Serguei Saavedra

4.4k total citations · 1 hit paper
73 papers, 2.7k citations indexed

About

Serguei Saavedra is a scholar working on Ecology, Evolution, Behavior and Systematics, Sociology and Political Science and Genetics. According to data from OpenAlex, Serguei Saavedra has authored 73 papers receiving a total of 2.7k indexed citations (citations by other indexed papers that have themselves been cited), including 46 papers in Ecology, Evolution, Behavior and Systematics, 26 papers in Sociology and Political Science and 26 papers in Genetics. Recurrent topics in Serguei Saavedra's work include Plant and animal studies (46 papers), Evolutionary Game Theory and Cooperation (26 papers) and Ecology and Vegetation Dynamics Studies (22 papers). Serguei Saavedra is often cited by papers focused on Plant and animal studies (46 papers), Evolutionary Game Theory and Cooperation (26 papers) and Ecology and Vegetation Dynamics Studies (22 papers). Serguei Saavedra collaborates with scholars based in United States, Switzerland and Spain. Serguei Saavedra's co-authors include Rudolf P. Rohr, Jordi Bascompte, Chuliang Song, Brian Uzzi, Simone Cenci, Felix Reed‐Tsochas, Óscar Godoy, Daniel B. Stouffer, Ígnasi Bartomeus and Jonathan M. Levine and has published in prestigious journals such as Nature, Science and Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences.

In The Last Decade

Serguei Saavedra

72 papers receiving 2.6k citations

Hit Papers

On the structural stability of mutualistic systems 2014 2026 2018 2022 2014 100 200 300
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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.

  1. On the structural stability of mutualistic systems
    2014 375 citations Rudolf P. Rohr, Serguei Saavedra et al. Science profile →

Peers — A (Enhanced Table)

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

Name h Career Trend Papers Cites
Serguei Saavedra United States 27 1.5k 940 652 616 573 73 2.7k
Miguel A. Fortuna Spain 23 1.5k 1.1× 919 1.0× 856 1.3× 418 0.7× 575 1.0× 44 2.6k
Rudolf P. Rohr Switzerland 29 1.5k 1.0× 1.1k 1.2× 664 1.0× 409 0.7× 499 0.9× 56 2.5k
György Barabás Hungary 21 818 0.6× 676 0.7× 580 0.9× 456 0.7× 490 0.9× 86 2.1k
Ferenc Jordán Hungary 32 1.5k 1.0× 556 0.6× 1.6k 2.4× 701 1.1× 539 0.9× 125 3.8k
Jin Yoshimura Japan 28 1.2k 0.8× 566 0.6× 565 0.9× 463 0.8× 995 1.7× 175 2.7k
Carlos J. Melián Switzerland 21 2.8k 1.9× 1.9k 2.0× 1.2k 1.8× 555 0.9× 885 1.5× 41 4.4k
Åke Brännström Sweden 24 595 0.4× 677 0.7× 491 0.8× 710 1.2× 647 1.1× 73 2.5k
Vlastimil Křivan Czechia 32 1.7k 1.1× 1.1k 1.1× 1.5k 2.2× 959 1.6× 1.7k 3.0× 95 4.3k
Mário Almeida‐Neto Brazil 25 2.5k 1.7× 2.0k 2.1× 1.2k 1.8× 202 0.3× 566 1.0× 60 3.9k
Rodrigo Ramos‐Jiliberto Chile 25 975 0.7× 676 0.7× 569 0.9× 318 0.5× 619 1.1× 78 2.0k

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Physical SciencesHealth SciencesLife SciencesSocial Sciences

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Co-authorship network of co-authors of Serguei Saavedra

This figure shows the co-authorship network connecting the top 25 collaborators of Serguei Saavedra. A scholar is included among the top collaborators of Serguei Saavedra 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 Serguei Saavedra. Serguei Saavedra 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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Long, C.L., Jen Nguyen, Yang‐Yu Liu, et al.. (2024). Structured community transitions explain the switching capacity of microbial systems. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences. 121(6). e2312521121–e2312521121. 11 indexed citations
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Taylor, Washington, et al.. (2023). On the limits to invasion prediction using coexistence outcomes. Journal of Theoretical Biology. 577. 111674–111674. 3 indexed citations
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Saavedra, Serguei, et al.. (2023). Assembly archetypes in ecological communities. Journal of The Royal Society Interface. 20(208). 20230349–20230349. 2 indexed citations
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Tabi, Andrea, et al.. (2023). Protection promotes energetically efficient structures in marine communities. PLoS Computational Biology. 19(12). e1011742–e1011742. 1 indexed citations
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Saavedra, Serguei, et al.. (2022). Feasibility conditions of ecological models: Unfolding links between model parameters. Ecological Modelling. 466. 109900–109900. 1 indexed citations
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Taylor, Washington, et al.. (2022). Understanding the impact of third-party species on pairwise coexistence. PLoS Computational Biology. 18(10). e1010630–e1010630. 16 indexed citations
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Saavedra, Serguei, Ígnasi Bartomeus, Óscar Godoy, Rudolf P. Rohr, & Pengjuan Zu. (2022). Towards a system-level causative knowledge of pollinator communities. Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society B Biological Sciences. 377(1853). 20210159–20210159. 5 indexed citations
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Wang, Shaopeng, et al.. (2022). Multispecies coexistence in fragmented landscapes. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences. 119(37). e2201503119–e2201503119. 28 indexed citations
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Medeiros, Lucas P., Stefano Allesina, Vasilis Dakos, George Sugihara, & Serguei Saavedra. (2022). Ranking species based on sensitivity to perturbations under non‐equilibrium community dynamics. Ecology Letters. 26(1). 170–183. 16 indexed citations
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Medeiros, Lucas P., Chuliang Song, & Serguei Saavedra. (2021). Merging dynamical and structural indicators to measure resilience in multispecies systems. Journal of Animal Ecology. 90(9). 2027–2040. 13 indexed citations
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Angulo, Marco Tulio, et al.. (2021). Coexistence holes characterize the assembly and disassembly of multispecies systems. Nature Ecology & Evolution. 5(8). 1091–1101. 19 indexed citations
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Zhao, Nannan, Serguei Saavedra, & Yang‐Yu Liu. (2021). Impact of colonization history on the composition of ecological systems. Physical review. E. 103(5). 52403–52403. 7 indexed citations
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Angulo, Marco Tulio, et al.. (2021). Generalizing game-changing species across microbial communities. ISME Communications. 1(1). 22–22. 12 indexed citations
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Song, Chuliang, Rudolf P. Rohr, David A. Vasseur, & Serguei Saavedra. (2020). Disentangling the effects of external perturbations on coexistence and priority effects. Journal of Ecology. 108(4). 1677–1689. 15 indexed citations
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Zu, Pengjuan, Karina Boege, Ek del‐Val, et al.. (2020). Information arms race explains plant-herbivore chemical communication in ecological communities. Science. 368(6497). 1377–1381. 60 indexed citations
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Tabi, Andrea, Frank Pennekamp, Florian Altermatt, et al.. (2020). Species multidimensional effects explain idiosyncratic responses of communities to environmental change. Nature Ecology & Evolution. 4(8). 1036–1043. 23 indexed citations
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Song, Chuliang, Rudolf P. Rohr, & Serguei Saavedra. (2019). Beware z‐scores. Journal of Animal Ecology. 88(5). 808–809. 4 indexed citations
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Song, Chuliang & Serguei Saavedra. (2018). Structural stability as a consistent predictor of phenological events. Proceedings of the Royal Society B Biological Sciences. 285(1880). 20180767–20180767. 18 indexed citations
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Cenci, Simone, Chuliang Song, & Serguei Saavedra. (2018). Rethinking the importance of the structure of ecological networks under an environment‐dependent framework. Ecology and Evolution. 8(14). 6852–6859. 29 indexed citations
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Gomes, Sofia I. F., Vincent S. F. T. Merckx, & Serguei Saavedra. (2017). Fungal‐host diversity among mycoheterotrophic plants increases proportionally to their fungal‐host overlap. Ecology and Evolution. 7(10). 3623–3630. 14 indexed citations

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