Miguel Nakamura

16.2k total citations · 3 hit papers
31 papers, 5.4k citations indexed

About

Miguel Nakamura is a scholar working on Ecology, Ecological Modeling and Nature and Landscape Conservation. According to data from OpenAlex, Miguel Nakamura has authored 31 papers receiving a total of 5.4k indexed citations (citations by other indexed papers that have themselves been cited), including 12 papers in Ecology, 9 papers in Ecological Modeling and 8 papers in Nature and Landscape Conservation. Recurrent topics in Miguel Nakamura's work include Species Distribution and Climate Change (9 papers), Wildlife Ecology and Conservation (6 papers) and Ecology and Vegetation Dynamics Studies (6 papers). Miguel Nakamura is often cited by papers focused on Species Distribution and Climate Change (9 papers), Wildlife Ecology and Conservation (6 papers) and Ecology and Vegetation Dynamics Studies (6 papers). Miguel Nakamura collaborates with scholars based in Mexico, United States and Spain. Miguel Nakamura's co-authors include A. Townsend Peterson, Richard G. Pearson, Jorge Soberón, Christopher J. Raxworthy, Enrique Martínez‐Meyer, Robert P. Anderson, Miguel B. Araújo, Richard G. Pearson, Víctor Pérez‐Abreu and J. Andrés Christen and has published in prestigious journals such as Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, SHILAP Revista de lepidopterología and PLoS ONE.

In The Last Decade

Miguel Nakamura

31 papers receiving 5.3k 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.

ORIGINAL ARTICLE: Predicting species distributions from small numbers of occurrence records: a test case using cryptic geckos in Madagascar

2006 2.5k citations Richard G. Pearson, Christopher J. Raxworthy et al. Journal of Biogeography profile →
Ecological Niches and Geographic Distributions (MPB-49)

2011 1.4k citations A. Townsend Peterson, Jorge Soberón et al. Princeton University Press eBooks profile →
Niches and distributional areas: Concepts, methods, and assumptions

2009 945 citations Jorge Soberón, Miguel Nakamura profile →

Peers — A (Enhanced Table)

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

Name	h						Papers	Cites
Miguel Nakamura Mexico	14	4.0k	2.6k	2.1k	1.3k	869	31	5.4k
Omri Allouche Israel	8	3.6k 0.9×	2.7k 1.1×	2.3k 1.1×	1.4k 1.0×	683 0.8×	9	5.4k
Yung En Chee Australia	13	3.8k 1.0×	2.9k 1.1×	1.9k 0.9×	1.1k 0.8×	809 0.9×	27	6.1k
Robert A. Boria United States	8	3.4k 0.8×	2.2k 0.9×	1.4k 0.7×	1.2k 0.9×	854 1.0×	12	4.6k
Monica Papeş United States	27	3.0k 0.8×	2.4k 0.9×	1.5k 0.7×	1.0k 0.8×	751 0.9×	92	4.9k
Robin Engler Switzerland	15	4.2k 1.1×	2.8k 1.1×	2.8k 1.3×	1.6k 1.2×	824 0.9×	16	5.9k
Morgane Barbet‐Massin France	24	3.1k 0.8×	2.7k 1.0×	1.8k 0.9×	1.3k 1.0×	826 1.0×	34	4.9k
Andrés Lira‐Noriega Mexico	26	2.7k 0.7×	2.1k 0.8×	1.5k 0.7×	1.2k 0.9×	977 1.1×	110	4.7k
Narayani Barve United States	21	2.7k 0.7×	1.7k 0.7×	1.4k 0.7×	1.0k 0.8×	689 0.8×	47	4.0k
Blaise Petitpierre Switzerland	23	3.2k 0.8×	2.1k 0.8×	1.8k 0.9×	1.7k 1.3×	1.0k 1.2×	41	4.9k
Jeremy VanDerWal Australia	44	3.9k 1.0×	3.0k 1.2×	2.6k 1.2×	1.5k 1.2×	1.1k 1.3×	90	6.3k

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Nakamura, Miguel, et al.. (2024). Evolutionary origins, macroevolutionary dynamics, and climatic niche space of the succulent plant syndrome in the Caryophyllales. Journal of Experimental Botany. 76(2). 576–593. 1 indexed citations

Núñez, Imanol, et al.. (2024). CAMDA 2023: Finding patterns in urban microbiomes. Frontiers in Genetics. 15. 1449461–1449461. 2 indexed citations

Nakamura, Miguel, et al.. (2023). Role of Taxa Age and Geologic Range: Survival Analysis of Marine Biota over the Last 538 Million Years. Journal of Agricultural Biological and Environmental Statistics. 28(4). 684–705. 1 indexed citations

Monte‐Luna, Pablo del, et al.. (2023). A review of recent and future marine extinctions. SHILAP Revista de lepidopterología. 1. e13–e13. 10 indexed citations

Monte‐Luna, Pablo del, et al.. (2023). Multidecadal fluctuations in green turtle hatchling production related to climate variability. Scientific Reports. 13(1). 1542–1542. 5 indexed citations

Vázquez‐Domínguez, Ella, Miguel Nakamura, Luis Osorio‐Olvera, et al.. (2022). Complex genetic patterns and distribution limits mediated by native congeners of the worldwide invasive red‐eared slider turtle. Molecular Ecology. 31(6). 1766–1782. 8 indexed citations

Rodríguez, Pilar, Leticia M. Ochoa‐Ochoa, Mariana Munguía‐Carrara, et al.. (2019). Environmental heterogeneity explains coarse–scale β–diversity of terrestrial vertebrates in Mexico. PLoS ONE. 14(1). e0210890–e0210890. 14 indexed citations

Nakamura, Miguel, et al.. (2017). Would behavioral thermoregulation enable pregnant viviparous tropical lizards to cope with a warmer world?. Integrative Zoology. 12(5). 379–395. 7 indexed citations

Nakamura, Miguel, et al.. (2016). Mathematical Congress of the Americas. Contemporary mathematics - American Mathematical Society. 7 indexed citations

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Nakamura, Miguel, et al.. (2014). Does behavioural thermoregulation help pregnant Sceloporus adleri lizards in dealing with fast environmental temperature rise. Herpetological Journal. 24(1). 41–47. 7 indexed citations

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Martínez-Vega, Ruth Aralí, Rogelio Danis‐Lozano, Jorge X. Velasco‐Hernández, et al.. (2012). A prospective cohort study to evaluate peridomestic infection as a determinant of dengue transmission: Protocol. BMC Public Health. 12(1). 262–262. 10 indexed citations

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Anderson, Robert P., Enrique Martínez‐Meyer, Miguel Nakamura, et al.. (2011). Ecological Niches and Geographic Distributions (MPB-49). Princeton University Press eBooks. 243 indexed citations

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Nakamura, Miguel & Jorge Soberón. (2008). Use of Approximate Inference in an Index of Completeness of Biological Inventories. Conservation Biology. 23(2). 469–474. 14 indexed citations

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Pearson, Richard G., Christopher J. Raxworthy, Miguel Nakamura, & A. Townsend Peterson. (2006). ORIGINAL ARTICLE: Predicting species distributions from small numbers of occurrence records: a test case using cryptic geckos in Madagascar. Journal of Biogeography. 34(1). 102–117. 2538 indexed citations breakdown →

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Christen, J. Andrés & Miguel Nakamura. (2003). Sequential stopping rules for species accumulation. Journal of Agricultural Biological and Environmental Statistics. 8(2). 184–195. 18 indexed citations

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Christen, J. Andrés, et al.. (2002). PREDICTION OF HIGH POTENTIAL AREAS OF HABITAT FOR MONITORED SPECIES. 3 indexed citations

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Christen, J. Andrés & Miguel Nakamura. (2000). On the Analysis of Accumulation Curves. Biometrics. 56(3). 748–754. 16 indexed citations

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Nakamura, Miguel & Felipe de Jesús Peraza‐Garay. (1998). Species Accumulation for Beta Distributed Recording Probabilities. Journal of Agricultural Biological and Environmental Statistics. 3(1). 17–17. 6 indexed citations

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Quiróz, Adolfo J., Miguel Nakamura, & Filip Du Prez. (1996). Estimation of a multivariate Box-Cox transformation to elliptical symmetry via the empirical characteristic function. Annals of the Institute of Statistical Mathematics. 48(4). 687–709. 6 indexed citations

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Nakamura, Miguel & Víctor Pérez‐Abreu. (1993). Empirical probability generating function. Insurance Mathematics and Economics. 12(3). 287–295. 17 indexed citations

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