John Damuth

7.5k total citations · 1 hit paper
42 papers, 5.3k citations indexed

About

John Damuth is a scholar working on Ecology, Paleontology and Ecology, Evolution, Behavior and Systematics. According to data from OpenAlex, John Damuth has authored 42 papers receiving a total of 5.3k indexed citations (citations by other indexed papers that have themselves been cited), including 23 papers in Ecology, 18 papers in Paleontology and 15 papers in Ecology, Evolution, Behavior and Systematics. Recurrent topics in John Damuth's work include Evolution and Paleontology Studies (18 papers), Animal Ecology and Behavior Studies (13 papers) and Wildlife Ecology and Conservation (10 papers). John Damuth is often cited by papers focused on Evolution and Paleontology Studies (18 papers), Animal Ecology and Behavior Studies (13 papers) and Wildlife Ecology and Conservation (10 papers). John Damuth collaborates with scholars based in United States, United Kingdom and Switzerland. John Damuth's co-authors include Christine M. Janis, I. Lorraine Heisler, Virginie Millien, Jessica M. Theodor, Blaire Van Valkenburgh, Xiaoming Wang, Bruce J. MacFadden, Amos Maritan, Jayanth R. Banavar and Andrea Rinaldo and has published in prestigious journals such as Nature, Science and Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences.

In The Last Decade

John Damuth

42 papers receiving 4.8k citations

Hit Papers

Population density and body size in mammals 1981 2026 1996 2011 1981 250 500 750
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. Population density and body size in mammals
    1981 910 citations John Damuth Nature 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 Damuth United States 30 2.7k 1.9k 1.5k 1.1k 811 42 5.3k
Felisa A. Smith United States 39 3.1k 1.2× 1.8k 0.9× 1.3k 0.9× 1.3k 1.2× 688 0.8× 91 5.9k
Charles R. Marshall United States 37 1.9k 0.7× 3.1k 1.6× 1.9k 1.3× 1.5k 1.3× 1.1k 1.4× 75 7.7k
John Alroy Australia 42 2.2k 0.8× 3.7k 1.9× 1.2k 0.8× 1.1k 0.9× 848 1.0× 87 6.4k
Elizabeth A. Hadly United States 40 2.7k 1.0× 1.3k 0.7× 1.1k 0.8× 1.1k 1.0× 1.1k 1.4× 112 5.2k
S. Kathleen Lyons United States 34 2.2k 0.8× 1.5k 0.8× 1.0k 0.7× 1.0k 0.9× 482 0.6× 68 4.1k
Samuel T. Turvey United Kingdom 39 3.8k 1.4× 1.3k 0.6× 916 0.6× 1.4k 1.2× 740 0.9× 184 6.0k
David W. Steadman United States 38 3.1k 1.1× 2.8k 1.4× 1.8k 1.2× 1.4k 1.2× 1.2k 1.4× 196 6.8k
Tamar Dayan Israel 49 5.1k 1.9× 2.2k 1.1× 3.2k 2.2× 1.8k 1.6× 1.3k 1.6× 151 8.9k
Mikael Fortelius Finland 49 3.3k 1.2× 5.0k 2.5× 1.6k 1.1× 687 0.6× 596 0.7× 160 7.9k
Michael J. Novacek United States 43 1.6k 0.6× 4.7k 2.4× 2.3k 1.5× 1.1k 1.0× 977 1.2× 116 7.1k

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Fields of papers citing papers by John Damuth

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Physical SciencesHealth SciencesLife SciencesSocial Sciences

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Co-authorship network of co-authors of John Damuth

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All Works

20 of 20 papers shown
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Damuth, John & Lev R. Ginzburg. (2024). Nonadaptive Selection. 1 indexed citations
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Ginzburg, Lev R. & John Damuth. (2022). The Issue Isn’t Which Model of Consumer Interference Is Right, but Which One Is Least Wrong. Frontiers in Ecology and Evolution. 10. 5 indexed citations
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Allesina, Stefano, Priyanga Amarasekare, Roger Arditi, et al.. (2015). Selection on stability across ecological scales. Trends in Ecology & Evolution. 30(7). 417–425. 74 indexed citations
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Damuth, John, Christine M. Janis, Kenny J. Travouillon, Michael Archer, & Suzanne J. Hand. (2012). Molar wear gradient analysis in extant and fossil kangaroos (Marsupialia, Macropodoidea). Journal of Vertebrate Paleontology. 32. 84–84. 2 indexed citations
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Damuth, John & Christine M. Janis. (2011). On the relationship between hypsodonty and feeding ecology in ungulate mammals, and its utility in palaeoecology. Biological reviews/Biological reviews of the Cambridge Philosophical Society. 86(3). 733–758. 295 indexed citations
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Liow, Lee Hsiang, Carl Simpson, Frédéric Bouchard, et al.. (2011). PIONEERING PARADIGMS AND MAGNIFICENT MANIFESTOS-LEIGH VAN VALEN'S PRICELESS CONTRIBUTIONS TO EVOLUTIONARY BIOLOGY. Evolution. 65(4). 917–922. 2 indexed citations
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Banavar, Jayanth R., Melanie E. Moses, James H. Brown, et al.. (2010). A general basis for quarter-power scaling in animals. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences. 107(36). 15816–15820. 158 indexed citations
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Eronen, Jussi T., Kai Puolamäki, Liping Liu, et al.. (2010). Precipitation and large herbivorous mammals I: estimates from present-day communities. Evolutionary ecology research. 12(2). 217–233. 86 indexed citations
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Eronen, Jussi T., P. David Polly, Marianne S. Fred, et al.. (2010). Ecometrics: The traits that bind the past and present together. Integrative Zoology. 5(2). 88–101. 77 indexed citations
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Banavar, Jayanth R., John Damuth, Amos Maritan, & Andrea Rinaldo. (2007). Scaling in Ecosystems and the Linkage of Macroecological Laws. Physical Review Letters. 98(6). 68104–68104. 30 indexed citations
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Damuth, John. (2007). A Macroevolutionary Explanation for Energy Equivalence in the Scaling of Body Size and Population Density. The American Naturalist. 169(5). 621–631. 65 indexed citations
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Millien, Virginie & John Damuth. (2004). CLIMATE CHANGE AND SIZE EVOLUTION IN AN ISLAND RODENT SPECIES: NEW PERSPECTIVES ON THE ISLAND RULE. Evolution. 58(6). 1353–1360. 304 indexed citations
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Millien, Virginie & John Damuth. (2004). CLIMATE CHANGE AND SIZE EVOLUTION IN AN ISLAND RODENT SPECIES: NEW PERSPECTIVES ON THE ISLAND RULE. Evolution. 58(6). 1353–1353. 4 indexed citations
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Banavar, Jayanth R., John Damuth, Amos Maritan, & Andrea Rinaldo. (2002). Supply–demand balance and metabolic scaling. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences. 99(16). 10506–10509. 186 indexed citations
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Janis, Christine M., John Damuth, & Jessica M. Theodor. (2002). The origins and evolution of the North American grassland biome: the story from the hoofed mammals. Palaeogeography Palaeoclimatology Palaeoecology. 177(1-2). 183–198. 151 indexed citations
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Janis, Christine M., John Damuth, & Jessica M. Theodor. (2000). Miocene ungulates and terrestrial primary productivity: Where have all the browsers gone?. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences. 97(14). 7899–7904. 204 indexed citations
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Damuth, John. (1993). Cope's rule, the island rule and the scaling of mammalian population density. Nature. 365(6448). 748–750. 196 indexed citations
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Damuth, John. (1987). Interspecific allometry of population density in mammals and other animals: the independence of body mass and population energy-use. Biological Journal of the Linnean Society. 31(3). 193–246. 439 indexed citations
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Damuth, John. (1985). SELECTION AMONG “SPECIES”: A FORMULATION IN TERMS OF NATURAL FUNCTIONAL UNITS. Evolution. 39(5). 1132–1146. 86 indexed citations
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Damuth, John. (1982). Analysis of the preservation of community structure in assemblages of fossil mammals. Paleobiology. 8(4). 434–446. 105 indexed citations

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