Leon Kelso

1.2k total citations · 1 hit paper
37 papers, 801 citations indexed

About

Leon Kelso is a scholar working on Management, Monitoring, Policy and Law, Oceanography and Ecology, Evolution, Behavior and Systematics. According to data from OpenAlex, Leon Kelso has authored 37 papers receiving a total of 801 indexed citations (citations by other indexed papers that have themselves been cited), including 7 papers in Management, Monitoring, Policy and Law, 4 papers in Oceanography and 4 papers in Ecology, Evolution, Behavior and Systematics. Recurrent topics in Leon Kelso's work include Environmental and Biological Research in Conflict Zones (6 papers), Geological Studies and Exploration (4 papers) and Marine and environmental studies (4 papers). Leon Kelso is often cited by papers focused on Environmental and Biological Research in Conflict Zones (6 papers), Geological Studies and Exploration (4 papers) and Marine and environmental studies (4 papers). Leon Kelso collaborates with scholars based in . Leon Kelso's co-authors include R. H. Whittaker, David B. Wake, James Burton, Margaret M. Nice, D. W. R. McKinley, Konrad Lorenz, H. H. Shorey, David W. Johnston, Duncan C. McKinley and Robert Johnston and has published in prestigious journals such as Copeia, The Wilson Journal of Ornithology and Bird-Banding.

In The Last Decade

Leon Kelso

32 papers receiving 678 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.

Communities and Ecosystems

1971 384 citations Leon Kelso et al. Bird-Banding profile →

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

Name	h						Papers	Cites
Leon Kelso	9	320	268	184	179	83	37	801
Miklos D. F. Udvardy Canada	10	393 1.2×	284 1.1×	314 1.7×	130 0.7×	101 1.2×	33	887
Dennis M. Power United States	14	514 1.6×	299 1.1×	313 1.7×	147 0.8×	54 0.7×	32	1.1k
Margery J. Milne United States	6	389 1.2×	275 1.0×	269 1.5×	172 1.0×	25 0.3×	21	825
Lorus J. Milne United States	6	371 1.2×	275 1.0×	265 1.4×	166 0.9×	23 0.3×	23	797
Hermann Remmert Germany	14	246 0.8×	184 0.7×	184 1.0×	149 0.8×	19 0.2×	41	624
Frederick R. Gehlbach United States	17	447 1.4×	265 1.0×	290 1.6×	363 2.0×	41 0.5×	52	832
Roger J. Lincoln United Kingdom	14	747 2.3×	149 0.6×	199 1.1×	336 1.9×	118 1.4×	31	1.2k
Anthony J. Whitten United Kingdom	14	453 1.4×	290 1.1×	259 1.4×	130 0.7×	42 0.5×	25	1.1k
Thomas R. Howell United States	21	798 2.5×	180 0.7×	514 2.8×	112 0.6×	51 0.6×	70	1.1k
Pierce Brodkorb United States	15	479 1.5×	375 1.4×	152 0.8×	100 0.6×	543 6.5×	51	1.1k

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Co-authorship network of co-authors of Leon Kelso

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

All Works

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20 of 20 papers shown

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Kelso, Leon, et al.. (1979). Owls by Day and Night. Bird-Banding. 50(2). 199–199.

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Johnston, David W., et al.. (1979). Working Bibliography of Owls of the World. With Summaries of Current Taxonomy and Distributional Status. Bird-Banding. 50(2). 199–199. 9 indexed citations

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Kelso, Leon, et al.. (1978). Letters from North America. Bird-Banding. 49(3). 295–295. 4 indexed citations

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Kelso, Leon, et al.. (1977). Composition and Distribution of USSR Avifauna. Non-Passeriformes. (Sostav i paspredelenie ptits Fauny SSSR. Nevorobinye). Bird-Banding. 48(1). 89–89. 2 indexed citations

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Kelso, Leon, et al.. (1972). Vertebrate Animals and Their Urbanization in Poltava City and Vicinity (Pozvonochnye zhivotnye i urbanizatsiya ikh v usloviyakh goroda Poltavy). Bird-Banding. 43(1). 77–77. 1 indexed citations

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Kelso, Leon, et al.. (1972). Aftercare of Oil-Covered Birds. Bird-Banding. 43(1). 77–77. 5 indexed citations

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Kelso, Leon, et al.. (1972). Owls -- Their Natural and Unnatural History. Bird-Banding. 43(1). 74–74. 16 indexed citations

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Kelso, Leon, et al.. (1972). Birds of Chukotsk Peninsula and Wrangel Island. Part I. (Ptitsy Chukotskogo poluostrova i ostrova Vrangelya. Chast I). Bird-Banding. 43(4). 307–307. 7 indexed citations

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Kelso, Leon, et al.. (1972). Annual Review of Ecology and Systematics. Vol. 1. Bird-Banding. 43(2). 156–156. 3 indexed citations

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Kelso, Leon, et al.. (1971). Duty, Honor, Empire: The Life and Times of Colonel Richard Meinertzhagen. Bird-Banding. 42(3). 243–243. 2 indexed citations

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Wake, David B., et al.. (1971). The Origin of Terrestrial Vertebrates. Copeia. 1971(4). 762–762. 101 indexed citations

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Kelso, Leon & George M. Van Dyne. (1971). The Ecosystem Concept in Natural Resource Management. Bird-Banding. 42(4). 320–320. 1 indexed citations

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Kelso, Leon, et al.. (1971). Birds of the Southern Kurile Islands. (Ptitsy yuzhnykh kurilskikh ostrovov). Bird-Banding. 42(1). 73–73. 1 indexed citations

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Kelso, Leon, et al.. (1971). Environ / Mental: Essays on the Planet as a Home. Bird-Banding. 42(3). 244–244. 14 indexed citations

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Kelso, Leon, et al.. (1970). The Conservation Fraud. Bird-Banding. 41(3). 260–260. 2 indexed citations

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Kelso, Leon, et al.. (1970). Life at High Latitudes, as Exemplixed by Birdsi (Zhizn v vysokikh shirotakh, na primere ptits). Bird-Banding. 41(2). 161–161. 4 indexed citations

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Kelso, Leon, et al.. (1969). Birds of the Kolyma Highlands. (Ptitsy Kolymskogo Nagorya). Bird-Banding. 40(4). 350–350. 1 indexed citations

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Kelso, Leon, et al.. (1969). Biology and Economic Value of Birds of the Moscow Region and Adjacent Territories. Bird-Banding. 40(3). 274–274. 2 indexed citations

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Kelso, Leon, et al.. (1968). Birds of the USSR. (Ptitsy SSSR). Bird-Banding. 39(4). 331–331. 4 indexed citations

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Kelso, Leon, et al.. (1967). The Molt of Birds. (Die Mauser der Vögel). Bird-Banding. 38(4). 335–335. 1 indexed citations

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