Ola Olsson

5.6k total citations · 1 hit paper
90 papers, 4.1k citations indexed

About

Ola Olsson is a scholar working on Ecology, Ecology, Evolution, Behavior and Systematics and Nature and Landscape Conservation. According to data from OpenAlex, Ola Olsson has authored 90 papers receiving a total of 4.1k indexed citations (citations by other indexed papers that have themselves been cited), including 46 papers in Ecology, 45 papers in Ecology, Evolution, Behavior and Systematics and 40 papers in Nature and Landscape Conservation. Recurrent topics in Ola Olsson's work include Ecology and Vegetation Dynamics Studies (39 papers), Plant and animal studies (31 papers) and Wildlife Ecology and Conservation (25 papers). Ola Olsson is often cited by papers focused on Ecology and Vegetation Dynamics Studies (39 papers), Plant and animal studies (31 papers) and Wildlife Ecology and Conservation (25 papers). Ola Olsson collaborates with scholars based in Sweden, United States and Germany. Ola Olsson's co-authors include Henrik G. Smith, David W. Stephens, Sasha R. X. Dall, Ulf Wiktander, Sven G. Nilsson, Joel S. Brown, Noél Holmgren, Johan Ekroos, Maj Rundlöf and Gabriela Núñez-Iturri and has published in prestigious journals such as SHILAP Revista de lepidopterología, PLoS ONE and Trends in Ecology & Evolution.

In The Last Decade

Ola Olsson

87 papers receiving 3.8k citations

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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.

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Name	h						Papers	Cites
Ola Olsson Sweden	33	2.2k	1.7k	1.1k	710	550	90	4.1k
Jukka Suhonen Finland	35	1.9k 0.9×	2.0k 1.2×	1.1k 1.0×	867 1.2×	510 0.9×	128	3.9k
David A. Westcott Australia	35	2.3k 1.1×	1.8k 1.0×	1.8k 1.6×	778 1.1×	541 1.0×	123	4.8k
A. P. Møller France	46	3.7k 1.7×	3.0k 1.7×	759 0.7×	565 0.8×	271 0.5×	87	6.5k
Adnan Moussalli Australia	28	2.2k 1.0×	1.7k 1.0×	769 0.7×	1.4k 2.0×	324 0.6×	54	4.7k
Emilie C. Snell‐Rood United States	26	2.0k 0.9×	1.0k 0.6×	564 0.5×	415 0.6×	526 1.0×	79	3.5k
Michael J. O. Pocock United Kingdom	37	1.6k 0.7×	1.4k 0.8×	999 0.9×	714 1.0×	368 0.7×	74	4.0k
H. Martin Schaefer Germany	43	3.7k 1.7×	1.5k 0.9×	1.7k 1.5×	581 0.8×	523 1.0×	122	5.7k
Orr Spiegel Israel	29	1.9k 0.9×	2.2k 1.3×	1.1k 1.0×	443 0.6×	129 0.2×	67	3.8k
C. Patrick Doncaster United Kingdom	43	1.3k 0.6×	3.9k 2.2×	1.1k 1.0×	817 1.2×	288 0.5×	139	5.9k
Owen R. Jones United Kingdom	29	1.6k 0.7×	1.7k 1.0×	1.2k 1.1×	632 0.9×	348 0.6×	87	4.9k

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Boff, Samuel, et al.. (2025). Agricultural management and associated landscapes influence wild plant communities, nest colonization, and the pollen diet of unmanaged populations of mason bees. Agriculture Ecosystems & Environment. 395. 109961–109961.

Olsson, Ola, et al.. (2025). A systematic meta-review: The relationship between forest structures and biodiversity in deciduous forests. Forest Ecology and Management. 596. 123072–123072.

Olsson, Ola, et al.. (2025). Effect of habitat quality and quantity on the occurrence and persistence of the lesser spotted woodpecker (Dryobates minor) across two time periods. Biological Conservation. 310. 111372–111372.

Boesing, Andrea Larissa, Peter Manning, Ola Olsson, et al.. (2025). Local and landscape factors differently influence health and pollination services in two important pollinator groups. The Science of The Total Environment. 959. 178330–178330. 2 indexed citations

Walters, Richard J., Ola Olsson, Peter Olsson, & Henrik G. Smith. (2024). Consequences of intraspecific competition for floral resources in heterogeneous landscapes for eusocial bees. Ecological Modelling. 496. 110844–110844. 1 indexed citations

Kendall, Liam, et al.. (2024). Shared use of a mass‐flowering crop drives dietary niche overlap between managed honeybees and bumblebees. Journal of Applied Ecology. 61(9). 2135–2145. 3 indexed citations

Yourstone, Johanna, et al.. (2023). Bumblebee flower constancy and pollen diversity over time. Behavioral Ecology. 34(4). 602–612. 7 indexed citations

Knaggård, Åsa, et al.. (2023). The Swedish green infrastructure policy as a policy assemblage: What does it do for biodiversity conservation?. People and Nature. 5(2). 839–851. 4 indexed citations

Olsson, Ola, et al.. (2021). Efficient, automated and robust pollen analysis using deep learning. Methods in Ecology and Evolution. 12(5). 850–862. 41 indexed citations

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Herbertsson, Lina, Georg K.S. Andersson, Maj Rundlöf, et al.. (2018). The impact of sown flower strips on plant reproductive success in Southern Sweden varies with landscape context. Agriculture Ecosystems & Environment. 259. 127–134. 15 indexed citations

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Olsson, Ola, et al.. (2016). Body Temperature Regulation in Hot Environments. PLoS ONE. 11(8). e0161481–e0161481. 43 indexed citations

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Olsson, Ola, et al.. (2014). A model for habitat selection and species distribution derived from central place foraging theory. Oecologia. 175(2). 537–548. 46 indexed citations

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Borgström, Pernilla, et al.. (2011). Assessing habitat quality of farm-dwelling house sparrows in different agricultural landscapes. Oecologia. 168(4). 959–966. 9 indexed citations

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Aebischer, Nicholas J., et al.. (2010). The grey partridge and AESs in Sweden: Setting up an experimental restoration of the grey partridge and associated farmland biodiversity in Sweden. Lund University Publications (Lund University). 100(100). 111–116. 1 indexed citations

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Olsson, Ola, et al.. (2010). Optimal delay of harvest - implications for bird populations and economic compensation. Aspects of applied biology. 159–166. 1 indexed citations

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Nilsson, Jan‐Åke, et al.. (2010). Effects of season, water and predation risk on patch use by birds on the African savannah. Oecologia. 164(3). 637–645. 19 indexed citations

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Olsson, Ola. (2007). Genetic Origin and Success of Reintroduced White Storks. Conservation Biology. 21(5). 1196–1206. 22 indexed citations

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Kwieciński, Zbigniew, et al.. (2006). Sexing of white storks Ciconia ciconia based on biometric measurements. Lund University Publications (Lund University). 6 indexed citations

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Holder, H D, Norman Giesbrecht, Sturla Nordlund, et al.. (2003). Potential consequences from possible changes to Nordic retail alcohol monopolies resulting from European Union membership. Addiction. 90(12). 1603–1618. 21 indexed citations

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Wiktander, Ulf, Ola Olsson, & Sven G. Nilsson. (2001). Age and Reproduction in Lesser Spotted Woodpeckers (Dendrocopos Minor). The Auk. 118(3). 624–635. 8 indexed citations

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