Joel E. Cohen

31.8k total citations · 7 hit papers
325 papers, 20.7k citations indexed

About

Joel E. Cohen is a scholar working on Ecology, Evolution, Behavior and Systematics, Ecology and Sociology and Political Science. According to data from OpenAlex, Joel E. Cohen has authored 325 papers receiving a total of 20.7k indexed citations (citations by other indexed papers that have themselves been cited), including 49 papers in Ecology, Evolution, Behavior and Systematics, 46 papers in Ecology and 38 papers in Sociology and Political Science. Recurrent topics in Joel E. Cohen's work include Plant and animal studies (43 papers), Evolution and Genetic Dynamics (26 papers) and Insurance, Mortality, Demography, Risk Management (25 papers). Joel E. Cohen is often cited by papers focused on Plant and animal studies (43 papers), Evolution and Genetic Dynamics (26 papers) and Insurance, Mortality, Demography, Risk Management (25 papers). Joel E. Cohen collaborates with scholars based in United States, Argentina and United Kingdom. Joel E. Cohen's co-authors include F. P. Kelly, Charles M. Newman, Frédéric Briand, Stuart L. Pimm, Ricardo E. Gürtler, Christopher Small, María Carla Cecere, Norman C. Ellstrand, Ingrid M. Parker and Robert J. Cabin and has published in prestigious journals such as Nature, Science and Cell.

In The Last Decade

Joel E. Cohen

314 papers receiving 18.9k citations

Hit Papers

5 papers align trajectories

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.

The Population Biology of Invasive Species

2001 3.0k citations Joel E. Cohen et al. profile →
Reversibility and Stochastic Networks

1981 1.6k citations Joel E. Cohen et al. profile →
Infectious Diseases of Humans: Dynamics and Control

1992 795 citations Joel E. Cohen profile →
Human Population: The Next Half Century

2003 590 citations Joel E. Cohen profile →
Body Sizes of Animal Predators and Animal Prey in Food Webs

1993 577 citations Joel E. Cohen et al. profile →
Interaction strengths in food webs: issues and opportunities

2004 559 citations Joel E. Cohen et al. profile →
Food web patterns and their consequences

1991 551 citations Joel E. Cohen et al. profile →

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

Name	h						Papers	Cites
Joel E. Cohen United States	69	5.4k	4.4k	3.8k	2.8k	2.8k	325	20.7k
B. D. Ripley United Kingdom	48	8.5k 1.6×	4.8k 1.1×	7.0k 1.9×	6.2k 2.3×	3.2k 1.2×	168	50.8k
W. N. Venables Australia	32	7.0k 1.3×	3.9k 0.9×	5.0k 1.3×	4.8k 1.7×	2.4k 0.9×	87	27.1k
Stephen P. Ellner United States	67	4.8k 0.9×	5.2k 1.2×	4.9k 1.3×	2.6k 0.9×	4.8k 1.7×	201	15.1k
Robert E. Schapire United States	56	8.5k 1.6×	4.1k 0.9×	5.4k 1.4×	3.6k 1.3×	3.5k 1.3×	160	59.3k
Sanford Weisberg United States	43	4.9k 0.9×	3.7k 0.9×	3.7k 1.0×	3.2k 1.2×	1.9k 0.7×	149	29.3k
John Fox Canada	28	4.7k 0.9×	4.0k 0.9×	3.2k 0.9×	2.6k 1.0×	1.7k 0.6×	58	19.6k
Torsten Hothorn Germany	55	5.9k 1.1×	4.3k 1.0×	4.0k 1.1×	3.5k 1.3×	2.0k 0.7×	218	29.3k
Peter McCullagh Australia	32	3.0k 0.6×	1.7k 0.4×	2.6k 0.7×	2.0k 0.7×	1.5k 0.6×	156	25.3k
Achim Zeileis Austria	56	5.6k 1.0×	2.0k 0.5×	2.9k 0.8×	5.0k 1.8×	1.4k 0.5×	224	27.8k
Hadley Wickham United States	33	12.7k 2.3×	6.4k 1.5×	5.3k 1.4×	5.7k 2.0×	6.2k 2.3×	115	59.5k

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Saitoh, Takashi & Joel E. Cohen. (2024). Quantifying factors that explain the slopes of the temporal Taylor's law of Hokkaido vole populations. Population Ecology. 66(3). 125–142.

Carpenter, Samuel, et al.. (2023). Taylor’s law for exponentially growing local populations linked by migration. Theoretical Population Biology. 154. 118–125. 1 indexed citations

Cohen, Joel E.. (2021). Measuring the concentration of urban population in the negative exponential model using the Lorenz curve, Gini coefficient, Hoover dissimilarity index, and relative entropy. Demographic Research. 44. 1165–1184. 5 indexed citations

Cohen, Joel E., et al.. (2020). Food Webs and Niche Space. (MPB-11), Volume 11. Yale University Press eBooks. 1 indexed citations

Cohen, Joel E., et al.. (2018). Gompertz, Makeham, and Siler models explain Taylor's law in human mortality data. Demographic Research. 38. 773–842. 13 indexed citations

Cohen, Joel E.. (2009). The Demography of the Resident Membership of the American Philosophical Society. Proceedings of the American Philosophical Society: Held at Philadelphia for Promoting Useful Knowledge. 153(2). 200–214. 2 indexed citations

Reuman, Daniel C., Robert A. Desharnais, R. F. Costantino, Omar Ahmad, & Joel E. Cohen. (2006). Power spectra reveal the influence of stochasticity on nonlinear population dynamics. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences. 103(49). 18860–18865. 40 indexed citations

Cohen, Joel E., Tomas Jönsson, Christine Müller, H. C. J. Godfray, & Van M. Savage. (2005). Body sizes of hosts and parasitoids in individual feeding relationships. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences. 102(3). 684–689. 68 indexed citations

Small, Christopher & Joel E. Cohen. (2004). Continental Physiography, Climate, and the Global Distribution of Human Population. Current Anthropology. 45(2). 269–277. 146 indexed citations

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Nussbaum, Roger D. & Joel E. Cohen. (1990). Convexity properties of generalizations of the arithmetic-geometric mean. Numerical Functional Analysis and Optimization. 11(1-2). 33–44. 1 indexed citations

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Cohen, Joel E., Tomasz Łuczak, Charles M. Newman, & Zheng Zhou. (1990). Stochastic structure and nonlinear dynamics of food webs: qualitative stability in a Lotka-Volterra cascade model. Proceedings of the Royal Society of London. Series B, Biological sciences. 240(1299). 607–627. 57 indexed citations

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Nussbaum, Roger D. & Joel E. Cohen. (1988). The arithmetic-geometric mean and its generalizations for noncommuting linear operators. French digital mathematics library (Numdam). 15(2). 239–308. 17 indexed citations

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Cohen, Joel E.. (1988). THE COUNTERINTUITIVE IN CONFLICT AND COOPERATION. American Scientist. 76(6). 576–584. 10 indexed citations

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Cohen, Joel E.. (1986). An Uncertainty Principle in Demography and the Unisex Issue. The American Statistician. 40(1). 32–39. 45 indexed citations

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Kesten, Harry, Charles M. Newman, & Joel E. Cohen. (1986). Random matrices and their applications : proceedings of the AMS-IMS-SIAM Joint Summer Research Conference held June 17-23, 1984, with support from the National Science Foundation. American Mathematical Society eBooks. 2 indexed citations

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Cohen, Joel E. & Shmuel Friedland. (1985). The game-theoretic value and the spectral radius of a nonnegative matrix. Proceedings of the American Mathematical Society. 93(2). 205–211. 4 indexed citations

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Cohen, Joel E. & Charles M. Newman. (1985). A stochastic theory of community food webs I. Models and aggregated data. Proceedings of the Royal Society of London. Series B, Biological sciences. 224(1237). 421–448. 192 indexed citations

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Cohen, Joel E., Charles M. Newman, & Frédéric Briand. (1985). A stochastic theory of community food webs II. Individual webs. Proceedings of the Royal Society of London. Series B, Biological sciences. 224(1237). 449–461. 40 indexed citations

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Cohen, Joel E.. (1978). Derivatives of the spectral radius as a function of non-negative matrix elements. Mathematical Proceedings of the Cambridge Philosophical Society. 83(2). 183–190. 44 indexed citations

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Cohen, Joel E.. (1978). Food webs and niche space.. Munich Personal RePEc Archive (Ludwig Maximilian University of Munich). 1–189. 348 indexed citations

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