Nils Chr. Stenseth

62.8k total citations · 9 hit papers
776 papers, 44.4k citations indexed

About

Nils Chr. Stenseth is a scholar working on Ecology, Global and Planetary Change and Nature and Landscape Conservation. According to data from OpenAlex, Nils Chr. Stenseth has authored 776 papers receiving a total of 44.4k indexed citations (citations by other indexed papers that have themselves been cited), including 427 papers in Ecology, 250 papers in Global and Planetary Change and 203 papers in Nature and Landscape Conservation. Recurrent topics in Nils Chr. Stenseth's work include Animal Ecology and Behavior Studies (193 papers), Wildlife Ecology and Conservation (183 papers) and Marine and fisheries research (151 papers). Nils Chr. Stenseth is often cited by papers focused on Animal Ecology and Behavior Studies (193 papers), Wildlife Ecology and Conservation (183 papers) and Marine and fisheries research (151 papers). Nils Chr. Stenseth collaborates with scholars based in Norway, United States and United Kingdom. Nils Chr. Stenseth's co-authors include Atle Mysterud, Geir Ottersen, Eric Post, Nigel G. Yoccoz, Jon Olav Vik, Rolf Langvatn, Nathalie Pettorelli, Ottar N. Bjørnstad, Jean‐Michel Gaillard and Maurício Lima and has published in prestigious journals such as Nature, Science and Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences.

In The Last Decade

Nils Chr. Stenseth

760 papers receiving 41.4k 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.

Using the satellite-derived NDVI to assess ecological responses to environmental change

2005 2.5k citations Nils Chr. Stenseth et al. profile →
Ecological Effects of Climate Fluctuations

2002 1.4k citations Nils Chr. Stenseth, Geir Ottersen et al. profile →
Ecological Mechanisms and Landscape Ecology

1993 801 citations Nils Chr. Stenseth et al. profile →
Climate and the match or mismatch between predator requirements and resource availability

2007 695 citations Joël M. Durant, Geir Ottersen et al. profile →
Review article. Studying climate effects on ecology through the use of climate indices: the North Atlantic Oscillation, El Niño Southern Oscillation and beyond

2003 642 citations Nils Chr. Stenseth, Geir Ottersen et al. Proceedings of the Royal Society B Biological Sciences profile →
Ecological effects of the North Atlantic Oscillation

2001 632 citations Geir Ottersen, Nils Chr. Stenseth et al. profile →
Wavelet analysis of ecological time series

2008 572 citations Bernard Cazelles, Nils Chr. Stenseth et al. profile →
CLIMATIC VARIABILITY, PLANT PHENOLOGY, AND NORTHERN UNGULATES

1999 505 citations Nils Chr. Stenseth et al. profile →
Long-term decrease in Asian monsoon rainfall and abrupt climate change events over the past 6,700 years

2021 159 citations Jan Esper, Nils Chr. Stenseth et al. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences profile →

Peers — A (Enhanced Table)

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

Name	h						Papers	Cites
Nils Chr. Stenseth Norway	102	25.5k	14.5k	11.9k	7.9k	7.2k	776	44.4k
Michel Loreau France	88	20.9k 0.8×	14.2k 1.0×	24.6k 2.1×	4.2k 0.5×	14.5k 2.0×	289	49.5k
Daniel Simberloff United States	102	25.7k 1.0×	10.7k 0.7×	22.1k 1.9×	6.8k 0.9×	14.9k 2.1×	382	52.5k
James H. Brown United States	114	34.5k 1.4×	12.9k 0.9×	22.7k 1.9×	7.8k 1.0×	16.0k 2.2×	394	62.7k
Kenneth P. Burnham United States	56	50.9k 2.0×	18.3k 1.3×	26.5k 2.2×	7.4k 0.9×	14.8k 2.0×	136	86.4k
William J. Sutherland United Kingdom	101	21.2k 0.8×	9.4k 0.6×	11.6k 1.0×	4.0k 0.5×	10.2k 1.4×	567	42.7k
Georgina M. Mace United Kingdom	85	16.7k 0.7×	13.2k 0.9×	12.4k 1.0×	4.5k 0.6×	7.6k 1.1×	186	42.3k
Jane Elith Australia	58	21.1k 0.8×	9.5k 0.7×	15.1k 1.3×	4.3k 0.5×	6.8k 0.9×	89	42.0k
Robert D. Holt United States	96	21.2k 0.8×	7.4k 0.5×	17.1k 1.4×	10.4k 1.3×	15.0k 2.1×	300	45.3k
John H. Lawton United Kingdom	101	21.6k 0.8×	9.2k 0.6×	21.1k 1.8×	6.5k 0.8×	18.0k 2.5×	280	47.8k
David M. Lodge United States	79	27.0k 1.1×	10.4k 0.7×	18.1k 1.5×	2.9k 0.4×	7.3k 1.0×	236	43.5k

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Co-authorship network of co-authors of Nils Chr. Stenseth

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Nguyen, Nga T. T., Peter J. Fashing, Pål Trosvik, Nils Chr. Stenseth, & Eric J. de Muinck. (2024). A Quantitative Comparison of Patterns of Play and Conflict in Nature Preschool and Traditional Preschool Children in Norway. International Journal of Early Childhood. 57(1). 181–207.

Bokma, Folmer, Masahito Tsuboi, & Nils Chr. Stenseth. (2024). Brain-body coevolution in incipient versus established primate species—evaluating Simpson’s “most important distinction”. Evolution. 79(2). 319–323. 1 indexed citations

Rinaldo, Natascia, Tiziana Bellini, Maria Cristina Manfrinato, et al.. (2024). Differential pathogenicity and lethality of bubonic plague (1720–1945) by sex, age and place. Proceedings of the Royal Society B Biological Sciences. 291(2027). 20240724–20240724. 2 indexed citations

Wang, Lin, Bram Vrancken, Ruixue Wang, et al.. (2023). Association of vaccination, international travel, public health and social measures with lineage dynamics of SARS-CoV-2. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences. 120(33). e2305403120–e2305403120. 5 indexed citations

Xu, Xiangbo, Yan Xu, Yonglong Lü, et al.. (2023). Coupling of crop and livestock production can reduce the agricultural GHG emission from smallholder farms. iScience. 26(6). 106798–106798. 28 indexed citations

Aticho, Abebayehu, et al.. (2023). Wildlife roadkill in Southwestern Ethiopia: Hotspots, drivers, and victim species. Heliyon. 9(9). e19783–e19783. 3 indexed citations

Stenseth, Nils Chr., Mark Payne, Erik Bonsdorff, et al.. (2020). Attuning to a changing ocean. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences. 117(34). 20363–20371. 14 indexed citations

Durant, Joël M., Kotaro Ono, Nils Chr. Stenseth, & Øystein Langangen. (2020). Nonlinearity in interspecific interactions in response to climate change: Cod and haddock as an example. Global Change Biology. 26(10). 5554–5563. 15 indexed citations

Atshabar, Bakyt B., et al.. (2019). Living with plague: Lessons from the Soviet Union’s antiplague system. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences. 116(19). 9155–9163. 26 indexed citations

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Sguotti, Camilla, Saskia A. Otto, Romain Frelat, et al.. (2019). Catastrophic dynamics limit Atlantic cod recovery. Proceedings of the Royal Society B Biological Sciences. 286(1898). 20182877–20182877. 60 indexed citations

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Chapman, Colin A., Júlio César Bicca‐Marques, Sébastien Calvignac‐Spencer, et al.. (2019). Games academics play and their consequences: how authorship, h -index and journal impact factors are shaping the future of academia. Proceedings of the Royal Society B Biological Sciences. 286(1916). 20192047–20192047. 73 indexed citations

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Tian, Huaiyu & Nils Chr. Stenseth. (2019). The ecological dynamics of hantavirus diseases: From environmental variability to disease prevention largely based on data from China. PLoS neglected tropical diseases. 13(2). e0006901–e0006901. 56 indexed citations

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Carlson, Colin J., Wayne M. Getz, Kyrre Kausrud, et al.. (2018). Spores and soil from six sides: interdisciplinarity and the environmental biology of anthrax ( Bacillus anthracis ). Biological reviews/Biological reviews of the Cambridge Philosophical Society. 93(4). 1813–1831. 68 indexed citations

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Dean, Katharine R., Fabienne Krauer, Lars Walløe, et al.. (2018). Human ectoparasites and the spread of plague in Europe during the Second Pandemic. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences. 115(6). 1304–1309. 101 indexed citations

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Trucchi, Emiliano, Benoît Facon, Paolo Gratton, et al.. (2016). Long live the alien: is high genetic diversity a pivotal aspect of crested porcupine ( Hystrix cristata ) long‐lasting and successful invasion?. Molecular Ecology. 25(15). 3527–3539. 31 indexed citations

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Tian, Huidong, Leif Christian Stige, Bernard Cazelles, et al.. (2011). Reconstruction of a 1,910-y-long locust series reveals consistent associations with climate fluctuations in China. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences. 108(35). 14521–14526. 79 indexed citations

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Stenseth, Nils Chr., Noelle I. Samia, Hildegunn Viljugrein, et al.. (2006). Plague dynamics are driven by climate variation. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences. 103(35). 13110–13115. 195 indexed citations

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Hjermann, Dag Ø., Geir Ottersen, & Nils Chr. Stenseth. (2004). Competition among fishermen and fish causes the collapse of Barents Sea capelin. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences. 101(32). 11679–11684. 85 indexed citations

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Stenseth, Nils Chr.. (2004). Marine ecosystems and climate variation : the North Atlantic ; a comparative perspective. Oxford University Press eBooks. 46 indexed citations

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Stenseth, Nils Chr., et al.. (1998). Law and the governance of renewable resources: studies from Northern Europe and Africa.. 19 indexed citations

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