Roland Kays

24.2k total citations · 7 hit papers
212 papers, 14.1k citations indexed

About

Roland Kays is a scholar working on Ecology, Ecological Modeling and Social Psychology. According to data from OpenAlex, Roland Kays has authored 212 papers receiving a total of 14.1k indexed citations (citations by other indexed papers that have themselves been cited), including 170 papers in Ecology, 64 papers in Ecological Modeling and 34 papers in Social Psychology. Recurrent topics in Roland Kays's work include Wildlife Ecology and Conservation (153 papers), Species Distribution and Climate Change (64 papers) and Animal Ecology and Behavior Studies (30 papers). Roland Kays is often cited by papers focused on Wildlife Ecology and Conservation (153 papers), Species Distribution and Climate Change (64 papers) and Animal Ecology and Behavior Studies (30 papers). Roland Kays collaborates with scholars based in United States, Germany and Panama. Roland Kays's co-authors include Martin Wikelski, Patrick A. Jansen, Margaret C. Crofoot, Walter Jetz, Bart Kranstauber, J. Marcus Rowcliffe, Chris Carbone, Scott LaPoint, Arielle W. Parsons and Tavis D. Forrester and has published in prestigious journals such as Science, Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences and Nature Communications.

In The Last Decade

Roland Kays

202 papers receiving 13.6k citations

Hit Papers

Terrestrial animal tracking as an eye on life and planet 2012 2026 2016 2021 2015 2014 2020 2013 2012 250 500 750 1000
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.

  1. Terrestrial animal tracking as an eye on life and planet
    2015 1.0k citations Roland Kays, Margaret C. Crofoot et al. profile →
  2. Quantifying levels of animal activity using camera trap data
    2014 407 citations Roland Kays et al. Methods in Ecology and Evolution profile →
  3. COVID-19 lockdown allows researchers to quantify the effects of human activity on wildlife
    2020 403 citations Christian Rutz, Matthias‐Claudio Loretto et al. Nature Ecology & Evolution profile →
  4. Observing the unwatchable through acceleration logging of animal behavior
    2013 392 citations Roland Kays, Martin Wikelski et al. profile →
  5. A dynamic Brownian bridge movement model to estimate utilization distributions for heterogeneous animal movement
    2012 363 citations Roland Kays, Scott LaPoint et al. profile →
  6. Perspectives in machine learning for wildlife conservation
    2022 348 citations Devis Tuia, Benjamin Kellenberger et al. Nature Communications profile →
  7. Scaling‐up camera traps: monitoring the planet's biodiversity with networks of remote sensors
    2016 301 citations Mark Hebblewhite, Roland Kays et al. profile →

Peers

Roland Kays
Kevin R. Crooks United States
Wayne M. Getz United States
Len Thomas United Kingdom
Martin Wikelski Germany
Craig Packer United States
Luigi Boitani Italy
Eloy Revilla Spain
J. Andrew Royle United States
Ran Nathan Israel
J. Marcus Rowcliffe United Kingdom
Kevin R. Crooks United States
Roland Kays
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Fields of papers citing papers by Roland Kays

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Physical SciencesHealth SciencesLife SciencesSocial Sciences

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Co-authorship network of co-authors of Roland Kays

This figure shows the co-authorship network connecting the top 25 collaborators of Roland Kays. A scholar is included among the top collaborators of Roland Kays based on the total number of citations received by their joint publications. Widths of edges represent the number of papers authors have co-authored together. Node borders signify the number of papers an author published with Roland Kays. Roland Kays is excluded from the visualization to improve readability, since they are connected to all nodes in the network.

All Works

20 of 20 papers shown
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Davidson, Sarah C., Mark Hebblewhite, Allicia Kelly, et al.. (2025). ECODATA : A toolbox to efficiently explore and communicate animal movements alongside environmental and anthropogenic context using geospatial big data. Methods in Ecology and Evolution. 16(10). 2318–2325.
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Kang, Yong Han, et al.. (2025). Apex predator loss drives trophic downgrading in China’s protected areas. Current Biology. 35(12). 2872–2880.e3.
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Holmes, Charles E., Brooke L. Bateman, Joshua R. Ennen, et al.. (2025). Bibliographic synthesis of biodiversity-relevant criteria for solar energy siting. Renewable and Sustainable Energy Reviews. 223. 116026–116026.
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Schalk, Christopher M., Alex J. Jensen, Benjamin R. Goldstein, et al.. (2025). iNaturalist and Structured Mammal Surveys Reflect Similar Species Richness but Capture Different Species Pools Across the United States. Ecology and Evolution. 15(7). e71805–e71805.
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Fukasawa, Keita, Yoshihiro Nakashima, Shun Takagi, et al.. (2025). Snapshot Japan 2023: the first camera trap dataset under a globally standardised protocol in Japan. Biodiversity Data Journal. 13. e141168–e141168. 1 indexed citations
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Goldstein, Benjamin R., Alex J. Jensen, Roland Kays, et al.. (2024). Guidelines for estimating occupancy from autocorrelated camera trap detections. Methods in Ecology and Evolution. 15(7). 1177–1191. 6 indexed citations
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Havmøller, Rasmus Worsøe, et al.. (2024). Sex and size matter: Intricate dominance relationships in an East African large carnivore guild. Ecosphere. 15(6). 1 indexed citations
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Moll, Remington J., Austin M. Green, Maximilian L. Allen, & Roland Kays. (2024). People or predators? Comparing habitat‐dependent effects of hunting and large carnivores on the abundance of North America's top mesocarnivore. Ecography. 2025(1). 4 indexed citations
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Ellis‐Soto, Diego, Ruth Y. Oliver, Vanessa Brum-Bastos, et al.. (2023). A vision for incorporating human mobility in the study of human–wildlife interactions. Nature Ecology & Evolution. 7(9). 1362–1372. 15 indexed citations
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Koger, Benjamin, Edward Hurme, Blair R. Costelloe, et al.. (2023). An automated approach for counting groups of flying animals applied to one of the world's largest bat colonies. Ecosphere. 14(6). 6 indexed citations
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Alston, Jesse M., Christen H. Fleming, Roland Kays, et al.. (2022). Mitigating pseudoreplication and bias in resource selection functions with autocorrelation‐informed weighting. Methods in Ecology and Evolution. 14(2). 643–654. 20 indexed citations
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Kays, Roland, Maximilian L. Allen, Robert C. Dowler, et al.. (2022). Which mammals can be identified from camera traps and crowdsourced photographs?. Journal of Mammalogy. 103(4). 767–775. 23 indexed citations
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Harel, Roi, Tanya Berger‐Wolf, Grace H. Davis, et al.. (2022). Life in 2.5D: Animal Movement in the Trees. Frontiers in Ecology and Evolution. 10. 7 indexed citations
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Tuia, Devis, Benjamin Kellenberger, Sara Beery, et al.. (2022). Perspectives in machine learning for wildlife conservation. Nature Communications. 13(1). 792–792. 348 indexed citations breakdown →
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Noonan, Michael, Ricardo Martínez‐García, Grace H. Davis, et al.. (2021). Estimating encounter location distributions from animal tracking data. Methods in Ecology and Evolution. 12(7). 1158–1173. 29 indexed citations
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Bohrer, Gil, Somayeh Dodge, Rolf Weinzierl, et al.. (2013). The Environmental-Data Automated Track Annotation (Env-DATA) System: Linking Animal Tracks with Environmental Data. AGUFM. 2013. 2 indexed citations
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Kays, Roland, et al.. (2012). Visita de animales y polinización de árboles de balso (ochroma pyramidale) en Panamá. 16(3). 56–70. 5 indexed citations
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Kays, Roland. (2006). My Kingdom for a Crown. Natural history. 115(4). 72–73. 1 indexed citations
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LaPoint, Scott, Roland Kays, & Justina C. Ray. (2003). Animals crossing the Northway: are existing culverts useful?. Max Planck Digital Library. 10(1). 11–17. 9 indexed citations

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