Steinar Engen

12.6k total citations · 1 hit paper
208 papers, 9.1k citations indexed

About

Steinar Engen is a scholar working on Ecology, Nature and Landscape Conservation and Ecology, Evolution, Behavior and Systematics. According to data from OpenAlex, Steinar Engen has authored 208 papers receiving a total of 9.1k indexed citations (citations by other indexed papers that have themselves been cited), including 119 papers in Ecology, 75 papers in Nature and Landscape Conservation and 71 papers in Ecology, Evolution, Behavior and Systematics. Recurrent topics in Steinar Engen's work include Animal Ecology and Behavior Studies (79 papers), Ecology and Vegetation Dynamics Studies (61 papers) and Plant and animal studies (46 papers). Steinar Engen is often cited by papers focused on Animal Ecology and Behavior Studies (79 papers), Ecology and Vegetation Dynamics Studies (61 papers) and Plant and animal studies (46 papers). Steinar Engen collaborates with scholars based in Norway, United States and United Kingdom. Steinar Engen's co-authors include Bernt‐Erik Sæther, Russell Lande, Vidar Grøtan, Jarle Tufto, Erik Matthysen, Øyvind Bakke, Aminul Islam, Bernt-Erik Sæther, Marcel E. Visser and Aline Magdalena Lee and has published in prestigious journals such as Nature, Science and Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences.

In The Last Decade

Steinar Engen

201 papers receiving 8.5k citations

Hit Papers

Stochastic Population Dynamics in Ecology and Conservation 2003 2026 2010 2018 2003 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. Stochastic Population Dynamics in Ecology and Conservation
    2003 1.2k citations Russell Lande, Steinar Engen et al. profile →

Peers — A (Enhanced Table)

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

Name h Career Trend Papers Cites
Steinar Engen Norway 54 5.6k 3.3k 2.8k 2.4k 1.8k 208 9.1k
Timothy H. Keitt United States 39 5.6k 1.0× 3.4k 1.1× 2.6k 0.9× 1.6k 0.7× 3.1k 1.8× 76 10.1k
Philip A. Stephens United Kingdom 37 4.0k 0.7× 2.2k 0.7× 2.1k 0.7× 1.5k 0.6× 1.5k 0.8× 114 7.9k
Veijo Kaitala Finland 45 3.4k 0.6× 2.1k 0.6× 2.3k 0.8× 1.9k 0.8× 1.5k 0.9× 215 6.7k
John M. Fryxell Canada 64 9.4k 1.7× 3.4k 1.0× 2.2k 0.8× 1.6k 0.7× 1.8k 1.0× 175 11.9k
Shripad Tuljapurkar United States 48 2.8k 0.5× 2.2k 0.7× 2.4k 0.8× 1.7k 0.7× 1.0k 0.6× 171 8.3k
Justin M. J. Travis United Kingdom 51 3.9k 0.7× 3.4k 1.0× 2.9k 1.0× 2.2k 0.9× 1.5k 0.9× 158 8.2k
Bernt‐Erik Sæther Norway 72 11.8k 2.1× 4.7k 1.4× 4.8k 1.7× 3.8k 1.6× 2.6k 1.5× 309 16.4k
Tim Coulson United Kingdom 64 10.3k 1.9× 3.5k 1.1× 5.0k 1.8× 4.6k 1.9× 2.1k 1.2× 239 15.5k
Marcel Holyoak United States 36 6.9k 1.2× 5.0k 1.5× 3.9k 1.4× 1.7k 0.7× 2.2k 1.2× 125 11.9k
Brian Dennis United States 40 3.4k 0.6× 2.4k 0.7× 1.3k 0.5× 1.8k 0.7× 1.8k 1.0× 86 7.1k

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Fields of papers citing papers by Steinar Engen

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Physical SciencesHealth SciencesLife SciencesSocial Sciences

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Co-authorship network of co-authors of Steinar Engen

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All Works

20 of 20 papers shown
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Engen, Steinar & Bernt‐Erik Sæther. (2024). Evolutionary and Ecological Processes Determining the Properties of the G Matrix. The American Naturalist. 204(5). 433–452. 2 indexed citations
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Kvalnes, Thomas, Bernt‐Erik Sæther, Steinar Engen, & Alexandre Roulin. (2022). Density-dependent selection and the maintenance of colour polymorphism in barn owls. Proceedings of the Royal Society B Biological Sciences. 289(1976). 20220296–20220296. 9 indexed citations
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Sæther, Bernt‐Erik, et al.. (2018). Spatial scales of population synchrony of two competing species: effects of harvesting and strength of competition. Oikos. 127(10). 1459–1470. 18 indexed citations
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Engen, Steinar, Francisco J. Cao, & Bernt‐Erik Sæther. (2018). The effect of harvesting on the spatial synchrony of population fluctuations. Theoretical Population Biology. 123. 28–34. 21 indexed citations
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Kvalnes, Thomas, Thor Harald Ringsby, Henrik Jensen, et al.. (2017). Reversal of response to artificial selection on body size in a wild passerine. Evolution. 71(8). 2062–2079. 16 indexed citations
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Engen, Steinar, Aline Magdalena Lee, & Bernt‐Erik Sæther. (2017). Spatial distribution and optimal harvesting of an age-structured population in a fluctuating environment. Mathematical Biosciences. 296. 36–44. 11 indexed citations
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Sæther, Bernt‐Erik, Tim Coulson, Vidar Grøtan, et al.. (2013). How Life History Influences Population Dynamics in Fluctuating Environments. The American Naturalist. 182(6). 743–759. 147 indexed citations
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Bellier, Edwige, Vidar Grøtan, Steinar Engen, et al.. (2013). Distance decay of similarity, effects of environmental noise and ecological heterogeneity among species in the spatio‐temporal dynamics of a dispersal‐limited community. Ecography. 37(2). 172–182. 15 indexed citations
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Vindenes, Yngvild, Bernt‐Erik Sæther, & Steinar Engen. (2011). Effects of demographic structure on key properties of stochastic density-independent population dynamics. Theoretical Population Biology. 82(4). 253–263. 8 indexed citations
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Engen, Steinar, Russell Lande, & Bernt‐Erik Sæther. (2011). EVOLUTION OF A PLASTIC QUANTITATIVE TRAIT IN AN AGE-STRUCTURED POPULATION IN A FLUCTUATING ENVIRONMENT. Evolution. 65(10). 2893–2906. 30 indexed citations
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Sæther, Bernt‐Erik & Steinar Engen. (2010). Population consequences of climate change. 13 indexed citations
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Jönsson, Bo, Nina Jönsson, Kjetil Hindar, T. G. Northcote, & Steinar Engen. (2008). Asymmetric competition drives lake use of coexisting salmonids. Oecologia. 157(4). 553–560. 24 indexed citations
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Sæther, Bernt-Erik, Steinar Engen, Vidar Grøtan, et al.. (2007). The extended Moran effect and large‐scale synchronous fluctuations in the size of great tit and blue tit populations. Journal of Animal Ecology. 76(2). 315–325. 75 indexed citations
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Engen, Steinar, Bernt‐Erik Sæther, & Anders Pape Møller. (2001). Stochastic population dynamics and time to extinction of a declining population of barn swallows. Journal of Animal Ecology. 70(5). 789–797. 52 indexed citations
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Sæther, Bernt‐Erik, Steinar Engen, & Russell Lande. (1999). Finite metapopulation models with density–dependent migration and stochastic local dynamics. Proceedings of the Royal Society B Biological Sciences. 266(1415). 113–118. 90 indexed citations
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Yoccoz, Nigel G. & Steinar Engen. (1993). Optimal Foraging: The Importance of Environmental Stochasticity and Accuracy in Parameter Estimation. The American Naturalist. 141(1). 139–157. 14 indexed citations
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Engen, Steinar. (1978). Stochastic Abundance Models: With Emphasis on Biological Communities and Species Diversity. CERN Document Server (European Organization for Nuclear Research). 33 indexed citations
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Engen, Steinar, G. P. Patil, S. Kotz, & J. K. Ord. (1978). Statistical Distributions in Scientific Work: Volume II: Model Building and Model Selection. International Statistical Review. 46(3). 321–321. 1 indexed citations
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Engen, Steinar. (1974). On Species Frequency Models. Biometrika. 61(2). 263–263. 1 indexed citations

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