John Wieczorek

3.9k total citations · 1 hit paper
64 papers, 2.4k citations indexed

About

John Wieczorek is a scholar working on Ecological Modeling, Ecology and Molecular Biology. According to data from OpenAlex, John Wieczorek has authored 64 papers receiving a total of 2.4k indexed citations (citations by other indexed papers that have themselves been cited), including 35 papers in Ecological Modeling, 28 papers in Ecology and 22 papers in Molecular Biology. Recurrent topics in John Wieczorek's work include Species Distribution and Climate Change (35 papers), Environmental DNA in Biodiversity Studies (16 papers) and Genomics and Phylogenetic Studies (13 papers). John Wieczorek is often cited by papers focused on Species Distribution and Climate Change (35 papers), Environmental DNA in Biodiversity Studies (16 papers) and Genomics and Phylogenetic Studies (13 papers). John Wieczorek collaborates with scholars based in United States, Germany and Australia. John Wieczorek's co-authors include Robert Guralnick, Eileen A. Lacey, Qinghua Guo, Robert J. Hijmans, David Bloom, Tim Robertson, Markus Döring, Stan Blum, Dave Vieglais and Renato De Giovanni and has published in prestigious journals such as PLoS ONE, Trends in Ecology & Evolution and PLoS Biology.

In The Last Decade

John Wieczorek

57 papers receiving 2.2k citations

Hit Papers

Darwin Core: An Evolving Community-Developed Biodiversity... 2012 2026 2016 2021 2012 200 400 600
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. Darwin Core: An Evolving Community-Developed Biodiversity Data Standard
    2012 694 citations John Wieczorek, David Bloom et al. PLoS ONE 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 Wieczorek United States 23 1.1k 1.1k 620 431 373 64 2.4k
Lyubomir Penev Bulgaria 23 700 0.6× 610 0.6× 601 1.0× 442 1.0× 293 0.8× 111 2.0k
Dave Vieglais United States 11 910 0.8× 738 0.7× 342 0.6× 444 1.0× 223 0.6× 24 1.9k
Vincent Smith United Kingdom 26 492 0.4× 713 0.7× 834 1.3× 239 0.6× 255 0.7× 74 2.3k
Renato De Giovanni Brazil 11 716 0.6× 457 0.4× 328 0.5× 263 0.6× 234 0.6× 24 1.4k
Timothée Poisot Canada 33 863 0.8× 1.6k 1.5× 2.0k 3.2× 1.3k 3.0× 373 1.0× 110 4.2k
Alexandra Swanson United States 16 1.2k 1.1× 1.7k 1.6× 343 0.6× 343 0.8× 213 0.6× 20 3.0k
Margaret Kosmala United States 17 1.3k 1.1× 1.7k 1.6× 337 0.5× 343 0.8× 179 0.5× 23 3.0k
Elizabeth R. Ellwood United States 20 907 0.8× 604 0.6× 628 1.0× 463 1.1× 108 0.3× 42 1.7k
Tim Vines Canada 16 411 0.4× 808 0.8× 913 1.5× 737 1.7× 279 0.7× 27 2.8k
Ian Wang United States 31 664 0.6× 1.0k 0.9× 1.1k 1.8× 567 1.3× 677 1.8× 97 4.0k

Countries citing papers authored by John Wieczorek

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Fields of papers citing papers by John Wieczorek

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Physical SciencesHealth SciencesLife SciencesSocial Sciences

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Co-authorship network of co-authors of John Wieczorek

This figure shows the co-authorship network connecting the top 25 collaborators of John Wieczorek. A scholar is included among the top collaborators of John Wieczorek 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 Wieczorek. John Wieczorek 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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Marcer, Arnald, et al.. (2023). GeoPick: Georeferencing Made Easy. Biodiversity Information Science and Standards. 7.
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Meyer, R.M., Ward Appeltans, William D. Duncan, et al.. (2023). Aligning Standards Communities for Omics Biodiversity Data: Sustainable Darwin Core-MIxS Interoperability. ZooKeys. 11. e112420–e112420. 6 indexed citations
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Meyer, R.M., et al.. (2021). Aligning Standards Communities: Sustainable Darwin Core MIxS Interoperability. Biodiversity Information Science and Standards. 5. 1 indexed citations
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Belbin, Lee, et al.. (2020). Task Group 2 – Data Quality Tests and Assertions. Biodiversity Information Science and Standards. 4. 1 indexed citations
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Chapman, Arthur D., Lee Belbin, John Wieczorek, et al.. (2020). Developing Standards for Improved Data Quality and for Selecting Fit for Use Biodiversity Data. Biodiversity Information Science and Standards. 4. 23 indexed citations
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Hobern, Donald, Brigitte Baptiste, Kyle Copas, et al.. (2019). Connecting data and expertise: a new alliance for biodiversity knowledge. Biodiversity Data Journal. 7. e33679–e33679. 44 indexed citations
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LeFebvre, Michelle J., Laura Brenskelle, John Wieczorek, et al.. (2019). ZooArchNet: Connecting zooarchaeological specimens to the biodiversity and archaeology data networks. PLoS ONE. 14(4). e0215369–e0215369. 18 indexed citations
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Belbin, Lee, et al.. (2018). Data Quality Task Group 2: Tests and Assertions. Biodiversity Information Science and Standards. 2. e25608–e25608. 2 indexed citations
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Wieczorek, John, Olaf Bánki, Stan Blum, et al.. (2014). Meeting Report: GBIF hackathon-workshop on Darwin Core and sample data (22-24 May 2013). Standards in Genomic Sciences. 9(3). 585–598. 8 indexed citations
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Robertson, Tim, Markus Döring, Robert Guralnick, et al.. (2014). The GBIF Integrated Publishing Toolkit: Facilitating the Efficient Publishing of Biodiversity Data on the Internet. PLoS ONE. 9(8). e102623–e102623. 151 indexed citations
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Deck, John, Katharine Barker, Reed S. Beaman, et al.. (2013). Clarifying Concepts and Terms in Biodiversity Informatics. Standards in Genomic Sciences. 8(2). 352–359. 11 indexed citations
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Tuama, Éamonn Ó, John Deck, Markus Döring, et al.. (2012). Meeting Report: Hackathon-Workshop on Darwin Core and MIxS Standards Alignment (February 2012). Standards in Genomic Sciences. 7(1). 166–170. 6 indexed citations
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Doherty, Paul J., et al.. (2011). Georeferencing Incidents from Locality Descriptions and its Applications: a Case Study from Yosemite National Park Search and Rescue. Transactions in GIS. 15(6). 775–793. 15 indexed citations
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Guo, Qinghua, et al.. (2008). Positioning localities based on spatial assertions. International Journal of Geographical Information Systems. 23(11). 1471–1501. 34 indexed citations
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Hyam, Roger, Robert Kukla, John Wieczorek, et al.. (2006). Developing a core ontology for taxonomic data.. Edinburgh Napier Research Repository (Edinburgh Napier University).
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Peterson, A. Townsend, Carla Cicero, & John Wieczorek. (2005). Free and Open Access to Bird Specimen Data: Why?. The Auk. 122(3). 987–987. 8 indexed citations
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Wieczorek, John, et al.. (2004). Determining Space from Place for Natural History Collections In a Distributed Digital Library Environment. D-Lib Magazine. 10. 12 indexed citations
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Lacey, Eileen A. & John Wieczorek. (2003). Oliver Pearson (1915-2003). Mastozoología neotropical. 10(1). 195–205. 1 indexed citations
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Wieczorek, John, et al.. (1964). THE OCCURRENCE OF ACTINOMYCETES IN THE REGION OF THE WERENSKIOLD GLACIER (SW SPITSBERGEN) IN RELATION TO ECOLOGIC FACTORS.. PubMed. 12. 14–24. 1 indexed citations
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Wieczorek, John, et al.. (1961). Occurrence of Actinomycetes in Spitsbergen in relation to ecologic factors.. PubMed. 9. 253–60. 1 indexed citations

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