Ran Nathan

27.6k total citations · 8 hit papers
166 papers, 16.4k citations indexed

About

Ran Nathan is a scholar working on Ecology, Ecology, Evolution, Behavior and Systematics and Nature and Landscape Conservation. According to data from OpenAlex, Ran Nathan has authored 166 papers receiving a total of 16.4k indexed citations (citations by other indexed papers that have themselves been cited), including 97 papers in Ecology, 78 papers in Ecology, Evolution, Behavior and Systematics and 71 papers in Nature and Landscape Conservation. Recurrent topics in Ran Nathan's work include Ecology and Vegetation Dynamics Studies (65 papers), Wildlife Ecology and Conservation (50 papers) and Animal Behavior and Reproduction (39 papers). Ran Nathan is often cited by papers focused on Ecology and Vegetation Dynamics Studies (65 papers), Wildlife Ecology and Conservation (50 papers) and Animal Behavior and Reproduction (39 papers). Ran Nathan collaborates with scholars based in Israel, United States and Germany. Ran Nathan's co-authors include Helene C. Muller‐Landau, Orr Spiegel, Wayne M. Getz, Gabriel G. Katul, Eloy Revilla, Marcel Holyoak, Peter E. Smouse, David Saltz, Ronen Kadmon and Ana Trakhtenbrot and has published in prestigious journals such as Nature, Science and Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences.

In The Last Decade

Ran Nathan

163 papers receiving 15.8k citations

Hit Papers

5 papers align trajectories

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.

A movement ecology paradigm for unifying organismal movement research

2008 2.0k citations Ran Nathan, Wayne M. Getz et al. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences profile →
Spatial patterns of seed dispersal, their determinants and consequences for recruitment

2000 1.6k citations Ran Nathan, Helene C. Muller‐Landau Trends in Ecology & Evolution profile →
Long-Distance Dispersal of Plants

2006 817 citations Ran Nathan Science profile →
Mechanisms of long-distance seed dispersal

2008 677 citations Ran Nathan, Orr Spiegel et al. Trends in Ecology & Evolution profile →
The Ecology and Evolution of Seed Dispersal: A Theoretical Perspective

2003 625 citations Helene C. Muller‐Landau, Ran Nathan et al. profile →
Mechanisms of long-distance dispersal of seeds by wind

2002 506 citations Ran Nathan et al. profile →
Long‐distance gene flow and adaptation of forest trees to rapid climate change

2012 488 citations Ran Nathan et al. Ecology Letters profile →
Using tri-axial acceleration data to identify behavioral modes of free-ranging animals: general concepts and tools illustrated for griffon vultures

2012 341 citations Ran Nathan, Orr Spiegel et al. profile →

Peers — A (Enhanced Table)

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

Name	h						Papers	Cites
Ran Nathan Israel	59	8.2k	8.0k	6.3k	2.8k	2.8k	166	16.4k
Han Olff Netherlands	67	8.1k 1.0×	7.1k 0.9×	3.4k 0.5×	3.3k 1.2×	2.5k 0.9×	256	14.8k
H.H.T. Prins Netherlands	68	9.2k 1.1×	5.4k 0.7×	2.9k 0.5×	4.3k 1.5×	1.4k 0.5×	407	16.8k
Thorsten Wiegand Germany	61	5.4k 0.7×	7.1k 0.9×	3.5k 0.6×	4.3k 1.5×	1.4k 0.5×	180	13.3k
David I. Warton Australia	45	6.3k 0.8×	7.9k 1.0×	4.9k 0.8×	4.9k 1.7×	3.4k 1.2×	104	17.8k
William F. Fagan United States	64	8.5k 1.0×	5.8k 0.7×	4.0k 0.6×	3.7k 1.3×	1.9k 0.7×	270	16.5k
Peter Chesson United States	47	6.5k 0.8×	8.9k 1.1×	7.1k 1.1×	3.3k 1.2×	2.4k 0.9×	117	16.1k
Stéphane Dray France	45	6.5k 0.8×	6.0k 0.8×	4.3k 0.7×	2.5k 0.9×	2.2k 0.8×	90	15.5k
Michael R. Willig United States	59	7.8k 1.0×	6.0k 0.8×	5.8k 0.9×	2.8k 1.0×	1.4k 0.5×	222	16.7k
Owen L. Petchey Switzerland	54	6.7k 0.8×	6.5k 0.8×	4.6k 0.7×	3.9k 1.4×	1.4k 0.5×	146	14.4k
Marie‐Josée Fortin Canada	65	8.6k 1.0×	7.0k 0.9×	2.9k 0.5×	6.2k 2.2×	1.2k 0.4×	274	17.2k

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Co-authorship network of co-authors of Ran Nathan

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Nathan, Ran, Sivan Toledo, Florian Jeltsch, et al.. (2025). Pathogen-induced alterations in fine-scale movement behaviour predict impaired reproductive success. Proceedings of the Royal Society B Biological Sciences. 292(2044). 20250238–20250238. 1 indexed citations

Caetano, Gabriel Henrique de Oliveira, et al.. (2025). The value of human resources changes with season for a social desert passerine bird. PubMed. 4(1). 15–15.

Bloch, Itai, et al.. (2025). Combining radio-telemetry and radar measurements to test optimal foraging in an aerial insectivore bird. eLife. 13. 1 indexed citations

Goldshtein, Aya, Eran Amichai, Arjan Boonman, et al.. (2024). Acoustic cognitive map–based navigation in echolocating bats. Science. 386(6721). 561–567. 10 indexed citations

Nathan, Ran, et al.. (2024). Space partitioning within groups of social coral reef fish. Coral Reefs. 43(3). 497–508. 1 indexed citations

Geiß, Christian, et al.. (2024). Assessing cumulative uncertainties of remote sensing time series and telemetry data in animal-environment studies. Landscape Ecology. 39(2). 2 indexed citations

Harel, Roi, et al.. (2024). Revealing principles of autonomous thermal soaring in windy conditions using vulture-inspired deep reinforcement-learning. Nature Communications. 15(1). 4942–4942. 2 indexed citations

Beardsworth, Christine E., et al.. (2022). Validating ATLAS : A regional‐scale high‐throughput tracking system. Methods in Ecology and Evolution. 13(9). 1990–2004. 28 indexed citations

Bijleveld, Allert I., Anne Dekinga, Pratik Rajan Gupte, et al.. (2022). WATLAS: high-throughput and real-time tracking of many small birds in the Dutch Wadden Sea. Animal Biotelemetry. 10(1). 4 indexed citations

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Ron, Chen, et al.. (2022). Resource limitation drives fission–fusion dynamics of group composition and size in a social bird. Animal Behaviour. 191. 15–32. 14 indexed citations

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Wu, Zeng‐Yuan, Richard I. Milne, Jie Liu, et al.. (2022). The establishment of plants following long-distance dispersal. Trends in Ecology & Evolution. 38(3). 289–300. 29 indexed citations

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Gupte, Pratik Rajan, Christine E. Beardsworth, Orr Spiegel, et al.. (2021). A guide to pre‐processing high‐throughput animal tracking data. Journal of Animal Ecology. 91(2). 287–307. 64 indexed citations

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Turjeman, Sondra, Chen Ron, & Ran Nathan. (2021). Absence of strict monogamy in the Eurasian jackdaw, Coloeus monedula. Israel Journal of Ecology and Evolution. 67(3-4). 107–111. 1 indexed citations

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Beardsworth, Christine E., Mark A. Whiteside, Philippa R. Laker, et al.. (2021). Is habitat selection in the wild shaped by individual‐level cognitive biases in orientation strategy?. Ecology Letters. 24(4). 751–760. 16 indexed citations

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Rotics, Shay, Nir Horvitz, Michael Kaatz, et al.. (2020). Causes and consequences of facultative sea crossing in a soaring migrant. Functional Ecology. 34(4). 840–852. 18 indexed citations

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Nathan, Ran & Yehudah L. Werner. (2013). REPTILES AND BREEDING BIRDS ON MT. HERMON: PATTERNS OF ALTITUDINAL DISTRIBUTION AND SPECIES RICHNESS. Israel Journal of Zoology. 45(1). 1–33. 6 indexed citations

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Nathan, Ran, Wayne M. Getz, Eloy Revilla, et al.. (2008). A movement ecology paradigm for unifying organismal movement research. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences. 105(49). 19052–19059. 1999 indexed citations breakdown →

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Nathan, Ran. (2008). An emerging movement ecology paradigm. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences. 105(49). 19050–19051. 232 indexed citations

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Trakhtenbrot, Ana, Ran Nathan, Gad Perry, & David M. Richardson. (2005). The importance of long‐distance dispersal in biodiversity conservation. Diversity and Distributions. 11(2). 173–181. 437 indexed citations

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Nathan, Ran & Helene C. Muller‐Landau. (2000). Spatial patterns of seed dispersal, their determinants and consequences for recruitment. Trends in Ecology & Evolution. 15(7). 278–285. 1643 indexed citations breakdown →

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