Shigeo Yachi

6.4k total citations · 1 hit paper
11 papers, 2.7k citations indexed

About

Shigeo Yachi is a scholar working on Nature and Landscape Conservation, Ecology and Ecology, Evolution, Behavior and Systematics. According to data from OpenAlex, Shigeo Yachi has authored 11 papers receiving a total of 2.7k indexed citations (citations by other indexed papers that have themselves been cited), including 5 papers in Nature and Landscape Conservation, 5 papers in Ecology and 4 papers in Ecology, Evolution, Behavior and Systematics. Recurrent topics in Shigeo Yachi's work include Ecology and Vegetation Dynamics Studies (5 papers), Plant and animal studies (3 papers) and Animal Ecology and Behavior Studies (2 papers). Shigeo Yachi is often cited by papers focused on Ecology and Vegetation Dynamics Studies (5 papers), Plant and animal studies (3 papers) and Animal Ecology and Behavior Studies (2 papers). Shigeo Yachi collaborates with scholars based in Japan, France and Switzerland. Shigeo Yachi's co-authors include Michel Loreau, Masahiko Higashi, Takahiro Hosono, Ichiro Tayasu, Takanori Nakano, Eva Vojtech, Andy Hector, Eva Spehn, Atsushi Ando and Yoshihiro Yamada and has published in prestigious journals such as Nature, Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences and The Science of The Total Environment.

In The Last Decade

Shigeo Yachi

9 papers receiving 2.6k citations

Hit Papers

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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.

Biodiversity and ecosystem productivity in a fluctuating environment: The insurance hypothesis

1999 2.2k citations Shigeo Yachi, Michel Loreau Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences profile →

Peers — A (Enhanced Table)

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

Name	h						Papers	Cites
Shigeo Yachi Japan	8	1.2k	1.0k	778	737	376	11	2.7k
J. A. Ludwig Australia	15	1.2k 1.0×	1.3k 1.2×	616 0.8×	604 0.8×	485 1.3×	26	2.8k
Andrea B. Pfisterer Switzerland	8	1.4k 1.2×	877 0.9×	1.0k 1.3×	691 0.9×	360 1.0×	8	2.5k
Jane Cowles United States	14	1.4k 1.2×	1.1k 1.1×	1.1k 1.4×	662 0.9×	500 1.3×	17	3.0k
William F. Fagan United States	15	1.6k 1.4×	1.9k 1.9×	695 0.9×	492 0.7×	418 1.1×	17	3.5k
Lindsey J. Thompson United Kingdom	12	1.2k 1.0×	874 0.9×	547 0.7×	736 1.0×	558 1.5×	13	2.2k
Nicholas Mirotchnick Canada	7	1.9k 1.6×	1.3k 1.2×	815 1.0×	989 1.3×	378 1.0×	8	3.0k
Jennifer Firn Australia	26	1.3k 1.2×	1.5k 1.5×	924 1.2×	660 0.9×	907 2.4×	83	3.5k
K. Blake Suttle United States	20	1.4k 1.2×	1.5k 1.5×	1.2k 1.5×	894 1.2×	610 1.6×	28	3.9k
John Lambrinos United States	20	1.4k 1.2×	1.6k 1.5×	672 0.9×	1.0k 1.4×	703 1.9×	39	3.3k
Mark J. Hovenden Australia	29	1.0k 0.9×	1.1k 1.0×	1.2k 1.6×	725 1.0×	1.2k 3.1×	96	3.2k

Countries citing papers authored by Shigeo Yachi

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Fields of papers citing papers by Shigeo Yachi

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Co-authorship network of co-authors of Shigeo Yachi

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

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11 of 11 papers shown

Vojtech, Eva, Michel Loreau, Shigeo Yachi, Eva Spehn, & Andy Hector. (2008). Light partitioning in experimental grass communities. Oikos. 117(9). 1351–1361. 48 indexed citations

Hosono, Takahiro, et al.. (2007). Impact of fertilizer on a small watershed of Lake Biwa: Use of sulfur and strontium isotopes in environmental diagnosis. The Science of The Total Environment. 384(1-3). 342–354. 84 indexed citations

Nakano, Takanori, Ichiro Tayasu, Yoshihiro Yamada, et al.. (2007). Effect of agriculture on water quality of Lake Biwa tributaries, Japan. The Science of The Total Environment. 389(1). 132–148. 74 indexed citations

Yamada, Yoshihiro, Atsushi Ueda, Fujio Hyodo, et al.. (2006). The runoff of suspended, substances, nitrogen, and phosphorus by enforced draining during the ploughing season Experiments in paddy fields. Japanese Journal of Limnology (Rikusuigaku Zasshi). 67(2). 105–112. 7 indexed citations

Yachi, Shigeo & Michel Loreau. (2006). Does complementary resource use enhance ecosystem functioning? A model of light competition in plant communities. Ecology Letters. 10(1). 54–62. 199 indexed citations

Yamamura, Norio, Shigeo Yachi, & Masahiko Higashi. (2001). An ecosystem organization model explaining diversity at an ecosystem level: Coevolution of primary producer and decomposer. Ecological Research. 16(5). 975–982. 1 indexed citations

Yachi, Shigeo. (2000). What determines the attack distance of a stalking predator. Evolutionary ecology research. 2(8). 957–964. 5 indexed citations

Yachi, Shigeo & Michel Loreau. (1999). Biodiversity and ecosystem productivity in a fluctuating environment: The insurance hypothesis. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences. 96(4). 1463–1468. 2163 indexed citations breakdown →

Yachi, Shigeo & Michel Loreau. (1999). Biodiversity and ecosystem productivity in a fluctuating environment: The insurance hypothesis (stochastic dynamic modelyspecies richnessyecosystem processesytemporal variabilityyecosystem stability). 1 indexed citations

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Yachi, Shigeo & Masahiko Higashi. (1998). The evolution of warning signals. Nature. 394(6696). 882–884. 73 indexed citations

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Yachi, Shigeo. (1995). How can honest signalling evolve? The role of handicap principle. Proceedings of the Royal Society B Biological Sciences. 262(1365). 283–288. 21 indexed citations

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