including 24 papers in Sociology and Political Science, 21 papers in Ecology, Evolution, Behavior and Systematics and 14 papers in Ecology. Recurrent topics in Joan Roughgarden's work include Evolutionary Game Theory and Cooperation (22 papers), Plant and animal studies (17 papers) and Evolution and Genetic Dynamics (12 papers). Joan Roughgarden is often cited by papers focused on Evolutionary Game Theory and Cooperation (22 papers), Plant and animal studies (17 papers) and Evolution and Genetic Dynamics (12 papers). Joan Roughgarden collaborates with scholars based in United States, United Kingdom and Australia. Joan Roughgarden's co-authors include Sean R. Connolly, Steven D. Gaines, Erol Akçay, Richard K. Grosberg, Stephen R. Palumbi, John M. Pandolfi, Joan A. Kleypas, Jeremy B. C. Jackson, Paul Marshall and Ove Hoegh‐Guldberg and has published in prestigious journals such as Science, Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences and PLoS ONE.

In The Last Decade

Joan Roughgarden

61 papers receiving 6.8k 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.

Climate Change, Human Impacts, and the Resilience of Coral Reefs

2003 2.8k citations Terry P. Hughes, Andrew H. Baird et al. Science profile →
Economic Reasons for Conserving Wild Nature

2002 1.0k citations Joan Roughgarden et al. Science profile →
Larval settlement rate: A leading determinant of structure in an ecological community of the marine intertidal zone

1985 668 citations Joan Roughgarden et al. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences profile →

Peers — A (Enhanced Table)

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

Name	h						Papers	Cites
Joan Roughgarden United States	30	4.3k	3.2k	2.4k	1.1k	1.0k	63	7.4k
Juan Carlos Castilla Chile	53	5.7k 1.3×	4.9k 1.5×	3.3k 1.4×	1.2k 1.1×	752 0.7×	146	9.7k
Wolf M. Mooij Netherlands	50	3.7k 0.8×	2.0k 0.6×	2.3k 0.9×	2.2k 2.0×	845 0.8×	143	8.9k
Jon M. Erlandson United States	49	7.3k 1.7×	4.2k 1.3×	3.0k 1.2×	1.3k 1.2×	619 0.6×	237	13.9k
Helen Fox United States	24	6.2k 1.4×	4.9k 1.5×	3.3k 1.3×	1.2k 1.1×	450 0.4×	55	9.6k
Jennifer A. Gill United Kingdom	41	7.3k 1.7×	2.9k 0.9×	2.0k 0.8×	1.6k 1.5×	1.3k 1.3×	123	8.4k
Malin L. Pinsky United States	43	4.7k 1.1×	4.6k 1.4×	1.7k 0.7×	1.9k 1.7×	521 0.5×	117	7.7k
Derek P. Tittensor Canada	38	4.3k 1.0×	2.9k 0.9×	2.2k 0.9×	1.4k 1.3×	713 0.7×	79	7.5k
Christopher J. Brown Australia	46	7.0k 1.6×	5.2k 1.6×	3.3k 1.3×	2.1k 2.0×	786 0.8×	164	10.8k
Douglas J. McCauley United States	40	4.4k 1.0×	3.0k 0.9×	746 0.3×	2.0k 1.8×	599 0.6×	103	7.2k
Emily S. Darling United States	40	4.1k 0.9×	3.2k 1.0×	1.8k 0.7×	1.1k 1.0×	496 0.5×	65	6.4k

Countries citing papers authored by Joan Roughgarden

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Fields of papers citing papers by Joan Roughgarden

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Physical SciencesHealth SciencesLife SciencesSocial Sciences

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Co-authorship network of co-authors of Joan Roughgarden

This figure shows the co-authorship network connecting the top 25 collaborators of Joan Roughgarden. A scholar is included among the top collaborators of Joan Roughgarden 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 Joan Roughgarden. Joan Roughgarden 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

Roughgarden, Joan. (2024). Lytic/Lysogenic Transition as a Life-History Switch. Virus Evolution. 10(1). veae028–veae028. 11 indexed citations

Roughgarden, Joan. (2022). Holobiont Evolution: Population Theory for the Hologenome. The American Naturalist. 201(6). 763–778. 24 indexed citations

Roughgarden, Joan. (2012). The social selection alternative to sexual selection. Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society B Biological Sciences. 367(1600). 2294–2303. 29 indexed citations

Roughgarden, Joan, et al.. (2011). DIRECT BENEFITS OF GENETIC MOSAICISM AND INTRAORGANISMAL SELECTION: MODELING COEVOLUTION BETWEEN A LONG-LIVED TREE AND A SHORT-LIVED HERBIVORE. Evolution. 66(4). 1091–1113. 26 indexed citations

Akçay, Erol & Joan Roughgarden. (2010). The evolution of payoff matrices: providing incentives to cooperate. Proceedings of the Royal Society B Biological Sciences. 278(1715). 2198–2206. 28 indexed citations

Roughgarden, Joan, et al.. (2010). What is an Individual Organism? A Multilevel Selection Perspective. The Quarterly Review of Biology. 85(4). 447–472. 92 indexed citations

Roughgarden, Joan & Erol Akçay. (2010). Do we need a Sexual Selection 2.0?. Animal Behaviour. 79(3). e1–e4. 25 indexed citations

Roughgarden, Joan, et al.. (2009). Alternation of haploid and diploid generations: evolution by gamete amplification. Evolutionary ecology research. 11(1). 57–77. 2 indexed citations

Roughgarden, Joan. (2009). Genial Gene. 42 indexed citations

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Roughgarden, Joan, et al.. (2008). Dioecy as a specialization promoting sperm delivery. Evolutionary ecology research. 10(6). 867–892. 18 indexed citations

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Roughgarden, Joan, et al.. (2008). Gametic conflict versus contact in the evolution of anisogamy. Theoretical Population Biology. 73(4). 461–472. 38 indexed citations

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Akçay, Erol & Joan Roughgarden. (2007). Extra-pair parentage: a new theory based on transactions in a cooperative game. Evolutionary ecology research. 9(8). 1223–1243. 11 indexed citations

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Akçay, Erol & Joan Roughgarden. (2007). Extra-pair paternity in birds: review of the genetic benefits. Evolutionary ecology research. 9(5). 855–868. 203 indexed citations

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Armsworth, Paul R. & Joan Roughgarden. (2005). The Impact of Directed versus Random Movement on Population Dynamics and Biodiversity Patterns. The American Naturalist. 165(4). 449–465. 143 indexed citations

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Pereira, Henrique M., Aviv Bergman, & Joan Roughgarden. (2003). Socially Stable Territories: The Negotiation of Space by Interacting Foragers. The American Naturalist. 161(1). 143–152. 27 indexed citations

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Hughes, Terry P., Andrew H. Baird, David R. Bellwood, et al.. (2003). Climate Change, Human Impacts, and the Resilience of Coral Reefs. Science. 301(5635). 929–933. 2847 indexed citations breakdown →

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Connolly, Sean R., Bruce A. Menge, & Joan Roughgarden. (2001). A Latitudinal Gradient in Recruitment of Intertidal Invertebrates in the Northeast Pacific Ocean. Ecology. 82(7). 1799–1799. 25 indexed citations

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Armsworth, Paul R. & Joan Roughgarden. (2001). An invitation to ecological economics. Trends in Ecology & Evolution. 16(5). 229–234. 32 indexed citations

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Hughes, J.B. & Joan Roughgarden. (1998). Aggregate community properties and the strength of species’ interactions. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences. 95(12). 6837–6842. 42 indexed citations

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Roughgarden, Joan. (1997). Primer of ecological theory. 89 indexed citations

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