Stefano Allesina

11.4k total citations · 5 hit papers
92 papers, 7.1k citations indexed

About

Stefano Allesina is a scholar working on Ecology, Evolution, Behavior and Systematics, Sociology and Political Science and Genetics. According to data from OpenAlex, Stefano Allesina has authored 92 papers receiving a total of 7.1k indexed citations (citations by other indexed papers that have themselves been cited), including 57 papers in Ecology, Evolution, Behavior and Systematics, 47 papers in Sociology and Political Science and 28 papers in Genetics. Recurrent topics in Stefano Allesina's work include Plant and animal studies (57 papers), Evolutionary Game Theory and Cooperation (45 papers) and Ecology and Vegetation Dynamics Studies (24 papers). Stefano Allesina is often cited by papers focused on Plant and animal studies (57 papers), Evolutionary Game Theory and Cooperation (45 papers) and Ecology and Vegetation Dynamics Studies (24 papers). Stefano Allesina collaborates with scholars based in United States, Italy and Canada. Stefano Allesina's co-authors include Si Tang, Mercedes Pascual, Jacopo Grilli, Jonathan M. Levine, Matthew J. Smith, György Barabás, Antonio Bodini, Cristina Bondavalli, Jordi Bascompte and Peter B. Adler and has published in prestigious journals such as Nature, Science and Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences.

In The Last Decade

Stefano Allesina

91 papers receiving 6.9k citations

Hit Papers

5 papers align trajectories

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.

Stability criteria for complex ecosystems

2012 792 citations Stefano Allesina, Si Tang Nature profile →
Parasites in food webs: the ultimate missing links

2008 682 citations Stefano Allesina et al. Ecology Letters profile →
Beyond pairwise mechanisms of species coexistence in complex communities

2017 508 citations Stefano Allesina et al. Nature profile →
Higher-order interactions stabilize dynamics in competitive network models

2017 412 citations Jacopo Grilli, György Barabás et al. Nature profile →
Modularity and stability in ecological communities

2016 240 citations Jacopo Grilli, Tim Rogers et al. Nature Communications profile →

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Co-authorship network of co-authors of Stefano Allesina

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

All Works

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20 of 20 papers shown

#	Work	Indexed citations
1	Phylogeny structures species' interactions in experimental ecological communities 2024 ·Ecology Letters ·(unknown), (unknown), Stefano Allesina	6
2	Coexistence of many species under a random competition–colonization trade-off 2024 ·Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences ·(unknown), (unknown), (unknown), François Massol, Stefano Allesina	10
3	Effects of Phylogeny on Coexistence in Model Communities 2024 ·The American Naturalist ·(unknown), José A. Capitán, (unknown), Stefano Allesina	2
4	Modelling ecological communities when composition is manipulated experimentally 2022 ·Methods in Ecology and Evolution ·(unknown), (unknown), (unknown), Stefano Allesina	4
5	Ranking species based on sensitivity to perturbations under non‐equilibrium community dynamics 2022 ·Ecology Letters ·Lucas P. Medeiros, Stefano Allesina, Vasilis Dakos, George Sugihara, Serguei Saavedra	16
6	Metapopulations with habitat modification 2021 ·Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences ·(unknown), Stefano Allesina	21
7	Tractable models of ecological assembly 2021 ·Ecology Letters ·(unknown), Stefano Allesina	31
8	Telling ecological networks apart by their structure: A computational challenge 2019 ·PLoS Computational Biology ·Matthew J. Smith, Stefano Allesina	22
9	Ecological networks: Pursuing the shortest path, however narrow and crooked 2019 ·Scientific Reports ·Andrea Costa, Ana M. Martín González, Katell Guizien, Andrea M. Doglioli, José M. Gómez, Anne Petrenko, Stefano Allesina	16
10	And, not or: Quality, quantity in scientific publishing 2017 ·PLoS ONE ·Matthew J. Smith, Stefano Allesina	35
11	Self-regulation and the stability of large ecological networks 2017 ·Nature Ecology & Evolution ·György Barabás, Matthew J. Smith, Stefano Allesina	85
12	Ecological Network Inference From Long-Term Presence-Absence Data 2017 ·Scientific Reports ·Elizabeth L. Sander, J. Timothy Wootton, Stefano Allesina	38
13	Feasibility and coexistence of large ecological communities 2017 ·Nature Communications ·Jacopo Grilli, (unknown), Samir Suweis, György Barabás, Jayanth R. Banavar, Stefano Allesina, Amos Maritan	107
14	Ocean acidification affects competition for space: projections of community structure using cellular automata 2016 ·Proceedings of the Royal Society B Biological Sciences ·Sophie J. McCoy, Stefano Allesina, Catherine A. Pfister	8
15	Modularity and stability in ecological communities breakdown → 2016 ·Nature Communications ·Jacopo Grilli, Tim Rogers, Stefano Allesina	240
16	Metapopulation Persistence in Random Fragmented Landscapes 2015 ·PLoS Computational Biology ·Jacopo Grilli, György Barabás, Stefano Allesina	47
17	The ghost of nestedness in ecological networks 2013 ·Nature Communications ·Phillip P. A. Staniczenko, (unknown), Stefano Allesina	195
18	Stability criteria for complex ecosystems breakdown → 2012 ·Nature ·Stefano Allesina, Si Tang	792
19	Frequency-Dependent Selection Predicts Patterns of Radiations and Biodiversity 2010 ·PLoS Computational Biology ·Carlos J. Melián, David Alonso, Diego P. Vázquez, James Regetz, Stefano Allesina	19
20	Secondary extinctions in ecological networks: Bottlenecks unveiled 2005 ·Ecological Modelling ·Stefano Allesina, Antonio Bodini, Cristina Bondavalli	48

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