Robert M. May

120.1k total citations · 50 hit papers
476 papers, 82.1k citations indexed

About

Robert M. May is a scholar working on Genetics, Public Health, Environmental and Occupational Health and Ecology. According to data from OpenAlex, Robert M. May has authored 476 papers receiving a total of 82.1k indexed citations (citations by other indexed papers that have themselves been cited), including 95 papers in Genetics, 84 papers in Public Health, Environmental and Occupational Health and 81 papers in Ecology. Recurrent topics in Robert M. May's work include Evolution and Genetic Dynamics (77 papers), Mathematical and Theoretical Epidemiology and Ecology Models (74 papers) and Evolutionary Game Theory and Cooperation (55 papers). Robert M. May is often cited by papers focused on Evolution and Genetic Dynamics (77 papers), Mathematical and Theoretical Epidemiology and Ecology Models (74 papers) and Evolutionary Game Theory and Cooperation (55 papers). Robert M. May collaborates with scholars based in United Kingdom, United States and Australia. Robert M. May's co-authors include Roy M. Anderson, Martin A. Nowak, M. P. Hassell, George Sugihara, Sean Nee, Alun L. Lloyd, J. R. Beddington, W D Hamilton, Paul Harvey and Clarence Lehman and has published in prestigious journals such as Nature, Science and Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences.

In The Last Decade

Robert M. May

465 papers receiving 74.7k citations

Hit Papers

Simple mathematical models with very complicated dynamics 1972 2026 1990 2008 1976 1991 1992 2001 1979 1000 2.0k 3.0k 4.0k

Peers — A (Enhanced Table)

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

Name h Career Trend Papers Cites
Robert M. May United Kingdom 136 22.3k 20.6k 18.7k 13.1k 13.0k 476 82.1k
Simon A. Levin United States 117 10.5k 0.5× 8.7k 0.4× 16.6k 0.9× 8.2k 0.6× 8.8k 0.7× 602 67.8k
Robert Tibshirani United States 125 15.5k 0.7× 4.6k 0.2× 8.8k 0.5× 4.6k 0.4× 2.7k 0.2× 402 238.4k
Trevor Hastie United States 107 11.3k 0.5× 3.3k 0.2× 13.7k 0.7× 3.0k 0.2× 4.1k 0.3× 301 179.6k
Martin A. Nowak United States 132 24.0k 1.1× 14.4k 0.7× 2.4k 0.1× 37.2k 2.8× 5.1k 0.4× 485 80.9k
John Maynard Smith United Kingdom 80 18.2k 0.8× 5.0k 0.2× 6.0k 0.3× 15.0k 1.1× 12.8k 1.0× 227 47.7k
Donald B. Rubin United States 118 6.6k 0.3× 7.7k 0.4× 4.2k 0.2× 19.8k 1.5× 2.0k 0.2× 406 209.1k
Roy M. Anderson United Kingdom 109 10.2k 0.5× 14.7k 0.7× 10.5k 0.6× 4.4k 0.3× 2.9k 0.2× 539 53.9k
Benjamin M. Bolker United States 55 9.2k 0.4× 4.2k 0.2× 21.5k 1.2× 2.9k 0.2× 18.1k 1.4× 154 83.4k
Bryan T. Grenfell United States 94 6.3k 0.3× 8.2k 0.4× 7.0k 0.4× 1.7k 0.1× 2.8k 0.2× 407 38.2k
Robert D. Holt United States 96 10.4k 0.5× 5.1k 0.2× 21.2k 1.1× 3.1k 0.2× 15.0k 1.2× 300 45.3k

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Fields of papers citing papers by Robert M. May

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Physical SciencesHealth SciencesLife SciencesSocial Sciences

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Co-authorship network of co-authors of Robert M. May

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All Works

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Cruzeiro, Catarina, Abilash Chakravarthy Durai Raj, Joseph Nesme, et al.. (2022). Exudates from Miscanthus x giganteus change the response of a root-associated Pseudomonas putida strain towards heavy metals. Environmental Pollution. 313. 119989–119989. 12 indexed citations
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May, Robert M. & Jon Seger. (2016). Ideas in Ecology. American Scientist. 74(3). 256–267. 1 indexed citations
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Costello, Mark J., Robert M. May, & Nigel E. Stork. (2013). Can We Name Earth's Species Before They Go Extinct?. Science. 339(6118). 413–416. 424 indexed citations breakdown →
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Sugihara, George, Robert M. May, Hao Ye, et al.. (2012). Detecting Causality in Complex Ecosystems. Science. 338(6106). 496–500. 1536 indexed citations breakdown →
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May, Robert M.. (2011). Science advice and policy making. Journal and proceedings of the Royal Society of New South Wales. 144(3-4). 50–57. 4 indexed citations
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Stumpf, Michael P. H., Carsten Wiuf, & Robert M. May. (2005). Subnets of scale-free networks are not scale-free: Sampling properties of networks. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences. 102(12). 4221–4224. 363 indexed citations
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Nowak, Martin A. & Robert M. May. (2000). Virus dynamics. 731 indexed citations breakdown →
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Sigmund, Karl, Robert M. May, & Martin A. Nowak. (1995). La aritmética de la ayuda mutua. Dialnet (Universidad de la Rioja). 160(227). 42–48. 2 indexed citations
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May, Robert M.. (1995). Necessity and chance: deterministic chaos in ecology and evolution. Bulletin of the American Mathematical Society. 32(3). 291–308. 33 indexed citations
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Nee, Sean, Edward C. Holmes, Robert M. May, & Paul Harvey. (1994). Extinction rates can be estimated from molecular phylogenies. Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society B Biological Sciences. 344(1307). 77–82. 343 indexed citations
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Edwards, Peter J., Robert M. May, & N. R. Webb. (1994). Large scale ecology and conservation biology : the 35th Symposium of the British Ecological Society with the Society for Conservation Biology, University of Southampton, 1993. 9 indexed citations
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Sugihara, George & Robert M. May. (1990). Nonlinear forecasting as a way of distinguishing chaos from measurement error in time series. Nature. 344(6268). 734–741. 1365 indexed citations breakdown →
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May, Robert M., et al.. (1990). Ecology and population biology.. 130–145. 14 indexed citations
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Leakey, Richard E., Peter H. Raven, Edward O. Wilson, et al.. (1989). Fourth International Congress of Systematic and Evolutionary Biology. Journal of Paleontology. 63(6). 944–944. 3 indexed citations
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May, Robert M.. (1988). How Many Species Are There on Earth?. Science. 241(4872). 1441–1449. 808 indexed citations breakdown →
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May, Robert M.. (1987). Chaos and the dynamics of biological populations. Proceedings of the Royal Society of London A Mathematical and Physical Sciences. 413(1844). 27–44. 92 indexed citations
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May, Robert M.. (1986). The Croonian Lecture, 1985 - When two and two do not make four: nonlinear phenomena in ecology. Proceedings of the Royal Society of London. Series B, Biological sciences. 228(1252). 241–266. 66 indexed citations
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May, Robert M. & J. R. Beddington. (1984). Exploitation of Marine Communities: Report of the Dahlem Workshop on Exploitation of Marine Communities, Berlin 1984, April 1-6. Springer eBooks. 4 indexed citations
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May, Robert M. & Roy M. Anderson. (1983). Epidemiology and genetics in the coevolution of parasites and hosts. PubMed. 219(1216). 281–313. 657 indexed citations breakdown →
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May, Robert M.. (1972). Will a Large Complex System be Stable?. Nature. 238(5364). 413–414. 1841 indexed citations breakdown →

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