John Waller

1.3k total citations · 1 hit paper
22 papers, 590 citations indexed

About

John Waller is a scholar working on Ecology, Evolution, Behavior and Systematics, Ecological Modeling and Molecular Biology. According to data from OpenAlex, John Waller has authored 22 papers receiving a total of 590 indexed citations (citations by other indexed papers that have themselves been cited), including 10 papers in Ecology, Evolution, Behavior and Systematics, 10 papers in Ecological Modeling and 7 papers in Molecular Biology. Recurrent topics in John Waller's work include Species Distribution and Climate Change (10 papers), Animal Behavior and Reproduction (8 papers) and Genomics and Phylogenetic Studies (6 papers). John Waller is often cited by papers focused on Species Distribution and Climate Change (10 papers), Animal Behavior and Reproduction (8 papers) and Genomics and Phylogenetic Studies (6 papers). John Waller collaborates with scholars based in Sweden, United States and Slovakia. John Waller's co-authors include Erik Svensson, Michael C. Orr, Mark J. Costello, Chao‐Dong Zhu, Huijie Qiao, Qinmin Yang, Pieter Provoost, Alice C. Hughes, Keping Ma and Miguel Gómez‐Llano and has published in prestigious journals such as Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, SHILAP Revista de lepidopterología and The American Naturalist.

In The Last Decade

John Waller

21 papers receiving 583 citations

Hit Papers

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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. Sampling biases shape our view of the natural world
    2021 292 citations Alice C. Hughes, Michael C. Orr et al. Ecography 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 Waller Sweden 9 263 253 240 189 153 22 590
Megan J. Hirst Australia 4 349 1.3× 289 1.1× 320 1.3× 309 1.6× 108 0.7× 11 679
Larisa E. Harding United States 12 136 0.5× 172 0.7× 345 1.4× 132 0.7× 117 0.8× 20 672
Amanda J. Chunco United States 8 438 1.7× 321 1.3× 343 1.4× 356 1.9× 237 1.5× 8 820
Joseph J. Apodaca United States 10 328 1.2× 209 0.8× 293 1.2× 166 0.9× 249 1.6× 19 677
Antonín Macháč Czechia 14 274 1.0× 395 1.6× 249 1.0× 375 2.0× 224 1.5× 21 803
Rachel E. Walsh United States 7 234 0.9× 161 0.6× 233 1.0× 144 0.8× 96 0.6× 11 508
Aino Juslén Finland 15 212 0.8× 476 1.9× 246 1.0× 214 1.1× 56 0.4× 36 852
Amandine Blin France 8 289 1.1× 172 0.7× 273 1.1× 166 0.9× 85 0.6× 11 677
Evgeniy Meyke Finland 5 201 0.8× 278 1.1× 228 0.9× 231 1.2× 112 0.7× 7 554
Carlos Eduardo Ramos de Sant’Ana Brazil 5 167 0.6× 217 0.9× 258 1.1× 299 1.6× 118 0.8× 13 632

Countries citing papers authored by John Waller

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Fields of papers citing papers by John Waller

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Physical SciencesHealth SciencesLife SciencesSocial Sciences

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Co-authorship network of co-authors of John Waller

This figure shows the co-authorship network connecting the top 25 collaborators of John Waller. A scholar is included among the top collaborators of John Waller 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 John Waller. John Waller is excluded from the visualization to improve readability, since they are connected to all nodes in the network.

All Works

20 of 20 papers shown
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Mikryukov, Vladimir, Kessy Abarenkov, Shawn W. Laffan, et al.. (2024). PhyloNext: a pipeline for phylogenetic diversity analysis of GBIF-mediated data. SHILAP Revista de lepidopterología. 24(1). 76–76. 2 indexed citations
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Waller, John. (2023). Processing Country Centroids at the Global Biodiversity Information Facility. Biodiversity Information Science and Standards. 7. 3 indexed citations
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Svensson, Erik, Mads F. Schou, John Waller, et al.. (2023). Heritable variation in thermal profiles is associated with reproductive success in the world’s largest bird. Evolution Letters. 8(2). 200–211. 3 indexed citations
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Svensson, Erik, Miguel Gómez‐Llano, & John Waller. (2022). Out of the tropics: Macroevolutionary size trends in an old insect order are shaped by temperature and predators. Journal of Biogeography. 50(3). 489–502. 7 indexed citations
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Svensson, Erik, Miguel Gómez‐Llano, & John Waller. (2022). Out of the tropics: Macroevolutionary size trends in an old insect order are shaped by temperature and predators. Zenodo (CERN European Organization for Nuclear Research). 4 indexed citations
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Waller, John. (2022). Finding Data Gaps in the GBIF Backbone Taxonomy. Biodiversity Information Science and Standards. 6. 2 indexed citations
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Marcer, Arnald, Arthur D. Chapman, John Wieczorek, et al.. (2022). Uncertainty matters: ascertaining where specimens in natural history collections come from and its implications for predicting species distributions. Ecography. 2022(9). 31 indexed citations
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Waller, John, et al.. (2021). GBIF Data Processing and Validation. Biodiversity Information Science and Standards. 5. 3 indexed citations
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Hughes, Alice C., Michael C. Orr, Keping Ma, et al.. (2021). Sampling biases shape our view of the natural world. Ecography. 44(9). 1259–1269. 292 indexed citations breakdown →
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Svensson, Erik, Miguel Gómez‐Llano, & John Waller. (2020). Selection on phenotypic plasticity favors thermal canalization. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences. 117(47). 29767–29774. 34 indexed citations
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Waller, John. (2020). Outlier Detection at GBIF Using DBSCAN. Biodiversity Information Science and Standards. 4. 1 indexed citations
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Robertson, Tim, Serge Belongie, Hartwig Adam, et al.. (2019). Training Machines to Identify Species using GBIF-mediated Datasets. Biodiversity Information Science and Standards. 3. 4 indexed citations
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Waller, John, et al.. (2019). The odonate phenotypic database, a new open data resource for comparative studies of an old insect order. Scientific Data. 6(1). 316–316. 22 indexed citations
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Copas, Kyle, Tim Robertson, Serge Belongie, et al.. (2019). Training machines to improve species identification using GBIF-mediated datasets. 2019. 1 indexed citations
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Waller, John. (2019). Data Location Quality at GBIF. Biodiversity Information Science and Standards. 3.
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Waller, John & Erik Svensson. (2017). Body size evolution in an old insect order: No evidence for Cope's Rule in spite of fitness benefits of large size. Evolution. 71(9). 2178–2193. 60 indexed citations
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Waller, John & Erik Svensson. (2015). The measurement of selection when detection is imperfect: How good are naïve methods?. Methods in Ecology and Evolution. 7(5). 538–548. 10 indexed citations
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Gosden, Thomas P., John Waller, & Erik Svensson. (2015). Asymmetric isolating barriers between different microclimatic environments caused by low immigrant survival. Proceedings of the Royal Society B Biological Sciences. 282(1802). 20142459–20142459. 11 indexed citations
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Kim, Diana, John Waller, Andrea S. Aspbury, & Caitlin R. Gabor. (2014). Mating Preferences of the Gynogenetic Amazon Molly Differ Between Populations Sympatric with Different Host Species. Ethology. 120(11). 1053–1061. 5 indexed citations
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Svensson, Erik & John Waller. (2013). Ecology and Sexual Selection: Evolution of Wing Pigmentation in Calopterygid Damselflies in Relation to Latitude, Sexual Dimorphism, and Speciation. The American Naturalist. 182(5). E174–E195. 75 indexed citations

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