John Bunge

4.8k total citations · 1 hit paper
39 papers, 3.3k citations indexed

About

John Bunge is a scholar working on Ecology, Molecular Biology and Statistics and Probability. According to data from OpenAlex, John Bunge has authored 39 papers receiving a total of 3.3k indexed citations (citations by other indexed papers that have themselves been cited), including 22 papers in Ecology, 19 papers in Molecular Biology and 12 papers in Statistics and Probability. Recurrent topics in John Bunge's work include Microbial Community Ecology and Physiology (16 papers), Protist diversity and phylogeny (13 papers) and Census and Population Estimation (12 papers). John Bunge is often cited by papers focused on Microbial Community Ecology and Physiology (16 papers), Protist diversity and phylogeny (13 papers) and Census and Population Estimation (12 papers). John Bunge collaborates with scholars based in United States, Germany and South Korea. John Bunge's co-authors include Matthew C. Fitzpatrick, Anne Chao, Thorsten Stoeck, Sunok Jeon, Slava S. Epstein, Chesley Leslin, Sun Hee Hong, Amy D. Willis, Anke Behnke and Kathryn Barger and has published in prestigious journals such as Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, Journal of the American Statistical Association and Bioinformatics.

In The Last Decade

John Bunge

39 papers receiving 3.2k citations

Hit Papers

Estimating the Number of Species: A Review 1993 2026 2004 2015 1993 100 200 300 400 500
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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.

  1. Estimating the Number of Species: A Review
    1993 503 citations John Bunge, Matthew C. Fitzpatrick profile →

Peers — A (Enhanced Table)

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

Name h Career Trend Papers Cites
John Bunge United States 26 1.9k 1.6k 343 333 287 39 3.3k
Paul Joyce Australia 35 1.2k 0.6× 1.9k 1.2× 50 0.1× 174 0.5× 288 1.0× 163 5.7k
Amaury Lambert France 27 1.5k 0.8× 1.1k 0.7× 645 1.9× 132 0.4× 694 2.4× 102 4.6k
Shen‐Ming Lee Taiwan 12 736 0.4× 337 0.2× 94 0.3× 371 1.1× 336 1.2× 40 1.8k
Nicolas Ray Switzerland 37 1.5k 0.8× 682 0.4× 165 0.5× 72 0.2× 655 2.3× 147 5.9k
Tsung‐Jen Shen Taiwan 12 1.2k 0.6× 470 0.3× 204 0.6× 58 0.2× 1.1k 3.7× 37 3.1k
Jean Thioulouse France 43 2.5k 1.3× 2.0k 1.3× 353 1.0× 76 0.2× 1.4k 5.0× 113 8.2k
Uwe Ligges Germany 12 758 0.4× 215 0.1× 66 0.2× 430 1.3× 545 1.9× 41 3.2k
Daniel W. Schafer United States 22 458 0.2× 507 0.3× 41 0.1× 529 1.6× 280 1.0× 42 2.5k
Paul O. Lewis United States 32 1.5k 0.8× 3.3k 2.1× 513 1.5× 69 0.2× 1.1k 3.7× 63 8.4k
Tim J. Daniell United Kingdom 41 1.3k 0.7× 608 0.4× 130 0.4× 108 0.3× 521 1.8× 107 5.7k

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Fields of papers citing papers by John Bunge

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Physical SciencesHealth SciencesLife SciencesSocial Sciences

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Co-authorship network of co-authors of John Bunge

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All Works

20 of 20 papers shown
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Exner‐Cortens, Deinera, John Eckenrode, John Bunge, & Emily F. Rothman. (2017). Revictimization After Adolescent Dating Violence in a Matched, National Sample of Youth. Journal of Adolescent Health. 60(2). 176–183. 80 indexed citations
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Willis, Amy D. & John Bunge. (2015). Estimating Diversity via Frequency Ratios. Biometrics. 71(4). 1042–1049. 122 indexed citations
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Willis, Amy D. & John Bunge. (2014). breakaway-package Species richness estimation and modelling in the high-diversity setting. 1 indexed citations
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Allen, Heather K., John Bunge, James A. Foster, Darrell O. Bayles, & Thaddeus B. Stanton. (2013). Estimation of viral richness from shotgun metagenomes using a frequency count approach. Microbiome. 1(1). 5–5. 23 indexed citations
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Bunge, John, Amy D. Willis, & Fiona Walsh. (2013). Estimating the Number of Species in Microbial Diversity Studies. Annual Review of Statistics and Its Application. 1(1). 427–445. 58 indexed citations
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Foster, James A., John Bunge, Jack A. Gilbert, & Jason H. Moore. (2012). Measuring the microbiome: perspectives on advances in DNA-based techniques for exploring microbial life. Briefings in Bioinformatics. 13(4). 420–429. 25 indexed citations
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Behnke, Anke, Kathryn Barger, John Bunge, & Thorsten Stoeck. (2010). Spatio-temporal variations in protistan communities along an O2/H2S gradient in the anoxic Framvaren Fjord (Norway). FEMS Microbiology Ecology. 72(1). 89–102. 66 indexed citations
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Bunge, John. (2010). ESTIMATING THE NUMBER OF SPECIES WITH CATCHALL. WORLD SCIENTIFIC eBooks. 121–130. 59 indexed citations
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Bunge, John, Philippe Chouvarine, & Daniel G. Peterson. (2009). CotQuest: Improved algorithm and software for nonlinear regression analysis of DNA reassociation kinetics data. Analytical Biochemistry. 388(2). 322–330. 3 indexed citations
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Bunge, John & Kathryn Barger. (2008). Parametric Models for Estimating the Number of Classes. Biometrical Journal. 50(6). 971–982. 26 indexed citations
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Edgcomb, Virginia P., William Orsi, Chesley Leslin, et al.. (2008). Protistan community patterns within the brine and halocline of deep hypersaline anoxic basins in the eastern Mediterranean Sea. Extremophiles. 13(1). 151–167. 73 indexed citations
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Barger, Kathryn & John Bunge. (2008). Bayesian Estimation of the Number of Species using Noninformative Priors. Biometrical Journal. 50(6). 1064–1076. 7 indexed citations
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Alexander, Eva, Alexandra Stock, Hans‐Werner Breiner, et al.. (2008). Microbial eukaryotes in the hypersaline anoxic L'Atalante deep‐sea basin. Environmental Microbiology. 11(2). 360–381. 122 indexed citations
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Jeon, Sunok, John Bunge, Chesley Leslin, et al.. (2008). Environmental rRNA inventories miss over half of protistan diversity. BMC Microbiology. 8(1). 222–222. 43 indexed citations
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Stoeck, Thorsten, et al.. (2007). Protistan Diversity in the Arctic: A Case of Paleoclimate Shaping Modern Biodiversity?. PLoS ONE. 2(8). e728–e728. 66 indexed citations
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Bunge, John, et al.. (2006). Diversity estimates of microeukaryotes below the chemocline of the anoxic Mariager Fjord, Denmark. FEMS Microbiology Ecology. 58(3). 476–491. 86 indexed citations
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Hong, Sun Hee, John Bunge, Sunok Jeon, & Slava S. Epstein. (2005). Predicting microbial species richness. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences. 103(1). 117–122. 167 indexed citations
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Chao, Anne & John Bunge. (2002). Estimating the Number of Species in a Stochastic Abundance Model. Biometrics. 58(3). 531–539. 454 indexed citations
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Bunge, John, Matthew C. Fitzpatrick, & John C. Handley. (1995). Comparison of three estimators of the number of species. Journal of Applied Statistics. 22(1). 45–59. 19 indexed citations
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Browne, Sid & John Bunge. (1995). Random record processes and state dependent thinning. Stochastic Processes and their Applications. 55(1). 131–142. 2 indexed citations

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