Richard Law

22.3k total citations · 4 hit papers
159 papers, 16.0k citations indexed

About

Richard Law is a scholar working on Nature and Landscape Conservation, Molecular Biology and Global and Planetary Change. According to data from OpenAlex, Richard Law has authored 159 papers receiving a total of 16.0k indexed citations (citations by other indexed papers that have themselves been cited), including 49 papers in Nature and Landscape Conservation, 47 papers in Molecular Biology and 43 papers in Global and Planetary Change. Recurrent topics in Richard Law's work include Plant and animal studies (37 papers), Ecology and Vegetation Dynamics Studies (35 papers) and Evolution and Genetic Dynamics (30 papers). Richard Law is often cited by papers focused on Plant and animal studies (37 papers), Ecology and Vegetation Dynamics Studies (35 papers) and Evolution and Genetic Dynamics (30 papers). Richard Law collaborates with scholars based in United Kingdom, United States and New Zealand. Richard Law's co-authors include Ulf Dieckmann, Andrew Gonzalez, Jonathan M. Chase, Robert D. Holt, Priyanga Amarasekare, Martha F. Hoopes, Nicolas Mouquet, Marcel Holyoak, Michel Loreau and Jonathan B. Shurin and has published in prestigious journals such as Nature, Science and Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences.

In The Last Decade

Richard Law

157 papers receiving 14.9k 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.

The metacommunity concept: a framework for multi‐scale community ecology

2004 3.9k citations Mathew A. Leibold, Marcel Holyoak et al. Ecology Letters profile →
The dynamical theory of coevolution: a derivation from stochastic ecological processes

1996 815 citations Ulf Dieckmann, Richard Law profile →
Fishing, selection, and phenotypic evolution

2000 725 citations Richard Law profile →
Ecological information from spatial patterns of plants: insights from point process theory

2009 342 citations Richard Law et al. profile →

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#	Work	Indexed citations
1	Maternal transmission as a microbial symbiont sieve, and the absence of lactation in male mammals 2024 ·Nature Communications ·(unknown), George W. A. Constable, Richard Law	2
2	Fishing for biodiversity by balanced harvesting 2022 ·Fish and Fisheries ·Richard Law, Michael J. Plank	4
3	Selective fishing and balanced harvest in relation to fisheries and ecosystem sustainability. Report of a scientific workshop organized by the IUCN-CEM Fisheries Expert Group (FEG) and the European Board of Conservation and Development (EBCD) in Nagoya (Japan) 14-16 October 2010 2011 ·Institutional Archive of Ifremer (French Research Institute for Exploitation of the Sea) ·Serge M. Garcia, Jeppe Kolding, Jake Rice, Marie‐Joëlle Rochet, Shuhua Zhou, Takafumi Arimoto, Lisa Borges, Alida Bundy, Daniel C. Dunn, (unknown), Martín Hall, Mikko Heino, Richard Law, (unknown), A.D. Rijnsdorp, François Simard, Anthony D. M. Smith, (unknown)	1
4	Using Electrophysiology and In Silico Three-Dimensional Modeling to Reduce Human Ether-à-go-go Related Gene K ⁺ Channel Inhibition in a Histamine H3 Receptor Antagonist Program 2010 ·Assay and Drug Development Technologies ·Adam J. Davenport, Clemens Möller, Alexander Heifetz, Michael P. Mazanetz, Richard Law, Andreas Ebneth, Mark J. Gemkow	12
5	A Jump-Growth Model for Predator–Prey Dynamics: Derivation and Application to Marine Ecosystems 2010 ·Bulletin of Mathematical Biology ·Samik Datta, Gustav W. Delius, Richard Law	34
6	Modeling Neuronal Nicotinic and GABA Receptors: Important Interface Salt-Links and Protein Dynamics 2009 ·Biophysical Journal ·Richard Law, Felice C. Lightstone	22
7	Embedded cholesterol in the nicotinic acetylcholine receptor 2008 ·Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences ·Grace Brannigan, Jérôme Hénin, Richard Law, Roderic G. Eckenhoff, Michael L. Klein	139
8	How does abundance scale with body size in coupled size‐structured food webs? 2008 ·Journal of Animal Ecology ·Julia L. Blanchard, Simon Jennings, Richard Law, Matthew D. Castle, (unknown), Marie‐Joëlle Rochet, Éric Benoît	183
9	Quantifying size distributions of nanolipoprotein particles with single-particle analysis and molecular dynamic simulations 2008 ·Journal of Lipid Research ·Craig Blanchette, Richard Law, W. Henry Benner, Joseph B. Pesavento, Jenny A. Cappuccio, (unknown), Edward A. Kuhn, Michele Corzett, Brett A. Chromy, Brent W. Segelke, Matthew A. Coleman, Graham Bench, Paul D. Hoeprich, Todd Sulchek	45
10	Gaba Receptor Insecticide Non-Competitive Antagonists May Bind at Allosteric Modulator Sites 2008 ·International Journal of Neuroscience ·Richard Law, Felice C. Lightstone	13
11	Membrane protein structure quality in molecular dynamics simulation 2005 ·Journal of Molecular Graphics and Modelling ·Richard Law, Charlotte E. Capener, Marc Baaden, Peter J. Bond, (unknown), George Patargias, Yalini Arinaminpathy, Mark S.P. Sansom	52
12	The metacommunity concept: a framework for multi‐scale community ecology breakdown → 2004 ·Ecology Letters ·Mathew A. Leibold, Marcel Holyoak, Nicolas Mouquet, Priyanga Amarasekare, Jonathan M. Chase, Martha F. Hoopes, Robert D. Holt, Jonathan B. Shurin, Richard Law, David Tilman, Michel Loreau, Andrew Gonzalez	3866
13	Influence of Lateral Association on Forced Unfolding of Antiparallel Spectrin Heterodimers 2004 ·Journal of Biological Chemistry ·Richard Law, Sandy Harper, David W. Speicher, Dennis E. Discher	21
14	Electrostatics studies and molecular dynamics simulations of a homology model of the Shaker K + channel pore 2001 ·European Biophysics Journal ·Kishani M. Ranatunga, Richard Law, Graham R. Smith, Mark S.P. Sansom	20
15	Membrane proteins: Aquaporins — channels without ions 2001 ·Current Biology ·Mark S.P. Sansom, Richard Law	24
16	Simulations of potassium channel function: KcsA and homology models 2000 ·The Journal of General Physiology ·Mark S.P. Sansom, Indira H. Shrivastava, Richard Law, Charlotte E. Capener	1
17	The Geometry of Ecological Interactions: Simplifying Spatial Complexity 2000 ·IIASA PURE (International Institute of Applied Systems Analysis) ·Ulf Dieckmann, Richard Law, J.A.J. Metz	406
18	On the quantitative genetics of correlated characters under directional selection in age-structured populations 1991 ·Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society B Biological Sciences ·Richard Law	23
19	Genetic analysis of conflicts arising during development of seeds in the Angiospermophyta 1984 ·Proceedings of the Royal Society of London. Series B, Biological sciences ·Richard Law, C. Cannings	22
20	Evolution of recombination in populations experiencing frequency-dependent selection with time delay 1981 ·Proceedings of the Royal Society of London. Series B, Biological sciences ·V. Hutson, Richard Law	51

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