Peter J. Mayhew

5.8k total citations · 1 hit paper
75 papers, 3.9k citations indexed

About

Peter J. Mayhew is a scholar working on Ecology, Evolution, Behavior and Systematics, Insect Science and Genetics. According to data from OpenAlex, Peter J. Mayhew has authored 75 papers receiving a total of 3.9k indexed citations (citations by other indexed papers that have themselves been cited), including 56 papers in Ecology, Evolution, Behavior and Systematics, 27 papers in Insect Science and 23 papers in Genetics. Recurrent topics in Peter J. Mayhew's work include Plant and animal studies (47 papers), Insect-Plant Interactions and Control (25 papers) and Ecology and Vegetation Dynamics Studies (19 papers). Peter J. Mayhew is often cited by papers focused on Plant and animal studies (47 papers), Insect-Plant Interactions and Control (25 papers) and Ecology and Vegetation Dynamics Studies (19 papers). Peter J. Mayhew collaborates with scholars based in United Kingdom, United States and Netherlands. Peter J. Mayhew's co-authors include Tomas Roslin, Mark Parnell, Sofia Gripenberg, Sandra L. Baldauf, David B. Nicholson, Tim G. Benton, Calvin Dytham, Jane K. Hill, J. J. M. Van Alphen and Michael A. Gray and has published in prestigious journals such as Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, PLoS ONE and Trends in Ecology & Evolution.

In The Last Decade

Peter J. Mayhew

74 papers receiving 3.8k 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.

A meta‐analysis of preference–performance relationships in phytophagous insects

2010 690 citations Sofia Gripenberg, Peter J. Mayhew et al. Ecology Letters profile →

Author Peers

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Author						Papers	Cites
Peter J. Mayhew	2.4k	1.9k	1.0k	897	855	75	3.9k
Gerasimos Cassis	2.1k 0.9×	1.3k 0.7×	1.1k 1.0×	721 0.8×	745 0.9×	140	3.6k
Philippe Vernon	1.3k 0.6×	2.2k 1.2×	2.3k 2.2×	1.3k 1.4×	353 0.4×	108	4.3k
David K. Yeates	3.2k 1.3×	2.4k 1.2×	1.2k 1.1×	1.7k 1.9×	616 0.7×	175	6.0k
Stewart H. Berlocher	2.9k 1.2×	2.3k 1.2×	1.9k 1.8×	2.7k 3.0×	778 0.9×	63	5.8k
Henk Wolda	2.0k 0.9×	920 0.5×	1.6k 1.5×	808 0.9×	1.4k 1.6×	47	3.8k
Jacques J. M. van Alphen	2.3k 1.0×	1.7k 0.9×	1.6k 1.6×	1.4k 1.6×	1.2k 1.4×	63	4.6k
Guy L. Bush	2.3k 1.0×	2.5k 1.3×	1.9k 1.9×	1.4k 1.6×	585 0.7×	59	4.7k
H. V. Danks	1.8k 0.8×	1.7k 0.9×	2.5k 2.4×	1.3k 1.5×	744 0.9×	76	4.6k
Philip J. DeVries	2.9k 1.2×	744 0.4×	670 0.7×	2.0k 2.2×	1.5k 1.8×	97	3.9k
Chris C. Nice	2.2k 0.9×	975 0.5×	882 0.9×	1.9k 2.2×	1.1k 1.3×	93	4.0k

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Thomas, Chris D., et al.. (2020). Unlocking the potential of historical abundance datasets to study biomass change in flying insects. Ecology and Evolution. 10(15). 8394–8404. 15 indexed citations

Mermudes, José Ricardo Miras, et al.. (2020). Elevational specialization and the monitoring of the effects of climate change in insects: Beetles in a Brazilian rainforest mountain. Ecological Indicators. 120. 106888–106888. 15 indexed citations

Stucky, Brian J., James P. Balhoff, Narayani Barve, et al.. (2019). Developing a vocabulary and ontology for modeling insect natural history data: example data, use cases, and competency questions. Biodiversity Data Journal. 7. e33303–e33303. 6 indexed citations

Mayhew, Peter J.. (2018). Comparative analysis of behavioural traits in insects. Current Opinion in Insect Science. 27. 52–60. 10 indexed citations

Baker, D. James, Colin M. Beale, Sam Ellis, et al.. (2016). Decline of a Rare Moth at Its Last Known English Site: Causes and Lessons for Conservation. PLoS ONE. 11(6). e0157423–e0157423. 1 indexed citations

Hofreiter, Michael, et al.. (2016). Phylogenetic analyses suggest that diversification and body size evolution are independent in insects. BMC Evolutionary Biology. 16(1). 8–8. 23 indexed citations

Mayhew, Peter J., et al.. (2015). Diet Evolution and Clade Richness in Hexapoda: A Phylogenetic Study of Higher Taxa. The American Naturalist. 186(6). 777–791. 31 indexed citations

Hofreiter, Michael, et al.. (2014). Phylogenetic Distribution of Extant Richness Suggests Metamorphosis Is a Key Innovation Driving Diversification in Insects. PLoS ONE. 9(10). e109085–e109085. 111 indexed citations

Macedo, Margarete V., Ricardo Ferreira Monteiro, Mariana Silveira Guerra Moura e Silva, & Peter J. Mayhew. (2013). Male–male contests for mates, sexual size dimorphism, and sex ratio in a natural population of a solitary parasitoid. Behavioural Processes. 100. 1–8. 10 indexed citations

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Mayhew, Peter J., Mark A. Bell, Tim G. Benton, & Alistair J. McGowan. (2012). Biodiversity tracks temperature over time. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences. 109(38). 15141–15145. 120 indexed citations

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Davis, Robert Β., et al.. (2011). Fossil gaps inferred from phylogenies alter the apparent nature of diversification in dragonflies and their relatives. BMC Evolutionary Biology. 11(1). 252–252. 46 indexed citations

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Davis, Robert Β., Sandra L. Baldauf, & Peter J. Mayhew. (2010). The origins of species richness in the Hymenoptera: insights from a family-level supertree. BMC Evolutionary Biology. 10(1). 109–109. 63 indexed citations

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Tosh, Colin R., et al.. (2010). Constraints on adaptation: explaining deviation from optimal sex ratio using artificial neural networks. Journal of Evolutionary Biology. 23(8). 1708–1719. 9 indexed citations

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Gripenberg, Sofia, Peter J. Mayhew, Mark Parnell, & Tomas Roslin. (2010). A meta‐analysis of preference–performance relationships in phytophagous insects. Ecology Letters. 13(3). 383–393. 690 indexed citations breakdown →

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Davis, Robert Β., Sandra L. Baldauf, & Peter J. Mayhew. (2009). Eusociality and the success of the termites: insights from a supertree of dictyopteran families. Journal of Evolutionary Biology. 22(8). 1750–1761. 20 indexed citations

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Beresford, Alison E., et al.. (2008). Effectiveness of Vegetation Surrogates for Parasitoid Wasps in Reserve Selection. Conservation Biology. 23(1). 142–150. 12 indexed citations

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Mayhew, Peter J.. (2007). Why are there so many insect species? Perspectives from fossils and phylogenies. Biological reviews/Biological reviews of the Cambridge Philosophical Society. 82(3). 425–454. 148 indexed citations

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Gray, Michael A., Sandra L. Baldauf, Peter J. Mayhew, & Jane K. Hill. (2006). The Response of Avian Feeding Guilds to Tropical Forest Disturbance. Conservation Biology. 21(1). 133–141. 213 indexed citations

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Mayhew, Peter J., et al.. (2004). Competitive interactions between parasitoid larvae and the evolution of gregarious development. Oecologia. 141(1). 179–190. 35 indexed citations

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Mayhew, Peter J. & Ian C.W. Hardy. (1998). Nonsiblicidal Behavior and the Evolution of Clutch Size in Bethylid Wasps. The American Naturalist. 151(5). 409–424. 56 indexed citations

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