Jonathan Roughgarden

13.5k total citations · 3 hit papers
106 papers, 10.0k citations indexed

About

Jonathan Roughgarden is a scholar working on Ecology, Ecology, Evolution, Behavior and Systematics and Global and Planetary Change. According to data from OpenAlex, Jonathan Roughgarden has authored 106 papers receiving a total of 10.0k indexed citations (citations by other indexed papers that have themselves been cited), including 48 papers in Ecology, 34 papers in Ecology, Evolution, Behavior and Systematics and 34 papers in Global and Planetary Change. Recurrent topics in Jonathan Roughgarden's work include Plant and animal studies (28 papers), Marine and coastal plant biology (21 papers) and Animal Ecology and Behavior Studies (17 papers). Jonathan Roughgarden is often cited by papers focused on Plant and animal studies (28 papers), Marine and coastal plant biology (21 papers) and Animal Ecology and Behavior Studies (17 papers). Jonathan Roughgarden collaborates with scholars based in United States, Japan and United Kingdom. Jonathan Roughgarden's co-authors include Steven D. Gaines, Hugh P. Possingham, Yoh Iwasa, Stephen W. Pacala, David A. King, Stephen K. Brown, Lloyd Goldwasser, Charles Baxter, John D. Rummel and Henry M. Wilbur and has published in prestigious journals such as Science, Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences and Trends in Ecology & Evolution.

In The Last Decade

Jonathan Roughgarden

106 papers receiving 8.5k citations

Hit Papers

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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.

Recruitment Dynamics in Complex Life Cycles

1988 991 citations Jonathan Roughgarden, Steven D. Gaines et al. Science profile →
Evolution of Niche Width

1972 778 citations Jonathan Roughgarden The American Naturalist profile →
Theory of Population Genetics and Evolutionary Ecology: An Introduction.

1980 405 citations Jonathan Roughgarden et al. Evolution profile →

Peers — A (Enhanced Table)

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

Name	h						Papers	Cites
Jonathan Roughgarden United States	51	4.7k	3.5k	2.9k	2.7k	2.5k	106	10.0k
Nelson G. Hairston United States	61	7.8k 1.7×	3.1k 0.9×	4.2k 1.4×	5.4k 2.0×	2.5k 1.0×	187	15.9k
Gary A. Polis United States	45	9.2k 2.0×	3.8k 1.1×	5.6k 1.9×	5.5k 2.1×	1.8k 0.7×	71	16.6k
William W. Murdoch United States	56	5.0k 1.1×	2.4k 0.7×	3.4k 1.1×	3.9k 1.4×	881 0.4×	113	11.8k
Kevin S. McCann Canada	49	6.9k 1.5×	3.3k 0.9×	3.6k 1.2×	4.5k 1.7×	1.4k 0.5×	157	12.8k
G. Evelyn Hutchinson United States	27	4.5k 1.0×	1.4k 0.4×	2.3k 0.8×	3.0k 1.1×	1.9k 0.8×	70	9.6k
Lawrence B. Slobodkin United States	33	3.2k 0.7×	1.6k 0.5×	1.7k 0.6×	2.4k 0.9×	945 0.4×	118	7.1k
Marc Mangel United States	49	5.3k 1.1×	5.3k 1.5×	2.3k 0.8×	3.3k 1.3×	806 0.3×	178	11.2k
Michael E. Gilpin United States	38	4.7k 1.0×	1.6k 0.5×	2.8k 1.0×	3.7k 1.4×	522 0.2×	80	9.8k
Lennart Persson Sweden	69	7.3k 1.6×	5.4k 1.5×	2.6k 0.9×	8.5k 3.2×	1.7k 0.7×	166	14.5k
Stephen D. Fretwell United States	17	6.2k 1.3×	2.1k 0.6×	4.3k 1.5×	4.5k 1.7×	562 0.2×	26	10.4k

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Roughgarden, Jonathan, et al.. (2002). Distributions of larval rockfishes Sebastes spp. across nearshore fronts in a coastal upwelling region. Marine Ecology Progress Series. 242. 215–228. 60 indexed citations

Roughgarden, Jonathan. (1998). How to Manage Fisheries. Ecological Applications. 8(1). S160–S160. 5 indexed citations

Connolly, Sean R. & Jonathan Roughgarden. (1998). A Latitudinal Gradient in Northeast Pacific Intertidal Community Structure: Evidence for an Oceanographically Based Synthesis of Marine Community Theory. The American Naturalist. 151(4). 311–326. 160 indexed citations

Roughgarden, Jonathan, Aviv Bergman, Sharoni Shafir, & Charles Taylor. (1996). Adaptive computation in ecology and evolution: a guide for future research. Addison-Wesley Longman Publishing Co., Inc. eBooks. 25–30. 14 indexed citations

Shafir, Sharoni & Jonathan Roughgarden. (1996). The effect of memory length on individual fitness in a lizard. Addison-Wesley Longman Publishing Co., Inc. eBooks. 173–186. 5 indexed citations

Roughgarden, Jonathan, et al.. (1994). Dynamics of the rocky intertidal zone with remarks on generalization in ecology. Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society B Biological Sciences. 343(1303). 79–85. 45 indexed citations

Roughgarden, Jonathan. (1992). Comments on the Paper by Losos: Character Displacement versus Taxon Loop. Copeia. 1992(2). 288–288. 14 indexed citations

Brink, K. H., John M. Bane, C. W. Fairall, et al.. (1992). Coastal Ocean Processes : a science prospectus. Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution eBooks. 24 indexed citations

McLaughlin, John F. & Jonathan Roughgarden. (1992). Predation across spatial scales in heterogeneous environments. Theoretical Population Biology. 41(3). 277–299. 31 indexed citations

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Roughgarden, Jonathan. (1991). Rule of thumb. Behavioral and Brain Sciences. 14(1). 104–105. 3 indexed citations

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Roughgarden, Jonathan, Robert M. May, & Simon A. Levin. (1989). Perspectives in Ecological Theory. Princeton University Press eBooks. 161 indexed citations

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Blower, Sally & Jonathan Roughgarden. (1988). Parasitic castration: host species preferences, size-selectivity and spatial heterogeneity. Oecologia. 75(4). 512–515. 25 indexed citations

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Gaines, Steven D. & Jonathan Roughgarden. (1987). Fish in Offshore Kelp Forests Affect Recruitment to Intertidal Barnacle Populations. Science. 235(4787). 479–481. 174 indexed citations

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Roughgarden, Jonathan & Yoh Iwasa. (1986). Dynamics of a metapopulation with space-limited subpopulations. Theoretical Population Biology. 29(2). 235–261. 123 indexed citations

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Iwasa, Yoh & Jonathan Roughgarden. (1985). Evolution in a Metapopolation with Space-Limited Subpopulations. Mathematical Medicine and Biology A Journal of the IMA. 2(2). 93–107. 4 indexed citations

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Rummel, John D. & Jonathan Roughgarden. (1985). A THEORY OF FAUNAL BUILDUP FOR COMPETITION COMMUNITIES. Evolution. 39(5). 1009–1033. 95 indexed citations

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Roughgarden, Jonathan, Warren P. Porter, & David G. Heckel. (1981). Resource partitioning of space and its relationship to body temperature in Anolis lizard populations. Oecologia. 50(2). 256–264. 71 indexed citations

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Heckel, David G. & Jonathan Roughgarden. (1979). A Technique For estimating the Size of Lizard Populations. Ecology. 60(5). 966–975. 47 indexed citations

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Roughgarden, Jonathan. (1977). Basic Ideas in Ecology: Theoretical Ecology . Principles and Applications. Robert M. May, Ed. Saunders, Philadelphia, 1976. viii, 318 pp., illus. $13.50.. Science. 196(4285). 51–51. 5 indexed citations

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Roughgarden, Jonathan. (1974). The Fundamental and Realized Niche of a Solitary Population. The American Naturalist. 108(960). 232–235. 19 indexed citations

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