Nils Cordes

1.9k total citations · 1 hit paper
11 papers, 1.4k citations indexed

About

Nils Cordes is a scholar working on Ecology, Evolution, Behavior and Systematics, Genetics and Insect Science. According to data from OpenAlex, Nils Cordes has authored 11 papers receiving a total of 1.4k indexed citations (citations by other indexed papers that have themselves been cited), including 10 papers in Ecology, Evolution, Behavior and Systematics, 9 papers in Genetics and 3 papers in Insect Science. Recurrent topics in Nils Cordes's work include Plant and animal studies (10 papers), Insect and Arachnid Ecology and Behavior (9 papers) and Animal Behavior and Reproduction (6 papers). Nils Cordes is often cited by papers focused on Plant and animal studies (10 papers), Insect and Arachnid Ecology and Behavior (9 papers) and Animal Behavior and Reproduction (6 papers). Nils Cordes collaborates with scholars based in Germany, United States and Switzerland. Nils Cordes's co-authors include James P. Strange, Leellen F. Solter, Terry Griswold, Sydney A. Cameron, Jeffrey D. Lozier, Jonathan B. Koch, Leif Engqvist, Klaus Reinhold, Tim Schmoll and Wei-Fone Huang and has published in prestigious journals such as Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, Evolution and Behavioral Ecology and Sociobiology.

In The Last Decade

Nils Cordes

11 papers receiving 1.4k 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.

Patterns of widespread decline in North American bumble bees

2011 1.2k citations Sydney A. Cameron, Jeffrey D. Lozier 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 Cordes Germany	8	1.3k	1.1k	706	393	160	11	1.4k
Jonathan B. Koch United States	17	1.8k 1.3×	1.4k 1.3×	977 1.4×	531 1.4×	253 1.6×	53	2.0k
Maxence Gérard Belgium	17	775 0.6×	549 0.5×	518 0.7×	177 0.5×	136 0.8×	43	909
Fernando Amaral da Silveira Brazil	19	1.0k 0.8×	733 0.7×	344 0.5×	426 1.1×	203 1.3×	43	1.1k
Marina P. Arbetman Argentina	11	652 0.5×	519 0.5×	412 0.6×	180 0.5×	106 0.7×	29	807
Athayde Tonhasca Brazil	18	688 0.5×	717 0.7×	478 0.7×	300 0.8×	122 0.8×	30	1.0k
Tiago Maurício Francoy Brazil	22	1.0k 0.8×	837 0.8×	934 1.3×	97 0.2×	130 0.8×	64	1.3k
Theresa L. Pitts‐Singer United States	24	1.6k 1.2×	1.5k 1.4×	1.1k 1.5×	352 0.9×	82 0.5×	67	1.8k
Gabriel A. R. Melo Brazil	25	1.8k 1.4×	1.0k 1.0×	904 1.3×	574 1.5×	169 1.1×	149	2.0k
J. H. Ness United States	16	1.1k 0.9×	384 0.4×	859 1.2×	465 1.2×	373 2.3×	21	1.3k
Cory S. Sheffield Canada	23	1.5k 1.1×	1.1k 1.0×	709 1.0×	565 1.4×	230 1.4×	67	1.7k

Countries citing papers authored by Nils Cordes

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Co-authorship network of co-authors of Nils Cordes

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

All Works

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Koch, Jonathan B., Jeffrey D. Lozier, James P. Strange, et al.. (2015). USBombus, a database of contemporary survey data for North American Bumble Bees (Hymenoptera, Apidae, Bombus) distributed in the United States. ZooKeys. 3(3). e6833–e6833. 18 indexed citations

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Cordes, Nils, Leif Engqvist, Tim Schmoll, et al.. (2014). Larval food composition affects courtship song and sperm expenditure in a lekking moth. Ecological Entomology. 40(1). 34–41. 16 indexed citations

3.

Cordes, Nils, Leif Engqvist, Tim Schmoll, & Klaus Reinhold. (2014). Sexual signaling under predation: attractive moths take the greater risks. Behavioral Ecology. 25(2). 409–414. 19 indexed citations

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Engqvist, Leif, Nils Cordes, & Klaus Reinhold. (2014). Evolution of risk-taking during conspicuous mating displays. Evolution. 69(2). 395–406. 22 indexed citations

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Engqvist, Leif, et al.. (2014). Female Remating Behavior in a Lekking Moth. Ethology. 120(7). 662–671. 16 indexed citations

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Cordes, Nils, et al.. (2013). Differential sperm expenditure reveals a possible role for post‐copulatory sexual selection in a lekking moth. Ecology and Evolution. 3(3). 503–511. 7 indexed citations

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Cordes, Nils, Tim Schmoll, & Klaus Reinhold. (2012). Risk-taking behavior in the lesser wax moth: disentangling within- and between-individual variation. Behavioral Ecology and Sociobiology. 67(2). 257–264. 6 indexed citations

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Cameron, Sydney A., Jeffrey D. Lozier, James P. Strange, et al.. (2011). Patterns of widespread decline in North American bumble bees. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences. 108(2). 662–667. 1224 indexed citations breakdown →

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Lozier, Jeffrey D., et al.. (2011). Recent widespread population declines of some North American bumble bees: Current status and causal factors. Digital Commons - USU (Utah State University). 108. 662–667. 1 indexed citations

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Cordes, Nils, Wei-Fone Huang, James P. Strange, et al.. (2011). Interspecific geographic distribution and variation of the pathogens Nosema bombi and Crithidia species in United States bumble bee populations. Journal of Invertebrate Pathology. 109(2). 209–216. 94 indexed citations

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Berenbaum, May R. & Nils Cordes. (2010). Honey, I'm Homemade: Sweet Treats from the Beehive across the Centuries and around the World. 1 indexed citations

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