Rachael Winfree

25.6k total citations · 10 hit papers
67 papers, 13.1k citations indexed

About

Rachael Winfree is a scholar working on Ecology, Evolution, Behavior and Systematics, Insect Science and Nature and Landscape Conservation. According to data from OpenAlex, Rachael Winfree has authored 67 papers receiving a total of 13.1k indexed citations (citations by other indexed papers that have themselves been cited), including 62 papers in Ecology, Evolution, Behavior and Systematics, 42 papers in Insect Science and 31 papers in Nature and Landscape Conservation. Recurrent topics in Rachael Winfree's work include Plant and animal studies (62 papers), Insect and Pesticide Research (42 papers) and Ecology and Vegetation Dynamics Studies (31 papers). Rachael Winfree is often cited by papers focused on Plant and animal studies (62 papers), Insect and Pesticide Research (42 papers) and Ecology and Vegetation Dynamics Studies (31 papers). Rachael Winfree collaborates with scholars based in United States, Canada and Argentina. Rachael Winfree's co-authors include Claire Kremen, Neal M. Williams, Jeff Ollerton, Sam Tarrant, Sarah S. Greenleaf, Daniel P. Cariveau, Ígnasi Bartomeus, Marcelo A. Aizen, Jason Gibbs and Diego P. Vázquez and has published in prestigious journals such as Science, Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences and PLoS ONE.

In The Last Decade

Rachael Winfree

65 papers receiving 12.6k 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.

  1. How many flowering plants are pollinated by animals?
    2011 2.6k citations Rachael Winfree et al. profile →
  2. Bee foraging ranges and their relationship to body size
    2007 1.4k citations Neal M. Williams, Rachael Winfree et al. Oecologia profile →
  3. Pollination and other ecosystem services produced by mobile organisms: a conceptual framework for the effects of land‐use change
    2007 1.1k citations Claire Kremen, Neal M. Williams et al. Ecology Letters profile →
  4. A meta‐analysis of bees' responses to anthropogenic disturbance
    2009 805 citations Rachael Winfree, Diego P. Vázquez et al. Ecology profile →
  5. Abundance of common species, not species richness, drives delivery of a real‐world ecosystem service
    2015 473 citations Rachael Winfree, Jeremy W. Fox et al. Ecology Letters profile →
  6. Native Pollinators in Anthropogenic Habitats
    2011 441 citations Rachael Winfree, Ígnasi Bartomeus et al. profile →
  7. Historical changes in northeastern US bee pollinators related to shared ecological traits
    2013 430 citations Ígnasi Bartomeus, Jason Gibbs et al. profile →
  8. Climate-associated phenological advances in bee pollinators and bee-pollinated plants
    2011 399 citations Ígnasi Bartomeus, Rachael Winfree et al. profile →
  9. From research to action: enhancing crop yield through wild pollinators
    2014 388 citations Lucas A. Garibaldi, Claire Kremen et al. profile →
  10. Species turnover promotes the importance of bee diversity for crop pollination at regional scales
    2018 217 citations Rachael Winfree, James R. Reilly et al. Science profile →

Peers — A (Enhanced Table)

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

Name h Career Trend Papers Cites
Rachael Winfree United States 42 11.5k 7.0k 5.7k 4.1k 3.7k 67 13.1k
Neal M. Williams United States 47 12.3k 1.1× 7.4k 1.1× 6.7k 1.2× 4.4k 1.1× 3.8k 1.0× 109 14.2k
Marcelo A. Aizen Argentina 57 14.1k 1.2× 6.8k 1.0× 7.6k 1.3× 6.4k 1.6× 4.2k 1.1× 192 16.9k
Oliver Schweiger Germany 43 8.3k 0.7× 4.9k 0.7× 2.9k 0.5× 4.4k 1.1× 3.5k 0.9× 98 11.9k
Stuart P. M. Roberts United Kingdom 34 7.1k 0.6× 4.5k 0.6× 3.5k 0.6× 2.5k 0.6× 2.5k 0.7× 79 8.0k
Jeff Ollerton United Kingdom 44 9.7k 0.8× 3.1k 0.4× 6.4k 1.1× 4.3k 1.1× 2.0k 0.5× 127 10.7k
James H. Cane United States 38 9.9k 0.9× 7.3k 1.0× 4.3k 0.8× 1.8k 0.4× 4.3k 1.1× 151 11.0k
Laurence Packer Canada 45 6.4k 0.6× 4.2k 0.6× 2.0k 0.4× 1.8k 0.4× 3.5k 0.9× 174 8.1k
Diego P. Vázquez Argentina 40 7.0k 0.6× 2.1k 0.3× 4.4k 0.8× 4.5k 1.1× 1.7k 0.4× 117 9.1k
David W. Inouye United States 58 9.1k 0.8× 2.9k 0.4× 4.7k 0.8× 4.9k 1.2× 2.0k 0.5× 133 13.0k
Andrea Holzschuh Germany 37 5.1k 0.4× 3.3k 0.5× 2.8k 0.5× 2.7k 0.7× 1.4k 0.4× 58 7.2k

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Co-authorship network of co-authors of Rachael Winfree

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All Works

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Reilly, James R., et al.. (2024). Wild insects and honey bees are equally important to crop yields in a global analysis. Global Ecology and Biogeography. 33(7). 21 indexed citations
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Bonachela, Juan A., et al.. (2024). Geometric effects of fragmentation are likely to mitigate diversity loss following habitat destruction in real‐world landscapes. Global Ecology and Biogeography. 33(5). 2 indexed citations
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Winfree, Rachael, et al.. (2023). Individual bee foragers are less‐efficient transporters of pollen for plants from which they collect the most pollen in their scopae. American Journal of Botany. 110(6). e16178–e16178. 10 indexed citations
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Genung, Mark A., et al.. (2022). Rare and declining bee species are key to consistent pollination of wildflowers and crops across large spatial scales. Ecology. 104(2). e3899–e3899. 15 indexed citations
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Winfree, Rachael, et al.. (2022). Crop visitation by wild bees declines over an 8‐year time series: A dramatic trend, or just dramatic between‐year variation?. Insect Conservation and Diversity. 15(5). 522–533. 25 indexed citations
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Genung, Mark A., et al.. (2022). Many bee species, including rare species, are important for function of entire plant–pollinator networks. Proceedings of the Royal Society B Biological Sciences. 289(1972). 20212689–20212689. 26 indexed citations
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Bruninga‐Socolar, Bethanne, Rachael Winfree, & Elizabeth E. Crone. (2022). The contribution of plant spatial arrangement to bumble bee flower constancy. Oecologia. 198(2). 471–481. 8 indexed citations
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CaraDonna, Paul J., Laura A. Burkle, Benjamin Schwarz, et al.. (2020). Seeing through the static: the temporal dimension of plant–animal mutualistic interactions. Ecology Letters. 24(1). 149–161. 82 indexed citations
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Genung, Mark A., Jeremy W. Fox, & Rachael Winfree. (2020). Species loss drives ecosystem function in experiments, but in nature the importance of species loss depends on dominance. Global Ecology and Biogeography. 29(9). 1531–1541. 42 indexed citations
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Reilly, James R., Daniel P. Cariveau, Mark A. Genung, et al.. (2019). How much do rare and crop‐pollinating bees overlap in identity and flower preferences?. Journal of Applied Ecology. 57(2). 413–423. 11 indexed citations
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Winfree, Rachael, James R. Reilly, Ígnasi Bartomeus, et al.. (2018). Species turnover promotes the importance of bee diversity for crop pollination at regional scales. Science. 359(6377). 791–793. 217 indexed citations breakdown →
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Winfree, Rachael. (2018). To be a bee Buzz: The Nature and Necessity of Bees Thor Hanson Basic Books, 2018, 304 pp.. Science. 361(6398). 137–137. 1 indexed citations
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Harrison, Tina & Rachael Winfree. (2015). Urban drivers of plant‐pollinator interactions. Functional Ecology. 29(7). 879–888. 224 indexed citations
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Cariveau, Daniel P., J. Elijah Powell, Hauke Koch, Rachael Winfree, & Nancy A. Moran. (2014). Variation in gut microbial communities and its association with pathogen infection in wild bumble bees (Bombus). The ISME Journal. 8(12). 2369–2379. 191 indexed citations
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Benjamin, Faye & Rachael Winfree. (2014). Lack of Pollinators Limits Fruit Production in Commercial Blueberry (<I>Vaccinium corymbosum</I>). Environmental Entomology. 43(6). 1574–1583. 73 indexed citations
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Mandelik, Yael, Rachael Winfree, Thomas M. Neeson, & Claire Kremen. (2012). Complementary habitat use by wild bees in agro‐natural landscapes. Ecological Applications. 22(5). 1535–1546. 155 indexed citations
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Winfree, Rachael & Claire Kremen. (2008). Are ecosystem services stabilized by differences among species? A test using crop pollination. Proceedings of the Royal Society B Biological Sciences. 276(1655). 229–237. 205 indexed citations
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Winfree, Rachael, et al.. (2006). A Monte Carlo model for estimating the productivity of a generalist brood parasite across multiple host species.. Evolutionary ecology research. 8(2). 213–236. 4 indexed citations
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Winfree, Rachael, et al.. (1999). Cuckoos, cowbirds and the persistence of brood parasitism. Trends in Ecology & Evolution. 14(9). 338–343. 72 indexed citations

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