John R. Poulsen

21.1k total citations · 1 hit paper
85 papers, 10.2k citations indexed

About

John R. Poulsen is a scholar working on Ecology, Nature and Landscape Conservation and Global and Planetary Change. According to data from OpenAlex, John R. Poulsen has authored 85 papers receiving a total of 10.2k indexed citations (citations by other indexed papers that have themselves been cited), including 54 papers in Ecology, 36 papers in Nature and Landscape Conservation and 23 papers in Global and Planetary Change. Recurrent topics in John R. Poulsen's work include Wildlife Ecology and Conservation (40 papers), Ecology and Vegetation Dynamics Studies (32 papers) and Primate Behavior and Ecology (21 papers). John R. Poulsen is often cited by papers focused on Wildlife Ecology and Conservation (40 papers), Ecology and Vegetation Dynamics Studies (32 papers) and Primate Behavior and Ecology (21 papers). John R. Poulsen collaborates with scholars based in United States, United Kingdom and Gabon. John R. Poulsen's co-authors include Connie J. Clark, Benjamin M. Bolker, Shane W. Geange, M. Brooks, Jada-Simone S. White, M. Henry H. Stevens, V. Thomas Parker, Craig W. Osenberg, Thomas B. Smith and Edward F. Connor and has published in prestigious journals such as Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, PLoS ONE and Trends in Ecology & Evolution.

In The Last Decade

John R. Poulsen

82 papers receiving 9.8k 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.

Generalized linear mixed models: a practical guide for ecology and evolution

2009 6.8k citations Benjamin M. Bolker, Connie J. Clark et al. profile →

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Name	h						Papers	Cites
John R. Poulsen United States	32	4.7k	3.6k	3.4k	2.2k	1.2k	85	10.2k
Connie J. Clark United States	31	4.1k 0.9×	3.3k 0.9×	3.2k 0.9×	1.9k 0.9×	1.4k 1.2×	80	10.6k
Truman P. Young United States	63	4.7k 1.0×	5.0k 1.4×	3.8k 1.1×	2.2k 1.0×	1.0k 0.9×	192	10.3k
Árni Magnússon Iceland	18	4.0k 0.9×	2.8k 0.8×	2.8k 0.8×	2.4k 1.1×	706 0.6×	46	10.4k
Anders Nielsen Denmark	29	4.7k 1.0×	3.7k 1.0×	2.9k 0.9×	3.5k 1.6×	645 0.5×	77	11.7k
Kasper Kristensen Denmark	20	3.6k 0.8×	2.5k 0.7×	2.5k 0.7×	2.2k 1.0×	571 0.5×	35	9.0k
Casper Willestofte Berg Denmark	17	3.5k 0.8×	2.5k 0.7×	2.4k 0.7×	2.2k 1.0×	568 0.5×	41	8.9k
M. Henry H. Stevens United States	20	3.4k 0.7×	2.9k 0.8×	2.8k 0.8×	1.6k 0.8×	496 0.4×	39	8.2k
M. Brooks Denmark	12	6.0k 1.3×	4.0k 1.1×	4.7k 1.4×	2.9k 1.3×	1.1k 0.9×	22	14.7k
Michael J. Lawes South Africa	44	3.3k 0.7×	3.5k 1.0×	2.2k 0.6×	2.8k 1.3×	949 0.8×	196	7.4k
Piotr Tryjanowski Poland	48	6.0k 1.3×	2.4k 0.7×	3.6k 1.1×	2.2k 1.0×	626 0.5×	420	10.0k

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DeSisto, Camille, et al.. (2025). Functional Traits and Phylogenetic Effects Drive Germination of Lemur‐Passed Seeds. Ecology and Evolution. 15(2). e70881–e70881. 2 indexed citations

Núñez, Chase L., James S. Clark, & John R. Poulsen. (2024). Disturbance sensitivity shapes patterns of tree species distribution in Afrotropical lowland rainforests more than climate or soil. Ecology and Evolution. 14(5). e11329–e11329. 1 indexed citations

Gottesman, Benjamin L., et al.. (2024). Impacts of logging, hunting, and conservation on vocalizing biodiversity in Gabon. Biological Conservation. 296. 110726–110726. 5 indexed citations

Beirne, Christopher, et al.. (2023). Linking crop availability, forest elephant visitation and perceptions of human–elephant interactions in villages bordering Ivindo National Park, Gabon. Oryx. 58(2). 261–268. 3 indexed citations

Beirne, Christopher, et al.. (2023). Fluid hunter motivation in Central Africa: Effects on behaviour, bushmeat and income. People and Nature. 5(5). 1480–1496. 4 indexed citations

Meier, Amelia, Stéphanie Bourgeois, Evan M. Adams, et al.. (2023). Fruit availability and human disturbance influence forest elephant group size. Animal Behaviour. 203. 171–182. 1 indexed citations

Picard, Nicolas, Frédéric Mortier, Pierre Ploton, et al.. (2021). Using Model Analysis to Unveil Hidden Patterns in Tropical Forest Structures. Frontiers in Ecology and Evolution. 9. 4 indexed citations

Núñez, Chase L., et al.. (2019). Stronger together: comparing and integrating camera trap, visual, and dung survey data in tropical forest communities. Ecosphere. 10(12). 16 indexed citations

Hawley, Caitlin, Christopher Beirne, Amelia Meier, & John R. Poulsen. (2018). Conspecific investigation of a deceased forest elephant (Loxodonta cyclotis). Pachyderm. 59. 97–100. 7 indexed citations

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Upstill‐Goddard, Robert C., Matthew Salter, P. J. Mann, et al.. (2017). The riverine source of CH ₄ and N ₂ O from the Republic of Congo, western Congo Basin. Biogeosciences. 14(9). 2267–2281. 27 indexed citations

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Poulsen, John R., et al.. (2017). A pantropical assessment of vertebrate physical damage to forest seedlings and the effects of defaunation. Global Ecology and Conservation. 11. 188–195. 23 indexed citations

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Upstill‐Goddard, Robert C., Matthew Salter, P. J. Mann, et al.. (2016). The riverine source of tropospheric CH ₄ and N ₂ O from theRepublic of Congo, Western Congo Basin. 1 indexed citations

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Miao, Zewei, Sally E. Koerner, Vincent P. Medjibe, & John R. Poulsen. (2016). Wanted: new allometric equations for large lianas and African lianas. Biotropica. 48(5). 561–564. 7 indexed citations

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Poulsen, John R., et al.. (2016). Telemetric tracking of scatterhoarding and seed fate in a Central African forest. Biotropica. 49(2). 170–176. 18 indexed citations

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Wang, Zhaohui Aleck, P. J. Mann, Katherine A. Hoering, et al.. (2013). Inorganic carbon speciation and fluxes in the Congo River. Geophysical Research Letters. 40(3). 511–516. 79 indexed citations

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Saatchi, S. S., et al.. (2012). Lidar Estimation of Aboveground Biomass in a Tropical Coastal Forest of Gabon. AGU Fall Meeting Abstracts. 2012. 1 indexed citations

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Levey, Douglas J., Gustavo A. Londoño, Judit Ungvári, et al.. (2009). Urban mockingbirds quickly learn to identify individual humans. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences. 106(22). 8959–8962. 100 indexed citations

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Poulsen, John R., et al.. (2009). Bushmeat Supply and Consumption in a Tropical Logging Concession in Northern Congo. Conservation Biology. 23(6). 1597–1608. 136 indexed citations

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Poulsen, John R., et al.. (2007). Plants as Reef Fish: Fitting the Functional Form of Seedling Recruitment. The American Naturalist. 170(2). 167–183. 69 indexed citations

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Clark, Connie J., John R. Poulsen, & V. Thomas Parker. (2001). The Role of Arboreal Seed Dispersal Groups on the Seed Rain of a Lowland Tropical Forest1. Biotropica. 33(4). 606–606. 92 indexed citations

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