Rolf Heller

1.1k total citations · 1 hit paper
7 papers, 902 citations indexed

About

Rolf Heller is a scholar working on Genetics, Sociology and Political Science and Ecology, Evolution, Behavior and Systematics. According to data from OpenAlex, Rolf Heller has authored 7 papers receiving a total of 902 indexed citations (citations by other indexed papers that have themselves been cited), including 4 papers in Genetics, 3 papers in Sociology and Political Science and 3 papers in Ecology, Evolution, Behavior and Systematics. Recurrent topics in Rolf Heller's work include Evolution and Genetic Dynamics (4 papers), Animal Behavior and Reproduction (3 papers) and Evolutionary Game Theory and Cooperation (3 papers). Rolf Heller is often cited by papers focused on Evolution and Genetic Dynamics (4 papers), Animal Behavior and Reproduction (3 papers) and Evolutionary Game Theory and Cooperation (3 papers). Rolf Heller collaborates with scholars based in Germany and United Kingdom. Rolf Heller's co-authors include Manfred Milinski and John Maynard Smith and has published in prestigious journals such as Nature, Animal Behaviour and Journal of Theoretical Biology.

In The Last Decade

Rolf Heller

7 papers receiving 758 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.

Influence of a predator on the optimal foraging behaviour of sticklebacks (Gasterosteus aculeatus L.)

1978 617 citations Manfred Milinski, Rolf Heller Nature profile →

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Name	h						Papers	Cites
Rolf Heller Germany	6	389	325	285	207	183	7	902
Allan Oaten United States	8	332 0.9×	372 1.1×	238 0.8×	268 1.3×	198 1.1×	11	1.0k
Steven Martindale United States	7	594 1.5×	538 1.7×	210 0.7×	125 0.6×	81 0.4×	8	1.2k
D. B. A. Thompson United Kingdom	15	452 1.2×	885 2.7×	476 1.7×	143 0.7×	227 1.2×	23	1.3k
J. G. Ollason United Kingdom	11	257 0.7×	230 0.7×	169 0.6×	115 0.6×	103 0.6×	23	636
Alfred E. Emerson United States	12	539 1.4×	268 0.8×	207 0.7×	515 2.5×	129 0.7×	42	1.1k
H B D Kettlewell United Kingdom	13	720 1.9×	263 0.8×	200 0.7×	496 2.4×	125 0.7×	26	1.3k
Robert P. Gendron United States	10	377 1.0×	237 0.7×	230 0.8×	98 0.5×	199 1.1×	13	768
Robert J. O’Hara United States	14	314 0.8×	227 0.7×	181 0.6×	311 1.5×	107 0.6×	39	1.1k
E. S. Brown United Kingdom	19	366 0.9×	226 0.7×	131 0.5×	259 1.3×	115 0.6×	64	1.3k
Richard J. Cowie United Kingdom	16	779 2.0×	794 2.4×	205 0.7×	94 0.5×	84 0.5×	26	1.4k

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Co-authorship network of co-authors of Rolf Heller

This figure shows the co-authorship network connecting the top 25 collaborators of Rolf Heller. A scholar is included among the top collaborators of Rolf Heller 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 Rolf Heller. Rolf Heller is excluded from the visualization to improve readability, since they are connected to all nodes in the network.

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7 of 7 papers shown

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Heller, Rolf. (1980). Foraging on potentially harmful prey. Journal of Theoretical Biology. 85(4). 807–813. 5 indexed citations

2.

Heller, Rolf. (1980). On optimal diet in a patchy environment. Theoretical Population Biology. 17(2). 201–214. 72 indexed citations

3.

Heller, Rolf & Manfred Milinski. (1979). Optimal foraging of sticklebacks on swarming prey. Animal Behaviour. 27. 1127–1141. 129 indexed citations

4.

Milinski, Manfred & Rolf Heller. (1978). Influence of a predator on the optimal foraging behaviour of sticklebacks (Gasterosteus aculeatus L.). Nature. 275(5681). 642–644. 617 indexed citations breakdown →

5.

Heller, Rolf & John Maynard Smith. (1978). Does Muller's ratchet work with selfing?. Genetics Research. 32(3). 289–293. 69 indexed citations

6.

Heller, Rolf. (1978). Two predator-prey difference equations considering delayed population growth and starvation. Journal of Theoretical Biology. 70(4). 401–413. 1 indexed citations

7.

Heller, Rolf. (1958). Die literarische Darstellung der Frau in den Isländersagas. 9 indexed citations

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